NEWS ARTS
LICHEN THE RESULTS: UM BIOLOGIST SHAKES SCIENCE COMMUNITY WITH GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERY
YOU LIKE DAT? ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL KICKS OFF
OPINION
DEMOCRATS MUSTER THEIR OWN KIND OF DYSFUNCTION
CURIOSITIES BOOKS MONTANA COMES BACK FOR MORE
[2] Missoula Independent • July 28–August 4, 2016
News
cover illustration by Kou Moua
Voices/Letters Hellions, train horns and UM administrators .........................................4 Week in Review Dems in Philly, barbecue and the Merc...............................................6 Briefs Buttercup Market, mountain biking and a pigeon ...............................................6 Etc. Florence owner open to closing lobby ....................................................................7 News UM biologist makes headlines for groundbreaking discovery ..............................8 Opinion Who knew Democrats could create more chaos than the GOP?......................9 Opinion Federal coal leasing needs a major overhaul .................................................10 Feature When tourists behave badly.............................................................................12
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Chloe Harris gets in the mood for Missoula’s DAT Conference ............................16 Music Hayes Carll, Stump Tail Dolly and Michael Kiwanuka........................................17 Books Montana Curiosities gets 10 new stories ..........................................................18 Books Terry Tempest Williams makes a plea for our parks ..........................................19 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................20 What’s Good Here Golden Yoke keeps it chill.............................................................21 Happiest Hour Rough Stock Saloon ............................................................................23 8 Days a Week But only seven if we’re following the rules .........................................24 Agenda Climate Smart...................................................................................................30 Mountain High Reggae on the River ............................................................................31
Exclusives
Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................11 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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[voices]
STREET TALK
by Tess Haas
Asked Monday afternoon on the hip strip Visitors to national parks have made a lot of headlines this summer for dangerous, damaging and sometimes fatal decisions.. How often do you frequent our state or national parks? Follow-up: What’s the worst behavior you’ve encountered during your visit?
Mart Tanner: Pretty often. I’m actually going to Glacier tomorrow. Step this way: I see people walking out on bridges and [off the boardwalks] all the time when they have no business being there.
Jean Smith: Not very often anymore. In the past we’ve taken visitors, but we don’t visit much now. Good times: I haven’t really seen anything. People in those days seemed to be more aware.
Randy Deary: Four or five times a year. Bear bait: I have seen lots of littering, alcohol use and going out of bounds. Last weekend I was camping and someone hung bacon grease and fish around the campground at eye level. I’m guessing as a bear attractant.
Justene Sweet: I’d say three times a year. Share the road: I was riding my bike through Yellowstone and people driving didn’t respect bikers. They would drive really, really close to me.
Margarita Serrano: Whenever we’re in the U.S. we usually go to two or three. Power up: I have seen people go to free campgrounds and leave their generators plugged in all night in the middle of nowhere. Or one truck will come take all the power for the whole campground.
[4] Missoula Independent • July 28–August 4, 2016
One idea If you would have told me when I moved here 17 years ago that I would grow old at the University of Montana, I would have LOL’d before that was even a thing. Yet, here we are. I’ve seen administrators come and go, some under a cloak of disgrace, others having given up the ghost for a retirement I’m assuming is filled with travel abroad, charitable work and maybe some consulting on the side. One thing they’ve all had in common is a fundamental lack of ability to understand what truly drives the Montana University System. It’s not an outside firm like RuffaloCODY that has since 2010 failed to produce any notable increase in enrollment despite being paid millions to do so. It’s not a recruiting headhunter who will be paid $240,000 on a one-year contract without any knowledge of or tether to our community, yet is imagined will revitalize this institution in the wake of endlessly poor decisions from a top-down level (see “New VP gets big bonus,” July 21). It’s not a bloated emphasis on an athletic department that has incurred scandals for profligate spending primarily to draw in students whose exploits off-campus were more notable. And it’s not the courting of well-padded alumni who will build yet another facility to cater to … those who would be taught in shiny new rooms by overburdened faculty or supported by a skeleton crew of staff? Let’s not go into wages—which often fall below that of a waiter and require us to take second jobs or be on public assistance—but rather what we do under limited means. We meet with prospective students and their families, relating why we live here and work in higher education. We explain what financial aid entails and the importance of completing their degree in order to pay it back. We make it possible for graduate students to be supported in research positions that will contribute to their theses. We make schedules around their schedules. We advise veterans and people with disabilities and nontraditional and international students. We provide fresh food from what is possibly the best dining service you’ll find at any university. We counsel when they’ve hit a wall, nurse them when they’re sick and make their surroundings aesthetically pleasing. We encourage them to be of service to others. We teach every discipline under the sun, keeping it as contemporary as possible to fit into a constantly evolving
work climate. We take them into the mountains and overseas, making sure they’re safe while exploring science and culture. On any given day we will do a hundred different tasks focused on the same directive: to educate students in the most fulfilling way possible. Unfortunately, higher education has become perversely attached to a corporate model of production and our upper tier administrators seldom come in contact with the product. It is those of us in the classroom or at a counter in Griz Central or in one cubicle among many who are the real heart of this institution, yet we are the very first to be considered expendable. Years of experience with
“It is those of us in the classroom or at a counter in Griz Central or in one cubicle among many who are the real heart of this institution, yet we are the very first to be considered expendable.”
the intricacies of a system that houses, feeds, cares for and educates thousands seems to pale in comparison to a talking head that has the next big idea. There has only ever been one idea: Students will come here and stay here if you treat them well. The only way to do that is to similarly value the people who are with them day in, day out. I’d like someone to draw this to the attention of President Engstrom, the board of regents and whomever will appoint them in the coming years. Fiddling while Rome burns, imagining we’re all eating cake—who remembers that history? Julie Tompkins Missoula
Hell on wheels Just wanted to give a shout out to another of Missoula’s alternative kids’ sports teams, the Hellgate Hellions junior roller derby team! (See “Game changers,” July 21.) The Hellions are strong and motivated young women who train to the fullest of their individual abilities, respect their teammates and competitor, and love the sport of roller derby. They embrace girls of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds and skill levels and work to increase their skill through discipline, hard work and focus. The Hellions are proud to carry on the tradition of roller derby and pursue a physically demanding sport that inspires women and girls to embrace their inner strength while entertaining fans and enriching their community. The Hellions are always accepting new members—no experience necessary. Violet Hopkins Missoula Hellgate Roller Derby Board Member Missoula
Minimum toot This is an open letter to train engineers operating in the Missoula area. Fellas, I know regulations require you to sound your engine’s horn four times at two different locations here in town. One of these is at the intersection of the railroad tracks and Madison Avenue. That’s a busy intersection with heavy traffic. The other location is at the intersection of the railroad tracks and the Envirocon heavy equipment parking lot?! Can that be reviewed? It’s not a through street at all. Why four honks there? Couldn’t that requirement be deleted? There is no traffic. Ever. Now let’s address your train horns. Some of these blasts reach incredibly high decibels. High enough to deafen unfortunate pedestrians and bicyclists waiting to cross Madison Street. There are all kinds of laws on the books prohibiting such blasts in populated areas but as we all know those laws are ignored. Fellas, that’s why I want to appeal to you, man-to-man. Can you keep those four required blasts short? Forget the attorneys, judges, city councilpersons and the rest of the pencil-necks. Do all of Missoula a huge favor and give us the minimum toot. Please! I’ll be happy to buy you a beer. Thanks fellas. Mark Stergios Missoula
missoulanews.com • July 28–August 4, 2016 [5]
[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Joe Weston
Wednesday, July 20 A Missoula City Council committee presses Bozeman developers to change their proposal for the Missoula Mercantile demolition to keep some of the historic facade. Councilwoman Emily Bentley later says she anticipates the committee will make a final vote soon.
Thursday, July 21 The Missoula Redevelopment Agency approves $50,000 to assist the proposed Western Cider taproom on North California Street. Western Cider owners say they hope to open by January, with high-end and midrange ciders brewed from Washington and Montana apples.
Friday, July 22 A 49-year-old Deer Lodge man is found dead in the bathroom at Two Medicine Camp Store in Glacier National Park. Authorities say foul play isn’t suspected.
Saturday, July 23 An estimated 2,500 people pack Caras Park for the eighth annual Big Sky BBQ Festival, which benefits the Montana Food Bank Network. Two barbecue purveyors sell out within the first couple hours.
Sunday, July 24 Missoula Parks and Recreation hosts its first annual Splash Montana Swimathon for charity—but only two swimmers show up to compete. Parks and Rec staff say they’ll try again next year.
Monday, July 25 The Missoula County fire danger rating jumps to “high” in light of continued hot, sunny weather. Open burning is closed and campfires should be properly doused with plenty of water.
Tuesday, July 26 Montana delegates at the Democratic National Convention, led by Carol Williams, cast 14 votes for Hillary Clinton—and 12 for Sen. Bernie Sanders—in helping Clinton officially clinch her party’s nomination.
A lone wolf calls to other members of its pack on a recent Friday night in Yellowstone National Park’s Hayden Valley.
Wilderness
Not just about bikes Since last August, Sustainable Trails Coalition President Ted Stroll estimates his nonprofit has spent nearly $115,000 lobbying Congress to lift a blanket ban on mountain bikes in designated wilderness. The investment paid off in mid-July when Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch introduced the Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Act. If successful, the bill would give local federal officials two years to decide where biking would be permitted in the wilderness areas they manage. The proposal grinds the gears of more than 110 conservation organizations who earlier this year rallied against STC, with the Missoula-based nonprofit Wilderness Watch declaring it “an assault on the very idea of wilderness.” However, it was not the biking component alone that attracted derision. The new bill also proposes allowing U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management personnel to use chainsaws and
wheelbarrows for trail maintenance in the backcountry, something Wilderness Watch Executive Director George Nickas calls a “significant problem.” “It all represents this fundamental unwillingness to show any restraint, to show any humility and to accept that wilderness is out there and exists on its own terms,” Nickas says. “It’s not just about us and our use.” According to Stroll, the maintenance equipment provision was part of STC’s original pitch. In fact, he believes Congress never intended to ban such practices when passing the Wilderness Act, and considers the provision an “olive branch” to other user groups. “The agencies have simply fooled themselves into thinking they can’t use a wheelbarrow, they can’t use a chainsaw,” Stroll says. “The result is, from my travels all over the western United States, there are simply incredible tracts of wilderness that are no longer navigable unless you go cross-country.” The inclusion of chainsaw use in the bill did “enlarge the target” a bit, Stroll adds. But the final version already
reflects a number of changes made in an attempt to mitigate criticism. For example, an earlier draft released to the public would have legalized the installation of limited infrastructure like bridges, trail signs and hitching posts. Such structures are currently unlawful under the Wilderness Act, Stroll claims, singling out seasonal outfitter camps as particularly “intrusive.” “The whole structure of the bill reads differently from the way it did four or five months ago,” he says, “and everybody had a hand in it.” Nickas expects the new legislation will actually serve to galvanize opposition to STC’s efforts. Some national conservation groups have so far taken a pass on issuing a strong stance, he says, and they’ll now have no choice but to view the bill as a serious threat. “It’s going to force everybody who cares about wilderness to get a little more focused,” he adds, “and it’s going to make those who wanted to hide in the bushes come out.” Alex Sakariassen
The “I’ll Just Have One More” Martini 3 oz. gin or vodka 1/2 oz. dry vermouth 3 olives 1 automobile 1 long day 1 diminishing attention span 1 too many Combine ingredients. Drink. Repeat. Mix with sharp turn, telephone pole.
Never underestimate ‘just a few.’ Buzzed driving is drunk driving.
[6] Missoula Independent • July 28–August 4, 2016
[news] University District
Buttercup up for sale One of the first steps Molly Galusha took after dreaming up the idea for Buttercup Market and Cafe in 2010 was to craft a neighborhood plan, to “figure out how I was going to be loved” while running one of the few businesses in a section of town where residents are fiercely protective of its quiet character. The exercise, undertaken with the direction of city officials, struck Galusha as “a little awkward and weird” at the time, but it ultimately helped the cafe’s relationship with its University District neighbors. Now, as Galusha looks to sell the business, she hasn’t forgotten about her original promises. “I will give that letter to the new buyers, because I don’t think you will succeed if you’re not a good neighbor,” she says. Since opening in 2011, Galusha’s cafe at 1221 Helen Ave. has brought stability and community-mindedness to a building that struggled to support coffee shops since Freddy’s Feed and Read closed in the late ’90s. Buttercup is as idiosyncratic as Freddy’s once was, mixing a community space with local food and groceries while also housing one of the few book binderies in the state. Galusha modeled the restaurant, and named it, after her grandmother, who she describes as a “locavore” before the term for eating locally grown food was coined. Galusha has managed to source her cafe largely with Montana-grown ingredients at a price University of Montana students can still afford. On a recent Tuesday, the special dish was “Audra’s Chard Scramble” made with chard harvested from the garden of Audra Loyal, the resident book conservationist who runs The Vespiary from the other room. It hasn’t been the most profitable way to operate a cafe, but Galusha’s approach has won the goodwill she says is necessary to make the business sustainable over the long term. That was her goal when, two years ago, she successfully petitioned the city to lift zoning restrictions that prevented Buttercup from cooking meals to order. In changing the zoning, several members of Missoula City Council said their vote was a result of their trust in Galusha. While Galusha says she no longer has the stamina to run a restaurant business herself, she’s hoping to find a buyer interested in keeping Buttercup in its current, or similar, form.
The building’s owners share her goal. “It’s important to me that it stay a community space,” says Martha Newell, who owns the building with former Missoula Mayor Mike Kadas. Galusha says she is planning several new ventures once Buttercup changes hands, from activism to a new business idea involving handmade women’s clothes. As she tries to explain the concept―simple designs and good, durable materials―a thought occurs to her. “It’s kind of like the philosophy with the food, too,” she says. Derek Brouwer
Pigeons
Looking for Lili The video begins with the bird standing on a man’s back, calm and motionless as he and his friends rush to snap photos they can upload online. It’s dusk and they’re sitting in a parking lot at the Poverello Center. The bird looks like any feral pigeon, an animal that would be seen as a nuisance if encountered downtown. Here, however, the friends feed it a slice of bread and try to play with it. The man with the bird on his shoulder, Wayne, tells the videographer the experience is “pretty badass.” Another person likens the bird to a Pokemon character, joking that the crew needs a Pokeball to catch it. A Pokeball would come in handy for Scott McKay, who instantly recognized the bird in the YouTube video as his pet pigeon, Lili, who escaped from his family’s Northside home through an open window earlier that day. McKay quickly set about plastering “lost pigeon” posters around the city, but not before Lili parted ways with her new friends at the Pov. Almost two weeks later, the video is McKay’s only clue as to her whereabouts. Most people aren’t as excited to hear about McKay’s pigeon as the people in the video were to play with her. Rather, they see the birds as dirty pests and wonder what kind of person could fancy one as a pet.
