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When they got there, it was better than they imagined.

Some 200 elk mingled on the public land only a short distance from the fence line. But the elk were on an island of sorts. The bulls and cows stood on state trust land leased by media mogul Ted Turner. The land was available for hunting, Cover illustration but it’s surrounded by private property on all sides, with no

by Jonathan Marquis public road for access. If the elk didn’t cross the fence at the corner, the Smiths couldn’t cross the fence to go get them ...........................................14

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Thursday, July 19th - 9 pm OPEN MIC NIGHT

Letters Coal in Montana’s stocking .............................................................................4 The Week in Review The osprey chicks are fine........................................................6 Briefs Missoula City Council, still trying to figure out sidewalk financing.................6 Etc. We’re copying Idaho’s homework ........................................................................7 Up Front Pending water compact irks some non-Indians ..........................................8 Up Front What to do when you’re stalked by squirts.................................................9 Range Roundup can’t catch a break ..........................................................................11 Agenda Paul Wheaton: Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture ...............................12

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Flash in the Pan Is locavorism really as bad as they make it sound?.......................18 Happiest Hour The Brojito at the Old Post..............................................................19 8 Days a Week We’ll have the cream-filled, please ...................................................21 Mountain High Wilderness Monitoring Backpack Trip............................................29 Scope From out of the blue, The Hasslers get hummable........................................30 Noise Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club and more..............31 Theater Philipsburg’s Your Flake or Mine? is delicious ............................................32 DVD The best Batmans onscreen—or is it Batmen?..................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

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Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jason McMackin STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITOR Ted McDermott NEWS INTERN Jackie Coffin ARTS INTERN Brooks Johnson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler MARKETING INTERN Jon Tweeten FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Chris Dombrowski Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Jamie Rogers, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest

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STREET TALK

by Thomas Bridge

Asked on the afternoon of Monday, July 16, along Higgins Avenue in downtown Missoula.

Last week, 30 couples paid $25,000 each to dine with Mitt Romney in Hamilton. Who would you pay $25,000 to have dinner with? Follow-up: What’s the most you’ve ever spent on dinner?

Cory Bolda: I would just love to have dinner with Jesus. Last supper: The most I ever spent was $350 on a meal for my family.

Don Ross: Certainly not Romney. … I would love to talk with Crazyhorse and see his opinion on how things transpired. I’m pretty sure he would see it completely differently. In da house: I spent $150 on my girlfriend and another couple—steak and lobster from Lolo Steakhouse. Good company, and a good meal.

Andy Putra: Albert Einstein, merely to pick his brain and to see his opinion of the world now. Quantum babe: I spent about $100 taking a girlfriend out. Having her with me meant way more than any $25,000 meal could.

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Agenda 21: It’s big Regarding your recent article by Gina Knudson entitled “Hail the collaborators” (July 5): Kudos to the “little people” of the middle road who are portrayed as just rural, country, neighborly folk, now termed the “radical center” by Courtney White of the Quivira Coalition.

Standing by while the two extremes fight it out for control is pretty much akin to the German Lutheran Church, whose leadership believed the church could maintain a neutral position and be left alone while Germany’s fearless leader charted a new path for the Third Reich prior to WWII; the church became the German Reich Church and its previous leadership either fled the fatherland or was imprisoned.

Referring to the United Nations Agenda 21 and everything it has spawned since its original inception and release in 1992 as a “white paper” is about the same as referring to the tsunami that recently devastated Japan as a minor tidal change. Either Ms. Knudson has no concept of this little “white paper” at all (which is by no means a “white paper” but rather a very lengthy dissertation), has merely accepted an interpretation or reference to it from someone else or just doesn’t care to consider its impact on the world as we know it, but she is providing a huge disservice to her readership with her shrugged reference to a monumentally and fundamentally existence-changing action that has been invading our lives with restrictions and limitations never intended by the designers of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

To be clear, we do not have a “democracy” (and it had better NOT be “hard at work”); we have a representative republic.

To continue referring to it as a democracy is a pretty clear act of deception to all of her neighbors and readers; another simple example of distortion meant to manipulate.

Michael Gale Ronan

Coal in Montana’s stocking Rachel Leathe: I would eat with all my friends; our meal would consist of crepes, fry bread and biscuits and gravy. Wellpaired: I spent $200 on cheese and wine. It was worth every penny of it.

Gentry Darkenwald: I would dine with William Faulkner. He’s my favorite author, and I feel he possesses a different insight on the world than other men. A sound flurry: I spent $400 at the Metropolitan Grill in Seattle with my family.

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A report just released this week by transportation expert Terry Whiteside sheds light on the huge impact that coal export rail traffic is going to have on other industries that use the tracks.

Out-of-state coal companies planning to mine coal in the Powder River Basin and ship it across rail lines through Montana are going to put a huge burden on Montana communities along rail lines by increasing train traffic by 40 to 60 trains a day. The congestion on the rail lines will cause all other

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train traffic to divert to California and Canadian ports. Grain, cargo and passenger rail will take a back seat to coal trains.

This is a losing situation for Montana.

The American market for coal is shrinking, but these coal companies also want to dig up eastern Montana’s coal and ship it on trains to China. This endangers other Montana industries and threatens to destroy our landscape, our water and our agricultural areas.

Once again, mining companies and railroads would reap huge profits and leave Montanans to clean up the mess and foot the bill.

Janet McMillan Greenough

Referring to the United Nations Agenda 21 and everything it has spawned since 1992 as a “white paper” is about the same as referring to the tsunami that recently devastated Japan as a minor tidal change.

Ban fracking I am a native Montanan who now lives in Arizona. I visit close relatives across Montana nearly every summer and am extremely concerned that my very favorite place, Glacier National Park, will soon suffer the impacts of hydraulic fracturing.

According to a local paper near the park, the Hungry Horse News, 70 wells have already been drilled on reservation land surrounding the park and environmental assessments have been prepared to soon drill 88 more.

This will result in undrinkable water (that actually ignites when lit because of high amounts of benzene in the water!) in

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Correction: In our July 12, Best of Missoula issue, we misstated the affiliation of real estate agent Anne Jablonski.

She’s with Portico Real Estate.

the areas near the park and perhaps in the park itself. The water, soil, plant life and living things near the wells cannot survive— the damage is irreversible. I would encourage anyone questioning these facts to view the documentaries Gasland and Split Estate. When Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which encourages new natural gas exploration in the U.S., the legislation made oil and gas companies exempt from following the policies of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Oil companies do not have to divulge which toxic chemicals they use to extract the gas from the shale.

These chemicals are brought, along with the escaping gas, to the surface and into the air, water and lungs of humans and animals near drilling sites—and the sites are present in almost every state in the United States! The gas is present in streams, soil and ground water. The contaminated ground water has been analyzed and contains 596 toxic chemicals. According to Dr. Theo Colborn, who has done extensive research, these chemicals cause asthma, skin and organ problems and irreversible brain damage.

Companies also can legally, without notice, drill on private land if the land owners have mineral rights. The negative health effects on humans and animals are serious, and we can only guess what the environmental impacts will be in most of the U.S. where fracking has left its scars, because there have been no government studies done to date that are accurate.

Toxins such as benzene, which when used in the fracking process is 40 times above government standards, will leach into the streams, ground water and air in areas surrounding the park and into the park itself, doing permanent damage to the environment. This in effect creates a “dead zone” much like that of the area around Pavillion, Wyo. (an area that was heavily contaminated from chemicals used in fracking).

If you care about clean water in your great state, please write your legislator to immediately ban fracking in western Montana and anywhere else you value.

Don’t let the big companies destroy the Last Best Place!

Deborah Fleming Scottsdale, Arizona

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, July 11

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VIEWFINDER

by Chad Harder

The Montana Secretary of State announces that Initiative 166 will be on the November 2012 ballot. It would charge Montana elected and appointed officials, state and federal, with implementing a policy that corporations are not human beings with constitutional rights.

• Thursday, July 12 UM President Royce Engstrom meets with investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice for almost three hours regarding the federal investigation of multiple alleged sexual assault reports on campus. KPAX reports that the DOJ did not ask Engstrom for information that has not already been made public.

• Friday, July 13 A woman calls the University of Montana Office of Public Safety to report that she learned through a UM Department of Biological Sciences web stream posted on Facebook that osprey chicks seemed to have been abandoned and appeared to be dying. UM security subsequently monitored the web stream and watched a parent bird bring food to the chicks.

• Saturday, July 14 Lisa Rae Buseman, 45, is charged with felony criminal endangerment, fleeing from a peace officer and misdemeanor driving under the influence in Missoula after allegedly driving the wrong direction down Russell Street while intoxicated. Police say Buseman at first refuses to stop for law enforcement and drives for a few blocks before pulling over.

• Sunday, July 15 A Toyota rear-ends an SUV that stops to avoid hitting a dog on Highway 93. Three people in the Toyota are injured in what turns into a four-vehicle crash as the dog runs across the southbound lanes, heading toward Lolo. The injured are taken to the hospital and, according to the Montana Highway Patrol, are in good condition.

• Monday, July 16 John Michael Lorengo, 34, is charged with felony assault with a weapon after allegedly running over another man with his pickup truck in Missoula at the intersection of Regent Street and Strand Avenue on July 13. The Missoulian reports that Lorengo had a relationship with the victim’s sister, who had a nocontact order against him.

• Tuesday, July 17 Bob Skelding, of Michigan, passes through Missoula on his three-horse wagon train on an early leg of his 5,000mile loop through the northwest, which will lead him back to his starting point in Colorado next summer. The wagon, pulled by three huge light-colored Percherons, passes through the valley at 3 mph and obeys all traffic laws as it heads down Broadway around noon.

Missoula local Sam Schultz charges the “A line” on his way to a first-place finish at the second annual Missoula XC Mountain Bike Race at Marshall Mountain on Saturday, July 14. Schultz, a nine-time World Championship team member, now heads to London to compete in the Summer Olympics.

Wastewater The power of poo Missoula’s Wastewater Treatment Facility has a new upgrade that turns poop into power. Methane gas recycled from the city’s waste has now replaced the natural gas that once heated the entire plant.

“We treat 8 million gallons of wastewater a day,” says Treatment Facility Superintendent Starr Sullivan. “About one percent is an organic solid … some goes right to EKO Compost [a Missoula-based organic compost company], the rest goes to the anaerobic digester.”

The mesophilic anaerobic digester that converts human waste to methane looks like a giant hot water heater. It breaks down organic material into carbon dioxide and methane gases by depriving the waste of oxygen. Commonly called “biogas,” Sullivan says that about 65 percent of it is then put into the boiler to be used as fuel. The rest is burned off.

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human waste, it’s considered a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.

The plant’s biggest need for heat, Sullivan explains, is the digester itself. It must maintain a temperature of 95 degrees to break down the waste into biogas. Anaerobic digestion is a simple process employed by treatment plants worldwide and reduces the amount of waste that might end up in landfills or incinerators.

“It’s been used for many decades as a fuel source,” Sullivan says. “We’ve had the capability for many years and we’ve finally made the switch.”

Recycled methane gas first started heating the plant’s boiler 20 years ago. The heating-system renovation is part of a $9 million green technology upgrade for the entire facility.

In addition to the heating system, Sullivan predicts that Missoula’s wastewater treatment plant will eventually be converted to biogas-fueled electricity.

Facility administrators are looking into the logistics of the switch now, but Sullivan says the cost could be significant.

Jackie Coffin

Development Historic renovation On July 16, the Missoula City Council tweaked development regulations to make it easier for people with historic homes to rehabilitate them.

It wasn’t until 1932 that Missoula began to create rules governing, for instance, the minimum lot size required to erect a home in a certain neighborhood and how far buildings must be set back from adjacent property lines. That means many of the Garden City’s older homes don’t comply with modern zoning regulations.

During the lawmaking body’s Monday night meeting, Councilman Bob Jaffe explained that there’s been uncertainty for years among local property owners about the extent to which they could make changes to older “nonconforming” structures.

“It used to be if you had a nonconforming building and it burned down, we’d let you rebuild it. But if you were going to do a remodel and you actually tore it down, then you could not,” Jaffe said. “So, then it got into all of this craziness of people doing

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remodels but needing to know how much of the last wall has to still be there for this thing to still count as not being intentionally destroyed. So we took that out to make it where, if you want to remodel, you can remodel.”

The amendments change height and width limitations for building additions on nonconforming structures. Prior to the change, owners of properties located inside a street setback, meaning closer to the street than current zoning allows, could not build an addition inside the setback. Now they can. Conversely, the change now calls for phasing in the height of an addition that lies inside a setback adjacent to another property. Prior to the change, additions inside setbacks weren’t phased in and were capped at the height limit for that individual neighborhood, typically about 35 feet.

Councilman Jon Wilkins wasn’t sold on the changes. He worried that they could adversely affect neighborhoods with homes on small lots.

“I’d like to have more discussion in committee about it,” he said.

Jaffe said the amendments are part of an effort to encourage locals to preserve the historic character of Missoula’s neighborhoods while supporting the reuse of existing resources, namely historic homes.

“The overall theme here is that, in the past, zoning code used to encourage getting rid of nonconforming uses,” he said. “That’s one of the shifts that has happened.”

Jessica Mayrer

Infrastructure Where the sidewalk ends On July 11, the Missoula County commissioners put the kibosh on City Council’s hope to put a 2-cent gas tax before voters in November to help pay for new sidewalks. The three commissioners wrote in a letter that the proposed tax “deepens a divide between urban and rural residents by rolling rural residents into your proposed solution.”

The problem is that installing sidewalks along the average city lot can cost several thousand dollars, and the owner of that lot is on the hook for the whole sum—despite the fact that sidewalks are public infrastructure on city property.

City Council’s been grappling with ways to ease the pain when the Public Works Department comes knocking. Now that the gas tax is off the table, councilors are expected to revisit a proposed sidewalk subsidy that would be funded by a property tax hike. The Public Works Committee drafted the plan late last year

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and council subsequently held hearings. “Hopefully we’ll get back to this soon,” says Councilman Bob Jaffe. “It’d just be nice to finish it up.”

The gates stay open

In a way, though, the subsidy’s already in place. Jaffe explains that the city will help pay for some residential sidewalks installed this year by selling a bond in the coming months, and the first bond payment won’t be due until next year; the subsidy’s budgetary consequence would always hit a year later. “We’ve already approved five or six sidewalk projects … with the understanding that we’re going to have this or some very similar subsidy program,” Jaffe says.

He adds that “it’s kind of an unusual thing” to be “committing an expense for a future council, because once we set this rolling, they can’t really go back.”

While it’s possible that next year’s council could change its mind and reject the subsidy, Jaffe says that would be a “pretty massive reversal.”

The actual level of subsidy remains in flux. The Public Works Committee devised a model similar to a health insurance policy, with a $300 “deductible” and 30 percent “co-pay” up to a maximum out-ofpocket expense of $2,000. Jaffe says that could be replaced with only a maximum out-of-pocket expense.

“We’re not going to change the ordinance that authorizes us to charge people for their sidewalks,” Jaffe says. “This will be in addition to that—we’ll have this tool for subsidizing. The level of subsidy is something that’s going to be flexible. I’m sure we’re not going to lock ourselves in.”

Matthew Frank

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is preparing to pull the trigger on a critical land purchase in the Clearwater Valley. The 640-acre parcel up Deer Creek, currently owned by the Plum Creek Timber Company, is the last stretch of Clearwater tributary not held by a public agency—and a lynchpin in realizing the full conservation goals of the Montana Legacy Project.

“The majority of Deer Creek fell within [the Legacy Project] boundary,” says FWP wildlife biologist Jay Kolbe. “It just so happens this last 1.3mile portion of the corridor didn’t.”

In partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Five Valleys Land Trust, the Vital Ground Foundation and a host of other organizations and agencies, FWP plans to pay $1.2 million for the Deer Creek parcel by the end of the summer. Officials signed off on the proposal earlier this month, and, Kolbe says, the decision notice came not a moment too soon. Plum Creek had been actively marketing the property. “We knew it was just a matter of time before someone would pick it up,” Kolbe says. “It’s a beautiful, developable, fairly level parcel with a beautiful keystone stream running right through the middle of it.”

With the clock ticking, FWP arranged for Five Valleys to bridge the transition by temporarily taking ownership while the agency completed its assessment and public comment period. Lewis Kogan, conservation project manager with Five Valleys, says the Deer Creek parcel “seemed like it was one of the more marketable properties in the Seeley Lake area.”

Kolbe rattles off a long list of conservation benefits related to the acquisition. The property is home to critical lynx habitat. It’s a key linkage zone for grizzlies. Deer Creek itself boast “some of the highest restoration potential for bull trout habitat of any stream in the region,” Kolbe says. But the parcel plays an equally important role on the recreation landscape near Seeley Lake. Public comments on the proposal overwhelmingly favored the acquisition, with locals urging FWP and its partners to maintain existing public access to the area.

“This hunting district has some of the highest seasonal hunter use in the region for deer and elk, and the property is also part of this extremely popular snowmobile system west of Seeley Lake,” Kogan says. “If this property was sold to a private buyer, there’s a good chance the gates would be closed.”

Alex Sakariassen

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Years the Jesus statue stood on Whitefish Mountain before a Wisconsin-based group asked that it be removed. U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, who is running for Senate, held a town hall meeting about the statue’s plight July 16, once again voicing his opinion that it should remain.

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Montana has finally found a solution to the tired question of how to manage the state’s wolf population.

Turns out all we had to do was think back to those pop quizzes in high school, when we figured the kid next to us had all the right answers. All we had to do was copy Idaho.

Last week, the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission approved a host of new regulations for the 20122013 wolf-hunting season: revised quotas, adjusted reporting periods, an advanced opening day. The most notable change, however, was the addition of trapping to the wolf management equation—which partly accounts for the staggering 6,500 comments FWP received from the public.

FWP made it abundantly clear that the latest wolf hunt regulations are intended to “dramatically increase harvest levels” to bring the population down to 425 wolves statewide. FWP commission chair Bob Ream says the addition of trapping was the only legal way to increase the per-hunter bag limit from one wolf to three. According to Montana law, the commission has the authority to set bag limits on commercial game. However, state wildlife manager Ken McDonald says the language regarding wolf licenses could be interpreted to mean a hunter can only possess one wolf tag per season. Until the legislature convenes and addresses that section of code, FWP is erring on the side of caution.

