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Missoula’s Biomimicry Institute sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, where retinal scans open sliding silver doors into a crisp laboratory. In the institute’s online database, “Ask Nature,” you’ll find descriptions of anti-counterfeiting technologies and water filtration membranes from Cover illustration by Kou Moua places such as the University of Cambridge Nanophotonics Center and The Aquaporin Company. It all sounds so high-tech—and in many ways, it is. But the Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit organization that employs 16 people, and has an annual budget of $1.4 million, is actually more of a back-to-nature enterprise, quite literally. Its philosophy holds that nature has been evolving designs for 3.8 billion years, and humans could learn a thing or two from them ....................................................14

News Letters The least governments can do is pay to fix the problems they cause ...........4 The Week in Review A state surplus, a bear boxed back, a crime of twins ..............6 Briefs Lee Newspapers metered paywalls, newfangled bike lanes, and more...........6 Etc. Paying for family planning: the fiscally conservative thing to do ........................7 Upfront In Missoula, abusers can disappear ..............................................................8 Upfront The Blackfoot River has a keeper .................................................................9 Ochenski In D.C. deal, timid Democrats sold out the poor....................................10 Writers on the Range Is Tim DeChristopher a new green hero?............................11 Agenda Women’s Voices for the Earth’s Stroller Brigade .........................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Healing through compost.............................................................20 Happiest Hour Cyrus Skinner’s Steakhouse............................................................21 8 Days a Week Down the river with a finger in your tube hole… .........................23 Mountain High Bear Fair in Swan Valley..................................................................29 Scope Wendy Red Bird gets the way Indians live now .............................................30 Noise Susan Gibson, BUST!, Chance McKinney, Iceage...........................................31 Soundcheck Bomb the Music Industry hits Missoula..............................................32 Film Meek’s Cutoff leaves you desperate, dry and moved .......................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ..................................................34

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Asked near the Higgins Roundabout Monday afternoon.

Almost two years have passed since the Higgins Roundabout was completed. How have your opinions about roundabouts changed? Follow: What would you like to see in the center of roundabouts?

Jeff Howell: You know, I don’t like it. I find it frustrating because people don’t really have a sense on how to use it. If people could figure it out and just drive, I think it could be a good thing. I wouldn’t count on it, though. Status quo, yo: I like the gardens, they look nice.

Jerry Redfern: Well, I’ve been out of the country, just back in town for 36 hours. It seems straightforward to me, but what I’ve seen so far is that a lot of people haven’t figured it out yet. Get shorty: I’d go with nothing that’s too high—maybe some stumpy sculptures that you can see through.

Sarauna Torrez: I’m all for the roundabouts. People don’t really seem to know how to use them, but you’d think they could still learn. It’s certainly better than a light. I just hate traffic lights. Keepin’ it local: Native, waterwise perennials that you don’t have to dig up, water or care for.

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Not the government’s problem? Recently, Ravalli County Commissioners suggested government should not be involved in health issues incurred by citizens. I find that totally hypocritical. All levels of government do many things that cause health problems. For example, the Forest Service recently sprayed an herbicide, clopyralid, with a helicopter over a period of several days. The safety data sheet states it causes malformations in developing young. Also, exposure results in severe eye irritation and can cause blindness. In addition, Hamilton and several other towns put on fireworks displays that released tons of toxic chemicals into the air. Look up all the toxic chemicals and heavy metals used to make fireworks. A major component in fireworks is an oxidizer called perchlorate, long known to be a serious health hazard. Perchlorate inhibits the thyroid’s ability to take up iodine and can reduce the production of thyroid hormone. Do we really need more hypothyroidism here? I have been studying the effects of hypothyroidism on wildlife and domestic grazing animals for 15 years. The prevalence of young now being born with symptoms of hypothyroidism is well over 50 percent for most wild and domestic ungulate species in Montana, especially domestic calves and goats. Other toxins in fireworks include mercury, barium and a banned pesticide, copper arsenate. Counties spray most roadsides during the summer, eventually exposing all the people who live in that county to toxic herbicides. The herbicides used have been shown by multiple studies to cause chromosomal damage, reproductive problems, thyroid hormone disruption and cancer. Government entities at all levels are continually dumping deadly toxins into the environment where citizens live. These actions are causing very serious health problems. So tell us again why it isn’t the government’s responsibility to help people with the ensuing health issues? Judy Hoy Stevensville

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Thank you Missoula County Commissioners, National Wildlife Federation, Montana Environmental Information Center, and the Sierra Club for taking the lead in addressing the Montana Department of Transportation’s violation of the Montana Environmental Policy Act. Your successful suit against that agency for its inadequate evaluation of impacts of the proposed Highway 12 Imperial/Exxon Mobil megaload route reaffirms our faith in the ability of government and private citizens to intercede on behalf of Montanans threatened by an industry proposal that does more harm than good. Notwithstanding the incredibly

destructive global effects of Alberta tar sands development, Montanans at the very least deserve a thorough understanding of the full range of impacts of the proposal, potentially degrading some of our region’s greatest national treasures. Gary Matson Milltown

How crude One week before the Silvertip Pipeline burst and then bled into the Yellowstone River, Gov. Brian Schweitzer met with representatives from Exxon Mobil regarding the Kearl Module Transport Project, or “megaload” shipments. Although we have no way of knowing the full content of their conversation, it is reasonable to assume that the discussion involved the details of

“Brian Schweitzer’s support for the Keystone XL Pipeline is reckless at best. It is a foolhardy gamble with the land, lives, and livelihoods of Montanans who have nothing to gain and everything to lose.” the project, repeated assurances of its safety, and a feeble request by the governor that the shipments be built in Montana rather than abroad. Days later, as the Silvertip Pipeline gushed oil into the longest un-dammed river in the lower 48 states (some of that oil, as we have recently learned, coming from the Alberta Tar Sands, unbeknownst to regulators), Schweitzer promised that the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project for which he has offered his unwavering support, would be different, that it would be more technologically sound, that the companies would be more honest, more transparent (see “Oil and water,” July 14, 2011). It seems to have become a mantra: Next time. Next time it will be better. Next time things will be different. Exxon Valdez, Deep Horizon, Silvertip: These types of accidents will never happen again. Yes, it’s true that the first Keystone pipeline has leaked like a sieve—12 times in its first year

of operation—and it’s true that if the Keystone XL burst it could dump 6.9 million gallons of toxic hydrocarbons into the same river. But no need to worry: Next time will be different. There’s something extremely crude, as it were, about the mantra of “next time.” There’s something blatantly disrespectful about telling people whose homes and fields have just been turned into oil slicks that next time things will be different, that even though we have yet to recover from the devastation of the spill, we should simply move forward with new and significantly more dangerous projects. Another pipeline leak occurred recently on the Blackfeet Reservation near Glacier National Park. A few weeks ago, a BP oil pipeline on Alaska’s North Slope ruptured, spilling up to 4,200 gallons of oil-containing fluids into the Alaskan tundra. Schweitzer’s support for the Keystone XL Pipeline is reckless at best. It is a foolhardy gamble with the land, lives, and livelihoods of Montanans who have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Legislative, litigative, and public protest are all integral components in any successful campaign to change public policy and build collective power. The capitol protest and occupation organized by Earth First! and Northern Rockies Rising Tide that took place on July 12 was an attempt to expose Schweitzer’s two-faced attempt to publicly chastise Exxon and quell the anger of Montanans while simultaneously supporting the XL Pipeline and Exxon’s Kearl shipments. Unfortunately, unlike the national coverage of the event, which chose to focus on the links between the governor, Exxon, and Keystone XL, much of the local media focused attention on comparatively trivial matters. Contrary to some media reports, the protest was rowdy but respectful. According to the Helena police, there was absolutely no damage done to the capitol building, which was left spotless. We made a genuine attempt to have a serious conversation with Schweitzer, but were repeatedly refused this opportunity. (Watch the raw video footage online to see how the governor responded to direct questioning). Loud, vibrant protesters may turn some people off, but they serve a purpose. They draw a clear line demarcating where public figures stand on certain issues. In the end, what the people of Montana have learned (or at least should have learned) from the governor’s response to our demands is that our supposed “public servant” would sooner bow down to the interests of the largest corporations on Earth than stand up for the land, lives, and livelihoods of Montanans. We find that attitude to be disrespectful and crude. Max Granger Northern Rockies Rising Tide Missoula

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The House Energy and Power Subcommittee endorses a bill that could require U.S. oil pipelines to be buried deeper under waterways to avoid the kind of leak that polluted the Yellowstone River in early July. Current federal rules order that pipelines must be buried at least four feet under riverbeds.

• Thursday, July 28 Gov. Brian Schweitzer announces that Montana is ending the fiscal year with a $340 million surplus, making it one of eight states that ended the year in the black. “It was even better than our estimates and, of course, where the legislature”—which passed big budget cuts—“was with their estimates,” he says, according to Lee Newspapers.

• Friday, July 29 While jogging the Crazy Canyon Trail on the east side of Missoula, Ani Haas, a 24-year-old former U.S. Ski Team member, fends of an aggressive female black bear with two cubs by punching it and screaming. Haas suffers only minor abrasions on her arms and chest.

• Saturday, July 30 On Missoula’s Stoddard Street, Alberto Guillen, 40, allegedly attempts to run over his twin brother, Roberto, with a van as Roberto pedals away on his bicycle following a fistfight with Alberto. Alberto would be charged with attempted murder. Roberto is listed in serious condition.

• Sunday, July 31 Brian Hockaday, 28, of Hamilton, is heading eastbound on Interstate 90 when he crosses the median and collides with a van heading in the opposite direction. He dies as a result of injuries sustained. Later in the day, two cars collide under the Orange Street I-90 overpass, sending five people to the hospital.

• Monday, August 1 With a 10-1 lead in the top of the fourth inning, the Missoula Osprey look poised to trounce the Billings Mustangs at Dehler Park. But the Mustangs score five times in the bottom of the fourth, and twice more in the sixth and seventh innings. Still, the Osprey hang on for a 10-8 win.

• Tuesday, August 2 A black-clad Willie Nelson plays to a packed crowd at Ogren Park’s Allegiance Field. Nelson, who turned 78 in April, is driven across the field to the stage. He opens with his trademark “Whiskey River” and closes with “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.”