BY THE NUMBERS Additional bowling lanes planned for Westside Lanes, 1615 Wyoming St. The expansion, which Missoula City Council approved July 25, offsets a portion of the lanes lost when Five Valleys Bowling closed last spring.
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“Almost every single person I’ve talked to, as soon as I tell them I have a pigeon, they get a look of disgust, repulsiveness,” McKay says, “like, how could I?” McKay, a junior at the University of Montana, has found the opposite to be true since he retrieved a limping bird near the Missoula Mercantile building and named her Lili. That was last October, when Lili was so young her eyes were still brown and her feathers weren’t yet iridescent. More than a month passed before Lili could walk on her injured leg, during which time she became McKay’s close companion. Her nest is set up in an open drawer at McKay’s computer desk, where the two have spent countless hours together. “She would land on my shoulder, clean my ear out, and whenever I’d eat [out of] a bowl, she’d stand on the rim and eat out of the bowl. And if I would open up my mouth, she would stick her head in there and start cleaning out my teeth,” McKay says. “It was adorable.” McKay speaks of Lili in the warm, gentle manner of a person bonded so closely to his pet that he’s willing to cook and eat her unfertilized eggs. It’s a feeling possible only because the pigeons are such intelligent, social creatures, he says. But Lili’s no homing pigeon, and McKay puts his chances of finding her at “slim.” A few days after she went missing, McKay took in another wounded pigeon he found along the railroad tracks. This bird, a male, will probably make a better pet, McKay figures, since he’ll never be able to fly. “He’ll never replace Lili, though. I will miss her so much,” McKay says. “I’m just beginning to get used to the fact that she’s gone.” Derek Brouwer
ETC. It’s budget season for Missoula City Council and—wait, don’t doze off quite yet. There’s actually a hot topic already riling up downtown business owners. Part of Mayor John Engen’s proposed budget includes a request for two new police officers to patrol downtown. Last week, David Bell, owner of the historic Florence building, testified before a council committee that the beefed up patrols would go a long way toward helping him deal with a recent spate of problems in his property’s lobby. Bell, who refers to himself as a “reluctant ambassador” on the issue, relays stories of aggressive transient behavior and intimidation of his tenants. If the city doesn’t step up, he’s threatening to close the lobby to the public—although he admits that’d be “logistically tricky.” “Clearly there is a sentiment that it is worse now than it’s ever been before,” Bell says, adding he’s been “bombarded” by other downtown proprietors with their own stories of altercations with the homeless in recent weeks. Not everyone, however, is sounding the alarm. Laura Waters, owner of Red Bird Restaurant, opened a wine bar in 2006 that uses the Florence lobby as its entryway. “In my opinion, it’s under control,” Waters says. “Half the time, I feel like it’s just people in wintertime trying to stay warm.” She adds it’s “hard to believe” any solution could possibly close the lobby to the public while still allowing customers to reach Red Bird or the building’s other businesses. Gabby Rosier, a barista at Posh Chocolat, mostly agrees. She has to keep an eye out to make sure her tip jar doesn’t get stolen and she points to show where someone damaged the counter’s brass register while trying to pry it open with a knife, but she feels safe at work. The Missoula Police Department doesn’t bring much clarity to the issue. Officers have responded to the Florence 18 times since May 1, though only seven of those were prompted by actual calls for service. Downtown Police Officer Andy Roy says that number “probably falls in the norm for that specific geographic location.” That leaves city council and Bell with more anecdotal evidence than hard numbers. As Rosier puts it, “Most people don’t really create any problems—you get a bad lemon sometimes.” The question is whether the occasional bad lemon equals two new officers.
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[news]
Lichen the results UM biologist makes headlines for groundbreaking discovery by Kate Whittle
If you’re a biologist who studies caught up with him over email to talk this suggests that possibly these different lichen groups are much more complex lichen, it’s not often that The New York fame, science and lichenology. than even we lichenologists have been Times, The Atlantic and the Washington Articles about your lichen discovery aware. Post come calling in the same week. But that’s what happened to University of are top reads on The Atlantic and The How often are you in Missoula? I’m Montana researcher Toby Spribille, whose New York Times. Did you expect so much told that you moved back to Austria and latest discovery will rewrite basic biology excitement about it? Toby Spribille: We thought people continued to collaborate with UM retextbooks. It all started with specimens of yellow lichen collected in Pattee Canyon may be excited about our results, but we searchers after the lichen project. TS: I am in Montana two or three were pretty blown away by the level of inin 2011. “They’re sort of the stars of the show,” terest. People who work on lichens are months a year. Montana holds a special says John McCutcheon, the UM professor used to working in obscurity and in close place in my heart and I’m not about to let contact with nature, and some have been go of all my roots there. whose lab hosted the experiments. Biologists traditionally thought lichen known to be hermits living in mountain What else would you were a symbiotic combinalike to discover? Where’s tion of two organisms: your work going next? fungus and a photosynTS: I’d like to underthetic partner, such as stand more about the algae or bacteria. Through other branches of lichen painstaking work, Spribille symbiosis. And I’d like to determined that a previraise public awareness ously undetected yeast about the importance of was also integral to some lichens in our ecosyslichens’ fundamental tems in Montana and makeup. The discovery elsewhere in the inland that lichen can be a triad, northwest. They say that not a duo, undoes 150 people don’t care about years of scientific underwhat they don’t know, standing. The results, puband I think we will all be lished in the journal better stewards of our Science on July 21, made ecosystems when we reinternational headlines. photo courtesy of Tim Wheeler alize all the kinds of life Spribille also brings an unusual background to Toby Spribille was raised by a fundamentalist cult in the Flathead that depends on specific the field. According to The but went on to become a world-renowned biologist. He began a habitats. A lot of people years-long study of lichen using samples collected in the Misdon’t realize it, but Atlantic, Spribille grew up soula area. lichens are where it’s at in a Montana trailer park with biodiversity in the in a “fundamentalist cult,” Montana mountains. In the Amazon it with very little formal education. He cabins. You don’t usually get fan mail. might be trees moved to Europe to find a university willWhat value do you think your dis- or frogs; not with us, we have only a ing to take him as a student and went on dozen or so tree species compared to the to earn a doctorate from the University of covery holds? TS: Lichens are incredibly diverse or- thousands in the Amazon, and only a Graz in Austria in 2011. Spribille declined to get into further specifics about his up- ganisms, and by that I mean they have handful of frog species. But we do have bringing when asked by the Independent, many distinct groups, as different from over a thousand species of lichens living other than to say he’s originally from the each other as turtles are from birds and within a short radius of Missoula. It’s imthese from mammals. People haven’t re- portant that people know that—land Flathead. These days, Spribille spends most of ally appreciated the incredible depth of managers, recreationists, school kids. It his time at the University of Graz, where evolution that has led to today’s lichens. changes how you see the world, once he teaches biology and molecular evolu- We have now shown that one of these you know it. tion. He also collaborates with UM’s Divi- groups has a secondary fungus, in addikwhittle@missoulanews.com sion of Biological Sciences. The Indy tion to the known fungus and algae, and
[8] Missoula Independent • July 28–August 4, 2016
[opinion]
Unconventional times Democrats create their own kind of dysfunction by Dan Brooks
There was a moment earlier this year when it looked like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich might divide the Republican Party among themselves. As a neutral observer of the political scene, I was definitely not rubbing my hands together in churlish glee at that possibility. Thanks to my unshakeable journalistic integrity, I almost never relished the thought of watching the party that spent eight years thwarting compromise get hoisted on its own petard. Anyway, that was spring. Pollen was in the air and all things seemed possible. The only thing that didn’t was the Republican Party unifying and the Democratic National Convention falling into fractious dissent. So, of course, that’s what happened. Last weekend, Wikileaks—the hacking-oriented whistleblower site and/or puppet of the Kremlin—released 20,000 private emails that showed officials on the Democratic National Committee conspiring against the Bernie Sanders campaign. The DNC is supposed to remain neutral in the nominating contest. The party faithful dismissed these emails as both inconsequential and the work of Vladimir Putin, a cracked-plate story that became even less convincing on Sunday, when DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned. Her party’s convention started the next day. Wasserman Schultz had promised to preside over it, but on Monday the delegation from her home state of Florida met her with boos at breakfast. She politely withdrew after that. A few hours later, Sanders addressed his own delegates and supporters outside the convention hall—the perhaps symbolically named Wells Fargo Arena—and told them to do everything possible to make Hillary Clinton president. They booed him. So the Democrats convened on an inauspicious note. After the weird and unsettling spectacle of the Republican convention the previous week, where Trump all but explicitly embraced white nationalism, it seemed all the Democrats
had to do to hold the White House was not screw up. And they screwed up immediately. For months, liberal pundits and nearly all persons in a position of power within the Democratic Party had shamed Sanders supporters for suggesting the DNC was biased. They made the failure to get behind Hillary a moral issue, treating it not as political disagreement but as misogyny, bullying or subversion of the Democratic cause. Hillary was the Democratic cause, as far as party leaders were concerned. At
“This country is not built on each person’s inalienable right to choose the least bad leader.”
times, the press seemed to think so, too. The suspicion that Sanders might be running against a rigged system became an apostasy—proof you were either a cryptomisogynist or a college sophomore, ignorant of how things really work. Then the DNC confirmed that suspicion. They got caught doing exactly the thing they mocked Sanders voters for suggesting, at exactly the moment they needed to unite those voters behind Clinton. In a way more concrete and damaging than any Bernie bros, the leaders of the party subverted the Democratic cause. All this disappointment put the convention speakers in a bad position Monday night. They had to sell a good idea
with a terrible pitch. It is imperative that Democrats unite against Trump, for their party and probably for the future of this country. But to do that, they must unite behind Clinton. The Republican nominee is a racist TV personality with no experience in government and no plan for the country beyond running it himself. He is the most unpopular candidate in the history of modern polling. But the Democrats nominated the second-most unpopular candidate in history, crookedly, then showed their delegates the fix was in. How are disillusioned Sanders voters—many of them young and participating in the nominating process for the first time—supposed to respond to that? Should they remain loyal to a party they just joined, immediately after discovering its leaders conspired against the candidate who brought them in? Yes they should, because otherwise Donald Trump is going to become president. But “vote for Hillary or we’re all in trouble” is not the sugar to make that medicine go down. The 2016 election has become a contest of incompetences. Both the Republican and Democratic parties botched their nominating processes. Explicitly, now, they call on their constituents to choose the lesser of two evils. That’s a betrayal of the democratic promise. This country is not built on each person’s inalienable right to choose the least bad leader. Americans should not go to the polls holding their noses. We should have gotten better. Shoulda but didn’ta, as the Appalachians say. This is the right moment in the column for a ray of hope, but that’s not coming. It won’t get better than this. The opportunity for the American voter, in the next dozen weeks, is to make sure it doesn’t get worse. That’s a bum deal. I think we should take it. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and hope’s false promise at combatblog.net.
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[opinion]
Clean break Federal coal leasing needs a major overhaul by Dan Bucks
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The winds of change are blowing hard across our Western coalfields. Competition from cheaper fuels such as natural gas, wind and solar has dampened domestic demand for coal. This trend—plus a bust in export markets after a brief boom—has driven five major coal companies into bankruptcy court. There, they seek protection from their creditors in order to “reorganize” by cutting costs and shedding debt. At the same time, the Interior Department has started to face up to the longtime failure of its federal coal program. By law, it is supposed to provide taxpayers with a fair return on the sale of coal that is owned by the public. But over the last four decades or so, the American people have lost tens of billions of dollars because coal leases were undervalued by the federal government, and corporations often underpaid royalties. And the bad news continues: At belowmarket prices, the Interior Department has already leased more than 20 years of future coal production. The Interior Department now seeks to remedy this failure with tighter royalty rules and a moratorium on any new leases while it reevaluates the coal program from top to bottom. Coal industry promoters ask, “Why now? Isn’t this the wrong time to fix the coal program when the industry is under so much stress?” There are a host of good responses to the industry’s laments. Reform is rarely easy, but in this case it’s long overdue and there is never a wrong time to start following the law. The enormous hidden subsidies that have been given to the industry have not saved it from the current marketdriven pressures. If anything, you can argue that those subsidies only discouraged the industry from responding more quickly to changing markets. There is no better time to pause and evaluate the leasing process than during a slow market.
But the best answers as to why the federal government should fix its coal program come from the industry’s current economic struggles. The fact is that the nation is beginning a major energy transition. Coal will be produced for decades but will play a diminishing role in the nation’s energy picture. Sooner rather than later, coal production will stabilize at a lower level consistent with supplying the newer coal-fired power plants built in the last 25 years or so. Meanwhile, natural gas, wind and solar will continue to displace coal. The federal
“Coal will be produced for decades but will play a diminishing role in the nation’s energy picture.” coal program and a host of other public policies need to be retooled to accommodate a reduced coal future. The second thing to keep in mind is that federal and state governments need to help coal communities and workers remain productive and prosperous as this energy transition occurs. Bankruptcies take a serious toll on worker and retiree benefits and wages. That toll is an early warning sign to governments that they need to do more to prevent even greater economic distress in the years ahead for these workers and their communities. New jobs and businesses need to be developed for displaced coal workers,
most likely in wind and solar energy production, but also in other fields. Health care, job training, family education and other services should be a priority to help communities and workers adjust to the nation’s new energy realities. The third consideration is that as the industry restructures, the Interior Department has the duty and responsibility to reclaim its rightful control of the federal leasing process, making sure that the system functions correctly under the law. In 1990, Interior ceded to industry the ability to determine what coal tracts would be leased and on what terms. Interior must replace that failed process with policies guaranteeing a fair return to taxpayers, balancing coal leases with future needs and protecting the environment. Time is short. The companies that rise out of bankruptcy—leaner, tougher and perhaps fewer in number than before—could start a land rush for acquiring new coal leases at bargain-basement prices. That’s why it is so urgent for the Interior Department to control coal leasing on public land. If Interior fails to act decisively, the public interest will be betrayed yet again, and opportunities for a better energy future will be lost. Interior is deciding now the issues it will analyze during its review of the coal program over the next three years. Ask Interior to ensure that the American people get paid the right amount for federal coal, the environment is protected, mines get reclaimed and revenues are generated to help coal communities and workers transition to a changing energy landscape. Dan Bucks is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He was director of the Montana Department of Revenue from 2005 to 2013.
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FASHION CHALLENGES – Beautician Sarah Bryan, 28, of Wakefield, England, who garnered worldwide notoriety last year when she introduced a wearable dress made of 3,000 Skittles, returned this summer with a wearable skirt and bra made of donated human hair (including a substantial amount, she said, of pubic hair). She admits having had to work in an eye mask, breathing mask and thick gloves, out of fear of donors’ hygiene habits. More conventionally, designer Van Tran of Brooklyn, N.Y., won the 12th annual (wearable) Toilet Paper Wedding Dress design contest in New York City in June, with a $10,000 prize from sponsors Charmin and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
THE POWER OF PRAYER – A 28-year-old woman, unnamed in news reports, veered off the road and into a house in the Florida panhandle town of Mary Esther on July 7. She apparently was free of drug or alcohol influence, but readily explained to police that she must have gone through a stop sign and left the road when she closed her eyes to pray as she drove. (The house was damaged, but no one was injured.)
