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PROJECT RUNWAY: RAVALLI COUNTY RILED UP OVER HOW TO RENOVATE ITS AGING AIRPORT

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RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS THIS ONE IS PERSONAL

[2] Missoula Independent • July 17–July 24, 2014

cover photo by Andy Kemmis

News Voices/Letters NorthWestern replies..............................................................................4 The Week in Review Griz football, missing teen and running ....................................6 Briefs Eden Foods, sidewalks and the FCC ....................................................................6 Etc. Please, for the love of Pete, look before you leap ..................................................7 News Ravalli County argues over its airport expansion (again).....................................8 News Recent exploding toilet highlights need for caution ...........................................9 Opinion Pretty sure my religious beliefs rise above federal law, too .........................10 Opinion Western summers require an extra level of planning...................................11 Feature Beer, babies and bending time during a summer getaway.............................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts James Lee Burke tells a different type of story......................................................18 Music The Best Westerns, Bird’s Mile Home and Sea of Bones ...................................19 Music Small pleasures of a Big Damn Band .................................................................20 Music Nashville’s Jonny Fritz turns trash into country gold ........................................21 Film Dissecting Of Montreal’s Grotesque Animal........................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Metal health ......................................................................................24 Hangriest Hour Quepop! ............................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Gotta get away.....................................................................................27 Mountain High Sierra Club hikes ................................................................................33 Agenda Ravalli The EPA’s Clean Power Plan .................................................................34

Exclusives

Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-5 Camp Sleepover ...............................................................................................C-11 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 PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Pumpernickel Stewart CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING, PROMOTION & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Brad Tyer, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Jule Banville, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Josh Quick, Brooks Johnson

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Charged issue

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, July 15, at the corner of Higgins and Broadway.

Where’s your favorite place to get away in Montana?

Follow-up: What’s the most memorable place Mom and Dad took you on summer vacation when you were young?

Heidi Furlong: We have a place on Big Sky Lake in the Seeley-Swan area. We go swimming, boating, kayaking … Rocky mountains: Estes Park, Colo. I was 11 years old and we went horseback riding, we camped and we got lost in the woods.

MaKenzie Smith: The Bitterroots. I like to be on the river and go hiking down there. Beartooths: We’d hang out in eastern Montana near the Red Lodge area and hike to waterfalls and fly-fish. I’m from South Dakota and we used to vacation in Montana, that’s why I moved here.

John A zzopardi: I go to Irvine Flats near where I live in the Mission Valley.

It’s a quiet grazing area in open country with lots of bluebirds. Down under: I grew up in Australia and we’d go to Falls Creek. It’s an alpine region where we’d hike around and fish.

Rachel Kosch: The Blackfoot River. I go tubing and just jump off rocks and hang out. Hey bear! Glacier National Park. It was the first time I was exposed to any real wildlife. It was phenomenal.

Jeff Collier: The Bob Marshall Wilderness. I horseback ride in 24 miles to hunt nearly every September. Nad city: Coronado, Calif. We used to go every year. It’s an old Navy town with a beach where we’d body surf and swim.

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Recently, the Independent published a story about NorthWestern Energy’s electricity supply costs (see “Sour taste,” July 3), focusing on our 30 percent ownership in Colstrip 4 (which is NorthWestern’s only owned coal resource serving our Montana customers). Some of what you’re hearing about our recent interim (temporary) electric rate increase isn’t accurate.

The supply cost increase is not because of Colstrip—at least not to the extent that some quoted in the article may have led you to believe.

Even after our most recent temporary increase takes effect in July, customers will be paying less for electricity than in January. That’s because electric rates have been declining for the past six months.

Natural-gas prices have been dropping as part of a long-term trend. Price reductions don’t usually make the headlines and because everyone’s usage changes from month to month it can be difficult to notice the chances in supply prices.

We recently received approval for a temporary increase from the Montana Public Service Commission in a proceeding called an “electric supply tracker,” which tracks changes in cost for electric supply. We received this temporary increase because our current energy supply rates didn’t collect enough to cover our actual costs of purchasing electricity. This is the result of two main causes: the cost of purchasing power on the market was greater than the forecast of market prices, and we were replacing a portion of the generation that we would’ve normally received from our ownership interest in Colstrip. To be clear, both of these increases were based on actual costs tied to market purchases, with no profit to NorthWestern.

The electric supply tracker adjusts supply rates on a monthly basis, using a standard mathematical calculation that takes into account estimated future electricity supply costs over a 12-month period. These costs are then trued up every year at the end of June. When there are larger-than-usual changes in market conditions (up or down), there will be a significant variance to correct.

Several years ago, we were in a similar situation, but in reverse: We had a significant over-collection in rates, and NorthWestern trued-up the difference by increasing the credit to customers by several dollars which paid customers back, with interest.

This July, a typical customer using 750 kilowatt hours a month will go from a 27-

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cent deferred supply credit to a $4.03 charge to help make up this difference in actual costs, which will remain in place pending a final PSC decision on the case next spring, and until we true up our next tracker in June 2015. Some of this is related to the cost of purchasing replacement power while Colstrip Unit 4 was down last year, but it’s difficult to estimate with any degree of accuracy exactly how much effect this had on the total under-collection, except that it was a relatively small portion of the overall amount we purchased in the market to serve customers.

“I am forever grateful that my mother came here as a scared 15-year-old, never having been on a ship before, and without a family member to support or guide her.”

We’ve also heard the criticism over the extended outage of Colstrip 4. We own 30 percent of Unit 4 Colstrip and receive our share of the power generation equally from both units 3 and 4. When we dedicated this asset to serve our customers in 2009, we estimated that it would be available 86 percent of the time. The recent outage was caused by contractor error during a scheduled overhaul and not due to the age of the plant. Although it first came online in 1986, Colstrip 4 is the newest large coal plant in the western U.S. Even with the outage, Colstrip 4 has been available 82 percent of time since 2009 and is relatively predictable. As a point of comparison, wind generation is typically available about 40 percent of the time and must be backed up by other generation, typically natural gas, for reliability since it is more unpredictable.

Right now, we own or have under long-term contract coal, natural gas, wind power generation and also have energy efficiency programs. If our proposed pur-

chase from PPL of the hydroelectric facilities is approved, over half of our Montana customers’ supply needs will be served with water and wind. We are assembling a diverse set of long-term resources that will operate well together to meet customer needs and to keep supply rates stable and as low as possible.

Claudia Rapkoch Director Corporate Communications NorthWestern Energy

Fix it now Even if you are a fourth or fifth generation Montanan, your ancestor came from somewhere else to settle here. And his/her reason for doing so could be to start a new life in a new land, or to escape some type of discrimination, persecution or forced conscription.

My mother emigrated to the United States from Roseny, Hungary, along with a female guardian, when she was 15 years old. Her mother, my grandmother, was already a citizen of the United States, along with my step-grandfather. My mother spoke little English, but she did well for herself as a seamstress, working for May Company in Ohio. In those days, department stores did clothing alterations in ladies and menswear for their customers. She went on to marry my father, a utility company worker. In 1942, our family, which included three daughters, moved to California. My dad found work at Lockheed Aircraft Company building planes during WWII. He worked for Lockheed until he retired in the 1970s.

I am forever grateful that my mother came here as a scared 15-year-old, never having been on a ship before, and without a family member to support or guide her.

Since 1922, when my mother arrived, immigration laws have varied and changed and they need changing now. It is imperative that Congress finds a humanitarian way to accept foreigners who are seeking what my mother sought: to be with family and to live a better way of life, an opportunity for education, health and a decent living. By the way, my mother learned English, and became a citizen, because she was given the opportunity and education to do so.

Unless this crisis is fixed, I don’t see how we can claim that America is exceptional.

Margie A. Gignac Kalispell Correction: In last week’s Best of Missoula issue, Best Radio Personality finalist Angel Hughes was listed as working at the wrong station. Angel rocks at 96.3 The Blaze. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, July 9 Missoula police seek assistance in locating Amanda Toone, a 13-year-old runaway who was reported missing Tuesday night.

After Toone calls her dad and returns home on Thursday, Missoula police begin investigating crimes allegedly committed against Toone during her absence.

Thursday, July 10 William Ashley Sandal appears in Missoula County Justice Court on charges he sexually assaulted two women, one on the Kim Williams Trail on Saturday and one on the Higgins Avenue bridge on Tuesday. Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech sets Sandal’s bail at $100,000.

Friday, July 11 Bitterroot National Forest firefighters respond to the 21-acre Wapiti fire in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, on the West Fork of the Bitterroot River, and put out a half-acre fire on private land up Blodgett Canyon.

Saturday, July 12 Missoula police respond to a report of a stabbing on the Reserve Street bridge and find Lance Dashnaw “lying in a pool of blood on the sidewalk,” according to court documents. John Mulligan, 56, is arrested for the assault.

Sunday, July 13 Matthew “Grizzly” Adams of Seward, Alaska, sets a new Missoula Marathon— and state of Montana—record when he runs the 26.2-mile course in 2:20:27. In the women’s race, Missoulian Elizabeth Paddock comes in a close second, missing out on a win by less than a minute.

Monday, July 14 Sean and Dan Hogan announce plans to open a new distillery at 128 W. Alder St. If things go as planned, Rattlesnake Creek Distillers will be one of three local spirit makers operating in downtown Missoula by year’s end.

Tuesday, July 15 Both the Big Sky coaches and media pick the University of Montana football team to finish second in the conference this year, one spot behind Eastern Washington and one ahead of Montana State.

More than 5,800 runners took part in the Missoula Marathon on July 13, either running the full 26.2-mile course or the half.

Contraception

Campaign targets Eden Foods Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that craft retailer Hobby Lobby can deny birth control coverage to its employees through its company health plan, Erin Steuer and Rachel Pauli turned their outrage toward a lawsuit brought against the Obama administration by Eden Foods founder and CEO Michael Potter.

Steuer, director of programs and communications for NARAL Pro-Choice Montana, and Pauli, a grassroots organizer for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana, are organizing a letter-writing campaign directed at Missoula grocers encouraging them to sever ties with the organic food producer.

“Eden Foods is also trying to jump on this bandwagon, similar to Hobby Lobby, and trying to deny contraception coverage to its employees,” Steuer says.

“So as consumers, one way that we can show that we’re outraged by corporations making that stance is to simply ask to sever their ties with them and, you know, put our money where our mouth is.”

Just after the Hobby Lobby decision came down, Potter filed his own lawsuit objecting to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that his business provide access to contraceptives as part of Eden Foods’ em-

ployee health plan. Potter has said in court filings that, as a Catholic, he objects to providing for birth control services because he believes the procedures “almost always involve immoral and unnatural practices.”

According to Pauli, Eden Foods currently sells products to Pattee Creek Market, Natural Grocers, the Good Food Store, Missoula Community Food Co-Op and Orange Street Food Farm. As of Monday, the campaign has gathered nearly 200 letters from shoppers encouraging those stores to stop carrying Eden Foods products. Steuer says the collected letters will be delivered to Missoula grocers at the end of the month.

“I do want to make clear that we are not boycotting these businesses at all,” Pauli says. “I love my local businesses. We just are asking them politely to sever their ties with Eden Foods.”

Layne Rolston, communications director for the Good Food Store, says he’s received several comments from shoppers regarding Eden Foods. While Rolston says the company’s products will not be removed at this point, citing their track record for delivering quality items, the Good Food Store cannot defend the actions of Eden Foods’ ownership.

“It’s something that’s troubling us also, and we are continuing to discuss what our best response should be,” Rolston says.

Mike Gerrity

Missoula County

More legal bills on deck The past several months have been pricey ones for Missoula County. Since last year, the county has paid hundreds of thousands dollars to fight and resolve allegations of legal wrongdoing stemming from a variety of claims including workplace discrimination, jail negligence and erroneous land-use law interpretations. A recent lawsuit filed by a Missoula couple leaves the county again tallying legal expenses.

On June 6, Petty Creek landowners Patricia and Larry Hayden alleged in Missoula Fourth Judicial District Court that the county misrepresented plans for a public right of way when seeking their permission to reconstruct a portion of Petty Creek Road alongside their property. The county’s initial pitch worked.

In 2011, the Haydens agreed to the construction.

When the project commenced in 2013, however, the Haydens were shocked to find the road was being built eight feet above their property, which completely eliminated the Haydens’ direct access to Petty Creek Road and all road access to one of two parcels, says Thomas Orr, the couple’s Missoula attorney.

“It was a total surprise to the Haydens,” Orr says.

Orr adds that the lost access to Petty Creek Road diminished the Haydens’ property value and that the

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On July 1, Missoula County responded to the Hayden suit, arguing in court filings that the construction was part of a federal road project and, as such, the Haydens should be suing the federal government.

In light of the federal involvement, Missoula County is asking the District Court to dismiss the case.

Orr says the county’s defense is bunk. His clients never dealt with anybody from the federal government, he says. “This was entirely a county project,” Orr says. “Our position is this is a local matter that we want to be addressing in a local court.”

Jessica Mayrer

Attorneys representing Missoula in the Lefler case say the municipality is innocent of legal wrongdoing.

“Plaintiff ’s condition was caused by her own carelessness or failure to exercise due care,” the city argues in a July 3 legal filing.

While attorneys fight about liability, Missoula Chief Administrative Officer Bruce Bender acknowledges the city can be hard pressed to keep roughly 400 miles of city sidewalk completely crack-free. “It’s a question of how much resources can you put at it,” he says.

Sidewalks

“Don’t they owe me?”

Eleven months after 81-year-old Gabe Rissmann reported tripping on a cracked South Higgins Avenue sidewalk and fracturing his tailbone, he’s preparing to sue the city.

“Every time I think about it,” Rissmann says, “I just get livid.”

On a dark night last fall, the Hamilton resident says he was walking at a brisk pace to meet a friend downtown when he lost his footing on a cracked patch of city sidewalk. Because he landed on the pavement with a force sufficient to fracture his tailbone, Rissmann says it was a stroke of luck that his head hit a comparably soft patch of sod.

“Otherwise,” Rissmann maintains, “I’d be dead.”

Rissmann, who is now forced to use a walker, still doesn’t understand why the city didn’t fix the problem before it became a hazard. At a minimum, he says, it should have erected a warning sign.

Rissmann isn’t the only local to claim that Missoula sidewalks caused them harm. In March, Patti Lefler alleged in a lawsuit against the city that she fractured her left knee in several places after an elevated portion of pavement in the Caras Park parking lot prompted her to lose her footing.

According to Lefler’s lawsuit, the uneven pavement “caused her to fly through the air over the remainder of the sidewalk and land in a puddle of muddy water directly on her left knee ...”

Like Rissmann, Lefler is demanding the city pay medical bills and compensate her for the subsequent mobility loss.

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Bender notes that roughly five years ago the city rolled out a “joint-grinding program,” which involved investing in machinery capable of smoothing pavement and dedicating additional staff hours to city walkways. Bender says since then the city’s received no complaints of sidewalk-related accidents along downtown streets.

None of that reassures Rissmann, who’s still angry about being forced to use a walker. “Christ,” he says, “don’t they owe me?”

Jessica Mayrer

Politics

A win for transparency The frequency of political ads on local airwaves has increased noticeably in recent weeks. Candidates in Montana’s U.S. House and Senate races are dropping tens of thousands of dollars on 30-second spots attacking one another, and super PAC American Crossroads has already secured ad time well into October. But unlike past election cycles, detailed information on those media purchases is now freely available through the Federal Communications Commission’s website.

As of July 1, all broadcast television stations nationwide must comply with a 2012 rule requiring online posting of political files—documents that outline ad sponsor, payment and airtime information. Political

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Points scored by former University of Montana guard Will Cherry in the Cleveland Cavaliers July 13 summer league victory over San Antonio.

Cherry, who led the Griz to the 2013 NCAA basketball tournament, is trying to earn an NBA roster spot. files have long been open to the public but could only be reviewed in person at individual stations. Bill Allison, editorial director for the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Sunlight Foundation, calls the rule “a huge step forward” for campaign finance transparency.

“Knowing more about who is trying to influence your vote is very important,” Allison says.

For the past two years, the rule has only applied to stations in the top 50 broadcast markets in the country. Now local stations like KECI, KPAX and KTMF are regularly releasing political files on the web. KPAX general manager Bob Hermes says the process is taking a little extra time initially, but he feels it’s good to have the information more available.

“I wouldn’t call it burdensome,” he says. “I think it’s a good thing.”

Yet in Allison’s eyes, there is still work to be done.

Political files aren’t uploaded in a digital format but rather as image files, making searches difficult. And Allison believes some facts are still being hidden from the public. Sunlight—which mines political files for its own public database, Political Ad Sleuth—has already filed a formal complaint with the FCC alleging that 11 broadcast stations failed to disclose information about political ad sponsors this year.

“I still think you can hide an awful lot when you’re doing these FCC filings,” Allison says, “and if they’re not electronic, it’s almost like you’re looking for a needle in a haystack sometimes.”

Dennis Wharton, executive vice president of communications for the National Association of Broadcasters, says his organization is working diligently with broadcasters, advertisers and political consultants to make sure everyone is in full compliance. He acknowledges that the new rule could be more financially burdensome for smaller stations.

“There’s just no question about that,” he says. But the point he finds vexing is the exemption given by the FCC to radio and cable outlets.

“It’s a head-scratcher for us,” Wharton says. “If this is about good government and disclosing where money is coming from to pay for campaigns, why do you only make it apply to broadcast TV and not to cable companies?”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. It can be tough to beat the heat in Missoula—and lately the heat has been something fierce. How fierce? Well, it got so hot last week that a road in Yellowstone National Park melted. We’re no Mark Heyka, but that means it’s pretty darn hot.

When it gets this hot around here, locals tend to follow a basic game plan: grab a tube, a fly rod, a raft, a cooler, maybe even a waterproof boom box, and head directly to the nearest body of water for a soothing dip or float.

The problem with this game plan, of course, is that everyone follows it. We end up in bumperto-bumper traffic on Highway 200 or searching for any remotely legal parking spot within a quarter-mile of the Sha-Ron fishing access site. It’s a maddening experience, only made worse by that enraged poodle owner yelling at the dismissive boxer owner about how she’s going to call the police to report an almost aggressive dog—until, that is, you finally reach the sweet reprieve of the water.

Now, however, even that reprieve is under assault—from above. We’re talking about bridge jumpers who won’t take a second to look before they leap.

One of them landed on Andy Hill last July, and it seemed like a freak tragedy at the time.

Then it happened again to Jarrett Gann on Saturday.

Both incidents occurred under Bandmann Bridge, which crosses the Clark Fork just south of Sha-Ron. Hill was tubing when Corey Allen Hewitt landed on him. Hill was knocked out, dragged to shore and taken to St. Pat’s, where he found out he’d suffered broken bones and torn ligaments in both legs.