Chuck Irestone gives a velomobile a test ride around Bonner Park August 2. Dozens of velomobile riders stopped in Missoula during a coast-to-coast ride called “Roll Over America,” a first-of-its-kind journey to raise awareness of the efficiency of three-wheeled rides.

Journalism Hitting a wall Lee Newspapers’ declining revenues have led to layoffs, consolidated newsrooms, and thinner newspapers. Now the company is betting that charging its most loyal online readers will stop some of the bleeding. On Monday, Missoulian Editor Sherry Devlin announced the paper’s new metered payment system. Visitors to Missoulian.com can read 20 news stories per month for free and then will be asked to subscribe. Print subscribers will pay $2 per month for full online access; non-subscribers will have to pay $5 per month. All of Lee’s papers in Montana and Wyoming are shifting to the metered paywall. Each has different rates and story-click thresholds. “I think this is a really positive development for the industry as a whole and for our newspaper specifically,” Devlin says. “I think it’s important to show that our content has value. There really is no other media in Montana that hires and employs the number of journalists that we do, and we take our

responsibility to our community really seriously, providing that excellence and depth and breadth of coverage. This is part of doing that—to be able to hire those people and pay those people and make those investments in the technology as well.” Devlin says reaction to the new approach has been “very mixed.” The dozens of comments on her Missoulian story announcing the move suggest that many readers are perturbed—“It’s been nice knowing you” and “Good luck with that” were among the responses. Lee follows several other newspapers in implementing a metered paywall system, most notably The New York Times. It did so in late March, and as of July 21, when it released its second-quarter earnings, the media company had amassed 224,000 digital-only subscribers. It charges $15 per month. Devlin says she expects Missoulian.com’s traffic to initially dip, and then ultimately exceed its current online readership. “Paid readers are really committed readers and they’re going to read a lot,” she says. “We’ll find out all of that over the course of the next six months or so here.”

Clay Shirky, a New York University journalism professor who writes about the social and economic effects of internet technologies, is also waiting to see if the metered model will prove profitable. He says it avoids the disadvantages of full-on paywalls, which shrink an audience to only the subset willing to pay, “but it still relies on plumping up revenue from bundling with print, so it may be a stopgap rather than a solution.” Matthew Frank

Law Flashlight fight A Kalispell man has filed a lawsuit alleging a Montana Highway Patrol trooper unnecessarily used deadly force against him two years ago when the trooper hit him on the head several times with a large flashlight. “He certainly didn’t have any weapons, or give any indication that he was dangerous,” says Johnna Baffa, a Missoula attorney representing plaintiff Marc Hardesty. Their suit was filed in July. On April 22, 2009, Hardesty pulled out of the

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Town Pump near Kalispell and began heading east on U.S. Highway 2. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Glen Barcus pulled Hardesty over after observing that Hardesty’s right front turn signal appeared to be missing. The driver also unlawfully crossed the first lane and entered the center lane. According to law enforcement records cited in the lawsuit, Hardesty’s speech was difficult to understand and his responses were delayed. Hardesty admitted to Barcus that his driver’s license was likely suspended for unpaid traffic fines. When Barcus asked Hardesty to get out of the car, the suspect fled. The ensuing pursuit extended across the four-lane highway and into a mobile home dealership. “He was afraid he would be put in jail,” Baffa says of her client. The lawsuit alleges that during the ensuing pursuit and physical altercation, Barcus hit Hardesty between two and four times on the head with his Maglite, a heavy-duty flashlight frequently used by law enforcement. The case further alleges that Barcus’s decision to hit Hardesty on the head violated MHP policies governing when it’s appropriate to use deadly force. Those policies state that troopers can only use such force when law enforcement or the public is in imminent danger. Citing policies surrounding pending litigation, the Montana Department of Justice, which oversees the Highway Patrol, declined to comment on the suit. Hardesty was eventually taken into custody and transported by ambulance to Kalispell Regional Medical Center. According to the suit, he suffered a seizure three days after the arrest. Healthcare providers at Regional Medical Center attributed the seizure to alcohol withdrawal. His attorney, however, argues the seizure was the direct result of traumatic brain injury from Barcus’s blows. Boffa says Hardesty now experiences frequent and debilitating headaches coupled with nausea. He’s asking for a jury trial, punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Jessica Mayrer

Downtown Sizing up cycle tracks Nearly a year ago, Missoula unveiled newfangled bike lanes on the north half of North Higgins Avenue, laying a bikes-only stretch of pavement between the sidewalk and parked cars instead of alongside moving ones. Now the city is collecting feedback from residents to help determine

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whether the “cycle tracks” set-up works and if it should be applied elsewhere in town. Last Thursday, the Missoula Bicycle-Pedestrian Office held a public meeting to discuss the bike lanes and it’s soliciting other comments on the cycle tracks’ effectiveness. “There are a few individuals who don’t like them at all,” says Bike-Ped office director Phil Smith. “But if you summarize, I think we’re in the range of about 50 comments or so now from the meeting and emails and whatnot, (and) the general tone is, ‘Yeah, we like them, and here are some specific things that we don’t like so much.’” The MissoulaGov listserv was flooded with reactions to the cycle tracks last week, ranging from “They make me feel much safer and less likely to be taken out by a car door” to “When cycling in the tracks I feel that there is a much greater risk

of running into a pedestrian or an open car door.” Biker, driver and walker Bruce Farling says he avoids the cycle tracks altogether because car doors, pedestrians, and alley intersections require “Tour de France-quality stopping abilities.” “Folks who regularly drive or cycle downtown can probably get used to this stuff—as long as they stay off the cell phone—but the problem is, many drivers never will because they are out-of-towners or folks who only rarely navigate downtown,” Farling wrote. “This change requires adaptation.” Smith says one of the most common responses he’s heard is that the cycle tracks, for better or worse, slow cyclists down. “If you’re a commuter and you want to just zip along to where you’re going, the cycle tracks aren’t the best for that,” he says. If the city decides to extend the tracks from Broadway to the Higgins Street Bridge, as the Downtown Master Plan suggests, it’ll have to get a green light from the Montana Department of Transportation, which holds jurisdiction over that half of North Higgins. Matthew Frank

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Megaloads A stranded eyesore Imperial Oil’s welcome is wearing a little thin outside The Lodge at Lolo Hot Springs. The company’s gigantic test module—originally scheduled for a brief two-week stay—hasn’t budged from there in four months. And with last month’s injunction against the heavy haul, the load doesn’t appear to be going anywhere for a while. “At this point, I couldn’t tell you for certain what our future plans for the module might be,” says Imperial Oil spokesman Pius Rolheiser. “Our plan is to have it parked there for an indefinite period while we await resolution of the preliminary injunction process.” That uncertainty has Lolo Hot Springs businesses a touch concerned. Lodge manager Michael Brady says the hotel is already $6,000 short compared to last year. The rent Imperial Oil’s shipping company, Mammoet, is paying for the space “kinda sorta” makes up for the loss, Brady says. “They’re paying $6,000 a month.” But the peak tourism season is already waning, and guests have told him they consider the module “an ugly eyesore.” Since the module rests exclusively on the Lodge’s property, the adjacent Lolo Hot Springs Resort receives no compensation from Mammoet. Yet manager David Barbe says they’ve experienced the same slump in business. “I have no problem with them coming through and being allowed through,” Barbe says. “If they were just here for the two weeks, it wouldn’t be an issue. Right now, they have no idea how long they’re going to be sitting there.” Barbe estimates the resort lost $6,000 in a single day in mid-July during one of the resort’s regular summer concerts. Earth First! protesters threatened to tinker with the module when they met nearby for their annual rendezvous. Brady called the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Department for additional security. Deputies were assigned to a 24-hour watch. Barbe claims the patrol cars—which remained for over a week—scared off concertgoers and potential guests alike. “We saw a huge drop in sales with that because there’s a bar there,” Barbe says. “Most people come out, have a few drinks, sit in the hot tub and then leave. But everybody was all worried about it…they’d pull in the parking lot and then drive back out.” He blames Earth First! for that particular loss. But he and Brady hope the module moves on down the road soon—even if Imperial Oil has to dismantle it first. Alex Sakariassen

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A Ravalli County woman recently sent a letter to commissioners pleading that they not defund the county’s family planning clinic, which she’s been relying on for 26 years. “I received birth control pills when I couldn’t afford them otherwise, pregnancy tests when I was ready to have a baby, TB testing when I was ready to rejoin the work force, an IUD when I decided I was finished having children, and continue to utilize their services for my yearly health exams,” she wrote. Now she has insurance, but continues to visit the clinic “because I trust their staff to provide me with unbiased information that is in MY best interest.” But the right-wing ideologues on the Ravalli County Commission don’t seem to have its residents’ best interests in mind. It’s considering refusing a $39,000 Title X grant that’s supported the family planning portion of Ravalli County’s public health office dating back to the Nixon Administration. The clinic offers breast and pelvic exams, breast and cervical cancer screening, STD screening and treating, HIV testing and counseling, and pregnancy testing and counseling. Some commissioners believe it isn’t the government’s role to provide such services. On Thursday, it could vote to reject the federal money that’s already been set aside. If they do, says Judy Griffin, Ravalli County’s director of public health, “it’s the demise of the family planning clinic.” In 2010, the clinic served 461 patients, 78 percent of whom live in poverty. Closing the clinic would also contradict the fiscal conservatism the commissioners so loudly profess. According to the non-partisan, nonprofit think tank The Brookings Institution, every dollar invested in family planning saves taxpayers more than five dollars down the road. “Given the strong cost-saving properties of these subsidies,” Brookings researchers write, “they ought to be particularly appealing to fiscal conservatives who are concerned about our yawning national debt and the burden that it will place on current and future generations of taxpayers.” Not in Ravalli County, says Darby resident Mary Moore. “It has nothing to do with cost cutting or taking federal funding. It’s just placing their religion and their moral values on us. That’s what it boils down to.” “We really value family values here in our office,” says Griffin, adding that the clinic teaches abstinence and encourages teens to talk with their parents. But she also tells of girls whose parents would beat them if they learned their daughter used birth control, and instances of rape and incest. “The bottom line is, everybody doesn’t live in a perfect world.”