Wolf advocates had feared that Idaho’s liberalized wolf-hunting season last year might foreshadow similar regulation changes here in Montana. While Idaho reported a wolf harvest of 200 in 2011, Montana only managed to bag 75 percent of its 220-wolf quota—throwing FWP’s population management objective out of whack. Hunters largely blamed the harvest shortfall on restrictive rules.

Idaho, they said, is doing something right.

The commission also proactively approved electronic calls for wolves, just in case the Montana legislature votes to legalize them next spring. Down the road, FWP may even consider opening trapping only in certain hunting units, potentially boosting harvest success in areas such as northwestern Montana, where hunters failed to meet last year’s quotas. Both points mark an evolution in Montana’s wolf management strategy.

Maybe it’s just coincidence that our answers are so closely mirroring our neighbor’s. That’s what we used to tell our AP English teacher, anyway.

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Water compact ripples CSKT inches closer to innovative agreement

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Tea Partiers, state legislators and farmers descended on the KwaTaqNuk Resort on Flathead Lake June 27 to air grievances and voice support for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ pending water rights compact, which aims to forever define how water is allocated in towns like Polson, St. Ignatius and Ronan on the 1.3 million acre Flathead Indian Reservation.

CSKT, state and federal negotiators have worked for years to quantify how much water the tribes are entitled to under

128,000 acres served by it. Weighing the needs of irrigators with those of the reservation’s cutthroat and bull trout fisheries, which have historically sustained the Kootenai, Pend d’ Orielle and Salish tribes of the reservation, has for years constituted a contentious jigsaw puzzle. The CSKT have filed multiple lawsuits over the irrigation project, many of them stemming from the fact that irrigation was drying up streams and jeopardizing fisheries.

Now, in what could be a historic truce,

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Part of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project, watering crops near Post Creek, a few miles south of Ronan, July 11.

the 1855 Treaty of Hellgate, when the CSKT ceded some 23 million acres to the United States Government. In exchange, the federal government promised that the Flathead Reservation would be preserved for the CSKT’s “exclusive use and benefit.”

Despite the treaty promise, in 1910 the federal government opened the reservation to non-native homesteaders. Today, American Indians are outnumbered on the Flathead Reservation two to one.

The pending water compact seeks to reconcile promises made by the federal government 157 years ago with increasing demands for water on the reservation.

It’s a sprawling effort. The compact spells out new mechanisms for developers and municipalities to legally claim water. It defines future wetlands and fisheries protections and how they will be achieved, even setting a minimum level for Flathead Lake. It also attempts to quantify how much water will be available for farmers who need to irrigate the Flathead’s rolling alfalfa, wheat and hay fields.

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the tribes, the federal government and the Flathead Joint Board of Control, a statechartered entity representing irrigators that operate on privately held lands within the reservation, are forging a tentative agreement that could finally put an end to years of bad blood.

Minimum stream-flow levels would be increased from interim levels set by judicial decisions to protect fisheries.

The tribes would phase in the new levels until improvements can be made on 100year-old Irrigation Project infrastructure, such as gates and ditches. According to CSKT hydrologist Seth Makepeace, the Irrigation Project now runs at about 35 percent efficiency.

The tribes are also likely to receive a significant cash settlement from the federal government as part of the compact.

Such a settlement would absolve the U.S from potential breach of trust claims that could arise from, for instance, opening the Flathead Reservation to nonnatives in 1910.

The tribes intend to use a portion of such a settlement to make irrigation project improvements. Makepeace says that would free up more water for everyone.

Not everyone, however, supports the pending compact.

Some non-native reservation residents have expressed concern that the agreement would allow the CSKT to subordinate their need for water. “To take away what the people have here, or what they assumed they had—what’s next?” asks John Swenson, a Libertarian candidate in the Lake County commissioners’ race who owns property in Ronan. Swenson says the compact’s potential impact on him and his neighbors took him off guard.

The tribes have agreed to ensure that all domestic and municipal water users on the Flathead with legitimate claims will receive the same amount of water they’ve used historically. New permits and changes to existing water uses would go through a five-member board charged with overseeing all non-irrigation water use on the Flathead.

It would be composed of two representatives selected by Montana’s governor and two CSKT appointees. Those appointees would pick the fifth board member.

Tribal water settlements typically create two different administration systems.

The state oversees one set of claims; the tribes handle another. The unitary management body proposed in the CSKT compact would be unlike any other water administration system on any Indian reservation in the country.

The tribes have said it makes sense to have one body oversee one resource. But some reservation residents aren’t thrilled with the prospect of having two tribal members on the oversight body. St. Ignatius resident Terry Backs, for instance, said on June 27 that because American Indians are a minority on the Flathead reservation, CSKT should not be given such sway. “I consider that to be very disconcerting,” she said.

The Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission, a state agency authorized to negotiate water rights agreements with tribal and federal governments, is slated to dissolve in July 2013. That means there’s pressure to get the compact done in time to have it ratified by the Montana Legislature during its upcoming 2013 session.

The CSKT is the only tribal government of seven in Montana that has yet to quantify its claims. If negotiators aren’t able to arrive at an agreement before the compact commission is dissolved, all reservation residents face what could be a costly and protracted legal battle. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Assassin’s creed Stealth on the streets of Missoula

By Brooks Johnson

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As if the living dead aren’t enough to The next step is to find out some would recognize the giant squirt gun”—his worry about, I’m now looking over my addresses and work schedules. Not that it Nerf Thunder, a fully automatic, Duracellshoulder for the living. I’m driving my car would help too much. Work and home are powered, changeable-clip Super Soaker— instead of biking. My small, second-hand safe zones, unless you invite your assassin “and people would say, ‘Yeah, man, me and sidearm works for defense, but I’m in need into your home (the vampire rule). And like 10 of my buddies want to play.’”

Plenty of these alleged buddies of something long-range. while you’re at work, on break or between I nervously meet with my partner, the door of your employer and your car, crapped out when it came time to sign up who wears a trucker hat above a blond there will be no shooting from either party. at the start of July, but the pool of several mullet wig. We’ve got a few leads on our Doesn’t mean you can’t follow someone dozen players in version 2.0 are the hardtargets but no way of knowing who’s com- around or get them through the car win- core hunters Berryman’s hoped for.

This time around is more refined and ing after us. The anxiety is setting in, and dow, though. Being in the open, well that’s better planned. There are teams, yards are the gravity of the situation is getting heav- just careless. newly off-limits and a commuier. There are grown men nal safe zone has been estaband women following each lished at Bayern Brewery, other. With squirt guns. where Berryman bartends. He Welcome to Assassins, a says roughly 75 percent of the game of friendly manhunting last game’s victims met their specially tailored to Missoula. doom there, and “there was a The rules are simple (or calling for at least one safe they’re supposed to be). Your spot just to hang out and drink two-person team is assigned a a beer. That is one commonalteam to assassinate. When ity with all the players: both members are laid to Everyone enjoys going out and watery waste, you take over having a beer.” tracking down their assigned I feel better, but I still don’t team. And on and on, until feel safe. The whole time I talk you’re all that’s left. Of with Berryman, at Bridge Pizza, course, rule one is don’t I keep looking over my shoulbreak the law or put anyone der. He assures me he has my in danger, or you’re out. That back, that this is a friendly intersaid, you’re hunting and view, but he easily could have being hunted as well as backset up an ambush while I’m stabbed by other teams and stuffing my face with taco pizza. non-players.

At least I have my squirt gun, a “The whole game is lies leaky mini M16, on the table. I and deceit and double-talk didn’t have such a luxury in the and setups and manipulafirst game, when I was assassition,” says Joe Berryman, nated after finishing a 12-page founder and fighting member paper. I was in search of a beer of Missoula Assassins. “It’s or five, and she knew exactly almost a way to get that stuff Photo by Chad Harder where I would go—I’d been out of your system, and then go back to the real world Missoula Assassins founder Joe Berryman. “The psycho- sold out and caught off guard.

Others met similarly tragic where you don’t lie, cheat, logical aspects behind this game are rad,” he says. fates. Several were squirtmanipulate and screw people over. It’s like a big vent,” he says, laughing.

“The psychological aspects behind this gunned in the back, I witnessed an epic Here’s a game to make Mark game are rad: It gets weird,” Berryman says. over-the-fence shot at Bayern and the Defense is vital. If you manage to dis- setups compounded until more than 40 fell Zuckerberg proud. Every player has to have a Facebook profile with an accessi- cover the identity of one or more of your in about a month.

As of press time, I’m still alive. A few ble picture. In fact, the whole game is assassins (lucky!), you can shoot him or based in a private Facebook group full of her and you’re safe until 5 a.m. the next players have been compromised, but laying taunting, questions and death reports. day. Berryman knows that game all too low and letting my counter-terrorismEven in Missoula, where everyone some- well from the first incarnation of Assassins, trained teammate take the lead has prehow knows everyone else, it’s important which started in April. After several served my stake in this maze of paranoia. to know the face of your enemy. Maybe encounters with his disguised hunter, Except, of course, I totally just blew my you frequented the same pubs this including an incident where she waited on cover. I guess I’ll have to abide by Joe’s partwhole time. How good are you with the roof of his house, he was sold out by ing words: “Trust no one. Absolutely nobody. faces and names? Fortunately for the (go figure) someone he had sold out. He bystander, mistaken identity is rarely a vowed his revenge and quickly got the ball Shave your head, get a new job and start going to mall bars.” problem. You don’t want to get someone rolling for a second round.

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What in the blazes?

Roundup suffers floods, fire … Are locusts next?

By Wendy Beye

There must be a fellow named Job living in Roundup. That would explain the latest punch to the belly of this small rural community.

The first punch occurred a year ago this May, when deputies drove through neighborhoods along the Musselshell River, rousting people out of their beds for immediate evacuation. Rain had fallen for days, high-country snow was melting like ice cubes in a hot frying pan and upstream river-flow gauges were transmitting unbelievably high readings. The high water lasted for a month, submerging nearly onequarter of the town of Roundup, population 1,800, and washing away roads, bridges, sheep, cows, fences, irrigation equipment and vehicles. The flooding also did considerable damage to the sense of security enjoyed by generations of families.

Cut off from outside help by highways awash with floodwaters, residents mounted a homegrown recovery effort, and recently, on the first anniversary of the flood, everybody celebrated their survival. But just a month later, a natural disaster struck again—this time in the form of wildfire.

The Dahl Fire began at noon, with a wisp of smoke rising from a draw 10 miles southwest of town. Dahl Ranch owners reported the lightning-sparked fire and fought hard to beat back the growing flames. No go. Volunteer firefighters who rushed to the scene took one look at the blaze, knew it was already too big and quickly mobilized to drive hundreds of miles of back roads to warn residents to evacuate. Nobody had time to collect keepsakes or livestock; the inferno was advancing on whipping afternoon winds at the rate of three or four miles per hour. By evening, the fire had reached the highway connecting Roundup to Billings, closing it. More than 15,000 acres were blackened, and at least 60 homes were reduced to ashes.

Local fire crews, ill-equipped to deal with a major wildfire, called in a Type 1 fire

team of air tankers, helicopters, dozers and hotshot crews. In the meantime, volunteer members of the Musselshell County Recovery Team pulled together again to help their neighbors. An evacuation center was set up the first night, and local church members patched together three meals a day for evacuees and firefighters.

Donations of food, clothing and money poured in from people with little to give, who nevertheless generously shared.

Many of the families whose homes were reduced to ashes were angry that their horses, cows, sheep and llamas had to be left behind to suffer a horrifying death.

While hundreds of firefighters doggedly worked to stop the fire, the Recovery Team developed a plan to distribute food, clothing and financial assistance to displaced families. Available assistance from state and federal programs for individual homeowners, many of whom were uninsured, is limited. Ranchers devastated by the flood qualified for several resource conservation cost-sharing programs, but no such programs are available for loss of fences, pasture, hay and livestock due to fire on private land.

After last year’s flood, the Recovery Team recognized that people who have lost

almost everything aren’t just in need of the basics; they also need counseling for emotional trauma, as well as information that will help them make decisions about what to do next. Volunteers who helped after the flooding were called out again to support fire victims, with some getting additional training tailored to the aftermath of fire.

Many of the families whose homes were reduced to ashes were angry—angry at the first responders who couldn’t put out the fire, angry that their horses, cows, sheep and llamas had to be left behind to suffer a horrifying death, angry at the fire team that put a halt to residents’ risky efforts to build their own firelines, angry that there will be no government assistance available to help rebuild their homes. The healing process, as it’s called, is likely to take a long time.

The final losses from the Dahl Fire were tallied at 22,045 acres burned, with 223 structures destroyed, including 74 homes.

This may not sound like much when compared to the hundreds of homes lost to wildfires in Colorado and New Mexico, but the 2010 census lists a total of only 2,046 households in all of Musselshell County.

Between the flood of 2011 and this year’s fire, nearly 10 percent of the homes in the county have been damaged or destroyed—a huge economic blow to the community.

Life in rural America has always been tough. Homesteaders had to deal with fire, drought, floods, insect invasions, disease and crop losses. Some families stubbornly persisted, just as folks are doing today in Roundup. Neighbor helping neighbor is a powerful antidote to disaster, but a lot of people are probably praying that next year the locusts don't swarm through.

Wendy Beye is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News. She is a freelance writer living in Roundup.

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aquifer, “This natural storage tank contains billions of gallons of fresh water.” Sure sounds like a lot.

Consider this: The EPA says that the average family of four uses 400 gallons of water per day.

That works out to about six million gallons per day in the city of Missoula, just for households, or, as I like to say, 2,190,000,000 gallons per year. Hey, let’s pretend I’m awful at math (I am) and that we only use 190,000,000 gallons per year (we don’t.). That could add up to billions pretty quicklike, and as we watch large fires scorch the Rocky Mountains and other parts of the West, maybe we ought to be a bit more proactive about drought. Maybe we should conserve water before we need to worry about it, before our population Photo by Chad Harder expands in the West and tests the limthat water passes us by as it heads west, flowing its of the aquifer and before we start shipping into the Columbia River and on to the Pacific water to the oil patch in North Dakota or, worse, to Ocean. In the Missoula area, our drinking water California. Anyways, I’m just saying all you gardencomes from the Missoula Aquifer, which is ers should check out master gardener Paul restored each year during the runoff and by rain. Wheaton’s educational talk Replacing Irrigation The aquifer rests a mere 40 feet below your toot- with Permaculture. Wheaton is a champion of the sies in some spots. It allows us to wash our cars, hugelkultur technique of gardening and landscapundies and driveways (boo to that). It allows us to ing, wherein buried wood provides nutrients and grow lawns in a place that is pretty inhospitable to continuous mulching with much less water usage, fescues and their kin. A short trip to the edge of or as Wheaton says, “Hugelkultur is nothing more the city illustrates how dry it is around these parts. than making raised beds filled with rotten wood.”

As you walk off piste, ears are filled with crunchy It’s almost too easy.

–Jason McMackin sounds emanating from dry grass, pine needles and the flotsam of the forest floor. The trails quickly become dusty, even after a rain-filled gail Paul Wheaton’s talk Replacing Irrigation unloads a thunderhead’s worth of rain. We sure with Permaculture takes place at the don’t feel the need to practice water conservation Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., in during the summer, though, do we? As Mountain the large meeting room, on Wed., July 25, at Water Co.’s website says, in reference to the 6:30 PM. Free. Visit richsoil.com.

You may have noticed that there are plenty of good-sized rivers and streams in the area that bring forth a gajillion gallons of water from the formerly frozen slopes of the mountains that surround us.

What you may not have considered is that a lot of

FRIDAY JULY 20 Apparently, someone is halfway there because Forward Montana is hosting a Livin’ on a Prayer Party to celebrate that their Pink Bunnies have registered 5,000 voters so far this year. Join them in celebration at Kiwanis Park. 5:30–7:30 PM. Free.

SATURDAY JULY 21 Get your Jimmy Carter on during the 1 Kick Ass Democratic Party!, an event for the Ravalli County dems and their supporters. With music by Dexter Payne and the Lionel Young Band, plus lt. gov. candidate John Walsh and others. 822 Sweathouse Creek, Victor. 5–8 PM. $5, plus $20 suggested donation to the Ravalli County Democrat of your choosing.

MONDAY JULY 23 Attending the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Pint Night at Flathead Brewery is a great way to support upgrades to the Peace Park on Waterworks Hill while listening to tunes by Jenn Adams. 424 N. Higgins. 5 PM–midnight.

Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

TUESDAY JULY 24 Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication

Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Students, it’s your turn to donate blood or else. 2401 N. Reserve St. Ste. 6. 4–7 PM. Call (800) RED-CROSS. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free.

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THURSDAY JULY 26 The Osprey team up with the All-Abilities Playground Project for All-Abilities Baseball Night at Ogren Park.

This adaptive baseball game for children with disabilities gives them an opportunity to experience the sport in all its awesomeness. Money raised benefits the construction of a universally accesible playground at McCormick Park. 4–7:30 PM. $5.

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Provincial information officer Maynardo Valdez was accused of gross misconduct and dishonesty after he closed his office in Nueva Ecija without permission and didn’t respond to calls and texts from his superiors for four days. Officials who tried contacting him through his Facebook account saw pictures of him attending a high school reunion at an island resort. Philippine Information Agency chief Jose Fabia alleged that Valdez also neglected his other duties, such as producing daily reports and surveying the sentiments of people in the province. (Associated Press) INFLAMMABILITY ISSUES - When a Canadian tourist broke his foot while camping on a remote island in Norway, he lay there for three days waiting to be discovered. When no help came, the 25year-old man lit a fire, hoping the smoke would attract rescuers. It did but not before the fire got out of control, burned down the man’s tent and then destroyed a large portion of the 178-square-mile island’s foliage. Two army helicopters and 20 firefighters were needed to douse the blaze. “It’s illegal to start this kind of fire,” said Joran Bugge, who led the rescue operation, “but in this case the police aren’t going to take any action.” (Britain’s Daily Mail)

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The device uses air and water pressure to ensure a powerful flush but can burst inside toilet tanks, releasing stored pressure, which the CPSC said “can lift the tank lid and shatter the tank, posing impact or laceration hazards to consumers.” More than 300 of the units have burst in toilet tanks.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - After pleading guilty to robbery and agreeing to undergo drug rehab to avoid prison in Oregon, James Tindell fled the state. Officials located him, thanks to postings on his Facebook page. “Catch me if you can,” he taunted, followed by “I’m in Alabama.” He also posted a sonogram of his unborn son that showed the name of the Alabama hospital where it was taken.

After Tindell was arrested and returned to Multnomah County, Judge Eric J. Bloch sentenced him to 2-1/2 years in prison and ordered him to reimburse the state the $2,600 it cost to fly him back.

