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BIG SCREEN COUNTRY: JAMES LEE BURKE’S MONTANABASED “WINTER LIGHT” ADAPTED INTO SHORT FILM

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News

cover photo by Louise Johns

Voices/Letters Peace, minimum wage and water ...........................................................4 The Week in Review Dairy Queen, plane crash and Best of Missoula ..........................6 Briefs Southgate Mall, Lolo Family Practice and Bernie Sanders....................................6 Etc. An already tough summer could get worse for fish .................................................7 News Media mourn the loss of a free press pioneer.......................................................8 News Missoula Food Bank prepares for much-needed upgrade ....................................9 Opinion Something stinks about Southgate’s funding request....................................10 Opinion Custer worship must come to an end ............................................................11 Feature The aging revolution........................................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts James Lee Burke’s “Winter Light” gets the real Montana treatment .....................18 Music Josh Abbott Band, The Jukebox Romantics and Jamaican Queens....................19 Music Livin’ on a prayer for the ’80s anthems ..............................................................20 Film New documentary details the cosmic life of Doug Sahm .....................................21 Film Trainwreck derails the rom-com formula.............................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 Flash in the Pan How to negotiate at the farmers market ...........................................24 Happiest Hour Flathead Lake Brewing Co. in cans .....................................................26 8 Days a Week I hope I die before I get old.................................................................27 Mountain High BIKEapalooza......................................................................................33 Agenda Benefit for Kelli Whithorn................................................................................34

Exclusives

Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Ednor Therriault STAFF REPORTERS Kate Whittle, Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer COPY EDITOR Gaaby Patterson EDITORIAL INTERNS Mary Bradley, Bonnie Chan ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Ariel LaVenture, Toni LeBlanc, Jake Brown ADMIN, PROMO & EVENTS COORDINATOR Leif Christian CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Jed Nussbaum, Sarah Aswell, Josh Wagner, Lacy Roberts, Migizi Pensoneau

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STREET TALK

by Mary Bradley and Bonnie Chan

Asked Monday, July 13, at Break Espresso Q: A new film adaptation of James Lee Burke’s short story “Winter Light” screens at the Roxy this weekend. What’s been your favorite film or TV version of a book or short story?

Follow-up: What book or short story would you like to see remade for the big screen?

Scott Riess: I’m an English teacher and my kids are always like, “Is there a film version of this?” And I’m like, “No, guys.

The Lord of the Flies film version is terrible.” So, I’m always looking for good things. Into the Wild is probably the best one. Take two: Brave New World. There’s a terrible version that was made in the ’80s, but there’s all sorts of sex and drugs, and audiences would love it.

Alice Bolin: I always say Clueless adapted from Emma. I think the character of Cher keeps the spirit of Emma Woodhouse in a really inventive way. Sughrue on screen: I think in a Missoula connection, James Crumley’s mystery The Last Good Kiss could be really cool.

Emily Misner: I would say The Lord of the Rings since I’ve read it so many times and the film adaptation was decent.

Bizarre twist: I would like to see C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. It’s one of his more obscure works, but it’s all about Cupid and Psyche, except it’s told from the perspective of Psyche’s older sister.

It’s bizarre, but it’s powerful.

Alejandro Veliz: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The movie is good, but nothing like the book. Do-over: The Alchemist is one of my favorites, but it was made in 1980. It could use a remake.

Jeanine McCain: The Princess Bride. I mean, it’s a classic. Double feature: One of my favorite books is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It’s amazing. It’s one of the only books I’ve ever read and immediately wanted to go back to the beginning and just start reading it again.

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Finding peace

Sprawling fed control

As a former U.S. Marine I read the article “Healing lands” by Grant Wideman (see July 9) and was reminded of my own struggles with understanding and accepting what I had done and seen.

I was filled with anger, a rage that would explode with the slightest reason, depression, and a wall that even my wife and children could not get past. If I went to bed earlier than my wife, she would have to turn the bedroom light on and say my name as she entered the room. It was something that she accepted, but knowing I was doing that to her added to my feeling like a failure. Like so many others I used alcohol to deal with it, could not hold a job and was basically a walking disaster.

The mountains of Montana saved my life.

I spent two weeks backpacking around Flathead Lake and the Mission Mountains, finally realizing that there is peace, a healing in nature that is beyond explanation. I spend every chance I get somewhere on a ridgeline or trail now, because if there is a God, surely that is where he is.

Kieth Comstock Arlee

Imagine a scenario where Montana farmers and ranchers have to make application to a federal bureaucrat in order to plow a field or build a fence or move cattle from one pasture to another.

It sounds ridiculous, and it is. But this crazy notion has made its way from the radical environmentalists’ wish list into an actual rule proposal from President Obama’s EPA. If they are successful with this rule, known as Waters of the United States, or WOTUS, the EPA will be given expanded regulatory authority over any land use and farming practices near any body of water, down to prairie potholes and ephemeral streams (those that only have water during heavy rains).

Hard living First off, I would like to thank the Independent for accurately conveying the attitudes present in the local labor movement’s fight for comprehensive changes in low wage work in the July 2 article “Beyond minimum.”

Wages, although not the only concern, are integral to workers and their families’ wellbeing. MIT’s Living Wage Calculator is one of several calculators that estimate what a living wage should be for a location. This calculator, although using sound statistical reasoning, defines living wage in terms that are more in line with meeting survival-based needs and does not account for the nuances needed for a healthy lifestyle or economy. For example, the calculator does not allot room for savings, which is an important buffer to soften the effect of unforeseen emergencies that are part and parcel of life. Emergencies can sink workers further into debt, making it nearly impossible to leave the cycle of poverty.

Good Jobs Missoula prescribes to Alliance for a Just Society’s living wage standards that factor in 10 percent of income in for savings. Alliance for a Just Society’s living wage for Montana is estimated at $14.40.

This estimate is astute in its ability to see the shortcomings of having to scrape by day to day and foresees the need of higher wages as part of a worker’s ability to mobilize within society as integral members. We Missoula folk all can agree that making $10.54 per hour is hard living.

Ezra Davis Organizer Good Jobs Missoula

“I spend every chance I get somewhere on a ridgeline or trail now, because if there is a God, surely that is where he is.”

With this jurisdictional rule there would be no limit on EPA’s determination of what constitutes a “waters of the United States,” giving EPA the means to usurp all state authority.

Montanans owe a big thank you to Attorney General Tim Fox for joining with attorneys general from other agriculture states to fight back against what is a gross and totally unjustified overreach of federal power.

Now we need to make sure our congressional delegation is working together to protect Montana as well.

Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, giving the EPA authority to regulate navigable waters—rivers that run year-round and flow between states. Regulation of other bodies of water were reserved for the states.

WOTUS represents the EPA’s attempt to go beyond their congressional allowed authority and push aside state regulators. While claiming that WOTUS clarifies the scope of the Clean Water Act, the new rules are authored purposefully ambiguous. Given these new definitions, the EPA would have authority to

regulate almost any water feature in the country, down to a mud puddle. According to analysis by the farm bureau, the miles of streams in Montana subject to federal regulation would double.

WOTUS would require a permit for such simple things as moving soil in the process of building structures, creating drainage, landscaping, or even plowing for planting crops.

WOTUS would give the EPA unprecedented authority to dictate farm and ranch management decisions.

No one is arguing that it is not important to protect and maintain our water— farmers and ranchers know that better than anyone. Healthy land and water is essential to their livelihoods.

The point is that we as Montanans can do a better job of protecting our valuable water resources than the feds can. And we’re already doing a great job at that—Montana has some of the toughest water-quality regulations in the country. But at the same time, those water regulations are designed and implemented by Montana elected officials who we can directly hold accountable. The last thing we want is to cede that authority to a sprawling federal agency.

To stop WOTUS, Montana needs all hands on deck. Attorney General Tim Fox is doing his part by challenging the legal authority of the rule. Sen. Daines and Rep. Zinke have both spoken out against the EPA’s rule and committed themselves to stopping it.

Unfortunately, Sen. Tester has been conspicuously silent on WOTUS. We need a united front on this issue to protect Montana’s most important industry: agriculture. Tester has been an advocate for agriculture interests in the past, but Montana farmers and ranchers need him on this issue more than ever before.

Make no mistake, WOTUS represents the single largest threat to Montana agriculture today. It’s unjustified, it wouldn’t result in better water quality in Montana and it would be a catastrophe for our economy. Sen. Tester, it’s time for you to take a stand.

Deanna Robbins Board of Directors United Property Owners of Montana Correction: While we’re pretty sure Pearl Cash and the rest of the chefs at Pearl Cafe can make just about anything taste delicious, our blurb in last week’s issue about the Best of Missoula winner included some ingredients that are not on their menu. If you’re looking for recommendations of actual menu items, may we suggest their walnut and herbed prawns, the grilled salmon with mustard butter or our personal favorite, the bacon-wrapped filet mignon. While you’re salivating over those options, know that the Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Bonnie Chan

Wednesday, July 8

The Missoula Police Department accepts an anonymous donation of free tokens for Dairy Queen ice cream cones. The donor asked that officers distribute them to kids who wear helmets while bicycling.

Thursday, July 9 Tom Catmull’s Radio Static and Wartime Blues provide the tunes at the Independent’s Best of Missoula party in Caras Park. The issue celebrates winners in more than 180 categories as voted on by readers.

Friday, July 10 In a press conference held on the University of Montana campus, the U.S. Department of Justice announces that the school has met all of its obligations under an agreement intended to improve how it responds to sexual assault cases.

Saturday, July 11 Two Flathead-area residents are killed when their small plane crashes in a Washington forest. The third passenger, 16-year-old Autumn Veatch, escapes the wreckage and hikes for two days before being rescued.

Sunday, July 12 Texas swing band The Western Flyers close out the Montana Folk Festival in Butte. The annual free festival takes over the town’s historic district with dozens of bands from around the world, plus street food and educational presentations.

Monday, July 13 Missoula City Council approves the 2016 municipal budget, including a minimum wage increase to $12 per hour for full-time city employees and a 5.69 percent tax increase. Other funding requests for domestic violence advocates, a new part-time judge and the Moon-Randolph homestead don’t make the cut.

Tuesday, July 14 NASA tweets a color photo of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. The probe has traveled 3 billion miles since it left Earth nine years ago. Feel free to commence arguing whether Pluto should count as a planet or not.

Little sister Molly Schwarze, 2, makes an adorably inaudible guest appearance onstage with rapper and educator Tahj Kjelland during the Boys Rock Camp showcase on July 10 at the Top Hat. This was the first year Zootown Arts Community Center has offered Boys Rock Camp, which teaches boys ages 8-16 self-esteem through a week of music instruction and play.

Southgate Mall

Expansion vote postponed An ambitious plan to redevelop Southgate Mall and its surrounding property is still in the works, although it might not be approved as soon as developers would like.

The mall is requesting an initial $12.9 million in public funds to pay for roadway and infrastructure improvements as part of a $70 million expansion. At a Thursday meeting, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency Board of Commissioners expressed general approval for the project but asked for more information before signing off.

The mall’s intent is to become a more outdoor-oriented, urban landscape with pedestrian and bike amenities. The changes look toward heading off any chance of decline in a business climate where it’s increasingly tough for traditional indoor malls to succeed.

If the MRA gives the go-ahead soon enough, devel-

oper Peter Lambros said construction on a new “stateof-the-art” movie theater could start this fall, followed by demolition of the old Curley’s Broiler, renovation of the Sears building, relocation of a traffic signal on Brooks and the addition of a new railroad crossing at Mary Avenue, along with sidewalk and curb improvements throughout the property.

The MRA board took the first necessary step in approving the plans by voting to bring the mall into Urban Renewal District III, making it eligible to receive financing from the district.

“There’s strong support among the staff and board for doing this project,” said board chair Karl Englund.

But commissioners held off on giving any funding to the mall and asked for more information. One line item that raised some commissioners’ eyebrows is a $5.3 million request for a public right-of-way acquisition of the mall’s ring road.

“It does seem to me to be a little bit unusual,” said Commissioner Daniel Kemmis, “that basically we’ve got

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a developer who is hoping that we will pay them for a right-of-way across their property to build a street whose primary beneficiary will be the mall itself.”

Kemmis also has reservations because the MRA is still waiting on the district’s most recent taxable valuation from the Montana Department of Revenue, which isn’t due until August—meaning that right now, the MRA doesn’t know exactly how much money from the district it has to spend.

Lambros said they’re hoping for a speedy approval since interest rates are low and tenants are currently interested in moving into the mall.

“I think what we can do is say, we’re gonna give this thing a shove,” Lambros told the board, “and whether it’s the ownership that I represent or others, that we have planted the seeds for future development to be of a quality that we would hope for our community.”

If the MRA green-lights the mall’s request, it will then need final approval from Missoula City Council.

Kate Whittle

[news] Politics

Feel the Bern Tootie Welker wears a “Bernie Sanders for President 2016” button on her shirt wherever she goes. The button indicates to anyone who sees it that she’s happy to talk about who Bernie Sanders is, what he stands for and why she supports his presidential campaign.

“He says what he thinks and he does what he says,” Welker says. “He speaks out and has never held back. I don’t think there’s anything he stands for that I don’t agree with 100 percent.”

Welker, an organizer with the Missoula contingent of a statewide group called Montanans for Bernie Sanders, is determined to help stoke a growing grassroots campaign supporting Sanders’ presidential campaign—an effort that, nationwide, has raised $15 million in individual small donations and given rise to the hashtag #FeeltheBern in the two months since the independent senator from Vermont announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Welker, 58, talks quickly and animatedly about her years of work as a political consultant with the Montana Committee for an Effective Legislature and as an advocate for victims of domestic violence in Sanders County. Along with her Bernie button, she wears a purple T-shirt that reads “Feminist Majority.” As a longtime progressive, Welker says, she recognizes Montana’s strong history of progressivism and labor rights advocacy— despite its red-state reputation—and sees Sanders’ positions on issues as reflective of what she calls Montanans’ “ethos of independence.”

Indeed, Montanans for Bernie Sanders’ Facebook page indicates a strong base of support for the candidate. The group has garnered more than 4,600 likes since April, and more than 100 people have RSVP’d for a “Missoula for Bernie” meeting scheduled for July 19 at the Missoula Public Library.

Welker acknowledges, however, that grassroots movements face certain organizational challenges. For instance, a smaller Missoula-based Sanders group called We the People’s Revolution, led by Calleen “JC” Donlan, has booked regular meeting times at the library separate from Montanans for Bernie Sanders. Donlan contends that she and her colleagues have been harassed and marginalized by the other group. Welker, who has

not met Donlan in person, says the difference in opinion lies in organizing strategy.

In spite of the rift between the two groups, Welker believes Montana’s small population ultimately creates a sense of intimacy while trying to mobilize support for Sanders. “We’re a good state to organize in because the rural-ness means people realize you have to be a good neighbor and that we need each other to survive,” she says.

As Welker is interviewed over coffee, a woman at the next table overhears her pitch and asks, “Are you working on Bernie Sanders’ campaign?”

Welker answers yes, and the woman hands her a $20 campaign contribution and her contact information. Welker, taken aback momentarily, thanks her and mentions the July 19 meeting.

“This is how it starts,” Welker says. “It starts one person at a time.”

Bonnie Chan

Health care

Lolo clinic closing In a few weeks, the only medical clinic and emergency care provider in Lolo will shut its doors, leaving patients little time to find new doctors.

Office manager Trina Palmer confirmed that Lolo Family Practice, a branch of the Western Montana Clinic, will close on Aug. 7. As of July 10, they’d begun notifying patients.

“The reason we’re closing is the [two] physicians want to practice elsewhere,” Palmer says. “We don’t have other providers to staff the site.”

Palmer declined to explain where the clinic’s two physicians are going or why new providers haven’t been found.

A staffer at Western Montana Clinic who answered the phone also confirmed the Aug. 7 closure date but declined to offer further details, including her full name.

The news comes as a surprise to Lolo residents who’ve relied on the clinic for their primary

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health care. Jean Belangie-Nye, 70, a longtime community member and retired school administrator, says she’s been a patient of the clinic since it opened sometime in the late 1980s. When rumors started spreading about the closure in early July, Belangie-Nye personally called the clinic to find out what was happening.

“What bothers me is we haven’t had any notice,” Belangie-Nye says. “Three weeks notice is not enough to say, ‘Oh, by the way, you’ve got to find a new doctor, you’ve got to find a new place to go.’”

Belangie-Nye says many Lolo seniors will now have to find new doctors in the Missoula area, which will be a hardship for people without reliable transportation.

Gail Ulrigg, 76, first learned of impending changes in a letter from Lolo Family Practice, dated July 1, stating physician Robert Hart was leaving at the end of the month. Ulrigg says the letter didn’t mention the departure of the clinic’s other physician, Dr. Elena Furrow, or that the clinic would shut down entirely.

Ulrigg adds that she’s fortunate to have private health insurance, but seniors who rely on Medicare might have a hard time finding a new practitioner to accept them as patients. As it is, she’s not excited about finding a new doctor.

“I like it here. They’re friendly, they’re close.

We don’t have to go out on the roads on the wintertime,” Ulrigg says. “St. Pat’s is too far, it’s too crowded, and in an emergency you can be dead by the time you get there.”

Kate Whittle

ETC. Over the past couple weeks, Missoula’s flyfishing community has had to follow a somewhat depressing rule: Be off the water by 2 p.m.

Low flows and high water temperatures prompted Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to issue “hoot owl” restrictions on the Bitterroot, Blackfoot and Clark Fork starting July 3. And while recent rain showers gave anglers a bit of a reprieve, the summer looks to get a whole lot tougher for fish.

“My concern is that we’d experience an August like we haven’t experienced before or experience very rarely,” says FWP’s Region 2 Fisheries Manager Pat Saffel. “When we see these dire conditions early in July you just wonder, ‘What’s next?’”