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The drama triangle Missoula works to catch abusers before they slip away by Jessica Mayrer

Licensed professional counselor Rick the increase marks an actual rise in inci- completion rate; the city’s municipal court graduated 38 percent. Garber says the McLeod points to a triangle drawn in black dents or more reporting. Partner or family member assault in higher county success rates are likely ink on a whiteboard in his sunlit office just off North Reserve Street. On the bottom Montana is a misdemeanor. The first offense attributable to its misdemeanor superviis punishable with up to a $1,000 fine and sion program, which is staffed with probaright corner, he’s written “victim.” “They all portray themselves as vic- one year in jail. Rather than locking people tion officers who track offender progress. The city’s Municipal Court does not tims—of the system, her, her family, the up, though, judges frequently send abusers judge, the cops,” says McLeod, who over- to anger management classes like McLeod’s. have a misdemeanor supervision program sees group and individual therapy for men The idea is to use therapy to untangle the to ensure offenders actually complete anger convicted in Missoula of partner or family root causes that trigger domestic violence management classes, Garber says, adding if member assault. Across 20-plus years, and thereby alleviate the social, emotional offenders don’t finish classes after one year, through his program Men Advocating Nonviolence, or MAN, McLeod has treated hundreds if not thousands of men, and he says just about all of the abusers believe that they occupy moral high ground when they use violence to solve problems. “We call it painting the partner black,” McLeod says. “Guys just come in and paint these terrible pictures of their partners.” That’s where “the drama triangle” comes in. McLeod, a charismatic counselor with a silver ponytail and a booming voice, works to instill accountability in the men he treats. Abusers are not rescuers, as they often see themselves—that’s over here, McLeod says, tapping one corner of the triangle on the whiteboard—but rather, they are perpetrators, he says, again referring to Photo by Chad Harder his whiteboard. That logic appears simple enough. But Rick McLeod wants to hold abusers accountable. instilling accountability in those accusand financial burdens of the crime on the court loses jurisdiction. That leaves a tomed to shirking it isn’t easy. Accountability is a mantra repeated by the criminal justice system, individuals and wide crack for offenders to slip through. just about everybody who works in the families. “Their sentences expire,” Garber says. “And It’s a noble goal. However, according to there’s just nothing else that we have the criminal justice system, including Missoula County Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech. a recent report compiled by the Office of power to do.” Orzech, who presides over misdemeanor Planning and Grants, four out of five offendFacing what Garber calls an “abysmal” partner or family member assault cases, ers sentenced through the Missoula success rate, the City Attorney’s Office is arrived early one recent Monday morning to Municipal Court to attend anger manage- launching a pilot project that aims to hold find six new partner or family member ment classes like McLeod’s don’t finish offenders more accountable. The city, with assault charges on her desk, a docket that them. help from OPG recently secured a $59,263 had accumulated during just one weekend. “A very big amount of people float away,” grant from the Montana Board of Crime After sitting on the bench for years, Orzech McLeod says. “The system needs a lot of Control. The money will pay for a new partis acutely aware that it’s tough to instill maintenance…There’s no follow-through. time position and a new full-time staffer to accountability in people who don’t neces- We don’t know who’s coming, when they’re keep better track of offenders. “It’s a totally sarily understand that they’re doing any- leaving, who’s on probation…” new model,” says Nancy Rittel, OPG grants thing wrong. “They’ve grown up in a violent That’s troubling for Missoula Deputy administrator and co-coordinator of the family, and this is business as usual,” she City Attorney Carrie Garber. As a prosecutor, county’s “JUST Response” team, which aims says. “It’s a shame, because then you have she routinely sees the faces of abused to ensure victim safety and increase offendchildren who grow up in that environ- spouses, often a string of women covered in er accountability. ment…It goes on and on, until treatment.” bruises and cuts. “To ultimately get a convicMcLeod is happy to hear about the new The problem is not going away. In fact, tion and then get no consequences is very position. However, he says, even after the reported incidents of domestic violence in disheartening for both law enforcement and changes, society has a long way to go before Montana are increasing. According to the prosecutors,” she says. “Something has to it holds offenders truly accountable. “I’ve state Department of Justice, between 2000 give.” always said, ‘Wait a minute, if I don’t pay my and 2007, domestic violence offenses rose According to a study for OPG, offend- parking tickets, you boot my car. Can’t you from 391 per 100,000 people to 462. The ers prosecuted through Missoula County boot these guys’ cars? Can’t you do someMissoula Police Department, meanwhile, Justice Court, presided over by Orzech and thing? arrested 171 individuals for partner or fam- John E. Odlin, complete counseling more “Can I play hide and seek from any ily member assault through June of this frequently then those tried through other crime? I don’t think so.” year. That’s up from 131 for the same peri- Municipal Court. In fiscal year 2008, od last year, although it’s unclear whether Justice Court had a 45 percent counseling jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Dirty water The Blackfoot’s watchdog casts for bigger fish by Alex Sakariassen

Jerry O’Connell first glimpsed the tal spending reductions billed as a solution There is an ever-increasing burden of federBlackfoot River in 1986. He’d just come out to the country’s financial woes. The bill cuts al environmental regulations on agriculture, of the Bob Marshall Wilderness from a two- budgets for the EPA and the U.S. Fish and from restrictions on pesticides to strict rules week backpacking trip, and was hitchhiking Wildlife Service and reduces funding for on how to manage dust to regulating alleged his way down Highway 200 toward c o n s e r v a t i o n g r a n t s t h r o u g h t h e greenhouse gasses.” Cummins adds that, Missoula. A driver dropped him off outside Department of the Interior. The EPA has given the impact of intense regulation on the Roundup Bar, a riverside doublewide already discontinued audits of state-report- the agricultural industry, “I don’t think you that’s since burned down, and O’Connell set ed Clean Water Act violations due to funding can cut EPA enough.” Yet the EPA has played a key role in to thumbing his next ride. That’s when he constraints; H.R. 2584 would cut the noticed a sign near the bridge that said agency’s budget another 18 percent. numerous conservation and restoration “Blackfoot River.” He’d heard of it, and, curi- President Barack Obama said July 21 that he projects from Butte to Milltown. It continintends to veto the proposal should it reach ues to bankroll the effort to relocate mine ous, decided to take a peek. tailings from Mike Horse Dam at the head“It was just stunning-looking,” says his desk. O’Connell, who is now the Big Blackfoot Riverkeeper. “Right then, it just hooked me.” Five years later, O’Connell bought a chunk of land four miles from that very spot—just before Robert Redford’s film “A River Runs Through It” made the Blackfoot a household name. O’Connell started contributing to studies and serving on committees with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in 1992, became active with the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited in 1997 and joined the latter’s board of directors in 2001. He fly-fishes. He floats. He’s a regular participant in the annual Blackfoot River Cleanup. “I just love the damn river,” he says. Photo by Alex Sakariassen There was a time, just a year ago, when O’Connell could spend hours criticizing recreation management on the Big Blackfoot Riverkeeper Jerry O’Connell Blackfoot River. Tubers were moving far“The fact that there’s a whole bunch of waters of the Blackfoot. Farling says that ther up the river into pristine stretches. FWP was lagging in collecting data on people in Congress right now who want to without the EPA, “we’d still have Milltown recreational use. Landowners were consid- practically totally defund the EPA is a scary Dam, we’d still have all the crap behind ering backing out of a longstanding public thing for Montana,” says Bruce Farling, exec- Milltown Dam, we wouldn’t be on a posiaccess agreement, hoping to hold the utive director of Montana Trout Unlimited, tive track to have a relatively decent agency’s feet to the flames. O’Connell was adding it’s “100 percent crystal clear” that cleanup of the whole upper Clark Fork.” the GOP is using the deficit reduction issue O’Connell adds that Mike Horse Dam alone in the thick of it. A lot has changed in a year. Tea Party “as an excuse to cut programs they’ve always is a shining example of “why we need more funding, not less.” lawmakers have replaced tubers in disliked.” O’Connell’s new job as riverkeeper The H.R. 2584 provision that most worO’Connell’s rants. Bad policy has replaced partly overlaps with his old concerns. He’s ries Farling and O’Connell would restrict the beer cans and discarded shoes. In December, O’Connell founded a nonprofit EPA from clarifying portions of the Clean helping FWP collect data about recreational called the Big Blackfoot Riverkeeper. He Water Act. The agency has long recognized a use on the Blackfoot by counting visitors, for works with an international network of sim- need for such clarifications. So has Farling. example. But now he sees a need for nationilar waterway-based conservationists who Several sensitive tributaries and wetlands al advocacy, too. He’s drafting letters to lawbanded together as the Waterkeeper Alliance along the Blackfoot currently fall outside the makers decrying the proposed EPA cuts. in 1999. The nonprofit’s global mission— EPA’s regulatory jurisdiction. H.R. 872, a pro- He’s meeting with Montana mayors in the hopes they’ll oppose the Keystone XL and the influence of Alliance President posed prohibition on EPA regulation of pesPipeline and, more broadly, the Alberta tar Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—has broadened ticide discharges near waterways, adds to sands. And he’s even pushing his fellow those concerns. O’Connell’s agenda. waterkeepers to be less partisan and start The Montana Farm Bureau Federation “I can spend my time at the access point promoting a more unified view of the explaining to people ‘Here’s a net bag for has openly backed proposals to scale back nation’s waterways. your beer cans,’” he says, “but there’s bigger EPA oversight, arguing that farmers “The Blackfoot’s just a tributary of the inevitably bear the financial burden of costly Clark Fork, and the Clark Fork’s just a tribufish to fry.” GOP lawmakers in Washington, D.C., regulatory schemes that produce little envi- tary of the Columbia, as is the Spokane River this summer introduced bills that would ronmental benefit. MFBF Executive Vice and Lake Pend Oreille. We’re all connected strip funding for conservation efforts nation- President Jake Cummins says that the EPA hydraulically.” wide. Among them is House Resolution “has become more powerful than was ever 2584, a long and detailed list of environmen- intended, especially over the past two years. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Sold out With friends like Democrats, can the poor survive? It’s quite the spectacle, seeing Congress breaking its arms patting itself on the back over this week’s measure to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Particularly disgusting are the self-congratulatory huzzahs for achieving this so-called “bipartisan solution.” In truth, the only part of it that was bipartisan were the final votes, cast in desperation to save President Obama from the political Sword of Damocles in the guise of a national default. In a word, Republicans won. In another word, the Democrats lost, big time. If you’ve been living in a cave for the last month, there’s a chance you lucked out and didn’t have to suffer through the interminable circus acts between the House, Senate and President Obama. At first, Obama came out talking tough—well, as tough as he’s capable of talking—while telling the American people that dealing with the debt ceiling required what he called “a balanced approach.” In plain language, that meant adjusting taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations who have, ever since the Bush tax cuts a decade ago, been skimming the cream off the top of the economy while the rest of us get thin whey, if that. But of course, it’s not hard to recall that Obama was the one who agreed to extend Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy when he could have kept his campaign promise and vetoed them. He and he alone had the power to end those needless giveaways with the swipe of a pen. But he didn’t. Watching the hypocrisy was painful, but it spurred a tiny glimmer of hope that this time around, Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate would hold out until some equity was returned to the tax code and those most able to pay actually started paying. But Speaker of the House John Boehner and his Tea Party pals simply said one two-letter word—“no”—and Obama and his lame Democrats crumbled. Next we got a new line from the White House: “shared sacrifice.” What that actually means is that the most needy would be required to give even more of what little they have so those at the very top of the pile wouldn’t have to give an extra penny. Those “shared sacrifices” actually meant that the vast majority of the American people could look forward to seeing holes cut