Last weekend, just two weeks after Hewitt was found guilty of criminal endangerment for his jump, Charles David Ament drank “a substantial amount of alcohol” and performed a “handstand on the bridge railing” before he fell onto Gann, who’d just jumped into the river himself, according to court documents.

Gann was knocked out, dragged to shore and treated at St. Pat’s for a head laceration and a concussion.

We’re all for letting loose, enjoying the river, blasting our waterproof boom box and even entering the water with a certain flair (cannonball!), but there’s a difference between being carefree and careless. When it’s 90 degrees out and the roads are melting, the parking spaces are all gone and even the dogs are freaking out, the last thing anyone should be worrying about is some yahoo landing in their lap.

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Project runway Ravalli County gets riled up over its airport expansion

by Ted McDermott

Jack Tuholske, a Missoula lawyer rep- the size and number of large jets that’ll be Dave Hedditch stands on the cracked taxiway of the Ravalli County Airport in resenting nonprofit opposition group In- landing there,” Dewitt says. “It’s inapproHamilton, points to the northeast and forming Citizens Against Airport Runway priate for the valley.”

Foss disagrees, reiterating how an exsays, “You see that fence out there? That’s Expansion, says there are important unanswered questions about who funded the panded runway is imperative for the where the new runway’s gonna go.”

Or will it? The need for a new runway new EA and how it was introduced to the safety and economic vitality of the at this small but busy general aviation air- public. The suspicion, he says, is private county. She says a 5,200-foot runway port has been recognized since the 1970s, jet owners paid for it to help ensure a would allow Forest Service air tankers to but disagreements about where the run- longer runway. He also says members of fight local wildfire more effectively and way should be built and how long it his group didn’t learn about the EA “until would foster economic growth by allowshould be have prevented that need from a few days before the comment period ing people and goods to move more easily into Hamilton. And it ever being met. Now, wouldn’t, she says, allow there is a new proposal for bigger or noisier jets, for improving the airas the weight limit on the port—and a new debate new runway would be about whether it should the same as it is on the be approved. current runway. In addiThe latest controtion, by moving the runversy hinges on a single way 400 feet to the east question: Should the and 1,000 feet to the runway remain 4,200 feet north, flight patterns will long or increase to 5,200 move farther from the feet? Though it sounds residential development like a technical distincsouth of the airport. tion, people on both side “It has nothing but of the issue say a lot is at benefits for everybody,” stake in those 1,000 feet photo by Cathrine L. Walters she says. of pavement, from pilot Dave Hedditch stands on the Ravalli County Airport taxiway. He’s Even the $7 million safety to the very charac- among those pushing for a longer runway despite objections from ter of Ravalli County. some locals who fear the extension will increase pollution and cost of the project, she points out, won’t fall on Last year, the Ravalli change the area’s character. local taxpayers. The FAA County Commission scrapped a plan for the airport that was was going to close.” After Tuholske ap- has committed to pay 90 percent of the on the cusp of being implemented. After pealed for an extension, the FAA said the bill, with the RCASF and other private extensive negotiation, the plan called to public could submit comments through sources covering the rest. Though private funding is a source of concern for keep the runway at 4,200 feet but move it the end of this month.

Tuholske says ICAARE’s comments critics, Hedditch, an RCASF board memfarther away from the current taxiway in order to meet Federal Aviation Adminis- will point to a range of concerns not ade- ber, dismisses the issue.

“Who cares?” he says. “We want this quately addressed in the EA, including tration safety standards.

County Commissioner Suzy Foss says questions about the need for a longer runway 5,200 feet long so that it’s safe for they decided to abandon the plan due to runway, the potential for increased air 100 percent of the people that use it concerns about whether it would ade- pollution, the impact on local homeown- today. And I don’t care where the money comes from that we get.” quately resolve the runway’s safety issues ers and the overall cost to taxpayers.

Meanwhile, as debate over how the “For starters,” Tuholske says, “we and promote economic growth in the county. She calls it an expensive “Band- think you not only need to disclose the airport should expand continues, the exdata and get better data but you need to isting facilities are badly deteriorating.

Aid” rather than a long-term solution.

“It’s to a point where, pretty soon The FAA agreed with the county com- do a full environmental impact statement, missioners, says Steve Engebrecht of the which then would trigger a much higher here, within the next 10 years, that [runFAA’s Northwest Mountain Region Air- level involvement from other federal and way] pavement’s going to need a major ports District Office. At the commis- state agencies. It would really shine a rehabilitative effort,” Engebrecht says. The sioner’s request, the FAA helped provide spotlight at this, and that’s what needs to FAA’s willingness to pay for that rehabilitation, however, is contingent on the funding for a revised environmental as- happen.”

Chuck Dewitt, who sits on ICAARE’s county finally moving forward with a plan sessment to consider the feasibility of moving the runway farther from the taxi- board and lives south of the airport, wor- that meets federal safety standards.

Asked about the prospect of the way and extending it 1,000 feet. However, ries about how the expansion would Engebrecht says, the FAA provided less for allow bigger private jets to use the facility, county once again failing to decide on the study than normal, due to the thereby increasing noise and air pollution. how to resolve the airport’s issues, Hedcounty’s history of indecision on the He thinks it benefits the ultra-wealthy at ditch is grim. “There won’t be a start over,” Hedditch says. “The FAA will be issue. The Ravalli County Aviation Safety the expense of the average citizen.

“If [the runway] grows to a mile long, done with us.”

Foundation made up the difference, using funding from undisclosed private sources. I think we—the valley, the county commissioners—we will not have any control over This May, the new EA was released. tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

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[news]

Careful where you sit Recent exploding toilet highlights need for caution

by Alex Sakariassen

toilet to release the internal pressure and Late last month, a deputy treasurer in contractors nationwide for about $108.”

It’s unclear how many Missoula toi- contact the firm to request a free repair kit.”

Stillwater County got a rude surprise while exiting a bathroom stall in the lets may be at risk. Phone messages left The kit consisted of a metal U-band, two county courthouse. A defective low-flow for facilities managers with Missoula screws and an external regulator, along flushing system linked to two nationwide County, Ravalli County and the University with instructions for consumers on how to recalls exploded without warning, shatter- of Montana about the potential presence fix the flushing system themselves.

Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed ing a toilet tank. No one was injured, but of or concern over defective Flushmate Commissioner Jerry Dell says the county’s systems in public buildings went unre- in late 2012 leveled a host of allegations facilities supervisor has been in touch turned. Several state and local officials against Flushmate, which had advertised its flushing units as “the most with the flushing system’s reliable, consistent and troumanufacturer, Flushmate, ble-free system available.” to work through the issue.

Among those allegations was “We heard from the a claim that the company company after this thing had failed to inform conwent crazy and every newssumers that the system “may paper in the country had develop leaks, that the it,” Dell says. “They called welded joints may separate and our facilities man in the vessels, and that the talked to them and found toilet might explode,” deout two of them were not spite several product adviin the recall.” sory notices issued by Dell adds that in the Flushmate citing such issues. wake of the explosion, no “Sloan/Flushmate was other toilets in the courtrepeatedly placed on notice house needed replacement of the serious risk that the or repairs. toilets in which Flushmate The incident joins a list Systems were installed may of more than 300 docuexplode, and yet did nothmented failures of the Seing to inform customers or ries 503 Flushmate III correct the problem prior Pressure-Assist Flushing to the recall,” the original System. Previous reports of complaint states. everything from leaks to exPlaintiffs also argued plosions prompted the U.S. that the repair kits offered Consumer Product Safety photo courtesy of SaferProducts.gov as part of the recall were inCommission to issue a recall on more than 2.3 mil- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued two adequate, not only requirlion units nationwide in recalls for a low-flow flushing system. A defect in the units can ing specialized plumbing cause them to explode, shattering toilet tanks, as seen in this June 2012. According to picture submitted as evidence in a class action lawsuit against skills and tools but ultimately proving ineffective the recall announcement, manufacturer Flushmate. in correcting the defect.

Flushmate—a division of the Sloan Valve Company—received 304 who were reached hadn’t heard of the Flushmate and the plaintiffs reached an reports of the system rupturing. Most of Stillwater County incident or the recall, $18 million settlement deal in January. the failures merely resulted in property and exhibited a mixture of surprise and Claims forms from individuals seeking to damage, but the CPSC linked the defect confusion that some toilets might actually join the settlement class are due by Sept.

24. Claims are only eligible for people to 14 injuries, including severe lacerations be at risk of exploding.

After checking in with the assistant di- who have already received and installed a suffered by a 26-year-old male in Septemrector of development services, the city repair kit from Flushmate. ber 2011.

The recall and lawsuit, odd as they “Had this happened to someone eld- engineer and the head of building mainerly or a child, the outcome could have tenance, city communications director sound, received scant local media coverbeen catastrophic,” the man stated in a re- Ginny Merriam was able to confirm that age prior to the incident in Stillwater port to the CPSC. “There needs to be a “we do not have any of these toilets that County. Questions regarding the explodlarger awareness campaign as we had no could potentially explode” in any city ing toilet and the courthouse’s response are now being directed to the county idea of the danger involved in using the buildings.

The initial recall applied to systems commissioners office or the facilities suFlushmate product.”

The flushing system was both sold in- manufactured between October 1997 and pervisor. According to Dell, the whole dividually and installed in toilets manufac- February 2008. However, the CPSC an- commode kerfuffle had county employees tured by a host of companies, including nounced a second recall in January apply- “quite amazed, you might say.”

“Nobody ever remembered seeing a Kohler, Crane, American Standard and ing to more than 350,000 systems made Western Pottery. The recall cautions that between March 2008 and June 2009. Both recall on it,” he says. the system was sold by “Home Depot and recalls recommended that consumers “turn Lowe’s stores, distributors and plumbing off the water supply to the unit, flush the asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Exempt this Pretty sure my religious beliefs rise above federal law, too

by Dan Brooks

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a deeply religious man. I can hardly shave or start the lawn mower without invoking the name of god. I attribute my theological bent to Sundays with the children’s chorus at Holy Christ Almighty Lutheran Church, where I would sing hymns like “Nearer, My God, to Thee” and “Keep Thou My Way” until the kids noticed and ran me off.

My faith journey has taken me to some strange places since then, but I remain a person of sincerely held beliefs in the most legally binding sense of the term. That’s why I welcomed the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, which exempted the chain of craft stores from paying for employee contraception on the grounds that it conflicted with the owners’ Christian faith.

I applaud this triumph of personal conscience over federal law. The Bible is absolutely clear on the subject of intrauterine devices: They are bad—not as bad as Hittites or graven images, but definitely worse than sex, which is already kind of a gray area. The Supreme Court has upheld Americans’ rights to simultaneously worship as they please and employ thousands of women in the sale and inventory of felt. The Christian shopkeep is safely exempt from federal law, but what about the rest of us?

My religion may not enjoy the same market penetration as Christianity, but it is just as important to my daily life, at least as far as anyone can prove in court. In order to avoid substantial burdens, I will require exemption from the following laws: Taxes. It goes without saying that I will not be paying any of these. Jesus instructs us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and save the rest to get our trucks detailed. Although I do not affirm the divinity of Jesus, I regard him as an important prophet and source of legal ad-

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vice, and I am confident that even filling out a 1040 would be an unconscionable imposition.

The government uses taxes to pay for all kinds of things my faith objects to, including the fine arts and billboards telling me to Persevere like Jim Abbott.

If the owners of Hobby Lobby don’t have

“If the owners of Hobby Lobby don’t have to pay for birth control, I see no reason why I should have to pony up for some interstate highway system I can’t even drive on without taking the lord’s name in vain.” to pay for birth control, I see no reason why I should have to pony up for some interstate highway system I can’t even drive on without taking the lord’s name in vain.

On a related note, I will not be obeying the speed limit. I’d like to, but Second Corinthians instructs us to fly like an eagle into the future. As any biblical scholar will tell you, you should always drive seven miles per hour faster than the car in front of you, unless it’s a cop. Because my reli-

gion forbids me from consuming capsicum and mace, I am also exempt from getting pepper-sprayed by said cops, no matter how joyful a noise I make in front of Stockman’s.

State liquor laws are right out. I quote Paul’s letter to the Kardashians: beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you are in the clear. [Emphasis mine.] As long as I plan to drink a beer later, the state of Montana has no right to deny me the holy spirit or spirits. And friends, I plan to drink that beer.

Also, I’m not sure whether there’s a law about it, but if I should someday own a horse, my religion requires me to ride that horse inside the mall. If it is Sunday, I will be wearing hot pants. I’m sorry if the government and/or security frowns on that sort of thing, but Clarence Thomas will back me up.

And lo: when I go to an Osprey game and the usher tells me to stop yelling at the other team’s catcher about his relationship with his dad, that is definitely a violation of my religious rights. Does not Ephesians say thou shalt mind thy own business, and also sticks and stones? You cannot prove to me that it doesn’t—not without making me read a book, which, as the Buddha famously remarked, good luck buddy.

It is not easy to walk the path of faith, particularly after cocktail hour, but I assure you that these exemptions stem from my sincere beliefs. Not just any beliefs, either—religious ones, which are like knowledge or ideas, but you can’t talk to me about them. I don’t like it any better than you do, but I don’t make the rules.

That’s for the Supreme Court, or god, or possibly a big octopus in space.

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

His column appears every other week in the Independent.

[opinion]

Smoke season Western summers require an extra level of planning

by Bill Cook

Planning summer outings here in Montana used to be simple: Enlist participants, round up gear, drive to the river or trailhead and go. But as I plan this year’s adventures, I’m warning the possible participants: Smoke may force cancellation.

Last August was dicey. With wildfires roaring in 11 Western states, all our outings were at the mercy of wind patterns.

Every morning at home in Helena that month, I began my day by pulling up Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s daily wildfire-smoke update. Prepared by the state DEQ’s air quality meteorologist, the update predicts which areas of Montana will be affected by wildfire smoke that day. Satellite photos on the site were revealing, and troubling.

I wasn’t surprised to see smoke plumes headed our way from the Gold Pan Complex Fire in the Bitterroot Valley, across the Continental Divide in western Montana. And it was easy to trace the smoke from fires in Idaho, Washington and Oregon, which was heading almost directly east toward where we live. But what surprised me was how often the photos also showed plumes streaking northeast from wildfires in California to reach us in central Montana.

Forecasts and satellite data are of limited utility. So if I saw worrisome indications in the satellite photo or the air quality forecast, I’d step outside and run this reality check recommended by the DEQ: If I could see the ridge known as the Sleeping Giant, across the valley in the Big Belt Range, the air quality was good enough and our outdoor plans could go forward. If I couldn’t see the Sleeping Giant, plans were aborted and we’d hunker down inside until the winds shifted and the skies cleared.

As much as I hate to waste a warm summer day, I won’t gamble with my health. The Montana chapter of the Amer-

ican Lung Association advises staying inside on smoky days, warning that the fine particulates from wildfire smoke increase the risk of respiratory tract infection, reduced lung function and bronchitis. In fact, once again this year the lung association gave my county (Lewis and Clark) a failing grade for particulate pollution on a 24-hour basis, due in part to wildfire smoke.

In a story published this May in our local paper, Kim Davit, manager of Montana Initiatives for the ALA, said that

“As much as I hate to waste a warm summer day, I won’t gamble with my health.” while winter air quality has improved here in our county, summer air quality has worsened due to the trend toward increased wildfires. Moreover, even low concentrations of wildfire smoke reduce visibility. What’s the point of going out in Big Sky Country if the world-class vistas are obscured?

For these reasons, it’s not surprising that Montana’s official travel website now warns tourists of summer fire conditions, and provides links to fire incident data and Montana DEQ’s daily smoke update.

It’s likely that savvy tourists from back East may heed those smoke warnings, cancel their summer trips to Montana and go to, say, Florida instead. But for those of us who live here, it’s a trickier proposition. During much of the year, we look forward to warm summer days,

snow-free trails in the high country and lazy hours on the rivers.

And yet, during recent summers, many of those plans have been stymied by smoke. Last August, my wife and I suffered cabin fever when smoke kept us cooped up inside for days at a stretch. When we couldn’t stand it any longer, we’d race out of town to picnic in a smoke-free area of the state for the day, just to savor blue skies and clean air.

This year, we have above-average snowpack in Montana, so our fire season locally may not be so bad. But by May, California had already experienced numerous serious fires. We’ll see how the smoke season plays out.

Just to be clear, I well understand that wildland fires are part of the natural order, helping forests regenerate by (among other things) returning nutrients to the soil and clearing undergrowth. I’m also glad that public-land managers have come to recognize the ecological benefits of fire, and I don’t seek any change in fire policy. But more and more, I dread fire season, or, more precisely, smoke season.

I’m tired of being downwind of so many Western wildfires, sick of sitting indoors on otherwise gorgeous summer days with every door and window sealed up tight.

I’m beginning to see significant lifestyle changes coming.

At some point, will some of us Montanans become “smokebirds” and flee our beloved state (or, at least, its smokier portions) during the worst of fire season? It pains me to even consider it. But if climate change is increasing the incidence of wildfires across the West, we “downwinders” here on the Eastern Slope of the Rockies may find our options limited.

Bill Cook is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes in Helena.