Anyone could have guessed that summer 2015 would be a hot one. A winter characterized by low snowpack led to a spring of fast melt. By the last week of June temperatures on western Montana’s larger rivers were hovering in the low 70s. FWP even began receiving reports of fish mortalities on the Bitterroot—mostly cutthroat trout, Saffel says, since the species tends to have a lower temperature threshold than rainbow or browns. These conditions can speed up fish metabolism, reduce their growth and increase their susceptibility to disease. Warmer water also contains less oxygen for them to breath.

“If you can just imagine your body overheating and then you grab a fly and you fight the fly, that’s just extra stress and often too much stress on a fish,” Saffel says.

This is the earliest Saffel recalls any fishing restrictions going into effect in Region 2, and several other popular trout fisheries—the Big Hole, Gallatin and Madison—have since joined the list. Another warm spell could generate full fishing closures on rivers like the Blackfoot, Saffel says, as well as restrictions on as-yet unaffected spots like the East and West forks of the Bitterroot and Rock Creek. He doesn’t remember restrictions ever being enacted on the latter.

“We’re comparing this year to the worst of other years,” he says. “If it’s the worst of the worst, that’s pretty bad.”

Rather than grumble about missed opportunities, local anglers have expressed deep concern on blogs and fishing reports for the health and well-being of their quarry. Because as fun as it is to dance with the trout, every good dance partner deserves a break or two.

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Lost voice Media mourn the loss of a free press pioneer

by Derek Brouwer

The story that changed journalism on council meeting and, in her kitchen, assem- outside news outlets may occasionally folthe Fort Peck Indian Reservation started bled the first issue of the Fort Peck Journal low tribal issues, there’s often a gap in small: The then-tribal chairman had missed on legal paper, essentially launching a new, day-to-day accountability in Indian Couna meeting with federal officials while on a independent voice on the reservation. A try, says Louis Montclair, a Journal repersonal trip to Florida. He didn’t answer crowd waited at a Poplar convenience store porter and Red Elk’s nephew.

“A newspaper is supposed to be a mirror calls from the tribe’s newspaper asking for the first copies.

“There was a crowd standing there of the community,” Montclair says. “The why, but editor Bonnie Clincher Red Elk wrote up the story anyway, filing six para- and they just cheered,” recalls Marian Journal is a mirror of the reservation. It graphs that ended up on the bottom of the Montclair, Red Elk’s sister and a co- shows the good and the bad.”

Clara Caufield launched A Cheyenne founder of the Journal. paper’s front page.

Voice in 2010 for exactly that reason.

The chairman, John With guidance from Red Elk and a Morales, was back in Florida the $7,000 state grant, she aimed to profollowing week and the next, vide an alternative to crime-focused missing more meetings and nemainstream coverage of the tribe. glecting to sign official docu“We want to tell our own stoments the tribe had mailed him ries, because we have a better upon his request. Red Elk conchance of maybe getting it right,” tinued to cover the developshe says. “That’s where the paper ments and started to ask takes its name. I am only one questions, like how much the Cheyenne voice. It’s all around the ordeal was costing the tribe. A idea of people having a voice. That’s finance manager refused to say. their power, to speak.”

Then Morales called and said it Caufield says her independence wasn’t costing a dime. from tribal government alienated her Red Elk published his reand the paper, and the tribe no longer sponse, which archives indicate directly advertises with the publicawas the last sentence she wrote Photo courtesy of Fort Peck Journal tion. “They don’t like to be in the sunfor the Wotanin Wowapi, on shine,” she says. But as she’s dealt March 23, 2006. Morales fired Bonnie Clincher Red Elk, award-winning reporter and with the challenges that come with her before the next issue went founder of the Fort Peck Journal, died June 28. running A Cheyenne Voice, she leaned to press—something he could on the advice of Red Elk, which usually do because the paper was Through the Journal, Red Elk and her came across as something along the lines of owned by the tribal government.

Red Elk, an unwavering advocate for the small staff continued their public affairs re- “toughen up,” Caufield says.

In an emotional tribute published last free press, died last month at age 62 from porting and offered hard-hitting coverage complications of an earlier stroke. By the of the tribal chairman’s controversial ad- week by Native Sun News, Caufield elabotime Morales fired her, she was already an in- ministration. The Wotanin Wowapi, mean- rated on the challenges that remain for Nastitution on Fort Peck, having spent 30 years while, became recognized as a government tive-owned, independent publications, and practicing a kind of government reporting mouthpiece, publishing stories about the the void left by Red Elk’s passing. “‘We live under oppressive governments that had no precedent on that reservation. chairman with lines like: “Now his camShe was the first and only reporter to regu- paign promise has become a reality but not and it is up to us to speak out and also give larly attend tribal council meetings and pub- without some ingenuity, faith and hard our people that opportunity,’ she reminded lish what the elected representatives work on his part.” Readers and advertisers when I, novice scribbler, was uncertain and discussed and decided. This work alone, followed Red Elk, and the government even scared,” Caufield wrote about Red Elk, before wondering where she’ll find the taken for granted in non-reservation commu- newspaper eventually closed.

On most Montana reservations, tribal courage to continue reporting. Perhaps it will nities, irked tribal officials, who at various points tried to control the paper’s coverage news is controlled by the government or now come from her readers and others on comes from sources owned by non-Na- the reservation. and force Red Elk from her position.

“I hope so,” Caufield wrote, “because it How Red Elk responded to her firing is tives, if at all. Only two of the seven perhaps her biggest contribution to her reservations—Fort Peck and Northern would be so easy to quit.” reservation and state media. She gathered Cheyenne—have Native-owned, indedbrouwer@missoulanews.com her unpublished notes from the last tribal pendently operated newspapers. While

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Hungry for change Missoula Food Bank prepares for much-needed upgrade

by Mary Bradley

The Missoula Food Bank’s current mer of activity aimed at moving the proj- ble because there continues to be a growThird Street storefront includes just two ect forward and, ultimately, transforming ing need for the food bank’s services. The main aisles. Staff report that those aisles how the nonprofit serves the community. nonprofit served 98,000 total clients last The search for a new space began in year, up from nearly 64,000 in 2011. The become clogged as soon as half of its 11 total shopping carts are in use. Clients 2013 and ended earlier this year when a fastest growing demographic, elderly with disabilities, assuming they can find task force and staff settled on the former clients, has experienced a four-year upnearby street parking, have difficulty ma- Bakke Auto Co. location because of cost ward trend that increased by 10 percent neuvering around the food bank even and its central location to most clients. just last year, according to the nonprofit’s without a crowd. And when there is a By fall, architects Jenn Clary and Marie own statistics.

In addition to meeting basic needs, crowd, clients end up in a waiting area Wilson at Encompass v2 will unveil initial that’s standing room only, sometimes for designs for the new facility. While the administrators envision the new building more than an hour. The problems were cost of the building will depend upon the as more of a community gathering place. underscored in a 2012 survey, when 60 final design, Clary says the price tag may Brock mentions the possibility of cooking percent of the 36,000 respondents said fall around $2 million. Already, the food classes and added services like job training and health there were times they screenings. needed food but weren’t able to access “We don’t it because of the facilhave the space ity’s limitations. right now to do A new 1.1-acre loany of that,” cation aims to address Brock says. “We’re all of that—and more. scrambling to find In addition to providthe space just to ing more space and carry out our on-site parking, the basic mission. As plot of land at the corwe envision our ner of Wyoming and new space, you Catlin streets, across bet we will abfrom Westside Lanes, solutely include will consolidate the multi-use educafood bank’s Third tional space that Street storefront, its could be used by executive offices next a number of difphoto by Mary Bradley door and two addiferent partners.” tional warehouses lo- Limited space at the Missoula Food Bank’s Third Street location has been a While there cated near the Wye longtime problem for the nonprofit. A new facility will not only provide more remains more room but also consolidate an operation currently spread among four planning to do into one spot.

“We are going to different locations more than 11 miles apart. and funds to raise, improve the process,” some changes are says Jessica Allred, the food bank’s direc- bank has held four community meetings already apparent. Allred speaks of renewed tor of development and advocacy. “We to discuss possible interior and exterior hope among staff and clients who recare going to improve client experience. plans for the new building. ognize that the challenges on Third Later this summer, the food bank will Street are temporary and better opporWith the new space, we’re going to have launch a capital campaign to help raise tunities lie ahead. new opportunities.”

Right now, those new opportunities funding for the project. Executive Direc“People are excited that were movlook a long way off. The only indication tor Aaron Brock says the campaign, pri- ing,” Allred says. “I think that it’s about the newly purchased plot is the future vate supporters and tax credits are dignity and it’s about respect and it’s home of the Missoula Food Bank is a sin- expected to cover the costs, as will about being able to deliver a really gle sign that hides behind a high chain- money made from the sale of the current needed service in a way that is accessible linked fence surrounded by tall grass. But Third Street location. to everyone that needs it.”

Brock and Allred say there’s an urthe appearance of that sign belies years of advance planning and a critical sum- gency to move forward as soon as possieditor@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Mall rats Something stinks about Southgate’s funding request

by Dan Brooks

Last week, developers presented city council and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency with a $70 million renovation plan for Southgate Mall—a plan that asks for $13 million in public money. Members of the MRA’s board of directors balked at that number and at the developers’ insistence that the city approve funding as soon as possible.

“This is an odd deviation from our normal process,” board member Dan Kemmis said at Thursday’s meeting.

“The size of the commitment is substantial and it does exceed the publicto-private ratio substantially.”

But developers warned that if the city didn’t come through with the money as soon as possible, the whole project might collapse.

“We feel the timing is critical right now,” Peter Lambros said. Unprecedented though it may seem, someone who deals in real estate has warned us that if we don’t act immediately, a great deal might go away.

This time-honored tactic seems to be working. At the end of Thursday’s meeting, the MRA recommended annexing Southgate into Urban Renewal District III, which is the first step in securing tax-increment financing to fund the redevelopment plan. But the city should not hurry to transfer millions of taxpayer dollars to private developers, whose insistence that we pony up right now looks increasingly like extortion.

Consider one part of the plan: that the city will construct a new public road across mall property to connect Brooks and Reserve streets. Developers thought up that road, and it will serve primarily to funnel traffic past Southgate Mall. Yet they want the city to pay them a $5.2 million right-of-way fee to build it.

That’s a money grab, plain and simple. The mall’s owners are already asking the city to spend millions of taxpayer dollars and redraw the street grid for the benefit of their business. To demand that we give them $5 million for the right to implement their plan suggests entitle-

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ment, at best, and greed at worst.

There is also the question of why, exactly, the city should invest $13 million in this project at a moment when malls across the nation are failing. But the MRA seemed to resort to tortuous logic in order to side with developers on that issue. I quote the Missoulian: “[MRA staff ] also noted the risk of not taking action, saying that other malls across the country are failing. In

“When I think of the necessary functions of government, ensuring an awesome mall is not high on the list.”

the event that Southgate Mall did fail— it’s financially strong currently—the empty building would spread blight and cost much more to raze for another use.”

Malls are a bad investment right now, so we’d better put a lot of money into ours before it goes under, even though it’s doing well as it is. The number of contradictory assumptions and conclusions at work in that argument suggests the MRA is looking for reasons to give developers our money, rather than serving as a responsible steward of public funds.

When I think of the necessary functions of government, ensuring an awe-

some mall is not high on the list. Despite the construction jobs and increased tax revenues such a project would generate, I’m not certain that a bigger, better Southgate is so clearly a public good that it justifies transferring $13 million of city money to private developers.

Several businesses have struggled in Urban Renewal District III, but Southgate Mall is not one of them. Indeed, the failure of other, non-mall businesses in the neighborhood is what enabled Lambros and his fellow developers to buy the properties that make their plan possible. Building a dine-in movie theater roughly a mile from where the old movie theater went out of business doesn’t serve the public so much as award the spoils. Maybe the rest of that district needs those renewal funds more.

If an expanded Southgate Mall is such a sweet deal that the taxes alone will someday be worth $13 million, developers should have no problem finding private investors to complete their funding. Maybe this plan will benefit the city so much that we’d be fools not to give them the money right now. Or maybe the mall is trying to hold the rest of its district over a barrel.

City governments are especially vulnerable to the influence of real estate developers. Missoula relies on property taxes for almost all of its public funding and retail growth is a promising way to fund municipal improvements. But the city is not in the business of making sure Southgate stays lucrative. That’s Lambros’ job.

Southgate Mall is a private venture, not a public good. We all enjoy movies and Orange Julius, but those are not the services government needs to provide. The city has enough money problems without propping up real estate developers. If the mall is so wonderful, it can pay for itself.

Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and corporatocracy at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Last stand Custer worship must come to an end

by Todd Wilkinson

As the rebel flag of Dixie disappears from prominent public flagstaffs, questions are being asked about other symbols of defiance.

For example, is it appropriate to display statues of Confederate Civil War generals, some of whom were members of the Ku Klux Klan and outspoken in their racist views?

It’s easy for us Westerners to wag fingers of political correctness at those states south of the Mason-Dixon line, criticizing their legacy of race relations. But we have our own messy history to deal with, a conundrum we’ve never really addressed. It’s left us with some giant blind spots in our thinking about regional identity and the meaning of democracy.

Part of our own much-needed reckoning involves some decorated Civil War officers, men who—and they were all white men— fought for the Union Army before becoming “Indian fighters.” Across the Western Great Plains today, their deeds are commemorated in a variety of place names.

Let me throw out one that blows in the breeze every year around this time: U.S. Cavalry commander George Armstrong Custer, who, on a day in late June 139 years ago, unwisely launched a surprise attack against an encampment of Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho along the Little Bighorn River.

At that spot in Montana, an unremarkable hill that rises now above Interstate 90, Custer paid the ultimate price by hastening his own demise. His hubris cost the lives of 267 others, not including Native American casualties.

Should Custer be celebrated as a hero of conquest or recast as the bigoted, egotistical, narcissistic villain he apparently was?

Does he deserve to have his name attached to towns, counties, a state park and a national forest, or should his name, like the Confederate flag, be removed?

Travel anywhere in Western Indian Country, as I have done on assignment for a quarter-century, and you will find few names

deemed more offensive to Native people. We forget it wasn’t all that long ago that the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument was called the Custer Battlefield by the National Park Service, which manages it.

Never mind that it represented one of the few times in human history when a battlefield got named after a military strategist who committed a catastrophic blunder. Only in the wake of many decades of simmering protest was the name changed and a monu-

“Should Custer be celebrated as a hero of conquest or recast as the bigoted, egotistical, narcissistic villain he apparently was?” ment built on the site to recognize the warriors who repelled attackers who were hell-bent on their slaughter.

Custer graduated last in his class of 34 cadets at West Point and, according to historians, racked up one of the worst records of personal conduct ever accumulated at the military academy. Vainglorious, prone to insubordination, insecure and craving attention, Custer got on the wrong side of President Ulysses Grant.

Before he fled west, hoping to pad his résumé with a few bloody triumphs over Indians, Custer had pursued a book deal in New York and contemplated seeking high elected office. Once in the West, he drifted from his post and finally went AWOL. He violated treaties forged in sacred trust between the U.S. government and indigenous tribes, and he led a ruthless attack on a Cheyenne village, killing several women and children.

Recently, New York Times columnist David Brooks addressed the reassessments now being made of Confederate supreme commander Robert E. Lee. “Every generation has a duty to root out the stubborn weed of prejudice from the culture. We do that, in part, through expressions of admiration and disdain,” he wrote. “Given our history, it seems right to aggressively go the extra mile to show that prejudice is simply unacceptable, no matter how fine a person might otherwise be.”

Custer never was that fine a person either. In the end, Brooks concludes, “We should remove Lee’s name from most schools, roads and other institutions, where the name could be seen as acceptance of what he did and stood for during the war.”

As Westerners, let us ask ourselves: Why should members of the U.S. Cavalry who committed racially motivated atrocities against Native people during the “Indian Wars” be treated any differently from Lee? Until our answer comes down on the side of justice and acknowledging prejudicial wrongs that still linger, we’re no better than Dixie.

Todd Wilkinson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He lives in Montana and is the author of the new book, Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek — An Intimate Portrait of 399, the Most Famous Bear of Greater Yellowstone.

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(Toronto Sun) OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK – After police arrested Luis A. Cruz, 46, on heroin distribution charges in Springfield, Ill., his court-appointed attorney, Anna Levine, asked the judge to release her client on personal recognizance, pointing out his history of making court appearances for past offenses. Judge William Boyle responded by holding up a copy of the defendant’s arrest record in Florida, noting that it’s 52 pages long, and asked Levine to review it. She did but pointed out none of the charges was for failing to appear for court hearings. “It’s a 52-page record for showing up,” she told the judge, who nevertheless set bail at $10,000. (Springfield’s The Republican) LITIGATION NATION – Anna Goldshmidt and Elan Stratiyevsky demanded that New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel return the money they paid for their wedding there or risk a lawsuit. The couple contends the hotel cut short the event because a guest at the reception accidentally fired a gun, grazing a woman in the head. Lawyer Benjamin Brafman said the couple is also considering suing the guest. A hotel official said the reception was canceled immediately after the shooting due to safety concerns. (Associated Press) Gregory Reddick, 54, said he’s suing New York City for arresting him after he charged two tourists $400 for a ride on the landmark Staten Island Ferry. The ferry has been free since 1997. Reddick, who police said has “at least five aliases, six Social Security numbers” and a history of burglary and credit-card fraud convictions, acknowledged his rap sheet is real but insisted that selling tickets is legal and has turned his life around. “It’s better than McDonald’s money,” he said. “It’s better than Burger King money.” (New York Post and The Gothamist) A Colorado judge ordered the parents of Aurora shooting victim Jessica Ghawi to pay $220,000 to the companies that sold ammo and body armor to gunman James Holmes. Sandy and Lonnie Phillips sued the four online businesses but lost. Under state law, plaintiffs who sue gun makers or dealers and lose have to pay the defendants’ legal fees. (The Huffington Post)

HALLELUJAH! – The Internal Revenue Service notified Bill Levin, founder of the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis, that it has recognized the church as a tax-exempt religious organization. More than 600 members have paid between $4.20 and $1,000 to join the church, whose mission, Levin said, is to “proselytize the wonderfulness of the gift that this plant is to our human nature.” (Newsweek) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – Deputies arrested Kristin Howard, 31, for attacking her 50-year-old mother at her home in Bunnell, Fla., during an argument over who was entitled to a plate of chicken and biscuits. Deputies reported Howard punched her mother in the face and threw tea on her. (The Daytona Beach News-Journal)

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n a late Wednesday morning, a handful of residents gather in the lobby of Pearl Garden, a memory care unit located inside Missoula’s Village Health Care Center. The occupants of Pearl Garden are mostly in the later stages of dementia, like Alzheimer’s, and this morning they sip cappuccinos and watch HGTV while an aromatherapy diffuser steams spearmint and lavender into the air.