WEIRD NUMBERS MAKING THE NEWS RECENTLY – The Transportation Security Administration announced in May that it had collected $765,000 in loose change left behind in airport scanner trays during 2015 -- an average "haul" for the agency of $2,100 a day (numbers assuming, of course, that TSA personnel turn in all of the money they find). Los Angeles and Miami airports contributed $106,000 of the total.
TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT – Scientists at the University of Cambridge, writing in May in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claimed to have figured out how to construct a “motor” a “million times” smaller than an ant. (It apparently involves lasers, gold particles and “van der Waals forces," and the object is to bind the gold particles and then cause them to automatically “snap” apart with, according to author Jeremy Baumberg, “10 to a hundred times more force per unit than any known other machine.”) CEO Michael Pearson told a Senate committee in April that he “regret(s)” the business model he instituted in 2015 for Valeant Pharmaceuticals – the one that, for example, allowed a drug (Cuprimine) that treats liver failure and formerly cost a typical user out-of-pocket about $3 a pill (120 per month, $366) to, overnight, cost the user $15 a pill. (The insurance company’s and Medicare's cost went overnight from about $5,000 per 100 tablets to $26,000.) (A Deutsche Bank analysis of the industry tallied Valeant’s all-drug average price spike at more than five times the average of any competitor’s.) Pearson told the senators he had no idea that such a pricing strategy would turn out to be so controversial. NECK AND BACK SUPPORT – The Japanese branch of the intimate apparel maker Genie is currently advertising, in Japanese and English, a handy guide for bras that emphasizes the hardship women bear by having to lug around breasts of certain sizes in illfitting garments. The Genie chart reveals weight in ounces of typical A-cup chests (11.5 ounces) through F-cup (41.7 ounces, or 2.6 pounds). To assist any innumerate Japanese shoppers, the chart also shows practical comparisons, such as A-cup pairs weighing as much as "two chipmunks,” C-cups as “one newborn polar bear cub,” and F-cups as “one 3-month-old Persian kitten.” THE PASSING PARADE – (1) Mark Herron, 49, of Sunderland, England, was arrested again in May – his 448th arrest on alcoholrelated charges. The year started “well” for Herron, with only 14 collars through March, and he cleaned up briefly before a “family bereavement” sent him spiraling downward again. His current lawyer admitted that his client has been in court more often than he himself has. (2) Austrian Hans Heiland vowed in June to assist a needy family in Oberholz by donating to a charity fundraiser sponsored by the local fire department. He has been collecting bottle tops through the years and figures he could sell his "treasure" now, as scrap metal, to help the family. He has at least 10,000, no, make that 10 million caps, weighing "several tons." WAIT, HOW MANY FELL FOR THIS? – In May, the federal government finally shut down a long-running international scam that had sold psychic assurances (prosperity! winning lottery numbers!) to more than a million Americans. In personalized form letters, two French psychics had guaranteed success and riches to clients if they would only buy their $50 books (and massive upselling usually followed). The Justice Department estimated that during the spree, the sellers earned upward of $180 million on at least 56 million pieces of postal mail. In a June verdict still reverberating through the telemarketing industry, a jury in Utah found that three companies run by Forrest Baker III had illegally made 99 million phone calls to consumers on the Do Not Call Registry and an additional 18 million calls telling people they were merely doing surveys when the purpose was hawking their family-friendly movies. Both charges are violations of the Federal Trade Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule. Although the total fine and damages have not been decided, the law provides that the most serious offenders could be assessed $16,000 per phone call (for a maximum of almost $1.9 trillion). A recent study by a Harvard University data scientist estimated that the government of China funds the creation of at least 488 million bogus social-media posts a year. The report refers to a rumored government-sponsored arrangement that pays people the equivalent of 8 U.S. cents per post of “news” for the purpose of distracting social-media users and channeling them to subjects preferred by the government (such as successes of the Communist Party). The family of a Virginia Tech student missing since 1998 was notified in March that the man's remains and ID had been found in a wooded ravine 700 feet below the New River Gorge bridge near Beckley, West Virginia –in an area the man's vehicle tracker had long identified for potential searching. A West Virginia State Police sergeant told reporters that in the years since the student disappeared, the remains of 48 other bodies had been found underneath the bridge. Thanks This Time to Thomas Wyman and Felix Toledo, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors
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n May, two Canadians touring Yellowstone National Park pulled up to the Lamar Buffalo Ranch in their Toyota Sequoia. Soon, Shamash Kassam and his adult son were explaining to law enforcement why they had a newborn bison in their trunk. The Lamar Buffalo Ranch happens to be the site of a federal effort, 100 years ago, to repopulate Yellowstone with free-roaming bison, which at the time had dwindled to as few as 25 animals. A new herd purchased from private owners was bred and fed at the ranch for 50 years, then let free. So it’s not implausible that the animal standing in the trunk of Kassam’s car was a descendent of those raised at the ranch. Thanks to the media attention that followed, we all know how this story ends. Park officials tried unsuccessfully to reunite the calf, which Kassam had found shivering alone next to a road, with its herd. The calf was euthanized, fueling what a Huffington Post headline
would later describe as a “national shaming” of the tourists who didn’t let nature run its course. Those of us who know enough about Yellowstone not to pick up animal hitchhikers also know that bizarre encounters between tourists and wildlife are as old as America’s national parks themselves. While Yellowstone officials can’t recall another time a bison actually ended up inside a car, for decades visitors made a sport of feeding bears from the driver’s seat, to humorous and sometimes violent ends. Other facepalm-inducing headlines to emerge from Yellowstone lately all had familiar rings: man dies after stepping in thermal feature; group of men tramples across Grand Prismatic Hot Springs to get video footage for a commercial; tourist is gored while posing for selfie with a bison. Parks, by their very nature, are prone to such misadven-
tures. What’s different today is that they are more crowded than ever—and not just in Yellowstone. Glacier National Park is seeing record visitation, and so is Montana’s system of state parks. The parks’ soaring popularity is straining resources and putting more tourists in contact with wildlife and natural features. In the years to come, more visitors will mean more tourists behaving badly, more damage to the environment, more outrageous headlines and tougher competition for the Darwin Awards—that is, unless park managers find a way to keep up.
A HISTORY OF ISSUES AT GLACIER AND YELLOWSTONE
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1872: President Grant signs bill establishing Yellowstone National Park as the country’s first park.
1915: Automobiles officially allowed to enter Yellowstone National Park, making it more accessible to visitors.
1910: President Taft signs bill establishing Glacier National Park as the country’s 10th park.
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1924: A couple from Minneapolis visits Yellowstone Grand Canyon. After getting back in their car, the husband accidentally backs them off the canyon’s rim, causing them to plummet 800 feet to their deaths.
1924: Yellowstone’s monthly report for September shows 88 bear bites—just at West Thumb Geyser Basin—from tourists trying to feed bears.
1929: Georges Landoy, editor of La Matin, a French newspaper in Antwerp, Belgium, is visiting Yellowstone’s geysers with a party of European journalists when he sees Castle Geyser erupting. Not watching where he is going, he runs toward it and falls into the hot spring, dying two days later. The spring has since been dubbed Belgian Pool.
A new kind of selfie Yellowstone turns to social science to understand growing herd of tourists If recent trends hold, the number of tourists who visit Yellowstone National Park this July will be more than the total population of Montana. Tourists will outnumber park bison by a factor of 200 to 1, so the jostling for prime selfies is likely to be fiercer than ever. While wildlife such as bison are studied closely by park scientists, the selfie snappers themselves remain a kind of mystery. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk is fond of saying humans are the “least-studied species of animal in the park,” but the quip may actually understate the degree to which officials lack information about the park’s most visible inhabitants. “We can make observations about what we’re seeing in the park, but the truth is, we really don’t know a lot about who our visitors are, why they’re here, what their expectations are,” says park spokeswoman Charissa Reid. No longer can Yellowstone afford to overlook its human visitors, as the number of tourists soared by 17 percent last year, surpassing 4 million visits for the first time. Park staff were exhausted by season’s end, after handing out 52,000 warnings for bad behavior and dealing with dra-
matic spikes in vehicle accidents and med- long lines, staff reported dealing with enjoyment that have become more tenu- lease, “a position with which many visitors in long lines would disagree.” ical emergencies. This year, the National more cracked toilet seats, apparently the ous as Yellowstone gets more crowded. But Reid expects the social science Critics say the park is already jamPark Service centennial is off to a raucous result of international visitors unaccuspacked, yet point out that, contrary to work now underway in Yellowstone will start. A series of high-profile tourist tomed to sitting atop them. Officials responded by creating graph- federal law, Yellowstone, like most na- test that hypothesis. This August, remishaps left one human and one bison calf dead. Tourist visits jumped another 10 ics instructing users how to properly sit tional parks, hasn’t established a carrying searchers will survey park visitors at entrance gates with an eye toward their capacity. on an American-style loo. percent through June. impression of those “long lines.” As the park gets more crowded, of“Maybe someone from Manhattan ficials want to take science’s version of doesn’t think it’s crowded, whereas a selfie to understand more about the we’re used to it being sparse around tourists who are jamming Yellowhere,” she says. stone’s roadways and boardwalks. One topic researchers aren’t ready “Really it’s just been the last couto investigate is the role social media ple of years that there’s been this effort plays in shaping visitor behavior. Tales to capture a better snapshot of who of visitors gored by bison while posing our visitors are,” Reid says, “mainly so for selfies have gained national attenthat we can help them enjoy this place tion, but Reid says whether the techmore thoroughly and more safely.” nology is leading to an uptick in They’re starting, more or less, human-wildlife encounters remains from square one. The park service has unclear. no recent data on something as simple For now, officials are more focused as where Yellowstone tourists come on finding ways to connect and educate from, let alone why they act as they do. photo courtesy of Yellowstone National Park the growing herd of tourists. They upA full-time social scientist, Ryan Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk calls humans the least-studied Atwell, is spearheading the research. animal in the park. But before officials can study why visitors insist on standing too dated signage to depict a more gruesome image of a visitor being gored, His initial work has been small in close to wildlife, they want to understand why they come to the park. and in June the park introduced a Yelscope—like dealing with the havoc “The Park Service appears to be evolv- lowstone mobile app. Among the app’s feaReid says the initiative’s long-term wreaked on Yellowstone’s restrooms. Bathroom troubles were among the issues goals are more ambitious, aiming to in- ing to the position that there can never be tures is a way for users to take a photo with that emerged from a series of debriefing form management decisions as officials too many visitors,” said Public Employees a custom Yellowstone National Park border. interviews after the whirlwind decide how to balance the park’s dual mis- for Environmental Responsibility Execu- The camera defaults to selfie mode. —Derek Brouwer 2015 season. In addition to sions of natural preservation and peoples’ tive Director Jeff Ruch in a recent press re-
1967: Two women camping in Glacier Park are mauled to death by bears in the same evening, later dubbed the Night of the Grizzlies. The park had a longstanding—though technically prohibited—practice of feeding food scraps to grizzlies and black bears just for visitor entertainment. Officials determine the animals had become habituated to human presence before their attack. 1960: Frederick Robert Steinmetz, an 18-year-old Glacier Park employee from Detroit, stops on a hike in Red Gap Pass and tries to drink from a waterfall. He loses his balance, slides over the lip of the falls and careens 100 feet to the bottom.
1970: Nine-year-old Andy C. Hecht falls into a 200 degree pool and dies. Some accounts say he tripped while others claim he ran toward Crested Pool, aka the Devil’s Well, and jumped in. His parents testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, accusing the park of not providing enough warnings and citing a significant amount of hot springs deaths the previous decade. Death in Yellowstone author Lee H. Whittlesey, however, notes, “In all cases in the 1960s, except where a geyser erupted unexpectedly, the causes were attributable to human carelessness.”
1970: To keep bears from being habituated to human food, Yellowstone closes its last open-pit garbage dump, located at Trout Creek, and installs bear-proof containers.
1972: Harry Eugene Walker is killed by a grizzly who’d been feeding on unprotected food left at an illegal campsite officials later describe as one of the messiest they’d ever seen. Walker’s friend survives. In the past, families of bear-attack victims in Yellowstone received monetary compensation, but this case puts an end to the practice when the park appeals and wins in a wrongful death suit brought by Walker’s parents. The incident prompts the park to formally make it illegal to feed bears. 1973: 72-year-old Karl Staner from Albuquerque, N.M., climbs over a rock barrier to try to get a better photo of McDonald Falls in Glacier Park. He loses his footing, tumbles into the falls and dies.
1987: Aspiring wildlife photographer Charles Gibbs, 40, and his wife are hiking Glacier’s Elk Mountain when they spot a female grizzly with three cubs. Charles tries to move in closer to get a photo. The last photo on his camera is of the charging grizzly from about 50 yards away.
1971: Marvin Lesley Schrader of Spokane becomes Yellowstone’s first bison fatality when he walks within 20 feet of a bull to take a picture and is gored. In his possession: a park pamphlet warning of wild animals.
SOURCES: Death in Glacier National Park, by Randi Minetor; Death in Yellowstone, by Lee H. Whittlesey; and news reports.
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Meet the bark ranger Glacier National Park takes a different approach to managing human-wildlife interactions “We’re basically using Gracie and my presence to get the wildlife from areas we don’t want them to areas we do want them,” explains Mark Biel, natural resources program manager at Glacier National Park and Gracie’s owner. Biel and Gracie made their debut at Logan Pass July 19 and plan to haze mountain goats and bighorn sheep out of the parking lot as needed throughout the summer season. Mountain goats in particular have become used to humans up at the pass in recent years. Biel thinks they hang around the parking lot because humans there act as a shield against predators. Goats also like to lick photo by Chad Harder up salts left behind by hikMountain goats and bighorn sheep have become so used to humans at ers in the form of sweat and Logan Pass that Glacier National Park officials have hired a border collie to urine, as well as antifreeze help patrol the area. leaked from parked cars. But just because the goats are accusGracie, a 2-year-old border collie, recently started her job as Glacier’s tomed to humans doesn’t make them any newest “bark patroller.” The idea is that less wild. Biel recalls a hiker in Olympic wildlife will recognize her as a natural National Park gored to death by a mounpredator and respond as they naturally tain goat in 2010. While nothing so serious has happened in Glacier, Biel says he would—by running away. and his team have seen instances of human-wildlife 1990: An 11-year-old boy runs to 2008: Kentucky graduate student Yi-Jien Hwa, interactions that raised red the edge of the Yellowstone Grand an avid backpacker, sets out on an eight-day As rangers in Yellowstone National Park struggle to manage humans interacting with wildlife, managers in Glacier National Park are taking a different tack.