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(Associated Press) COLLEGE OF ELECTORAL KNOWLEDGE – Asad Asif, 19, was elected to New Jersey’s Middlesex County Republican Committee with only one vote—his own. “It was kind of like the ‘Mickey Mouse vote,’ where people write in stupid names when they vote for president,” the Rutgers University junior explained. “I wanted to do the same thing, and since there was no real candidate in the slot, I decided to write myself in.” Asif’s ballot in the primary election turned out to be the only one with a vote for the committee position. Although he didn’t seek the office, he said he was confident that he could perform his duties, which include getting voters other than himself to turn out. (New Brunswick Today) After unsuccessful campaigns for Congress and the Phoenix City Council, Scott Fister, 34, changed his name to Cesar Chavez and declared his candidacy for retiring U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor’s seat in Arizona’s largely Hispanic Seventh Congressional District. “It’s almost as simple as saying Elvis Presley is running for president,” said Chavez, who not only changed his name to that of the late revered farm-labor leader, but also switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. “People want a name that they can feel comfortable with. If you went out there running for office and your name was Bernie Madoff, you’d probably be screwed.” (Phoenix’s The Arizona Republic) After losing to Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., two years ago, Democrat Tim Murray switched parties and ran against Lucas in this year’s Republican primary. He received only 5.2 percent of the votes to 82 percent for Lucas, but told election board officials that he is entitled to Lucas’s votes because “it is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displaced by a look alike.” Murray’s website explained that Lucas was “executed by the world court” in Ukraine in January 2011. “I have never been to Ukraine,” said Lucas, who has represented Oklahoma’s Third District for the past 20 years, adding, “This is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being a body double or a robot.” (Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – A 20-year-old student at Michigan’s Wayne County Community College stabbed a 54-year-old student after they argued about a class assignment. Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon called the stabbing an “isolated incident.” (Detroit Free Press) Pennsylvania State Police charged Richard Edgar Hill of attacking a man with a glass hummingbird feeder in Fulton Township because the victim was “refusing to party with him.” (Harrisburg’s The Patriot-News) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Edward Holley, 59, faces attempted murder charges after he admitted throwing a pot of hot grits at a 29-year-old neighbor during an argument, according to police in Orlando, Fla., who noted the victim was burned over 30 percent of his body. (Orlando Sentinel) A 17-year-old girl faces weapons charges after police in Cornwall, Ontario, said she threw a juice box at her grandmother. (Cornwall’s Seaway News) P.C. UPDATE – Minnesota enacted a law renaming Asian carp in response to concern by some people that the term casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light. The fish, which is native to Asia and was accidentally introduced to the Great Lakes, is now officially known as “invasive carp.” (CBS News) LITIGATION NATION – Ajanaffy Njewadda filed a lawsuit claiming that a poster advertising the television program “Dexter” caused her to fall down the stairs at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, fracturing her foot, spraining her ankle and hitting her head. The ad was placed across the risers of steps so that it could be viewed while climbing the stairs, but Njewadda explained that while she was walking down the stairs, she turned around to look for her husband, a former ambassador from Gambia, and was startled by the poster showing a close-up of star Michael C. Hall wrapped in cellophane. “That little shock was enough of a trigger to throw her off balance,” said her attorney, Rehan Nazrali, adding, “This is the media saturation and over-commercialization of public space.” Hall is about the only one not named in the suit, which Nazrali said seeks “a fair deal” from Showtime, the New York City Transit Authority, CBS Outdoor Americas (which placed the ad), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City. (Reuters) Investors who bought eight popular Capitol Hill restaurants in Washington, D.C., accused the restaurateur who sold them of sabotaging them so revenue would drop and the new owners would be unable to make payments to the seller, allowing him to retake the restaurants. Lawyers for the investors claimed that Xavier Cervera also kept a Vespa motor scooter that was supposed to transfer during the sales. (The Wall Street Journal) Clinton Tucker sued Benjamin Moore in Essex County, N.J., claiming that the paint maker fired him after his repeated complaints about their “despicable and racially insulting paint colors called ‘Clinton Brown’ and ‘Tucker Chocolate.’” Tucker’s attorney, Charles Schalk, insisted that the colors were named after his client, who identifies himself as an African-American homosexual male who worked at Benjamin Moore from June 2011 until this March. According to the company’s website, Tucker Chocolate was named for 18th-century Virginia judge St. George Tucker, whose house is one of the original Colonial homes in Historic Williamsburg. Benjamin Moore also said it sold cans of Clinton Brown, described as recalling a “perfectly balanced chocolate candy bar brown,” years before Tucker began working at the company.

(Courthouse News Service) FREUDIAN SLIP – Firefighters in Tübingen, Germany, were called to free an American exchange student who got stuck in a sculpture of a giant vagina. Fire official Markus Mozer said the man was posing for a photo when he slipped. (Associated Press)

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hen people talk about the highlight of an outdoor adventure, it almost always involves reaching the top of a mountain or a carefree leap into an alpine lake. It could easily include spying a moose (always just a little too close for comfort) or fording a treacherous river to reach the best campsite. The highlight of an outdoor adventure is never something so sorry and mundane as a group of grown-ups eating chips and salsa in the rain while three grubby toddlers crawl around in the grass underfoot. At least that’s what I used to think.

Our trip to Schnaus Cabin, a Forest Service rental near the North Fork of the Flathead River at the edge of Glacier National Park, was meant to be a vacation, though we all knew that didn’t mean we’d be able to relax. We were three couples, each with a toddler under the age of 2, all of us adjusting to the new and sometimes alarming identity of “parent.” As late 30- and early 40-somethings who spent the last few decades playing in the outdoors—snowboarding, hiking, camping—we

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had grown accustomed to our free time.

Sure, we had partners to compromise with and jobs to show up to, but in our pre-kid days we could still do basically whatever the hell we wanted. And bugging out to a Forest Service cabin for the weekend was always the very definition of leisure. Once there, we could toss our sparse gear through the cabin door, whip up a campfire and crack open our beers without a care. Time was ours to while away: late to bed, late to rise. Now, with kids, the concept of leisure time has been relegated to cobwebbed memory.

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chnaus Cabin is hidden in the woods 42 miles north of Columbia Falls on the North Fork Road.

The drive’s final 45 minutes are mostly on dirt road, which makes the destination feel even more secluded. We arrived on a warm Friday evening. I unpacked the car while my husband kept an eye on our 1-year-old daughter as she stumbled toward the rickety porch stairs. Our backpacks of clothing were dwarfed by the baby’s bag, full of too many onesies and a year’s worth of diapers and wipes, just in case. I pulled out a sippy cup, Pack ’n Play, three blankets, a stuffed sheep and a laundry basket full of toys. I was simultaneously panicked that I’d forgotten something and disgusted with myself for bringing so much.

In my distraction I almost didn’t notice the view, but then there it was: Glacier’s Livingston Range, spread out as far as the eye could see, 10,106-foot Kintla Peak piercing the thin swirls of cloud. We all stood breathless for a long moment, forgetting everything else. Here was a panorama that seemed almost unreal, an exaggeration of a Montana landscape. “What a show-off,” someone said. We laughed. We had been so focused on planning, packing and then driving the four hours from Missoula with as few en route tantrums as possible that it registered as relief to actually arrive in one piece. The mountains looked like a reward.

Schnaus Cabin is one of 144 Forest Service cabins and fire lookouts available for public rental in Montana.

Most were built by Forest Service workers between 1930 and 1950, when rangers on horseback used them as base camps. The Civilian Conservation Corps, a program of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, helped build many of the cabins and lookouts, and CCC workers spent time in them while maintaining trails. Now reserved for public use, the structures are a popular resource among those who know about them. They cost very little—typically $20 to $30 a night, which can often be split among groups of four to 12, which makes them five times cheaper than a downtown Missoula hotel room, with scenery that’s five times as spectacular.

I’ve stayed at dozens of Forest Service cabins and lookouts, starting as a young kid. My parents would set my brother and me free to wander nearby fields and forests, presumably just within sight, though boundaries never concerned us. As for what they were doing that whole time? Who knows. Boring grown-up stuff, prob-

“There’s no cell service at Schnaus, which is true of many Forest Service cabins. In a world where busyness is a virtue, the cabin gave us permission to be lazy.” ably. We’d return to the cabin by dusk and Dad would start the fire as Mom put dinner on the table. We’d eat and then explore our indoor digs, each old cabin providing a new setting for the pioneer lives we imagined.

A lot of Forest Service cabins are truly bare bones; others aren’t too different from a furnished vacation rental, complete with refrigerator and coffee pot. As I’ve gotten older, my favorites have been rustic and well stocked with character, like the Hogback and MorganCase homestead cabins, both up Rock Creek near Philipsburg. Morgan-Case has a water pump, electricity and vintage furniture that gives it a romantic feel. If I needed a retreat to go write the Great American Novel, Morgan-Case would be it.

Schnaus Cabin doesn’t have the Hemingway vibe.

It’s furnished with a couple of couches that look like they were designed by Bill Cosby’s sweater maker circa 1985. There’s no electricity, no running water and no indoor bathroom, which means that if you forget your flashlight (like I did), it’s a dark, middle-of-the-night stumble to the outhouse. The cabin could conceivably sleep 12 people, though most of the beds—one double and four twins—are crammed into the loft like an oldfashioned summer camp or an orphanage. On the main floor, two bedrooms house a double bed and two twins, respectively. We divvied up the space, one couple in each bedroom, my husband and I in the loft overlooking the common space. We set up our Pack ’n Plays and I started dinner—white bean chili with pork—while everyone else started in on the IPA. Within 30 minutes of our arrival, one of the toddlers stepped backward off the porch and split her chin on

its jagged wood planks. The blood soaking the neck of her white shirt and the silent, open-mouthed cry that precedes ear-piercing screaming made us all shiver in horror. Was this the first of many disasters? Everyone had brought a first-aid kit, so there were plenty of bandages and gauze, but it was hard to tell if the gash needed stitches. Stitches would mean a drive back to Columbia Falls and, perhaps, a quick end to the weekend for the little girl and her parents.

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fter a short while it became clear that the wound was minor, that everything was going to be okay, and after drying some toddler tears we ate dinner in the staggered fashion in which one eats dinner with kids, and then wandered back outside to enjoy the view.

The little ones seemed only mildly interested in the toys we’d brought. They clambered around in the grass, finding pebbles and dirt clods which they happily swapped with one other. They squealed delightedly at insects on wildflowers and birds sailing in the breeze, softly petting tree bark as if it were an exotic textile. We watched them with an edgy casualness to make sure rocks and bugs— at least the stinging kind—didn’t enter their mouths, and that their feet didn’t tread too close to the part of the yard where the ground slopes and then plummets to the forested valley below. Within a few hours the children were rubbing their eyes and staring off into space—telltale signs.

If you don’t have kids, it’s easy to be like, “Relax! Just let the kids fall asleep around the campfire and toss them

into bed. Be cool, man.” That’ll work if you’re lucky, but most toddlers will stay up as late as you’ll let them, to the point of delirium. When they get that tired they’ll act like emotional drunks, laugh-crying and pushing you away when you try to help them. We decided to put the three of them to bed at the same time—8 p.m.—so that if they cried they could cry together until they couldn’t fight sleep any longer. When silence finally fell it felt like the last note of an orchestral performance fading away; we waited, then smiled, then applauded ourselves.

It would have been impossible to lounge inside such a small cabin without waking the babies, so we turned off the propane-powered interior lights, pulled the beer coolers outside next to the fire pit, and lit the kindling. We talked around the campfire for a few hours.

We were determined to make as much of this time as we could, though all of us were drowsy from the drive and the kid wrangling. When I finally went to bed at midnight (in my pre-parental days I would have stayed up until at least 2 a.m.), I sneaked inside, being careful not to wake the baby even as the plastic mattress covers crackled and the frame squeaked. I laid there tired but awake, thinking about time.

In describing the General Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein said, “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour.” Parents experience a similar change in their perception of time.

Days are chopped up into little activities: preparing bottles, changing diapers, wiping faces, comforting children, playing with them, performing the rituals of bedtime. Even after they’re in bed, the mind brims with

to-do lists. Time flies, but not always in the fun way. On adventures past, we could sit around a table and finish a board game during the afternoon, sit in the sun and read a sizable chunk of a novel, make dinner at our leisure. It’s not that we got more done, it’s just that time felt like one, long, continuous stretch.

But what if this perception shift isn’t just about having kids? Neuroscientists have shown that time seems to speed up for all adults as they age, that experience and repetition make us less patient with living in the moment—the directive that every self-help book implores us to follow. Children don’t perceive time passing. They just live in it.

My husband crawled into bed next to me and soon began to softly snore. Minutes ticked by. If time is so subjective, I thought, there’s no better place than a cabin in the North Fork to slow it down.

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e rose at 6 a.m., the children bright-eyed, adults a bit bleary. We boiled water and made coffee and ate a delicious one-pot meal of scrambled eggs, salsa, bacon and potatoes. We packed the kids into backpacks and headed off down a ravine that leads to the North Fork of the Flathead River. It was a beautiful sunny morning. The aspen and pine forest provided just the right shade, even as the sun dappled the lush ground. Within minutes the children were asleep, as if under a spell, and we talked quietly at first, then louder as we realized that nothing was going to wake them—and that being quiet in grizzly country isn’t exactly the smartest strategy. At the bottom of our first

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“Despite all the things we might miss about being kid-less, we wouldn’t go back. We still want to do the things we always wanted to do, we just have to relearn how to do them——and do them better.”

steep hill we emerged into a swampy area full of mosquitoes, so we hiked back out and meandered from one trail to the next until we ended up back at the cabin. It was a short but sweet trip, and at first we felt guilty for not taking on a day-long hike, but then we reminded ourselves that we were here to relax. We put the sleeping kids down to finish their naps, sat on the porch sipping lemonade-and-PBR cocktails, and gaped at the mountains.

There’s no cell service at Schnaus, which is true of many Forest Service cabins. Forced to stay off Twitter and away from email, we had fewer intrusions to fracture our thoughts. In a world where busyness is a virtue, the cabin gave us permission to be lazy.

Still, if you wanted to fill your day with activity, most Forest Service cabins are close enough to trails, lakes and even small towns that can serve as entertaining excursions. From Schnaus Cabin you can take a day to kayak secluded Bowman Lake in Glacier National Park.

Choosing the right cabin for you here are 144 Forest Service rentals in Montana, but in such a big state, it takes a little Internet searching and savvy to figure out which ones suit your needs.

The most popular cabins in western Montana include the Morgan-Case Homestead and

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The dirt road there, like so many around the North Fork, can’t accommodate RVs, and visitors are usually locals, so it’s a peaceful place to visit. If you’re into fishing or canoeing, the North Fork of the Flathead River has some of the best stretches in the state. If, on the other hand, you’re a sucker for huckleberry bear claws, just drive seven miles from the cabin to Polebridge and sate your appetite at the Mercantile—which is exactly what we did.

Just say “Polebridge” to anyone who’s been there and you’ll see their eyes light up. The Mercantile presents an old-fashioned storefront and a porch stocked with firewood where you can lounge on wooden benches and chairs. Inside, the high-ceilinged space offers shelves of goods. There are touristy knick-knacks (a mug featuring a photo of the Merc will cost you $18), but there are also cool hand-knitted hats and berry preserves, homemade soaps and dried soups, plus generalstore necessities like brake fluid and bug spray. But the best part is the bakery counter, where you can browse

Hogback Cabin on Rock Creek, which are each nestled in secluded meadows. Both have a cool vintage style that puts them a notch above so many of the basic cabins found elsewhere.

Woods Cabin, another popular destination, doesn’t have the same quaint aesthetic, but it makes up for it with a large deck overlooking the Bitterroot Valley’s Lake Como and a beach where you can host an evening bonfire.

Any cabin located near or in Glacier National Park is bound to get snatched up quickly,

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the bear claws, savory breads and sticky buns. Even in this remote town, there’s always a line waiting to buy the baked goods.

Next door is the Northern Lights Saloon, known for its cooked-from-scratch dinner menu, and as the only place for miles where you can sit and drink a draft beer.

It’s a tiny place, cozy like a hobbit tavern. On the night we stop in the special is prime rib and garlic mashed potatoes. We’re looking for something quick and light before we go back to the cabin and cook our own meal, so we order beers and chips and salsa and take it all outside to the large yard full of picnic tables.

As we munch, watching the toddlers running in the grass, it begins to rain, and those first few drops feel shockingly cold. I think, like a reasonable adult, “We should go inside.” And then, “Should we go inside?” My daughter puts her little hand out, catching big droplets without flinching. Those gigantic mountains are still so striking, no matter how many times we look at them,

as are favorite cross-country skiing cabins like Hogan Cabin near the Anaconda Mountains and Gordon Reese, which serves as a warming hut and rental for skiers enjoying the Chief Joseph Pass trails at the southern end of the Bitterroot.

Most of these cabins get booked six months out, which is the maximum amount of time you can rent them in advance.

To find a cabin rental at the last minute, look for some under-the-radar abodes such as Stony Cabin,— a primitive but cozy spot also on

and though we don’t state our decision aloud, we stay where we are, letting ourselves get soaked, not letting ourselves interrupt the moment.

Later that night, after the kids are in bed, we stand around the campfire again. We’re free to cut loose, but what do we do? We talk about kids. What are the worst parts of being a parent? Not being able to sleep in. Not being able to easily travel to exotic places. Not being able to stop thinking about all the things that need to be done in a day. What is the best part? They’re funny—bottomless wells of entertainment. Also, the weird, inexplicable and adamant feeling that despite all the things we might miss about being kid-less, we wouldn’t go back. We still want to do the things we always wanted to do, we just have to relearn how to do them—and do them better.

We watch the moon rise over Glacier and try to recall the constellations we learned when we were kids in science class. We can locate only the Big Dipper. We take our time. It’s a good place to start.

Rock Creek, o— r one of the many fire lookouts, such as the West Fork Butte Lookout, which offers a 360-degree view of the Bitterroot mountains and Lolo Peak drainage, and the Missoula Lookout that oversees the breathtaking Missions and Swans.

When you decide to book a reservation, go to the Forest Service website (fs.fed.us/recreation/reservations) or recreation.gov to search the descriptions of available cabins and lookouts. The websites will give you a list of rules,

amenities, number of people the cabin can accommodate, nearby attractions and tell you what to bring such as your own water or coolers for perishable foods. Note that some spots aren’t available year-round and even those that are available in winter may require you to ski or snowmobile in. The sites cover all of this, and will also tell you how to best keep yourself safe from potentially dangerous run-ins with wildlife. (They will not, however, tell you what to pack for your toddlers. That’s your burden.)

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[arts]

This time, it’s personal James Lee Burke tells a different type of story in Wayfaring Stranger

by Skylar Browning

photo courtesy of Frank Veronsky

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efore James Lee Burke even sits down for an interview, the stories begin. He’s talking about school shootings and Joyce Brothers and suicide and generational nostalgia and Benny Goodman. Over the course of an hour, once the interview starts in earnest, the conversation ranges from Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson’s change-up to rapper Snoop Dogg.

Burke references specific scenes from The Godfather, Gone with the Wind and The Sting. He quotes social philosopher and author Eric Hoffer, William Faulkner, Voltaire, George Orwell and a censor at the Texas State Penitentiary who once redacted one of his novels for a death-row inmate. Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of speaking with Burke for any significant amount of time knows that this is what you get—a sweeping, high energy, highly engaging talk that’s punctuated with cited sources, personal anecdotes and pointed opinions.

In other words, he talks like he writes, with a rhythm and detail and lyricism that’s made him a regular best-seller over the course of a career that’s spanned more than a half-century.

But for all of the stories Burke’s told in interviews or fit on the pages of his 36 published books, there’s something different about his latest novel, Wayfaring Stranger. Burke, who lives outside of Missoula, acknowledges as much. Whenever the conversation shifts to the book, he sits forward, lowers his voice and sounds less like he’s serving up a colorful story and more like he’s making a confession.

“There are many things I know about in my life and

witnessed in my life where I had to wait over 50 years to write about, you see,” he says. “I published my first story in 1956, so what is that? Fifty-eight years? I had to wait that amount of time to write this book because too many people would have been injured.

“It’s the most biographical book I’ve done,” he continues. “It’s different from anything I’ve ever written.”

The first 100 pages read unlike anything else by Burke. It starts with a young Texas boy, Weldon Holland, having a chance run-in with Bonnie and Clyde. (Longtime Burke fans will recognize Weldon’s grandfather, Hackberry, as the character in Feast Day of Fools and two other novels). The second chapter jumps approximately 10 years to Weldon’s harrowing experiences in World War II, where he ends up behind enemy lines.