Heidi Whyte, a life enrichment assistant, reminds the eight residents from time to time that they are awaiting a “special surprise guest.”

The guest, it turns out, is a huge St. Bernard named Gus. The Pearl Garden residents meet Gus every month for an hour, but they usually don’t remember, so each meeting is as exciting to them as the first.

The visit from Gus is just one of many activities Whyte plans for the residents. They take walks in the morning to beat the summer heat and play games in the afternoons. There are times for bingo and Bible study and even Wii bowling.

“It’s all about having fun and keeping people active,” Whyte says. “We have a structured schedule, but we adjust it and come up with new ideas. It’s all about being flexible.”

Whyte got her bachelor’s in community health from the University of Montana’s Health and Human Performance Department, and during that time she studied the physiological benefits of mindfulness and meditation in the Mind-Body Lab. Since joining the Village two years ago, she has been leading meditation classes and employing aromatherapy for the residents.

In addition, they just launched a program called “Ages Entwined” where residents spend time at least once a week with little kids from daycare or college students.

“There is so much our elder population has to offer,” Whyte says. “They have a lot of inspiration.”

When Gus finally arrives, he barks happily, leaning his big head on the laps of every person who will let him. Teddy, one of the residents, asks all kinds of questions: “What does he weigh?” “What’s his name?”

“How old is he?” And she repeats the questions again every couple of minutes.

“Thank you for bringing him,” Teddy says, wrapping her arms around the dog’s neck and grinning at his owner, Juli Cusker, who also works at the Village.

“I just love him.”

Gus inspires the residents to reminisce about the dogs they once had. A former rancher talks about his working dogs, who always knew how to bring the horses back from the pasture. They talk about their childhoods, their children, where they met their spouses. When someone asks Teddy where she grew up, she leans in conspiratorially and says, “I’m still growing up,” and everyone laughs.

Turns out, Teddy’s line isn’t just for laughs. It happens to coincide with one of the key missions at Pearl Garden and a growing number of nursing homes, memory wings and aging programs around the country and, more recently, in Missoula. The goal is to move beyond the historically bad reputation of institutionalized longterm care and foster an environment more conducive to community involvement and, yes, personal growth.

This is no small undertaking, but local administrators are working to change practices and perceptions with a sense of urgency. The current long-term care system has just a few decades to adjust to an unprecedented influx as the baby-boomer generation ages.

According to the Census Bureau, about 50 million people in the country are over 65, but by 2050 that number will be somewhere closer to 80 or 90 million. With this increase, the number of Alzheimer’s patients is also projected to grow. According to the latest reports from the Alzheimer’s Association, 5.3 million people are currently living with the disease. By 2050, there will be 60 million.

Montana is one of 19 states that will see the biggest percentage changes, with a projected 42 percent rise of Alzheimer’s cases. According to experts in the field, current resources—whether at long-term care facilities like Village Health or for in-home care— are inadequate. The costs to improve the system—for taxpayers, as well as people aging into long-term care—are daunting and, in many cases, prohibitive.

As professionals in the aging field work to address the immediate issues, many other health care workers, gerontologists and activists see these challenges as an opportunity to create a new model—one that embraces aging in a much more radical way.

INDEPENDENCE FROM AGEISM On Fourth of July eve, Kavan Peterson, editor of the blog Changing Aging, posted a “declaration of in-

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dependence from ageism.” He wrote, “Like the colonial British Empire, ageism won’t roll over without a fight. We will have to mobilize, recruit allies and fight tyranny with every weapon at our disposal.”

Peterson is a 37-year-old Missoula native, former journalist and longtime social justice advocate who has thrown himself fully into a growing national movement focused on changing society’s approach to aging. He treats the subject with the kind of bombast—and humor—one would expect from an environmentalist or foodie activist.

The Changing Aging blog was co-founded by Peterson and William Thomas, a doctor of geriatric medicine and international expert on elderhood. The site highlights progressive pro-aging projects around the world and offers blunt criticisms of nursing homes.

It dissects misconceptions about dementia and proposes alternative approaches to aging issues with pieces like “Elders as Secret Activists.”

The culture change movement in aging has been around for decades, but it is just starting to gain momentum in places like Missoula. It’s a next step in a long evolution, one that starts with a dark history of poorhouses and asylums and led to the birth of the nursing home. That institutional model, which is based on the hospital- and military-style efficiency of packing people into one place, continued to be the norm for decades.

“Nobody says they want to die in an institution,” Peterson says. “But we have done absolutely nothing to

help people achieve that goal and in fact we have created a society that makes it extremely difficult to do that.”

Peterson has long been passionate about social justice issues. He grew up in Missoula, graduated from Hellgate High School and earned his journalism degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He started working for Stateline.org in Washington, D.C., in the early 2000s and he covered a wide range of policy issues, but most notably he gained a reputation for being an expert reporter on gay marriage. In 2004, he wrote a 50state rundown on the issue for the Pew Charitable Trusts and contributed to coverage for National Public Radio.

“I thought journalism was one of the most important professions in any society and it would help improve the world,” he says. “I always cared deeply about equality and, as a reporter, whenever I saw public policy issues in government or large institutions, if there were severe inequalities I was passionate about it.” After covering education reform, immigration policy and the death penalty, Peterson started to feel a pull toward advocacy work.

“I didn’t feel like I was that objective anymore,” he says. “I felt like I was an activist.”

Peterson was hired to do PR for the University of Maryland-Baltimore, which included work for a new program called the Erickson School on Aging. The long-term care system wasn’t entirely new to him. In fact, his mother, Kathy Hammond, is the executive director at Village Health Care Center in Missoula, and all three of his sisters have worked there.

“I had reported on aging issues before,” Peterson says, “specifically on how they impacted the states.

And like most reporters I had looked at it exclusively as a negative issue—as a crisis issue. I wrote stories about how retirement of the baby boomers is going to be a brain drain on state governments, and that as baby boomers age they are going to bankrupt the country and it’s going to be a huge burden on our social safety nets and our long-term care system. That’s how media frames stories about aging, and that had been my experience.”

That is until he met leaders in aging like Thomas who champion radically different views on the issue.

“They look at how we are going to plan for the aging of the baby boomers as a social justice issue, as an equality and civil rights issue,” Peterson says. “It’s more about the way society thinks about older people than it is about budgets and welfare and social security. And this thrilled me.”

Thomas is best known for two major contributions to the culture change revolution. He created the Eden Alternative, a set of education programs aimed

of how your daily routines are led,” Peterson says.

“The daily routines are built around the hearth, enjoying good food, spontaneous activity—not structured with, ‘It’s time for bingo, or we’re going to watch a movie at 5.’”

The Green House model doesn’t come cheaply.

Peterson says he gets emails every day from people wanting to know how to do it and he always has to break it to them that the cost is millions of dollars. But Green Houses are being built across the nation (St. John’s Ministries in Billings built one in 2007) and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has invested $15 million in the past 13 years to make the Green House model its major long-term care initiative. As of February 2015, there are 174 open Green Houses on 40 campuses in 27 states with another 186 in development.

While Green Houses gain some momentum, Peterson says there’s still a long way to go. The majority of long-term care remains entrenched in the old system.

Teddy, a resident at Pearl Garden, pets Gus the St. Bernard as life enrichment assistant Heidi Whyte watches. “It’s all about having fun and keeping people active,” Whyte says.

at deinstitutionalizing long-term care—not just in care centers, but also in regard to in-home care. It turns the perception of old people from being sad, helpless victims into elders who still have something to offer their communities. Thomas believes post-adult life is simply another stage of personal development or, as Teddy put it at Pearl Garden, where people can continue to grow up.

Thomas also created the idea of Green Houses.

Nursing homes were mostly built in the 1950 and 1960s, and by the early 2000s they were up for repair.

“Dr. Thomas recognized, ‘Why on earth would we start investing all this money in baby boomers to recreate a system that is deeply flawed and based on practices that are almost 50 years old?’” Peterson says.

With funding from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, Thomas created a model that was designed to work within the very complex regulatory system that nursing homes operate under. With Green Houses, everyone gets a small private home with their own things and their own personal certified nursing assistants who cook and eat with them.

“The idea is that you should have autonomy, your well-being should be addressed, you should not be governed by administrators and medical staff in terms

“Green Houses are actually now the leading model, so developers now claim that they are doing Green Houses—or small-house living—but the industry is still really focused on the architecture or the design,” he says. “They don’t necessarily fully grasp the living aspect of the culture change.”

A LOST CONNECTION The question of how we want to live our lives is at the center of popular and academic discussion. But the question of how we want to live after a certain age—say, past the age of 70—tends to be avoided. In fact, there’s only one aspect of the conversation outwardly acknowledged: Almost everyone says they do not want to end up in a nursing home.

A 2013 poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed only 25 percent of people over 40 thought they would very likely need long-term care. Studies show 70 percent actually end up needing it. Sixty-five percent who responded to the poll had done little to no planning for their aging needs. About a third said they’d rather not think about it.

“I think it has to do with what ending up in a nursing home says about us needing that level of

care,” says Linda Torma, a clinical specialist in gerontological nursing at UM. “There’s a stigma to that. And a lot of people think, ‘If I go to the nursing home it means I’ve been abandoned by my family.’”

Torma began working in the aging field in the early 1990s, when she was in her 40s. “I started working in it because I wanted it better for me,” she says.

“That was my main motivation.”

Torma considers herself a longtime fan of Thomas. His book, What Are Old People For: How Elders Will Save the World, sits on her desk inside UM’s Corbin Hall. She says she recognizes a lot of the systematic problems Thomas talks about in his work.

When long-term care became regulated in the late 1990s, it also became overly cautious. For a long time, the rules in institutions have been that the staff needs to be able to hear and see you at all times. Residents often are forbidden to lock the doors to their own rooms. Outings have been rare because of the

gravitate toward institutions because they are not safe in their neighborhoods or homes. And when they do that, they lose that connection to the community.”

Torma adds that losing connection to community is a major factor in accelerating a person’s declining health and leads to a shorter lifespan.

Unlike Thomas, Torma believes we do need nursing homes. It’s just that the nursing home model itself needs a major update.

“The people who are working in aging are doing the best they can,” she says. “I don’t want to criticize that. But I sure hope for something better.”

To that end, she teaches a class at UM where she asks her students to design a nursing home—but one they would be happy to live in.

“The most creative one gave me goosebumps,” Torma says. “They said they would build it right on the Oval on campus. It’s not on the edge of town, it’s in the middle of town. They’d put a bowling alley in it where college students could come in and engage

Richard Blank, a retired radiologist, holds a photo album with pictures of his wife, Pat, who was diagnosed with early-Alzheimer’s at the age of 61. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Montana will see a 42 percent rise in Alzheimer’s cases between now and 2050.

fear that someone could fall and break something— then sue.

“They really try making it a home-like atmosphere,” Torma says, “but safety trumps everything.

People are so worried about keeping you safe that life starts feeling constricted.”

Hand-in-hand with that issue is the fact that the world outside the nursing home isn’t age friendly.

Neighborhoods without sidewalks, benches and lighting are especially unwelcoming to elders. Even homes are typically built only for the perfectly abled.

One cutting-edge concept taught in universities— including at UM—is “universal design.” The idea is that you build your community with everyone in mind. Torma says she and her husband have even started adapting their University District home to fit their aging needs. They widened the doorways for walkers and wheelchairs. They took the lip out of their shower so there’s no need to step over it to get in. The design is now accessible to anyone of any age, she says, whether you’re a toddler, an adult with a broken leg or an older person. That kind of access isn’t just a comfort factor, it’s vital for allowing people to stay in their homes for longer.

“That’s what people need,” Torma says. “People

with the older adults. They might put in a bar—create a place where the whole community would pass through.”

A SENSE OF PURPOSE The Netherlands is one of the most prominent world leaders when it comes to reform in long-term care. In April, PBS reported that a Dutch nursing home has started offering college students rent-free housing at the facility in exchange for 30 hours per month of their time. The students spend that time watching televised sports events, celebrating birthdays with the residents and, in general, providing them a connection to the world outside of the facility.

There are also Dutch homes that include daycare centers so residents can be around children. The Care Farm program allows people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s to spend their time on farms. There are 1,500 participating farms, making it the largest source of day programs in the country.

Netherlands native Maarten Fischer, who helped develop and expand his country’s Care Farm program, moved to the Flathead Valley with his Montanaborn wife and their children in 2012. Not long after

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he moved, Fischer spearheaded a similar program with Flathead farmers.

“The Netherlands has a history of this from the late 1990s,” Fischer says. “It was a way for farmers to share what they feel are the riches of life on the farm. And it was very quickly noticed that it was getting [participants] to be physically active, helping them socialize with people outside of their immediate circles and it was giving them a sense of purpose and belonging. They got to give. And in the health care system they don’t get to give—all they do is receive care from others.”

The Care Farm program in the Flathead is run through A-Plus Healthcare, a statewide home care company where Fischer works as a day activity program manager. A-Plus sets up days at participating farms for a variety of clients—not just for elders but

The payoff comes in the relationships that are built and the emotional well-being that is created.

“When people come back home from the farm they are happy, fulfilled and full of stories,” Fischer says. “And their loved one—who needed the break— doesn’t feel guilty about needing that break because the client also had a great day.”

Some people with dementia get anxious without their partner around, so Fischer has also started a new program. People with dementia and their families can go on guided nature walks and historic tours.

“The idea with the tours and the farm program is that people feel normal,” Fischer says. “If you see how dementia claims the brain, one of the last areas to be affected is the emotional [part], so if you go outside, generally, people will get endorphins from ex-

Inspired by the documentary Alive Inside, Shawn Bennett, a life enhancement coordinator at Edgewood Vista, recently started making playlists for the facility’s residents so they could listen to their favorite music.

also for people of all ages living with autism or disabilities. The diversity of clients is a large part of the program’s overall philosophy.

“When we serve seniors, we try to match them up with younger people with disabilities,” Fischer says. “It puts them in a situation where they are helping younger adults and the younger adults are in a position where they can help the seniors.”

One of the reasons the Netherlands has been able to create these kinds of model programs is that, over the years, the country has changed its funding policies. Instead of financing care based on institutional and medical needs, the funding is provided based on what individuals decide they need to live better.

In the U.S., Medicaid reimburses for specific services, usually not related to a larger ideal of holistic wellbeing. But Fischer says Medicaid was able to fit the Care Farm program under the category of respite. The farmers are trained as caregivers, so families can drop their loved ones off into their care. There are currently 10 farms that serve 50 clients per week. Fischer emphasizes this isn’t a ploy to get cheap labor. While A-Plus pays the farmers for hosting the clients, the work the clients do doesn’t increase production. It actually slows it down.

“What one of my farmers gets done in five hours with five clients is something he would otherwise have done himself in half an hour,” Fischer says.

ercising and outside air, and that happy feeling will spill over up to four or five days after they go. We’ve had clients that have maybe a three-minute memory span. A day or two after they went to the farm they would say to someone, ‘Hey, I don’t know what I did today, but I sure liked it.’”

BACK TO LIFE In 2010, a YouTube video of a man in a nursing home started circulating on the Internet. The man, Henry, who is living with dementia, is shown slumped over in a wheelchair, eyes closed, barely engaged, when a staff worker approaches with a set of headphones attached to an iPod and puts them over Henry’s ears.

Then something incredible happens: Henry’s legs start shaking and his arms start wiggling and his eyes grow big. A smile appears on his face and he begins to sing along to the 1940s big band music. Even after the headphones come off, he seems to be able to recall memories better. He appears to have literally come back to life.

The clip eventually became part of a Kickstarter campaign for the 2013 documentary Alive Inside. The film, directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett, won an audience award at Sundance and also showed in Missoula at the 2013 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

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founder of the nonprofit organization Music and Memory, as he brings headphones into nursing homes and creates personal playlists for clients. His hope is to demonstrate music’s ability to combat memory loss and restore a sense of self to those lost in the fog of dementia. It includes interviews with best-selling author Oliver Sacks, musician Bobby McFerrin and, of course, Dr. Bill Thomas.

Jackie Johnson, a Missoula-based registered nurse, was inspired to contribute to the Kickstarter campaign after seeing the Henry clip. Even more, she decided to spearhead a project to bring the Alive Inside idea to facilities in Missoula. She sent out several letters to places around the community to introduce them to the idea —and for a long time, she didn’t hear back from anyone.

For people with dementia, music, just like the Care Farm program, has a physiological effect on the brain, tapping into an emotional area that is still very much alive despite other parts of it dying. Al Power, a doctor interviewed in Alive Inside, talks about how these alternative approaches can sometimes lead to those with dementia not needing certain medications anymore.

Currently the Medicaid system doesn’t easily support alternative practices like music therapy. It will provide compensation for extremely expensive drugs, but if a facility wants $200 iPods, there’s no funding.

Medicaid is almost purely linked to mainstream medical procedures and products, which feeds into the medicalization of aging.

Johnson facilitates two dementia support groups in town, mostly filled with caregiver spouses of peo-

After Richard Blank’s wife died of Alzheimer’s, he began volunteering with organizations like Missoula Aging Services. He believes there should be less emphasis on finding a cure and more on fortifying community resources to help people with the disease stay at home and live a quality life.

“For a lot of people, it’s a lot to take on one more thing,” she admits.

Finally, she heard from the staff at Edgewood Vista, a senior living center. Shawn Bennett, a life enhancement coordinator, had seen the movie and immediately took action. He started repurposing cellphones and using a couple of iPods to create playlists for residents.