Canyon and slips off the platform, tumbling 308 feet through the icy waterfall. His parents file a $10 million lawsuit against the park, but U.S. District Court Judge Jack Shanstrom in Billings rejects the claim stating the park is not accountable because its maps, literature and rangers provide sufficient public warning.
flags as many as four or five times an hour on the Hidden Lake Trail at Logan Pass. “We did see a lot of crazy stuff up there,” he says, mentioning everything from people separating young goats from their moms to posing for selfies with wild, horned ungulates. Previously, wildlife managers had limited means of reducing those red-flag interactions. Biel describes shaking cans filled with rocks or blaring a siren to try to scare goats and sheep away from groups of humans. A graduate student interning at the park went so far as to dress up in a bear costume to see if that was more effective than noisy scare tactics. None of these seemed to work very well. Dogs as wildlife managers, on the other hand, have proven useful north of the border in Waterton Lakes National Park. In 2009, the park took on a team of border collies to chase deer out of Waterton Village during fawning season, when does become aggressive toward humans. The program was so successful that this year it’s on hiatus to test if the message stuck. Back in the states, Biel and Gracie will spend part
solo backpacking trip in Glacier Park, against the advice of park officials. He never returns from the hike, and his remains aren’t recovered until 2011. His cause of death is undetermined. 2013: A Kalispell woman pushes her newlywed husband off a cliff near Going-to-the-Sun Road. Jordan Graham allegedly had second thoughts about her marriage to Cody Johnson, and they were fighting at the time. It’s the first death in Glacier National Park to result in a murder charge.
1996: Three men in their early 20s try to climb Glacier Park’s Mount Jackson in the middle of January, unroped and with minimal climbing experience. On the descent, Taggert Schubert loses his footing, falls off a cliff and dies. Climbing accidents are the third-most common cause of death in the park, with 34 deaths recorded.
2015: A 43-year-old Mississippi woman attempting to take a selfie with a bison gets charged and gored by the animal. She survives with minor injuries, but park officials note she’s the third person that summer to be injured by an animal during a selfie.
of their time ushering wildlife away from heavily human-trafficked areas and the rest educating park visitors how to safely interact with animals. (They follow a general rule of staying 25 yards away from sheep, deer, moose and goats, and 100 yards from bears and wolves). Biel has high hopes for his fledgling ranger. “If it shows promise it’s definitely a program I think we’d like to expand,” Biel says. “I think it would be another tool in the toolbox.” —Nicky Ouellet Nicky Ouellet is the Flathead Valley reporter for Montana Public Radio.
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Gracie started as Glacier National Park’s new “bark ranger” on July 19.
May 9, 2016: Two tourists attempt to “rescue” a baby bison from the cold by putting it in the trunk of their vehicle. The bison later has to be euthanized after attempts to reunite it with its herd fail.
May 18, 2016: Wendy Larrabee, a 46-year-old Texas woman, dies in Yellowstone National Park after being struck by a moving vehicle while crossing the road to photograph an eagle.
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Home field disadvantage Streakers, horses and runaway boats prove state parks can be just as wild For Dave Landstrom, the kick served as a wake-up call. It came from one of Wild Horse Island State Park’s famed wild horses in August 2014, and it sent a 7-yearold girl to the hospital. She’d been handfeeding the horse fruit before its hoof struck her in the back, and while the girl’s injuries weren’t life-threatening, the incident prompted Montana State Parks to redouble efforts to caution visitors about the dangers of approaching these seemingly docile animals. “It looked a whole lot worse than it was when we evacuated that kid off the island, but that was pretty scary,” says Landstrom, the agency’s regional manager in northwest Montana. “We’ve been enforcing that restriction about staying away from those wild horses pretty vehemently ever since.” The story bears a striking similarity to the types of human-wildlife encounters that frequently make national headlines out of Yellowstone and Glacier, and it’s far from the only parallel. The relationship between Montana’s state parks and their national counterparts is a symbiotic one, with tourists drawn here by names like Old
Faithful and Going-to-the-Sun increasingly seeking out less crowded campgrounds and a more off-the-beaten-path experience. Montana State Parks have broken visitation records for three straight years; visitor numbers grew 23 percent last year over 2014, to an estimated 2.48 million. In region one alone, Landstrom says he’s dealing with an annual visitor count of roughly 650,000. Yet staffing has remained relatively unchanged for the past decade, he adds, making it difficult to deal with the issues that result from ever-growing crowds. Nearly half of Landstrom’s labor force is volunteer, and nice weather can create chaotic situations, as evidenced by busier days at Wayfarers State Park on Flathead Lake. “It’s quite routine that by midday on any given day that’s hot and sunny, we quickly fill to capacity and out beyond capacity,” Landstrom says. “We literally have people staffing the gates so we can allow people in as other people leave because once it’s full, it’s full.” With such a bustling scene on the state park front, it’s easy to understand
why the Wild Horse Island incident is just one tale—albeit the most hair-raising one—in a long mental tome for Landstrom. He claims not to have any “crazy, crazy” anecdotes from his 19 years with Montana State Parks, but as soon as the words leave his mouth he dives into one bizarre account after another. There was the poorly parked boat trailer at Big Arm that rolled down the parking lot and deposited the boat on the hood of a pickup, a scene Landstrom describes as “not all that uncommon.” And there were the three separate search and rescue callouts this July for standup paddleboarders who couldn’t make it back to shore after underestimating the wind and wave potential on Flathead Lake. Then, of course, there was the Wayfarers streaker. Landstrom spent an entire summer trying to catch him, even sat on a boat offshore with a game warden and a pair of binoculars once. “He would wait until the place was packed,” Landstrom recalls. “He wanted maximum exposure, and he got it, man. We even had guys chase him a couple times ... Never did catch him. He just disappeared.” In other words, zany tourist tales aren’t solely the domain of Yellowstone and Glacier. But Landstrom feels the same lesson applies across these swaths of public land: Sometimes, there’s just “a little bit of lack of awareness of some of the dangers out there.” —Alex Sakariassen
k owstone National Par photo courtesy of Yell
May 29, 2016: An elk barrels over a woman near West Thumb after she moves too close while trying to take a photo. The video goes viral with more than 1 million views on Facebook and YouTube, and makes national news.
photo by Joe Weston
photo courtesy of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
While tourist mishaps at Yellowstone National Park, top and left, garner the most attention, Montana State Parks deals with similar problems. Two years ago, a child was briefly hospitalized after being kicked by one of Wild Horse Island’s wild horses, above.
June 14, 2016: A Chinese visitor is fined $1,000 for leaving the boardwalk in the Mammoth Hot Springs area. He admits to collecting water from the hot springs. A month later, the park hires three Mandarin-speaking rangers to help with a “perceived” increase of Chinese tourists. The park does not track visitors by origin.
June 7, 2016: Colin Nathaniel Scott, a 23-year-old from Portland, Ore., falls into Morning Glory Pool and dies. At the time, he is 225 yards away from the boardwalk, according to the National Park Service. A spokesperson says there are no remains left to recover. The incident comes three days after a father and son duo stepped off a boardwalk in the Upper Geyser Basin and suffered burns.
July 12, 2016: The National Park Service issues an educational video reminding park visitors to look up from their Pokemon Go games to view “real wildlife.”
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Electronic love Seattle’s Chloe Harris gets in the mood for Missoula’s DAT Conference by Erika Fredrickson
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aica’s 2015 album, Dose, sounds like a theatrical reenactment of Earth coming to life. There are so few words to precisely describe the noises the Seattle electronic artist has conjured using just a few synthesizers and samplers. Maybe the best way to do it is to compare the sounds to the natural world: the low rumble of a far-off earthquake, the sonar of a marine animal, bubbling water and that friction when wings bat against wind. They are not exact emulations of nature’s acoustics, which is what makes it so intriguing. There’s the sound of rain, for instance, if rain were made of wood. There are bird calls, if the birds were robots. Raica, aka Chloe Harris, co-owns Further Records with Mark Cul, an electronic music connoisseur who she met in the early 2000s while DJing in London. They started the label in 2009 and originally focused on cassettes. These days, Further Records is dedicated to mostly vinyl (but also tapes and compact discs) of electronic artists who push the boundaries established by the popular house and techno music played in so many clubs. Harris’ own music, like what she created on Dose, fits into that experimental category. It’s not about dancing so much as teasing out textures and the kind of sounds that take listeners on a trip— one that’s always a little bit shadowy. “I’ve always gravitated toward darker music,” Harris says. “There’s a realness in it, odd as that may sound. How is everybody so happy? You gotta touch some other vibes and energies out there. And I think you should have variable emotions. Sometimes when I play it’s really crunchy and distorted and you can tell I’m frustrated with my gear, and other times it’s really pretty and melodic. I think mood has a lot to do with the music you should make.” This week, Missoula electronic artists host the third annual Digital Analog Technologies Conference and Harris will be one of the featured guest DJs. The three-day event takes over several downtown venues, including the Roxy, Stage 112, Mellow Mood and Caras Park, as well as the Missoula Winery. It features panel discussions and both daytime and nighttime dance parties, plus family-friendly events. Harris has spent more time in the past few years making albums rather than playing live, but she says she’s looking forward to making her first trip to Montana, quick as it will be (she has to return to Seattle for her two young children). In London, she spent almost all of her time playing live and toured Europe opening for renowned English DJ and producer John Digweed. Her shows are almost exclusively improvised. “I don’t have that music training where I can make a song and play that song again,” she says. But given the landscape of the underground, independent electronic music scene, the improv approach offers
photo courtesy of Brit Hansen
Though Chloe Harris, aka Raica, grew up in Seattle’s golden era of grunge, she found her calling in the world of electronic music.
much more cachet: an electronic DJ who can make a good set on the fly exhibits talent and allows the artist to read the audience and respond accordingly. “I sort of go with the flow of the room and what people seem to be wanting,” she says. “Sometimes I play with drums, sometimes without, and it really depends. We have parties [in Seattle] called Motor— hardware techno parties—so I play pretty proper techno. And then we have experimental shows where I do my really trippy, no beats, really spaced-out stuff. I like doing both and I do both under my name because, you know, Skinny Puppy doesn’t change their name when they make different types of songs.” The reference to the 1980s electro-industrial pioneers offers a clue to Harris’ musical background. She grew up in Seattle during the golden age of grunge and recalls the rise of Nirvana with a certain amount of reverence. She saw them open for Sonic Youth at the nowdefunct RKCNDY. “When Nirvana was playing,
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Thurston Moore and Kim [Gordon] were so stoked on them that they had them play an extra 30 minutes,” she says. “It was one of the coolest shows ever.” But the grunge craze only sideswiped her; it was electronic music that really swept her up. When she was 13, she stole a rave tape from her boyfriend’s older brother. “It blew my mind and from there I stuck with it,” she says. “When I was 14 or 15, I went to a few parties and wanted to DJ. I saved up enough money to get turntables. I’d always collected records anyway, so it was a natural progression.” Her early interests included synth-pop groups like Duran Duran and Depeche Mode and hip-hop artists like NWA and Slick Rick. Later, she was inspired by Seattle’s Tchkung, who she describes as “Neurosis, but with theatrics.” Her father owned the popular Easy Street Records (he later sold it to his ex-wife’s son) and she stopped working there after compact discs began to dominate the shelves.
“He did a good job with it and had many stores, but I was really into vinyl,” she says. “And now it’s back—I was right!” She laughs. “Everything comes full circle, doesn’t it?” In some aspects, electronic music has come full circle, too. Many artists deal in vinyl and other analog, including Harris. Still, she’s no luddite. “One time I saw Hieroglyphic Being and dude was playing drum machine and iPod and his phone,” she says. “I don’t know what he was making and how he was doing it, but it was absolutely mental. To think of what some people can do! I’m just always inspired by people when I can’t figure out what they’re doing.” Raica plays Stage 112 Fri., July 29, from 10 PM to 11. $40 three-day pass. Visit datmusic conference.com for schedule and ticket info. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Ballad traditions Hayes Carll steps beyond his influences Townes Van Zandt is among the most influential artists manqué of the last 20 years. Saying a modern folk or country act sounds like him is like saying a 1990s punk band resembles Operation Ivy. Some influences are so tidal they become conditions of the ecosystem. On the quieter tracks of his recent Lovers and Leavers, Hayes Carll employs the same creaky tenor, atonal glissandos and melodic phrasing as his predecessor. It’s a pleasing similarity if you like Van Zandt as I do. But it also encourages you to look for the line between influence and homage. Fortunately, Lovers and Leavers adds new elements to Van Zandt’s sonic palette. The rolling country waltz of “You Leave Alone” is reinforced
with reverberating, triplet snaps reminiscent of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack. Carll’s rhythm tracks often swell with layered keyboards, pedal steel and sometimes even strings, emphasizing the way his chord changes evoke Bonnie “Prince” Billy. He may have borrowed Van Zandt’s reedy voice and trademark intervals, but he has incorporated them into a fuller, more complicated sound. Fans of quiet country balladeers will probably like him, because he sounds very much of his time. But he remains his own artist, his feet planted on the shoulders of giants though they may be. (Dan Brooks) Hayes Carll plays the Top Hat Sat., July 30, at 10 PM along with Luke Bell. $20/$17 advance.
Stump Tail Dolly, Americonoclasm Some genres go together like beer and peanuts, and others just feel like oil and water. For example, the annoying trend of adding rap to pop country music—as if pop country wasn’t irritating enough—will hopefully soon be a blip on music history’s radar. (One exception: Missoula’s rapping cowboy Chris Sand pulls it off because he’s lyrically creative and often funny, as opposed to someone like Jason Aldean who aims for serious toughness but falls flat.) Metal and country seem like two genre that shouldn’t naturally mesh and when the attempt is made to intertwine them, it seems more gimmicky than inspired. Not even Hank Williams III can get the hybrid off the ground.
Nashville’s Stump Tail Dolly is a metal-and-country band that seems to have a grasp on both genres well enough to really challenge the notion that the two don’t mix. The fact that they have opened for both Social Distortion and George Thorogood speaks to the ground they cover. On their new album, Americonoclasm, the duo artfully twists and turns between genres. But the songs end up feeling like a crazy medley of parts rather than a coherent beast—impressive but mostly dizzyingly fractured. (Erika Fredrickson) Stump Tail Dolly play the Badlander Mon., Aug. 1, at 9 PM along with St. Christopher and Tales from Ghost Town. Cover TBA.
these are the good old days.