The story eventually settles in the postwar South, during America’s “Golden Age,” as Weldon and a fellow veteran set up an oil pipeline company amid the industry’s culture of corruption. From there, Wayfaring Stranger picks up some of Burke’s usual components—good versus pure evil, shadowy moguls pulling strings to keep down hard-working common folk—but it still appears to hold something more personal than, say, the regular Dave Robicheaux novel.

Burke dedicated Wayfaring Stranger to his “beloved first cousin,” Weldon Benbow “Buddy” Mallette, whom Burke calls “the hero of the family.” A lot of the book’s protagonist is based on Buddy’s true war record. Burke says other parts of the book are from his own time working on oil rigs or from his father’s stories as a pipeliner.

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He says he wanted Wayfaring Stranger to capture what it was like being one of the last honest oil men in an industry now dominated by “the worst sons of bitches in the world.”

“What people do not understand about the oil and natural gas business is that the grunts on the ground, those women and men, are the best people I’ve ever known,” he says. “They’re in the book. I worked with them. They’re like the Roman soldiers on the edge of the empire. They’ve been everywhere.”

More than anything, though, Wayfaring Stranger is about a time of great change in America. Industry was booming. Hollywood was huge. And certain values were being compromised to make it all happen.

“It was the awakening of a new American empire, for good and bad,” Burke says. “A lot of it was good, but a lot of it was bad—and a lot of that is in the book.”

Such big themes allow Burke ample room to get away from talking about the book during an interview and get back to telling stories. Hence the mention of classic movies and musical greats, current events and political commentary. (His views on Dick Cheney and the oil and natural gas industry are a whole other article.) But again, when the conversation shifts back to his family and Wayfaring Stranger, Burke’s demeanor changes. He’s still telling stories, but he’s particular about certain details.

Like the time he wrote Buddy, his beloved cousin, a victory letter toward the end of the war. It was on special stationary, with a “V” on it, and he wrote it shortly

after Buddy had sent a letter home describing the unrelenting German artillery barrages and how he just wanted one minute of reprieve.

“I wrote him this letter and about three or four weeks later, right before V-E Day, I got this box delivered by the Postal Service with a GI or military return address,” Burke says. “I couldn’t believe it. I was so excited.

I opened it and it was an Italian Carcano Mannlicher rifle. In the middle of all that, Weldon sent me that rifle.

I was just a little boy.

“My father, he looked at it and he says, ‘Did you ask him for that?’ And I didn’t remember then and I don’t remember now if I did or not,” Burke continues. “I said, ‘I don’t think so, Daddy,’ and he just looks at me and says, ‘You know, Weldon’s busy fighting a war.’ It was the greatest thing. I couldn’t believe it. It’s something I’ll never forget.”

Burke pauses a second at the memory. While he was talking, he started to hold his hands out in front of him, as if he was cradling the rifle the same way he did the day it arrived in the mail. He looks up, puts his hands back by his side and snaps back to his train of thought.

“But you know, that model rifle is the exact same one Oswald used,” he says, referring to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “It was for that reason I never believed he was the lone shooter. You see, that rifle …”

And the stories continue. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

[music]

Country fix Getting high on The Best Westerns It took a week for me to get past the first song on The Best Westerns’ new album, High Country. Every time “Emmylou” ended I immediately began to miss it something fierce—couldn’t let it go long enough to hear any other track. The song spills out with a sweet saunter, punctuated by the weeping crescendo of pedal steel. Frontman Izaak Opatz sings, “Your voice crawled to the top of mine, rode around the room like

fire. But, wait! It’s fun, too, with charming evocative lyrics and underlying luau tones. Lines like “my thoughts are as tangled as the sheets in the mornin’ in a cheap motel room,” get past cliché while still evoking the sentiment. “Lubbock for Love” is funny because it’s more of a burn on Lubbock than a song about heartbreak (though it’s that, too). “Can’t Raise the Dead” is blunt and hopeful. There’s a quiet recklessness and

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a dragon. Would ya, could ya be my Emmylou?” By the time I had listened to it 30-plus times I knew every little detail of it: the way it drags and then picks up again, and how Opatz sings “Emmylou” at the end with an extra couple of “ooh oohs.”

As it turns out, all of High Country works as a magnetic elixir. It’s not the kind of country music you do the pretzel to, it’s the kind that gets you in a solitary headspace, drinking a beer at the bar or around a camp-

thoughtful intelligence to these Missoula musicians that no pop country outfit could ever replicate. The songs are so charming and sincere, so damned spellbinding that when Opatz sings in his rich, deep voice, “You make me want to make/ sweet mistakes,” you’re convinced you do, too. (Erika Fredrickson) The Best Westerns plays an album release show at the Top Hat with Jonny Fritz and Chris Sand Wed., July 23, at 10 PM. Free.

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Sea of Bones, The Earth Wants Us Dead The term “brutal” gets tossed around when describing particularly effective metal, and Sea of Bones earns it for the 39-minute title track on its 2013 album. “The Earth Wants Us Dead” is what metal would sound like if it were made by Ents (the badass trees of Lord of the Rings fame). A long, quiet build begets a wall of low-frequency feedback fortified by warlike drums. As it fades out and higher pitches poke through the bleakness, not a single word is said or sung, but you’re left feeling that a hard-won battle took place.

The rest of The Earth Wants Us Dead actually gets into more traditional sludge—if such a term can be used.

The three-piece from New Haven, Conn., takes its time chopping through the heaviness on tracks like “Black Arm.” The vocals—growls and snarls, really—are tuned as low as the bass and guitar, adding mortar to the wall of doom. “Failure of Light ” is the heavy pinnacle of the album, multiple voices competing with feedback and crashing drums. The boys of Sea of Bones sound like they’ve been rehearsing in hell’s basement for nearly 10 years, and all that practice has paid off. (Brooks Johnson) Sea of Bones plays the VFW Tue., July 22, at 9 PM, along with Slouch, Shramana, Swamp Ritual and Future Users: Beta. $5/$7 for ages 18-20.

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this record, but original drummer Jesse Knaab is back on the skins for live shows these days). Arrowtop’s acerbic sense of humor shines through with lyrics that are even more pissy than I realized. “I never wanna see you alive/ Don’t wanna hear your voice again/ Don’t wanna see you ’round here,” Arrowtop sings in his growly Leatherface-y voice on “N/A.” Moore gets the last word on this too-brief record, in “Last Song,” belting out a sharp, “Go up to bed.” I’d suggest hitting play again.

(Kate Whittle) Bird’s Mile Home plays a 7-inch release at Stage 112 Sat., July 19, along with Billings’ Megagiant, Thee Hounds and Holy Lands at 8:30 PM. $5. 18-plus.

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Missoula outfit Bird’s Mile Home hasn’t made much of a peep (ha!) these days, but it’s still kicking— the core songwriters and members, Timmy Arrowtop and Keith Moore, are just often busy with work, family, other bands and, of course, making jokes on the Internet. Bird’s Mile’s first release since 2010, the new 7inch April in Goddamn, contains four driving, twangy punk songs that will be plenty familiar to anyone who’s gone to many of Bird’s Mile’s live shows. But that doesn’t mean this isn’t worth picking up, so you can sit down and catch more of the nuance and lyrics than you might in the din of a bar. I’ve always paid more attention to Moore’s ringing guitar riffs and to the rippingfast drumming (provided by Joey Running Crane on

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[music]

Road warriors Small pleasures of a Big Damn Band

by Chris La Tray

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has burned rubber on countless highways. A decade ago, the trio sold everything they owned at a garage sale and bolted from Brown County, Ind., to make a go at the professional music lifestyle. Since then, the band has built a reputation as a stellar live act, averaging 250 shows a year. The musicians were named the Best Band of the 2010 Warped Tour (as voted on by the participating promoters, crews and bands), and placed four songs on the soundtrack for the HBO drama “Shameless.”

Josh “the Reverend” Peyton’s growl and frenetic guitar fingerpicking are steeped in a childhood where he immersed in pre-World War II country blues, and his band reflects that. Rounding out the lineup is Peyton’s wife Breezy—he met her while recovering from a career-threatening injury to his left hand—on washboard and backing vocals, while his cousin Aaron Persinger mans the skins. Skins, in this case, include a plastic five-gallon bucket.

On the cusp of a lengthy international tour that comes through Missoula this week, the Reverend talked with the Indy about how the Big Damn Band takes pleasure in the little things.

You are touring in Europe as we have this exchange. Are there noticeable differences in how your music is received overseas from how it is in the U.S.?

Reverend Peyton: We have played in 25 or 26 different countries, and it always goes over well. I just think that real, from-the-heart music is universal. So many people around the world speak English, so they can understand the lyrics. However, in places we have played where they don’t speak any English, people will sing along with the guitar parts! It is amazing.

You’ve played Warped Tour and toured with Clutch. What is the oddest pairing or band grouping you’ve found yourself a part of?

RP: One week we played a Canadian folk festival, Sturgis bike rally and Warped Tour all in the same week. The weirdest place we ever played was a tiny club in Nuremburg, Germany. It was a few years ago...

This place was the tiniest music venue on Planet Earth, and they sold it out about twice over. We played be-

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tween the bar and the wall where bartenders usually tend bar. It was crazy.

People are people, but there are certainly regional values and attitudes that we tend to carry with us based on where we come from. What in particular is ingrained in you from southern Indiana that you inflict on the rest of the world?

RP: Once on Warped Tour, one of the catering folks—the people who made food for us every single day, in all weather—said to us, “The Big Damn Band and crew are the only people out here who have ever said ‘thanks’ to us for what we are doing.” My tour manager at the time said, “We are from Indiana, it is just how we were raised.” That was one of my proudest moments.

Your band has a stripped-down approach to music, and Between the Ditches is your fifth record. To make a couple obvious, though possibly irrelevant, comparisons to other minimalist blues-based bands—The White Stripes, The Black Keys—that have gone on to bigger things, aren’t you supposed to be adding instruments and textures to your records beyond what you can faithfully reproduce live? Or even adding band members?

RP: Who knows what the future brings, but I just don’t think I need to right now. I think I can prove to the world that this can be done live, and on record, without a bunch of added people, loop pedals, octave pedals, computer tracks or whatnot. I’m not really against adding things on records if it makes sense to the song, but I really write and arrange the songs for us. I always liked it when you listened to a record and it sounded like the band, too. It always has bothered me when it didn’t.

When can we expect to see a new record from you?

RP: In just a matter of a few months. We are so proud of the songs. I personally can’t wait for you all to hear it.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band plays Stage 112 Tue., July 22, at 9 PM with openers The Dodgy Mountain Men. $8 at stage112.com. arts@missoulanews.com

[music]

Real McCoy Nashville’s Jonny Fritz turns trash into country gold

by Erika Fredrickson

Jonny Fritz tours Montana this week with the Best Westerns and Chris Sand.

Jonny Fritz’s song “Trash Day” begins with a dusky, hi-lonesome canter that would make Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy shiver. It’s the kind of eerie night-owl music that evokes stark western landscapes and questionable characters. It’s what Magnolia Electric Co. tapped into with songs like “Talk to Me Devil, Again.”

But the words to Fritz’s song don’t fall into line with expected storytelling. Instead of themes about devils and whiskey, gritty countryside and suicidal cowboys, “Trash Day” is literally about trash day. “Monday is the the day that the trash goes out—I can’t forget,” Fritz sings. “Oh my god! Monday morning I wake up as the truck goes by—oh my god!—she’s going to be so goddamned mad at me. Oh my god!” It’s hard not to snicker at mundane subject matter treated with such weird seriousness, and yet, the dark, echoing chords and Fritz’s mournful voice make you absolutely certain there’s something more profound happening. Even while entertaining, the song creates a certain dread in the back of your mind.

Fritz wrote “Trash Day” when an acquaintance decided to come along on tour with him and his bandmates. He recalls the acquaintance constantly talking on the phone with his wife, trying to appease her. “He was on the phone with her every damned minute,” Fritz says. “You’d hear him cowering and whispering saying, ‘No. No, baby. We’re not—No, you go ahead. I’m not speaking over you.’ I wanted to pull over and be like, ‘All right dude, you can have those conversations but you’ve got to do it outside of the van.’ There were five other people sitting [in the van] and I was thinking, ‘You can’t do this to us. This is miserable.’” Fritz laughs.

“Then I thought, ‘What’s the saddest song I can think of without saying anything sad but conveying that emotion and darkness of making a small mistake that doesn’t fucking matter but that you’re going to have to deal with for a long time?’ I wrote that song because I put myself in his shoes. And that’s what came out.”

“Trash Day” is a perfect example of how Fritz is funny in his observations but empathetic, too. In casual conversation, the 30-year-old Nashville musician has all the humility you could hope for in someone who’s getting noticed. He’s represented by ATO Records along with Alabama Shakes, Old 97’s, Old Crow Medicine Show and Drive-By Truckers. He was written up in

Rolling Stone last year as an “Artist to Watch,” interviewed on NPR and received a rave review from No Depression for Dad Country, his most recent album that includes “Trash Day.” Dad Country was recorded at Jackson Browne’s Los Angeles studio (Browne offered the space when Fritz and his bandmates were in a pinch) and he plays on a few tracks, a bit of info Fritz doesn’t automatically offer; he’s not one to name drop. Under his previous moniker Jonny Corndawg, Fritz came to Missoula last year and opened for The Devil Makes Three to a sold-out audience at the Wilma Theatre. He was also the subject of Straw Dawg, a short documentary that screened at this year’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; the film focused on Fritz’s foray into running marathons. He returns to Montana this week to play five shows with Missoula’s Best Westerns and Chris Sand (aka The Rapping Cowboy) in Missoula, Whitefish, St. Mary, Coram and Bigfork.

Fritz met Sand over 20 years ago in Nashville. Fritz, who was born in Missoula and raised in Charlottesville, Va., was visiting Nashville when a Music City producer named Chris Davis brought him backstage to the Grand Ole Opry before lining him up to play at one of the honky tonks. “He said he could get me on a show with Montana’s Rappin’ Cowboy and I said ‘Of course!’ And since I was born in Montana I kind of felt like, ‘Shit, this is a match made in heaven!’ It really was, I was blown away by his style. I have always had such a heavy, sexy spot in my heart for Chris Sand.” (Sand, for his part, has a fond recollection of seeing Fritz for the first time, a teenage musician, in pink headband and Christmas sweater, taking a nap on a motorcycle outside the bar they played that night.)

Dad Country is Fritz’s third solo album, but it feels like the beginning of something bigger. As with “Trash Day,” tracks like “Suck in Your Gut” and “All We Do is Complain” teeter between goofy and utterly gutwrenching. It’s the kind of balance that forces you to engage. And in Nashville, where new country music springs up every second, glammed-up like fool’s gold, Fritz feels like the real thing.

Jonny Fritz plays the Top Hat Wed., July 23, at 10 PM with The Best Westerns and Chris Sand. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Early on in the film that follows 20 years of Of Montreal’s morphed incarnations, a former member of the band says that this is either the band you’ve never heard of or your absolute favorite of all time. Or maybe, just maybe, you’ve seen an Outback Steakhouse commercial and ever since that song wedged itself in your head (“Let’s go Outback tonight/ Life will still be there tomorrow!”), you’ve wondered if a giant bloomin’ onion might be the answer.

The rock doc The Past Is a Grotesque Animal proves, at the least, that Of Montreal’s turn at ad jingling adds up to one minor, forgettable costume change by glam artiste Kevin Barnes. Barnes is technically the frontman, but more accurately, he is the sun and the band’s interchangeable planets rotate in his light. “Kevin is a weirdo. And it all starts with Kevin,” says guitarist Bryan Poole about five minutes into what ends up being a 77minute excavation of Barnes’ creative process intermixed with concert footage.

For fans, there’s a lot to like here, with all the backstory on how and why the band’s sound and vibe have changed over the years. But I gotta be honest: That part is boooooring. The film sort of gets that and tries to make a more general appeal to plain-old lovers of weird.

Exhibit A: Susan Sarandon in a JCPenney-ish blue blazer talking about getting on stage with a ruler and sitting on Kevin Barnes to spank someone in a naked pig costume. Exhibit B: Kevin Barnes pantsless with his parts jangling about while concertgoers get all up in there with their phone cams. Exhibit C: Kevin Barnes in a “suicide room” on stage pretending to hang himself. Exhibit D: Kevin Barnes atop a massive live horse during a show, an idea he attributes to Prince.

Because Barnes’ concert persona is all about exhibition, there’s a hot ton of footage of him and “the band” going for it while fans famous (Solange Knowles, Janelle Monae, dudes in other hip bands) and not-famous lap it up. During the most theatrical of their famously theatrical tours, the one promoting 2008’s Skeletal Lamping,

Barnes and co. out-do-times-1,000 whatever version you can conjure of Little Shop of Horrors. So much androgyny! So many props! The budget for shaving cream alone was $2,000.

Barnes’ ex-wife Nina, probably the most traditionally likable person in the doc, sums it up well: “It was like a dream of his to have so many people who could do the things that he wanted.”

Barnes says in the movie that tour was the highlight of his music career so far. It’s also the best part of this movie, a classic example of the rock-doc standard in the way it mixes character and concert, footage and interviews.

Where this one goes shaky is in the timing. It’s paced along a strict chronology that starts to feel like a walk on a beach. Yep, there’s another footprint. Yep, there’s the ocean. Oh look, a seagull! Pleasant enough, but movies, even vanity ones paid for by a Kickstarter campaign, need an arc. This one starts to feel like it might have one with the exploration of Barnes’ relationship to Nina and the birth of their child, which sent them both into different sorts of tailspins. But then that goes away, only to re-emerge when the movie needs to end on a message. That message according to Barnes: A commitment to art above humans “doesn’t hurt anyone,” you see, “except for those close to you.” Cue the credits.

A tighter, more structured edit could have made better use of that theme, which does deserve its moment in the gloaming. It could also help The Past is a Grotesque Animal appeal to those who aren’t just lovers of the band, lovers of weird or lovers of giant, fried onions.

But does any of that matter? Only if Kevin Barnes wants it to.

The Past is a Grotesque Animal screens at the Roxy Fri., July 18–Sun., July 20, at 7 and 9 PM nightly. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK EL TOPO A gunfighter dressed in black vanquishes everyone in this violent, surreal, legendary 1970 flick from Alejandro Jodorowsky. Screening at the Roxy Fri., July 18-Sun., July 20 at 7:15 and 9:25 PM. FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! Wim Wender’s 1993 follow-up to Wings of Desire brings more identity crisis-ridden angels in Berlin.