“The way we found out where James Tindell was, was through Facebook,” deputy district attorney Michael Schmidt said. “And it’s not because we were super sleuths.” (Portland’s The Oregonian)

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When a 65-year-old man who was camping with a friend in Ontario went into a wooden outhouse and left the door open, a black bear dragged him from the outhouse, bit him on his head and neck and slashed his arms, neck and head. According to provincial police Sgt. David Pinchin, the man’s friend heard the commotion and shot the bear. “He was on the john,” the victim’s son said after his father was treated for his wounds. “He’s scratched up pretty bad.” (Winnipeg Free Press) Citing a report by the National Counter Terrorism Center that terrorist attacks killed 17 U.S. civilians in 2011 and 15 the year before, The Atlantic magazine noted that Americans “are as likely to be killed by their own furniture as by terrorism.” Since Sept. 11, 2001, 238 civilians have died from terrorist attacks, whereas 293 Americans died from furniture falling on them. (The Atlantic) Faster-burning furniture is causing the New York Fire Department to rethink its tactics for fighting residential fires. Firefighters and engineers agree that plastic fillings in sofas and mattresses burn much faster than older fillings like cotton. “Years ago, you could break a window and it took the fire several minutes to develop—or tens of minutes,” George K. Healy, a fire battalion chief in Queens, said.

“Now we’re learning when you vent that window or the door, the fire is developing in, say, a minute with the available oxygen.” (The New York Times) THINK OF THE CHILDREN - When London Olympics chief starter Alan Bell, 61, agreed to signal the start of sports-day events at Scotland’s Gartocharn Primary School, West Dunbartonshire Council officials said he couldn’t use his starting pistol because it might frighten the children. The council first suggested that Bell, who has started more than 25,000 races, including hundreds of primary school events, could play a recording of a starting pistol from an iPod but then told Bell he could use a klaxon. “Anyone who believes they would be frightened by a starting pistol has never experienced the noise at a typical three-year-old’s birthday party,” one parent said. (Britain’s Daily Mail) FIREWORKS FOLLIES - Two unidentified men firing at a cargo container full of fireworks in Belfair, Wash., caused an explosion that flipped the container several times and started fires on the ground and in several nearby vehicles. Authorities said no one was injured, but a pile of tires that caught fire smoldered for several hours. (Seattle PI)

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Despite extreme fire danger and risk of wildfires that prompted nearby towns and villages to ban the use of aerial fireworks, Mayor Bryan Olguin of Peralta, N.M., refused to join them. His wife runs a fireworks stand where fire officials said aerial fireworks are sold. “I’m selling them because when somebody’s starting a fire from fireworks, it’s usually from irresponsibility,” Olguin said. “I can’t take responsibility for stupidityness.” (Albuquerque’s KOB-TV) ‘TED’ IN REAL LIFE - Charles Marshall, 28, was arrested for the fourth time in the past two years for having sex with a teddy bear after employees at a Cincinnati health clinic spotted him pleasuring himself in an alley. His first arrest occurred in February 2010, when witnesses reported he engaged “with a teddy bear in mens bathroom” at a Hamilton County public library. He was arrested in November 2010 for “masturbating w/a stuffed animal (teddy bear)” and in August 2011 for “masturbating using a teddy bear in a public place where minors were likely to be present.” (The Smoking Gun)

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t was before 5 a.m. in mid-November 2011 when permission to hunt, jumping over that corner fence post hunt on many of the locked parcels. But Smith fears that the Bobby Smith awoke. While his dad and brother would mean trespassing on Ted Turner’s 22,000-acre Bar gentrification of the West, and all the new buyers who come with it, will put an end to that. slept, Smith, 35 and a brawny 6’2” with sleeve tat- None Ranch.

“People are comin’ from all over,” he says. “East or west, toos and pierced ears, pulled a knit cap over his buzzed Corner-crossing is a legal gray area in Montana. head before going to the kitchen for coffee. If anyone There’s no law on the books that says it’s specifically ille- they’re coming to Montana. Pretty soon we’ll be like all were getting an elk, today would be the day. For the past gal, but Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the those other big cities, with problems like Colorado, where week, storms had slammed the east side of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and tons got bought up and people can’t get to them.”

Continental Divide, blanketing the ground in up to two Conservation say it’s forbidden. feet of snow.

Montana has about 5.1 million acres, or nearly 8,000 Locked out They’d be hunting on a friend’s ranch just outside square miles, of school trust lands. But of those acres, about Congress passed the Enabling Act in 1889, allowing of Toston, in Broadwater Montana, along with North County, a property spanning Dakota, South Dakota and hilly, sparsely timbered wilderWashington, to join the Union. ness just below the Big Belt It also granted the states federMontana has about 5.1 million acres, or nearly 8,000 mountain range and touching al land to generate revenue for public land. public school systems. square miles, of school trust lands. But of those acres, Smith was expecting a Montana generally received good hunt. His friend who two parcels in every township, about 1.3 million are what the state calls “landlocked,” owns the ranch near Toston, land it has leased to ranchers, Robby Dundas, spoke of “tons miners, timber companies and meaning there is no public route, road or navigable of elk running from the mounhunting guides. The acreage tains and grouping together has fluctuated through the waterway to access the property. on state land next to his.” years due to land sales and When they got there, it acquisitions. Today, the total was better than they imagined. stands at 5,150,997 acres. In Some 200 elk mingled on the fiscal year 2010, agricultural public land, only a short distance from the fence line.

1.3 million are what the state calls “landlocked,” meaning and grazing leases on the state trust lands brought in nearly But the elk were on an island of sorts. The bulls and there is no public route, road or navigable waterway to $18 million. cows stood on state trust land leased by media mogul Ted access the property. The only way to get there is by asking According to Montana DNRC Administrator Shawn Turner. The land was available for hunting, but it’s sur- one of the surrounding landowners for permission to cross. Thomas, when those lands were originally granted, public rounded by private property on all sides, with no public Only a landowner that shares a property edge—not a cor- access wasn’t an issue; they were given to the state to make road for access. If the elk didn’t cross the fence at the cor- ner—can grant access. Not even the state government can money, not for public recreation. But that changed about 20 ner, the Smiths couldn’t cross the fence to go get them. Even access it without approval. years ago. In 1991, the Montana Legislature added a $2 fee though Dundas’s property touched corners with the state Many hunters like Smith say that in the past, good to hunting and fishing licenses that granted Montanans land and even though, as the property owner, he’d given hunter-landowner relations made it possible for people to access to state trust lands.

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“Even if you were the width of a fly and you “What you’re paying for is the right to be able to recreate on that land,” Thomas says, “but you have crossed that point, you’d still be trespassing into your neighbor’s property,” Fitch says. to be able to get there.”

But to go to court, the landowner would have to Getting there has to be by public road or navigable waterway. Under state law, a landowner can’t prove someone trespassed, which, Fitch says, is difclose a state or county road if it goes through their ficult to do. For a landowner to win a case, there’d property, regardless of how old it is. They can only have to be evidence, a witness, footprints or a photo.

When Smith’s hunting party approached claim ownership if the road is abandoned.

That’s exactly what happened to the state trust Turner’s fence, they were met by ranch staffers on land touching corners with Robby Dundas’s proper- horseback. “The horse patrol on [Turner’s] land ty. When his father, George, died, he left a large por- said, ‘No, you can’t cross,’” Smith remembers. “Then tion of his land to Robby’s sister. The Burlington we said, ‘Well, we’ll go to the corner.’ They said, ‘No, Railroad Company had a line that went through her that’d be corner-crossing and that’d be illegal.”

Corner-crossing wouldn’t have been the crime; property and across state trust land. When the company moved the railroad, the old line was aban- it would have been trespassing. If Turner’s attorneys doned. The government didn’t want it, so the section of railroad became hers. After she sold the property to Ted Turner, he had a gate built and closed it to the public.

Today, fewer than 100 yards sepLandowners “want to arate the gate from a section of state trust land, but only Turner, his workers and his hunting clients can drive protect that hunting” on onto it. Turner also allows state agencies to pass through, but anyone else must walk for several miles up landlocked state land, said Sixteen Mile Creek if they want to get onto that section.

John Hansen, assistant Turner’s Bar None Ranch has grazing rights and outfitting rights to the trust land it borders. Turner also general manager of Turner owns the Montana Hunting Company, an outfitting group that charges $14,000 per elk for a hunting Enterprises Inc. expedition on the trust land.

Bobby Smith says that’s not fair.

“Montanans pay taxes on that land “We just happen to own a and a whole lot of others, and we can’t even use them.”

An infinitely small point Tony Schoonen, of Ramsay, has worked to change that. He sits on the board of directors for the Public Land/Water Access Association and is president of the Montana Coalition for Stream Access. He and Jack Atcheson, a prominent hunting guide based in Butte, were behind the effort to get the Montana Legislature to pass the $2 access fee in 1991.

Before the fee was passed, lessees essentially controlled public lands as if they owned them outright. That meant not only grazing or growing whatever they pleased but also controlling who could or couldn’t access it. Before Schoonen and Atcheson raised the issue, the agriculturally sympathetic legislature was in no hurry to change the law.

“We had to go all over the state to these public meetings,” Schoonen recalls. “We were outnumbered 100-to-1, but we got it because it was public land.”

But the law didn’t solve the corner-crossing problem.

According to Beaverhead County Attorney Jed Fitch, a corner can be an infinitely small point on the ground. The land Smith’s hunting party was on isn’t in Beaverhead County, but Fitch’s office has dealt with Turner’s lawyers before.

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little bit more.”

brought the case to court and won, it would have been the first of its kind.

“That’s what everyone’s afraid of,” Smith says.

“These rich landowners have all the money and a ton of attorneys. If they go to court and win, it becomes precedent.”

In 2005, Rep. Paul Clark, of Trout Creek, sponsored a bill aimed at making stranded land more accessible. House Bill 510 would’ve clarified cornercrossing as a legal means of access. The Montana Stockgrowers Association spoke out against the bill, arguing that it violated landowners’ right to privacy.

The bill died.

Ranchers “are scared of anyone crossing onto private property, but we’ve got laws to take care of that. Every state agency is trying to discourage people by saying [corner-crossing] isn’t legal,” Schoonen says. “They’re trying to protect their main renters, which are ag people.”

Schoonen thinks FWP, the Bureau of Land Management and the DNRC are all catering too heavily to their leaseholders, not only in regard to access but also to the rates they pay. Those three

agencies take bids at a minimum of $6.12 a month for every mature cow or cow-calf pair to graze on state school trust lands. The going rate for the same animal or pair of animals on private, non-irrigated grazing land was around $20 in 2010.

Schoonen says every case the PLWA has fought so far has been against a new, out-of-state landowner. Many longtime ranching families in Montana are more willing to grant hunting access, a tradition FWP is actively trying to preserve. He says it becomes a taller task every time these ranching families are squeezed out of public lands by new landowners with deep pockets.

“If a local guy is bidding on the same grazing land as somebody like David Letterman or Ted Turner, there’s no way they can win,” he says. “Those things are happening right now.”

A little bit more Turner’s Bar None Ranch is an example of a private landowner profiting off of public land and animals that the public pays for but can’t access.

“We’re not out to be total jerks,” says John Hansen, assistant general manager of Turner Enterprises Inc. He’s sympathetic to the criticism.

“The way land is viewed has changed in the last 30 years,” he says. “When I was young, we hunted a lot

of private land. It wasn’t this tightly held thing that it is today.”

Hansen says running a ranch is more expensive than it’s ever been, so a lot of people look to outfitting operations to be profitable. “We’ve seen the change in the value of hunting,” he says. “It’s gotten to be more commercialized, so there’s an opportunity to make some income where there wasn’t before.”

In addition to its 153,000 private acres, Turner Enterprises leases 16,600 acres of public land in Montana, 2,760 of which are landlocked.

They’re working ranches designed to be collectively profitable, with bison as the main source of income. All, except for the Bar None (which is managed for trophy animals), are home to parts of Turner’s 50,000-bison herd. Through the

Montana Hunting Company, Turner Enterprises offers guided hunting trips on every one.

Landowners “want to protect that hunting,” said Hansen. “We just happen to own a little bit more.”

Hansen says he’s only aware of a couple of trespassing instances on their properties. But to his knowledge, they’ve never prosecuted anyone for corner-crossing their lands. He says the majority of public lands Turner Enterprises is involved with are open for public access and most of the landlocked parcels wouldn’t make good hunting anyway. His company has done land swaps with the DNRC to make some areas more accessible. Additionally, when herds have grown too large, the company has invited the public onto its ranches for cow elk hunts.

But, he believes, it’s also important to respect private property rights. The company discourages corner-crossing, citing the stance of state agencies.

DNRC spokesman John Grassy says the state is doing the best it can to balance demands for public access, income for public services and profitability of land lessees, but it’s complicated.

The state was handed parcels all over Montana that everyone has a stake in. So, like the executor of a will, they’re trying to give everyone their fair share, but it’s not easy to keep all of them happy.

“The agency understands [wanting access],” Grassy says. “This isn’t something we haven’t done by design.”

So when sportsmen see lands they can’t access behind huge ranches, surrounded by barbed wire and no trespassing signs, Grassy knows why they’re frustrated. Hansen knows why they’re frustrated.

Hunters like the Smith family and Robby Dundas know the frustration firsthand. But the state’s options are limited. It’s trying to open more areas to the public with land swaps, conservation easements and buying acres when the money’s there.

“When it’s right for the public financially and when it’s affordable we’ll do it,” Grassy says. “Until then, they have to make do with what’s out there.” editor@missoulanews.com

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fatal flaws, I wouldn’t be surprised if it sells well. Like Rush Limbaugh’s listeners, this audience is in no hurry to scrutinize the straw-man arguments it’s being fed. Perhaps secure in this knowledge, the authors, economists Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu, set out to “slaughter as many sacred cows in the food activists’ intellectual herd as we could.”

The inspiration to go postal on Michael Pollan and the gang? “To save my marriage,” Desrochers told grist.org. A visiting, lecturing locavore had called Japan a parasitic society because it imports so much food. “My wife was born and raised in Tokyo,” Desrochers said of the woman who would be his co-author. “She made me promise that I would do something about it.”

This book may not pose them, but there are valid questions to be asked of local-food advocates and there are many assumptions worth challenging. With which foods are food miles important? What sorts of safety hazards are specific to local food systems, many of which involve small farms?

But to argue, as this book does, that locavorism is a threat to public health, Third World food security and freedom seems as silly as arguing that locavorism is the world’s only hope.

One notion conveyed in the book that I agree with, to a point, is that certain regions grow certain things really well and that it makes sense to grow those things in those places. This is why Vermont shouldn’t import maple syrup.

While it makes sense for regions to play to their strengths, this strategy can be taken too far, putting undue pressure on certain areas. California, where everything grows well, has paid a high price for feeding so much of the country for so long. Rivers are low and polluted, valley habitat is rare and cancer rates are high in many places due to pesticide use.

And it isn’t necessary. Carrots can be, and are, grown

in all 50 states. Maybe California can let the rest of us handle carrots, aside from what the Californians need for their carrot juice chai lattes.

Another of the book’s points with which I somewhat agree is that farmers' markets are not appropriate venues for all foods. “[D]uring our trips to [farmers'] markets,” it states, “we couldn’t help but notice freezer doors left open for significant periods of time and different kinds of raw meat being handled on the same cutting board.” In my decades of farmers' market hopping, I’ve yet to see raw meat being handled— in this country, anyway—but it’s plausible. Still, tweaks worth making to farmers' market regulations do little to discredit the value of local food.

Every movement has extremists, and locavorism is no exception. But are locavore extremists hurting anyone?

Well, yes, the authors argue. “Today’s locavores and food sovereignists have … increasingly come to embrace old-fashioned coercive policies which they have … sugar-coated in alleged broader benefits,” they write. They cite efforts to place local food in schools, prisons, hospitals and other institutions, and provide a history of tariffs, protectionism and other policy levers that they argue serve as warnings about the threats posed by local food as policy.

A more intellectually honest way to evaluate the potential of local foods is on a place-by-place, food-byfood, season-by-season basis. I use a rule of thumb called the “Slow Boat Rule.” If a food has a long enough shelf life to allow shipping by sailboat, it’s going to consume less energy and release fewer greenhouse gases than a food that’s shipped by airplane. Even though it’s been shown that shipping costs represent a fraction of the energy cost of putting most food on the table, the fraction is not insignificant—especially for high-speed, refrigerated forms of transport.

The authors of The Locavore’s Dilemma describe limiting oneself to seasonal and local foods alternatively as “food masochism” and food “elitism.” Indeed, local food can be many things. It can be an expensive, frivolous luxury and it can be the garden that sustains you. It can be a hobby, a boost to local economies and an opportunity for contrarians to sell books. But for anyone taking a serious look at how we can solve the world’s many food-related problems, locally grown foods are an important tool in the chest.

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“If our modern food system is so bad for us, why do we now enjoy dramatically longer and healthier lives than our ancestors?”

This question is one of four that locavores have yet to answer satisfactorily and should, according to the book The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet. Answering it is a curious if easy assignment.

Penicillin helped a lot, as did urban sanitation and many other public health improvements. There were advances in worker safety protections, in medicine, in human rights and in many other arenas.

And yes, improvements to the food system played a role.

Our developing understanding of nutrition and vitamins, hybrid crops, pasteurization, irrigation efficiencies and weather forecasting have all improved health and lifespan, and I don’t think you’ll find too many self-identifying locavores who disagree. But according to The Locavore’s Dilemma, “locavorism, far from being a step forward, can only deliver the world our ancestors gladly escaped.”

This assumption is crucial to many of the book’s arguments, including the questions that form the pillars of the book’s thesis.

For instance, the book asks, “If local food production in earlier times was so great, why did consumers increasingly favor items from ever more remote locations?” The answer is obvious. The world is a wonderful and diverse place with many enticing foods. It’s not at all surprising that an Alaska native would appreciate a Florida orange. Just as being for local foods doesn’t require locavores to be Luddites, it also doesn’t entail blanket opposition to the shipping of food, like oranges, from places where they grow to places where they don’t.

Thanks to the recent growth in its visibility, the local foods movement has created an audience hungry to see it shot down, and despite the book’s many

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The Brojito at the Old Post This week we discover the Mojito’s younger, experimental brother.

What you’re drinking: Not a mojito at all.

Try a complete photo negative of the Cuban specialty, and you’re on your way to a brojito.