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in various social safety nets and eligibility for Medicare and Social Security pushed a few more years down the road. Apparently those in Congress and the White House who already enjoy massive, guaranteed lifetime social benefits paid for by the masses are hoping more of us will die before we get old enough to even qual-

Speaker of the House John Boehner and his Tea Party pals simply said one twoletter word—“no”— and Obama and his lame Democrats crumbled. ify to recoup some of the dollars we have been paying into Social Security and Medicare for our entire working lives—dollars that were supposed to be safely kept in an interest-bearing trust, but which have been cashed in for Treasury IOUs by freespending Congresses of the past. In the meantime, the Republicans came up with a few demands of their own, the first of which was no “new” taxes— which meant, in reality, not rolling back the tax giveaways of the past. They also demanded spending cuts–but not to the bloated Pentagon budget merrily rolling along on the grease of numerous useless wars. Oh no. “National defense” must be spared at literally any cost. Where the cuts should come would be from so-called “entitlement programs” already paid for through lifetime payroll deductions. And if the Democrats wanted to stand tough and refuse to cut entitlements, well, so be it...they’d be in for a fight, because the Tea Party minority in Congress was somehow

managing to call the shots for the entire nation. Had the Democrats acceded to a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, the Tea Party could have declared victory and perhaps, just perhaps, been mollified enough to address future spending starting with the requirement to balance expenditures with projected revenues. But that didn’t happen either. Instead, the Democrats came out against a balanced budget amendment as if it were a hound from Hell, despite the fact it would have had to be ratified by two-thirds of Congress and two-thirds of the states before it could take effect. In the end, what did happen was a defeat for the Democrats on virtually every point. The debt ceiling did get raised, so I guess they can rally ’round Obama’s flag and lift their glasses high, having saved him from the ignominy of a first-ever debt default. But there will be no “balanced approach” because there will be no new revenue. Period. And there will be no significant reduction in military spending. In fact, what the Pentagon and its multitude of war-waging, spying and drone-attack buddy agencies have to give up are merely future spending increases. Considering the military budget doubled in the last decade, it’s tough to find the tears for their travail. There will, however, be a vote on a balanced budget amendment. There will also be yet another appointed “bipartisan” panel to consider more budget cuts. And there will be another vote on raising the debt ceiling before the next election. Speaker Boehner is right to brag that he and his Republicans “got 98 percent of what they asked for,” while those of us who sent Democrats to Congress and the White House got sold out once again. There’s a big difference between winning and losing. And for most Americans, we’ve had just about as much of the agony of defeat as we can stand. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@ missoulanews.com.

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A new green hero Tim DeChristopher could be legendary by Stephanie Paige Ogburn

“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them? Or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded? Or shall we transgress them at once?” In 1849, Henry David Thoreau posed these questions in his essay “Civil D i s o b e d i e n c e . ” O n J u l y 2 6 , Ti m DeChristopher, a civil insurgent from the climate-change generation, was sentenced to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for actions stemming from his answer to Thoreau’s questions. It was December 2008 when DeChristopher, 27, then a University of Utah student, became involved in the sale of energy leases around Arches and Canyonlands national parks. He entered the federal auction, bid on some parcels to win them or at least drive up their prices, and ultimately claimed 14 leases for $1.8 million. “I was there to try to disrupt this process,” DeChrisopher has said. “This was an act of civil disobedience in response to this fraud against the American people and a threat (climate change) to my future.” Due to DeChristopher’s actions, the government halted the auction midway through and had him escorted out and later arrested. He was eventually charged with disrupting a federal auction and making false statements on the forms he had filled out to enter the auction. He was convicted March 3. But just two months after DeChristopher’s arrest, newly minted Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took the sale of those same lease parcels—already halted by a court order—off the table. Then, in June 2009, after its own investigation, the Interior Department concluded that the lease sales had been rushed and flawed and had inadequately considered environmental impacts. The Bureau of Land Management had also failed to consult the Park Service, whose land the energy development would affect. Legal proceedings against DeChristopher, meanwhile, marched on, and his story captured the imagination of environmental activists around the country. He is the subject of a documentary-in-

progress that screened at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, where he also spoke. Crowds gathered at the courthouse in anticipation of his sentencing, and in protest afterward, and supporters coordinated through his organization, Peaceful Uprising, convened around the country in solidarity.

Given his relatively harsh sentencing, DeChristopher seems poised to become a symbol for a range of activists frustrated with years of governmental inaction on climate change. Those who seek a modern environmental hero may have found theirs in Tim DeChristopher. And given his relatively harsh sentencing—pursued by attorneys in President Obama’s Justice Department—he seems poised to become a symbol for a range of activists frustrated with years of governmental inaction on climate change. Adam Sowards, an environmental historian at the University of Idaho, noted that while DeChristopher’s actions were inspired by an issue already familiar to those in the environmental movement, his story jumped to national prominence at a time when “the broader culture or political system (was) ready to hear the message.” DeChristopher’s cause may have been helped by the unexpected nature of his actions, Sowards added. And unlike activists such as the writer Bill McKibben and scientist James Hansen, he is a brand-new face on the protest scene. Other factors converged to vault DeChristopher to the forefront of media awareness, says Richard Seager, a Hamilton

College professor who studies the environmental movement. He was protesting the despoiling of an iconic landscape, the Colorado Plateau, that’s familiar to many Americans who have read Edward Abbey’s books The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire and seen photographs and films inspired by the region’s red-rock beauty. “Because Arches was at the center of this, that gave him a leg up,” says Seager. It also helps that DeChristopher’s roller-coaster narrative—first of triumph, winning leases he believed to be illegal and making the national news; then of defeat, with an arrest and the punishing requirement to come up with $1.8 million; then again of triumph, as his cause gained momentum and he raised enough money to make a payment; and yet again of defeat, as he was convicted and finally sentenced—is a morality tale of the undaunted little guy fighting an illegitimate government action. “This is pretty much a classic, epic little story here of one individual doing something kind of quixotic and then the institution figuring out they have to crush him,” says Seager. But just how crushed is DeChristopher? You could say that his prosecution by the Justice Department makes the Obama administration appear to be as much a slave to the drilling companies as the previous administration, which slammed through the leases DeChristopher protested. In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau wrote that the majority rules not because it is “most likely to be in the right…but because they are physically the strongest.” On that life-changing Friday in December, DeChristopher justified his radical actions by appealing to a higher authority—a care for the Earth and for future generations. As Thoreau might have predicted, the government then declared him an enemy. The American public may beg to differ. Stephanie Paige Ogburn, online editor for High Country News (hcn.org), is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of HCN in Paonia, Colo.

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Seeley Lake, Montana

Tour

Artist Studios & Galleries

Sat. & Sun. August 13 & 14 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Tour maps available at the Grizzly Claw or Stage Station in Seeley Lake and Mission Mountain Mercantile in Condon.

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(including pregnant women) and upgrading testing. Moms with kids in strollers plan to meet at the fish statues in Caras Park around noon on August 10, where they will give the kids capes, I think because they’re asking Sen. Baucus to be a “superhero” and pass the bill. Whatever works! —Molly Laich

The moms of Missoula are organizing a “Stroller Brigade” that plans to march—or roll, as it were—from Caras Park to the office of Sen. Max Baucus with handwritten letters in support of the Safe Chemicals Act. The name had me at hello, but in case you need convincing, the bill is a major overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, which is now over 35 years old. The old bill has been a major letdown in protecting the public health and the environment. This new act seeks to do the kind of things that make you stop and think, “Wait, you mean we weren’t doing that before?” These are things like testing a wider range of chemicals in household products before they hit the market, establishing basic safety standards for vulnerable populations

Join Women’s Voices for the Earth for a Stroller Brigade Wed., Aug. 10 at noon in downtown Missoula, asking Sen. Baucus to be a hero for health by supporting the Safe Chemicals Act. Meet at the fish statues at Caras Park at noon to get superhero capes for kids and to handwrite letters to deliver to Sen. Baucus. Free. Visit womens voices.org.

THURSDAY AUGUST 4

TUESDAY AUGUST 9

Talk transit with the Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, which meets the first Thu. of every month. Join them at 10 AM at the Missoula Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine. Look back at a year of accomplishments at the Destination Missoula Annual Meeting Luncheon, 11 AM–1 PM at the Doubletree Hotel, where attendees will nominate and vote on a new Board of Directors, important people will receive awards and more. Visit destinationmissoula.org.