Starring Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz and Mikhail Gorbachev. Rated PG-13. Screening at the Roxy Sun., July 20, at 7 PM. FIRE SEASON This Montana-made short depicts first love and kids dealing with dark secrets. Starring Nicole Halverson, Ella Steinberg and Derrick Mychaylo, along with Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. Screening at the Roxy Theater Fri., July 18, at 5 PM. FRANK SHORT FILM SHOWCASE Hellgate High School graduate Ian Frank showcases two of his shorts, including the suspense film Departure from Sanctum and My Montana Backcountry, an outdoor documentary, as part of a fundraiser for a volunteering trip in Ecuador.

Screening at the Roxy Mon., July 21 at 7 PM. INTERNET CAT VIDEO FESTIVAL Kitties! On the Internet! Being sillies! Try not to lose your mind when the Roxy screens the showcase at 5, 7 and 9 PM on July 23. (See Spotlight in 8 Days a Week.)

MET SUMMER ENCORE - ROMEO ET JULIETTE Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna star in Gounod’s sensual stage adaptation. Broadcast at the Roxy Tue., July 22, at 7 PM. Tickets and more info at mtlive.org.

MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING The Ghost Face Killer seeks revenge in this ‘79 kung fu cult classic, starring Jack Long, Yi-min Li and Mark Long. Not rated. Screening at the Wilma Sat., July 19, at 7 PM. OBVIOUS CHILD A dumbass 20-something Brooklyn gal gets dumped, fired and knocked up in this pro-choice romcom. Starring Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy and Gaby Hoffmann. Rated R. Wilma.

PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE Intrepid Dusty joins forces with his helicopter buddy and a team of smokejumpers to battle a wildfire. (I look forward to the sequel where they listen to yokels argue at a Forest Service meeting.) Starring the voices of Dane Cook, Ed Harris and Julie Bowen. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE PURGE: ANARCHY Five ordinary people try to survive a night in Los Angeles when the Purge commences. Fun fact: this has a character in it named “Young Ghoul Face.” Starring Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo and Zach Gilford. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

RICHARD HUGO: KICKING THE LOOSE GRAVEL The legendary poet and Missoula professor’s life is retraced from rough childhood to WWII to, I’m guessing, Montana bars in this 1976 documentary.

Screening at the Top Hat as part of the Big Sky Film Series Mon., July 21 at 8 PM. RUSHMORE The Roxy continues its series of Wes Anderson classics with the ‘99 comedy about a high school kid befriending oddball older folks. Starring Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams and Bill Murray.

Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Theater Thu., July 17 at 8 PM. SEX TAPE A couple realizes that their sex tape has gone missing, leading to some sticky (heh) situations. Starring Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz and Rob Corddry.

Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING 22 JUMP STREET Officers Schmidt and Jenko go “deep undercover” at a local college, which entails a lot of multiple choice tests and stressful late-night essay writing.

Lol, JK, they totally party it up, brah. Starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER In this documentary, a conservative thinker says it hurts America’s legacy to bring up the pesky unpleasant stuff in our history, like genocide of Native Americans and racism. Directed and written

by Dinesh D’Souza. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

BELLE A biracial woman becomes the first black aristocrat in 18th century England. Based on the real life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a navy captain. History is cool! Starring Gugu MbathaRaw, Matthew Goode and Emily Watson. Rated PG. Wilma.

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES CGI apes battle for supremacy with a band of humans over who will become the most obnoxious, er, dominant, species. Starring Gary Oldman, Keri Russell and Andy Serkis. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

“I call this move the ‘Exploding Toilet.’” Mystery of Chess Boxing opens screens Sat., July 19, at the Wilma at 7 PM.

EARTH TO ECHO A cute li’l owly eyed alien needs help from precocious kids to get home. Starring Teo Halm, Astro and Reese Hartwig. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Quirk-lovers rejoice, Wes Anderson brings us the lighthearted adventures of a mid-1930s concierge and a lobby boy. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham and Mathieu Amalric. Rated R. Wilma.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Hiccup and Toothless discover a secret ice cave full of mysteriously adorable wild dragons and something called a Dragon Rider. Standing up for what they believe in and the power of friendship ensues. Starring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett and Craig Ferguson. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

JERSEY BOYS Four dudes from a sketchy part of New Jersey get together, hone their falsetto and rise to become The Four Seasons. Starring John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen and Michael Lomenda. Rated R. Carmike 12.

THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL Jason Miller’s documentary captures the weirdo lead singer from Of Montreal considering whether pursuing artistic transcendence is worth more than relationships with his bandmates and family. Not

rated. Screening at the Roxy Fri., July 18-Sun., July 20, at 7 and 9 PM. (See Film.)

SNOWPIERCER (SEOLGUK-YEOLCHA) It’s the future, global warming is gnarly, and everybody’s dead except for people on board the Snowpiercer train where, understandably, a pecking order is in place. Starring Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and Tilda Swinton. Rated R. Wilma.

TAMMY Melissa McCarthy is a well-meaning but goofy gal who hits the road with her drunken grandma, played by Susan Sarandon. I can’t tell if this will be awesome or terrible. Rated R. Carmike 12.

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Prepare for Two! Hours! and! Forty-five! Minutes!

Of! Explosions! Starring Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-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 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Metal health

by Ari LeVaux P R E S E N T E D BY

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Heavy metal pollution makes no distinction between how crops are grown. Supposedly clean agricultural practices like organic will offer no protection if the likes of cadmium, arsenic, lead, nickel and mercury are in the soil or water. Human practices like mining and manufacturing are by far the largest source of potential contamination. Such activities release heavy metals into the air and water, from where they find their ways into the soil and plants, from where they are extremely difficult to remove.

Last April, the Chinese government acknowledged that a staggering one-fifth of its arable land is seriously polluted with heavy metals, thanks to decades of aggressive industrial development. China’s Environmental Protection Ministry, looking at samples taken between 2006 and 2013, described the situation as “not optimistic.” The revelation came after months of speculation about the report, which at one point was not going to be released as the results were considered to be a “State Secret.”

Heavy metals can accumulate in the body, causing chronic problems in the skin, intestine, nervous system, kidneys, liver and brain.

The most commonly found heavy metals in the report were cadmium, nickel and arsenic. Cadmium, one of the most toxic of heavy metals, moves through soil layers with ease, and is taken up by a variety of plants, including leafy vegetables, root crops, cereals and grains. Last year it was discovered that nearly half of the rice for sale in the southern China city of Guangzhou was tainted with cadmium.

Nickel and arsenic, the other two pollutants found in greatest amounts, aren’t so great either.

In the U.S., arsenic in apple juice has been on the radar since September 2011, when Dr. Mehmet Oz reported high arsenic levels in multiple samples of apple juice that were independently tested for his television show. More than half of the apple juice consumed in the U.S. comes from China.

Oz was taken out to the woodshed by a number of experts and authorities, including the FDA, which disputed the results with its own data. Richard Besser, senior health medical editor for ABC News, called Oz’s claims “extremely irresponsible” and compared it to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater.

But a few weeks later, the FDA admitted it withheld many test results that supported Oz’s claim.

Besser apologized to Oz on national television, and soon after the FDA collected about 90 retail samples of apple juice for a new round of analysis. According to FDA documents now available, the levels reported

by Oz are consistent with those detected by the agency in samples from China and Turkey.

Last year, the FDA set a limit, also known as an “action level,” on arsenic in juice, at 10 parts per billion,

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the same level that’s enforced in drinking water. Currently, the FDA has import alerts set for four companies that deal in apple concentrates, two each in China and Turkey. The products of these companies are regularly tested for arsenic because of previous violations of this action level, but they continue to be imported.

While we don’t import a huge amount of food from China, we do consume large amounts of certain things in addition to apple juice, such as garlic and farmed seafood; 80 percent of the tilapia we eat comes from China. Much of China’s surface water, including water where aquaculture occurs, is polluted, not only with industrial toxins but also with agricultural fertilizers.

“Foods offered for import into the U.S. are required to meet the same U.S. food safety standards as domestic products,” explains FDA press officer Lauren Sucher, via email. “If the FDA encounters information that indicates that a particular product could pose a public health concern, the FDA can target that product for increased testing.”

When asked if the revelation that 20 percent of China’s farmland is polluted with heavy metals will inspire increased testing on Chinese imports, Sucher replied, “The FDA doesn’t announce its actions in advance. If our surveillance sampling indicated a problem with a particular commodity, the agency would take steps to protect the public.”

Wary consumers who aren’t interested in waiting for the FDA to possibly ramp up its testing of Chinese food imports can take their own measures to minimize the possibility of contamination. Local, as in American-grown produce, will trump labels such as “organic” if the food in question was grown in a potentially polluted place.

In fact, if the food is grown in a polluted place, organic produce could contain more heavy metals than conventionally grown food. Organic agriculture practices include the use of manure, which could add heavy metals to the soil if the cattle were eating contaminated feed, according to Michael Schmitt, a soil scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Once you put metals in a field,” he told me by phone, “they don’t go away.”

The notion that organic food from a polluted place like China could carry more heavy metals than nonorganic food from the U.S. puts a new spin on the idea of eating locally. In this case, eating locally could mean consuming food grown anywhere in this vast continent. But in a way, the reasons are similar to why many people prefer buying from the local farm stand: You have more information about how something is grown. But using this information requires knowing something about where you live. Such as, is there any heavy metal contamination around here?

[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you!

Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Bernice's Bakery is a Missoula Landmark. 35 years of baking goodness.

Open 6a-8p Bernice's offers an incredible selection of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you've never been in you are missin' 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 or a refreshing Arnold Palmer and nibble on a coconut macaroon. 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 $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. 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. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns: Thursday 7/17 Big Brains Trivia 7-10 pm. Friday 7/18 Larry Hirshberg 69pm. Monday 7/21 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 7/22 Burger + Beer $8. Wednesday 7/23 $2 Wells & $2 PBR Tall Boys. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great am-

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biance, 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. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$

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The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, 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 smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from 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 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ 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. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu.

Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

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Quepop!

HANGRIEST HOUR What you’re eating: Latin-Asian fusion food featuring homemade kimchi-seasoned fried rice and bulgogi—a thinly sliced marinated and grilled beef rib-eye. The “A.M. Pop” is a rice bowl topped with a scrambled organic egg (egg=breakfast!). Burritos and tacos come with the kimchi rice and bulgogi plus an assortment of cheese, pickled and fresh vegetables, chili-spiked crema or salsa verde.

How it happened: Doug Smith, who you might recognize as a member of the bands MASS FM and Volumen, and also as a wine distributor and all-around cool dude, recently started Quepop!, serving the fusion meals Saturday mornings at the Clark Fork River Market along with former Biga Pizza cook Greg Ragan.

Smith caught the Latin-Asian fusion fever when he visited Portland, Ore., music festival Pickathon last year and formed an addiction to the Portland fusion vendor Bo Kwon Koi. “I started reading everything I could about Bo Kwon and [Los Angeles-based fusion chef] Roy Choi,” Smith says.

“I decided it’s only a matter of time before this comes to Missoula—and I think I can do it.”

Secret ingredients: Smith’s biggest challenge was testing out recipes to make his kimchi—a fermented cabbage—just right. Unlike some kimchi that uses shrimp paste or oyster sauce, this one is vegan. If you’re not vegan,

photo courtesy of Kia Liszak

however, you can add the savory bulgogi for an extra $1 to any dish to satiate your meat cravings. Smith also makes the hot sauce himself.

The buzz: Smith freely admits that Missoula market-goers haven’t been quite sure what to think of kimchi-flavored brunch offerings—at least not at first. It’s true. After I tried my first Quepop! taco and shared a few bites with my friends and family, everyone decided they needed one. “Yep, that’s what always happens,” Smith says, laughing.

How to find it: Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Clark Fork River Market next to Caras Park under the Higgins Avenue bridge.

—Erika Fredrickson Hangriest Hour serves up fresh details on western Montana eats. To recommend a restaurant, dish or chef for Hangriest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Saturday, July 19th AARP Drivers Education Class 9:00am -1:00pm

SUSHI TUESDAYS 5pm to close • Reservations accepted.

Veggie options, too!

HAPPY HOUR 3-6PM M-F

Monday, July 21st Christmas in July Lunch 11:30am-12:30pm

Tuesday, July 22nd Hearing Aid Institute 10:30 -11:30 am

Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

Pearl Cafe 231 East 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. $$-$$$

Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino.

Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$

Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an allencompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$

Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences.

Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers

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are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers!

Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$

Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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Harpers Ferry rifle exhibit from 10 AM-4 PM at Travelers’ Rest State Park visitor center. Free.

Undo that keyboard hunchback with Lunch Re-Boot Yoga, a gentle practice with Mary Hanson. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon-1 PM. $40 for six classes/$9 drop-in.

nightlife

July 17–July 24, 2014

Tom Catmull plays tunes for your auditory pleasure at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-8 PM. No cover.

Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:30-8:30 PM. Musical multitasker Brian Ernst works magic with some 20 instruments at a time at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Learn how Great Grand-Pappy had to download off Napster using, gasp, dialup when Dean Hellinger presents the lecture “Montana Homestead Boom: Photographed

by Those Who Lived It” to accompany the exhibit at the Ravalli County Museum. 6 PM. Bigfork-based author Laura Barrett reads from her new book, What is More Real than a Dream? A Memoir of Chateau Montelena Winery, about her family moving into a Calistoga castle and turning it into an award-winning winery and showing up French people in the 70s. Ooh, plus, there’s a wine tasting.

Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. 7 PM. Colorado rock-funk-fusion band Digg makes its way down to the Palace, starting at 9 PM. No cover.

Scruffy singer-songwriter Sean Hayes (not to be confused with the dude from “Will and Grace”, ahem) plays the Top Hat, along with Andrea Harsell. 9 PM. $17/$15 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s, the bar or tophatlounge.com/events.

Shall we dance? Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes present La Luna Neuva, with guest singer Jose Anillo and guitarist Bobby de Sofia, at the Cyrstal Theatre. Mon, July 21, at 8 PM. $25/$15 students/$10 kids. Visit brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.

THURSDAYJULY17 The Roadkill Ghost Choir brings indie rock played by bipedal humanoids to Stage 112, along with Desert Noises. Doors at 9, show at 10. $10 at seafarerent ertainment.com.

Calling all dramaturges and auteurs, the Missoula Colony 19 brings together playwrights from July 12-19 for workshops, readings and performances with folks like Deb Laufer, Julia Jordan, Molly Rice and Salina Chatlain. This year’s focus is on women writers. To learn more, check out montanarep.org.

Unwashed phenomenons and original vagabonds alike oughta perk up when Joan Baez plays the Dennison Theatre, 7 PM. $42/$40 advance at GrizTix and griztix.com.

Check out how Lewis and Clark did it when reenactor Lloyd Priest gives historical firearms demonstrations and shows off the 1803

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2 for dudes, no cover for women. (Hey, gotta make up for that wage gap somehow.)

Come in like a wrecking ball when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover.

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FRIDAYJULY18 The Brink’s own curator Jennifer Leutzinger “vomits the 1980s” with her exhibit Landslide in My Ego, with final reception on Friday, July 18. 5-8 PM. Calling all dramaturges and auteurs, the Missoula Colony 19 brings together playwrights from July 12-19 for workshops, readings and performances with folks like Deb Laufer, Julia Jordan, Molly Rice and Salina Chatlain. This year’s focus is on women writers. To learn more, check out montanarep.org.

Keep rollin’ on the river with the two-day Moods of the Madison festival, which includes food, crafts, family activities and tunes from blues legend Buddy Guy, along with Toubab Krewe, Roadkill Ghost Choir, Golden Grenade, Hollow Wood, Screen Door Porch, Boozehounds and more, July 18-19. Check out moodsofthemadison.com.

Get all the Western tunes and flaming marshies you could want with the Country Music Campout, July 18-20 at the Halfway House across Bull Lake near Troy.

Food available, with tunes starting at 7 PM Friday and noon on Saturday and Sunday. Call 406-2954358 for info.

The Hockaday Museum of Art presents Kalispell’s long-running Arts in the Park, a juried art show with all kinds of neat jewelry, photos, paintings, ceramics and clothing, plus hands-on activities for kids and food vendors. Depot Park.

Visit hockadaymuseum.org.

After this weekend, you’ll be fondly recalling the good old days after St. Ignatius’ three-day family fun festival at Good Old Days Park, with Saturday buffalo run, pancake breakfast, parade, Sunday gospel singing and—kiddos take note—free airplane rides on Sunday morning for ages 8-17 with professional pilots. That is goshdarn cool.

Visit stignatiusmontana.com.

The Dog and Grog Montana Microbrew Festival presents not hairy beasts or watered-down rum, thank goodness, but local craft brews and polish dogs. Om nom nom. Bale of Hay Saloon in Virginia City. July 18-19. Visit baleofhaysaloon.com.

By the time Jim Bridger came over the hill, Great-Grandpa already had a fire going and the coffee on, as my dad oft likes to repeat, but I’ll try not to hold it against him at Jim Bridger Days family festival and demolition derby in Bridger, on Highway 310. Call 662-3222.

here kitty-kitty If there’s anything that can bring people from different class divisions and belief systems together in our divided times, I think it is cat memes on the Internet. It’s not hard to figure out: housecats take themselves really seriously, but have cute faces and big eyes and a propensity for getting themselves into trouble, which equals comedy gold. Fun fact: Perhaps the most famous Internet cat, Keyboard Cat, is actually from a VHS video a performance artist took in 1984 and uploaded to YouTube in 2007. Let us not choose to consider the implications of whether Keyboard Cat is still living more than 30 years later, because Keyboard Cat will always be alive in our hearts. Sniff.

Solo reggae dude Aaron Williams brings positive vibes to the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton.

6-8:30 PM. No cover.

WHEN: Wed., July 23 at 5, 7 and 9 PM

HOW MUCH: $5-$7

Anyhow, the natural output of all this cat fervor, the Internet Cat Video Festival, is probably one of the most redeeming things I can think of about 21st century technology. We owe this festival to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. According to its site, the center’s outdoor summer programming organizers nonchalantly wondered in 2012 if an evening screening cat videos would attract any attention.

“Would anyone come to watch videos that they could easily view with a few clicks at home or work?

Check out how Lewis and Clark did it when reenactor Lloyd Priest gives historical firearms demonstrations and shows off the 1803 Harpers Ferry rifle exhibit from 10 AM-4 PM at Travelers’ Rest State Park visitor center. Free.

nightlife It’ll be a cheesy evening at Zootown Improv sketch comedy and improv evening at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. W. Doors at 6 PM for “pizza with a side of improv,” followed by main show including sketch comedy from 7:30-9 PM, and another dose of improv from 9:30-10:30 PM. Beer, wine and pizza available. $12/$22 for two if purchased online. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 68 PM, with a rotating group of live, local musicians. No cover.

In Igor and the Red Elvises’ world, rock and roll dances you.