Three weeks ago, Johnson and volunteer Susan Stubblefield went down to Edgewood to see how it was working.

“One woman allowed Shawn to put the headphones on,” Stubblefield says. “Before that, she had seemed anxious and not interacting with people. The music started and all of a sudden this impish grin came on her face and she looked everyone in the eye and took off. She was dancing around the facility.”

The second resident they witnessed also seemed to change her demeanor. She’d been a former jazz club owner, and even though she couldn’t remember things from moment to moment, the jazz coming out of her earphones seemed to bring back memories for her.

“Shawn brought her some rhythm instruments and she was playing and talking to us and really animated,” Stubblefield says. “She was much more connected.”

ple with the disease. The frustrations she hears from her groups—Is my wife overmedicated? My husband has stopped engaging, what can I do?—seem to scream for some kind of action. Now retired, Johnson is drumming up volunteers to help make it easy on long-term care centers and caregivers by providing donated phones, iPods and headphones, and creating playlists.

“I like so much of what is in the film,” Johnson says. “One thing stands out that Dan Cohen says: ‘If you knew a way you could help a million people wouldn’t you jump at the chance?’”

GROWING PEOPLE In his early days, after graduating from Harvard Medical School, Bill Thomas worked as the medical director at a small nursing home in New York. He was tending to a resident’s rash one day when she reached up to him and whispered, “I am so lonely, Doctor.” It occurred to him that so many of the ailments he was seeing in his patients weren’t really medical, they were due to boredom, loneliness and helplessness.

And so one of his first steps to conquer those “plagues,” as he calls them, was to move in a menagerie of dogs, cats and birds, plus an abundance of plants, all on the same day. The chaotic disruption

of filling the nursing home with life all at once is where he got the idea for the Green House model.

“I was taught as a doctor that a nursing home was like a hospital except that the people weren’t expected to be cured,” Thomas says. “If you just think about it, you realize, ‘Hey, people here deserve to be as happy as anybody anywhere.’ I started asking the question of what would make people happy. And people love being surrounded by life. It’s a very strong impulse and yet most nursing homes in America have almost no life in them. I got to thinking that the best metaphor wasn’t a hospital but a garden. And what I really wanted to do was make a garden that would grow people.”

Thomas is currently traveling throughout the U.S. on his “Age of Disruption Tour,” which is a nonfiction performance piece where he talks about the vision he has for aging.

“We have a society that equates youth with perfection and aging with decline, as if we touch the pinnacle of human existence in our mid-20s and it’s all downhill from there,” he says. “We see every older person as diminished. They are demented. Everything you see around you is negative. But that’s actually a terrible way to measure people. I want to live in a society where every age is best … where those crazy, horrible birthday cards that mock older people—they just go out of business. Our job is to make it so every person at every age gets to be themselves and rise to their full potential.”

Kavan Peterson, the editor for Changing Aging, has continued to support Thomas’ work, but recently he decided to start his own project. He combined forces with his sister, Kaley Peterson-Burke, and their friend, Missoula native Jonas LaRance, to start an in-

photo courtesy of Kavan Peterson

Bill Thomas, a geriatric doctor and longtime pro-aging activist, is traveling around the country on his “Age of Disruption Tour” to talk about how the culture needs to change. “In the 21st century we don’t need to confine people to institutions just for the crime of being old,” he says. “That is an antiquated idea.”

home care company in Missoula called Harvest Home Care. Though many home care companies and care facilities have been trained in Thomas’ Eden Alternative, Harvest Home Care will be the first in-home care company in the country to be created around the philosophy. It’s a for-profit benefit corporation, which Peterson sees as a demonstration model and a chance to experiment with Thomas’ more radical ideas as well as partner with Missoula organizations. “We got to-

gether in the fall, sat down and then took our plan to our mom and ran it by her,” he says. “She knows the community and she thought it was an amazing idea.”

In early May, Peterson and LaRance flew in from Seattle to facilitate a talk at UM by Al Power, the other doctor from Alive Inside. His goal has been to eliminate the use of antipsychotics in the treatment of people with dementia. Power believes that while care workers almost always have clients’ best interests at

heart, the system—with its staff turnover and rigid schedules—often makes those clients feel helpless and angry, and they lash out. And then they get medicated.

“What I have devoted my career to lately is just going around giving seminars and giving people tools for how you can respond to this person differently so they don’t need to be distressed and they don’t need a pill,” Power says. “I’m really trying to empower the nurses aids, the family members and social workers to have those skills.”

Besides incorporating Power’s ideas, Harvest Home Care is trying to find other ways to chip away at the culture of ageism and the fear of dementia. Peterson-Burke recently hosted Missoula’s first Alzheimer’s Cafe, a program where people living with dementia and their caregivers can show up to a coffee shop and casually spend time in the community. It’s a way to demystify Alzheimer’s and bring it into the open, and it gives clients a different opportunity beyond structured activities and support groups.

On July 17, the company will be sponsoring a screening of The Age of Love, a documentary about senior speed dating. The hope is that the public can come to see elders as people just like them—and realize that their own induction into elderhood need not be so grim.

“Aging is this incredible leveler,” Peterson says.

“Unless you’re struck down young, everybody is going to grow old. And everybody’s going to experience the marginalization of being older. Or, hopefully, they’ll be able to experience the rich new way they can contribute to community. It’s up to all of us to decide.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Snow falling on pines For its big-screen adaptation, James Lee Burke’s “Winter Light” gets the real Montana treatment

by Sarah Aswell

I

t was midnight in Jocko Canyon and Julian Higgins was standing hip-deep in snow with a blizzard roaring around him. Any other person’s main objective would have been to get inside and stay there, but Higgins was thrilled with the weather. He was shooting the finale of a short film he’d been dreaming about making for years. And the finale called for snow.

The blizzard, which struck on the last day of February 2014, was the worst Missoula had seen in years.

The tow truck companies in town warned Higgins that if he got stuck up in the canyon, he was on his own.

And although a few local plows braved the storm to help the crew create a flat place for equipment and shivering actors, executing anything was a long, slow, cold process. Higgins smiled through it all.

“It was fortuitous, it was perfect,” says Higgins. “It was a cinematographer’s dream, because the light hit every snowflake. We needed the weather in the last scene to be magical and it was. We rolled the dice by shooting in Missoula and we lucked out in a big way.”

The Winter Light film project began in another snowstorm, in New Hampshire in 2011. Higgins had just finished his graduate thesis film, Thief, at the American Institute of Film, for which he’d won a Student Academy Award. He was sitting in his family’s cabin in front of the fire, feeling lost and restless. His mother, a longtime James Lee Burke fan, gave him a book of the bestselling author’s short stories to read.

Although the director was facing building pressure to begin a feature film project, the first story in the collection spoke to him immediately—and it didn’t leave his mind until he decided to make it into a film.

“I remember feeling so hungry for it as I was reading it,” Higgins says. “By the end of the story, I knew I wanted to make it into a movie. It’s one of the few things that I’ve read in my life that I was immediately drawn to. I wasn’t in the mindset of making another short—the conventional wisdom is to start moving toward a feature—but my enthusiasm for ‘Winter Light’ never went away. I did a few other projects and got older and wiser. And I reached a point in my life when I realized, why didn’t I do this project when I knew I wanted to?”

First published in 1992 in Epoch magazine, “Winter Light” is the story of Roger Guidry, a 58-year-old literature professor who lives alone on the edge of a national forest in Montana. When a pair of men attempt to cross through his property to hunt on public land, the confrontation ignites a series of escalating events that makes Guidry question how far he’s willing to go to stand up for his beliefs.

“It’s about an honorable, kind and decent man

Raymond J. Barry stars in the film adaptation of James Lee Burke’s short story “Winter Light.”

who discovers that he doesn’t have many allies, and about the struggle between good and evil that goes on every day,” says the author, Burke. “And it takes place during Montana winter, when it feels as if death has a lock on this earth. But there’s light in this man.

He’s dealing with wicked men. These men aren’t hunters. They are people who simply want to kill.

They are not sportsmen, they are psychopaths.”

Higgins’ approach to past projects, with a keen focus on authenticity, has served him well. His 2011 award for Thief led him to his television directorial debut at the age of 26, with one of the final episodes of long-running drama series “House.” His 2013 short film Here and Now was selected by Ron Howard as the winner of Canon’s “Project Imagination” Film Contest.

After successfully getting the rights for “Winter Light,” from a cooperative Burke, he cast Raymond J. Barry (Dead Man Walking, Training Day, “Justified”) as Roger, as well as Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell in “Mad Men”) and Josh Pence (Tyler Winklevoss in The Social Network) as the two hunters. Screenwriter Wei-Ning Yu brought Burke’s story from the page to the screen with an elegant script that, like the short story, treats the landscape as a main character.

Higgins said filming in Montana was never in doubt. He has almost always shot on location, and

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after a scouting trip to Missoula in January 2014, he knew that no other place would be true to the story he was telling. He chose a cabin in Jocko Canyon for the professor’s home—“The paint froze onto the siding before it was dry,” he says— and Harold’s Bar in Milltown for the hunters’ hangout.

“In my last five years of filmmaking, I’ve only shot one day on a stage,” he says. “When you drive an hour through the wilderness to get to a location, it changes everything for the actors. It extends to the whole crew. There’s nothing to distract you. You are in it.

The only challenge was to capture it as best we could.”

His quest to preserve the heart of the original story went past location. Although the screenplay contains a number of changes to Burke’s short piece of fiction, all of the changes were made carefully and with the purpose of keeping true to the ideas and atmosphere created by Burke. The largest alterations have to do with bringing past events in Roger’s life into the present and with turning many of Roger’s inner thoughts into real actions on the screen.

“The interesting thing about adaptation is that to capture the essence of something, you have to change it,” Higgins says.

Burke, although pleased to hand his work to the group of young filmmakers, was not involved in the process after giving his blessing.

“Film is a collective art form,” he says. “I feel very flattered, but it’s a different medium and it’s separate from the book. I’d like to claim credit for everything that works in the film, but then I have to be accountable for the things that don’t. It’s just a different entity. I know [Higgins’] record and he’s made good films. I look forward to seeing it.”

The 30-minute film is, indeed, a different entity from the short story. But the final product succeeds in finding the soul of Burke’s “Winter Light.” As the hunters’ flashlights cut through the darkness in the final scene, thousands of whirling snowflakes are illuminated and then quickly lost again in the night. In the distance, Roger chops through the snow, celebrating a moral victory, even though it is likely paired with extreme personal loss. It is, as Higgins felt when he was filming it, a magical moment.

Winter Light screens at the Roxy Sat., July 18, at 2 PM, 4 PM and 6 PM. Filmmaker Q&A to follow each viewing. Tickets available at www.theroxytheater.org, or the box office. arts@missoulanews.com

[arts]

Snow falling on pines For its big-screen adaptation, James Lee Burke’s “Winter Light” gets the real Montana treatment

by Sarah Aswell

I

t was midnight in Jocko Canyon and Julian Higgins was standing hip-deep in snow with a blizzard roaring around him. Any other person’s main objective would have been to get inside and stay there, but Higgins was thrilled with the weather. He was shooting the finale of a short film he’d been dreaming about making for years. And the finale called for snow.

The blizzard, which struck on the last day of February 2014, was the worst Missoula had seen in years.

The tow truck companies in town warned Higgins that if he got stuck up in the canyon, he was on his own.

And although a few local plows braved the storm to help the crew create a flat place for equipment and shivering actors, executing anything was a long, slow, cold process. Higgins smiled through it all.

“It was fortuitous, it was perfect,” says Higgins. “It was a cinematographer’s dream, because the light hit every snowflake. We needed the weather in the last scene to be magical and it was. We rolled the dice by shooting in Missoula and we lucked out in a big way.”

The Winter Light film project began in another snowstorm, in New Hampshire in 2011. Higgins had just finished his graduate thesis film, Thief, at the American Institute of Film, for which he’d won a Student Academy Award. He was sitting in his family’s cabin in front of the fire, feeling lost and restless. His mother, a longtime James Lee Burke fan, gave him a book of the bestselling author’s short stories to read.

Although the director was facing building pressure to begin a feature film project, the first story in the collection spoke to him immediately—and it didn’t leave his mind until he decided to make it into a film.

“I remember feeling so hungry for it as I was reading it,” Higgins says. “By the end of the story, I knew I wanted to make it into a movie. It’s one of the few things that I’ve read in my life that I was immediately drawn to. I wasn’t in the mindset of making another short—the conventional wisdom is to start moving toward a feature—but my enthusiasm for ‘Winter Light’ never went away. I did a few other projects and got older and wiser. And I reached a point in my life when I realized, why didn’t I do this project when I knew I wanted to?”

First published in 1992 in Epoch magazine, “Winter Light” is the story of Roger Guidry, a 58-year-old literature professor who lives alone on the edge of a national forest in Montana. When a pair of men attempt to cross through his property to hunt on public land, the confrontation ignites a series of escalating events that makes Guidry question how far he’s willing to go to stand up for his beliefs.

“It’s about an honorable, kind and decent man

Raymond J. Barry stars in the film adaptation of James Lee Burke’s short story “Winter Light.”

who discovers that he doesn’t have many allies, and about the struggle between good and evil that goes on every day,” says the author, Burke. “And it takes place during Montana winter, when it feels as if death has a lock on this earth. But there’s light in this man.

He’s dealing with wicked men. These men aren’t hunters. They are people who simply want to kill.

They are not sportsmen, they are psychopaths.”

Higgins’ approach to past projects, with a keen focus on authenticity, has served him well. His 2011 award for Thief led him to his television directorial debut at the age of 26, with one of the final episodes of long-running drama series “House.” His 2013 short film Here and Now was selected by Ron Howard as the winner of Canon’s “Project Imagination” Film Contest.

After successfully getting the rights for “Winter Light,” from a cooperative Burke, he cast Raymond J. Barry (Dead Man Walking, Training Day, “Justified”) as Roger, as well as Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell in “Mad Men”) and Josh Pence (Tyler Winklevoss in The Social Network) as the two hunters. Screenwriter Wei-Ning Yu brought Burke’s story from the page to the screen with an elegant script that, like the short story, treats the landscape as a main character.

Higgins said filming in Montana was never in doubt. He has almost always shot on location, and

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after a scouting trip to Missoula in January 2014, he knew that no other place would be true to the story he was telling. He chose a cabin in Jocko Canyon for the professor’s home—“The paint froze onto the siding before it was dry,” he says— and Harold’s Bar in Milltown for the hunters’ hangout.

“In my last five years of filmmaking, I’ve only shot one day on a stage,” he says. “When you drive an hour through the wilderness to get to a location, it changes everything for the actors. It extends to the whole crew. There’s nothing to distract you. You are in it.

The only challenge was to capture it as best we could.”

His quest to preserve the heart of the original story went past location. Although the screenplay contains a number of changes to Burke’s short piece of fiction, all of the changes were made carefully and with the purpose of keeping true to the ideas and atmosphere created by Burke. The largest alterations have to do with bringing past events in Roger’s life into the present and with turning many of Roger’s inner thoughts into real actions on the screen.

“The interesting thing about adaptation is that to capture the essence of something, you have to change it,” Higgins says.

Burke, although pleased to hand his work to the group of young filmmakers, was not involved in the process after giving his blessing.

“Film is a collective art form,” he says. “I feel very flattered, but it’s a different medium and it’s separate from the book. I’d like to claim credit for everything that works in the film, but then I have to be accountable for the things that don’t. It’s just a different entity. I know [Higgins’] record and he’s made good films. I look forward to seeing it.”

The 30-minute film is, indeed, a different entity from the short story. But the final product succeeds in finding the soul of Burke’s “Winter Light.” As the hunters’ flashlights cut through the darkness in the final scene, thousands of whirling snowflakes are illuminated and then quickly lost again in the night. In the distance, Roger chops through the snow, celebrating a moral victory, even though it is likely paired with extreme personal loss. It is, as Higgins felt when he was filming it, a magical moment.

Winter Light screens at the Roxy Sat., July 18, at 2 PM, 4 PM and 6 PM. Filmmaker Q&A to follow each viewing. Tickets available at www.theroxytheater.org, or the box office. arts@missoulanews.com

[music]

Ballpark butt rock Livin’ on a prayer for the ’80s anthems

by Ednor Therriault

illustration by Kou Moua

If classic rock is comfort food, then ’80s rock is the mac-and-cheese casserole. And if there’s anything I like, it’s cheese. Last Friday night I took my family to Ogren Park at Allegiance Field for our first Osprey game of the season, and I girded my ear loins for an evening of ’80s butt rock anthems. But on this night, I got served a special menu.

Instead of the martial beat of “We Will Rock You,” some infectious salsa music had us shimmying in our seats. Then we stood for a moving rendition of the National Anthem by the Very Special Arts ensemble.

Okay, now surely we would hear “Welcome to the Jungle” or “Hells Bells.” But as the Osprey took the field, Pink’s “Get the Party Started” blasted. Meh. I shrugged, ordered a beer and cheered for the first pitch.

Then, nothing. Just Tom the Announcer. By the time the third batter came up to the plate without a single note of music, I recognized the home field tactic. We couldn’t take the chance that any Idaho Falls Chukars or their fans would get unnecessarily jacked up on music. I began to hear songs in my head when certain situations arose, like when a Chukar player stole second on a close play. While the crowd grumbled like an old outboard motor, I thought of “Stop Your Sobbing” by the Pretenders. When the next batter drew a walk, I thought how this was a perfect chance for “Walk Don’t Run” by the Ventures.

Granted, the only people who would get it would be a few 60-year-old white guys in Charlie Sheen shirts, but still.

A pop fly ended the inning, and a minute later some kind of house beat played as the Osprey leadoff batter walked to the plate, and it was nonstop handclapping, foot-stomping, organ-led cheers every moment the ball was not in play. But where was “Purple Haze” or “My Sharona” or “Gonna Make You Sweat” or all the other other boilerplate ballpark blood-

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pumpers? Where was the “Ave Maria” of stadium rock, “Rock ‘n Roll Pt. II” by Gary Glitter?