Basil replaces the mint, there’s lemon instead of lime, there's vodka instead of rum, and it's all suspended in lemonade spritzer. Here I was expecting some Red Bullenhanced trash can, but instead I was presented with an old-fashioned cocktail complete with a small salad on top. The citrus is light and the basil flavor is slight, but it does what it’s supposed to: hides the vodka until it’s convincing you to order another.

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totally rad tats (I mean, cool off), you’re going to sit on the Old Post’s patio and sip on some citrus-and-basil booze.

Admittedly, the drink is not named for anything “bro” at all — it was developed by bartender Brittany Derr. Notice the similarities in the first two letters there.

Anyway, she wasn’t present to receive the handshake I owe her, which would have been firm enough to muddle basil, fo’ sho'.

Where to go to, bro: The Old Post’s bartenders will know what you’re talking about down at 103 W. Spruce. But I bet if you bring careful instructions (and maybe your own basil), you can spread the word all over town. Bro. —Brooks Johnson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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Well-suited. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform at Ogren Park–Allegiance Field on Fri., July 20, at 7:30 PM, with all-round all-Missoula all-stars Lil’ Smokies. $39.50-$59.50.

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Colony 17 hosts a staged reading of Traps

by Lily Gladstone at UM’s PARTV Center. 3 PM. $5.

nightlife Crazed dentists and man-eating plants aren’t that far from reality, are they? Little Shop of Horrors got a boost when it came to the big screen with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis.

The musical production by the Alpine Theatre Project brings back what was a

spoof on 1950s sci-fi movies. You can catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center in Whitefish, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com It’s either really tall grass or super short trees.

Find out when Pinegrass plays Draught Works from 5-8 PM. Free.

The Wine and Walk at Travelers’ Rest gives you the chance to sip from the copa de vida and learn more about the park and where it is headed. 1/2 mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. 5:30–7:30 PM. Call 273-4253.

Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park

from 5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by Big Sky Mudflaps. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

The genre-defying Andrea Harsell (who’s occasionally joined onstage by her 10-yearold daughter) brings her songs to Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery at 6 PM. Free.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 20, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Medical Center meeting rooms.

2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Community Conversations on Death and Dying, sponsored by Hospice of Missoula, gathers each month at the Loft of Missoula from 6–9 PM and features a variety of guest speakers. 119 W. Main. Visit hospiceofmissoula.com.

King Tuff might be buried with a donkey one day, but first it’s time to rawk with Jaill and The Coathangers, plus locals Fist City and Skin Flowers. Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main. 7 PM. $10/$8 adv. (See Noise.)

The YMCA Writer’s Voice presents Joe Wilkins, author of the memoir The Mountains and the Fathers, which has been blurbed by some pretty great writers.

Barnes & Noble, 2640 N. Reserve St. 7:30 PM. Free.

Colony 17 hosts a staged reading of Character by Robert Caisley at the UM PARTV Center. 8 PM. $10.

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your usually useless knowledge and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

OMG it’s LCC, i.e. Left Coast

Country, a bluegrass band out of Portland, with locals The Hasslers.

They’ll be at the Palace ‘round 9 PM. $5. (See Scope.)

Karaoke Battle USA at the Silver Coin in Hamilton is war of attrition, in which folks with pipes seek to destroy one another’s versions of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in a bid to attend the national championships. 9 PM–1:30 AM. $10 registration fee.

Party Trained is all our Arts Editor and my gardner talk about, especially after all-you-can-eat hotcakes.

Go hear why when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

He’s lonesome but he doesn’t have to sing to himself: Banjo picker Philip Roebuck plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cost TBA. It’s week three for Airstream Safari’s VFW Residency, and it’s going to get pretty cramped in that silver trailer. With Fancy Child, Fist City and My Two Dads. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $3.

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Sharpen your throwing axe, hop in the crummy and head down the ‘Root for Darby Logger Days, a two-day celebration of the logging life that begins at 4 PM with boxing over water and kids’ chocker races.

On Saturday, July 21, a parade begins at 9 AM, with food, music and competitions throughout the day. Visit darbylogger days.com.

If you’re interested in sitting on your butt and making tons of cash, head to Bitterroot College in

Hamilton for a course on how the world really works during Bakken Oil and Gas Field Basics. This prep course offers up terminology and fundamentals, but probably won’t tell you where the Buford cutoff is or how to get to the Blind Duck. 8:30 AM–3 PM. Call 3750100 to register.

The Hockaday Museum of Art breaks free from the confines of brick and mortar to bring you Arts in the Park, an annual fundraiser held at Kalispell’s Depot Park. 9 AM both today and Saturday, but 10 AM on Sunday. Visit hockadaymuseum.org.

Colony 17 hosts a staged reading of a new play by Marcus Olson ºat the UM PARTV Center. 3 PM. $5.

nightlife Crazed dentists and man-eating plants aren’t that far from reality, are they? Little Shop of Horrors got a boost when it came to the big screen with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. The musical production by the Alpine Theatre Project brings back what was a spoof on 1950s sci-fi movies. You can catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center in Whitefish, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com Louie Bond and the Texas Playgirl ardently support the notion that you need to hear good tunes along with your good times, so you best make it happen, Brenda. Ten Spoon VIneyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 5–9 PM. Free.

Apparently, someone is halfway there because Forward Montana is hosting a Livin’ on a Prayer Party to celebrate that their Pink Bunnies have registered 5,000 voters so far this year. Join them in celebration at Kiwanis Park.

5:30–7:30 PM. Free.

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities.

Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Family Friendly Friday with Phil Roebuck is the place to hear and see “When the Children Cry.” The Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

7–8:30 PM. $40.

Russ Nasset keeps ‘em honest up at The Keep, where he performs from 7–10 PM. 102 Ben Hogan Dr. Free.

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The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South Ave. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info.

Saloon, 1805 Regent. 9:30 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s.

activities and coo-coo snack-loving proclivities to the VFW, with Solo Red Hat and more TBA openers. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $3.

(clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville on Main Street; and in Hamilton at South Third and Bedford streets. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes

Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers perform bluegrass music and surely make you giggle when they perform with local openers the Lil’ Smokies at Ogren Park Allegiance Field in Missoula at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $39.50 to $59.50 and available at ticketfly.com.

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Talk about creating a buzz (sorry): UM now boasts a Beekeeping Certificate Program. This fourday apprentice-level course takes place over the course of two weekends at the Ft. Missoula Research Complex and Aviary. Bring your own hood and hive tool. 8 AM–2 PM. $325. Go to umt.edu/bee.

Blue and the Vagus Nerve make the Eagles Lodge into a nest of good times and great oldies. Watch out for chicken hawks! 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

The Hockaday Museum of Art breaks free from the confines of brick and mortar to bring you Arts in the Park, an annual fundraiser held at Kalispell’s Depot Park. 9 AM both today and Saturday, but 10 AM on Sunday. Visit hockadaymuseum.org.

Colony 17 hosts a staged reading of Do Something Pretty by Melissa Ross at the UM/PARTV Center. 8 PM. $10.

The 3rd Annual Blues Festival Opener at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel features the Kenny James Miller Blues Band, or KJMBB for those in the know. 8–11 PM. Visit symeshotsprings.com.

Put a smile ten miles wide on your face during Polson’s two-day Flathead Cherry Festival, which begins at 9 AM and features cherry pie-eating contests, cherry-inspired num-nums and loads of nice people spitting cherry pits for distance.

Visit montanacherries.com.

That ain’t the tide, y’all, it’s Rising Lion getting three kinds of irie up in the Badlander. TBA openers. 9 PM. $7.

Alluring Surfaces: Tricks and Techniques, with David Regan at the Clay Studio, teaches you how to make the surfaces of your textured plaster relief molds pop with pizzazz. 1106 Hawthorne Ste. A. 10 AM–4 PM. $100/$90 members.

Radioaction bumps beats and shuns seats when booty shaking leaves the streets and takes over the Palace with TBA DJs. 9 PM. Free.

Zeppo MT uncorks the soul genie called Zan Morrison for an evening of danceable music at the Union Club. Call up your old Anthro 101 prof., or better yet just chat with him while his wife is in the loo. 9 PM. Free.

Print Explorations with Bev Glueckert is a Creativity for Life Workshop for those facing illness or loss. Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder Ste. 17. 10:30 AM–12:30 PM. Free.

Visit livingartofmontana.org.

The Trail’s End/Jay’s Reunion is bound to explain where all those sores came from and may even explain why you look just like “Uncle” Gary. Music by Zeppo MT. Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent.

Noon. Free.

Karaoke Battle USA at Lolo Hot Springs is where all the swingin’ singers get vocal in a bid to attend the national championships. 9 PM–1:30 AM. $10 registration fee.

It’s hot out, so melting faces should be easy when Walking Corpse Syndrome, Beefcurtain and Spokane’s Odyssey wreck the Dark Horse. 1805 Regent. 9 PM. $2.

Tapas World Jazz Ensemble plays a dance party and mixes it up with tangos, sambas and more Latin music than a Gloria Estefan mixtape. Plus, dance instructors are on hand to get you moving and grooving. A portion of the proceeds benefits GUTS. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main. 9 PM–1 AM. $10/$16 per couple.

The Mark Duboise Band plays enough country music to make you forget all about the time your ex-husband left you at the Flying J in Gillette, Wyoming. Sunrise

emagic with your special friend(s) under the stars at the Missoula Outdoor Cinema. This evening’s screening is of Mike Judge’s Office Space. The show starts around 9:30 PM, at the Headstart school on the corner of Worden and Phillips on Missoula’s Northside.

Free, but donations accepted.

Little black backpack. Phil Roebuck folks it up at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., on Thur., July 19, at 10 PM, with Scrapyard Lullaby. $3. He also appears at the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday on July 20, from 6 to 8 PM. Free.

Free. Call 728-8799.

Black Lilies win awards and award winners with Appalachianand Americana-type bluegrass tunes. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $7/$5 with Steve Martin ticket stub or wristband.

Check out one MSO’s best bluegrass acts when the Lil’ Smokies stomp guts and kick nuts at Sean Kelly’s, with The Hasslers. 10 PM. Free. (See Scope.)

Speedy Ortiz brings sports and

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See all the beautiful people and purchase fresh-baked yummies, gorgeous veggies and maybe have a taco at one of western Montana’s farmers’ markets. In Missoula at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge

down between 8 AM and 1 PM. Find out what Uncle Fester was yammering about during suppertime at the Miracle of America Museum’s annual Live History Days. This two-day event south of Polson on Hwy. 93 features old-timey activities such as soapmaking, blacksmithery, weaving, carving and more. Music and sweet old rides to boot. Visit miracleofamericamuseum.org or call 883-6804.

Grab a blanket and enjoy the cin-

Bring that special pal to the ZACC for BOGO Pottery Saturday, where you can paint mugs and the like and get a discount on your second one plus maybe a smooch from that special barista. 235 N. 1st St. Noon–6 PM. Prices vary.

Colony 17 hosts a staged reading of An Unladylike Battle for Survival in the Sunnyside Library by Jay Kettering at the UM/PARTV Center.

3 PM. $5.

The 3rd Annual Blues Festival is a wet and sweaty affair at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel and features tunes by Black Mountain Moan, Mudslide Charlie and the Mike Bader Blues Band. 4 PM to late. For more info., visit symeshotsprings.com.

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Seis in the city. Tapas World Jazz Ensemble brings the Latin flavors to the Latin dance party at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., on Fri., July 20, from 9 PM to 1 AM. $10/$16 per couple.

nightlife Crazed dentists and man-eating plants aren’t that far from reality, are they? Little Shop of Horrors got a boost when it came to the big screen with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. The musical production by the Alpine Theatre Project brings back what was a spoof on 1950s sci-fi movies. You can catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center in Whitefish, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM. $18–$39 at alpinetheatreproject.com

shrimps, with TBA DJs playing hiphop, electronic and whatevs.

Palace. 9 PM. Free.

The Workers do the Lord’s work when they play that bluegrass and whatnot at the Bitterroot Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Get a glimpse of the Northern Lights when they make the twostep the hot step at the Lumberjack Saloon up Hwy. 12.

Bring your tent, stay awhile. 9 PM. Free.

The 15th Annual Somers Cajun Street Dance is a boy-howdy of a good time, with food, brews, family fun and dancing with your cousin (don’t judge) to the tunes of Lil’ Brian and the Zydeco Travelers. 7 PM. $20. Visit flatheadvalleyblues.org for a complete schedule.

Muzikata leaves the Mitch Gaylord jokes at home this Olympic year, but they bring a pommel horse worth of tunes to Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole.

5–8 PM. Free.

The Heart to Heart Duo plays the Missoula Senior Center’s Saturday Night Dance, so slide into them glad rags and show the youngsters how it’s done. 705 S. Higgins. 7–10 PM. $5.

Get your Jimmy Carter on during the 1 Kick Ass Democratic Party!, an event for the Ravalli County dems and their supporters.

With music by Dexter Payne and the Lionel Young Band, plus lt. gov. candidate John Walsh and others.

822 Sweathouse Creek, Victor.

5–8 PM. $5, plus $20 suggested donation to the Ravalli County Dem of your choosing.

Colony 17 hosts a staged reading of Books on Tape by William Missouri Downs at the UM PARTV Center. 8 PM. $10.

The Britchy acoustic duo makes the grapes grow ten feet tall and squirts

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freedom juice at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery from 5–8 PM. 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Free.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are so sick they only barf the hottest beats during Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

The DJ Special K Birthday Party is sure to give you the bugaloo

The ‘Root gets rocked when metaleers Walking Corpse Syndrome, Beefcurtain and Orange Supremacy blow the nails out of the Corvallis Grange Hall. 130 Dutch Hill Rd. 9 PM. $5.

Zeppo MT makes dancing with Gladys from accounting as easy as . . . Gladys from accounting.

Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Reverend Slanky performs all them jams to dance by at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

Kristi Neumann and Kristin Janis are one strike away from an out when they perform at Sean Kelly’s. 10 PM. Free.

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The Hockaday Museum of Art breaks free from the confines of brick and mortar to bring you Arts in the Park, an annual fundraiser held at Kalispell’s Depot Park. 9 AM both today and Saturday, but 10 AM on Sunday. Visit hockadaymuseum.org.

Take a Sunday stroll and a spin on the carousel at the Carousel Sunday Market & Festival, which offers up local veggies, crafts and all sort of yummikins. This week, the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium shows off its buggy wares. Every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM at the New Park parking lot near A Carousel for Missoula. Visit carrousel.com/ acfm/carousel-sunday-market-andevents.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

Go with the jam when the Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949.

Classical guitarist Michael Partington performs older than Dickens European tunes at St.

Timothy’s Summer Music Festival near Georgetown Lake. 4 PM. $15/$10 students. For directions and more info., visit sttimothymusic.org.

This ain’t no dream, Gus, it’s Christmas in July at the Missoula Senior Center. Turkey dinner with ALL the trimmings. Ho-ho-ho! 705 S. Higgins. 11:30 AM–12:30 PM.

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Kristi Neumann keeps your Sunday level with musical niblets at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 5–7 PM. Free.

Attending the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Pint Night at Flathead Brewery is a great way to support upgrades to the Peace Park on Waterworks Hill while listening to tunes by Jenn Adams.

424 N. Higgins. 5 PM–midnight.

The Missoula Equestrian Park Member BBQ is a good chance for newbies to sign up for a membership and get busy riding horses and shoveling stalls. 3500 North Ave. W. 5 PM. $10 for non-members.

Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz.

Free.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club can’t unlock your car for you, but they can rock your automobile with a selection of country punk numbers sure to satiate the hell-bound hillbilly in all of us. Palace. 9 PM. $8.

(See Noise.)

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Send your best bacon-wrapped schweinshaxe recipe to the Z100 Bacon Recipe Contest by close of business today and maybe win a chance to show your stuff on-air this Fri., July 27. Visit kzoq.com.

At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

Easiest way to make rent since keno: Bingo at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $10 buy-in.

The Native Playwright Festival hosts readings and commentaries by writers such as Vic Charlo, Julie Cajune, Jennifer Greene and Zan Agzigian. 7 PM. Hangin’ Art Gallery in Arlee. Free-will donations accepted. For a full schedule, visit arleemontana.com.

There’s nothing bland about band, man, so dust off that flugelhorn, Chuck, and join the Missoula City Band for rehearsal in the Sentinel High School band room. How bad could you be? Call 728-2400 or go to missoulacityband.org.

Beauty and the beast. Spaghetti and meatballs. Bass and cello. Jake and Elwood. John Sporman and

Iggy popped. Iowa City’s Solid Attitude brings the wreckage to the VFW, 245 W. Main St., on Wed., July 25, at 10 PM. $3.

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Bethany Joyce perform in one of these formats at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 111 N. Higgins. 7–10 PM. Free.

and Zan Agzigian. 7 PM. Hangin’ Art Gallery in Arlee. Free-will donations accepted. For a full schedule, visit arleemontana.com.

Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

Come by and do you that funk-a-doo. 245 W. Main. 10:30 PM. Free. Call Phil at 2240816 to sign-up.

Cigarette Girls Burlesque, with the ragtime tuneage of Victor & Penny, is a time machine made of lace, moxy and feathers.

Monk’s Bar, 220 Ryman. 8 PM. $3.

Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic presents another night of electric mayhem from all corners of the sub-genre world during Monday Night Shwompdown, with Mankiisi, Nic Jaymes and the Mechanic himself. Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 PBR pitchers.

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Save the fish and make it all better by helping Trout Unlimited to spread native seed on recently decommissioned roads in the Piquett Creek watershed, located in the Bitterroot National Forest. Meet at 8:30 AM in the Safeway parking lot in Hamilton and carpool to the site. Volunteers will return to Hamilton by 5 PM. There is up to 5 miles of hiking necessary to access the planting sites.

Bring hiking shoes, gloves and water. A sack lunch and seeders is provided. To RSVP by calling Heather at 531-8657.

From Grace to Red Shoe Courage teaches women how to embrace the folly of life and make it all good, with speaker Tracy Worley Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center, 4825 N. Reserve. Noon. $50. Visit eventbrite.com/event/3681202576.

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

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat.

All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Students, it’s your turn to donate blood or else. 2401 N. Reserve St. Ste. 6. 4–7 PM. Call (800) RED-CROSS.

nightlife You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip-Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indianled talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

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Become the hostess with the mostest at the Bitterroot Public Library’s Art of Napkin Folding class, with Dylan Goheen. Learn three folds, then piss off your mother-in-law with your superior entertaining skills. 7–8 PM. Free.