Show at Caras Park, along with Three Eared Dog and Monk and the Mothers, from 6-10:30 PM. Free, all ages. Food and Badlander mobile bar beverages provided.

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Get hot coffee, baked treats, fresh produce and bump into all the friendly acquaintances you can handle at the Missoula Farmers Market, now running for 42 years. 8 AM-1 PM. Calling all dramaturges and auteurs, the Missoula Colony 19 brings together playwrights from July 12-19 for workshops, readings and performances with folks like Deb Laufer, Julia Jordan, Molly Rice and Salina Chatlain. This year’s focus is on women writers. To learn more, check out montanarep.org.

WHAT: Internet Cat Video Festival

WHERE: The Roxy

Coyote Band. 7-11 PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

How would this solo hobby translate to a public setting?” says the Walker Art website. Oh pish, as if anyone’s ever watched a funny Internet video without telling everyone in the immediate vicinity, “Hey, watch this!” The event attracted national attention and thousands of people to the screening; some called it “the new Burning Man.” The Internet Cat Video Festival comes to the Roxy on July 23, with three screenings presented by the Humane Society of Western Montana. Come, kitteh lovers. Let us be among our people.

Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture. Plus, Civitella Espresso Bar opens up to serve tasty treats and drinks. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15.

Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Free.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 7:30-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

TBS’ “Deal With It” prank-enthusiastic host Theo Von performs comedy at the Broadway Inn. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 in advance at standupmt.com.

Be mighty, mighty and let it all hang out when I’ll House You drops into the Badlander with DJs Ralph Dagza, Hot Pantz, Mike Stolin and Kris Moon. 9 PM. No cover, plus a $3 Stoli/energy drink special.

Josh Farmer Band busts out the melodies while you bust a move at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Smell that smell, the smell of nostalgia that surrounds you at the Rotten Tuna 30th anniversary

—Kate Whittle

show, wherein Bob Wire’s college band reunites to play originals and “tasty nuggets” from the Beat Farmers, George Thorogood and the Bay City Rollers. Even organizers promise “there will be blood,” which I’m guessing means back pain. Top Hat. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Find out that there’s more to life than being ridiculously goodlooking when Aaron Traylor hosts the new Top-40 dance night Zoolander at the Badlander. 10 PM. No cover, plus Montana Moonshine drink specials.

Funky Americana outfit Jelly Bread plays tunes with a little twang at Monk’s Bar. 10 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYJULY19 Tastes so good, makes a grown man cry, I’m gonna get my cherry pie at the Flathead Cherry Festival in Polson, which features a pie-eating, pit-spitting and stem-tying contest. Check out flatheadcherryfestival.com.

Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild

Early rising produce-seekers, occasional walk-of-shamers and waffle sandwich lovers rejoice, the Clark Fork Market is back in action under the Higgins Bridge.

Saturdays through October from 8 AM-1 PM. Prime people-watching is available for the Missoula People’s Market, which features all kindsa arts and crafts and tasty treats on the street at E. Pine and Higgins. Saturday mornings through September.

Raise a sugar cone in salute when Michael Orford reads from his new choose-your-own-adventure kid’s book, How Ice Cream Saved Missoula. Shakespeare and Co, 103 S. Third St. W. 11 AM. Meet neat critters when Animal Wonders brings its collection of local and exotic rescue animals to the E3 Convergence Gallery, as part of Kid’s Month. 229 W. Main St. 23:30 PM. $5/free for ages under 2.

It’s all good in the hood for the Northside/Westside Block Party, on First Avenue outside the ZACC, which includes, food, tunes, games, bouncy house and activities.

3-9 PM. Check out zootownarts.org to be part of the action.

nightlife Bob Mislevik plays European accordion cafe tunes for all your clandestine meetings at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

California-based Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers bring that gramble on up to the Top Hat, along with James McMurtry. Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20/$17 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

Minor Bird Records presents a late-night double feature music show with Bird’s Mile Home and Billing’s Megagiant (including former Noise Noise Noise dudes),

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both showing off their new records, at Stage 112. Plus Holy Lands and The “Thee” Hounds are showing up to rage. Doors at 8:30 PM. $5. 18plus. (See Music.)

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight.

Now free.

Hey there, sailor, you can ask and tell when the ISCSM salutes the armed forces at the Tribute to the Troops drag show at the Palace.

Doors at 9 PM, protocol from 99:30. Anyone’s welcome to participate as long as you show up early and have your music burned to a CD. Show at 10:15. $5.

Philip Donlay reads from the latest installment in his sciencey thriller series, Deadly Echoes, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 11:30 AM-1 PM.

SUNDAYJULY20 The new installment of the Murder at the Stensrud series presents Spirits of Suspicion, a comedic Thin Man tribute, with dinner theater catered by Tarantino’s Pizza. Show at 5:30 PM. $50/$80 for two, at stensrudplayhouse.com.

If your summer wanderings take you up the Hi-Line, the annual Richey Rodeo promises a day of warm hospitality, cold beer and bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc, calf roping, breakaway roping, steer wrestling and, of course, bull riding. Street dance to follow.

Richey Rodeo Grounds, off Highway 254 north of Glendive.

The Target Range Farmers Market gets into the swing of the season with several local produce vendors, out at 4095 South Ave. W.

Desert wanderers. Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers play the Top Hat, along with James McMurtry, Sat., July 19. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20/$17 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

10 AM-2 PM, Sundays through Sept. 28.

Cupcake aficionado Victoria Kann reads from her kid’s baking book, Pinkalicious, and other titles at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Noon-1:30 PM.

nightlife Bring your My Dinner with Andre Action Figures and play along when Andre Floyd plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

Singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen plays Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Advance tickets sold out.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini

Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.

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Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Bhakti yogis Rob and Melissa Lundsgaard lead a kirtan at the Yoga Fitness Center, 123 W. Alder St. 7:30 PM. $15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Call Cami for more info at 218-9040.

You’ve heard the rest, now party with the Best Westerns (featuring a surprise guest!?!) at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., which, conveniently, is on the buy-a-growler-get-a-free-pint night.

6-8 PM. No cover. (See Music.)

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, 1 PM. $1.25.

Grab that ol’ trombone and head on over to Sentinel High School’s band room, where the Missoula City Band rehearses from 7-9 PM to practice before the

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The one and only Tom Catmull plays pleasin’ tunes at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building, from 710 PM. No cover.

Ole! (Ole is a thing you say in flamenco, right?) Seattlebased flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes twirls into the Crystal to present La Luna Neuva, with guest singer Jose Anillo and guitarist Bobby de Sofia. 515 S. Higgins Ave. 8 PM. $25/$15 students/$10 kids. Visit brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-8383006.

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[calendar] Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea. 10 PM. Free.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout.

Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. To tantalize those neurons, here’s a question: What year did an astronomer figure out how to tell how far away stars are? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Famous Raymus is in the house and making sure shenanigans unfold during the Masquerade Monday dance party at the Palace, with DJs C Derb, Chad Dabox, and Skillbilliez. 9 PM or so. No cover, BYOMask.

Celebrate a stunning trivia victory (or soothe those loser blues) with country-blues singer Drew Landry, playing the Badlander around 11 PM after Super Trivia Freakout. No cover.

TUESDAYJULY22 You betcha Austin’s Whiskey Shivers has got dudes, strings and faster tunes than you can shake a fifth at. Playing the Top Hat at 8 PM. No cover.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon– 1 PM. Free.

Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 45 PM. $40. Students must have doctor’s okay.

nightlife Dangit, you slept in on Saturday again, but have no fear, the Missoula Farmers Market sets up on Tuesday evenings at the XXXXs to provide flowers, baked goods and all the servings of fruit and veg you layabouts need. 5:30-7 PM. EBT, WIC and senior vouchers accepted.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the corner of Third and Reserve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton

something fishy History is full of musicians whose careers had unlikely starts. Kenny Rogers, for instance, used to sing for a psychedelic band called First Edition. A few New York dudes got together in 1979 and put out a hardcore EP; later they changed formats, signed to Def Jam and rapped as the Beastie Boys. Oh, and a young brunette woman in the early 2000s performed with the Stefani Germanotta Band before she took on the stage name “Lady Gaga.”

Here in Missoula, our own musician and occasional Indy writer Bob Wire boasts nearly as colorful of an origin story, although he has yet to show up to any awards ceremonies wearing a meat dress. (That I know of, anyway.)

WHAT: Rotten Tuna 30th Anniversary Show WHEN: Fri., July 18, at 9:30 PM WHERE: The Top Hat HOW MUCH: Free

In early 1980s Idaho, a few dudes attending Idaho State University in Pocatello got together to play “pungent rock and roll” at frat house parties under a name “that would almost guarantee diminished expectations”: Rotten Tuna. Bob Wire played under his first stage name, Red Snapper. A press release goes on to explain that Rotten Tuna “...soon took their unpredictable, beer-soaked stage show to

Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writer’s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7-9 PM. It’s probably fine to skip the shower before the Bay Area-based H.O.B.O Road Show, with Big Sid and the Wiggle and Jesse Noll, brings boot-stomping folk to Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W. 8 PM. $5, proceeds benefit the bike shop.

Happy li’l elves should steer clear when Connecticut’s Sea of Bones gets all doomy like at the VFW, along with Washington’s hardcore outfit Slouch, plus locals Shramana, Swamp Ritual and the sorta-new sorta-experimental Future Users: Beta. 9 PM. $5. (See Music.)

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the downtown bars, where they frequently played for little or no money, but always free beer.” The members dispersed in 1985 to play in bands like Denver’s Electric Swine, Bob Wire and the Fencemenders and Idaho Falls’ current Whiskey Sasquatch.

At the Top Hat on Friday, Bob Wire will be joined by some original Rotten Tuna members, including Chip Whitson, Scott Watson and Chris McElvain, to play some of their original tunes and covers (like Beat Farmers and George Thorogood) from back in the day. Not every musician is as willing to acknowledge their goofy past, or to have as much fun with it. Take that, Kenny Rogers.

Indiana’s Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band puts on a show at Stage 112, along with the Dodgy Mountain Men. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $12/$8 in advance at brownpapertickets.com or Rockin Rudy’s. (See Music.)

Mr. Smee will totes approve when Sphie plays soul-pop at the Badlander. 9 PM or so. No cover.

Trivia answer: In 1908, by Henrietta Leavitt at Harvard College Observatory. Her discovery was used to determine the age of the universe. She also overcame deafness and a boss who said women weren’t smart enough for theoretical work.

Cali-based rock outfit Trapdoor Social plays the Palace, along with Time to Kill. 9 PM. No cover.

WEDNESDAYJULY23 Longtime Yellowstone Park ranger Michael Leach reads from Grizzlies on My Mind: Essays of Adventure, Love, and Heartache from Yellowstone Country at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Kids and grownups can all test their mettle with the Broadwater County Fair and Rodeo, which starts

—Kate Whittle with a kid’s competition on Thursday and runs July 23-July 27 with NRA rodeo, 4-H exhibits, livestock sale, barbecue, live entertainment and public dance for all ages on Saturday night. 189 Highway 12 East in Townsend. Call 266-9251 for info.

Some ‘er is gonna get done when country/rap performer Bubba Sparxxx plays Stage 112 at the Elk’s, along with special guests. 10 PM. $15, plus $5 surcharge for ages 1820.

Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow. Wednesdays, 7:30-8:15 AM. Previous experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/$8 drop-in.

Hold all my calls, Sally, for I’m stepping down to Caras Park for Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM2 PM on Wednesdays with live local music and all manner of tasty things served out of food trucks.

Beat the heat with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing.

[calendar] Local DJs deliver tunes and libations at Milkcrate Wednesday down stairs at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

The Best Westerns present an album release show, and Nashville’s Jonny Fritz and Missoula’s own Chris Sand join ‘em for the dealio. Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

(See Music.)

THURSDAYJULY24 Four flavors of “middle age sexy” swirl together when Susan Gibson, Tom Catmull, Jenn Adams and John Floridis play the Crystal Theater at 8 PM. $12 in advance, plus fees, at brownpapertickets.com/event/742100 and Rockin Rudy’s.

Hot giggity, the headliners for this year’s Red Ants Pants Festival, July 24-27, include Ian Tyson, Jason Isbell, Josh Ritter, Brandi Carlile and Charley Pride. White Sulphur Springs.

Check out redantspantsmusicfestival.com.

The Event at Rebecca Farm presents four days of the most top-notch equestrian competition, July 24-27, with dressage, cross country and stadium jumping, plus a trade fair with arts and crafts. Free to watch. Visit rebeccafarm.org.

Bluegrassy outfit New South Fork moves in the right direction at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover.

Undo that keyboard hunchback with Lunch Re-Boot Yoga, a gentle practice with Mary Hanson. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W.

Saxamaphone. Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 play the Top Hat Thu., July 24, along with Shakewell. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Free. 18-plus. Tickets at tophatlounge.com.

The Jocko Valley Farmers Market presents wholesome produce, tasty baked goods and general cheer at the parking lot of the Hangin’ Art Gallery in Arlee. 4-7 PM on Wednesdays.

nightlife Herbacious experts Kelly Needs and Karrie Westwood present Everyday Cooking With Medicinal Herbs For Better Health, including wine, appetizers, tea tasting and dessert, at the Sunrise Coffee Shop and Moonlight Kitchens, 1951 Kensington. 5:30-7 PM.Free.

Learn more at 406-721-3000 ext.

1119, or visit sustainablebusiness council.org.

Discover why everyone sarcastically posts “Let Me Google

That For You” on your Facebook feed after the Internet Search class at the MIssoula Public Library, which includes tips on security. 6 PM. Registration required by calling 7212665 or, funny enough, missoulapubliclibrary.org.

gle you when internationally known astronomer Kevin Manning brings his family friendly astronomy program to the North Valley Public Library in Stevensville at 7 PM. Free, but space, ironically, is limited, so register by calling 777-5061.

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night, featuring a rotating lineup of local jazz enthusiasts.

7 PM. Free, all ages.

Australian fingerstylin’ guitar master Tommy Emmanuel plays a seated show at the Wilma, along with Antsy McClain. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $40/$34.50 in advance at ticketfly.com.

A 2003 photo of the farthest observable part of the universe, taken by a NASA satellite, is the oldest and youngest picture ever taken, ‘cause it’s from the start of the universe, but it took the light nearly 14 billion years to reach us. Let that and other mind-blowing facts bog-

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Feel the grass between your toes, breeze in your hair and tunes in your ears at the Missoula City Band concerts, in Bonner Park every Wednesday at 8 PM. Free. July 23 features Gary Herbig, “Missoula’s Favorite Son.”

Single or taken, come mingle.

GREAT DRINK SPECIALS $4.95 Taco & Tot Basket 4pm-9pm

ALL DAY, EVERY DAY 1-hour massage $49 90-minute massage $79 GOOD FOR NEW AND RETURNING CLIENTS! BRING A FRIEND AND MAKE IT A SIDE BY SIDE. Not to be combined with other offers. Price per person. Not to be used for gift certificates. Offer ends July 31st.

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Airstream crop is coming in good this year. Antsy McClain plays the Wilma Wed., July 23, opening for Tommy Emmanuel. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $40/$34.50 in advance at ticketfly.com

Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon-1 PM. $40 for six classes/$9 drop-in.

nightlife Missoula photographer and Scrabble enthusiast Chris Autio presents Hands On, a collection of portraits of artists. Reception at Missoula Art Museum from 5-8 PM, with artist’s talk at 7 PM. Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:30-8:30 PM. Knock back some drinks in earnest when Brian Ernst plays tunes at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Afrobeat warrior Seun Kuti and Egypt 40 play the Top Hat, along with Shakewell. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $22. 18-plus. Tickets at tophatlounge.com.

Raise some spirits, figuratively and literally, when Cleargrain plays tunes to dance by at

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the Sunrise Saloon, around 9 PM. No cover.

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2 for dudes, no cover for women. (Hey, gotta make up for that wage gap somehow.)

Come in like a wrecking ball when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover.

Seeing stars. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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nce you know which peak is Ch-paa-qn (pronounced, roughly, like cha-pock-win) it’s hard not to notice it. The pyramid, located west of Missoula in the direction of I-90, is isolated from other peaks on the horizon and boasts more than 4,000 feet of prominence above the Ninemile Ranger District, straddling the divide between Missoula and Sanders counties. To put that in perspective, If Glacial Lake Missoula filled back up, Ch-paa-qn would be an island looming over the water.

The Montana Sierra Club hosts an outing up Chpaa-qn as part of its regular weekend trips, and the public is invited to come along. The winding rocky road up to the trailhead is a bit dicey if you’re in a low-clearance vehicle, as a heads up, and the Reservation Divide trail’s 1,838 feet of elevation gain over 3.5 miles

is a bit of a workout if you’re rusty. But it’s worth it, even when you are, for example, an out-of-shape calendar editor getting dragged up the mountain by a tireless little sister. The final quarter-mile or so is a scramble up rocks to the very tip, which has a neat little cairn and sheltered spot to eat a sandwich in, and Buddhist prayer flags forever waving in the breeze. It’s a hell of a view, too, since you get a 360 of the Missoula Valley and basically everything else in western Montana. Totally worth the rocky trip.

—Kate Whittle The Montana Sierra Club hikes up the Reservation Divide Trail to Ch-paa-qn for 3.5 miles of hiking over 1,838 feet of elevation gain. Sat., July 19. For meetup info, contact Lorie at frontdesk@missoulanews.com.

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A spectacularly messy, fantastically fun made-in-Missoula mud run

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THURSDAY JULY 17 Thursday Night Race League is more about the beer than it is about the winner, bless it, with 65100 racers competing in all sorts of categories on the lower mountain bike trails at Whitefish Mountain Resort, July 10-Aug. 21. Visit skiwhitefish.com.

SATURDAY JULY 19 Carve out your legacy with the Glacier Challenge Relay Race, which features seven legs — two runs, plus kayaking, road cycling, mountain biking and canoeing — throughout Whitefish. Enter with teams or tough it out solo. Proceeds benefit the Flathead Youth Home. Check out theglacier challenge.com.

Brag that you did the Mystic MTB Trail Race before it was cool when this inaugural mountain bike race kicks off over 40 miles of challenging climbs, starting at the Bear Canyon Trailhead east of Bozeman. Visit mysticrace.com.

Early birds get the tastiest worms when the Missoulians on Bicycles host a ride out to Alberton for Railroad Days. Depart from Wheat Montana at Third and Reserve at 8 AM. You can also shorten the trip if your heart isn’t set on getting all the way to Alberton. Visit missoulabike.org for info.

Nature is for the birds when the Five Valleys Audubon Society hosts another beginning birder field trip, where you’ll wanna grab a pair of binoculars and head over to Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge headquarters at 10 AM for a family friendly, two-hour trip with minimal walking. Call Terry at 214-1194 for more info.