The players choose their walk-up music, and their youth and origins were reflected in the Latin beats and hip-hop songs. My ears perked up when Matt McPherson came up to bat to the funky strains of Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish Those Days Would Come Back Again.” Now we were getting somewhere, although it seemed an oddly nostalgic choice for a 20year-old. The inning ended with some rap song about bitches, and it was back to the musical embargo as the visitors came up to bat. Their inning ended in short order with a strikeout. I’m always a bit relieved when the Osprey get that fourth strikeout, because the dozens of folks watching the game from their lawn chairs in the grass behind those three big black Ks hanging on the centerfield fence brings to mind a Founder’s Day picnic in Mississippi.

Things got back on track, musically, when a tworun Osprey homer in the next inning brought AC/DC’s “Back In Black” pounding through the speakers. My hope for rock and roll salvation began to build, but then came Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain,” which has no place in any baseball game in this country.

Finally, late in the game, “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Freeze Frame” and “Beat It” played in quick succession. Was the Osprey’s musical director just being canny, meting out the hits to make sure our energy would build toward the end? Somehow I’d gotten my fix after all. When the final strikeout sealed the Osprey victory, we made for the exits as the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” played.

The Chukars had committed four errors (five if you count living in Idaho Falls) and managed three runs.

The home team? Eight runs, no errors and enough hits to satisfy this classic rock junkie. etherriault@missoulanews.com

[film]

Texas groovin’ New doc details the cosmic life of Doug Sahm

by Brad Tyer

“Just having a gentlemen’s luncheon, officer.”

Doug Sahm was a musical genius, a proponent and embodiment of what he always called “the groove,” and Austin, Texas, was his “groover’s paradise” (giggle away, rafters). He was not, however, a hook man, and aside from a too-few hits, he wasn’t especially commercially successful. And so, outside of certain circles, he remains substantially less famous than his expansive talent would seem to deserve. Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove is a compelling corrective for the uninitiated and a welcome recharge for the already faithful.

Sahm was born to conservative parents in San Antonio and promptly established himself as a precocious singer and multi-instrumental prodigy (he debuted on local radio at 5, and at 11 shared the stage on Hank Williams Sr.’s last-ever show.) He inhaled music at an idiosyncratic cultural crossroads where western swing met rhythm and blues and Tejano polka.

In 1965 he formed faux British Invaders the Sir Douglas Quintet with childhood buddy Augie Meyers and scored his first big hit with “She’s About a Mover,” an infectious bit of pop nonsense with a propulsive upbeat and an irresistible dose of Meyers’ Vox organ. That same year he got popped for marijuana possession in Corpus Christi and took his expensively probated skills to California, where the fast-talking Texan had a creative burst, tended an impressive pair of muttonchops, hung out with Jerry Garcia and charted another Top 40 hit—“Mendocino”—with the reformed Sir Douglas Quintet.

By 1971 he’d tired of exile and returned to Austin, where he anchored the cosmic cowboy/redneck rock revolution that made apparent rival Willie Nelson a household name. In 1973, Atlantic Records head Jerry Wexler bet the farm to break Doug Sahm and Band, featuring an all-star supporting cast including Dr. John, the Memphis Horns and Bob Dylan, but the record went nowhere. By 1977 Sahm was singing the official lament of Austinites since at least 10 years

before whenever you got there: Scene’s just not cool anymore. So he left again, for Scandinavia this time, where he added some weight to his iconically lanky frame and cranked out a string of retrospectively cringeworthy Euro-hits with titles like “Meet Me in Stockholm” and “Nowhere Like Norway.” Then he moved to Canada. Dude was restless.

He returned to Texas for good in 1988 and formed a Tex-Mex supergroup, the Texas Tornados, with Meyers, Freddy Fender and accordionist Flaco Jimenez. Sahm died in 1999, at 58, of a heart attack in his sleep in a motel in New Mexico.

Director/co-writer Joe Nick Patoski, who will be in Missoula for the screening, is the dean of all things Texan (he’s written biographies of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Selena and the Dallas Cowboys). He tells Sahm’s story with a fast-moving mix of recorded performance, battered snapshots, grainy-groovy scene footage and his own interviews with Sahm’s family and fellow travelers.

What’s it add up to? Sahm wasn’t exactly a tragic figure, and Patoski doesn’t strain to make him one.

Might he have been better appreciated? Sure, but he lived a rock star’s life regardless. Was he an authentic pioneer or a pandering opportunist? Good bit of both. Generous collaborator or jealous competitor?

All of the above. Despite cutting a figure that lends itself to caricature—if you’ve ever rocked long hair, granny glasses and a cowboy hat, you probably owe royalties to the Sahm estate—he was complicated and utterly inimitable. Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove honors and reflects that. For a guy who was all about the groove, it’s only fitting that no single hook can hold him.

Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove screens at the Top Hat Sun., July 19, at 7 PM, followed by a Q&A with director Joe Nick Patoski. arts@missoulanews.com

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Spot on Trainwreck derails the rom-com formula

by Molly Laich

How laugh tracks are made.

Trainwreck has got to be the funniest movie of 2015 thus far. I struggle to even come up with a distant second. (Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 does not come to mind.) The film’s written by first-time screenwriter Amy Schumer, who you’ve probably seen by now on Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer” or her many stand-up specials. Schumer specializes in sex jokes and raunch, and now she’s got an accomplished romantic comedy directed by Judd Apatow to add to her list of accolades. Her character, also named Amy, plays it fast and loose when it comes to sex, booze and partying. I really want to believe these character traits are autobiographical. To see a woman drink from a straw out of a carton of wine she smuggled into a movie theater gives me hope that I, too, could someday be so irresponsible and productive at the same time.

This is a romantic comedy with plenty of romantic comedy tropes to hang our hat on. Amy’s a successful writer at a posh men’s magazine in New York City, of course, because literally 100 percent of female rom com protagonists work at a fake magazine. Hollywood relishes a world where jobs like these still exist and pay lots of money. There are probably more fake magazine employees in movies than there are real life magazine employees. But I digress.

We meet Amy’s father (Colin Quinn) in a flashback when he explains to his young daughters that their folks are getting a divorce because nothing ever works out. He makes them repeat, “Monogamy is not realistic,” again and again. In adulthood, Amy’s taken the lesson to heart, as we see her lead a parade of handsome men in and out of her apartment. To one of the men, with a particularly large penis, she says, “Have you ever had sex before? Where are the other women buried?” If the whole movie continued on as a series of Schumer one-liners, with no lessons

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learned or story arc, I’d probably be fine with it. But alas, she will eventually whittle the men down to one.

Enter Aaron, played by “Saturday Night Live” alumnus Bill Hader. Hader’s been on fire lately with recent turns in The Skeleton Twins and Inside Out. Here he plays a sports medicine doctor who Amy’s been assigned to write about. When LeBron James (playing himself ) enters Aaron’s office, Amy doesn’t know who he is and from this adorable ignorance on the vast world of sportsball, a tender romance blossoms between them.

Trainwreck veers from the traditional rom-com trajectory in that it’s not a story about a burgeoning romance so much as an exploration into what it takes to keep a relationship going. With Aaron and Amy, we’ve got earnest maturity contrasted with jaded inexperience. They behave like a real couple with compelling, relatable problems. Ordinarily I complain about being forced to watch a couple date for weeks or months on screen (see: Fifty Shades of Grey) but with Schumer and Hader, it’s never boring.

This is the first time Apatow’s directed someone else’s material, and this film feels like the intersection of two strikingly gifted minds. From Apatow, we get a seamlessly interwoven ensemble cast, including, but not limited to, Tilda Swinton as Amy’s merciless boss, Ezra Miller as the young, sex crazed intern, Mike Birbiglia as the dull yet not unfunny brother-in-law, Dave Attell as the bum who heckles Amy from the sidewalk on her many walks of shame—and the hits keep coming.

If you know and like Amy Schumer, Trainwreck will not disappoint. If you’re not a fan, what can I say?

You are a lost fool and no one can help you.

Trainwreck opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., July 17. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] nally get their own feature. After eons of failure serving under historical villains, they hook up with Scarlett Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock) in a plot to swipe Queen Elizabeth’s crown. Rated PG. Screening at the Carmike, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE AGE OF LOVE The humorous and poignant adventures of 30 senior citizens involved in a speed dating event show the anxiety and emotional risk of seniors who are still in the game. Screening at the Roxy, Wed., July 22, 5 PM.

THE OVERNIGHT Taylor Schilling stars with Adam Scott as new arrivals to Los Angeles who run into creepy guy Jason Schwartzman. A family playdate becomes increasingly weird as the night goes on. Screens at the Roxy Thu., July 16–Thu., July 23.

ANT-MAN Ant-Man teams up with his mentor to plan a heist that will save the world. Rated PG-13, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, and Mountain Cinema 4.

IRIS New York style maven Iris Apfel is featured in this documentary from celebrated filmmaker Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter). Iris, a flamboyant 93-year-old, continues to create and inspire but never forgets her humble roots. Screening at the Roxy, Fri., July 17–Thu., July 23, 7 PM. JURASSIC PARK The Roxy’s Summer of Spielberg takes a big bite out of July with the T-Rex of all dinosaur movies. As SamJack says, hold onto your butts. Screening at the Roxy, Thu., July 23, 8 PM. ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL This poignant adaptation of a touching young adult novel explores the delicate relationships between high school senior Greg, his filmmaking cohort Earl, and Rachel, a girl with leukemia. Nick Offerman co-stars.

Screening at the Roxy, Fri., July 17–Thu., July 23. Visit roxytheatre.org for showtimes.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: EVERYMAN Everyman has the world by the tail until Death comes calling. Showing at the Roxy, Tue., July 21, 7:30 PM. PURPLE RAIN SING-A-LONG Sing along to all your favorites—”When Doves Cry,” “I Would Die 4 U,” “Let’s Go Crazy” and many more. Pull on that raspberry beret and purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, y’all! Rated R. Playing at the Roxy, Sat., July 17, 8:30 PM. SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION Ethan Hawke directs this moving documentary about Seymour Bernstein, a performing musician and piano teacher who shares the insights he’s gained from an amazing life. Screening at the Roxy, Thu., July 16, 7 PM. SIR DOUG AND THE GENUINE TEXAS COSMIC GROOVE One of the most unique wildmen to ever come out of Texas, Doug Sahm was an unsung hero of Texas music.

Screening at the Top Hat, Sun., July 19. Free. (See Film.)

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE This winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival follows a pair of traveling salesmen as they examine the various facets of everyday life. Screening at the Roxy, Fri., July 14–Thu., July 16.

Of course it shrunk! Don't you morons know what “dry clean only” means? Ant-Man opens Fri., July 17, at the Carmike.

TRAINWRECK Off-the-rails comedy co-stars Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in the story of a commitment-phobic career woman who considers settling down with a stable dude. Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. (See Film.)

THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE When Madame Souza’s grandson is kidnapped, she enlists the help of the Triplets of Belleville to help rescue him. This screening is a benefit for Hellgate High School’s International Baccalaureate program. Showing at the Roxy, Thu., July 23, 7 PM. WINTER LIGHT When an aging college professor confronts two hunters trespassing on his land, things get real. Real bad. Adapted from a short story by Missoula’s own James Lee Burke.

At the Roxy, Sat., July 18, 2 PM, 4 PM and 6 PM. Q & A with the filmmakers will follow each screening.

NOW PLAYING THE GALLOWS Twenty years after a horrific accident brings tragedy to a high school play, students decide to produce the play in honor of the kid who died. Soon enough, they realize that they should have stuck with The Music Man. Rated R. Carmike INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE The Summer of Spielberg barrels ahead. When Indy’s father, played by Sean Connery, goes missing, the in-

trepid archeolgist/whipmaster follows in the old man’s footsteps to help stop the Nazis from their dastardly plan. Bonus fun: try saying the word “Spartacus” without sounding like Sean Connery.

INSIDE OUT When young Riley moves with her family to San Francisco, her emotions, given life by Bill Hader, Amy Poehler and other comic heavy hitters, are thrown into turmoil. Up director Pete Docter knocks it out of the park, again. Carmike, Pharaohplex.

JURASSIC WORLD Chris Pratt stars as the scrappy, charming misfit who faces a full-on dinosaur revolt when the theme park’s GMO dolphin-lizard thingy pops its cork. Does not pass the Bechdel test. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

MAGIC MIKE XXL It’s slobbering time. There’s a veritable C-store of sixpacks on display when Channing Tatum returns from his self-imposed exile and rounds up his pec posse to have one last stripper blowout. It’s the male version of Charlie’s Angels, only the guys don’t seem to be in on the joke. Rated R because of dirty stuff. Playing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

MAX Canine war hero Max, damaged by battle trauma, finds his way back to inner peace through the love of his adoptive family. Rated PG. Carmike and Showboat.

MINIONS The Twinkie-shaped sidekicks from Despicable Me fi-

SELFLESS (SELF/LESS) When a one-percenter dying of cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of Ryan Reynolds, things go south faster than jazz night in a biker bar. Rated PG-13.

Carmike.

TED 2 Sometimes a sophisticated comedy taps into the shared human experience to transcend the medium and unite us in our quest for understanding and existential harmony. This is not one of those times. If you’re into “Family Guy”-style humor, this one is right up your alley. Carmike.

TERMINATOR GENISYS The future ain’t what it used to be when yet another assassin is sent back in time to kill the mother of John Conner, but Sarah Conner has already seen the first four Terminator movies, knows all about Skynet/Genisys, and royally screws up the time/space continuum. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, Showboat, and some future theater that hasn’t been built yet.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle and Ednor Therriault.

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 7289380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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How to bargain at the farmers market Ari LeVaux It’s good to be able to drive a hard bargain, but at the local farmers market, the dogged pursuit of a bargain is usually poor form.

This isn’t some South American open-air market, where out-of-town shoppers can expect an exorbitant gringo tax. Nor is this the cheerful theater of price discovery the guidebook prepared you for, where the locals engage in lively bargaining as a form of social interaction. Even in places where it is socially acceptable, I have a hard time sparring over money with those who have turned the earth into food.

This isn’t to say there is no room for deal-making at the farmers market, because there most definitely is.

But it’s a more nuanced kind of negotiating. How gracefully you can participate in this dance depends on how sincerely you attempt to understand—and empathize with—the situation from the farmer’s perspective.

Farming straddles a sharp edge between labor of love and slave labor. Even in the rare cases where the farmer makes a decent living, he or she still works ungodly hours in the heat, cold and rain. Unexpected catastrophes, fickle markets and changing weather patterns are part of this difficult package.

The stakes are higher than ever this summer in and around Missoula. The heat came early, shattering records during the summer solstice. The long days allowed the heat to cause even more damage than it

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 $-$$

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would have later in the summer when days are shorter and the plants are better established. Some crops bolted, while others were stunted. Keeping everything wet enough became a consuming, expensive challenge. At market, the trick became keeping the fragile crops perky in the merciless heat.

Farmers, like their produce, are fragile too, especially by the end of the market. Don’t be that guy who tries to save a little beer money by pointing out how the veggies are wilted. Instead, be the altruistic negotiator who looks for ways to make it better for everyone.

Be an angel of the free market, flowing like muchneeded water through the parched aisles, gravitating to the low places of opportunity. My flow took me to the dairy stand, where Ernie had extra gallons of milk because the steamer on the espresso stand next door was broken. He offered me a good price and offered to keep the milk cool until I was ready to leave the market. Deal. On to the next.

Mike was packing up his stand, even though the market didn’t close for another hour. “I’m sold out,” he said. Not completely, he qualified, but close enough to pack it in. “I’m not gonna sit here in this heat just to sell some salad mix and carrots for 10 bucks,” he told me. “I’m gonna go drink a beer.”

“Can I pay for your beer,” I offered, “in exchange for some salad mix and carrots?”

soula. 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. $ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$

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.

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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood.

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I held out my basket and he loaded it up with what felt fair. For five bucks I got a pile of carrots, a large green tomato, a handful of zucchini and three bags of salad mix that Mike had, impressively, managed to keep fresh.

Across the aisle, a farmer named Steve was surrounded by mountains of produce as the clock ticked down. At least he had a good shade system, so his stuff was faring as well as it could. The heat had given Steve an early crop of eggplant, usually unheard of this time of year, and he had a big box of it. But I was drawn in by his eight-ball summer squash.

“You like these? I’ll give you a screaming deal on a whole box,” Steve said, as he pulled a box from beneath a table. It was packed with those round, green/grey zucchini-like vegetables.

I thought about those squash and those eggplants, and I realized that if I only had some tomatoes, then I could make and freeze a large batch of ratatouille. I told Steve I was interested in the eight-balls, as well as the eggplant, but I had to go see if I could find some tomatoes.

“Good luck with that,” Steve said. He, along with Mike and most everyone else, had sold out of tomatoes early. A lap around the market confirmed it. I returned to Steve’s stand just in time to see Ernie walk off with all of Steve’s eggplant in exchange for a block of cheese.

I needed a different plan. I decided to blanch and freeze those eight-balls until I could get enough tomatoes and eggplant together to make my ratatouille.

Steve helped make it happen and threw some extra goodies into the deal, including kale, cucumbers and a few eggplants Ernie left behind.

For about $25, I killed it at that market, bringing home a gallon of fresh, organic milk, plus significant quantities of carrots, salad mix, kale, eggplants, cucumbers and squash.

In addition to that ratatouille, come winter I’ll be ready to make a Southwestern corn stew called posole, to which I always add squash when available.

And thanks to my altruistic negotiating skills, they will be.

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. $

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $

Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.

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. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 97:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ 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

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

Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms 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. $$-$$$

Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.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. $-$$ 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. $ Missoula Farmer’s Market N. Higgins by the XXX’s missoulafarmersmarket.com Find us on Facebook Seasonal, Homegrown and Homemade!

Fresh local vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, eggs, honey, baked goods and coffee provided by over 100 vendors. Saturdays 8am-12:30pm. “Music at the Market” performers on Saturdays 9am-noon.

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. $$-$$$

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! $-$$ Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ 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. $$-$$$

Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table.