Take a load off while you get a load of some of the area’s better musicians during the Musician Showcase at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn Downtown. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200 S. Pattee St. Free.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: In what year did Dr. Phil begin appearing on “Oprah” ?

(See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5.

Don’t just express yourself, be expressive at the ZACC’s weekly one-hour poetry workshop. 235 N. 1st St. 8 PM. Free.

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa J, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

The Badlander’s Live and Local Night features Polson’s own Satellite Heights rocking the ionosphere with high frequency waves of good fun. 9 PM. Free.

Grab that little number you call your old lady and slip into your love-making drawers, cuz Charlie Parr and the Brothers Comatose come to the Top Hat for an evening of tunes and coupling. 10 PM. $10/$8 adv.

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Num-nums and various vittles are the order of the day at Missoula’s Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM to 2 PM. This week’s tunage provided by Kenny James Miller. Free. Visit missouladowntown.com Fill up on your neighbors’ num-nums at the Arlee Community Development Corporation’s Jocko Valley Farmers’ Market. Music this week by Rennie Frank.

Uptown Arlee. 4–7 PM.

nightlife Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip-Hop (for those 7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com Be a frend and help out the good eggs at Mountain Home MT by drinking some good beers at the Northside Kettlehouse’s Community U-nite Pint Night, where 50

cents of each pint goes to the group. 313 N. 1st St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Get in shape the Hemingway, ugh, with Run Wild Missoula during the Beer Run at the Silver Dollar Bar. Runs tend to be about fivemilers and directions are posted at the bar.

Upon your return, enjoy an ice cold Coors.

See runwildmissoula.org.

Get filled up on B12 and iron at Hamilton’s Wednesday Evening Farmers’ Market on Bedford St. 6–8 PM. Learn how to save water and grow tastier num-nums during Master Gardner Paul Wheaton’s class on hugelkultur, aka stacking wood and piling dirt on it. Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Lg. Meeting Rm. 6:30 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)

The Native Playwright Festival hosts readings and commentaries by writers such as Vic Charlo, Julie Cajune, Jennifer Greene and Zan Agzigian. 7 PM. Hangin’ Art Gallery in Arlee. Free-will donations accepted. For a full schedule, visit arleemontana.com.

Meet the guy who recorded Chief Joseph’s words after the Bear Paw Battle of 1877, which is where it all ended for the Nez Perce.

His name’s 1st Lt. C.E.S. Wood, and he’ll tell his side of the story at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History at Ft. Missoula. 7 PM. Free.

For over 100 years the Missoula City Band has been your source for concertband tunes in the Missoula Valley, and they continue that tradition with their weekly

concert series at Bonner Park all summer long. This week, they are joined by the barbershop stylings of Sweet Adeline’s.

Corner of Ronald and Hastings. 9:30 PM. Free.

The Taxpayers give goof punkin’ a good name when they perform with Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra, plus locals Needlecraft, Cat Heaven and Pestapiso.

139 E. Main St. 8 PM. $5.

Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander during Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

See a mad mix of talented performers when the Palace presents a Variety Show to ben-

efit Camp Ten Trees, a camp for LGBTQA kids. Performances include music by Anna Rose and burlesque by Miss D’lish, plus other drag performers, spoken word and sassiness. 9 PM. $5 suggested donation. To perform, email thelovingwarrior@gmail.com.

(Pub trivia answer: 1998.)

Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers bring a mess of chicken, mustard greens and the like for an evening of down-home tuneage.

With locals Butter. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $10/$8 adv. (See Noise.)

Formely known as Viking Fu#k, Solid Attitude brings all that is good about the Midwest with them to the VFW in a very, very small plastic Wal-Mart bag. 245 W. Main.

Openers TBA. $3.

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Blues brothers. Shakewell performs in Florence at Caffe Firenze, 281 Rodeo Dr., on Thu. July 26, at 6 PM. Free.

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The pros know that going to St. Patty’s Day in Butte, America, is a cold, dark, wet mess. That’s why they head to Evel Knievel Days in sunny and dry July. This threeday event celebrates the world’s most famous stuntman with daredevils, car shows, mototrcycle antics and, of course, tube tops.

Head to knieveldays.com.

For summertime learning and such, the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program has moved to the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens.

Bugs, dirt and explorations abound.

10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members.

Visit montananaturalist.org.

The Osprey team up with the AllAbilities Playground Project for AllAbilities Baseball Night at Ogren Park. This adaptive baseball game for children with disabilities gives them an opportunity to experience the sport in all its awesomeness. Money raised benefits the construction of a universally accesible playground at McCormick Park.

4–7:30 PM. $5.

Learn about or comment on the Center Horse Landscape Restoration Project during the Seeley Lake Ranger District Project

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Meeting and Field Trip. The trip includes a 30-mile ride to scope it out. 4 PM. Ovando Fire Hall, 700 Pine St. Call Tami at 329-3731.

nightlife

meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms.

2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Barnaby Wilde is no Tim Fisher but is performing music at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free.

Rupert Wate tells it like it is, with just a pip of how it ought to be, when he plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Learn the best way possible to design an all-season garden with native shrubs and keep it rolling all year long from botanist Marilyn Marler. Ft. Missoula Native Plant Gardens. 5:30–7:30 PM. $5 suggested donation. Visit montananaturalist.org.

The Native Playwright Festival hosts readings and commentaries by writers such as Vic Charlo, Julie Cajune, Jennifer Greene and Zan Agzigian. 7 PM. Hangin’ Art Gallery in Arlee. Free-will donations accepted. For a full schedule, visit arleemontana.com.

Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from 5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by The Cold Hard Cash Show. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

Open Range ain’t an oven with the door agape, partner. With Louie Bond and Kimblerlee Carlson. The Top Hat. 8 PM. Cover TBA.

Shakewell is lite. They bring you dance at Florence. 281 Free.

no Shakeweight™ the jams to make Caffe Firenze in Rodeo Dr. 6 PM.

The Wild Mare hosts artist Madi Adams and her work. Wine from Blodgett Canyon Cellars and singing and songwriting by Chuck Suchy. Corvallis, 283 Second St. 6 PM. $10.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your usually useless knowledge and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight

Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

Karaoke Battle USA at the Silver Coin in Hamilton is war of attrition, in which folks with pipes seek to destroy one another’s versions of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in a bid to attend the national championships. 9 PM–1:30 AM. $10 registration fee.

Party Trained is all our Arts Editor and my gardner talk about, especially after all-you-can-eat hotcakes.

Go hear why when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Stay hydrated. Wear your life vest.

Wrap it up. That is all. Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 15 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH M issoula hosts a bounty of institutes and foundations that exist solely to make the outdoors better for someone. It may not always be you they’re trying to sate, but they have their constituency and it’s nice to know there are groups who aim to protect, understand and share the wondrous landscape that we live in. The Wilderness Institute is one of these entities. Rather than being mysterious and all scientific about what it is they do, they invite you to join them. Established in 1975 at UM’s College of Forestry and Conservation to provide research and interdisciplinary education for scientists, land managers and citizens alike, the group currently has a project that most any of us are capable participating in: the Big Snowy Mountain Wilderness Study Area trips. The Big Snowies are located near Lewistown and appear like a dark, bony spine on an old man’s back over the tawny plains that surround them. These backpacking trips range from three to four nights and are led by experienced field leaders who guide scientists and Luddites alike on the trips. While in the mountains, attendees aid in the monitoring of the the various wilderness study areas. WSA’s are less

wilderness and more akin to National Forests in that they allow wheeled vehicle use and see more traffic in general, yet still cling to the character of wilderness.

While in the out-of-doors and with the aid of the leaders, the group hikes and monitors weed growth, critter activity, sounds and visual intrusions such as cell towers, as well as looking for recreational impacts such as tire tracks. Essentially, the group members act as an extra set of eyes and ears for the institute. And that seems like an amazing opportunity. To go where you may never have been. To be guided by experts in the field. To participate rather than bellyache. Most importantly, to have your dinner made by the aforementioned experts as you rub your feet and listen for the next big discovery.

–Jason McMackin The Wilderness Institute’s next Wilderness Monitoring Backpack Trip begins Fri., July 20, ends Tue., July 24, and takes place in the Big Snowy Mountains Wilderness Study Area. There are four trips left this summer. For more info. or to RSVP, call 243-5361 or email citizenscience@cfc.umt.edu.

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THURSDAY JULY 19

TUESDAY JULY 24

The Wine and Walk at Travelers’ Rest gives you the chance to sip from the copa de vida and learn more about the park and where it is headed. 1/2 mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. 5:30–7:30 PM. Call 273-4253.

Save the fish and make it all better by helping Trout Unlimited to spread native seed on recently decommissioned roads in the Piquett Creek watershed, located in the Bitterroot National Forest. Meet at 8:30 AM in the Safeway parking lot in Hamilton and carpool to the site. Volunteers will return to Hamilton by 5 PM. There is up to 5 miles of hiking necessary to access the planting sites. Bring hiking shoes, gloves and water.

A sack lunch and seeders are provided. To RSVP by calling Heather at 531-8657.

FRIDAY JULY 20 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole.

7–8:30 PM. $40.

WEDNESDAY JULY 25 Get in shape the Hemingway, ugh, with Run Wild Missoula during the Beer Run at the Silver Dollar Bar. Runs tend to be about five-milers and directions are posted at the bar. Upon your return, enjoy an ice cold Coors. See runwildmissoula.org.

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THURSDAY JULY 26

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing.

935 Toole. Noon–1:30 PM. $40.

For summertime learning and such, the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program has moved to the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Bugs, dirt and explorations abound. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

MONDAY JULY 23 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

Learn about or comment on the Center Horse Landscape Restoration Project during the Seeley Lake Ranger District Project Meeting and Field Trip. The trip includes a 30-mile ride to scope it out. 4 PM. Ovando Fire Hall, 700 Pine St. Call Tami at 329-3731. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Patchwork by design The Hasslers go from Top of the Mic to the next level

by Melissa Mylchreest

When you first hear The Hasslers, a Missoula quintet, you might have a hard time putting a finger on what type of music, exactly, you’re hearing. Is it Americana folk rock? Sure, sort of. But those clever lyrics—they’ve got an indie flair to them, and there’s a little bit of old-timey stomp band, some small-town garage band, a taste of the blues. The chords in their song “I Can’t Go to Arizona with You but I Hope You’ll Spend the Night” have a Latin sound, but the song itself builds on a hard-driving emo feel. Disparate though this all may seem, it works.

Works pretty darn well, actually, considering The Hasslers just won Sean Kelly’s Top of the Mic competition this spring, besting more than 100 other local acts.

But they seemed to appear out of the ether back in February. No one had ever heard of The Hasslers, and then, suddenly, here they were, tearing it up on stage.

Turns out there’s good reason nobody knew them prior to Top of the Mic: They simply didn’t exist before then. “I’d been doing a one-man-band thing, and decided I wanted to have a full band for this Top of the Mic contest,” says Matt Hassler, band leader, guitar and banjo player and vocalist. “So I went onto Craigslist, and Matt

The Hasslers are, from left, Ben Haber, Matt Hassler and Matt Bush, plus, not pictured, Annalisa Ingegno and Ben Levine.

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[Bush] answered my ad for a guitar player. He knew Annalisa [Ingegno] and she played fiddle, so they formed the string duo.” Ingegno just happened to know a bassist and a drummer with whom she had briefly played. With the contest as a catalyst, a band was born.

“It was really short notice,” says Hassler. “We formed in January and about a month later we had to start playing these shows down at Sean Kelly’s. People would say, ‘Where have you been?’ and we’d say, ‘Well, we haven’t been anywhere.’” They admit the time frame was a little stressful, but also exhilarating. “Since we had to learn songs so fast, the pressure really helped boost us into something bigger,” Hassler says.

He leans forward when he talks, animated and earnest. Here in this basement practice room on a Saturday morning, the feeling is palpable among the three band members in attendance: giddy excitement, plus a little bit of awe at their recent accomplishment and at the subsequent outpouring of enthusiasm from the community. Ingegno says, “When we first started at Top of the Mic, there were a lot of good bands. We thought, ‘We’ll never make it compared to those guys!’”

Make it they did, though, and as the three of them

talk, a portrait of the band becomes clearer, as do the origins of their eclectic and award-winning sound. It seems that when you find your band members on Craigslist and through the grapevine, there’s no guarantee that you’ll find musicians with the same tastes.

Luckily, this turned out to be a good thing.

Hassler grew up in small-town Lewistown, Mont.

“There’s such a small music scene there that you just inevitably get into whatever they’re into. There were two guys that lived there that played music, and they played opposite kinds of music. But then I came to Missoula, and I was like, ‘Wow, there’s more than two kinds of music in the world!' And it was pretty fantastic.”

His tastes have since tended toward lyrically driven indie folk, and he mentions that players like Conor Oberst have been big influences. But he was willing to broaden his musical scope even further when he started the band.

“What’s funny is that when we started, these guys were bluegrass players,” Hassler says, gesturing to the other two. “I didn’t know much about bluegrass, but they came and saw I play the banjo, so that was good. Except I play nothing like bluegrass banjo. I just hammer on the thing ’til it sounds like a chord. But the blending of their bluegrass and my folk rock really worked.”

Ingegno, who has been playing classical violin since she was three and only recently discovered bluegrass fiddle, agrees. “We all like really different music.

Matt likes all these indie bands that I’ve never even heard of, and I don’t listen to that kind of music. I like Gillian Welch, stuff like that. But we all bring our different influences to the group, and I think that really makes it great.”

Bush mentions that his recent favorites include dirty country like the Drive By Truckers and Lyle Lovett, but he also has a fondness for classic rock and blues. “I learned to play guitar when I was 15,” he says.

“Naturally, like everybody, I played things like Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton. But now I’m into bluegrass and some country, like that real fast chicken-pickin’.”

The three of them affectionately refer to their bass player, Ben Haber, as a band nerd, but are quick to offer the qualification “a band nerd in the best possible way!”

With a background in jazz and choir, he’s brought yet another element of musicality to the group. As for the drummer, no one is quite sure about his tastes: “Hmm, Ben [Levine]. I don’t think I know of a single band he likes. He just likes to play. He sits over there and watches the mesh happen between the four of us and stays in the pocket, and that’s a perfect drummer,” says Hassler.

While such varying backgrounds could spell disaster, for The Hasslers it’s been a recipe for success. With 14 originals, they’re well on their way to recording their first album. And they even seem to be winning over their toughest critics: themselves. “You know, I’ve come to really like our songs,” says Ingegno, as though at first she wasn’t convinced. “They’ve completely grown on me. I’ll be walking in the woods and find myself humming them.”

The Hasslers play the Palace Thu., July 19, at 9 PM with Portland’s Left Coast Country. $5. They play Sean Kelly’s Fri., July 20, at 10 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise Theater DVD Movie Shorts Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers It takes no time at all to fall in love with Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers. The West Coast pop-country band feels classic but not apish. It’s 1970s California. It’s groovy and dusty and liberated. In “Before You Loved Me,” Bluhm sings “You went on breakin’ my heart before you even loved me. / No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t make a man out of you.” Nice burn! Country-western tunes such as “Stick with Me” roll freely with the churn of a sweet bass line. “Wanna Be Your Mama Again” could go on an all-lady country mix featuring Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton. Bluhm can sing sweet—and, man, does she have an amazing voice— but she’s powerful, too.

“Women's Prison” is maybe the raddest song of the bunch. The duet between Bluhm and her husband, Tim,

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Unentitled Alternative Tentacles

The songs that make up SCAC’s latest release could easily be the chants, hymns and bitter recollections of men awaiting their dancing death at the gallows. For the sort of men, at least, that show up to their own hangings drunk on holy water yet spitting hellfire. This album ain’t no lighthearted affair, but rest assured that bellowing along to nine tracks of bizarre misery feels damn good.

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I’m pretty sure it was Bob Dylan who convinced Jimi Hendrix that you don't have to be a good singer to sing, and this advice has resonated for bands ever since. It’s produced mixed results, from the striking (Arcade Fire, Cursive) to the forgettable. Kyle Thomas and his crew of Vermonters fit the former here on their second album.

King Tuff is like Best Coast but slightly more masculine. Synthy pop rock with rolling surf beats features Thomas singing/whining about “going deeper to the unusual world” and being a stranger everywhere he goes. With a voice like that, it’s hard to be a stranger long—he’s got one of those voices to be loved or hated.

The writing is reminiscent of Jay Reatard, without

Spray Paint Spock Fingers SS Records

I could tell you that Spray Paint’s sound is reminiscent of Devo, but that notion may only apply to my aged rock and roll ears. Devo certainly never wrote a tune about a wounded kitty cat leaking fluids as SP has done on “Pink Pus” from their Spock Fingers 7”. The stilted guitar riffs, oddly tuned and uncouth, converse with one another, often speaking different languages: one gurgling synco-

who’s in her band, tells the story of a couple who decide to rob a bank when their money dries up: “Desperate times for desperate measures call, / the deer hunting season didn’t start until fall.” Everything goes wrong and she ends up in prison, which leads to the awesome chorus “Women’s prison! / Not the life I thought I’d lead. / Women’s prison! / Takes a toll on you and me.” Somehow both funny and heartwrenching. That’s good writing. (Erika Fredrickson) Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers plays the Top Hat Wed., July 25, at 9 PM with Butter. $10/$8 advance.

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country guitar and organ swells serve as the dark country-rock backbone for this collection of macabre tales and apocalyptic ruminations. The Colorado outfit’s touring hearse makes a series of left turns down the Americana highway, past haunted farmhouses and burned-out steeples, pausing at each to tell their story. Though frontman Slim Cessna serves as the inspiration for the band’s name, it’s co-frontman Jay Munly who steals the show, spreading his provocative wail and twisted songwriting across the album with the manic fervor of a drug-addled street preacher.

Regardless of who’s behind the microphone, however, the sordid narratives and attention to detail in tunes like “Hallelujah Anyway” and “Thy Will Be Done” will hold the listener’s rapt attention as tightly as a coffin. ( Jed Nussbaum) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club plays the Palace Sun., July 22, at 9 PM. $8. the edge. The guitars draw on late Stones and early psych.