FRIDAY AUGUST 5 Take in some block rocking drum beats curtesy of Djebe Bara and help Doreen Stokes bring water to 3,000 people in Maasai with one stone at the Being Part of the Solution fundraiser at the Downtown Dance Collective as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM, 121 W. Main St. Free. Helping hungry animals and art collide when Monte Dolack paint’s live and auctions off what he comes up with to benefit Animeals, 5–8 PM as part of First Friday. 139 W. Front St. Visit dolack.com

SATURDAY AUGUST 6 Run, walk, and roll for the Bitterroot Breastfeeding Coalition during the Bitterroot Baby Run & Stroller Stampede, a 5K walk/run and 1-mile fun walk for kids, beginning 9 AM at South Valley Child and Family Center, 515 Madison St. in Hamilton. Visit bitterrootbreastfeedingcoalition.org. My old MFA friends are running a free summer workshop on campus called the Montana Free School, this and every Sat. through the summer from 11 AM–1 PM in LA233 on the UM Campus. No registration or sign up required, just bring yourselves and your writing. Free. See the Osprey battle the Helena Brewers tonight at 7 PM for a special discounted ticket price of $7.50 and support Animeals all at the same time! 700 Cregg Lane. Check out animeals.com.

For anyone who is facing illness or loss, Living Art of Montana is offering a 4-week class, Hand Build Clay Objects In Support of Your Healing, beginning Aug. 9, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Register by Aug. 4 by calling 549-5329 or email ysteinprograms@livingartmontana.org. No charge, donations encouraged. 725 W. Alder, Ste. #17. Exercise is fundamental so get yours in with the Medical Mile Group, sponsored by St. Patrick’s hospital. Meet in McCormick Park this and every Tue. from Noon to 1 PM, now until Aug. 30. Call 329-2905 or email info@saintpatrick.org. Temper the drug shortage by donating blood today from 12–5 PM at the Village Health Care Center, 2651 South Ave. W., and get a free pint of Big Dipper ice cream! Call Tiffany at 273-3351 or log on to redcrossblood.org. Enter sponsor code villagehealth. Both a river and Technology Runs Through It, and Chance McKinney is playing a country benefit concert at the Wilma at 7:30 PM to benefit said organization. Tickets are $15 and available at Rockin Rudy’s. Visit chancemckinney.com. (See Noise in this issue.)

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 Discuss the future and controversies surrounding a new location for the Poverello Center (a refuge for the city’s homeless) at St. Patrick Hospital, Conference Rooms 2/3. Childcare will be provided. Call 541-6891.

THURSDAY AUGUST 11 The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Karol K. Truman’s book, Feelings Buried Alive Never die, 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.

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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN -Police arrested Steven Long, 23, in South Daytona, Fla., after he aroused their suspicion by riding past on a bicycle with a 59-inch television wedged between his lap and the handlebars. When spotted, Long ditched the bike and the TV, which was indeed stolen, but was caught while fleeing on foot. (Orlando Sentinel) Neo-Nazi Daren C. Abbey, 28, threatened to stab Marlon L. Baker, a 46-year-old African American man, after telling him “blacks are not welcome here” in Bayview, Wash. When Abbey persisted with threats and racial slurs, Baker knocked him down with one punch to the face, breaking his nose. Police who charged Abbey with battery and malicious harassment noted the back of Baker’s shirt read, “Spokane Boxing Club.” “If he had been able to read that,” Lt. Stu Miller said, “maybe he wouldn’t have done that.” (Spokane’s KREM-TV) BIG BROTHER IS BACK - Russia’s largest retail bank has begun using automated teller machines with built-in lie detectors. Speech Technology Center developed the voice-analysis system for Sberbank to prevent consumer credit fraud by interrogating customers applying for credit at the ATMs. Software detects nervousness or emotional distress, possibly indicating the credit applicant is lying or has something to hide when asked questions like, “Are you employed?” and, “At this moment, do you have any other outstanding loans?” Speech Technology Center’s other big client is the Federal Security Service, the Russian domestic intelligence agency that evolved from the Soviet KGB. (The New York Times) LOVE HURTS - The Florida Highway Patrol reported that Joel Santos, 25, tried to stop his girlfriend from leaving after an argument in Orange County by lying on the ground in front of her car. She promptly ran over him, sending him to the hospital in critical condition, according to FHP Sgt Kim Montes. (Orlando Sentinel) NOT A SQUARE TO SPARE - New York City’s Parks Department began rationing toilet paper in women’s restrooms along the Coney Island boardwalk. Despite assurances by department official Meghan Lalor that “our budget for these supplies is consistent” and “there’s no need to ration,” bathroom attendants insisted stocks were so low that they’ve stopped refilling toilet paper dispensers and started making beachgoers form “ration lines” in bathrooms to be issued single-ply toilet paper squares. Toilet paper isn’t being rationed in the men’s rooms because there isn’t any to ration. (New York Post) MEDICAL PLAN FOLLIES - When Virginia Graham, 85, complained that her new dentures were scraping her gums raw, Deltona, Fla., dentist Michael G. Hammonds, 57, began adjusting them. Graham screamed in pain, witnesses told Volusia County sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Haught, who reported, “She yanked them out and flung them at Hammonds, demanding a refund.” When Hammonds refused, Graham tried to grab the $900 partial plate, and the two got into a tug-of-war. It ended when Graham used the false teeth she was holding to bite Hammonds’s hand so he’d let go. When he did, she tried to run out the door, but he pushed it shut. Graham climbed on a receptionist’s desk hoping to escape through a window. At this point, two deputies arrived and arrested Hammonds on four felony charges, including false imprisonment. (The Daytona Beach NewsJournal) IRONY OF THE WEEK - While protesting New York State’s helmet laws, Parish motorcyclist Philip A. Contos, 55, spun out of control, flipped over his bike’s handlebars and hit his head on the pavement. He wasn’t wearing a helmet and died. (Associated Press) CHURCH OF THE INIQUITY - Pope Benedict XVI shut down a famous monastery in Rome for a lack of liturgical, financial and moral discipline. The Santa Croce in Gerusalemme church had been run by former fashion designer Simone Fioraso, who renovated the church’s crumbling interior when he became abbot, and opened a hotel. Before he was removed two years ago, he held regular concerts, a televised bible-reading marathon and attracted celebrity visitors. One of the monastery’s nuns, former lap dancer Anna Nobili, performed with other dancing nuns during religious ceremonies. Noting that an inquiry by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life found evidence of “lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk,” Vatican official Father Ciro Benedettini said the monastery’s few remaining Cistercian monks would be reassigned to various Italian communities. (BBC News) WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S, PART IV - A court in Cyprus convicted three men of digging up the body of President Tassos Papadopoulos and hiding it for three months. It turned up in another cemetery in suburban Nicosia after one of the corpse-nappers told Papadopoulos’s family its location and said he wanted money to start a new life abroad. He got no money, just 18 months in jail. The other two defendants were brothers, one of whom asked the other to dig up the remains so he could negotiate his release from prison, where he’s serving two life sentences for murder. They each got 20 months. (Reuters) ENABLING ARCHITECTURAL - A foyer of light and glass highlight Ohio’s new $105 million Franklin County Common Pleas Courthouse, which turns out to have one design flaw: a long staircase that extends from the first floor to the second. Its thin concrete panels form the steps, but glass panels cover the vertical gaps between them, allowing people below to see up skirts. “If you wear dresses, you’re on notice that you might want to take the elevator, as I will be doing,” Judge Julie M. Lynch said. While the county seeks a solution, director of public facilities management Jim Goodenow said security guards have been told to be alert for people on the busy walkway beneath the stairs craning their necks for a better view above. (The Columbus Dispatch) CHUTZPAH - Police responding to a call of an infant child in the back seat of a hot car parked outside a strip club in Louisville, Ky., found both parents inside the club and arrested them. The father, Thomas W. Lee, 28, was wearing an ankle bracelet that was supposed to ensure he stayed at home as a condition of his probation. Police said that while being taken to jail, Lee complained about the heat in the back of the police car. (Louisville’s WDRB-TV)

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issoula’s Biomimicry Institute sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, where retinal scans open sliding silver doors into a crisp laboratory. In the institute’s online database, “Ask Nature,” you’ll find descriptions of anticounterfeiting technologies and water filtration membranes from places such as the University of Cambridge Nanophotonics Center and The Aquaporin Company. It all sounds so high-tech—and in many ways, it is. But the Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit organization that employs 16 people, and has an annual budget of $1.4 million, is actually more of a back-to-nature enterprise, quite literally. Its philosophy holds that nature has been evolving designs for 3.8 billion years, and humans could learn a thing or two from them. “All organisms on the planet today are exquisitely designed because they have continued to adapt better and better to their environment,” says the Biomimicry Institute’s executive director, Bryony Schwan. “Rather than reinventing the wheel, we should be looking to nature for solutions.” Nature serving as a model for human invention isn’t exactly new; designers from Leonardo da Vinci to Alexander Graham Bell have turned to nature for inspiration for everything from flying machines to telephones. The speaker in a cell phone is patterned after the inside of the human ear. The principal mechanism of a chainsaw is patterned after the way beetle larvae chew logs. The Biomimicry Institute has simply taken this phenomenon and made it into a philosophy. Rather than looking at nature occasionally, Schwan says, the institute aims “to develop this into a practice where we have a really deep understanding of how to look to nature for solutions…I think that in many ways we’ve sort of forgotten how to do this.” Stevensville resident Janine Benyus, a writer and biologist, coined the term “biomimicry” in the 1990s. In her 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovations Inspired by Nature, Benyus refines the concept, offering examples of how humans can design technologies by looking to the ways nature creates structural forms, does chemistry, and establishes efficient ecosystems. Biomimicry isn’t just about design, however; it’s about designing with intent: to make the world a better and more efficient and harmonious place for all its inhabitants. In that sense, it has an ethical basis that you won’t necessarily find in the mindset of some inventors and engineers. Similarly, the precepts of biomimicry can seem counter-intuitive, at least at first, because we’ve become so accustomed to setting technology in opposition to nature. Biomimicry aims to change that, using the institute to propagate its ideas in mainstream education and industrial practices. The institute’s open-air office, in a sustainable building just off the Hip Strip, feels more Missoula-laidback than

high-tech, as you might expect. What you might not expect is that this small-butgrowing, six-year-old organization has become the driving force for cuttingedge, worldwide programs that might one day change the way we design the world—and the world itself.