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

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Flathead Lake Brewing Co. in cans HAPPIEST HOUR The skinny: The craft brewery opened its new production facility and pubhouse on the northern shore of Flathead Lake earlier this year, and a few months ago the team switched on the canning line. Now, three FLBC brews are available in 12-ounce cans around the Missoula and Flathead valleys.

The reason for cans: Given the company’s eco-conscious attitude, it was a matter of time before FLBC joined the list of Montana breweries not afraid to deliver their craft beers in cans. Aluminum cans use less energy to produce and refrigerate, they’re easily recyclable and they can help keep your neck cool during a scorching summer day. As part of the shift, the company is phasing out its 22-ounce bomber bottles for all but speciality beers.

“We felt it better exemplified the spirit of Montana,” explains Rob Millspaugh, FLBC’s packaging manager.

Less sophisticated, sure. But these sixpacks come packaged in a small cardboard box, which is sort of fancy.

Bitterroot Beanery Multiple Locations Find us on Facebook Serving organic, free trade coffees, iced mochas & lattes, fruit smoothies, milkshakes & shaved ice drinks. Check out our menu on Facebook. Open daily 6:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. South Hamilton • 363-4160, North Hamilton • 363-2519, Woodside • 381-4196, Victor • 3814407, Corvallis • 274-4074. $ Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton 363-7468 bitterrootbrewing.com Bitter Root Brewing is open 7 days a week serving delicious microbrews and tasty hand-crafted food. Live music EVERY Thursday and Saturday from 6-8:30pm. Check out our website or find us on Facebook for upcoming events, menus, and other information. Cheers! $-$$ Bouilla 111 S. 3rd Hamilton 406-361-0223 Serving breakfast and lunch. From scratch modern American cuisine served in the beautiful Bit-

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Th e s e l e c t i o n : Wild Mile Wheat, Bufflehead Brown and The Centennial IPA. The latter, originally created as a one-off commemorative brew for Glacier National Park’s 100th anniversary, has been a topseller on draft and is photo by Derek Brouwer FLBC’s most popular can, Millspaugh says. He adds that betterthan-expected sales are keeping the canners busy, with monthly production now at 2,000 or so cases.

Where to get it: Missoula grocery and convenience stores, as well as the FLBC pubhouse in downtown Missoula (424 N. Higgins Ave.). The latter advertises a flat $8 per six-pack. While canning is sure to introduce the beer to a wider audience, the company doesn’t have immediate plans to extend distribution beyond western Montana.

—Derek Brouwer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

terroot Valley. Check out our menu on Facebook. Open Monday - Saturday. $-$$ The Hamilton - A Public House 104 Main St., Victor 642-6644 Enjoy traditional pub fare in a warm, comfortable atmosphere. Serving a variety of appetizers, soups and salads and pub favorites of English Style Fish & Chips to Calamari & Chips to a Grand Tattie. Open at 11a.m. Monday-Friday and 4:00p.m. on Saturday. $-$$ Taste of Paris 109 N 4th St., Hamilton (406) 369-5875 tasteofparis.info FRENCH BISTRO and Crêperie offering authentic, yet affordable French homecooked specialties. French Wines. Gourmet Gifts. The outdoor patio, open in summer, adds a lot to the Parisian experience. Open TuesSat 9am– 8pm. $-$$

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July 16–July 23, 2015 tle ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes.

Tonight, it’s a performance from the ZACC Girls Rock Camp. No cover.

THURSDAYJULY16 Jelly Bread Band (don’t say it) will jam (I told you not to say it) some alt-rock Americana at the Palace, 9:30 PM, $5.

Wine yourself up with some fivestar jazz when the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio play at Ten Spoon Winery, 6–8PM. Free.

Artists, start your palettes. It’s open studio at E3 Convergence Gallery. Artist Bobbe Almer will be working live in the gallery. 229 W. Main St., 10 AM–4 PM. Go to www.bobbe-almer.com for more info.

Peter Bowen reads from and signs his latest work, Bitter Creek, at Fact & Fiction downtown. 7 PM. The Hamilton Players present their second annual Broadway concert fundraiser. Enjoy music inspired by the silver screen. Champagne reception included. $30, 7 PM, tickets available at the box office, or go to hamiltonplayers.com.

nightlife When they call you Joe Dirt, it’s a compliment. Learn some dirt and how you can improve your native plant garden at the Understanding Soil workshop. Montana Natural History Center, 5–6 PM. $4 for MNHC members.

Downtown ToNight celebrates a whopping 15 years of food, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, every Thursday from 5:30-8:30 PM through mid-September. July 16: Jameson & the Sordid Seeds. Free to hang out.

When you see nine musicians’ worth of talent packed into three guys, it won’t be the whiskey talking.

It’s the sharp chops of the John Floridis Trio at the Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St., 6–8 PM. Free.

Brian Ernst provides music to quaff to at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., 6–8 PM, free.

City meets Country meets Missoula when NYC’s Skye Steele and South Carolina’s Tyler Edwards play the ZACC Below, with locals Ryan Bundy and Spencer warming up the stage. 7 PM, $3 sugg. donation, all ages.

These KFC uniforms are starting to take a weird turn. Shannon and the Clams bring their psychobilly punk to town for a Total Fest Pre-Blast at the VFW Sun., July 19, at 9 PM, along with Midnight Hotdog, Shahs and Is Okay. $10/$15 ages 18–20. $8 advance at Ear Candy.

It’s a fine day for bluegrass when Lochwood Bluegrass Band plinks away at Lolo Peak Brewery, 6–8 PM, free.

Liz Carlisle reads selections from her new book, Lentil Underground, followed by a discussion with PEAS Farm honcho Josh Slotnik.

Shakespeare and Co., free.

FRIDAYJULY17 If Ween and Phish had a onenight stand, their bastard child might sound a lot like Dopapod. The psychedelic journey starts with Cure For the Common at the Top Hat, at 8 PM. Tickets are $12, $10 adv.

It’s all Greek to you at the Montana Greek Festival. Enjoy music, dancing, beer, wine, and tons of delicious Greek delectables. 301 S. 6th St. W., 11 AM– 10 PM. Free admission. Kali orexi!

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Paradiso and Rasamayi bring the world’s largest crystal didgeridoo and the healing sounds of gem encrusted singing bowls to Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 Main St. 7 PM, $30/$25 adv. Tickets available at yogainmissoula.com.

Cut loose and go hog-wild when the Wild Coyote Band plays tunes at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., starting at 8 PM. No cover.

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[calendar] Splits, they’re the DJs manning the decks for House Music Night at the Bandlander. No cover.

Operator? Give me the area code for country and western. Nashville 406 dials it in at the Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM, no cover.

Russ Nasset’s Strat has seen more action than Madonna, but it still sounds sweet in the hands of the honky tonk master. Russ and the Revelators shake things up at the Union Club, 9:30 PM, No cover.

SATURDAYJULY18 Missoula’s favorite band (it’s official according to last week’s Indy) Lil’ Smokies are on a major roll. Fresh from grabbing the gold at the Telluride Band Competition, they continue their victory lap at the Top Hat, with Chicago “treegrass” pickers Under the Willow opening.

Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10, $7.

arms away Missoulians frequently suffer from a distinct affliction borne by too many silent auctions, pledge drives and door-to-door chocolate sales. It's known as Fundraising Fatigue. Our generosity is sustainable, but man, those fundraising events can really start to blur together.

WHAT: ZACC Northside Westside Block Party WHEN: Sat., July 18, 3–9 PM WHERE: 235 North First St. W. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: zootownarts.org/blockparty

Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7-11 PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

So when something as deeply weird as GCLAW comes along, like for this year’s annual Northside Westside Block Party, we can’t wait to pry open our wallets. The Garden City Lady Arm Wrestlers combine aspects of pro wrestling, roller derby and performance art in their highly entertaining “brawls” that raise money for charity.

Mingle among the sweet abundance at the Missoula farmers mar-

Arm wrestler Strawberry Paincake brought the concept to Missoula from Virginia three years ago,

and it caught on like tank tops at a NASCAR race. A GCLAW wrestling bout is a wildly entertaining mix of athleticism, bravado, theatrics and grunting. Elbow snappers with names like Sassy Squatch, She-Manly, Mule Skinner and Granny Glad-Ass strut in front of a cheering crowd, taunting their opponents and whipping the spectators into a frenzy. Meanwhile, their entourages move through the crowd and solicit “votes” (aka “money”) to support their respective wrasslers. Once it's time to shut up and nut up, the wrasslers compete in three rounds in a tournamentstyle bracket to determine the event's GCLAW champion. General rules are enforced by a referee, who is openly susceptible to influence from bribes offered by the crowd or the wrassler's entourage, or even the “impartial” celebrity judges. When all matches are over, the celebrity judges determine the Crowd Favorite, a highly coveted honor.

It's all in good fun, of course, and all the money raised goes to the Zootwon Arts Community Center.

The ladies of GCLAW put your money where their mouth is in this buck-wild frenzy that's a breath of fresh air in a community of givers who love something new and exciting.

—Ednor Therriault

kets and People’s Market, with produce, arts, crafts, baked goods, hot breakfasts and strong coffee at the XXXXs, Pine Street and riverside parking lot east of Caras Park.

Things get running about 8 AM and last til 1 PM. It’s all Greek to you at the Montana Greek Festival. Enjoy music, dancing, beer, wine, and tons of delicious Greek delectables. 301 S. 6th St. W., 11 AM–10 PM. Free admission.

Kali orexi!

Come on, feel the noise at the North Side West Side Block Party, hosted by the ZACC on North First Street, with turkey legs and music and crafting and sun-kissed beauties, 3-9 PM. Free to attend.

nightlife Good Old Fashioned plays music as modern as their name would imply at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., 6–8 PM, free.

Brian Ernst plays acoustic music to loops, using a bevy of instruments.

Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM, free.

Dance the night away (or at least the first part of it) with Missoula Americana comers Wolf & the Moons at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM, free.

Charla and Company provide a tasty summer soundtrack to your

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picnic at Ten Spoon Winery. Music runs 6–8 PM. Missoula Outdoor Cinema screens films at the Headstart School, corner of Worden and Phillips, starting at dusk every Saturday through Sept. 5. July 11 is Dirty Dancing, July 18 is To Kill A Mocking Bird, and July 25 is Hard Day’s Night.

Donations appreciated; popcorn available Check out missoulaout doorcinema.org.

Cut loose and go hog-wild when the Wild Coyote Band plays tunes at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., starting at 8 PM. No cover.

Wartime Blues is joined on the frontlines by San Francisco’s Vandella and local rockers Uplanders at the VFW, 9 PM, $5.

If you show up at ISCSM’s Drag Show expecting top-fuel funny cars, boy will you be surprised. The Palace, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot.

They play country music. Don’t ask ‘em what country. Makes ‘em uncomfortable. Country Boogie Boys play music to dance to at the Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM, no cover.

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How cool is Doug Sahm? The Texas legend not only made the accordion safe for general consumption, but the Bottle Rockets recorded an entire album of his songs. See his story in Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove, screening at the Top Hat, 7 PM, free.

Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins takes a step off the writerecord-tour treadmill to bring his solo acoustic show to Stage 112.

Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15, 18 and over.

nightlife Hyphen alert! Tom Catmull weaves folk-country-blues tales in his inimitable Montana-by-way-of-Texas style at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., 5–8 PM, free.

Enjoy some catchy originals and tasty covers from Wolf & the Moons at Great Burn Brewing, 2230 McDonald, 6–8 PM, free.

If you like your pop country smooth and light like a Stawberita, the Josh Abbott Band will fill your pitcher to the top. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $10–$12, 18 and over. Tickets available at Rockin’ Rudy’s, or online at www. ticketfly.com Shannon and the Clams, Midnight Hotdog, Shahs and Is Okay provide music for your freakout at this Total Fest Pre-Blast. VFW, 9 PM. $10/$15 ages 18-20. Advance tickets $8 at Ear Candy.

Velvet Teen bring the smooth at the Real Lounge. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $13, 18+ show. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s or online at www.ticketfly.com/purchase/ event/872413

MONDAYJULY20 Come relive your favorite Grateful Dead shows at Live Dead every Monday at 5 PM at the Top Hat. Local Deadhead luminaries curate the recordings. Free.

nightlife Shake, rattle ‘n’ roll at the Beginner/Intermediate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer Meyer-Vaughan on Mondays at Downtown Dance Collective, 7:30-9 PM. Yoga pants allowed, regular rates apply.

Hole up at the Northhole and sip a cold pint or three for Community UNite. 50 cents of each pint sold goes to the Montana Wildlife Federation, Montana’s oldest and most effective wildlife conservation group.

KettleHouse Northside Taproom, 313 N. 1st W., 5–8 PM.

the Top Hat hosts a local band every Wednesday for Jazz Night. This week it’s Blue Moon. 7 PM, no cover, all ages.

Pagan folk-rock will feed your soul when SJ Tucker brings her show to the OAO Temple Haus, 9463 Miller Creek Rd. 7:30 PM, $10-$20.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.

Bring a lawn chair, but be mindful of those umbrellas! Led by stalwart wand waver Gary Gillett, the Missoula City Band delivers an evening of rousing music every Wednesday at the Bonner Park Band Shell, 8 PM, free. (Trivia answer: a peloton is a group of cyclists bunching up to draft, conserving energy.)

Gene Bernofsky’s 25-minute film, Montana Death Trains, about the BNSF oil tankers rolling through Montana, screens at 7:30 PM on MCAT.

West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop? Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, man, when

Kids don’t come with a user’s manual, but they are very cleverly designed. Learn more about raising one at Circle of Security Parenting, a relationship-based program to help caregivers better understand the needs of their children. Missoula Early Head Start, 2121 39th St. To register, call Becky at WORD, 406-543-3550.

Free childcare provided.

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Young yarn spinners from the ZACC/Tell Us Something Youth Summer Camp show off their storytelling skills. In true TUS form, all stories are true, 10 minutes long, and told from memory. $5, all ages.

You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What is a peloton? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Mike Avery hosts the SingerSongwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Email michael.avery@ live.com ahead of time to sign up.

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WEDNESDAYJULY22 It’s standout standup when comedy vet JC Coccoli spews the humor at Stage 112 for Ladies On the Mic. Becky Margolis, Rochelle L. Cote and Kemma Waterfield share the bill. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8, $15/$10 adv.

Escape the office and get some fresh air at Out to Lunch, the weekly festival with music and food trucks at Caras Park, Wednesday from 11 AM2 PM through August. Free to mingle.

This week’s music: Erin & the Project.

nightlife Great Burn Brewing’s Charity Pint Night generates 50 cents from each pint for a deserving Missoula charity or nonprofit. This week it’s Ecology

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Make like Bowie and Jagger and dance in the street at this year’s edition of Sunday Streets, wherein a portion of downtown is closed off from motorized traffic from noon-4 PM so as to encourage frolicking, games, yoga, food vendors and more. Visit missoulainmotion.com to learn more and find out how to volunteer.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters takes the “eek out of public speaking” with weekly meetings at the Florence Building, noon-1 PM, on the second floor. Free to attend. Check out shootinthebull.info to learn more.

Project International. Have a glass at 2230 McDonald (behind Jaker’s), 5– 8 PM.

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nightlife Downtown ToNight celebrates a whopping 15 years of food, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, from 5:30-8:30 PM through midSeptember. July 23: The Cold Hard Cash Show. Free to hang out.

If you like to move it move it, Djebe Bara African drum and dance music will provide the musical fuel at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., 6–8 PM, free.

Cash for Junkers uses the Scissors of Honky Tonk to cut the metaphorical ribbon on Missoula’s newest brewery, Missoula Brewing Company, 200 International Dr., 6–8 PM, free.

Go West, young man. Join Rinker Buck for a presentation and signing of his new book, The Oregon Trail. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, 7 PM. If you like the synth pop of Flaming Lips or MGMT, you’ll probably dig Jamaican Queens. Fallow and

Yeezazee share the bill at the Palace, doors at 9 PM, $7.

Mr. Calendar Guy is a curious sort. He wants to know about your event! Submit your stuff to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost.

Snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. at missoulanews.com. .

“Dude, guess what? Your parachute didn’t open.” Dopapod plays psychedelic jam goodness at the Top Hat Lounge Fri., July 17, at 8 PM, along with Cure For the Common. $12/$10 advance. Tickets at Top Hat or tophatlounge.com.

You can tell the karaoke ringers— they don’t need no stinkin’ monitor. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover.

Warped Tour veterans Hawthorne Heights brings their post-hardcore punk to the Palace, with Sleepwave and Bonfires. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15/$13 adv., 18 and over.

THURSDAYJULY23 Memphis country-punkers Lucero make a pit stop on their way to the Red Ants Pants Festival at the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $22/$20 adv., tickets at Rockin’ Rudy’s, the Top Hat, or online at www.tophatlounge.com.

I’m just itchin’ to get to this year’s Red Ants Pants Music Festival, July 2426, with camping and tunes in White Sulphur Springs. Headliners this year include the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Keb Mo, Lucero, Lee Ann Womack and more.

Visit redantspantsmusicfestival.com.

With watercolors, it can be easy to get in over your head. In Touch With Watercolor is not about technique, but more about the paint itself—understanding its properties and how to use it. E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St., 10 AM–4 PM, $60. For more info visit www.bobbe-almer.com It’s all Greek to you at the Montana Greek Festival. Enjoy music, dancing, beer, wine, and tons of delicious Greek delectables. 301 S. 6th St. W., 11 AM–10 PM. Free admission.

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Grab your axe and head on down to the Hump Day Jam at Monk’s Bar. Gets rolling about 9 PM. Free.

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icture this: Helmeted heads bob up and down like an ocean wave as bicyclists take over the road. The crowd pedals in unison down Higgins Avenue, the streets of Missoula now an urban bike path as the two-wheeled citizens mark the beginning of a tradition. Like the way that sounds?

If you don't have plans around noon on Sunday, there's a free spot reserved for you by the XXXX’s to take part in an all-inclusive community bike ride.

Whether you want to fulfill your Tour de France dream of being in the midst of the peloton, or you are simply looking to take the family for some geared-up week-

end fun, Sunday Streets Missoula’s BIKEapalooza is the spot to be.