Best track award goes to “Baby Just Break.” It starts with a sweet acoustic jam, then gets all electric and sassy a minute in and leaves you as quick as it came, while you’re stuck humming “Baby just break the rules.” A close runnerup is “Swamp of Love,” which takes a similar idea with even more of a Western twang to it. The fuzzy songs— well, maybe I’m just getting tired of it after decades of garage bands, but they rock pretty hard too. (Brooks Johnson) King Tuff plays Zoo City Apparel Thu., July 19, with doors at 7 PM. $10/$8 advance. pated rumbles of low notes, the other blowing bubbles of jangly, blaring non-mellifluous hooks, the sound of which could make a jet pilot dizzy with discord.

Because of the lack of bass guitar, the drums act as a rhythmic and harmonic bridge. Floor toms are smacked resolutely, filling the bottom end with sonic boom. Vocals and songwriting duties are shared by each member. The vocal trade-offs and stacking of voices create superb dynamics in what would otherwise be a slurry of noisy, droning rawk. The deceptively simple tunes come off as well-crafted. No surprise, since the band is made up of current and former members of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Dikes of Holland, two well-travelled groups. No doubt, these dudes are ready-made for a hot, sweaty night in a basement brimming with body odor and angst. (Jason McMackin)

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Sweet chaos Philipsburg’s Your Flake or Mine? is delicious

by Erika Fredrickson

Driving from Missoula to see a play at the Philipsburg Opera House is a cool adventure. The landscape is sweeping and filled with wildlife and sunlight.

When you pull into town, you can grab some ice cream and sweet potato fries at Doe Brothers just before the show. Or maybe hit up the Sweet Factory for a bag of root beer barrels and apple sours, if you’re there on a Sunday (they’re closed on Saturday). It’s old-timey like that. Old men sit on benches outside the White Front Bar. A boy plays an accordion on the street.

It’s the acting of the Philipsburg cast that’s really stellar. David Mills-Low, who plays Tony and directs the play, has been in a multitude of theatrical productions in and around Missoula. As usual, he’s entertaining— not overdoing the comedy. We can feel that his character is under pressure when he shows up on stage with a horrified expression and his hair shooting out madly in all directions. He’s charming as Tony: a guy who borders on pathetic but who’s really a good guy with real talent, even if he writes greeting cards such as “As

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The opera house is reminiscent of the Wilma Theatre, but smaller and richer in color. You eat popcorn with real butter and the actors—no need for ushers—take your tickets and seat you. It’s folksy and maybe what happened when Shakespeare put on his plays. Nothing highfalutin about it.

This summer the company is putting on three shows all directed by David Mills-Low and all of which run throughout the rest of July and August: a vaudeville variety show and two farces, The Fox on the Fairway and Your Flake or Mine?

Your Flake or Mine? is the story of Tony Dawson, a greeting-card writer who can’t stop himself from speaking in couplets. His wife, Margo, is so sick of it she’s divorcing him and about to marry her boss, Sagamore, who is the tycoon for a breakfast food called Grunchies. When Tony offers to throw Margo an engagement party in order to secretly win her back, things do not go quite as planned. That’s because several other people keep showing up, including a nightclub singer named Coral who needs Tony to write some material for her; Tony’s copy editor Lucille, who happens to be dressed as a go-go dancer; and Tony’s neighbor Irving, who is a professional student—he has degrees in dressmaking and other random subjects.

People end up hidden in closets. Whiskey is drunk.

Fighting ensues. Confessions are obtained. It’s a solid enough sitcom that you’ve seen in a million different forms on television and on the stage for decades.

you sit there in your rocker / with your hair turning white, Spread some cheese on your cracker / for it’s Mother’s Day tonight.” Colleen Watson as his wife, Margo, is funny in a cute and goofy Meg Ryan/Gilda Radner way.

The other cast members are fantastic, too, but David Simmons as Sagamore really gives the play punch. The brother of Hollywood actor J.K. Simmons, he’s clearly got the power-actor gene. Whether he’s bellowing with delight, begging for mercy or exploding into rage, he’s extremely fun to watch.

The climax of the play hits when Tony’s Grunchies cereal jingle—which makes fun of Grunchies cereal—ends up on live television. If the first part of the first act seems a little slow, you’ll know now that it was worth the wait. Even on a Sunday afternoon with a modest crowd, the actors did a fantastic job of pushing the chaos to its thrilling limits. Everything falls apart and then is gracefully put back together, like with the best sitcoms. And afterward, the actors ran down the aisle and to the door, where they graciously shook every audience member’s hand and thanked them for coming. That’s hard-working theater at its best.

Your Flake or Mine? continues at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg through Labor Day weekend. $18/$10 children 12 and under. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Ranking Batman’s five biggest onscreen hits

by Skylar Browning

Few films generate such long-winded hype as The Dark Knight Rises. The latest theatrical trailer has been viewed more than 21 million times on YouTube.

Tickets for the first IMAX showings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco went on sale six months ago and immediately sold out. It might be easier to get Pearl Jam tickets than seats to this Friday’s local premiere at the Carmike 10 and Village 6.

In addition to hype, the newest Batman installment also carries the weight of adding to a beloved superhero franchise. The Dark Knight Rises marks the seventh modern Batman movie and, depending on how you tally spinoff series, about the 17th different time the character has headlined on either the small or big screen. Holy overkill, bat fans! With so much black latex to trim, here’s one argument for the five best Batmans of the bunch.

5. “Batman”

(1943)

This 15-chapter serial has to make the list, if only because it came first and directly influenced more than 20 years of early Batman portrayals. The production itself isn’t great outside of a historical context, and even then it’s mostly remembered for its racist overtones; a World War II story line pits Batman against an evil Japanese scientist named Dr. Darka. Nonetheless, it makes for fascinating viewing 70 years—70 years!— later and deserves recognition for eventually leading to the farcical ABC series starring Adam West that, outside of comic books, introduced most fans of a certain age to the franchise.

4. Batman

(1989)

Hardcore fans eviscerated director Tim Burton for putting Michael Keaton in the lead role, but why? Keaton was a mega-star at the time and his turn in Burton’s Beetlejuice showed a certain sinister side that proved to work with the brooding Dark Knight.

You could make the case Keaton comes out as the second-best Batman ever. But, whatever. Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of the Joker gets this film on the list no matter what you thought of Keaton.

3. Batman Begins

(2005)

Director Christopher Nolan is supremely talented and a perfect fit for this franchise, but he couldn’t have walked into a better situation with this re-boot of the Batman series. His version followed two bloated debacles directed by Joel Schumacher: 1995’s Batman Forever, which featured Val Kilmer in a bat suit with vis-

ible nipples and lots of Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey, and Batman & Robin, the 1997 mess with George Clooney in the lead role, plus Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone and Chris O’Donnell in largely forgettable supporting spots.

Nolan’s Begins went back to the dark origins of the story. Christian Bale turned out to be a perfect mix of tortured and privileged for Bruce Wayne, not to mention his being athletic enough to fill out the suit. As Alfred Pennyworth and Lucius Fox, respectively, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine brought the necessary gravitas to the superhero’s inner circle. Anything with Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson can’t be bad. Even Katie Holmes held her own as Wayne’s childhood friend and love interest. Most importantly, the film spent considerable time building Batman’s back story, a vital part of this franchise’s foundation and perhaps the main reason it remains so popular.

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2. “Batman: The Animated Series” (1992–1995)

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Critics hailed “Batman: The Animated Series” as the truest adaptation of the comic books. Even without that frame of reference, it was striking for its film noir style, its edgy storylines and the sort of violence not often found in Saturday morning cartoons. “B:TAS” became one of those rare shows that appealed to kids, adults and, in my case, procrastinating (and possibly drunk) college students.

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There’s so much to like about Nolan’s second Batman film: The stark backdrop of modern-day Chicago. The Batpod.

Shooting entire action sequences in IMAX format to create incredible clarity. The cliffhangers at the film’s end. Heath Ledger.

It’s no wonder the expectations for The Dark Knight Rises are so high: Nolan’s last foray was damn near perfect, and left plenty more story to tell. Now, if only we could score tickets to the premiere.

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Scope Noise Theater DVD Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK THE DARK KNIGHT RISES The fairly reluctant hero and caped crusader of Gotham City returns to do what the police cannot: stop terrorists from destroying the world, in a mere 164 minutes. His nemesis? Bane, a dude with a face mask that would make Hannibal Lector squee. Starring everyone, including Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway and Matthew Modine. Rated PG-13.

Jackson) is all, “Ah, hell, no,” and initiates the Avengers Initiative. It. Is. On. Also starring Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12: 4:15 and 10 pm.

BRAVE A princess gets the whole fruitin’ kingdom in an uproar and finds herself rolling with a witch before she can make it all right again. Starring every Scottish actor except Sean Connery, including Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson and Kelly Macdonald.

MAGIC MIKE Oh, hells yeah, girlfriend, a fine looking stud learns the wily and wild ways of the male stripper lifestyle from an older, more experienced performer. Stuff like, pumping your hips forward and the best type of tear-away trousers for bachelorette parties on cruise ships. Starring the hunky Channing Tatum, well-tanned Matthew McConaughey and female Olivia Munn. Rated R. Village 6: 1:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm.

Hemsworth. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15 and 7:15 pm.

TED Mark Wahlberg’s childhood wish comes true and his teddy bears turns into “Family Guy”’s Peter Griffin, and his only true pal...until a woman comes along and tries to separate the man from his foul-mouthed friend. Also starring Mila Kunis and Joel McHale. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10:15 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9

Now, where did I put those nipples? The Dark Knight Rises opens Friday at Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.

Carmike 12: 1, 1:30, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 9, 10:25 and 10:30 pm. Big D: 12:30, 4, 7:25 and 10:45 pm. Village 6: 12:30, 4:05, 7:30 and 10:55 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:45 and 7 pm nightly, with 3 pm matinees Wed., Sat. and Sun. Entertainer: 4 and 7:30 pm.

NOW PLAYING THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN Peter Parker may just find out what happened to his parents and perhaps where they are; in the meantime, he’s got a nemesis and a lot of CGI to overcome. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 7 and 10 pm. 3D: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:30 pm.

Village 6: 4 and 7:10 pm. Pharaohplex: 6:45 and 9:15 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9:15 pm show on Sun. Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 pm.

THE AVENGERS Dude, Loki shows up through a space portal and starts controlling people’s minds and doing his evil business. That’s when Nick Fury (Samuel L.

Rated PG. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7 and 9:15 pm. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 9:10 pm. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sun. ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT In the fourth installment of this kid-friendly money-making monolith of “jokes that adults get, too” the crew finds itself untethered from land and having adventures as they float aimlessly upon the ocean, all the while secretly dispatching left-wing notions about climate change to unsuspecting families. Starring the voices of Ray Romano and Denis Leary. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30 and 9:35 pm. 3D: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 9:50 pm. Village 6: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:35 pm.

KATY PERRY: PART OF ME Vocalist Katy Perry uses her sparkler-coated chest to put that 3D to good use in this in-front-of and behind-the-scenes look at one of the world’s most popular singing robots. Rated PG. Village 6: 1:30 and 10 pm.

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MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson directs this story of young love and follows two 12-year-olds on an adventure after they run away from home. All of Anderson’s guys are in this. Starring Ed Norton, Bruce Willis, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. Rated PG-13. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with 1 and 3 pm matinees on Sat. SAVAGES In this Oliver Stone-directed teen fantasy/film, a couple of weed growers go after the Mexican cartel who stole their shared girlfriend from them. Starring Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch and John Travolta. Rated R. Village 6: 1, 4:15, 7:20 and 10 pm.

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN In a world where someone is fairer than Charlize Theron, Snow White goes downright rural on that wicked old witch, and love and action and adventure combine to most certainly make for sexual tension and mixed messages about female empowerment. Starring Kristen Stewart and Chris

pm, with matinees on Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 3 pm, no 9 pm show on Sun. TO ROME WITH LOVE Woody Allen directs this picaresque, which continues to be described as a “love letter” to one of the world’s all-time great cities. Starring Penélope Cruz and Jesse Eisenberg. Rated R. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with 1 and 3 pm matinees on Sat.

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Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., July 20. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan-883-5603.

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TAZ•Taz couldn't go along when his family moved across the country, but the problem was simply logistics; they certainly wanted to take him along. He's a big, handsome fellow who is very attuned to people and gets along with cats and other dogs.

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BAILEY•Bailey is a 5-year-old black Labrador Retriever. Bailey is hoping her new family will take her camping, swimming, and for long car rides. She is already spayed and vaccinated and her adoption comes with a FREE wellness check up with a local veterinarian.

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BOULDER•A boulder is defined as a large, smooth piece of rock detached from its place of origin. Boulder was detached from his place of origin as kitten during our 2010 kitten season. He is a beautiful 1 1/2-yearold Tuxedo kitty.

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MOURNING BREATH At 19, I married the first man I slept with. He died last year after 23 years of marriage, and within a month, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful man I met online. I’m certainly still grieving, sometimes horribly, but my new man understands, and he’s patient. He appreciates me and insists on my total commitment to him (meaning that I can’t date anyone else). The problem is, he lives in another state, and in our year together, his work schedule has kept him from visiting me. He can make me quiver when we talk on the phone, but the distance leaves me lonely at night. Can a longdistance relationship ever work?

—Cradling The Phone So, in an entire year, your Mr. Wonderful couldn’t line up a single weekend to come see you because of his work schedule? Well, that sounds perfectly reasonable—if, for him, getting out of work early means digging a tunnel with a sharpened spoon so as to avoid the electrified razor wire and the armed guards.

As a rule, internet dating should be composed of very little internet and a whole lot of dating. (Phone dates don’t count.)

Until you spend considerable time in a man’s presence, your view of him will be part him and a good part you filling in the blanks with who you’d like him to be. And sorry, quivery romantic moments are just the sparkly topping on a relationship. The actual relationship is mostly the day-to-day stuff— how you are together at the grocery store and whether he’s mean to you when you forget to pick up the dry cleaning. And while your heart might be singing for him across the miles, you could hate the way he kisses and find that your nostrils make a strong argument for lashing him to an old mattress and putting him out with the trash.

Where you go right is in not appearing to buy into cookie-cutter ideas about how you “should” be mourning, like the widely held myth that there are specific, neatly ordered “stages of grief” everyone must move through and Freud’s notion that grieving people need to slog through all their thoughts, memories and emotions about the deceased. (Never mind that he had no evidence for this or that actual evidence suggests that ruminating can cause depression; he had some serious eyeglasses and that groovy Persian rug-draped armless couch.)

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DEFLOWER ARRANGEMENT I’m almost 30 and still a virgin, but not because of religious beliefs. I have strong sexual urges, but I was a really late bloomer (mid-20s), traveled constantly for work and never had a relationship take off. (I’m not into casual sex.) How do I reveal my virginity to guys I date? Won’t they think I’m a freak?

—Undone Some guys will be weirded out that you’re still a virgin, but for many, it’s preferable to starting to have sex with a girl and having balloons and confetti fly around and a loudspeaker crackle: “Congratulations, son! There’s been quite a bit of traffic in and out of this particular garage, but you’re lucky number 100!” Don’t announce your virginity on the first date, like it’s the most relevant thing about you. Wait till a guy’s a little attached, and when the making out gets heavy, explain, “Oh, by the way...late bloomer, blah, blah, blah. Also, I’ve been saving myself for a virgin sacrifice on the edge of an active volcano.” Coolly offering an explanation and even poking fun at yourself suggests that your virginity is just a fluke, not a sign that you have psychological problems or low sexual desire—or that your pa came out with his shotgun and offed all the other guys before they could, uh, pull into your garage.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Acro-Yoga is a relatively new physical discipline. According to a description I read on a flyer in Santa Cruz, it “blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of massage, and the dynamic power of acrobatics.” I’d love to see you work on creating a comparable hybrid in the coming months, Aries—some practice or system or approach that would allow you to weave together your various specialties into a synergetic whole. Start brainstorming about that impossible dream now, and soon it won’t seem so impossible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Unless you grow your own or buy the heirloom variety at farmer’s markets, you probably eat a lot of tasteless tomatoes. Blame it on industrial-scale farming and supermarket chains. They’ve bred tomatoes to be homogenous and bland—easy to ship and pretty to look at. But there’s a sign of hope: A team of scientists at the University of Florida is researching what makes tomatoes taste delicious, and is working to bring those types back into mainstream availability. I think the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks is metaphorically similar, Taurus. You should see what you can to do restore lost flavor, color, and soulfulness. Opt for earthy idiosyncrasies over fake and boring perfection.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’ll be a humming, murmuring, whispering kind of week—a time when the clues you need will most likely arrive via ripplings and rustlings and whirrings. Here’s the complication: Some of the people around you may be more attracted to clangs and bangs and jangles. They may imagine that the only information worth paying attention to is the stuff that’s loudest and strongest. But I hope you won’t be seduced by their attitudes. I trust you’ll resist the appeals of the showy noise. Be a subtlety specialist who loves nuance and undertones. Listen mysteriously.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Most change is slow and incremental. The shifts happen so gradually that they are barely noticeable while you’re living in the midst of them from day to day. Then there are those rare times when the way everything fits together mutates pretty quickly. Relationships that have been evolving in slow motion begin to speed up. Long-standing fixations melt away. Mystifying questions get clear answers. I think you’re at one of these junctures now, Cancerian. It’s not likely you’ll be too surprised by anything that happens, though. That’s because you’ve been tracking the energetic build-up for a while, and it will feel right and natural when the rapid ripening kicks in.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For many years, ambergris was used as a prime ingredient in perfumes.

And where does ambergris come from? It’s basically whale vomit. Sperm whales produce it in their gastrointestinal tracts to protect them from the sharp beaks of giant squid they’ve eaten, then spew it out of their mouths. With that as your model, Scorpio, I challenge you to convert an inelegant aspect of your life into a fine asset, even a beautiful blessing. I don’t expect you to accomplish this task overnight. But I do hope you will finish by May of 2013.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be alert for fake magic, and make yourself immune to its seductive appeal. Do not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to get snookered by sexy delusions, enticing hoaxes or clever mirages. There will in fact be some real magic materializing in your vicinity, and if you hope to recognize it you must not be distracted by the counterfeit stuff. This is a demanding assignment, Pisces. You will have to be both skeptical and curious, both tough-minded and innocently receptive. Fortunately, the astrological omens suggest you now have an enhanced capacity to live on that edge.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I brazenly predict, my dear Aquarius, that in the next ten months you will fall in love with love more deeply than you have in over a decade. You will figure out a way to exorcise the demons that have haunted your relationship with romance and you will enjoy some highly entertaining amorous interludes. The mysteries of intimacy will reveal new secrets to you, and you will have good reasons to redefine the meaning of “fun.“ Is there any way these prophecies of mine could possibly fail to materialize?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens wrote extensively about harsh social conditions. He specialized in depicting ugly realities about poverty, crime and classism. Yet one critic described him as a “genial and loving humorist” who showed that “even in dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius could still be clean and mirth could be innocent.” I’m thinking that Dickens might be an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks, Libra. It will be prime time for you to expose difficult truths and agitate for justice and speak up on behalf of those less fortunate than you. You’ll get best results by maintaining your equanimity and good cheer.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The painter Philip Guston loved to express himself creatively. He said it helped him to get rid of his certainty, to divest himself of what he knew. By washing away the backlog of old ideas and familiar perspectives, he freed himself to see the world as brand new. In light of your current astrological omens, Virgo, Guston’s approach sounds like a good strategy for you to borrow.