KINGFISHERS TO CARPET Japan’s electric bullet train had to be redesigned when it turned out that its 200 mile-per-hour speed was creating sonic booms in populated areas when it emerged from tunnels. The new designer happened to be a birder. At a birding meeting, he noticed that the kingfisher could gracefully dive from medium density air into medium density water without disrupting the water’s surface much. “He looked at the shape of the kingfisher’s beak,” says Schwan. “He did some modeling around that and applied it to the engineering of the bullet train. They not only solved the sonic boom problem but it made the train 10 percent faster and it used 15 percent less fuel.” The bullet train is a graphic example of the way mimicking a form in nature can naturally leads to efficiencies. Other companies are still more deliberate about the environmental ethic of biomimicry. Columbia Forest Products in Oregon, for instance, wanted to find a less toxic process for manufacturing composite wood. Composite boards are typically put together with petroleumbased, waterproof glues and treated in high heat using formaldehyde indoors. The company ended up working with a chemist who used blue mussels as inspiration. The mussels stick to rocks and other matter in the ocean with a natural adhesive. “Here you have a little organism that stick itself to rocks,” says Schwan. “Talk about waterproof! Their glue is made in ambient seawater temperature. The company was able to look at the recipe the mussels were using and mimic that.” One of the more unusual examples of a biomimetic company is Interface, a carpet tile manufacturer in Georgia. Carpet tile is supposed to be an environmental and cost-saving alternative to wall-to-wall carpet. You get a hole in your carpet tile and all you have to do is tear up one and replace it with another. The problem, the company was finding, is that the tile replacement never quite matched the original—color batches always vary a little in shade, and it’s hard to find a new tile that will perfectly match a patterned carpet. Customers would often end up tearing up all the tiles and replacing them. Interface contacted the Biomimicry group, and some of its staff flew out to Georgia. Instead of sitting around a table to discuss solutions, the biomimicry staff took the carpet designers into a forest to study its floor. They picked up twigs and moved them around. They looked at the way that, no matter how much you change things, there’s a seamlessness to the design. Why was that?

“It was because it has this mixture of patterning,” says Sam Stier, the director of public education and conservation at the Biomimicry Institute. “It’s semi-chaotic. It doesn’t just have one color palette, it has a bunch of different colors that are more or less randomly distributed.” The carpet designers went back to their tile manufacturing machines and randomized their patterns. They used a wider variety of colors, too, so that

ing and keep it out of the landfill—and that’s sort of mimicking nature at the whole system level.”

BURRS TO SPIDER WEBS In 1941, Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral returned from a hunting trip in the Alps to discover his dog was covered in burrs. Curious about the seeds’ tenacious grasp, he put one under the micro-

er conditions,” says Stier. “It can’t ask the deer to slow down while it carefully hooks onto its fur. And Velcro has its unique attributes because of the environmental conditions that those burrs had to evolve in to survive.” Stier often uses the Velcro example for young kids. Over the past few years, he’s worked with organizations like the Montana Natural History Museum to develop K-12 material for schools interest-

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“All organisms on the planet today are exquisitely designed because they have continued to adapt better and better to their environment,” says Bryony Schwan, executive director of the Biomimicry Institute.

matching dye lots no longer mattered. The new carpet tile line, Entropy, was a hit with customers, Stier says. That would have been a satisfying outcome in itself, but in fact Interface, the carpet company, was inspired to go further, Stier notes, setting a goal of having no negative environmental impact by 2020. “One of the ways they’re pursing that is that they now take discarded carpet from other manufacturers and reprocess it into their carpet tile,” Stier says. “They recycle the nylon, they recycle the back-

scope and saw that its design was simple and perfect: the hundreds of tiny hooks and loops gave it the ability to grab hold of fur and clothing under all kinds of circumstances. De Mestral realized there was potential there for a design never explored by humans before. It took him years to figure out the engineering. But eventually, using loops of nylon, he turned the idea into Velcro. “The cockle burr has to disperse its seeds to a mammal passing by at any direction, at any speed, under any weath-

ed in incorporating biomimicry. He’s also helped create an online course for teachers, which is accredited in Montana, New York and Wyoming, and has been used by about 100 teachers across the country so far. Last year, Stier launched a youth challenge program in which students compete to devise technologies inspired by nature. Students at a Minnesota middle school came up with an idea for a self-warming boot modeled after the way blood circulates through a wolf ’s paw when it walks through snow. One of Stier’s favorite sub-

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missions was from a 9-year-old boy who studied how human architecture can learn from the way spider webs are built in triangular segments. “He did it by stretching fishing line and applying force until the strings broke,” Stier explains. “At the moment they broke he’d record how much pressure was being exerted.” Ultimately, the student showed that the way spiders assemble webs is much stronger than the ways humans tend to build. Other ideas for biomimicry education have come from outside. In 2008, Missoula singer-songwriter Amy Martin approached the institute about making an album based on biomimicry. She put together a group of kids dubbed the Coyote Choir and wrangled several well-known artists, including Brandi Carlile, Bruce Cockburn, Dar Williams, Ani Difranco and Grammywinning children’s songwriter Bill Harley. The album, Ask the Planet, with songs such as “Keep Our Cool,” “No Such Thing As Garbage” and “I Want to be Like a Tree,” conveys biomimicry to children, and there are also downloadable teachers’ notes for each track. After it won three Parents’

Recently, the Monterey Bay Aquarium called Stier to help them solve a problem. They’d received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to fund a climate change program, and they were struggling with how to pull it off without a gloom-and-doom tone. “They were worried because people come to the aquarium to have fun, not to hear about climate change,” says Stier. But then they discovered biomimicry—which led the aquarium to develop the program “From Whales to Windmills: Inventions Inspired by the Sea.” Alison Barratt, an aquarium spokesperson, says that one segment details “how the design of the humpback pectoral flippers inspired people to make different types of wind turbines…People come to see how amazing nature is, how evolution has shaped animals to do different things and how inventors have been inspired. People are learning about those technologies but in a way that’s not an in-your-face climate message, but just really getting people to think how we can do things differently.”

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A redesigned bullet train’s nosecone mimics a kingfisher’s head to increase efficiency and prevent sonic booms.

Choice Awards in 2009, the Biomimicry Institute was contacted by a teacher in Massachusetts whose students used the album to create a musical. The Biomimicry Institute also works on less formal education projects. In Missoula, for example, Stier partnered with the Montana Natural History Museum to create four trail signs along the Clark Fork River that talk about organisms in the river habitat and ways they could inspire design. One, titled “How can bull trout teach us to design wind turbines,” compares the way fish use water eddies for swimming upstream to energy potential in wind eddies.

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ROOM-TEMPERATURE CHEMISTRY A couple of years ago, Stier got a call from a former Los Angeles comedy club owner, Chip Romer, who had become alarmed by the quality of California’s public schools. Romer had sold his club and started three Waldorf-inspired charter schools in Sonoma County. Now he wanted to create a high school that was carbon neutral. Everything seemed fine until he woke up in the middle of the night in a panic about chemistry. “He realized they were going to be doing chemistry with Bunsen burners—as we all do,” says Stier, “He said, ‘Is there any

way to do high school chemistry at ambient temperatures?’ “I just laughed,” Stier recalls. “I told him, ‘It’s a good question, but nobody else is asking that.’” In the industrial world, chemistry is done at high temperatures, using fossil fuels and, often, toxic chemicals. Concrete, for instance, accounts for 5 to 7 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. It’s made through open pit mining of limestone that’s cooked at 1,400 degrees centigrade to change the atomic structure so that it’s reactive with water. Classrooms full of budding chemists learn the ropes with such processes as their main—and usually only—model.

“We use petroleum to cook everything—every human material in this room is cooked,” Stier says, speaking in a conference room at the institute. He points to a solar panel: “We think of solar panels as a clean energy but, in fact, the manufacturing of the panel takes a lot of heat and emits a lot of carbon dioxide.” But organisms in the natural world do chemistry all the time in ambient temperatures. Trees form leaves in 72-degree weather. The mother of pearl on the inside of an abalone shell is formed in similar temperatures, with just the ocean as its pressure range, and the result, says Stier, is “twice as strong as any industrial ceramic that humans can produce…Organisms had to evolve methods of doing their chemistry at low temperatures because they’re doing all their chemistry next to their bodies.” Stier started searching for people who were doing green chemistry and found some companies and universities developing technologies that way. One, the Calera Corporation, makes concrete using the same process that corals use to build their skeletons in the ocean. “We thought it would be cool if we could do that in a high school lab,” Stier says. “We literally came into this room and brought a bunch of jars and chemicals and we started to play around with them. And we figured it out.” Stier has been working on fine-tuning that process with Big Sky High School teacher Dave Jones. A few weeks ago they spent several hours on it, playing around with the ingredients, adding calcium chloride to raise PH levels. Dona Boggs, a biology professor at UM, has been volunteering a large chunk of her time to tailor the lab so that undergrad chemistry students can use it. In April, on Earth Day, Stier flew to The Lovett School in Atlanta, Ga. to talk

to 600 kids in an auditorium about biomimicry. He was nervous: He envisioned it as one big room full of 600 versions of his high school self. He wondered if he’d get tomatoes thrown at him. But Stier told the students about how natureinspired design and chemistry work, and what its conservation implications are, and was surprised that the room was fairly quiet—and that afterward there were so many questions that he could barely get out of the lobby, he says. That also made a lot of sense to him. “In high school, they’re hearing about all these intense environmental issues that we have. And it’s kind of scary. Biomimicry is very exciting and hopeful and I think they just really need that.” Stier remembers what it was like when he first learned about biomimicry. He’d gotten his master’s degree at UM in forestry, in a joint program with the Peace Corps. For four years he lived in the Philippines studying flying foxes and working as an environmental educator, and when he returned to Missoula he wasn’t sure what to do next. He consulted for several organizations and started

working toward his PhD. But he says he missed working in “the real world.” In 2006 his wife showed him a job opening at the Biomimicry Institute. “I didn’t know what biomimicry was,” he says. “The application was terrible. It was, like, 10 essay questions. I said, ‘Forget it.’” But the same week he heard about the job, Janine Benyus was giving a presentation at the Urey Lecture Hall. So Stier went. “It was the best talk I’d ever seen,” he says. “It just turned everything that I thought upside down. I thought that humans pretty much could not live sustainably and that technology and nature were necessarily at odds with one another. I went back that evening and wrote the whole application and got the job.” There’s an allure to biomimicry. Its proponents describe their experience with it as almost a spiritual conversion. Stier, however, is quick to point out that it’s not about drinking the Kool-Aid. “We don’t try to overstate the value of nature-inspired

design,” he says. “It’s a tool in your toolbox. It’s just a source of good ideas. Some people will say, ‘Oh, wait a second, it’s not like nature’s perfect. Evolution is not about making the best design, it’s about making a design that’s good enough.’ And that’s sort of meant as a criticism. But in my mind that’s really one of the efficiencies of nature: it doesn’t try to go beyond what’s necessary to do what it needs to do.”