After parading through the closed-to-traffic streets, participants will head out on a casual ride, dropping

by Buttercup Market and Cafe for a lemonade pit stop and ending up at Big Dipper Ice Cream where free cones will be serve up to participants of all ages and abilities. No yellow jersey required.

—Mary Bradley The inaugural BIKEapalooza kicks off at the XXXX's on Higgins Avenue, Sun., July 19, at noon.

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THURSDAY JULY 16 Hey, if your idea of a fancy campground feast is dumping a can of Dinty Moore into a dirty pan, well, count me in! But you can set your sights a little higher with R.E.I.’s Gourmet Camp Cooking class.

3275 N. Reserve St., 7 PM, free.

SATURDAY JULY 18 The rubber meets the road, in a manner of speaking, when the Hellgate Rollergirls lace up and take on the Electric City Rollergrrlz from Great Falls.

Missoula County Fairgrounds, 7pm, $8, kids under 12 admitted free.

SUNDAY JULY 19 Pedal your rig through some magnificent scenery and raise funds for the Bitter Root Land Trust in the Tour of the Bitterroot. Three routes to choose from, and after you put down the kickstand there’s a barbecue, beer, and live music from Pinegrass. $50/$10 party only. For registration and info, visit http://www.tourofthebitterroot.org/ ‘Sup, bro? The Windemere SUP Cup, that’s what.

Check-in starts at 8 AM at Riverside Park, just east of Caras Park. Recreational and Elite divisions will paddle it out until 11:00 AM, then it’s time for a Montana-style luau at Bess Reed Park a few yards upstream. For registration and more info, visit www.supcupmt.com.

The inaugural BIKEapalooza hopes to attract more bicycles than the World Series of Poker (card joke, get it?). Riders meet at noon at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Avenue for a casual ride around town, including a lemonade pit stop at the Buttercup Market and Cafe. Ride ends at Big Dipper with a free cone for all participants. All-abilities and ages welcome, free.

MONDAY JULY 20 Hopefully you don’t live upstream: “Let the River Bring You Home” is the theme for the 98th Montana Women’s Golf Tournament. Practice round is Mon., July 20, tourney is Tue., July 21–Thu., July 23 at Canyon River Golf Club. There is an amateur and senior division. Entry forms available at the course, or contact 1mswga@gmail.com

TUESDAY JULY 21 The Montana Dirt Girls kick into gear with group cycling trips in the Missoula area, meeting up at 6 PM every Tuesday at various locations. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com to sign up for the mailing list and find out more.

Grab your binoculars and head out to Council Grove to catch a glimpse of the nesting osprey and learn about what’s special about these cool raptors living around the Clark Fork. Council Grove State Park, located 6 miles north of Reserve on Mullan Road.

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Kelli Whithorn was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 8, when doctors found a football-sized tumor in the muscles of her back. The aggressive chemotherapy and radiation therapy that saved Whithorn’s life also created serious long-term health complications that Whithorn, now 34, has endured ever since. At 16, she had a large portion of her lower intestine removed due to damage from radiation, impacting her ability to absorb food. At 25, she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Then, two years ago, she lost her supplementary security income benefits.

Though Whithorn has worked part-time at Rockin Rudy’s for nearly 10 years, her ability to work more has been severely compromised by her chronic health problems, says her cousin, Lindsay Young. The loss of her SSI benefits has put her financial security in dire straights.

Whithorn’s family and friends are now rallying to raise funds for Whithorn’s living expenses while she reapplies for SSI—a process that Young says could

take as long as two years. A benefit for Whithorn, hosted by the Top Hat Lounge this Thu., July 16, is part of an effort to raise $24,000 to support her in the meantime. The benefit will feature performances by Tom Catmull and Whithorn’s cousinin-law, Ryan Young of Trampled

by Turtles. There will be raffle items such as artwork, a guided fishing trip and a private plane flight over Yellowstone. All door and raffle proceeds will go toward Whithorn’s benefit fund.

Young says the fundraiser is also a way to raise awareness. “The system is defunct when someone like Kelli gets denied Social Security benefits,” Young says. “She’s clearly too sick to work, and it’s devastating her health and her life when she’s not able to receive benefits.”

—Bonnie Chan The benefit for Kelli Whithorn takes place at the Top Hat Thur., July 16, at 8 PM. $10 suggested donation at the door. All ages. Visit tophatlounge.com for more info. Donate to Whithorn’s fund at igg.me/at/kelliwhithorn.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY JULY 16 Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

Supporters of Abuse Free Environment (SAFE) of Hamilton will host an informal gathering inspired by the bravery of the individuals who recently spoke up to disclose sexual abuse. This will be an opportunity for community members to express their thoughts on abuse, healing, and standing in solidarity with others.

All are welcome. 111 South Fourth St., 7 PM.

FRIDAY JULY 17 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.

SUNDAY JULY 19 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

The inaugural BIKEapalooza hopes to attract more bicycles than the World Series of Poker (card joke, get it?). Riders meet at noon at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Avenue for a casual ride around town, including a lemonade pit stop at the Buttercup Market and Cafe. Ride ends at Big Dipper with a free

cone for all participants. All-abilities and ages welcome, free.

Montanans supporting Bernie Sanders for President are holding a rally to help build local support for the populist presidential canididate. Union Club, 3 PM–4:30. All are welcome. For more info visit http:/mtforbernie.com

MONDAY JULY 20 Incredible Insect Inquiries is a camp for kids who like to get their hands dirty and find their own answers. You know, all kids. Missoula Insectarium runs the camp July 20–24, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM. Register at www.missoulabutterflyhouse.org.

TUESDAY JULY 21 FREE Financial Fitness Class at Homeword will help you set goals for spending and savings, manage debt and learn other money management skills.

Free childcare available, and $20 gift cards for those who complete the class. Register online at www.homeword.org or call 532-4663 X 10.

Gene Bernofsky’s 25-minute film, Montana Death Trains, about the BNSF oil tankers rolling through Montana, screens at 9 PM on MCAT.

THURSDAY JULY 23 You don’t have to be a time lord to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center at 7 PM. RSVP required at info@missoulatimebank.org.

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

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CROWD MARY I'm trying to take a break from dating and work on myself because I keep ending up with really jerky guys. I'm an extrovert—very social and outgoing—and I find it hard to just chill by myself. I get bored and lonely. I want to pick better guys, but I hate being alone on a Saturday night with a phone that doesn't ring.

—Conflicted There's nothing like that thrill of finally getting a text on some Saturday night—and then realizing it's just your grandma playing with her new iPhone.

Trying to embrace solitude sounds so adult and profound and good: "Yes, I'll just be staying home making popcorn and watching TV with my existential crisis." But as great as it is that you're trying to retool your man-picking practices, this home alone thing might not be the best idea for an extrovert—a person who thrives on human contact, along with novelty and excitement.

That's how the psych literature defines an extrovert, but simply put, you're a party animal—the sort who hurries to join in all the fun, as opposed to an introvert like my boyfriend, who, upon arriving at a party, will ask: "Do we really have to go inside?"

There's a lot of inconclusive research on introversion and extroversion that's breathlessly reported as conclusive. However, what seems clear is that extroversion isn't just a preference; it's a biologically driven personality trait—a consistent pattern of behavior that appears to come out of your brain's being far more "sensation-seeking" than an introvert's. Studies by psychologist Richard Depue and others suggest that extroverts get a "reward system" buzz from socializing that introverts don't and then have memories from it pop up like little infomercial pitchmen, urging, "Call now! Go after that buzz again!"

And while introverts' brains are easily overloaded by stimuli—stuff going on around them—extroverts' brains are far less sensitive to it, so they tend to need more of it. More people, more hubbub, more new and exciting experiences—to the point where a hot date with the accusatory stare of the cat can tempt an extrovertess to do something arrest-worthy just to shake things up and maybe get grabbed by a man.

In other words, think of your brain as a pet tiger that needs to be fed—with people and excitement. An important point to note is neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz's finding that unpredictable rewards seem to be the most satisfying for the brain—maybe even three or four times as buzzy as those we

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—Frownie Of course the girls in fashion magazines are scowling. They're in wildly uncomfortable shoes, and they haven't had a hamburger since childhood.

The thing is, happy resting face can come with problems of its own. Social psychologist Antonia Abbey found that men can misread a woman's mere friendliness "as a sexual come-on." This seems especially true of smiling—to the point where 12 female Safeway workers filed grievances over the supermarket chain's "smileand-make-eye-contact" rule, which had led a number of male customers to believe these women wanted to bag more than their beer and Cheerios.

So, conversely, yes, you may be missing opportunities with guys who mistake your "I want to have sex with you" scowl for an "I'd like you to go drown yourself" scowl. But really, all you need to do is be conscious of the power of a smile and, when you like a guy, look right at him and turn it on—kind of like flashing your brights. You're basically putting a sign on the door—"Open for business! Come on in!"—correcting the message sent by your default glare: "Closed for renovations.

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Comfort Inn – University has open positions in Housekeeping and Front Desk. Please apply in person at 1021 E Broadway.

Customer Service/ Scheduler Local company is looking for a musically minded individual to serve as a part-time administrative customer service fulfillment specialist. The ideal candidate will be answering phones in a professional courteous manner, helping customers select the best product for them as well as filling and shipping orders. This would be a great day job for a musician! $13.00/must be able to lift up to 50#’ s throughout work shift. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #25886 Disaster Program Specialist We are currently seeking a Program Specialist to work in our Missoula MT office. This is a Full Time position working variable days and hours including some evenings and weekends based on organizational need.

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You will need to have a keen mind and positive attitude to train our clients on a variety of software products. You will be working in a fast-paced environment and should be comfortable working on your own and as part of a team of training experts. The best candidate is someone who has the ability to learn complicated systems, has a positive outlook and can provide top-notch customer service. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10139465 Start your humanitarian career!

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HS grads ages 17-34. Call MonFri (877) 475-6289, or jobs_seattle@navy.mil Warehouse Worker Perform order picking and loading duties in the warehouse. Will be standing bending and moving for long periods of time and lifting up to 50#. Position is full time and long term. Full job listing online at www.lcstaffing.com. Job ID# 24874 Worden’s Market & Deli - Deli Side Qualifications Required: as follows: 18 years of age or older, able and willing to deliver friendly, courteous, prompt customer service, able and willing to work well with others as a team member, able and willing to read, write and perform simple math problems, able and willing to interpret, understand and follow instructions and solve problems.

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PC skills, including Windows, Word, and Excel. Must be able to adapt to software changes as they occur. Ability to learn all functions of the claims and COBRA processing software as is necessary for processing. Basic accounting and math skills. DUTIES: Provides COBRA Administrative Services to a designated block of COBRA client accounts in a manner that ensures a high level of quality service and accuracy. Produces and sends COBRA notices to all qualifying individuals as required and guided by law. Maintains status information electronically and manually for premium collection, company referral, and claims processing.

DAYS/HOURS: Monday through Friday, day shift. WAGE: $11/hour BENEFITS: Offers excellent compensation & benefit package that includes health coverage, 401(k), profit-sharing, continuing education, health club membership assistance & much more! Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10139474 Copywriter Education Logistics, Inc. (EDULOG) is seeking a talented, energetic, and driven full-time Copywriter to join their

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): "A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap." That's an English translation of an aphorism written by French author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it might be, "A smart person isn't drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight." A further alternative: "An imaginative soul isn't predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel her ingenious liberations."

Please use these ideas during your adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): July is barely half over, but your recent scrapes with cosmic law have already earned you the title of "The Most Lyrically Tormented Struggler of the Month." Another few days of this productive mayhem and you may be eligible for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. I could see you being selected as "The Soul Wrangler with the Craziest Wisdom" or "The Mythic Hero with the Most Gorgeous Psychospiritual Wounds." But it's my duty to let you know that you could also just walk away from it all. Even if you're tempted to stick around and see how much more of the entertaining chaos you can overcome, it might be better not to. In my opinion, you have done enough impossible work for now.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English word "quiddity" has two contrary definitions. It can refer to a trivial quibble. Or it can mean the essential nature of a thing—the quality that makes it unique. I suspect that in the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate an acute ability to know which is which. Your second task: Be relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you home in on the essential nature of things.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When you read a book that has footnotes, you tend to regard the footnotes as being of secondary importance. Although they may add color to the text's main messages, you can probably skip them without losing much of the meaning. But I don't recommend this approach in the coming days. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that's important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, the digressions, and the asides.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Stop Making Sense" was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the 1980s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope. I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing. That's why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back. One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a firehose-surge of absurdity, jokes, and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul, Dr. Seuss, said, "I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells."

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "A failure is a person who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience," wrote American author Elbert Hubbard. In light of this formulation, I'm pleased to announce that you are likely to achieve at least one resounding success in the coming weeks. At this juncture in your destiny, you know exactly how to convert a past mistake into a future triumph.

A gaffe that once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The poet Mary Ruefle describes reading books as "a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan." Are there other ways to do that? Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years' experience in a few short weeks.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she's "high-maintenance in bed." Every time she's involved in a sexual encounter, she demands to have an orgasm. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to follow her lead—not just during your erotic adventures, but everywhere else, too. Ask for what you want, preferably with enough adroitness to actually obtain what you want. Here's another critical element to keep in mind: To get exactly what you want, you must know exactly what you want.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A college basketball player named Mark Snow told reporters that "Strength is my biggest weakness." Was he trying to be funny? No. Was he a bit dim-witted?

Perhaps. But I'm not really interested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation for you in the coming weeks. Can you think of any ways that your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can. I suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already possess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you're practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler delivers the following speech to Scarlett O'Hara: "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived." Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach that is the exact opposite of Rhett Butler's. Patiently gather the broken fragments and glue them together again. I predict that the result will not only be as good as new; it will be better. That's right: The mended version will be superior to the original.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Australian actress Rebel Wilson has appeared in several successful movies, including Bridesmaids, Bachelorette, and Pitch Perfect. But she didn't start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be "a really good actress who also won an Oscar." The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany. During a phase when you're feeling less than spectacular, you may get a glimpse of an intriguing future possibility.

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA Cause No. CV-2015-1765 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC Plaintiff, -vs- Lori Ann Muchmore and David Muchmore; and any person in possession, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS LORI ANN MUCHMORE; DAVID MUCHMORE: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff ’s attorney within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to an eviction and subsequent possession upon the following described real property in the County of MISSOULA, State of Montana: Lot 3 in Block 8 of West View No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 30th day of June 2015.

(SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Karen A. Orzech, Judge Dated this 24th day of June, 2015.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM Attorneys for Plaintiff 38 Second Ave E Dickinson, ND 58601 Tel: (701) 2271841 MT BAR ID#11880 By: /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, Attorney Attorney for the Plaintiff MONTANA 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-139 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rose Nei NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Marilyn Wolff 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 Marilyn Wolff, the Personal Representative, 1320 Bridgecourt Way, Missoula MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-113 Dept. No. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of BRENDAN J. GRIMESTAD, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent

are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Garry Grimestad, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 10th day of JUne, 2015. /s/ Garry Grimestad Personal Representative CROWLEY FLECK PLLP P.O.Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099 By: /s/ Benjamin T. Cory, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-126 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN HOLT MYERS, JR., 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 TERESA A. BROCK, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 29th day of June, 2015. /s/ Teresa A. Brock, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Michael M. Lawlor, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Cause No. DR-15-369 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF LACHELE MARGARET CARY, Petitioner and CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CARY, Respondent. You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to respond to the Petition in this case, which is filed in the office of this Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written Response and serve a copy thereof upon Petitioner’s attorney within twentyone (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or respond, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the petition. A Response must be filed by July 29, 2015 or a default may be entered against you. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court on the 7th day of July, 2015. /s/ Shirley E.

MNAXLP Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Cady Sowre, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-15-116 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION PNC Bank, National Association, successor by merger to National City Mortgage, a division of National City Bank, Plaintiff, vs- Melvia Dugan in her individual capacity; Melvia Dugan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Daniel O. Dugan a/k/a Daniel Dugan; Edward W. Lynn; Elizabeth E. Lynn; Lawrence Exe; Vivian Exe; Gilbert Richards; Sharon Richards; Robert Geis; Lynne Geis; Donald L. Pruitt; Irving Levikow; Denise Levikow; James Lamphier; Deanna Lamphier; Dana Scott Sprague; Alan Christiansen; Danette Christiansen; Jesse D. Scollin; Tyler Harrington; Heather Harrington; Lynette K. Sims, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT JAMES LAMPHIER: You are hereby summoned to answer the Amended Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff ’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint. This action relates to an easement action and the foreclosure of a Deed of Trust upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula, State of Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NW1/4 OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5421.

WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 23rd day of June, 2015. (SEAL OF THE COURT) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk Dated this 15th day of June, 2015. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM 38 Second Ave E Dickinson ND 58601 Phone: 701-227-1841 Fax: 701-225-6878 Attorney for the Plaintiff CDellwo@ mackoff.com MT Bar #11880 By: /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, Attorney THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. NOTICE Pursuant to

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PUBLIC NOTICES the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you dispute the validity of the foregoing debt or any portion thereof within thirty days after receipt of this letter, we will assume the debt to be valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt and will mail you a copy of such verification.

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

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DR15-387 Department No. 3 Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: Kathryn C. DaGama Petitioner, and Eric C. DaGama, 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 Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty 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 Dissolution of Marriage. DATED this 6th day of July, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV15-666 Dept. No.: 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Jamison Roger Powell, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jamison Roger Powell to Laxus James Powell.