The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup Board hosts a family friendly potluck and silent auction in appreciation of local wildlife (and, I’m guessing, its tastiness) at the Ninemile Community Center, 25620 Nine Mile Road in Huson. Noon-3 PM. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

SUNDAY JULY 20 Wassup? The second annual Windermere SUP Cup, that’s what. This stand-up paddleboard race cruises down 4.2 miles of the Clark Fork from Sha-

Ron to Riverside Park. Swim over to supcupmt.com to learn more.

Cruise through gorgeous country during the Tour of the Bitterroot, a non-competitive mountain bike tour, family bike ride and kid’s bike challenge in the Skalkaho Drainage and other trails in the Bitterroot. All events start at Red Barn Bicycles, 399 McCarthy Loop in Hamilton, at 7 AM. The Skalkaho ride is limited to 150, to register at tourofthebitterroot.org or 375-0956. Proceeds benefit the Bitter Root Land Trust.

TUESDAY JULY 22 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info.

WEDNESDAY JULY 23 Honor wilderness by conquering a chunk of it during the 7.5-mile-round-trip hike up St. Mary Peak in the Bitterroot, with 2,400 feet of elevation gain.

Contact Mary with the Montana Sierra Club at trekker320@aol.com.

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The Great Burn Study Group hosts citizen science backpacking junkets into the Great Burn Proposed Wilderness Area, lasting 3-5 days each.

You gotta supply the gear and supplies, but trip leadership is provided and it’s free to join in. Trips run July 24-27, Aug. 1-3, 7-10, 20-24 and 28-30. Visit greatburnstudygroup.org to learn more, or call Val at 978-831-2373.

The Montana Natural History Center hosts a volunteer work afternoon, where you’ll help maintain the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden and learn about native plants as you work. This week focuses on journaling and observing pollinators. 4-6 PM. Free.

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The Environmental Protection Agency, following President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, has a new proposal to cut energy use in the United States. The EPA says its goal is to cut pollutants like nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide by 25 percent and cut carbon emissions from utility plants by 30 percent over the next 26 years. The oil and gas industries, I’m willing to bet, will say this is too drastic; I’m also willing to bet that scientists involved in climate change studies will say that this doesn’t go far enough. (I myself am planning to visit New Orleans really soon, because it’s gonna be mostly underwater within a few decades, according to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.)

The EPA’s plan certainly affects us here in Montana, since a big part of it is to regulate carbon emissions from fossil-fueled power plants, and that’ll hit Colstrip, for sure. A July 14 report from the Analysis Group says states that have already began regulating carbon pollution have seen lower emissions and a net increase in economic output, which is encouraging news.

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as murky as the smoke getting pumped out of the Billings oil refineries every day; but perhaps you’ll find more clarity at an upcoming public hearing hosted by local environmentalists July 23.

—Kate Whittle Local environmental groups host a public hearing on the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan at the Missoula Public Library's downstairs meeting room Wed., July 23, at 7 PM. Contact Dave for more info at 214-8109 or dittloffd@nwf.org.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY JULY 17 The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon-1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

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.

FRIDAY JULY 18 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins Bridge from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

SATURDAY JULY 19 The Montana Herb Gathering Satellite Herb Conference meets at the Missoula Public Library to share Ayurvedic, Western and Chinese medicinal practices, as well as celebrate and support the nonprofit Montana Herb Gathering. Classes throughout the day from 10:30 AM-5:30 PM. Suggested donation $5-$15 per class/$15-$55 for the day.

Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.

MONDAY JULY 21 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen.

Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings

are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

TUESDAY JULY 22 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome.

1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at the Ewam Buddhist Center, S. Third Ave W. 5:30-6:30 PM. Call Clare at 721-8224.

WEDNESDAY JULY 23 Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a nonviolent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free. Now meeting on Wednesdays.

Filmmakers with Abintra Productions seeking to produce a local documentary, Kindness, inspired by the community response to the Missoula Avalanche, host a fundraiser with silent auction at Montgomery Distillery, 6-8 PM. You can also find it on Indiegogo at AmplifyKindnessMovie.

Local environmental groups host a public hearing on the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan at the Missoula Public Library’s downstairs meeting room at 7 PM. Contact Dave for more info at 214-8109 or dittloffd@nwf.org.

THURSDAY JULY 24 Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. 7 PM. RSVP required at info@missoulatimebank.org. Check out 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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THOR•Thor is a male adult lab looking for a home. He does get along with other dogs. Thor didn't have the best care from his previous owner which led to Thor having an eye removed. Having one eye doesn't slow him down. He is very energetic and loves attention. Thor deserves the best in his new family. Maybe your family is who he has been waiting for.

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DESTITUTION WEDDING A friend asked me to be a groomsman in his wedding. It's being held hours away, and the only hotel is pricey. With tux rental, attending will cost me over $500. I'll also have to miss work. (I'm a waiter.) Is it okay to decline a wedding invitation because it's too expensive to attend?

—Not Richie Rich Instead of just sending regrets, it's tempting to passive-aggressively express your resentment: "Unfortunately, I have a conflict—in that I have to make my car payment."

Some couples may only have friends who are big investment bankers who light their cigars '90s-style, with $20 bills. But in this economy, at least a handful of a couple's pals will probably RSVP with something like, "Dude, I really wanna be there, but I can't find another waiter to cover my shift." Also, people in their 20s and 30s, prime time for marrying, can be invited to several weddings in a single summer. Costs for hotels, flights, clothes, and gifts can add up, and that's really not fair. (Being there on even your most special friend's special day shouldn't mean you have to take the bus for a year.)

It's up to the couple getting married to throw the sort of wedding their friends and relatives can afford to attend (or at least not get miffy that some invitees won't be flush enough to come). That said, being fiscally inclusive seems the warm, hospitable thing to do, like making sure your vegetarian friends have something to eat— instead of just harrumphing, Marie Antoinette-style, "Let them eat steak!"

The truth is, it's possible to throw even a fancier wedding without bleeding the invitees. "Black tie optional" allows groomsmen and others to wear a suit instead of renting a tux. And instead of basically telling bridesmaids "Go give Vera Wang $200," you request something like, "Please wear fall colors." Regarding location, a ceremony at a nearby lake pavilion or in Granny's garden will be no less moving than one at the Maui Four Seasons, and people will cry just the same when the couple dance their first dance whether the band is Beyonce or an MP3 mix.

Before you decline this invitation, consider your priorities. Even if your friends didn't think to make attending their wedding affordable, they might resent you for not going into debt to come. In my mind, these aren't real friends and they're confusing a wedding with a telethon, but you

may have reasons for wanting to keep them in your life.

As for how to decline, you could just be honest. Times are tough all around.

(When I do buy clothing, it is "previously enjoyed" and arrives crammed into a recycled envelope by the eBay seller.) Another option is making up a story for why you can't attend (Family obligation! Preexisting work thing!) and then staying off Facebook so you don't get tagged in a lie.

If you do go, you might consider starting a new wedding tradition: Other people throw rice; you sweep it up afterward (so you can have something on your plate for the next month besides the little pattern around the rim).

ED DRIFTWOOD This great guy I've started dating is doting and sweet but, careerwise, lacks ambition and seems comfortable floating by with minimal effort.

Unlike him, I am extremely ambitious. Is it okay to date men who are still "figuring things out"?

—Driven It sounds like your boyfriend is really going places. Mainly to the fridge and then back to the couch.

A guy who appears to model his career trajectory on driftwood is unlikely to suddenly become ambitious. Sure, there are people who have a catastrophic accident and realize life is short and they'd better get cracking, but it isn't like you can wait for him to get into (and then miraculously recover from) a motorcycle crash to become the man you'd respect and admire.

To avoid getting drawn into a relationship that's ultimately wrong for you, come up with what I call "Man Minimums"—a list of essential traits a guy has to have to stay in the running to be your boyfriend. One of yours might be "shows potential and the drive to achieve it." A guy like this will experience setbacks along the way but then turn his wrong moves into arrows toward the right ones.

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Job# 10064498 FT CO-LEAD TODDLER TEACHER Accepting applicants for a FT year round teaching position with our Toddler Early Learning program. This is an hourly pay position. Program hours are Monday - Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm. We offer a structured curriculum, high teacher student ratios, and an active daily routine. 12 children daily ages 12 months through 2 years, 3 FT teachers, 1 PT sup-

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Job# 10064503 HOUSEKEEPING/FRONT DESK Motel northwest of Missoula is hiring a front desk/housekeeper. Job duties at the front desk will include checking guests in and out of motel, making reservations, and taking payment. Job duties for the housekeeper include vacuuming, dusting, changing linen, making beds, cleaning bathrooms, and folding washcloths and towels.

Part-Time. Schedule to be determined at interview. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064487 Progressive church with deep commitment to justice and human rights seeks part time Choir Director. Selection of music, conduct and rehearse the Chancel Choir, and work within a collegial context with other music staff and pastors. This is a part time position of 16 hours per month to include preparation, rehearsal, worship services

and appropriate meetings, for nine months of the year (September – May) Compensation is 2,500- 3,800 per year DOE.To apply send resume and cover letter describing your interest in the position and two references to: University Congregational, UCC, 405 University Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801 Or via email to sonya.greef@uccmsla.org For a more complete job description go to uccmsla.org Progressive church with deep commitment to justice and human rights seeks part time Music Coordinator. Duties include coordinating the music ministry of the church, working in a collegial context to expand and integrate the church’s music program, work with pastors on the liturgical expression of music in

worship. This is a part time position of 24 hours per month for 11 months of the year. Compensation is 5,000- 6,300 per year DOE. To apply send resume and cover letter describing your interest in the position and two references to: University Congregational, UCC, 405 University Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801Or via email to sonya.greef@uccmsla.org For a more complete job description go to uccmsla.org

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TRANSPORTATION & SAFETY COORDINATORFT- Responsible for Transportation Services and Safety Program. $13.00/hr. Closes: 7/22/14, 5p.

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EMPLOYMENT seeking a fulltime Administrative Associate Office Coordinator.

This position will provide responsible, efficient operation of the office in support of the management team, board of directors and the executive director. Must have high school diploma and one or more years of combined education and experience, or equivalent, be proficient in Microsoft Office applications and have good interpersonal skills.

Must have knowledge of professional office practices and procedures, business English, spelling, composition and grammar, including the ability to write, edit and layout documents and materials in a variety of formats suitable for intended audience. Will provide effective customer service with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse group of individuals. Successful applicant must have ability to process financial transactions and accept donations and orders received; ability to problem solve and meet deadlines in a busy environment with attention to detail; ability to work a multi-line phone and take accurate messages. Position closes 7/28/2014 at 5p.m. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10064505 JUDICIAL ASSISTANT The position requires an associate’s degree in business, clerical studies or a similar field and at least two (2) years of progressively responsible legal experience, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position. Experience in a legal setting is required and can substitute for the associate’s degree. Experience as a high-level assistant is preferred. This position is the primary assistant and staff person for the District Court Judge. The assistant is responsible for per-

forming all administrative support functions in a professional manner. The assistant will manage the court calendar by scheduling a variety of matters in consultation with the judge and other parties. The successful applicant must have the ability to 5cient functioning of the office.

Conflict is an inherent part of the position and the successful candidate must be adept at handling different people and issues. Experience with Microsoft Word or Word Perfect is required. $15.29 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064436 USAR UNIT ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNICIAN One year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as: Demonstrating experience with military personnel regulations, policies or directives; demonstrating fact finding skills to determine appropriate actions necessary to accomplish task; utilize knowledge of information management regulations to prepare correspondence and mailings, maintain records and files.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade position in the federal service.

Education may be substituted for specialized experience with 4 years of education above high school. combination of education and specialized experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. Candidate will review incoming correspondence and distribute. Answer general questions on MOS requirements and eligibility for other assignments. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064388

IT’S A CALLING. Leading eco-tourism company hiring: FT Trip Planner - Sales $40k and benefits, dynamic work environment

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SKILLED LABOR DIRECTV is currently recruiting for the following position in Missoula: Field Coordinator If you are not able to access our website, DIRECTV.com, mail your resume and salary requirements to: DIRECTV, Attn: Talent Acquisition, 161 Inverness Drive West, Englewood, CO 80112. To apply online, visit: . EOE. ESTIMATOR Busy Missoula contractor is seeking an experienced Estimator for coordinating all functions of the estimating process and accountability for the overall outcome. Bachelors degree in construction, engineering, architecture, business or related field is highly desirable.

Two years’ experience in providing construction estimates; bid build, design build, turnkey and/or a combination of the above. High level of proficiency in MS Office applications. Expertise in multiple estimating processes including take offs and cost estimating methodologies and software such as Timberline Estimating, Heavy Bid, etc. Must be skilled in project pricing strategies, cost planning assessment of project risks, incorporation of the effects of all construction phases, project implementation, accuracy and attention to detail, understanding of market conditions and followup. Hours are generally M-F 8am-5pm. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064551 POWDER COAT PAINTER / SAND BLASTER AQUA CREEK PRODUCTS LLC is seeking an experienced Sand Blaster / Powder Coat Painter. Employer prefers applicants with 2 years of experience with powder coat/painting, but is willing to train proper candidate with less experience. Benefits include va-

cation pay, holidays and retirement plan.Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064535 Store Maintenance Responsible for basic maintenance of store facilities. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064418

SALES Route Sales Representatives full-time position that is responsible for selling and merchandising Frito-Lay’s complete line of quality products to existing and new accounts while driving a Frito-Lay truck. Route Sales Representative’’s hours of work vary by assigned route. Hours per week average 50 to 60 hours and include weekend and/or holiday work. This position offers a competitive base pay plus incentives which includes health care benefits, retirement and savings benefits such as pension, 401(k) and much more. Minorities/Females/Disability/Protected Veteran. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10064403

WORK WANTED Lux Amare Photography www.facebook.com/LuxPhoenixAmare Are you in need of a great photographer?

Capturing your wiggly kiddos, silly pets and fun family events at affordable prices.

I also provide nature and model shoots. Whatever your photo needs, I can provide excellent service! Call/text #406-210-4660 or contact swansongsings@gmail.com Will travel for gas reimbursement!

Progressive church with deep commitment to justice and human rights seeking to fill 2 positions: Part-time Music Coordinator. Duties include coordinating the music ministry of the church, working in a collegial context to expand and integrate the church’s music program, work with pastors on the liturgical expression of music in worship. This is a part time position of 24 hours per month for 11 months of the year.

Compensation is $5,000- $6,300 per year d.o.e.

SPECIAL PROJECT SALES The Missoula Independent is seeking an experienced sales person to sell our special projects including Montana Headwall, sponsorships, trade, online and more. This person will also have online administrative and project coordination duties. Sales experienced required; media sales experience preferred. Events coordination also preferred. If you’re an energetic team-player interested in working for a dynamic company with lots of growth opportunity, we want to hear from you!

Part-time Choir Director. Selection of music, conduct and rehearse the Chancel Choir, and work within a collegial context with other music staff and pastors. This is a part time position of 16 hours per month to include preparation, rehearsal, worship services and appropriate meetings, for nine months of the year (September – May) Compensation is $2,500- $3,800 per year d.o.e.

To apply send resume and cover letter describing your interest in the position and two references to: UCC of Missoula; 405 University Ave; Missoula, MT 59801 Or via email to sonya.greef@uccmsla.org For a more complete job description go to uccmsla.org

Send your resume and salary requirements to: hstarrett@missoulanews.com or 317 S. Orange, Missoula 59801.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While at a cafe, I overheard two people at the next table talking about astrology. "I think the problem-solvers of the zodiac are Cancers and Capricorns," said a young, moon-faced woman. "Agreed," said her companion, an older woman with chiseled features. "And the problem-creators are Scorpios and Geminis." I couldn't help myself: I had to insert myself into their conversation so as to defend you. Leaning over toward their table, I said, "Speaking as a professional astrologer, I've got to say that right now Geminis are at least temporarily the zodiac's best problemsolvers. Give them a chance to change your minds." The women laughed, and moon-face said, "You must be a Gemini." "No," I replied. "But I'm on a crusade to help Geminis shift their reputations."

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mozart debuted his now-famous opera Don Giovanni in Prague on October 29, 1787. It was a major production, featuring an orchestra, a chorus, and eight main singers. Yet the composer didn't finish writing the opera's overture until less than 24 hours before the show. Are you cooking up a similar scenario, Cancerian? I suspect that sometime in the next two weeks you will complete a breakthrough with an inspired, last-minute effort. And the final part of your work may well be its "overture;" the first part will arrive last. (P.S.: Mozart's Don Giovanni was well-received, and I expect your offering will be, too.)

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "We must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains," says writer Nikki Giovanni. That will be apt advice for you to keep in mind during the coming months, Leo. You may think I'm perverse for suggesting such a thing. Compared to how demanding it was to manage the suffering you experienced in late 2013 and earlier this year, you might assume it will be simple to deal with the ease and awakening that are heading your way. But I'd like you to consider the possibility that these blessings will bring their own challenges. For example, you may need to surrender inconveniences and hardships you have gotten used to, almost comfortable with. It's conceivable you will have to divest yourself of habits that made sense when you were struggling, but are now becoming counterproductive.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I would hate for your fine mind to become a liability. As much as I admire your native skepticism and analytical intelligence, it would be a shame if they prevented you from getting the full benefit of the wonders and marvels that are brewing in your vicinity.

Your operative motto in the coming days comes from Virgo storyteller Roald Dahl: "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Suspend your disbelief, my beautiful friend. Make yourself receptive to the possibility of being amazed.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kris Kristofferson is in the Country Music Hall of Fame now, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One of his big breaks came at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in Nashville. He managed to meet superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash's yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig performing at the Newport Folk Festival. I wouldn't be surprised if you were able to further your goals with a similar sequence, Libra: luck that puts you in the right place at the right time, followed by some brazen yet charming acts of self-promotion.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem "Looking Back," Sarah Brown Weitzman writes that she keeps "trying to understand / how I fell / so short of what I intended / to do with my life."

Is there a chance that 30 years from now you might say something similar, Scorpio? If so, take action to ensure that outcome doesn't come to pass. Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the next ten months will be a favorable time to get yourself on track to fulfill your life's most important goals. Take full advantage!

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "There is no such thing as a failed experiment," said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, "only experiments with unexpected outcomes." That's the spirit I advise you to bring to your own explorations in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Your task is to try out different possibilities to see where they might lead. Don't be attached to one conclusion or another.

Be free of the drive to be proven right. Instead, seek the truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself. Be eager to learn what you didn't even realize you needed to know.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Architects in ancient Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the recipe for how to make concrete was forgotten for more than a thousand years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and today concrete is a prime component in many highways, dams, bridges, and buildings. I foresee a similar story unfolding in your life, Capricorn. A valuable secret that you once knew but then lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert for it.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bananas grow in Iceland, a country that borders the Arctic Ocean.