BUTTERFLIES AND PAINTERS Last year, Raul de Villafranca, a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, took a group of textile students to the rainforest to spend the night. The Mexico City university, which is affiliated with the Biomimicry Institute, was on a mission to design an insulating quilt as part of a challenge proposed by Bozeman company Pacific Outdoor Equipment. “With this challenge in mind, he had them experience what it’s like to sleep in a sleeping bag,” says Megan Schuknecht, the Biomimicry Institute’s director of University Education and Relations. “Most of them were from Mexico City,

they’d never been camping, and so it was exciting: They looked to the environment they were in to solve this challenge.” Results of the 2010 POE challenge haven’t been announced yet, but universities like the one in Mexico City have taken biomimicry challenges seriously. In 2009, several worked together for eight weeks to come up with a tent inspired by the nests tent worms make. POE displayed the tent in its 2010 catalog. The Institute’s third student challenge comes this fall—and this year, the winner will get at least 5,000 dollars, and the institute is hoping to help the winners figure out how to market their product. Entrants must create a biomimetic design for energy efficiency. It’s the first challenge that’s open to any student anywhere in the world, rather than just the institute’s affiliates and fellows. That means University of Montana students are now in the running. “I’m hoping that UM students will participate,” Schuknecht says, adding that since the Biomimicry Institute is in Missoula, “they’ll have easier access to us.” Schuknecht works with university faculty and administrators across North

America, helping them to incorporate biomimicry into their curricula. Seven of those participating universities are developing degree programs in biomimicry. She also works with biomimicry fellows who use biomimicry in their classes although they don’t have institutional resources or funding. One of the challenges of incorporating biomimicry in universities is language. Biomimicry students must be able to understand design terms as well as terms of biology. “Even if you have the support to put together an interdisciplinary class, what we find is that the language issue is critical,” Schuknecht says. “Even after a couple of years of biology, you have such a specialized language in that discipline—and the same with designers. That’s a bridge all of our educators address: What is the most critical language that each group needs to learn in order to do that collaborative work?” The language issue is also addressed in the Institute’s online database, Ask Nature (www.asknature.org). There you can search for a function in nature, like creating color or collecting water. From that search you can find descriptions of various organisms—say, butterflies, or lipids—that create color or collect water. The database also lists, by function, products from manufacturers all over the world with designs that mimic nature. That it’s organized and searchable by function is significant, since most naturalist information online and in print is organized by species or landscape. But Ask Nature is still heavy on the science, so the Biomimicry Institute is revamping it to make it just as accessible to designers, in conjunction with AutoDesk, the software company that creates high-end modeling programs for architects and engineers. Biomimicry students are learning to strip away their preconceptions and see nature anew. At the Ontario College of

Concrete can be made using the same process that corals use to build their skeletons in the ocean—a technology that could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions by 5 to 7 percent.

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Art & Design, in Toronto, which is also affiliated with the Biomimicry Institute, professors Carl Hastrich and Bruce Hinds train students to ignore their generic visions and draw exactly what they see in nature—the lines and the shadows, say, rather than their idealized notion of a tree or a leaf. In biomimicry, god and design breakthroughs are in the details. In some ways this is a step back to the future. Of necessity, naturalists such as Audubon spent a good part of their careers drawing and painting the fruits of their research and observation. “All naturalists used to draw,” says Schuknecht. “They didn’t have the fancy tools they do today, so they had to write and draw and paint what they saw. I think that we’ve lost something in that sequestration of science in one silo and art in another silo.” Though biomimicry is often embraced—sometimes quite feverishly— Schuknecht says it’s not always easy to get engineering programs on board with all its aspects. Bio-inspired design has a sexiness in the engineering world, but that doesn’t mean it’s always done with the intent of solving human challenges in sustainable ways. “Often those program might be designing cool robots that are inspired by how some organism in the natural world works. Afterward they might think of some application, like using the robot to search for earthquake victims in collapsed buildings—but it’s sort of an afterthought. It’s not designing

was horrified. But he was also intrigued. Algae flourishes because there are so many nutrients in water, but it tends to suck up oxygen and smother all other life. “This water was loaded with nutrients,” he says. “One would think that those nutrients were moving through the food web. Boy, it would be incredibly productive out here if that were the case. But it wasn’t. The water was almost dead.” Kania had an epiphany. He’d lived in Montana since 1976, and his life had always revolved around healthy water. While attending college in

tute. He worked with engineers, plant specialists and Montana State University’s bio-film program. Ultimately, a team of experts used the floating peat bogs in Wisconsin as a model to construct floating structures made from post-consumer materials like recycled plastic bottles. The fibers of the islands grew bio-film but still let water flow through. And bacteria on the island, which the island used to grow plants, also consumed unwanted nutrients. Kania and the team patented the biomimicry water-cleaning technology as BioHaven floating islands.

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BioHaven floating islands mirror natural floating peat bogs and replicate their water-cleaning characteristics.

with intent. And that’s what biomimicry is: It’s asking up front what you want your design to do. We encourage students to work on greater challenges that matter to humanity rather than niche needs.”

FLOATING ISLANDS Like the origins of Velcro, the story of Floating Islands International begins with a dog. In 2000, Bruce Kania was out playing with his dog, Rufus, near an irrigation ditch that runs through Billings and ends at the Yellowstone River near Shepard. Rufus jumped in the ditch and came out red, coated from an algae bloom. Kania

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Wisconsin he ran a recreation tabloid and was a fishing guide in the state’s northern waters. He needed to take his clients to the best fishing spots, and he began to notice that wherever the record-breaking fish were, there were also naturally occurring floating islands. It wasn’t until the day Rufus turned red that he started to connect the dots. Why were the waters near Shepard so much less productive than the ones in upper Wisconsin? And were the islands a missing link? He had an inkling they were. He consulted with Janine Benyus, the Biomimicry Institute’s guiding light, and, over the years, with staff from the insti-

“We’re biomimicking how nature does it,” Kania says. “Our bombs-and-bullets approach, the idea of just killing algae because it’s getting in the way, is a failed system. That’s not how it’s done. Once you do that you’re also killing, for example, the bio-film producing microbes that could out-compete the algae in the first place if they’re given the opportunity to do so.” At Fish Fry Lake in Shepard, Kania put the islands to the test. The six-and-ahalf-acre pond is between 25 and 30 feet deep. The top six feet of the water was full of nutrients and would warm to 88 degrees. Below that, the water was

devoid of oxygen. With floating islands, say Kania, the water has cleared. “We’re not just sustaining trout, we’re sustaining Yellowstone Cutthroat trout, which are perhaps the pinnacle trout in terms of demand for high water quality. Yesterday we had seven little brothers and sisters with their bigs out here and they caught over 70 fish in the space of a hot Sunday afternoon.” Now David Mumford, public works director for Billings, is testing floating islands with sewer lagoons to see if they’ll reduce nitrogen and phosphorous.

“It has been showing substantial improvements,” Mumford says. Mumford has also tried floating islands with storm drains, though those are proving to be tricky because of inconsistent water flow. And he’s given Kania’s company, Floating Island International, access to Billings’ wastewater facility to test its technology. “Dave has been a champion of what we’re doing,” says Kania. “He’s been fundamental to some very key research.” That’s just Billings. Floating Island International now has eight licensed companies, including one in China and one in New Zealand, and 4,000 islands in waters all over the world. It’s built a 39,800 -square-foot floating island for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. And Kania’s not close to being finished. That saying that once you launch a boat it begins to sink? Once you launch an island, it begins to grow. “We have islands in the ocean, islands in brackish water and lots of islands in fresh water,” he says. “One day people will be growing their own islands to live on. The islands will not only be digesting the waste from the people who live on them, but cleaning up the waste associated with previous human activity—like the 390 dead zones currently in oceans around the world. We think we’re at the beginning of what will become a new way of relating to our aquatic environment.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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In the syrupy charm of New Orleans’ garden district or the debauchery of the French Quarter, you might think the city has recovered from the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. Streetcars are running, music is playing, and tourists have stumbled back with beads on. But in the poorest part of the city, which also happens to be the lowest part, it’s a different story. Nearly six years later, only 20 percent of pre-hurricane residents have returned to the Lower Ninth Ward. Citywide, the same percentage of residents had returned only four months after the storm. Christian Adams, 18, told me he has no idea what happened to most of his friends and former neighbors. We shared a bench behind a washed-out store formerly known as Blair Grocery. Now it’s a school: Our School at Blair Grocery. The air smelled of compost, some of which was splattered on Adams’ boots. Other neighborhood teens were planting sprouts, harvesting okra and figs, and screening potting soil. The school is not accredited, and many of its students can’t read. Learning to read is not mandatory, says the school’s founder Nat Turner. “If a student wants to learn to read we’ll help them learn. If a student wants to take the GED we’ll help them prepare,” he told me as we rumbled toward Uptown in a creaky pickup at 6:30 in the morning. Turner is lanky, with endless energy. He smoked a hand-rolled cigarette as he drove, switching topics easily between the likes of compost science, racial politics, and global warming. We pulled in to the dock behind Whole Foods and loaded about 500 pounds of old produce onto the truck, for OSBG’s compost pile. Compost is gold at OSBG. Eventually they’ll sell the excess soil they build, but now they need all they can make. At last count, three-quarters of an acre was under cultivation, including bits of unused land on the adjoining, entirely vacant block. The school is largely funded by produce sales, which average $1,500 a week. Highend restaurants on higher ground pay a premium for the produce, which they sell locally at a discount. The school seeks to “create a resource-rich safe space for youth empowerment and sustainable community development,” according to its mission. In a neighborhood notorious for violence, it’s a supportive oasis where students can explore their interests, learn skills like blogging, and formulate and pursue goals. But before you can plan where you’re going, Turner says, it helps to under-

stand where you are. Local history is an important part of the curriculum. “They learn that things didn’t just happen this way, that certain things led up to it.” The Lower Ninth Ward is a basin without a drain, and surrounded by water. The surfaces of the Mississippi River and Industrial Canal both often run higher than ground level in the neighborhood. When Katrina’s storm surge pushed in from the Gulf of Mexico, floodwater spilled into the Lower Ninth Ward from three sides, cov-