The hearing will be on August 26th at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: July 9, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-131 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOUIS W. BURKLUND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been ap-

pointed 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 Jodie Burklund, 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 2nd day of JUly, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Jodie Burklund BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Jodie Burklund, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Probate No. DP-15-129 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY MARIE MITCHELL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 ROXIE MARIE ALLRED, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 29th day of June, 2015. /s/ Roxie Marie Allred c/o WORDEN THANE P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 599806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ William E. McCarthy, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 3 CAUSE NO. DR-15-472 JOHN WILL. LARSON SUMMONS AND TEMPORARY ECONOMIC RESTRAINING ORDER IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF CHRISTOPHER L. ASLANIAN, Petitioner, and STACEY L. ASLANIAN, 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 in the office of the Clerk of the above named Court, a copy of which

MNAXLP is served upon you with this Summons, and to file your answer and serve a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. Pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. §49-4-121 (3), the Petitioner and Respondent are hereby restrained from transferring, encumbering, pawning, pledging, hiding, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether jointly or separately held, without either the consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business for the necessities of life. Each party must notify the other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least 5 business days before incurring the expenditures and must account to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after service of this summons. This restraining order does not prevent either party from using any property to pay reasonable attorney fees in order to retain counsel in this proceeding. Petitioner and Respondent are further restrained from cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability coverage held for the benefit of a party or a child of a party for whom support may be ordered. This temporary restraining order shall continue until another order of the Court is issued either amending or vacating this temporary restraining order. VIOLATION OF THIS ORDER IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER M.C.A. §§ 45-5-220 OR 455-626. WITNESS my hand and the seal of this court this 25th day of June, 2015.

(SEAL) /s/ CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-15-135 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH ANN BAILEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that David F. Sandau has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana

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59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 10th day of July, 2015. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ David F. Sandau MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-15-130 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: BARBARA SHUFELT STALLING, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Edward C. Stalling, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 29th day of June, 2015. /s/ Edward C. Stallling, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ R. Nick Jones Attorneys for Edward C. Stalling, Personal Representative NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ruth E. Melcher died on May 26, 2015; at the time of her death, she resided in Missoula, MT. All persons having claims against her are requested 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 be mailed to Teresa A. Thompson by certified mail, return receipt requested, c/o Patrick Dougherty, Esq., Worden Thane P.C., Attorneys at Law, P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806. DATED this 17th day of June, 2015. /s/ Teresa A. Thompson NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/17/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200900696 Bk: 831 Pg: 1126, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Terrence Jimmerson and Rae Horan, husband and wife, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 in Block 14 in Knowles Addition No. 1, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, ac-

cording to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 21, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $201,589.65.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $176,045.31, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.113679) 1002.280876File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed

of Trust”) dated 07/02/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200815993 B: 822 P: 773, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Bobbi Anne Pritchard was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for American Mortgage Network, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Block 52 of Daly’s Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201324609 B: 923 P: 1175, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 28, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $155,088.9289. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $143,216.80, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 5, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other

person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.106767) 1002.280999File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 31, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of Mulberry Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. Seng Thao and Ka Ly, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Insurance, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated on August 08, 2007 and recorded on August 24, 2007 in Book 804, Page 596 as Document No. 200722163. The beneficial interest is currently held by BENEFICIAL FINANCIAL I INC. successor by merger to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,513.29, beginning July 13, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 01, 2015 is $240,358.39 principal, interest at the rate of 11.78% totaling $43,930.88, late charges in the amount of $1,823.85, suspense balance of $-692.95 and other fees and expenses advanced of $4843.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $77.57 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The

PUBLIC NOTICES Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 22, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 22nd day of April, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 fore-

going instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 HSBC V Ly 42068.124 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 31, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The East one-half of the South onehalf of Lot 1 in Block 74 of Supplemental Plat to R.M. Cobban Orchard Homes, according to the official plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana Denise M. Sherman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on February 15, 2006 and recorded on February 15, 2006 in Book 768, Page 1510 as Document No. 200603511. The beneficial interest is currently held by DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc..

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 $1,052.23, beginning February 1, 2012, 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 01/01/2015 is $211,491.42 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% totaling $26,260.66, late charges in the amount of $119.10, escrow advances of $15,002.35, suspense balance of $-136.50 and other fees and expenses advanced of $150.78, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.63 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the

MNAXLP above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 21, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 21st day of April, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Select Portfolio V Sherman 42085.082 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 11, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in

Missoula County, Montana: THE WEST 5 FEET OF LOT 2 AND ALL OF LOT 3 OF AULT ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 724 OF MICRO AT PAGE 1313 Levi Don Hollers and Elizabeth Katherine Hollers, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 02, 2014 and recorded on October 02, 2014 in Book 935, Page 60 as Document No. 201415537. The beneficial interest is currently held by USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK. 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 $775.72, beginning December 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 2, 2015 is $167,500.00 principal, interest at the rate of 3.75000% totaling $2,634.41, late charges in the amount of $158.72, escrow advances of $1,290.53, and other fees and expenses advanced of $355.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.21 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the

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

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 5, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene 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 5th day of May, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known 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 she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Dmi V Hollers 41212.599 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED. This published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance.

The interested parties and Outwest Taxes, LLC, who’s address is PO Box 1512, Missoula, MT

59806 rights in the following described property which you may have interest; Township 16, Range 15, Section 2, HILLCREST HEIGHTS PHASE I, S02, T16N, R15W, BLOCK XXX, LOT 009, HILCRST HGHT LOT 9 OF HILLCREST HEIGHTS PHASE II S2T16R15, Parcel: 3883506, may be in jeopardy. A property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquent in 2012 as a result a property tax lien was attached from a tax sale on 4 August 2014. The amount of taxes, interest, penalty and fees due $2,215.88 must be paid for the property tax lien to be liquidated. The purchaser was Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, 59802-4292, (406)258-3271. An assignment was made by assignee Act Two Investments, LLC. The redemption period expires on 28 August 2015 or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. A tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed.

The Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 5998024292, (406)258-3271, is responsible for issuing the tax deed. July 16 & 23 , 2015 STATE OF MONTANA )):ss COUNTY OF MISSOULA ) LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Public Auction at 8:00 am on Thursday, August 27, 2015 at A&R Storage, 1300 Defoe St, Missoula, MT 59802. A&R Storage will be auctioning to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit: #03. Bidding starts at $100. Unit contains furniture, sport equipment and miscellaneous household items and clothing. Unit may be viewed by appointment only. Contact Plum Property Management for appointment (406) 5417586. Unit may be redeemed by owner before sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted as payment. Winning bidder must remove contents of unit from unit no later than 5:00 pm on the date of the sale.

STATE OF MONTANA):ss COUNTY OF MISSOULA) LEGAL NOTICE Sean Whit-

ing having a last known address of 4030 NE Stanton, Portland, OR 97212: Notice is hereby given by Plum Property Management on behalf of A&R Storage that you are the owner of the contents of the storage unit located at 1300 Defoe St., Unit #03. You have a lease agreement for that storage unit.

You are more than 30 days in default in paying accruing rental charges, late fees and other charges on that storage unit. Your account balance is $488.69. Unless you pay your outstanding account balance in full and claim the contents of your storage unit, those contents will be sold at public auction at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 27, 2015 at A&R Storage, 1300 Defoe St., Missoula, MT 59802 pursuant to MCA §70-6-420 and your lease agreement.

MISSOULA COUNTY FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Probate No. DP-15-106 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARY E. DELAND, Deceased.

LOREN F. DELAND, Personal Representative. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Loren F. Deland 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 Loren F. Deland, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o TUHOLSKE LAW OFFICE, PC, PO BOX 7458, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 15th day of June, 2015. /s/ Loren F. Deland, 9400 Butler Creek Road, Missoula, MT 59808 Personal Representative /s/ Jack Tuholske, Tuholske Law Office PC, PO Box 7458, Missoula, MT 59807

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 198, 248. 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 7/20/2015 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 7/23/2015 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 SCOOBY•

Scooby is a 2-3-year old male American Pit Bull Terrier. He is a very goofy guy and loves to play. Scooby is dog selective, so would do best in an only dog household. He has had a few playmates at the shelter, but doesn't care for some of the other dogs. He will be protective of his family, and could use some manners training. His perfect family would have older kids and a firm but loving adult owner.

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ZAITH•Zaith is a 5-year-old male Mastiff mix.

He is a very loving and playful boy. Zaith's favorite game is to steal toys and hide them in his kennel. He is good-mannered, great on leash, and kennels well. Zaith would be best in an adult only household, and will become protective of his family once a bond is established.

LEONARD•Leonard is a 7-year-old Pit Bull mix. He is a very lovable guy and seems to like every person he meets. He hasn't had the best care in his life so far but we are fixing that issue.

He will make someone a great companion because he bonds quickly. Leonard does tend to get a little anxious when left alone but, with a secure home, we're sure he'll settle into retirement mode fast.

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CALAMITY JANE•Calamity Jane is a 2-year-old female black and white tuxedo cat.

She is just as sweet as a cat can be. Calamity will practically leap into your arms every morning to greet you. She loves catnip and to drink out of the sink. If you already have a cat or two, Calamity would be a great addition to your cat family as she has never met a cat she didn't like.

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MARTIN•Martin is a 10+ year-old male Chocolate Lynx Point Siamese. He has the most wonderful grumpy-old-man meow we have ever heard. His preferred day would include lounging in the window sill, laying in the cat tree, snuggling in a comfy bed and, of course, eating. He is a large lad, and would love a quiet home to retire to where he can be his naturally lazy self.

CALEN• Calen is a 3-year-old male shorthaired black cat. A complete ham at the shelter, Calen wants to play with everything and everyone. Passing by his kennel, you'll find him reaching for you, begging you to play with him. Calen does have a medical condition that leaves him prone to upper respiratory illnesses and is contagious to other cats. Therefore, Calen would have to live in an only cat home.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 MAGGIE• Maggie is a gentle girl looking for

a new home. Sweet and well-mannered, Maggie can’t wait to be adopted and spend a Montana summer with her new family. Come meet this little gem Tuesday through Friday 1:00 to 6:00 and Saturdays from 12:00 to 5:00.

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LINDIE• Lindie is a sweet girl looking for her a place to call her own. She is a gentle beauty with a heart of gold. Sweet and kind she is truly a gem. Come meet this special girl 3/4 of a mile past Blue Mountain Road on Highway 93. You can also find adoptable pets at our off-site adoption events. Visit myhswm.org/adopt/adoptionevents/ for more information!

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JAZZY•Jazzy is a girl looking for her place in the world. One of over 25 dogs, she would love to be able to walk into her future with her very own human by her side. Come meet this amazing Jazzy Tuesday through Friday from 1:00 to 6:00 and Saturdays from 12:00 to 5:00 or find her and other adoptable pets at our off-site adoption event July 18th at the Higgins Dairy Queen.

FANCY• Fancy is a sweet girl looking for great home and family. She is looking for fun and cuddles with her new people along with snacks and laughs. Fancy and her littermates, if not adopted sooner, will be available for adoption at the Higgins Dairy Queen on Saturday, July 18th Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store for an off-site adoption celebration. Visit our ‘Now www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 Touring’ page (myhswm.org/adopt/adoptionSouth Russell • North Reserve evetns/) for more information.

PIPPA•Pippa is a little perplexed by all the changes in her life and is looking for someone who can help her come out of her shell and appreciate her hound traits. She'd love to enroll in a Basic Manners class at the Humane Society of Western Montana once she's adopted. These group classes teach you how to use reward-based training to train your dog and are only $85 for dogs adopted from any shelter.

FRANCIS• Meet Francis! This lovely lady is friendly, vocal and independent. Francis loves, loves, loves being on laps and being brushed. She is also active and enjoys playing with toy balls and hunting bugs in the window. If you are looking for a great companion, Francis may be the kitty for you! Francis is hoping to be adopted with her kitty sister, Cheyenne. Come meet this dynamic duo today!

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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60 Walter ___ Army Medical Center 61 Big serving spoon 62 In the closet, or out of it 63 Suspicious element?

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9 Mai ___ (bar order) 10 Cutting crew, for short?

11 "A drop of golden sun" 12 "Midnight Cowboy" hustler Rizzo 14 ___ Institute (D.C. think tank) 17 Airport northwest of LAX 19 Fake-tanned 22 Gloom 23 Needlework supply 24 Geographical suffix 27 1980s-'90s chancellor Helmut 28 Ctrl-___-Del 29 Flute part 30 What X may mean 31 Old albums 32 Walk of Fame award 33 Punctuation in an email address 34 Cousin of Rover 35 Bulbed vegetable 36 On target 37 Financial barometer, with "the" 41 "The Dude ___" 42 Small horses 43 Pushed hard 45 $100 bill, in old slang 46 Billions of years 47 "Ultimate" degree 48 Taiwanese golfer Yani ___, youngest to win five major championships 50 Love like crazy 51 "Hooked on Classics" company 52 "Tomb Raider" heroine 53 One-___ (multivitamin) 54 Talking computer of film 55 "Love ___ Battlefield" 56 Psychedelic stuff

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missoulanews.com • July 16–July 23, 2015 [C9]

SERVICES IMPROVEMENT Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal & solar PV.

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REAL ESTATE Downsizing • New mortgage options • Housing options for 55+ or 62+ • Life estates. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

1149 Harrison St. $475,000. 4 bd 2 ba, Mt. Jumbo trail across the street, walk to downtown. 1922 Craftsman Home in excellent condition. Huge kitchen, formal dining, family room and office. forsalebyowner.com #24037586. Call 406 549 3506 to schedule a showing.

10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue

Mountain Recreation Area. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 1305 Bridgecourt. 3 bed, 2 bath with open floor plan. Fenced yard, brick patio & single detached garage. $190,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Affordable Homes 863 Discovery, East Missoula $191,000 Sweet & bright 2 bed, 1 bath with fenced backyard full of perennials & tiered garden beds, double garage & AC. RD approved.

13705 Harper’s Bridge. 3 bed, 1.5 bath cabin on 4.99 acres near Clark Fork River. $349,900.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 1633 South 4th West. 1920’s 4 bed, 2 bath with all the modern components. Great front porch, fenced backyard & patio. $272,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 223 West Kent. Secret Garden Retreat with 3 beds, 2 baths, hardwood floors, solarium and single garage. $297,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 286 Speedway. 3 bed, 3.5 bath with spa, full finished basement & 2 car garage. $249,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com

9250 Sharptail • $199,000 PRICE REDUCED!!!!!!

Large 3 bed, 2 bath with walk out lower level.

Lots of natural light, tile & wood flooring and recent upgrades.

Huge fenced yard with deck & mountain views.

MLS #20152040

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $235,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $250,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info

call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3254 Humble Road. Farm at McCauley Butte. 4 bed, 4 bath on 71 acres with 1.25 miles of Bitterroot River frontage. $6,500,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 3839 Duncan Drive. Prairie style 3 bed, 2.5 bath in Upper Rattlesnake. $725,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, South Hills Home. $220,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 401 Daly. 1930’s U District 4 bed, 2 bath with hardwood floors, fenced yard & lovely patio. $444,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 4107 Rainbow Dr. $245,000. 4 bed 3 bath Townhome in lower South Hills. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 515 Cooley. Northside 2 bed, 1 bath with double garage across

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

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REAL ESTATE from park & community gardens. $269,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

SHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

and bright house, lots of sheds and great Northside location! $150,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

5205 Skyview. 3 bed, 2 bath with river rock fireplace. $230,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

Central Missoula 216 South Ave. West. Sunny and Sweet 3 bedroom home in a most convenient location and in great shape. $239,900 KD 240-5227 porticoreal estate.com

“There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

5442 Prospect Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath in Grant Creek with lower level, deck & double garage.

Next to open space. $379,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 5802 Longview Drive. South Hills Split Level. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, double car garage on 9,338 sf fenced lot. $215,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com 863 Discovery. 2 bed, 1 bath in East Missoula with lower level & double garage. $191,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@ montana.com 9250 Sharptail, East Missoula. 3 bed, 2 bath with walk-out basement. Huge yard & mountain views. $199,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home.

Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERK-

East Base of Mount Jumbo 970 Discovery. Awesome 3 bedroom East Missoula home in a great ‘hood with gorgeous views! $190,000 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com House hunting downtown? Stop by the Missoula Farmer’s Market. N. Higgins by the XXX’s. Sat. 8am-12:30pm. Tuesday 5:30-7:00. missoulafarmersmarket.com. Find us on Facebook.

If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWEN WARTER.COM

We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www. clarkforkrealty.com

Northside Home 633 Phillips. Country kitchen, light

Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Condo for Sale-901 Rodgers St 2BR/1.5 bath, 2

level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Carpet throughout, laminate flooring in LR. Close to downtown, bike to UM, bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op),carport pkg & storage unit. Great investment opportunity, must see. $94,900 view at forsalebyowner.com Listing ID: 24027866 or call 800843-6963 Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor @gmail.com www.movemontana.com

WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.

CONDOS 2004 Silver Tip Clusters. 4 bed, 4 bath in gated Circle H Ranch.

Backed by conservation easement land. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate

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3338 Hollis Street $320,000 MLS# 20153915

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507

A lovingly cared for rancher in the desirable Lewis and Clark neighborhood.

4 bed, 2 bath, functional floor plan, sunken living room, formal dining room, spacious kitchen, main floor laundry and mudroom off garage, large private backyard. Easy access to schools, shopping and downtown.

glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Missoula Properties 728-8270

missoulanews.com • July 16–July 23, 2015 [C11]

REAL ESTATE

LAND FOR SALE 1 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $115,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 18 acre building lot with incredible views. Lolo, Sleeman Creek. $150,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $125,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Alberton. Nice lot available. $25,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me

David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, unzoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

Missoula Lot 310 Sussex.

Residential Lot in a very desirable neighborhood, close to the University, downtown, bike trails and more! 6,000 square foot, ready to build. $137,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.co m NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $155,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

15520 Mill Creek, Frenchtown.

High-end 5 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. Basketball court & gym. Fantastic views. $675.000.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Alberton / Petty Creek Home on 20 Acres. $245,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville Home. $209,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit

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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000.

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[C12] Missoula Independent • July 16–July 23, 2015

Lolo Acre 5565 Brady Lane, Lolo. An acre with a view, large shop/garage; beautiful setting. $170,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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4250 WILD FOX Rattlesnake home. 3+ bedrooms, double garage, glassed in sun porch and backs up to huge common area. $339,000

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Contact Anne about available condos in THE UPTOWN FLATS in Downtown Missoula.

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3839 Duncan Drive • $725,000 Lovely Praire Style on over two Rattlesnake acres. Please call for a full list of this home’s incredible features.

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