Michael Kiwanuka, Love & Hate When I first started listening to “Cold Little Heart,” the opening track to Michael Kiwanuka’s latest, I thought I was in for a slog. It’s kind of a dreamy, slow-building tune—one that’s a bit too ambient and feels a little too much like the soundtrack to a love scene in a bad movie. Thankfully the rest of the record plays out much better. Track two, “Black Man in a White World,” makes a strong statement about what the British singer’s sophomore release is all about. His soulful vocals, handclaps and a perfect amount of gospel deliver his message powerfully. It’s the most politically charged
song on the album. But it’s really midrecord when Love & Hate finally sells itself to me. “One More Night” is sexy with lots of interesting stuff going on musically. It makes me want to get up and dance a little bit—and that never happens. The song sounds like it could be on a recent-period Black Keys record, which should come as no surprise considering producer Danger Mouse has worked with both artists. Kiwanuka’s music is as compelling in its details as it is pleasurable to listen to. Take extra time with Love & Hate. It pays off. (Chris La Tray)
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CONGRAT ULATIONS TO OUR Best of Missoula and Montana Newspaper Association
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Roadside color Montana Curiosities gets 10 new stories by Erika Fredrickson
There’s almost nothing more captivating than Of course, Harvey went on to be one of the most fastories of survival—especially when they take place mous broadcasters of all time. One of my favorites of the new stories is about on the stark landscapes of the West. Evidence of this infatuation isn’t just in the overwhelming number of an eccentric self-taught artist named Lee Steen who grizzly bear survivor books that show up in the Indy’s made people sculptures out of the cottonwood trees mailbox. (Taken By Bear in Yellowstone is my favorite and mechanical animals out of junkyard materials. title yet.) It’s everywhere. The Revenant, for instance, The sight of these creatures and tree people, which proved you can make a whole movie about survival surrounded Steen’s house, gave some people in events and little else. (Especially if it’s Leonardo Di- town the creeps, but after Steen’s death, the tree people, at least, ended up at the Paris Gibson Square Caprio doing the surviving.) In Montana Curiosities, local author and fre- Museum. The book highlights Therquent Indy contributor Ednor riault’s casual humor and colTherriault offers a survival tale orful writing. In a story about about a rare white wolf dubbed Lakeside’s Dragon Boat Festi“Old Snowdrift” who terrorized val, Therriault describes a sumlivestock in the Judith Basin mer afternoon at the event with during the early 1900s through lines like, “Grim-faced athletes the 1920s. Old Snowdrift and gripping $200 graphite paddles his mate, another white wolf, rub shoulders with frightapparently killed 21 head of wigged contestants in outcattle in a two-month period landish getups who had never before the wolf was caught in a even seen a dragon boat until government trap and shot. But, that morning.” Especially fun to as with all worthwhile legends, read is the section titled “Two he didn’t die. “Old Snowdrift Heads are Better than One,” continued to evade his purMontana Curiosities Therriault’s investigation into suers … surviving a rifle Ednor Therriault the tradition of eastern Monwound in the late 1920s and Paperback, TwoDot tana museums displaying twofending off five Russian 254 pages, $16.95 headed calves. wolfhounds during an attack,” “I asked a rancher in Saco why I was running Therriault writes. “Bounties were set on his head. Mothers told their children bedtime stories that across so many cattle that were born with polycephaly, ended with, ‘Be good or Old Snowdrift will get you!’” as the condition is known,” he writes. “Apparently Montana Curiosities features a few survival sto- there was a rash of them born in the late 1960s and ries like this one, but it also serves as an oddball early ’70s. ‘That’s when we started messin’ around guide to the state, depicting Montana’s quirky char- with Mother Nature,’ [the rancher] said cryptically, acters, roadside oddities and offbeat activities. The looking off in the distance. I pressed him for more infirst edition was published in 2010 and included formation, but he squinted his eyes and clammed up over 100 blurbs exploring the nooks and crannies like Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti Western.” Reading through this book reminds me that we of places like The Miracle of America Museum in Polson, the trout aquarium at the St. Regis Travel have some pretty weird history in this state—though Center and the Greycliff Prairie Dog Town near Big I imagine every state has its fair share. Some of these stories—like the ones about surviving—are fun to Timber. Therriault’s second edition, which came out ear- read but make me really happy to live now and not lier this summer, has 10 additional stories, including in the Wild West days. At the same time, there are Old Snowdrift’s. It’s in a much sharper package this so many hidden treasures and quirks in this vast time—a sleek, square version with a handsome cover. state that we can still make a road trip out of today— All of the original stories are here and worth revisit- and Therriault has unearthed a lot of them. The clasing. For instance, the part where Therriault relays sic national park vacation is always nice, but the how Paul Harvey honed his craft in the upstairs of next time I get on the road it might just be to check Missoula’s Top Hat Lounge, which was home to out the hobo art caboose in Culbertson or the 14KGVO radio. His job? Doing man-on-the-street inter- foot sculpture of a triceratops near Glendive just off views along Higgins Avenue. His boss, AJ “Art” Mosby, MT 14. eventually fired him, telling Harvey his voice sounded silly and he should get out of the broadcasting game. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Hours of beauty Terry Tempest Williams makes a plea for our parks by Chris La Tray
I rarely read a book that fills me with envy. In her has usually fallen on a devoted few to rise up and delatest, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of fend them. Those issues continue to echo today, as America’s National Parks, Terry Tempest Williams, privatization of public lands looms, “Drill, baby, one of the most beloved and lyrical writers of the drill!” continues to be chanted, and so on. Williams West, manages to make me envious in two ways. First, frames her points clearly and passionately, making in order to write this collection of essays, Williams the case that we need these places, culturally and traveled to the corners of the United States visiting spiritually—the wilder the better—and that it is critical national parks—in some cases, multiple times. That’s we continue to protect them. That leads me to the second area of envy for me: something I would love to do. Furthermore, she doesn’t just visit the typical parks most of us know. the beauty of Williams’ writing. Describing a walk through Gettysburg National Among the dozen she writes Military Park with her husband, about, there are a few bigBrooke, and writer Rick Bass, names: Glacier, Canyonlands, Williams writes, “We flush a Acadia. But what about Effigy meadowlark. I didn’t know Mounds National Monument they were here. Their yellow in Iowa? Or Gulf Islands Nabreasts are a song before they tional Seashore in Florida and even open their beaks.” I can’t Mississippi? Alcatraz Island? imagine looking at a meadWho knew? owlark the same again. The dePark aficionados and hisscription crushes me. tory buffs know, of course, but That’s one example; gorfor most of us, particularly geous sentences are found on those only vaguely familiar every page, holding up against with the regions they inhabit, anything else Williams has ever these more obscure parks written (including her achold some mystery. Williams claimed 1991 memoir, Refuge: visits them for us, and we An Unnatural History of Famshould all travel with someone The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of ily and Place). Perhaps you are so thoughtful. Through her America’s National Parks someone who doesn’t hike. writing, we learn the history Terry Tempest Williams You never spend hours climband landscape of the parks— hardcover, Sarah Crichton Books ing steep series of switchbacks though The Hour of Land is no 416 pages, $27 just to gain a beloved vista. If guidebook. These are parks that, for various reasons, have a personal connection you are such a reader, Williams’ writing becomes that vista. She provides the kind of images that will make for Williams. “Our national parks are memory palaces where you want to return to them time and again, even if our personal histories reside,” Williams writes about it’s just from your favorite reading chair. Some books, on the beauty of their packaging Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. This is the park where the author essentially grew up, her alone, deserve to sit on a bookshelf in pristine con“Mother Park,” as she calls it—a favorite of her entire dition. The Hour of Land is one of them. The hardfamily. She tells of how her grandfather would go cover first edition is lovely, with a turquoise title there, then her father and finally herself. (“Not a year sleeve that wraps around a gorgeous black and white of my life has passed without the Tetons’ jagged pres- photograph of the iconic cliff face of Yosemite Naence, not one,” she writes). She writes of how her fa- tional Park’s El Capitan. Other books cry out to be vorite, what she believed was the Grand Teton, battered, as they are read, reread and shared among turned out to be Mount Moran and how that realiza- friends. This book is one of those, too. I expect mine tion became an important moment for her. “I did not to be scuffed and beat up over the next couple years, want to be told where to look for power,” she says, the corners bent, even more pages than now dogafter being corrected by her father. “I no longer be- eared for reference, coffee splashes in places, maybe lieved in the names of things. I knew where the even a few Cheetos stains on others. Some would argue such treatment is a crime against books. I call power was held for me.” I enjoy both these personal anecdotes and learn- it a tribute to a book that deserves praise in every posing about the political wrangling it took for these sible way. places to become national parks. Our wild spaces have always been threatened, and their protection arts@missoulanews.com
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OPENING THIS WEEK BAD MOMS Three overstressed moms decide the best way to unwind is to turn into party monsters. I wonder what the PTA will say. Bad Moms stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn. Rated R. Playing at the Pharaoplex and Carmike 12. JASON BOURNE Robert Lundum’s amnesiac super soldier is back, wresting control of the franchise away from Jeremy Renner. Starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander. Rated PG-13. Playing at Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. NERVE The whole world gets caught up in the exciting and dangerous world of a new app. Insert your own Pokemon Go joke here. Starring Emma Roberts, Dave Franco and Emily Meade. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Pharaoplex and Carmike 12.
NOW PLAYING FINDING DORY When Finding Nemo came out, my kid was two. Now he’s 15 and he won’t go see Finding Dory with me. Join the beloved cast once more for an adventure with Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, as she tries to find her family. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. GHOSTBUSTERS From the director of Bridesmaids and Walk Hard comes the remake of the classic ’80s comedy. A group of scientists are on call to defend Manhattan from ghosts, ghouls and boogeymen. Starring Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Carmike and the Pharaoplex. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964) Those mop-topped lads from Liverpool are on the run from the mania they themselves created. Singa-long at the Roxy Theater Sun., July 31 at 7 PM. HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE City life and a diet of hip-hop and chips hasn’t prepared Ricky for surviving the wilds of New Zealand. Rated PG-13. Starring Sam Neill. Playing at the Roxy Theater.
The first rule of fight club: you don't talk about The Bourne Legacy. Jason Bourne opens at Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE Just like the “Friday the 13th”, “The Brave Little Toaster” and “Air Bud” franchises, this fourth sequel to 2002’s Ice Age takes our heroes to outer space for some reason. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaoplex THE LEGEND OF TARZAN From the director of the good Harry Potter movies, everyone’s favorite suspiciously beardless jungle hero swings into action, hoping we all forget about 2012’s John Carter. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson and Margot Robbie. Showing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharoplex. LIGHTS OUT A ghost that only comes out in the dark terrorizes a group of victims. Where’s Richard Riddick when you need him? Rated PG-13. Playing at the Carmike and Pharaoplex. NT LIVE: THE AUDIENCE 2016 ENCORE The Queen of England has been meeting with the prime minister every week for decades. No one knows what they talk about, but I think
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they’re probably arguing over “Doctor Who” continuity. Part of National Theatre Live. Playing at the Roxy Tue., Aug. 2 at 7 PM. THE PEANUTS MOVIE Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and, of course, Snoopy join the rest of the Peanuts gang as they make their computer-animated debut. Rated G. Showing at the Carmike Thu., July 28 at 10 AM. THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS The creator of the “Minions” series lets us in on what our pets do while we’re at work. If they’re anything like humans, I imagine they probably scroll through Facebook and think about writing a novel while worry about student loan debt. Starring Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Dana Carvey. Playing at the Carmike 12. STAR TREK BEYOND The baby-faced crew of the NCC-1701 returns to boldly go where no one has gone before. As usual some sort of space monster is there waiting for them. Typical. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Roxy, Carmike and Pharaoplex.
TOP GUN Tom cruises into the Danger Zone as a hot shot fighter pilot to save the world and, more importably, inspire Hot Shots. Rated PG. Playing at the Roxy Thu., July 28 at 8 PM. WAYNE’S WORLD SCHWING! Public access TV metal heads get their shot at the big time. Excellent. Wayne’s World stars Mike Myers and Missoula’s own Dana Carvey. Playing Sat., July 30 at the Roxy Theater. Capsule reviews by Gaaby Patterson, Charley Macorn and Erika Fredrickson. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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photo by Kate Whittle
Golden Yoke keeps it chill by Kate Whittle Inside the Golden Yoke creamery in St. Ignatius, co-owner Connie Surber opens a freezer door to reveal tidy rows of pint containers filled to the brim with ice cream. Mint chocolate chip. Salted caramel. Honey. Vanilla, of course. A cardboard box holds the ice cream sandwiches, made of thickly slathered vanilla layered between chocolate-chip cookies Surber baked herself. She proudly surveys the contents. The “cookie smash” ice cream, which is studded with enormous chunks of the aforementioned cookies, is one of her favorite flavors. “I tell people it’s the cookies that didn’t make the cut for the beauty contest,” Surber says. “It’s just cookies that aren’t real pretty for sandwiches, so I just break ’em up and put ’em in the mix.” Surber, who has a degree in dairy science from Virginia Tech and has taken courses in ice cream making, explains everything with a soft southern twang and a big smile. She keeps her sunglasses perched on top of a baseball cap, revealing a tan line around her eyes. She insists that I try a flavor and hands me a small cup of the cookie smash. “How’s that?” she asks. The vanilla ice cream base tastes airy and delicately sweet, and it’s full of satisfyingly soft cookies. My cup disappears quickly. Progress has been slow-churned for the Golden Yoke, which opened for business on Memorial Day weekend. Surber and her partner, Laura Ginsburg, started the state’s first new dairy farm in decades when they began leasing a plot of land in St. Ignatius in 2012. Originally, the plan was to supply the creamery with their own milk, but that’s a long way off. For now, the creamery uses milk and cream purchased from other dairies. That still counts as doing things the hard way. Most ice cream makers in the state create flavors using bags of premade sugar-cream mix. Since Golden Yoke starts from scratch, they had to buy a $15,000 pasteurizing machine—about the size of a beer keg—to re-
WHAT’S GOOD HERE pasteurize their already pasteurized ingredients and satisfy Department of Agriculture requirements. The pasteurizer set back their opening by several months. “There’s days that are frustrating,” Surber says. “But there’s so many good days, like when people say, ‘This is the best ice cream I’ve ever eaten.’” Now that they have regular customers, Surber’s excited to experiment with new flavors, sourced with as many local ingredients as possible. A strawberrypoundcake flavor went over smashingly in June. She’s testing out a Flathead cherry sorbet for the non-dairy folks, and she’s waiting to get her hands on Dixon melons and peaches from an orchard in Paradise later this summer. As Surber explains what’s next for the creamery, Ginsburg is nowhere to be found. She’s about a 10minute drive away at the farm with their baby, Finn Bridger, born in early July. Surbur seems unfazed by opening a new business at the same time the couple is dealing with a newborn. “If we get it in our heads that we’re going to do something, we just do it,” Surber says. “We knew we were going to do ice cream, and it got held up a little bit. And we knew we also wanted to have a baby, and there’s no perfect time. We joked that I was birthing the ice cream baby and she was birthing the real baby.” So far, things have gone well on both fronts. Back at the farm, Ginsburg explains how business took off as soon as they opened. “We were pleasantly surprised how busy we were at first,” she says. In addition to the customers at the creamery walk-up window, their ice cream is also available at the Good Food Store and the Community Food Co-op in Missoula, as well as grocery stores in St. Ignatius and Polson. Surber says that sort of immediate embrace is why they picked ice cream, of all dairy products, to go into. “Ice cream fits our personalities,” she says. “Everybody loves ice cream. You never walk into an ice cream parlor that’s sad. They’re always happy.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 • asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's Bakery is a Missoula Landmark. 36-years of baking goodness. Open 6a8p Bernice’s offers an incredible selection of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you’ve never been in you’re missin’ out. And if you haven’t been in lately you really should make it a point to stop by. July is a great month for slow walks along the Clark Fork while you sip Bernice’s iced-coffee, newly added espresso or a refreshing Arnold Palmer and coconut macaroon. Picnic? Bernice’s is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice's made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. xoxo Bernice. Open 6a-8p seven days a week. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$
406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$
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Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries &
gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 • grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway • 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula’s only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our house-made Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$
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[dish] Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins • 541-4541 Whether it's coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula's largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly • 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa's BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you've come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa's best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 • themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 • missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins • 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Rough Stock Saloon
HAPPIEST HOUR
photo by Andrew Graham
Where you are: The Rough Stock Saloon. It’s gone by the name for six years, and before that it was called Swede’s for “forever,” according to one regular. The Rough Stock is just off Drummond’s Front Street, parallel to the train tracks and down from the Conoco gas station. There’s an open outdoor patio with a view across the tracks that on a clear day stretches off toward the Pintlers. Why you’re here: Perhaps you’re stopping here on your way to or from Philipsburg, or because you just fished a stretch of the Upper Clark Fork. Or maybe, like the group of elderly ladies in bathing suits who catcalled an Indy reporter last Friday evening, you’ve just been tubing and drinking the afternoon away, far from the crowds in Missoula. For whatever the reason, the Rough Stock offers a cool and dark interior that’s perfect for hiding from a hot summer day.