The next couple of weeks will be an excellent time to explore the pleasures of unlearning and deprogramming.

You will thrive by discarding stale preconceptions, loosening the past’s hold on you and clearing out room in your brain for fresh imaginings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You don’t have to stand in a provocative pose to be sexy. You don’t have to lick your lips or radiate a smoldering gaze or wear clothes that dramatically reveal your body’s most appealing qualities. You already know all that stuff, of course; in light of this week’s assignment, I just wanted to remind you. And what is that assignment? To be profoundly attractive and alluring without being obvious about it. With that as your strategy, you’ll draw to you the exact blessings and benefits you need. So do you have any brilliant notions about how to proceed? Here’s one idea: Be utterly at peace with who you really are.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lately you’ve been spending time in both the off-kilter parts of paradise and the enchanting areas of limbo. On one notable occasion, you even managed to be in both places simultaneously. How’d you do that? The results have been colorful but often paradoxical. What you don’t want and what you do want have gotten a bit mixed up. You have had to paw your way out of a dead-end confusion but have also been granted a sublime breakthrough. You explored a tunnel to nowhere but also visited a thrilling vista that provided you with some medicinal excitement. What will you do for an encore? Hopefully, nothing that complicated. I suggest you spend the next few days chilling out and taking inventory of all that’s changed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Interruption” will be a word of power for you in the coming days.

No, really: I’m not being ironic, sarcastic or satirical. It is possible that the interruptions will initially seem inconvenient or undesirable, but I bet you will eventually feel grateful for their intervention. They will knock you out of grooves you need to be knocked out of. They will compel you to pay attention to clues you’ve been neglecting. Don’t think of them as random acts of cosmic whimsy, but rather as divine strokes of luck that are meant to redirect your energy to where it should be.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Advertisement for Bids Owner: Town of Stevensville Address: 206 Buck Street, P.O. Box 30, Stevensville, MT 59870 Separate sealed Bids for the construction of: Town of Stevensville Water System Improvements Phase III – Public Water Supply Wells. will be received by: Town of Stevensville at the office of: Stevensville Town Hall (206 Buck Street, Stevensville, MT) Until 2:00 p.m., (Local Time) July 24, 2012, and then publicly opened and read aloud at Stevensville’s Town Hall (206 Buck Street, Stevensville, MT). No pre-bid conference will be held. Please submit all questions in writing to Professional Consultants, Inc. (406) 728-1880. The Town of Stevensville – Water System Improvement Phase III – Public Water Supply Well Project consists of: • Drilling and removing three (3) – six (6) inch test holes, to a depth of approximately 435 feet below ground surface, in the location of the proposed production wells to identify water bearing zones and obtain material samples for screen sizing. • Drilling three (3) - twelve (12) inch boreholes to a depth of approximately 435 feet below ground surface. • Installing twelve (12) inch low carbon steel casing with stainless steel screens at intervals provided in the specifications, or determined by the engineer in each borehole. • Setting well seal/grout to a minimum depth of twenty-five (25) feet, between the bore hole and permanent casing. • Well development • 24-hour yield test for three (3) wells – (approx. 855 gpm) • 72-hour constant discharge aquifer test (approx. 570 gpm) if required. • Installing and setting submersible production pump, drop pipe, and pitless adapter The Bidding & Contract Documents may be examined or obtained at the following location(s): Missoula Plans Exchange – Missoula (201 N. Russell St., Missoula, MT 59801) Professional Consultants, Inc. – Missoula (3115 Russell Street, Missoula, MT 59806) Stevensville Town Hall – (206 Buck Street, Stevensville, MT 59870) upon payment of $30 for each package.

7/2/2012 Town of Stevensville CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 4:30 p.m., on Monday, July 30, 2012, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Jack Reidy Conference room at 140 W. Pine for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Playground and Park Improvements White Pine Park City of Missoula PR 08-12 WP This project consists of selective demolition, excavation, minor grading, concrete pavement, concrete curb for playgrounds, landscaping, and irrigation. Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the

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City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for City of Missoula PR 08-12 WP White Pine Playground and Park Improvements” The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name and Montana Contractor’s Identification Number. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract.

The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability. No bid will be considered which includes federal excise tax, since the City is exempt therefrom and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished to the Contractors making application from Parks & Recreation, 600 Cregg Lane, Missoula MT 59801, (406) 552-6264, upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash cannot be accepted). Full amount of payment will be refunded upon request within ten (10) City business days following bid opening provided that complete plans and bid proposal package are returned in good condition. A Project Manual submitted for bid is retained for legal purposes and is therefore not refundable. After 10 City business days, the remaining checks will be deposited; no reminder calls will be made. Plans and project manual are available for viewing at the following locations: Missoula Plans Exchange 201 North Russell Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-5002 http://www.mpe.us iSqFt (Selbys) 1914 North Ave West Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 543-5101 http://www.isqft.com Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project.

All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 4:30 p.m. on July 30, 2012. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at http://ww.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana,

until August 7, 2012 at 3:00 pm, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the Milwaukee Railroad Path Project.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes constructing approximately 1000 linear feet of new asphalt trail, constructing a new pedestrian bridge at Pine Street over Rattlesnake Creek, new concrete sidewalks, restriping crosswalks, fencing, trail lighting, landscaping, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavation, removal of existing concrete sidewalks, removal of asphalt pavement, and other miscellaneous work as described in the plans and contract documents. The contract includes bid alternates which may or may not be incorporated into the work at the sole discretion of the City. PROJECT FINANCING – The project is funded by a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Western Federal Lands (WFL) Division Appropriation, and is subject to all applicable federal/state regulations, as indicated within the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The project is located near the intersection of Broadway Street and Van Buren Street, south of the MRL tracks between Rattlesnake Creek and Van Buren Street in Missoula, Montana.

The proposed trail will provide a connection from the intersection of Pine Street and Monroe Street, across Rattlesnake Creek, along Van Buren Street, across Broadway Street to the existing pedestrian bridge over the Clark Fork River. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 120 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the notice to proceed.

Additional contract time will not be allowed for any accepted bid alternatives. OPENING OF BIDS: Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the time and place stated above. OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual may be obtained from HDR Engineering, Inc. at 1715 South Reserve Street Suite C, Missoula, MT 59801. Copies of the plans and Project Manual may be obtained upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash cannot be accepted). This is a non-refundable fee.

An additional $10 charge will be applied for shipping and handling if requested. The following locations will have plans available for review only (not for bidding): Missoula Plan Exchange 201 N Russell, Msla 59801 mpe@vemcoinc.com MT Contractors Accn. 1717 11th Ave. Helena 59604 kathy@mtagc.org BID SECURITY: Each bid shall be accompanied by bid security made payable to the City of Missoula in an amount of ten percent (10%) of the bidder’s maximum bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a bid bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the general conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the contract, secure payment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satisfactory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: Montana law requires all contractors to register with the Department of Labor prior to execution of the contract agreement. Forms for registration are available from the De-

partment of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Ave., Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-406-444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by the contractor or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. DOMESTIC MATERIALS: All iron or steel materials to be permanently incorporated into the Project shall be produced in the United States, and certified as indicated within the specifications. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The bidder shall guarantee the total bid price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Rattlesnake Creek / Broadway Crossing (RUX), opening “August 7, 2012” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the contractor’s name, address, and special fuel user permit number and be addressed to: City of Missoula Clerk’s Office 435 Ryman Street Missoula, MT 59802 Facsimile bids will not be accepted. WAGE RATES: The Contractor shall not pay less than the latest Federal Davis Bacon Wage Rates. A copy of the applicable wage rates are attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910. FUNDING AGENCY PROVISIONS: Attention bidders: Please direct your attention to the Funding Agency Special Provisions of the contract documents (section 00900). The successful bidder shall be required to comply with all applicable articles therein. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are strongly encouraged to attend a pre-bid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the owner and engineer at 2:00 pm on July 31, 2012, in the Jack Reidy Conference Room located at 140 W. Pine Street, with an optional walkthrough of the project site upon completion of the meeting (weather dependent). PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the engineer.

It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The engineer for this project is: HDR Engineering, Inc., 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C, Missoula, MT 5801, with questions addressed to Tom Hanou (406) 532-2200. OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The City of Missoula reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the city. The low bid shall be determined on the basis of the lowest base bid, or lowest combination of base bid and accepted alternative bids if alternatives are included. The City may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the alternative bids. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing. Award of the contract is also contingent upon having all right of way certifications and easements in place and receiving approval from Western Federal Lands. Owner: City of Missoula By: /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC2: City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA Request for Proposals – Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System/ Mobile Software and Professional Services The City of Missoula and Missoula County are seeking an experienced computer service firm to provide and deploy a Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System/ Mobile software system and related professional

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Consultants are required to submit “Intent to Respond” forms by August 27, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. MST.. Proposals are due August 31, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. Late proposals will not be accepted. A copy of the request for proposals which includes more information about the project is available on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids or by contacting the Missoula Police Department at 406552-6320.

Jason J. Henderson, #11414 Mackoff Law Firm 38 2nd Ave East Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 701-227-1841 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-107 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KEITH R. BRIDENSTINE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jason J. Henderson has filed an Application or Petition to be Formally Appointed Special Administrator of the Estate of Keith R. Bridenstine which may be examined in the office of the Clerk of this Court.

Hearing has been set at the Courtroom of this Court in Missoula County of Missoula, Montana, on the 14th, day of August, 2012, at 3:00 o’clock p.m., at which time and place all interested person may appear and object. This notice is being given at least 14 days prior to the date of the hearing, pursuant to § 72-1-301, MCA. DATED this 6th day of July 2012 /s/ Jason J. Henderson, #11414 Mackoff Law Firm 38 2nd Ave East Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 MISSOULA COUNTY INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 10:00 a.m. Monday, July 23, 2012, for the construction of the Flynn Lane Bicycle/Pedestrian Trail and Mullan Road Crosswalk Upgrade Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes approximately 1650 lineal feet of bicycle/pedestrian trail along Flynn Lane from its intersection with Mullan Road to Hellgate Elementary School. Additional work will include pedestrian crossing upgrades with illumination in the vicinity of Hellgate Trading Post on Mullan Road. SITE OF WORK: The site of the work is located in Missoula County immediately west of the City of Missoula. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 25 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the Notice to Proceed.

OPENING OF BIDS: The bids will be publicly opened and read starting at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 23, 2012 at Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana (Phone (406) 258-4753). OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: The documents are entitled “Flynn Lane Bicycle/Pedestrian Trail and Mullan Road Crosswalk Upgrade Project.”

Copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained at: Missoula County Department of Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 258-4753 BID SECURITY: Each Bid shall be accompanied by Bid Security made payable to OWNER in an amount of ten percent (5%) of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a Bid Bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid

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PUBLIC NOTICES bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the Contract, secure payment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satisfactory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: CONTRACTOR’S and any of the CONTRACTOR’S subcontractors bidding or doing work on this project will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-406-444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by CONTRACTOR or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by the laws of Missoula County and the state of Montana. The CONTRACTOR must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 90 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Bidders are required to be licensed in accordance with and comply with the Public Contractors License Law of the State of Montana.

Proposals must be sealed and marked “Flynn Lane Bicycle/Pedestrian Trail and Mullan Road Pedestrian Crosswalk Upgrade Project,” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the CONTRACTOR’S name, address, Montana Contractor’s Registration Number, and be addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 No facsimile bids will be accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Office of County Commissioners prior to the scheduled time of bid opening. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the County is exempt therefrom and can furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. WAGE RATES: The CONTRACTOR shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910. Bidder is subject to 18-2-401, et. Seq., Montana Code Annotated and amendments thereto and regulations issued there under, relating to prevailing wages, benefits, and other requirements. No claim for additional compensation will be allowed based upon a lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of any such requirements by Bidder or failure to include in bid adequate increases in such wages over the term of the Contract. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the ENGINEER. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The ENGINEER for this project is: Gregory H. Robertson, P.E., AICP Director of Public Works Missoula County Department of Public Workws 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 Tel. No. (406) 258-4818 OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the OWNER. The low bid shall be deter-mined on the basis of the lowest Basic Bid, or lowest combination of Basic Bid and accepted Alternative Bids if alternatives are in-

cluded. The OWNER may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the Alternative Bids. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing.

MISSOULA COUNTY Missoula County, Central Services will be listing surplus items on our Public Surplus site starting Monday, July 16th and ending on Thursday, July 19th, 2012 at 4pm. The site is on Publicsurplus.com. The region is Montana and the agency is Missoula County. Items include computer work tables, bookshelves, cabinets, wall dividers and modular furniture items.

For questions, contact:: surplus@co.missoula.mt.us or call 258-4820. Payment by cash, money order or PayPal. Missoula County Central Services, 200 W Broadway.

MISSOULA COUNTY Notice is hereby given that Missoula County has issued a Request for Qualifications for procuring engineering services for various bridge projects for Fiscal Year 2013. Responses will be received at the Missoula County Public Works Department, Attention: Erik Dickson, County Engineer, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 4:00 PM on July 31st, 2012. A copy of the Request for Qualifications may be obtained at the above address, by calling the Public Works Department at (406) 258-3772 or by email request to edickson@co.missoula.mt.us.

All requirements and scoring criteria are detailed in the Request for Qualifications. Selection of the consultant will be based on written responses.

The award will be made to the consultant whose qualifications are deemed most advantageous to Missoula County, all factors considered. Responses shall be sealed and marked “Statement of Qualifications for Bridge Engineering Services.” /s/ Erik K. Dickson, P.E., County Engineer MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARINGS The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold budget hearings on the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013. The PRELIMINARY budget hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at approximately 2:30 p.m., following the regularly scheduled Public Meeting in the Missoula County Administration Building Room B14, 199 West Pine St. The FINAL budget hearing will be held on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Administration Building Room B14, 199 West Pine St. PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE OF THE FINAL BUDGET HEARING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, BASED ON THE RECEIPT OF CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUES FROM THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The Commissioners will meet to Adopt the Final Budget and make appropriations at their Administrative Public Meeting on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 206 of the Missoula County Administration Building at 199 West Pine St. Any taxpayer or resident may appear at the hearings and be heard for or against the proposed budget. PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE OF ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, BASED ON THE RECEIPT OF CERTIFIED TAXABLE VALUES FROM THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The proposed budget is open for inspection in the Missoula County Commissioners’ Office. For further information, contact Andrew V. Czorny, Chief Financial Officer, at the Missoula County Administration Building, 2584919, or by e-mail at aczorny@co.missoula.mt.us BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, August 7, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana.

Proposed Text amendment to Chapters 20.85.040 and 20.85.050 Text and Map Amendments As directed by the Missoula City Council, the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants has developed proposed text amendments to Chapter 20.85 Review and Approval Procedures. These amendments are being made to clarify procedural concerns raised during the discussion regarding accessory dwelling units (ADUs), before moving forward with the ADU discussion. The intent of this item is to address the various forms of zoning amendments and to revise and clarify the notification procedures for those amendments. The City Council will conduct a public hearing on this item at a time to be determined. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The project files are available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657, or on the web at, www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 2584657. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE AEA ENTERPRISES, LLC, Claimant Against LYNN LEVIT GOETZ, aka LYNN GETZ, Registered Owner AARON LEVITZ GETZ, aka AARON GETZ, Owner To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 26th day of July A.D., 2012, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at 3943 Brooks Street, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain personal property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: 2010 Ford Tk Escape VIN 1FMCU9EGXAKB51909 Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. No warranty is made as to the condition or title of the vehicle. Dated this 19th day of July A.D., 2012. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By John R. Hinckley, III, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-720 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Dien Dac Vu, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Dien Dac Vu to Steven Dien Dac Vu. The hearing will be on 7/31/12 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: June 25, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Nicole Borchers, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DG-12-44 NOTICE OF HEARING In the Matter of the Guardianship of Rebeka P. Weiss, Minor child. Carla J. Weiss, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: On May 31, 2012, Petitioner, Carla J. Weiss filed a Petition asking to be appointed guardian of the abovenamed minor child. The Petition has been set for hearing in the Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, Montana, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 11:00 A.M. A copy of the Order Setting Hearing is attached hereto. Further documents filed in this case can be reviewed upon request by the contacting the Clerk of the Court for Missoula County at the address listed above. DATED this 5th day of June, 2012. /s/ Carla J. Weiss, Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DP-2003-161 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of DENNIS ROBERT GENG, De-

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ceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Karen Hayward, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 15th day of July, 2012. /s/ Karen Hayward, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-113 Dept. No. 4 COMBINED NOTICE AND INFORMATION TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES AND AFFIDAVIT OF MAILING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RAMONA JEAN MIEWALD, ALSO KNOWN AS MONA MIEWALD, Deceased. To the heirs and devisees of the above-entitled estate. 1. The decedent, RAMONA JEAN MIEWALD, died on June 18, 2012. 2. This notice is being sent to the persons who have or may have some interest in the estate being administered. 3. DAVID ALAN MIEWALD, whose address is 2700 Old Quarry Road, Missoula, Montana 59808, was appointed Personal Representative of said estate on the 29th day of June, 2012, without bond. 4. Papers and information relating to the estate are on file in the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, State of Montana at the office of the Clerk of District Court, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED this 29th day of June, 2012. /s/ David Alan Miewald, Personal Representative. STATE OF MONTANA):ss. County of Missoula) DOUGLAS D. HARRIS, being first duly sworn upon his oath, deposes and says: I am the attorney for David Alan Miewald, the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ramona Jean Miewald, and I served the Combined Notice and Information to Heirs and Devisees and Affidavit of Mailing upon: David Alan Miewald, 2700 Old Quarry Road, Missoula, MT 59808.

Bruce Keith Miewald, 2501 Hayden View Drive, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814. Donald Edward Miewald, 17426 Brooks Blvd., Bothell, WA 98012 by depositing a true and correct copy in the United States mail, certified, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, on the 29th day of June, 2012.