About 700 of the plants thrive in a large greenhouse heated by geothermal energy. They don't mature as fast as the bananas in Ecuador or Costa Rica. The low amounts of sunlight mean they require two years to ripen instead of a few months. To me, this entire scenario is a symbol for the work you have ahead of you. You've got to encourage and oversee growth in a place that doesn't seem hospitable in the usual ways, although it is actually just fine. And you must be patient, knowing that the process might take a while longer than it would in other circumstances.

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BLACK BEAR NATUROPATHIC

ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever's going on," says satirical news commentator Jon Stewart. That's a healthy attitude. To do his work, he needs a never-ending supply of stories about people doing crazy, corrupt, and hypocritical things. I'm sure this subject matter makes him sad and angry. But it also stimulates him to come up with funny ideas that entertain and educate his audience—and earns him a very good income. I invite you to try his approach, Aries. Have faith that the absurdity you experience can be used to your advantage.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Beginning in 1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks that extended more than a thousand miles east and west. It was 90 years before the French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized that there were no such mountains. All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information.

Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. I'm appointing him to be your role model in the coming weeks, Aquarius. May he inspire you to expose long-running delusions, strip away entrenched falsehoods, and restore the simple, shining truths.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the simplest, calmest of times, there are two sides to every story.

On some occasions, however, the bare minimum is three or more sides. Like now. And that can generate quite a ruckus. Fortunately for all concerned, you are currently at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. You can be a weaver who takes threads from each of the tales and spins them into a narrative with which everyone can abide. I love it when that happens! For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

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PEACEFUL HEART YOGA: Yoga & Music Summer Camps!

M-F 9-3pm $160/week. Ages 4-12. July 7-11 & 21-25, Aug 4-8 & 11-15.

406-2399642, PeacefulHeartYogaMissoula.com; 725 W. Alder #3.

INSTRUCTION ANIYSA Middle Eastern Dance Classes and Supplies. Call 2730368. www.aniysa.com

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

MARKETPLACE CLOTHING Kid Crossing offers exceptional value on nearly new children’s clothing and equipment.

Providing ecofriendly clothing exchange since 2001. Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Buy Local! 1940 Harve • 406-829-8808 • www.kidcrossingstores.com

PETS & ANIMALS

Fosters needed! AniMeals is in desperate need of foster families for kittens. Fostering is a 1-2 month commitment, AniMeals supplies the food, litter, and other supplies, and you supply the love. Call 721-4710 or visit http://animeals.com/FOSTER.ht ml for more information.

MUSIC Banjo lessons not just for guys anymore. Bennett’s Music Studio 721-0190 BennettsMusicStudio.com

Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons.

Rentals available. Bennett’s Music Studio 721-0190 BennettsMusicStudio.com

GARAGE SALES

from a stately University home.

Furniture: antique beds, china cabinet, desk, mattresses & springs, chairs, couches, chests, tables & chairs, sewing machines, TVs, washer/dryer, mangle. Other household items including very fine china (Noritake, Limoges Haviland), vintage quilts & linens, bedding, dishes,

ESTATE SALE 341 KEITH. Friday, July 18th 9:00-2:00. Saturday, July 19th 9:00-2:00. Sunday, July 20th 11:00-3:00 when everything is 1/2 price. Liquidating all remaining possessions

glassware, silver serving dishes, cooking & canning pots & pans, books, wooden boxes, outdoor furniture, yard & hand tools.

Many vintage and collectible items.

And much more!

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Gear Up! 111 S3rd W 721-6056 Buy/Sell/Trade Consignments

AniMeals Seniors for Seniors program waives the adoption fee for anyone 65 and older adopting a cat 9 years old and older.

All cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped free of cost before they’re adopted. For more information call AniMeals at 721-4710.

Basset Rescue of Montana. Senior bassets needing homes. 406-207-0765. Please like us on Facebook... facebook.com/bassethoundrescue

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Bennett’s Music Studio

Guitar, banjo,mandolin and bass lessons. Rentals available.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Communities Served: Hamilton, MT; Ravalli County, MT; Missoula County, MT; Missoula, MT On or after August 26, 2014, Charter will start encrypting the Basic Service Tier offering on your cable system. If you have a set-top box, digital transport adapter (DTA), or a retail CableCARD device connected to each of your TVs, you will be unaffected by this change. However, if you are currently receiving the Basic Service Tier offering on any TV without equipment supplied by Charter, you will lose the ability to view any channels on that TV. If you are affected, you should contact Charter to arrange for the equipment you need to continue receiving your services. In such case, you are entitled to receive equipment at no additional charge or service fee for a limited period of time.

The number and type of devices you are entitled to receive and for how long will vary depending on your situation. If you are a Basic Service Tier offering customer and receive the service on your TV without Charter-supplied equipment, you are entitled to up to two devices for two years (five years if you also receive Medicaid). If you subscribe to a higher level of service and receive the Basic Service Tier offering on a secondary TV without Charter-supplied equipment, you are entitled to one device for one year. You can learn more about this equipment offer and eligibility at charter.com/digitalnow or by calling 1-866-213-7444. To qualify for any equipment at no additional charge or service fee, you must request the equipment within 120 days after the date your service is encrypted,

MNAXLP which began August 26, 2014 and will continue through December 24, 2014 and satisfy all other eligibility requirements.

INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for construction of the Lost Horse Siphon Project will be received by Ward Irrigation District at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc. until 4 PM local time on July 25, 2014, and then publicly opened and read aloud. The project generally consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following major items: installation of a high density polyethylene inverted siphon under Lost Horse Creek, open-trench installation of a steel pipe under Montana Rail Link rail, earthwork associated with increasing height of canal bank, installation of concrete pipe inlet and outlet features, and temporary

stream diversion. The Contract Documents consisting of half size Drawings and Project Manual may be examined or obtained at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc. 3011 Palmer Street Missoula, Montana 59808. Required deposit is $100 per set, which is not refundable, by regular mail or United Parcel Service (UPS).

Payment of an additional $25 is required for express mail. In addition, the Drawings and Project Manual may also be examined at the plan exchange in Missoula and Montana Contractors-Helena. There will be a Pre-Bid Conference at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 at 1 PM on July 10, 2014. Interested CONTRACTORS are encouraged to attend. A tour of the project site(s) will be conducted after

the meeting. The CONTRACTOR(s) is required to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To view the Invitation to Bid in its entirety please visit the Clark Fork Coalition’s website at: www.clarkfork.org MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-14-709 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE OF MARY CHRISTINE WILCOX, Petitioner. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner, Mary Christine Wilcox, has petitioned the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court in Missoula, County for a change of name from Mary Christine Wilcox to Christine Wilcox Holmes, and

the Petition for Name Change will be heard by this Court on the 7th day of August, 2014, at 9 o’clock a.m., in the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 26th day of June, 2014. /s/ Shirley Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Kersten Seilstad, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause No. DP14-78 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NANCY REBECCA PETERS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the un-

dersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Martha Lee Gilmore, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 5th day of April, 2014. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 1st day of May, 2014. /s/ Martha Lee Gilmore, Personal Representative

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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP14-74 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ERNEST G. SZECHENYI, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Anne Carson Daly, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2014.

ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

DATED this 23rd day of June, 2014. /s/ Anne Carson Daly, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Cause No.: DP-14-109 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD BOWMAN-BROWN, 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 Alex J. Bowman-Brown, 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 25th day of June, 2014. /s/ Alex J. Bowman-Brown, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By: /s/ Daniel P. Cahalan Attorneys for Alex J. BowmanBrown, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-121 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD VERNON GOODWIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Michele Meltzer has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the 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 Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or

filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of June, 2014. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Michele Meltzer MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-126 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEONARD L. OAKLEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Elizabeth K. Oakley, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 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 17th day of June, 2014. /s/ Elizabeth K. Oakley, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/19/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201223240 BK: 904, PG: 317, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Andrew Short was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Sterling Savings Bank dba Sterling Bank was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of Jillian Court Subdivision, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201314082 BK: 916, PG: 448, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 12/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 14, 2014, the amount necessary to fully sat-

MNAXLP isfy the Loan was $191,593.62.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $188,696.17, 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 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.109711) 1002.268752File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/20/02, recorded as Instrument No. 200234954 Bk: 693 Pg: 1065, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kenneth D. Mohler an unmarried man, and Christine F. Waylett an unmarried woman was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company, a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of Wheatgrass Acres, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instru-

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ment recorded as Instrument No. 200632752 Bk: 789 Pg: 633, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 14, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $132,328.58.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of

$106,323.88, 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 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash

equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of

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PUBLIC NOTICES First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 69B-1 of Orchard Home Company’s Addition No. 6, Lots 69B-1 and 69B-2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201322329 B:922 P:295 , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon fka the Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS, Inc., CHL Mortgage pass-through Trust 2005-30, Mortgage pass-through Certificates, Series 2005-30. 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 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 21, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $640,046.59.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $439,344.54, 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, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all

non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 8193.20300) 1002.269188File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/12/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200611513 Bk: 774 Pg: 867 and further Modified by Agreement Recorded on 9/4/2012 under Instrument No. 201217027 Bk: 899 Pg: 1104, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Nedra Gasvoda, an unmarried Woman was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J Peterson was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 358 of Pleasant View Homes No. 4, Phase 1, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201118418 Bk: 885 P: 45, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 30, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $206,027.84.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $184,327.24, 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

MNAXLP October 7, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.16322) 1002.245370File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 15, 2014, 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: Situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana: LOT 32A of Daly’s Addition, Block 28, Lots 31 and 32, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

LESS AND EXCEPTING THEREFROM: Unit B as shown and defined in the Declaration of Condominium for Garfield Condominium Association, Inc., a residential condominium together with its exhibits as recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records Page 190 and recorded as Condo 000112, of the official records of Missoula County, Montana, located on Lot 32A of Daly’s Addition, Block 28, Lots 31 and 32, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH an undivided proportionate interest in the general common elements and limited common elements appurtenant to said Unit B as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in the Declaration of Condominium.

SUBJECT TO Declaration for Condominium recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records at Page 190 and as CONDO 0112 and as amended in Book 780 of Micro Records at Page 817 and as amended in Book 891 of Micro Records at Page

396 and the Bylaws of Garfield Condominium Association, Inc., recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records at Page 192 More Accurately Described As Follows: Unit A as shown and defined in the Declaration of Condominium for Garfield Condominium Association, Inc., a residential condominium together with its exhibits as recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records Page 190 and recorded as Condo 000112, of the official records of Missoula County, Montana, located on Lot 32A of Daly’s Addition, Block 28, Lots 31 and 32, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH an undivided proportionate interest in the general common elements and limited common elements appurtenant to said Unit B as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in the Declaration of Condominium.

SUBJECT TO Declaration for Condominium recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records at Page 190 and as CONDO 0112 and as amended in Book 780 of Micro Records at Page 817 and as amended in Book 891 of Micro Records at Page 396 and the Bylaws of Garfield Condominium Association, Inc., recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records at Page 192 Pieter Sween, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 16, 2011 and recorded May 27, 2011 in Book 878, Page 112 under Document No. 201108697.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $981.65, beginning January 1, 2013, and each month subse-

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 32, 70, 73, 82, 239, 301, 309, 365, 380, 383, 384, 385, 414 and 603. Units contain furniture, clothes, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, July 28, 2014. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale.

Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

quent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 14, 2014 is $173,959.96 principal, interest at the rate of 5.250% now totaling $11,741.33, escrow advances of $9,872.98, suspense balance of $-38.75 and other fees and expenses advanced of $376.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.02 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

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 20, 95, 149, 201, 263, 293, OS50. 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 7/21/2014 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 7/24/2014 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 8, 2014 /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 8th day of April, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Citimortgage V Sween 42090.084 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 15, 2014, 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: CLEARVIEW VILLAGE CONDOMINIUMS UNIT NUMBER 41 SITUATED IN BLOCK 1 OF AMENDED PLAT OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS ADDITION NUMBER TWO, TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN BOOK 106 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1449, RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED 2.18% INTEREST IN THE GENERAL COMMON ELEMENTS FOR EACH UNIT, AND TOGETHER WITH THE USE OF THE LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS AS ESTABLISHED AND DEFINED IN THE AFORESAID DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM Jody L Wians and Joshua T Gill, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 11, 2006 and recorded May 12, 2006 in Book 774,

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Page 375 under Document No. 200611021. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $678.82, beginning February 1, 2013, 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 25, 2014 is $77,839.13 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $6,913.35, late charges in the amount of $231.04, escrow advances of $1,646.71, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.40 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

MNAX 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 8, 2014 /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 8th day of April, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Green Tree Vs. Wians 42072.141 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 26, 2014, 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 FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA TOWIT: LOT 25 AND 26 IN BLOCK 45 OF DALY’S ADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO. : 145107, TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 145107 Oren David Stead and Rebecca L Stead, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to I.R.E. Processing, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. DBA Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated August 18, 2005 and recorded August 23, 2005 in Book 758 page 988 under Document No. 200521811. The beneficial interest is currently held by Beneficial Financial I Inc. Successor by merger to Beneficial Montana Inc. DBA 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 $992.07, beginning October 23, 2013, 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 2, 2014 is $127,315.89 principal, interest at the rate of 7.29% now totaling $6,255.36,

late charges in the amount of $450.64, and other fees and expenses advanced of $15,564.44, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.43 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 21, 2014 /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, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose

name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Hsbc V. Stead 42068.090 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 2, 2014, 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 56 of Grantland Thirteen, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Barak B. Longnecker and Bethany A. Longnecker, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 17, 2009 and recorded on April 17, 2009 in Book 837, Page 802 under Document No. 200908766. The beneficial interest is currently held by Provident Funding Associates, L.P. 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 $2,425.30, beginning October 1, 2013, 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 2, 2014 is $385,211.47 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $15,149.44, late charges in the amount of $1,091.43, and other fees and expenses advanced of $83.06, plus accruing interest at the rate of $62.00 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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

MNAXLP ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 25, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25th day of April, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Provident V Longnecker 41862.301 NOTICE OFTRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 22, 2014, 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 3 in Block 3 of El Mar Estates Phase II, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Dawn Hofman and Jurian Hofman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 20, 2006 and recorded November 21, 2006 in Book 787, Page 1012 under Document No. 200630237.

The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the registered holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-3. 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 $743.08, beginning August 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of May 9, 2014 is $162,521.09 principal, interest at the rate of 5.18% now totaling $14,788.86, late charges in the amount of$ 604.43, escrow advances of $7,548.09, suspense balance of $-58.81 and other fees and expenses advanced of $8055.90, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.38 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may dis-

burse 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 14, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 14th day of April, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Ocwen V Hofman 41495.603

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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 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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2329 Fairview #2. 2 bed/1 bath, shared yard. Central location. $725.00. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

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The Historic Palace Apartments located at 149 W. Broadway is now leasing multiple one bedroom units from $554$662/monthly, with H/W/S/G paid. The Palace boasts 2 elevators, secure entrance with surveillance, and On Site Management! Motion-activated lighting, coin op facilities, and solar arrays for green living! The Palace is centrally located downtown, where opportunities abound! Caras Park, the Carousel, Clark Fork River, and much more! Shopping? We have that too! Bike, walk or bus? Then downtown is perfect for you! Apply today! Contact Matty Reed, Property Manager, Missoula Housing Authority 406.549.4113 x130 mreed@missoulahousing.org

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HOMES FOR SALE 1581 Cornerstone, 6 bedroom 3.5 bath. Massive Upper Rattlesnake home next to a greenway common area. $470,000.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 1633 South 4th West. 1920’s style 4 bed, 2 bath on new foundation & roof, fenced yard, patio & covered front porch. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 1649 West Central. 3 bed, 2 bath with downstairs apartment.

Wood floors, fenced yard & patio. $229,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 1815 South 4th West. 3 bed, 2 bath artistically remodeled with half-wrap porch, fruit trees & art studio. $279,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 1944 South 8th West. Remodeled 2 bed, 1 bath with deck on 2 lots. $158,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2116 West Kent. Charming 2 story, 3 bed, 1.5 bath home with single garage. Low-maintenance front yard & garden in back. $174,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2264 Grape Arbor Court. 6 bed, 3 bath in Target Range. $660,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com

2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $238,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lower Miller Creek home on 1 acre. $230,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit

Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

www.mindypalmer.com 4781 Montrose. 3 bed, 2 bath in Canyon Creek. RD eligible. $182,500. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355 betsy@milyardteammt.com 5 Bedroom, $207,000 101 Cove Court - 5 bed, 2 bath house in the South Hills. Great views and lots of updates. Rustic hardwood floors, new carpet and laminate. Great first home or investment opportunity. Proven rental history. Megan Twohig, Glacier Sotheby’s International Realty, 406-370-2895, mtwohig@glaciersir.com.

5805 Mainview. 4 bed, 2 bath South Hills home with basement & deck. $220,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Propeties. 541-7355 betsy@milyardteammt.coom 6 Greenbrier. Upper Rattlesnake 2 bed, 2 bath with 1 bed, 1 bath lower level apartment. Close to Rattlesnake Wilderness Area. $335,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $850,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355, betsy@milyardtea mmt.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you find your way home.

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RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-542-8644 Slant Street Charmer 733 Marshall $225,000. Slant Street charmer with lots of light, a wonderful yard with raised beds, and an awesome shop all in a convenient location and ready to move in to. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.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) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 •

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bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard.

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Newer 2 bed, 1bath 1200 sq. ft. home on 1.02 acre lot. 1200 sq. ft. attached garage, recently fenced, new roof sealant. Easy to maintain. Bring you own landscaping ideas to this wonderful home. It’s easy to live in this semiremote area with quiet and views. Only 10 Miles from Reserve Street. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 329-2059. loewenwarter.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate.

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6833 Linda Vista. 5 bed, 3 bath with 2 family rooms, extra downstairs kitchen and large fenced yard. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 716 South 6th West. Classic 3 bed, 2 bath with fireplace, deck, fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 7201 Old Grant Creek Road. 4 bed, 3 bath with Grant Creek frontage, deck & fireplace. $655,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355 betsy@milyardteammt.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apartment on 5 view acres. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com Anne Jablonski, Realtor with Portico Real Estate, recently obtained her Montana State Broker license. Anne has 12 years of ex-

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Cooley Street Condo 1545 Cooley St. #C. This upper level 2 bedroom condo provides for easy, sweet living close to downtown and has great North Hills views. $128,500 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

324B North Grant. 3 bed, 2 bath condo with fenced yard & 2 car garage. $169,900. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 5505 Creekstone. 2 bed, 1.5

Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $150,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

Riverfront Condo 521 Hartman. Clark Fork riverfront stand-alone condo. Absolutely GORGEOUS. Beautiful location and views. $829,000 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

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 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

LISTEN TO THE RIVER… Top floor. Only 40’ from the Clark Fork. 1 bdrm, 1 bath, Like new

$119,000

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Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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