What you’re drinking: A domestic can or bottle, probably. They’re cheap ($3 for a Bud Light), although the microbrew selection is also pretty good, featuring beers from Great Northern in Whitefish and The Front Brewing Company in Great Falls. The scene: “Rough stock,” for the uninitiated, refers to the bulls and horses raised to buck off cowboys in rodeos. Just across the river from Drummond’s rodeo grounds, the Rough Stock holds true to its name with a corner full of photographs signed by rodeo riders. Most signatures thank the bar for “a good time,” though one stands out as thanking the bar “for the kind glass of water.” —Andrew Graham Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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SUN | 8PM | TOP HAT Hurray for the Riff Raff play the Top Hat for a folk and blues explosion Sun., July 31. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18/$15 advance.
SAT | 9PM | TOP HAT Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll plays the Top Hat Sat., July 30. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $20/$17 advance at tophatlounge.com.
TUE | 9PM | MISSOULA WINERY Singer-songwriter Dar Williams plays the Missoula Winery Tue., Aug. 2. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $25. 21-plus.
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SUN | 7PM | GREAT NORTHERN Whitefish's sketch comedy troupe, Viscosity's Crème de la Cabaret, presents a family-friendly evening at the Great Northern Bar & Grill. Sun., July 31. 7 PM. $40/family.
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Thursday Take a chance and dance at the Red Ants Pants Festival. By chance, if you’re advance, you can finance your aunt’s eggplant rants. This year the four-day fest features Wynonna and the Big Noise, Eilen Jewell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, the Mavericks and more. White Sulphur Springs. Visit redantspants festival.com. Missoula Public Library hosts family movies every Thursday at 2 PM. Free.
Friday You’ve been using that tube TV as a table for way too long. Swing by the AT&T Call Center between 9 AM and 4 PM to recycle your electronics. Some fees may apply to larger items. Visit opportunityecycling.org for more information.
nightlife The Digital and Analog Technologies Music Conference is a three-day festival that celebrates expression, art
food. The events kick off 5 PM. celticfestivalmissoula.com is your place for full schedule and details. This week ZACC’s Co-Ed Rock Camp features young rockers ages 8 to 15 who formed three bands, learned to play instruments, wrote their own songs and now perform publicly for the first time live at Family-Friendly Fridays at the Top Hat Lounge. Please come and cheer them on as they hit the stage. 6 PM–6:30 PM. Free.
Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two cops and three crooks through eight doors at the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre. See operahousetheatre.com for show times. $20/ $10 for kids. Cowboy up in Helena at the Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds for three nights of rodeo and a show by country music star Gary Allan. Carnival, live music, kids stick horse rodeo, commercial and 4-H exhibits, mutton bustin’, steer
show at 8. $36.50/$32.50 advance at the wilma.com. Dusk comes early to the Eagles Lodge. The band, I mean. It would be weird if the sun set there while the rest of Missoula was still enjoying the summer daylight. 8:30 PM–1 AM. Free. The VFW hosts What Kind of Folkery is This? featuring Ratbath, Lukas Papenfussline, Cairns and Father Deer. 9 PM. Free.
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday at Caras Park. This week listen to the music of Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts. 5:30– 8:30 PM. Check missouladown town.com for details. Free. Mansfield Library presents a history of how Montana became lousy with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles during the 1960s and the protests that came with them. 6 PM. Free. Polson’s Miracle of America Museum hosts Night at the Museum with a screening of the all-time classic The Wizard of Oz and a display of an actual prop from the film. I hope it’s not a stuffed Toto. I paid out the nose for that. 6:30 PM. Donations welcome. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Cowboy up in Helena at the Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds for three nights of rodeo and a show by country music star Gary Allan. Carnival, live music, kids stick horse rodeo, commercial and 4-H exhibits, mutton bustin’, steer riding, youth rodeo, delicious fair food and a whole lot more! LastChance Stampede.com. Eighties post-punk heroes Psychedelic Furs join Australia’s The Church for a night of dreamy new wave nostalgia at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $39.50/$29.50. thewilma.com. Hand me my glowsticks, Mama wants to jiggle. Dead Hipster Dance Party. Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Ticket Sauce is like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. But instead of peanut butter and chocolate, they mix funk and jam. Check them out at the Top Hat Lounge. 10 PM. Free.
Country star Joe Nichols unveils a new approach to his sound as he stomps all over the stage at the Wilma Fri., July 29. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $36.50/$32.50 advance at thewilma.com.
and music. Check out datmusic conference.com for a full schedule, lineup and tickets. $40. (See Arts.)
Making God Laugh depicts one family as they move through 30 years’ worth of holidays. Oy! See www.operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. Celtic Festival Missoula is back for another two days of music, dance and
Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover. If you like your music like you like your wine, then head to Ten Spoon Winery where both are top notch. The Workers provide the tunes for all your tasting needs. Tasting room 4 PM–9 PM. Music starts at 6. $8-$10
riding, youth rodeo, delicious fair food and a whole lot more! $5–$40, tickets at Murdoch’s, Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds ticket office or online LastChanceStampede.com. Country star Joe Nichols, who taught us all about the effects of tequila on clothing, unveils a new approach to his sound as he stomps all over the stage at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM,
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Also the name of the world’s safest, but most dangerous footwear, Steel Toed Slippers slide into the Top Hat Lounge. 10 PM. Free.
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Spotlight fungus might have mild hallucinogenic In 1995, the British medical journal The Lancet (named after, I assume, properties that could be the root of the medicine's preferred treatment of boils) creative process of many of history’s published an article stating that “old books WHAT: Radical Mycology reading smell,” the slightly WHO: Author Peter McCoy, mycologist sweet aroma that lingers around collec- WHERE: Shakespeare & Co tions of old tomes, could be the result of WHEN: Thu., Aug. 4, 7 PM. certain fungi growing on the book. More shockingly, author great writers and thinkers. This leads Dr. R.J. Hay actually suggests that this us to wonder which, if any, of our fa-
Say aloha to Missoula’s Mark Myriad, Cómo Se Va and R00ster at the Badlander for the Lei Luau Party. royaleentertainment.com is your tropical getaway for more info and tickets.
vorite bibliophile authors were inspired by fungi. But even if the world's great works of literature weren't created by the authors rolling hard after huffing some bookshrooms, our friend the fungi has a wealth of unseen benefits. Peter McCoy explores these benefits in Radical Mycology, his own impressive tome about how mushrooms and other
fungi can create positive personal, societal and ecological change in the world. The book, which weighs in at an impressive 672 pages, offers an extensive, yet user-friendly reference to anyone interested in mycological homesteading, the medicinal benefits of mushrooms or just cooking.
—Charley Macorn
Saturday
Critical darlings Strangled Darlings bring their dark and groovy bass riffs to the Palace. Sat., July 30, 9 PM and Draught Works Sun., July 31, 4 PM. Missoula’s Farmers Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave. Missoula’s Clark Fork Market features vendors offering local produce and meats as well as locally made products, hot coffee and prepared foods. Music starts at 10:30 under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October. My guts do feel a little uncentered. The Yoga Spot offers a free yoga class at Athleta in Southgate Mall, designed to make your internal organs happy. 8:30–9:30 AM. Free. It’s the perfect event to wear my Little Omega Red Riding Hood costume. A Carousel for Missoula’s Fairy Tale and Superhero Festival lets your kids meet local superheroes, get their faces painted and enjoy a cool treat. 10 AM to 12 PM. Free. Larry Mansch tried nailing a copy of his new book Martin Luther: The Life and Lessons to the door of Fact & Fiction Books, but they just invited him in to do a signing instead. 10:30 AM. Yoga and Beer: the Two Cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. All money goes to Free Cycles.
Come celebrate National Dance Day at Zootown Brew. Grab a drink and dance your cares away. Noon–4PM. Free.
nightlife In what sounds to me like a real stick and carrot situation, the Sweat Shop Studio offers a 90 minute yin yoga class followed by a wine and dark chocolate tasting. Game. Changer. 6:30–8:30 PM. $17. The Digital and Analog Technologies Music Conference is a three-day festival that celebrates expression, art and music. Check out datmusic conference.com for a full schedule, lineup and tickets. $40. Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre’s summer season features the Vaudeville Variety Show. See operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. Radius Gallery’s 2nd annual juried show brings new works and interpretations from over 50 artists across the nation. Head to radius gallery.com for more info. Runs through Fri. 4PM Sept. 16. Local musician Travis Yost treats Ten Spoon Winery to a night of wine and song. The tasting room is open 4–9 PM. Music kicks off at 6 PM. $8-$10 Folk band Insomnia Plague debuts some new tunes and a new drummer at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Local singer/songwriter Aran Buzzas returns to play Montana
folky tonk at Missoula Brewing Company. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Letter B brings bouncing beats and blends brilliant ballads befitting barons, baronesses and bluebloods. Check them out at Montana Distillery. 6–8 PM. Free.
Making God Laugh depicts one family as they move through 30 years’ worth of holidays. Oy! See www.operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. Cowboy up in Helena at the Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds for three nights of rodeo and a show by country music star Gary Allan. Carnival, live music, kids stick horse rodeo, commercial and 4-H exhibits, mutton bustin’, steer riding, youth rodeo, delicious fair food and a whole lot more! $5–$40, tickets at Murdoch’s, Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds ticket office or online LastChanceStampede.com. Dusk continues its two-night stint at the Eagles lodge. Again, I’m referring to the band, not the time. There is no spacial anomaly at the Eagles that’s warping time. 8:30 PM. Free. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover. Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll is as authentic as a taco truck plate in Austin. He plays the Top Hat Lounge, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $20/$17 advance at top hatlounge.com.
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Sunday DAT Music Conference hosts DAT Party in da Park, featuring live music, workshops and a synth petting zoo. If that last thing is what I think it is, we’re officially living in Blade Runner. Bounce over to dat musicconference.com for schedule. Free. Come see the finest collection of automobiles assembled as the Hub
Family Entertainment Center hosts it’s 3rd Annual Car Show. 12 PM–4 PM. Free.
nightlife The Digital and Analog Technologies Music Conference is a threeday festival that celebrates expression, art and music. Check out datmusicconference.com for a
full schedule, lineup and tickets. $40.
Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two cops and three crooks through eight doors at the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre. See operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20/ $10 for kids. I just want to say congratulations to
Monday Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to the Montana Innocence Project. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity at The Base. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
nightlife Missoula Brewing Company hosts Giving BOCK Night, where a por-
the Transylvanians. Hurray for the Riff Raff comes to the Top Hat Lounge for a folk and blues explosion. Doors at 7 PM. Show at 8. $18/$15 advance.
Whitefish’s favorite sketch comedy troupe, Viscosity’s Crème de la Cabaret, presents a family friendly evening at the Great Northern Bar & Grill. 7 PM. $40/family.
If you’ve had a hard day’s night, why don’t you come to the Roxy for a sing-a-long to everyone’s favorite movie starring those mop-topped lads from Liverpool. 7 PM. $8.
Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free.
Tuesday tion of every pint sold goes to benefit the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. Come give back to history from 5–8 PM. Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bare Bait Dance’s new video subscription series kicks off with the debut of Beloved at the Roxy Theater. 6–8 PM. Free.
Two great tastes that go great together? From the home of country music, Stump Tail Dolly combines heavy metal and country music at the Badlander. See how they fuse at 9 PM. (See Music.) Llamadon is joined by Wormwood, Tommy V, Tonsofun and Loveless at Stage 112 for a night of music. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $3. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
If someone invented a robot that played folk, it still wouldn't sound as good as The Oh Hellos. See for yourself at the Top Hat Tue., Aug. 2. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $14/$12 advance. Jean Matthews Tuesdays at Twelve is a summer concert series named after its founder. This week features The Cantrells playing tunes on the lawn of the Ravalli County Museum from noon–1:30 PM. Free. If you like Reggae and hate garbage, then Missoula’s Reggae on the River is for you. Spend the day doing river cleanup and receive a free ticket to see Pato Banton at 7:30 PM. A $5 donation goes to the Cash Hyde Foundation for pediatric cancer.
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from 7 – 9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. If someone invented a robot that played folk, it still wouldn’t sound as good at The Oh Hellos. See for yourself at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM. Show at 9. $14/$12 advance. Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What artist had the most music video appearences on the first broadcast day of MTV? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Is there a place to practice short form improv comedy? Yes, and is it at Missoula Public Library? Yes, and it’s at 5:30 PM? Yes, and it’s open to all.
Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@ live.com.
Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays
Singer-songwriter Dar Williams plays the Missoula Winery. Doors at 8 PM. Show at 9. $25. 21-plus.
Wednesday Out to Lunch features live music in the riverfront setting of Caras Park every Wednesday through August. Enjoy a variety of food and drink from more than 20 vendors.This week check out the tunes of Bottom Feeders. 11 AM–2 PM. Free.
Testicle Festival, is back for Montana’s biggest party with the grossest name for five days of live music, good times and, of course, rocky mountain oysters. therock creeklodge.com for more info and tickets. $20.