DOUGLAS HARRIS LAW OFFICES. /s/ Douglas D. Harris, Attorney for Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 29th day of June, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Donna M. Pummill, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires June 06, 2016 Nakia (“Nick”) Jesse James Tabbert, THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS. Nakia (“Nick”) Jesse James Tabbert, you are hereby summoned to answer the Petition for Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, 200 West Broadway, Missoula Montana 59802 as Cause Number DA-11-32, and to file your Response and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner’s attorney at the address below within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or respond, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition, to wit: Your parental rights over minor child Torren Nathaniel Tabbert will be terminated. Plaintiff’s attorney of record is Thomas W. Trigg, ASUM Legal Services, University Center 112, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. You are further notified that the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court has ordered that a hearing on the petition to terminate your parental rights in Torren Nathaniel Tabbert will be conducted at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 on the 26th day of July, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. Date: 6-152012 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/22/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200804555, BK-814, Pg-120, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lezlie McKenzie was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Direct Mortgage Corp. was Beneficiary and Stewart Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit 715A of Building 4 of Grizzly Place Townhomes, as described and defined in the “Declaration Under Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to Grizzly Place Townhomes” recorded in Book 753 of Micro at page 674 and Site Plan recorded as Condo#82, records of Missoula County, Montana. Together with said units interest in the limited common ele-

ments and the general Common elements appertaining to said unit as set forth defined in said declaration. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201025121, B:871 P:214, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance, LLC. 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 12/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 30, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $191,509.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $183,378.89, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 5, 2012 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.94004) 1002.218613-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 27, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 13A of CAR LINE ADDITION, BLOCK 17, LOTS 13A AND 16A, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Charles P. Smith, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Washington Mutual Bank FSB, A Federal Association, as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on June 07, 2004 and recorded on June 14, 2004 at 11:23 A.M. o’ clock, in Bk-734, Pg-332, under document No. 200416363. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank NA successor by merger to Washington Mutual Bank fsb. 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 $330.65, beginning October 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, 2012 is $47,666.43 principal, interest at the rate of 6.37500% now totaling $2,100.77, late charges in the amount of $49.59, escrow advances of $471.50, and other fees and expenses advanced of $63.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.33 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 at-

torney’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 25, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase/smith 41954.044 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 27, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 47 OF MALONEY RANCH PHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Chad M Bauer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2007 and recorded October 15, 2007 in B807, Pg-612, under document No. 200727252. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,344.71, beginning October 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 1, 2012 is $259,344.69 principal, interest at the rate of 7.00000% now totaling $27,257.52, and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,298.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $49.74 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors, if such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by

Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 18, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 18th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Bannock County, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Nationstar V Bauer 41706.508 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 24, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock AM. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 678, A TRACT OF LAND BEING A PORTION OF LOT 9 OF LINCOLN HILLS NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Lynn Gmeiner and Barbara A Gmeiner, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 14, 2005 was recorded on November 15, 2005 under Document No. 200530391 in Book 764 on Page 375. 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 $1,159.41, beginning June 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 June 11, 2012 is $219,934.35 principal, interest at the rate of 4.375% now totaling $10,687.54, late charges in the amount of $481.08, escrow advances of $3,252.83, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,244.78, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.36 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 haz-

PUBLIC NOTICES ards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE Dated: May 18, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 18th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage V Gmeiner 42011.571 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 4, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The North 50 feet of Lots 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 in Block 23 of CAR LINE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording reference: Book 723 of Micro Records at Page 284 Jason Williams and Nichole Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property, to Insured Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 8, 2006 and recorded September 13, 2006 on Book-783 and Page-12 as Document No. 200623360.

The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,150.33, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been ap-

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 149, 160, 239, 260, 347, 356, 405 and 440.

Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday July 23, 2012. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, July 26, 2012, 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.

plied 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 16, 2012 is $190,400.00 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $6,318.94, late charges in the amount of $230.08, and other fees and expenses advanced of $69.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.82 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

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 27, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 27th day of April, 2012, before me,

a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Onewest V Williams 41969.616 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 4, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 10 AND THE NORTH 1/2 OF LOT 11 OF BLOCK 53 OF SOUTH MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, OF RECORD IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 19, RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ROBERT S. MERWIN, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by DEED

OF TRUST DATED ON MAY 14, 2004 AND RECORDED ON MAY 21, 2004 IN BOOK 732, PAGE 1217 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200413924. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. 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 $583.58, beginning June 1, 2009, 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 4, 2012 is $92,900.15 principal, interest at the rate of 5.75% now totaling $16,083.94, late charges in the amount of $527.66, escrow advances of $7,554.99, suspense balance of $-495.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,308.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.63 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors, if such amounts are

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PUBLIC NOTICES paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

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

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 26, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 26th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs. Merwin 41916.551 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE

on September 4, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 of Glaicier Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according the the official recorded Plat thereof Darren Bayer and Tami Bayer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Chase Bank USA, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 10, 2005 and recorded on August 15, 2005 in Book 758, Page 117 under Document NO 200520940. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007-CH3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-CH3. 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 $2,920.02, beginning September 1, 2009, 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 17, 2012 is $354,160.33 principal, interest at the rate of 8.875% now totaling $87,901.18, late charges in the amount of $3,332.00, escrow advances of $10,640.67, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,994.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $86.11 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 25, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25th day of April, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase V Bayer 41954.860 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 7, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock AM. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (NE1/4) OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5798. TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT PRIVATE ACCESS AND UTILITY EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NOS. 5622 AND 5798 Jan M. Hollenbach, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C8 July 19 – July 26, 2012

Pinnacle Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated on October 9, 2006 and recorded on October 13, 2006 on Book785 and Page-283 as Document No. 200626669. 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 $1,949.86, beginning December 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 12, 2012 is $318,571.68 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% now totaling $2,322.18, escrow advances of $291.21, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.46 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than

such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 1, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 1st day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Green Tree V Hollenbach 41525.419 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 11-01664-5 Loan Number: 1205271905 APN: 5844006 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on October 26, 2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 17H OF THE AMENDED PLAT OF COBBAN AND DISNMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES, LOT 17, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as:142 SMALL LANE, MISSOULA, MT DALE S. MARTELL, SUSAN L MARTELL, AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, as the original grantor{s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of December 23, 2005, and recorded on January 4, 2006 in Book 767 at Page 104 under Document No. 200600274, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust’). The current beneficiary is: US Bank National Association, as Trustee for CSMC Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4 (the “Beneficiary”).

FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSUR-

ANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated May 6, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of June 18, 2012: Balance due on monthly payments from February 1,2011 and which payments total: $20,288.82: Late charges: $759.36: Net Other Fees:$40.00 Advances: $3,994.28 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $190,585.93 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 3.50000% per annum from January 1, 2011, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. 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 aforesaid 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 trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727 DATED: June 18, 2012 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: John Catching, Authorized Signature A-4264589 07/19/2012, 07/26/2012, 08/02/2012 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/05/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of

the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLARK G. ANDERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/25/2007 and recorded 05/31/2007, in document No. 200713508 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 798 at Page Number 594 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF TOWER LOTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 1125 TOWER STREET, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-12. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $194,451.04 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.02% per annum from 09/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes

PUBLIC NOTICES that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0085495 FEI NO. 1006.142564 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JARED HEGGEN AND JENNIFER HEGGEN, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/16/2006 and recorded 08/22/2006, in document No. 200621349 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 763 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 45 OF MALONEY RANCH, PHASE VIII, AS A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6573 LOWER MILLER CREEK ROAD, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by 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 2007-J2 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-J2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay

the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $1,662,837.92 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 02/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 05/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0045686 FEI NO. 1006.160835 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RONNIE L. SIMPSON, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/07/2009 and recorded 10/26/2009, in document No. 200925608 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 849 at Page Number 856 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A PARCEL OF

LAND LOCATED IN THE S 1/2 OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 47A, JORDAN RANCHETTES, OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1135. Property Address: 2122 PROSPECT CT, Bonner, MT 59823-9607. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $239,669.22 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 08/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/05/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120017190 FEI NO. 1006.155031 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/16/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed,

to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DAVID O LARSON, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/08/2008 and recorded 04/09/2008, in document No. 200807824 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 816 at Page Number 1000 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 38 OF EAST MISSOULA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 213 CLYDE ST, Missoula, MT 59802-5406. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $180,898.85 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 12/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above

described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/04/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0053538 FEI NO. 1006.160932 NOTICE THAT A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Circle H Ranch LLC at 35 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey, 07901-3544; R.E. Loans, LLC doing business at 201 Layfayette Circle, Layfayette, CA 94549; Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC at 14241 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX, 75254; James F. Cozzeto & Blue Skies Development, unknown address; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, WEST POINTE LOT 15C OF WEST POINTE PHASE I 2614-20. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, S26, T14 N, R20 W, BLOCK XXX, Lot 15C, WEST POINTE LOT 15C OF WEST POINTE PHASE I 26-14-20. Parcel No. 3871709. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on 06/02/2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Brigitte Brazda whose address is P.O. Box 549, Post Falls, ID 83877, and a tax deed will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period.

6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $549.17 Penalty: $10.98 Interest: $182.33 Costs: $213.29 Total: $955.77 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 19, 2012. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Brigitte Brazda, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847.

Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of

a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated this June 22, 2012. Brigitte Brazda NOTICE THAT A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Circle H Ranch LLC at 35 Summit Avenue, Summit, New Jersey, 07901-3544; R.E. Loans, LLC doing business at 201 Layfayette Circle, Layfayette, CA 94549; Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC at 14241 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1300, Dallas, TX, 75254; James F. Cozzeto & Blue Skies Development unknown address; Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, LOT 23 OF WEST POINTE PHASE I. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: WEST POINTE PHASE 1, S26, T14 N, R20 W, BLOCK XXX, Lot 023, LOT 23 OF WEST POINTE PHASE I. Parcel No. 3876103. 2.

The property taxes became delinquent on 06/02/2009 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 8, 2009 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Brigitte Brazda whose address is P.O. Box 549, Post Falls, ID 83877, and a tax deed will be issued to her unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $606.76 Penalty: $12.12 Interest: $201.43 Costs: $213.29 Total: $1,033.60. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is July 19, 2012. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Brigitte Brazda, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847.

Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated this June 22, 2012. Brigitte Brazda

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT INVITATION TO BID Missoula Recovery Center Bid Package 2A Sitework and 3A Concrete ONLY Langlas and Associates, Construction Manager for Western Montana Mental Health, would like to invite subcontractors to provide SEALED bids for Missoula Recovery Center which is located in Missoula, Montana until the closing time of 3:00 p.m. on August 1, 2012. All bids MUST BE SEALED AND DELIVERED before the closing time to either: W. MT Mental Health Center Attn.

Patty Kent Langlas & Associates Attn. Roger Davis Building T-9 Fort Missoula 777 East Main Street, Suite 101 Missoula, MT 59808 Bozeman, MT 59715 NOTE: “MISSOULA RECOVERY CENTER BID” on envelope FAXED OR EMAILED BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The project is being funded in part through the City of Missoula's Community Block Grant program and is subject to City of Missoula CDBG Program Supplemental General Conditions, Federal Labor Standards Provisions, and Davis-Bacon wage rates.

The Western Montana Mental Health Center is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Bids shall be submitted on the form provided within the Contract Bid Documents. Contract bid documents have been prepared by Bechtle Architects and may be secured at the office of: Langlas & Associates, Inc.-Bozeman 777 East Main St. Ste. 101 Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone: 406-585-3420 Fax: 406-585-4110 All questions regarding the bid documents shall be directed to: Roger Davis, Senior Project Manager Scott Bechtle, Project Architect Langlas & Associates 406 585 3420 Bechtle Architects: 406 585 4161 Bid documents are available at: Missoula Plans Exchange; Digitally @ Bechtle Architects: 406 585 6141; Or hard copies with a $150 deposit @ Langlas & Associates: 777 East Main Bozeman 406 585 3420. We strongly encourage you to receive a full set of documents and not review partial sets of documents. No bidder may withdraw his bid for at least sixty (60) calendar days after the scheduled time for receipt of bids except as noted in the Instructions to Bidders. Please review the bid document, bid scopes, schedules, and instructions to bidders contained in Volume 1 of the specifications. Bidder agrees to commence work immediately upon receipt for the notice to proceed and has reviewed the schedule and agrees to meet the schedule as presented. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any and all irregularities of informalities and the right to determine what constitutes any and all irregularities or informalities.

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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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835 Rollins. $179,500. 2405227 porticorealestate.com Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course.

Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $375,000. Call Anne for details. 546-5816 www.movemontana.com Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks.

Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university. Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $259,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Historic Preservation Award-Winning Marshall House Beautiful professional building with great design for offices or home and awesome exposure for business. 436 S 3rd W. $395,000 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home!

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.rochelle glasgow.com Looking for a place to call home? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for homebuyer education? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm. 2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $279,000. MLS #20120012.

9869 Lee’s Lane, Missoula.

Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Rattlesnake Valley 909 Herbert. Perched amidst the trees and canopy of the Rattlesnake Valley, this home is a

3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath Rose Park/Slant Streets home with a great yard. $234,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Target Range area home on 0.9 acres. $319,900 Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $269,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula, 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $189,500.

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

beauty! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Slant Street Condo 525A Cleveland. Upgraded and beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Slant Streets: $174,900 porticoreal estate.com 240-5227 TARGET RANGE 4400 SF remodeled home, 1 acre. 7+ BR, 3 1/2 bath, family rooms, workshop, wood, granite, tile, 2 gas fireplaces, professionally landscaped, AC. Great home for large family or possibly 2 families.

End street privacy and gardens create rural feel close to town. 410K. Call 251-4050 for appt. See pics at www.651moualane.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1333 Toole #C14. 2 bed, 2 bath affordable downtown living. Main floor, great southern exposure. $120,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 1545 Cooley #H. 2 bed, 1 bath Northside condo with

RICE TEAM

garage & deck. $127,000. $150 HOA fees. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate.

546-5816. annie realtor@gmail.com 1725A Park Place. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1 car garage.

Fenced, landscaped backyard.

No HOA fees. $150,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail,com 2238 Hillside. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage on quiet culde-sac. $40 HOA fees. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 2441 McIntosh. 2 bed, 2 bath.

Low-maintenance living in lovely 55+ community. MLS #20121579. $106,000.

Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Central Missoula Condo. $187,400. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage on corner lot. Great views of Mount Jumbo. Betsy Milyard, Mon-

Robin Rice 240-6503 NEW LISTING! Twin Creek Road Acreage $165,000 3.69 acres near Bonner & Blackfoot River Modular on permanent foundation allowed

riceteam@bigsky.net missoularealestate4sale.com 19488 Highway 200 East $399,900 5 bed, 3 bath on 3 acres near Blackfoot River 2441 McIntosh Loop $106,00 • 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community

SELLER MOTIVATED! 232 Cap de Villa • $219,900 • Well-maintained 4 bed, 1.5 bath • Fenced backyard with deck & UG sprinklers

PRICE REDUCED! 101 Boardwalk, Stevensville $315,000 • 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage

23645 Mullan $169,900 Beautiful 14 acre parcel west of Huson Modular on foundation allowed

PRICE REDUCED! 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville $298,500 • 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage

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Properties.

702A Charlo. Newly remodeled 3 bed, 1.5 bath on corner lot with single garage. Fenced yard with deck. $155,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. $250,000. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900. Great downtown living! Call Anne 5465816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Treehouse Feel in this fairly new condo with single garage. Great location close to school, bike trail, Good Food Store and town. 935B Garfield. $117,500. 2405227 porticorealestate.com

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HOMES

15436 French Valley Lane, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath mobile on rented lot. $48,900.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749

170 South 1st • Clinton • Quaint mini farm on 2.2 fenced acres close to Forest Service & river • 2 bed, 1 bath • 2 car garage & outbuildings • End-of-road privacy & lots of natural light 1701stclinton.com • MLS #20123028 • $203,000

1537 Defoe 2 bed, 1 bath on large corner lot near Lowell School Hardwood throughout and many great upgrades Potential for second dwelling

www.1537defoe.com $162,000 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

www.rochelleglasgow.com

Rochelle

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

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REAL ESTATE LAND FOR SALE 23645 Mullan Road. Beautiful 14 acre meadow with pasture & trees near Huson. $169,900. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

4,500 square foot lot on the Northside. $59,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Lot 16A MacArthur. New 3 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage. Fantastic Missoula views. MLS #20122947. $184,900. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 2405227

COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville.

Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749

321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic.

Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $65,000. 2405227 porticorealestate.com

OUT OF TOWN 11165B Napton, Lolo. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with basement in heart of Lolo.

Well-maintained with lots of upgrades. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 170 South 1st Street, Clinton.

2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres. Close to the river and Forest Service land. $208,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6.3 acres. Large shop. $339,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 32609 Jocko Road, Arlee. 2 bed, 2 bath on almost 6 acres.

Fireplace, loft and 3 car garage. $214,900.

Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

2 Bdr, 1 Bath Stevensville log home on 1.2 acres. $139,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres. $449,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

2110 Petty Creek Road. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on over 10 acres. Many beautiful extras. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749

4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

• 20117301 ......345 Brooks ..........................4+ Bed 3 Car............................$259,000 • 20120012 ......9869 Lee's Lane ..................1 Full Acre 4 Bed......................$279,000 • 20120690 ......2640 B Tanbark....................Golf Club Townhome ................$375,000 • 20121623 ......835 Rollins...........................Slant Street Charmer ...............$179,500 • 20122378 ......801 N Orange #208..............Downtown Condo .....................$139,900 • 20122806 ......1333 Toole #C-14 ................Cute Clean Condo.....................$120,000 • 20122925 ......114 Bentley Park Loop .......1 Level Living ++ ...................$183,000 • 20123463 ......1725A Park Place................3 Bed Townhome......................$150,000 • 20123754 ......4600 Monticello Place.........Semi-Corner Private ...............$189,500 • 20124033 ......815 39th Street....................Tucked away 4 Bed Open.........$288,000 • 20124335 ......1545 Cooley #H....................Oh So Cute! New Deck............$127,000 • 20120189 ......321 N Higgins ......................Total Remodel 2nd Level..........$780,000

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Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house? Here it is! $350,000. portico realestate.com 240-5227 Lolo End of Cul-de-sac Beauty Open, light, private, quiet and in immaculate condition. Huge yard, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with hardwood, tile and beautiful warm colors.

5697 Explorer Court. $215,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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