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The Kettlehouse Northside Taproom hosts Community Unite. Drink to support Home ReSource and their efforts
Everyone’s favorite spectacle, the
to make Missoula a zero waste community. 5–8 PM. Free. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Rod Stewart. Cathy Clark teaches country dance
steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash.
with a different host each week. Halfprice whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.
Missoula City Band performs in the beautiful Bonner Park Band Shell Wednesdays from 8–9 PM through Aug. 10. Great band music and guest soloists each week. Free.
Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.
Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic,
Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover.
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Author Peter McCoy is on hand to read from his book Radical Mycology. Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.
Zoso bill themselves as the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience. This is only true if you’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons inside a van with a sweet wizard painted on the side. If you haven’t, then by all means ramble on down to the Wilma. Doors at 7. Show at 8. $20. All-ages.
Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash.
The 2016 Montana Testicle Festival at Rock Creek Lodge continues. Head to therock creeklodge.com for schedule and tickets. If I knew what it was doing to the planet, I probably wouldn’t have used that much hairspray in the ‘80s. Climate Smart’s monthly meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing to discuss Water and conservation. 5:20 PM. Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday at Caras Park. This week listen to the music of Billy Shaddox.
Led Zeppelin tribute-ists Zoso play the $20. All-ages. 5:30–8:30 PM. Check missouladown town.com for details. Free.
Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two cops and three crooks through eight doors at the Philipsburg Opera
Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first Wilma Thu., Aug. 4. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn DownHouse Theatre. See operahouse town. 7:30–10 PM. theatre.com for show times. $20/ The Sunrise Saloon welcomes the $10 for kids. Double Down Band for two nights of What room can you never enter, even boot-stomping and dancing. The with a key? A Mushroom, of course. music kicks off at 8:30 PM. Free.
Hand me my glowsticks, Mama wants to jiggle. Dead Hipster Dance Party is tonight at the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. The Netherlands sound like the place the bad guys live in some terrible epic fantasy. Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM Show at 10. Free. Local yokels, Local Yokel, provide the perfect bluegrass soundtrack for these hot Missoula nights at the Top Hat. 10 PM–1 AM. Free. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews .com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. Due to impending litigation, the Calendar will no longer accept singing telegrams, but if you want to buy us pizza I think that's totally okay.
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Saturday, July 30 vs. Helena Brewers
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MONDAY AUGUST 1
Spend a couple of hours at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden. As you weed, mulch and build, you’ll learn about native plants and how to create your own garden at home. 4–6 PM every Thursday through Aug. 4. Free and open to the public.
Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to the Montana Innocence Project. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM.
Mansfield Library presents a history of how Montana became lousy with intercontinental ballistic missiles during the 1960s and the protests that came with them. 6 PM. Free.
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You’ve been using that tube TV as a table for way too long. Swing by the AT&T Call Center between 9 AM and 4 PM to recycle your electronics. Some fees may apply to larger items. Visit opportunityecycling.org for more information.
If you like Reggae and hate garbage, then Missoula’s Reggae on the River is for you. Spend the day doing river cleanup and receive a free ticket to see Pato Banton at 7:30 PM. A $5 donation goes to the Cash Hyde Foundation for pediatric cancer.
The stars at night are deep and bright CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP up on Blue Mountain Observatory. University Astronomers will be on hand to guide viewers. Visit hs.umt.edu for times and to reserve free tickets.
SATURDAY JULY 30 The Misssoula Iris Society hosts their annual Iris Rhizome Sale at Fort Missoula. Come down and buy the flowers you need to make your garden really pop. 9 AM–1 PM.
monthly meet up discusses water and conservation. And even though water and beer are both plentiful in Missoula, we should keep both clean. —Charley Macorn Climate Smart meets at Imagine Nation Brewing Thu., Aug. 4, from 5 PM to 7 PM.
Missoula Brewing Company hosts Giving BOCK Night, where a portion of every pint sold goes to benefit the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. Come give back to history from 5–8 PM.
Learn to make your own bath and body care products the natural way, but hopefully not in the Fight Club way. Call Meadowsweet Herbs at 406-728-0543 to save a spot. 2 PM–4 PM. $15 supply fee.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 The Kettlehouse Northside Taproom hosts Community Unite. Drink to support Home ReSource and their efforts to make Missoula a zero waste community. 5–8 PM. Free.
THURSDAY AUGUST 4 If I knew what it was doing to the planet, I probably wouldn’t have used that much hairspray in the 80s. Climate Smart’s Monthly meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing to discuss Water and conservation. 5:20 PM.
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There has been a longstanding belief that people living in the Middle Ages, unable to filter or purify their drinking water, switched to beer as a replacement source of hydration. People conjure an image of a simple peasant, unable to take a cool drink of water after a long day of being oppressed by the landed gentry, smiling as the first hoppy taste of oldworld beer crosses his lips. It's a romantic thought but unfortunately just not true. Water was free, abundant and generally very clean. And if it wasn't pure, people still weren't dummies. They knew, as I hope people today know, to avoid drinking obviously polluted water. Also, beer, while being abundant, definitely wasn't free. Beer, despite what people think, has never been a replacement for water. The two beverages, however, are still intrinsically linked. Historians speculate that beer actually predates bread, as ancient humans could more easily ferment water and grains than they could bake the same. And, on August 4, at Imagine Nation Brewery, the two come together again when Climate Smart's
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he 1984 film C.H.U.D gave us a great acronym with two different definitions. The first is Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal, the highly questionable process of dumping industrial waste materials in abandoned subterranean areas of large cities. The second is Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, referring to the mutants created when the mentioned waste entered the water supply of a colony of homeless people living beneath the streets of New York, giving them an appetite for human flesh. The eponymous C.H.U.D.s of the film begin devouring the population of New York before being defeated by a young Daniel Stern. Now, Missoula has a lot of great qualities that would make a C.H.U.D. crisis very unlikely. I'd be
so bold to say we have a lower-than-average rate of cannibalism and the people who do live underground live like kings in their basement apartments during the summer months. But pollution is something we need to be vigilant about, especially in our greatest natural resource, our many rivers. Prevent a C.H.U.D. outbreak with Reggae on the River. Spend the day picking up garbage along the river and receive a free ticket to see reggae legend Pato Banto at Caras Park. —Charley Macorn Reggae on the River starts Tue., Aug. 2, at 12 PM with a concert by Pato Banto at 7:30 PM. $5 donation for a show ticket goes to the Cash Hyde Foundation for pediatric cancer.
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THURSDAY JULY 28 All I know about rivers, I learned from Weezer. For a better education, check out the Boone and Crockett Club for tips and tricks from river pros who want to expand your waterway knowledge. 5 PM–6 PM. 250 Station Dr. Free.
FRIDAY JULY 29 Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406243-4599 for info.
SATURDAY JULY 30 Bitterroot Valley Archery kicks off Elk Bownanza 2016 with a pig roast, beer garden and archery tournament. I’d compete in the tourney, but the Sheriff of Nottingham is after my head. 10 AM–3 PM. Free. Grab your brightest inner tube and get ready for Midnight GLOW Float. Shuttle run from the Eastgate Shopping Center to Bonner where you can beat the heat in the river. $10. 9 PM–2 AM
SUNDAY JULY 31 The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100. Time for your kids to prove their mettle. The Zootown Kids Triathlon is open to children ages
5–12. Register your child at zootownkidstri.com to see if they’re the next Paula Newby-Fraser, who is the first name that came up when I Googled “famous triathlete.� $25.
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TUESDAY AUGUST 2 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure is at Silver Park. 5 PM. Free. The Montana Department Natural Resources and Conservation lead a field trip starting at the main Rattlesnake Trailhead focusing on fuel reduction work. 5 PM–7 PM. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an allwomen hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to McCormick Park to greet the sun. 6–7 PM.
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The Missoula Marathon training class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
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ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon FASTEN YOUR DECEIT BELT I've always been a very athletic guy. I do jujitsu every day. When I don't exercise, I feel depressed. My girlfriend, however, has never been very physically active. She has a great body -- naturally slim -- without doing anything, which is probably why she's unmotivated to work out. I just think that if she did–even a little–she'd look like a superhero and feel better. I keep urging her to exercise, but it's not working. How do I encourage her? –Concerned There's that saying, "You are what you eat." Apparently, your girlfriend ate a supermodel. Numerous studies find that exercise is a mood booster and improves our cognitive abilities (like memory), even protecting them into old age. Incredibly, a study on female twins by geneticist Tim Spector found that those with fitter leg muscles showed fewer signs of aging in their brain 10 years later. But we humans have a very now-oriented psychology. So, for many people–like women who shave their legs before stepping on the scale–these pluses are merely fringe benefits of workouts for jiggle management. And unfortunately, when your girlfriend looks in the mirror, she sees that all those runs to the vending machine seem to be paying off. It's sweet and loving that you want her to have the benefits of exercising, but stand back, because I'm about to make a big mess slaughtering a sacred cow. Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, low-carb pioneers whose evidence-based approach to dietary medicine I have great respect for, dug into the research on exercise after meeting professional fitness trainer Fredrick Hahn. They were surprised at what they found and ended up writing a book with Hahn–"The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution." In their book, they note that many of the ways people exercise actually don't do all that much for their bodies or longterm health. For example, they say that many endurance workouts–like the 7mile runs I used to do–are "tremendously inefficient" for improving health and often come with some serious costs, like the need to have your knees rebuilt with medical Tupperware. They also write that many sports that people consider exercise–including tennis, skiing, and (sorry!) martial arts–have some fitness benefits but would better be considered play. They explain that exercise should do all of the following: 1. Make you stronger. 2. Improve your car-
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diovascular system. 3. Help you lose excess body fat. 4. Improve your endurance. 5. Improve your flexibility. And 6. Preserve or increase your bone density and muscle mass. The one exercise that does all of these things is slow-motion strength training. This involves lifting extremely heavy weights -- weights that you can barely lift at all–extremely slowly. You do just three to six reps in 60- or 90-second intervals–to the point where your muscles just scream and give out. By the way, though it says on the cover of their book that you can change your body by working out like this for just 30 minutes weekly, Mary Dan Eades told me that you really only have to do it for 12 to 15 minutes a week but they figured nobody would believe that. Now maybe you're saying, "Come on...weightlifting for cardio?" Consider that your heart is a muscle and muscle cells need oxygen as they work. Mike Eades explains on his blog that conditioning your muscles through strength training makes the body more efficient at getting oxygen into muscle cells, which is what improves your cardiopulmonary function–not all the pound, pound, pound of a run. As for how to get your girlfriend into this kind of exercise, first, it helps to explain that it requires a ridiculously small time commitment–far less than it takes for her to do "natural look" makeup (which, ironically, can take 40 minutes or more to apply). Of course, there's still the problem of motivating her–considering how all she has to do to fit into her skinny jeans is have a plate of french fries and a nap. Well, when you're in a relationship, you get to make requests of your partner–things you ask them to do simply because it would make you happy. Put your request in that light, but give her an attractive (rebellion-quashing) timetable: For just three weeks, try slow-motion strength training with you. If, after that time, she hates it, she can stop. Mary Dan Eades explains that the three-week "try this" allows a person to experience some benefits, which often motivates them to keep going. If she does really get into it, be prepared: This eliminates any need to drag you kicking and screaming to the altar; she can just hoist you over her shoulder.
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Accounting Clerk Enterprising Company seeking a Temporary Accounting Clerk to assist the Payroll Manager with a variety of projects highly focused on detailed data entry. This position will also assist in applying daily cash receipts, create and maintain Excel spreadsheets. This position will tentatively be a 2-3 month assignment, M-F, 8: 00-5: 00. Must have the ability to work well with others under pressure, resolve practical problems, and be proficient in Microsoft applications, specifically Excel. Education and experience: BA degree in accounting or related degree. $12.00. See full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #28091 Baker Local bakery is seeking full time Overnight Baker. Must be punctual and reliable with good communication, organizational,
and math skills. Professional food service experience is required and overnight shift experience greatly preferred. Will assist Head Overnight Baker. Must be able to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment. Must be available for night shifts. Days and shift hours to be discussed in interview. Must be able to work holidays at times. Wage is DOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10221112 COMPUTER HELP WANTED. Have some experience, but need help with eBay & Craigslist. Please call 406-396-0607 Customer Care Associate An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a long term employee for a Customer Care Associate. The Customer Care Assoc. Is responsible for providing effective customer service for all internal and external customers by using excellent, in-
SHIFT SUPERVISOR (4) FT Positions supporting persons with disabilities in a residential setting. $9.80 -$10.30/hr. Position open until filled. Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation. Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.
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Entry Level Warehouse/Driver Position Looking for a person to do multiple things in a warehouse environment as well as driving and delivering water, and servicing water coolers as needed. Must be able to lift 50# repetitively, good organizational skills, and cleanliness are required. The ability to work positively with co-workers is essential, as well as the ability to stay on task when working independently. Ideal candidate will possess great customer service skills, have a valid DL with a clean driving record. This is a full-time position, hours are Monday thru Friday 8: 00am to 5:00pm, weekends and Holidays off. Generous benefits and raise after successful completion of probationary period. Position starts at $10/hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28089
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Trader/Broker Assistant Ideal candidate will work in a fastpaced, changing and growing open office environment with a strong work ethic. Duties include: assisting domestic trader(s) with prospects and customers, maintaining orders, arranging and tracking shipments, building and maintaining relationships with new and existing logistics companies, customers and prospects, customer support and maintaining transaction paperwork and supplier audits. Must be confident, extremely detail oriented and possess strong written, oral, organizational skills. Must prioritize and be flexible and innovative in problem solving. 2+ years related business experience. Proficiency in MS Office- Outlook, Excel, and Word. Excellent compensation and benefits package. – Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27755
Payroll Specialist Anderson ZurMuehlen is looking for experienced staff to process payroll including quarterly reports, W-2’s, journal entries, pre-tax payroll deductions, bank reconciliations and 1099 setups. Candidates who have five years payroll and three years QuickBooks experience are preferred. We are looking for someone who believes in providing excellent customer service, is able to multi-task, and is excited to work in a team environment. If you take pride in your technical and payroll background apply for this position in our Missoula, Montana office. Contact Human Resources at hr@azworld.com, 406.442.1040 or online at azworld.com.
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Carpenter Assistant Local Construction Company needs laborer/carpenter helper to help with variety of construction jobs. Duties will include demo, cleaning construction sites, framing and general carpentry for residential and commercial properties. Qualified candidate will have some carpentry experience, and own tool bag and basic hand tools. PPE will be provided. Wage $13-$14/hour DOE- Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27792
PROFESSIONAL HR Assistant North West Home Care, Inc. is looking for an energetic, organized, detail-oriented HR Assistant to assist with most functions of the Human Resources department including: recruitment and retention, training and development, performance management, benefits, employee relations, workers’ compensation, safety, and records management. Must have strong communication skills, good judgment, and be able to work independently. Must be able to adhere to applicable State and Federal regulations as well as company policies & procedures. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10221389
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ence with G-code programming, Solid Works for CAD and CAM is preferred, other 3D solid modeling experience will be considered. Experience setting up manual and mill lathes. Knowledge of basic math, geometry and trigonometry. Ability to interpret drawings and specifications. Hours are M-TH 6am-3pm and F 6am-12noon. Wage $16$18/hour DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 27822 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546
INSTRUCTION Early Childhood Teacher The Greater Missoula Family YMCA is Hiring at multiple locations! Pre K Teacher is responsible for organizing and leading daily activities of pre-kindergarten children. Oversees the program curriculum and environment providing a high quality, developmentally appropriate experience to meet the needs of the children and families in the program. Must be able to thrive in an environment with the unique challenges of a nonprofit community service organization. Works with limited supervision. Must have a degree in Childhood Education or a related field or a minimum of 2 years in a licensed child care facility. Must have current CPR and First Aid or obtain within first 30 days of employment. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10216868
ize and safely lead participants through swimming classes, teaching swimming skills to participants of various ages and background, as well as performing the essential duties and responsibilities of a lifeguard. Assures safety of all pool participants. Works with limited supervision. Duties include: Ensures a safe environment for all. Instructs participants in YMCA Swim Lesson programs. Cleans and maintains the pool area, office, guardroom, deck and surrounding areas. CPR/First Aid Lifeguard Certification. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10216866 Teacher’s Aides We are expanding and seeking enthusiastic, dedicated, kind-hearted teacher’s aides to join our team and support our lead teachers. Must be CPR/1st Aid certified or able to do so, willing to take STARS classes and pass a criminal background investigation. 8:00am-1:00pm M-F or 1:00pm-5:30pm M-F. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10220129
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Free your body. Don’t ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce animal elegance. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The people of many cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn't be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An Interesting Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong – you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, "How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?", or "How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?" For extra credit, get a t-shirt that says, "Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her."
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimismfueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation. You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have just begun your big test. How are you doing so far? According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, "If it doesn't make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life." In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For many years, my occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little as necessary at low-end jobs – scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night, and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind's eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you'd be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build more self-sufficiency. Here's an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of "comfort"? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you're out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you're virginal, fresh, and raw, and in other ways you're mature, seasoned, and well-developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Where is everybody when I need them?” Even if you haven't actually spoken those words recently, I'm guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they'll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3. Humbly ask – out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination – for precisely what you want. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of Pisceans less fortunate than you won't read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That’s why I’m predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style.
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FOR PUBLICATION In Re the Marriage of Julia A. Wright, Petitioner. Steven Wesley Wright, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED BIOLOGICAL PARENT. YOU, THE PARENT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition in this actin which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. This Summons, requires you to file your answer and serve a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a Dissolution of Marriage. VIOLATION OF THIS ORDER IS A
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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Cause No.: DP-16-140 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ROBERT B. HILLIARD, a/k/a Robert Bruce Hilliard, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LAURA MAEDCHE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of July, 2016. /s/ Laura Maedche, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By: /s/ Craig Mungas, Attorneys for Laura
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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM SCOTT SCHEFFER, Deceased. Probate No. DP- 16-137 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan Margaret Lear Scheffer has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joan Margaret Lear Scheffer, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Sally Johnson, Johnson Law Firm, 234 E. Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 20th day of July, 2016. /s/ Sally J. Johnson, Attorney for Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/29/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200918916 Book 844 Page 1159 and Modified on
11/13/2014 under Auditor’s File No. Book 936 Page 915, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Scott E. Bartlett and Jitra Bartlett, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Insured Title, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Title, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 2 of Larkspur Addition, a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/15
MNAXLP installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 9, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $250,595.74. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $230,822.39, 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 20, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).
The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. BARTLETT, SCOTT E. and JITRA (TS# 7023.113637) 1002.287433-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/04/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201208270 B: 893 P: 747 and Re-recorded on 10/25/2013 under Auditor’s File No. 201321009 B: 921 P: 375 and Modified on 2/4/2016 under Auditor’s File No. 201601689 Book 957 Page 114, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Michael K Fitzpatrick, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 16 of Certificate of Survey No. 370, located in the Southeast One-Quarter of Section 11, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed
of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of
June 9, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $229,109.74. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $218,015.32, 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
CLARK FORK STORAGE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 72, 103, 153, 199, 217, OS35 Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 8/22/2016 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 8/25/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final.
The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 6202/Kris Braaten/$518/washer&dryer SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Aug 17, 2016 @ 5:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds.
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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 20, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Fitzpatrick, Michael K. (TS# 7023.115750) 1002.287445File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 9, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 12 IN BLOCK 1 OF LINDA VISTA NINTH SUPPLEMENT, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. KIRSTEN R
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CARLSON, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 9, 2015 and recorded on March 18, 2015 as Book 941 Page 1004 under Document No. 201504521. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation. 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 $939.90, beginning December 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 23, 2016 is $183,770.73 principal, interest at the rate of 4.50000% totaling $3,284.71, late charges in the amount of
MNAXLP $282.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $287.44, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The con-
veyance 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
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bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 28, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 28 day of April, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, 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 GUILD CARLSON 101204-1
RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bed, 1 bath, $595, Downtown, AC, coin op laundry, carport, off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 1 bed, 1 bath, $725, Southside,
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REAL ESTATE wood laminate flooring, W/D hookups, off street parking, large deck, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333 1024 Stephens Ave. #1. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #4. 2 bed/1.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, storage, pet? $850. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 509 S. 5th St. East #5. 2 bed/1 bath, 3 blocks to campus, coinops on site. $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 Garden City Property Management. Voted Best Property Management Company in Missoula for the past 9 years. 406-5496106 www.gcpm-mt.com
MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $460/month. 406-273-6034
DUPLEXES 1269 S. 1st St. West “A”. 2 bed/1 bath, W/D, DW, central location, all utilities included. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1424 Toole Ave. “B” 2 bed/1
bath, upstairs unit, fenced yard, close to shopping $625. Grizzly Property Management 5422060
6565 Justin Court. 5 bed/3 bath, Upper Miller Creek, on cul-de-sac, extra storage $2500. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
2BR Northside Condo Available 8/28 1.5 bath, 2 bedroom, 2 level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Close to downtown, bike to UM, Mountain Line bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op), carport pkg & storage unit. Carpet throughout with wood laminate flooring in LR. Water, trash pickup, snow removal included. Small pets considered. No smkg. $800/mo. $500 security. Will respond to inquiries promptly 214.7519
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3909 Buckley Place. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, W/D hookups, single garage. $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 612 Gerald Ave. 1 bed/1 bath, triplex close to UM, hardwood floors, shared yard. $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES 118 Woodworth Ave. 4 bed/2 bath, University area, W/D hookups, deck, fenced back yard. $1500. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1319 Howell St. 3 bed/1.5 bath, fenced yard, W/D hookups, pet? $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with deck, studio & sauna. $299,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $195,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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2700 sq ft log home kit for sale, brand new. $25,000. Motivated seller. Ships anywhere in the US free to jobsite. Blueprint available. Call 406-671-0926. 4 Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $458,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit
408 Oak Street. Remodeled 1 bed, 1 bath with wood floors in River Front Park neighborhood. $206,888. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 4611 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath on almost 1/2 acre near the river. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $525,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath University District home. $625,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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Central Missoula location with 10 offices, in-space conference room, server room and cubical area. Lots of open space with outside decking and use of large community conference room and break area. Designated parking as well as off-street parking for employees and clients. Energy efficient building with low utility costs. See LA regarding lease terms. For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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REAL ESTATE Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential
POLSON: 3-bedroom+office, 2-bath manufactured home in Eagle Nest Park-Seniors only, carport, ramp, deck, amenities 406-883-2119.
More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com Natural Housebuilders, Inc. Building comfortable energy efficient craftsman homes with radiant floor heat. 406369-0940 OR 406-6426863. Facebook/Natural House builders,inc. Solar Active House. www.faswall.com. www.naturalhousebuilder.net
2-bath manufactured home in Eagle Nest Park-Seniors only, carport, ramp, deck, amenities 406-883-2119. Trail Street 2144 Trail Street. Check out this 3 bed 2 bath loved home. Sweet, light, bright and ready to move into! $270,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
CONDOS 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, Franklin to The Fort condo. $130,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com Charlo St. Townhomes #1. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
The Uptown Flats #105. Ground floor condo offers extra large south-facing patio. 1 bed, 1 bath. $161,900 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816 annierealtor@gmail.com The Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com The Uptown Flats #303. 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com
MANUFACTURED 4033 Matthew Street. 2 bed, 1 bath mobile home in Westview Park with deck & mountain views. $38,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND FOR SALE 156 ACRES, EASY ACCESS. $199,900. Bordered by USFS lands. Prime hunting. 15
408 Oak Street • $206,888 River Front Park Gem! Remodeled 1 bed, 1 bath with wood floors, lots of natural light & large fenced yard. properties since 1981.
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minutes to Superior MT. Southern exposure, good mix of trees and meadows. Power nearby. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-8801956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 20 acres Granite County $44,900. Wild Horse Road: Gated access, prime hunting area. Timber, views, usable terrain. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • newhomes@montana.com • www.marktwite.com 2598 WHISKEY JACK, HAMILTON MT. $89,500. 20+ acres South of Hamilton. Bordered by USFS lands. Gated community access. Sweet seller terms available with 20% down. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 3.52ac $259/month Boulder, MT- 2.12ac $391/month Absarokee, MT21.3ac $203/month Red Lodge, MTMore properties online. Justin Joyner Steel Horse RE www.ownerfinancemt.com 406-539-1420 320 ACRES, GRANITE COUNTY. $172,000. Located about an hour east of Missoula. Bordered by BLM and State lands. Good grazing area. Prime hunting area. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Prop-
erties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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40 ACRES- 2 CREEKSSELLER TERMS. $69,900. 2 perennial streams. Gated legal access. Seller terms w/20% down. Easy year around potential. Off the grid. Great southern exposure. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com
Business For Sale Established bulk spices, herbs, teas and gifts. All products, furnishings and equipment must be moved. Turn-key. 406-822-3333
NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #5. Development opportunity. 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@ gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #7. Great Development opportunity. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714
COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.
2700 Lyon Creek Rd, Missoula True Montana Property! $498,000 • MLS # 21603335 Easy town access, remote setting. 3 bed, 2 bath, 3,040 sq.ft. custom log home nestled in a beautifully maintained forest with privacy and hunting right out of the back yard. 17 private wooded acres. Endless recreational opportunities. Clark Fork river only miles away. Completely remodeled in 2011/2012.
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OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home on .47 acre lot. $337,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $315,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home. $230,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 BEDROOM HOME ON 12+ACRES. $349,900. Bring the Horses! Well kept home, 45x60 shop. All irrigated land. Less than an hour to Missoula. 2 story home. Incredible views and plenty of solitude. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com Hot Springs 205 E Street, Hot Springs. Super-efficient 1 bed, 1bath. $139,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens. $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 JILL•
Jill is a 10+ year-old female mixed breed dog. Jill is definitely a Heinz 57 of breeds; she looks a little bit like a lot of little dogs. She is a very old dog that we are trying to find a retirement home for. The poor girl has no teeth, and has some neurological issues in her back legs, making her drag her feet when she walks. Age aside, Jill still has a great deal of spunk. She loves other dogs and running around the yard.
LOGAN•Logan is a 1-year-old male Yellow Lab mix. He is a fun and energetic young dog who is eager to please and loves receiving treats and affection. He'd make a great family dog, and would definitely enjoy having someone to play with him in the yard, dog park, or hiking trail, making Logan your perfect Missoula dog. Come take this happy, young boy for a walk and fall in love with playful spirit.
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ROLAND•Roland is a 5-7 year-old male longhaired cat. He has a fire house siren of a yowl that seems rather alarming. But we've found that he really doesn't do anything other than scream at you when he feels he's been treated unfairly. Thus far, he doesn't really get along with other cats. We're not sure it's his attitude that stinks or if it's the other cats that don't appreciate being screamed at that have the bad attitude. PENNYWISE•Pennywise is a 3-year-old male black short-haired cat. He loves to hang out on high platforms like book cases, cupboards, or the top of a cat tree. But that doesn't mean he tries to stay out of reach. Pennywise is quick to jump down if he thinks he might miss the opportunity to get a little love. He gets along well with other cats as long as they don't mind his nosy, curious demeanor.
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PAISLEY• Paisley is a 2-year-old female Brown Tabby/Tortie. She loves to receive affection and curl up in your lap, but doesn't really enjoy being picked up. So, when her feet leave the ground, she has a tendency to panic. Paisley is a very playful girl who loves stirring things up, but is a little leery of fast-moving feet or hands. Once she develops a little confidence, she is a very loving
JACK•Jack is a 6-year-old male Dachshund/Beagle mix. He is a great medium-sized dog that has your typical Dachshund spunk. He is a pint-sized "guard dog" and will become protective of his owner. Jack doesn't really enjoy most dogs, but will adapt eventually if they live in the same home. He likes older kids that don't push his buttons too much.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 SANTO• Santo is a sensitive and kind Pit Bull/Mastiff mix who has been at the Humane Society since February. This 7-year-old guy is truly a “people dog” and is happiest around a human companion. Luckily for his future adopters, Santo enjoys many of the same activities as Missoulians do in the summer; swimming, hiking, fishing, road trips. He will also snuggle up after a day of adventure.
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SHANDY• Shandy is a beautiful cat looking for a loving retirement home. In her golden years Shandy enjoys the finer things in life such as being held and sleeping. When she isn't resting this curious lady loves looking out the window and rubbing on visitors, seeking attention. Shandy loves attention so please come meet her today!
HOLLY•Holly may be 8 years old, technically making her a senior lady, but she certainly doesn't act old! Holly is a very active girl, who loves going on walks, hiking, and playing lots and lots of fetch. She loves children, but she can sometimes be a little overwhelming for smaller children with her endless energy. Come meet this friendly lady today and watch as she jumps her way into your heart!
SAMI• This gentle gal is looking for a quiet furever home where she can engage in meaningful conversation and then join you for a nap. Sami can be a bit bashful at first, but once she warms up she's the perfect lap cat. Stop by The Humane Society of Western Montana today and let this sweet girl steal your heart.
AUDREY•Audrey came to us from an overcrowded facility in hopes that her luck will change in Missoula. While she seems to have had a bit of a rough start, she is still optimistic for her furrever family. She is young, sweet, and ready to learn all kinds of new tricks! If you would like more information on this sweet girl, please call the shelter at (406) 549-3934.
BABETTE• This lovely older gal has found herself in our care due to a sad turn of family events. She is looking for a quiet home where she can relax. Babette would be a perfect lounging partner in the beautiful summer days to come and a warm companion in the cold months. If you are looking for a sweet, calm feline, Babette may be the cat for you!
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