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ering many houses completely. The water was finally pumped out 29 days later. Today, most houses in the ward are gone or vacant. Whole blocks remain empty. As bad as Katrina was, Turner thinks worse disasters await, both natural and manmade. “It’s about being prepared, and figuring out where do we go from here: chaos or community?” The neighborhood wasn’t entirely welcoming to the school, which was founded on Thanksgiving Day, 2008. But locals caught on to what OSBG could do for the community. One current student is a former gang member suspected of vandalizing the school when it first opened. Renovations to the old grocery building have addressed core issues like structure, water damage and restoration of utilities, with virtually no attention to finish work. Wires, pipes, and roughed-in beams are exposed. The cinder block wall of the classroom is cracked. The bathroom plumbing can’t handle toilet paper. Outside, the lot is filled with raised beds, sheds, and hoop houses made from salvaged materials. Shade cloths protecting tender greens are repurposed burlap

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sacks. The air smells overripe—the result of a compost aeration problem Turner is dealing with. The first time Jasmine Christmas showed up at the ramshackle school, she thought, “What the hell?” “But when I started doing things, seeding plants, making compost, I started thinking, ‘Man this is cool.’ I never would have thought that delicious foods like okra and cabbage came from,” she says, nodding toward the compost pile. The Lower Ninth Ward is a food desert. Most of its groceries come from Walmart in neighboring St. Bernard Parish. Turner hopes to have a grocery store opened in the building soon. Meanwhile there are beehives to install, chickens to permit, and an overgrown block next door to tame. I slept on the floor of the classroom, sharing the room with a volunteer group from New York City. Also around by day were some teens paid to work there by the city of New Orleans as part of a summer youth program. When it got too hot out for farm work, the whole crew headed inside to the classroom. Andrew Hammerstein, a UC-Santa Cruz student doing independent study research as an instructor at the school (and who also sleeps in the classroom), led a discussion on environmental racism. They compared a dam in India, a timber project in Bali, and an oil spill in Nigeria, before turning their attention to the industrial stretch of the Mississippi between Baton Rouge and New Orleans known as “Cancer Alley.” Stuck at the bottom of Cancer Alley, New Orleans was drenched by Katrina with a toxic cocktail of effluent from swamped chemical plants upriver. The Lower Ninth Ward (and neighboring St. Bernard Parish) got the worst of the exposure. After the water was finally pumped out, a film of toxic residue coated the ward for months. The resulting unusable, contaminated topsoil is why compost is so important to OSBG. A farm is only as good as its soil. Hammerstein read the group an academic definition of environmental racism: “A sociological term referring to the enactment of any policy or regulation that negatively affects the living conditions of low-income or minority communities at a rate disproportionate from affluent communities.” Then he asked the group what that meant, “in English.” From the back of the classroom came a response: “Polluting the hood.”

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7 days a week! Delicious and crazy cheap! Enjoy. Much love, Bernice. 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 beega) 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. $-$$ Big Sky Drive In 1016 W. Broadway 549-5431 Big Sky Drive In opened June 2nd 1962. We feature soft serve ice cream, shakes, malts, spins, burger, hot dogs, pork chop sandwiches and breaded mushrooms all made to order. Enjoy our 23 shake and malt flavors or the orange twist ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$

Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve • 541-BLUE (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Winter Hours: 4pm - 9 pm Seven Days a Week. $$-$$$ Break Time Deli Northgate Plaza 2230 N. Reserve St. Phone: 541-6498 • Fax: 541-6499 Break Time Deli proudly offers dine-in; take-out; delivery; catering; business lunches; daily specials that satisfy; breakfast and lunch served all day featuring breakfast burritos made to order. Cheese, meat, dessert and veggie trays put together to your specifications (trays are great for parties, business meetings and all forms of get-togethers!) And did we mention we have great prices? We do! Phone or Fax us your orders. Mon-Fri 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Closed Sunday.

the The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ 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 service within a 3 mile radius. Family Dental Group Southgate Mall • 541-2886 Some vegetarians may be at higher risk for periodontal disease due to deficiencies in calcium and vitamin D. Most vegetarians are very knowledgeable about nutrition so prevention isn’t too difficult if they pay close attention to those nutrients. Of course good oral hygiene and regular dental exams are essential to make sure your gums and teeth are healthy. Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula 424 N. Higgins 542-3847 www.flbcofmissoula.com Known for their “Bar Burgers” a masterpiece of deliciousness; Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is unfiltered sophistication atop the skyline of Missoula Montana.

Downtown or Uptown, any way you look at it, Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is your best destination for great food, wine and spirits. Come on in and join us. We can't wait to see you. Cheers!!! $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. WE DELIVER On Campus & to the area between Beckwith, Higgins & 5th Street. Open Monday-Friday 7am-3pm and Saturday & Sunday 8am-3pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$

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HAPPIESTHOUR Cyrus Skinner’s Steakhouse Ambiance: An airconditioned blast of meaty-smelling air hits you as soon as you pull open Cyrus Skinner’s h e a v y w o o d e n d o o r. Country crooners on the radio sing about beer, pickup trucks and women. There’s an enormous stuffed buffalo head above the fireplace. The dining room is dotted with super-sized televisions, roomy booths and a full bar adorned with guns hanging overhead.

Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Enjoy Happy Hour every afternoon from 4 to 7 pm on the Patio at Brooks and Browns. Microbrews or margaritas are $3.00 or enjoy a Micro pitcher with friends for $9.00. Our full menu runs the range from homemade Chips and Salsa up to a 16 oz. Ribeye steak with Bistro fries. You can bring your family, too. It’s a perfect spot to play Bocce or Croquet. Pastimes are family times, so enjoy time with yours in Bess Reed Park while we cook dinner for you. Brooks and Browns is the most peaceful patio in town. 200 S. Pattee Street, just off the Atrium at The Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula.

History: Cyrus Skinner was an infamous Montana outlaw known for robbing gold miners and travelers. The Montana vigilantes caught him in 1864 and hanged him, not far from where a Walmart sits today. “We like gambling and outlaws,” says Skinner’s owner Mark McQuirk. “But not in the sense that you’re going to get beaten up.”

Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center • 101 East Front St hunterbay.com • 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees and espressos plus madefrom-scratch , healthy sandwiches and soups. Enjoy the sunshine from our patio! Free Wi-Fi and Free Parking in the upper deck lot. Open Monday through Saturday.

What you’re drinking: Choose from a full bar stocked with hard booze, affordable wine and lots of beer, including Cyrus Skinner brew, made by Coors especially for the establishment. Margaritas, blended or on the rocks and made with a range of tequilas, are popular, too.

What you’re eating: Choose from an extensive menu of salads, seafood and rich desserts. We think you would be remiss, however, to not eat a big slab of beef, too. What you’re doing: Gambling. In a casino adjacent to the dining room, attendants every hour draw a random number. If your video gaming machine corresponds to that number, you get to spin a massive wheel. Depending on your luck, you can haul in a jackpot of up to $100. Happy Hour specials: Half price on all drinks Monday through Thursday afternoons from 4 until 6. How to get there: Take Broadway west from Russell Street. It’s on the right at 2300 W. Broadway. –Jessica Mayrer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

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COFFEE SPECIAL

COFFEE ICE CREAMS

"Wonderful . . . best dinner we've had on our Montana Trip!" ~J.M. 231 E Front St 541.0231 pearlcafe.us

Organic French Roast Fair Trade

$10.95/lb. Missoula’s Best Coffee

IN OUR COFFEE BAR

BUTTERFLY HERBS

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Sushi Bar & Japanese Bistro

NOT JUST SUSHI Menu Has Changed! More Sushi, More Sushi, More Sushi Join us for Monday $1 night and try our expanded Sushi menu! 403 North Higgins Ave • 406.549.7979

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Open 7 Days a Week 11:30 am - 9:00 pm 3075 N. Reserve Street Missoula • 327-0731

Mondays & Thursdays - $1 SUSHI (all day) (Not available for To-Go orders)

Daily TEMPURA Special - 11:30am-2:30pm Tuesdays - LADIES’ NIGHT

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Spring weather brings patio seating! Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5 - 10. Late night happy hour 9-10pm. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all-new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$

Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Share a meal within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues-Sun 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ Sean Kelly's Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine , martinis. $-$$ The Sunrise Saloon & Casino 1100 block of Strand • 728-1559 Every day is a great day at the Sunrise Saloon! Enjoy two happy hours daily, plus daily drink specials. Wednesday is Ladies night. Missoula's only dedicated country bar with live country music Thursday - Saturday. Play our liberal machines while enjoying great entertainment and friendly service. 21+ only. Open daily 8 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right. Home of the Famous Fish Taco. Crowned Missoulas best lunch for under $6. Mon-Sat. 11-10 Sun. 12-9.

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER.

Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 North Higgins Avenue 541-PITA (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!

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SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$

Oil & Vinegar Southgate Mall • 549-7800 Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM-9:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM-6:00 PM. With a visit to Oil & Vinegar, you will discover an international selection of over 40 estate-produced oils & vinegars suspended in glass amphora-shaped containers on a dramatic backlit wall. Guests can sample the varieties and select from various shapes & sizes of bottles to have filled with an “on-tap” product of choice.

Paradise Falls 3621 Brooks St. • 728-3228 paradisefallsmissoula.com Come in for sports, food and socializing…whatever you’re looking for, Paradise Falls has it: breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Happy Hour M-F 3-6, space for your special events and catering. Paradise calls at Paradise Falls! $-$$

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Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$

Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins • 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun Wed 8-3pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ 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. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffleyogurt.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery that offers 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, as well as gluten free cones and waffles, coffee and a selection of cold beverages. Indoor and Outdoor seating. Free WiFi and frequent shopper punch cards. Build it your "weigh" at 42 cents per oz. for most items. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Facebook.

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Arts & Entertainment listings August 4–August 11, 2011

THURSDAY August

There are too many jokes to make about this year’s Testical Festival to pick just one. Testy Festy runs Aug. 3–7 at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. For ticketing, event schedule and directions, check out testyfesty.com. Never mind how much or what time they’re playing, just know that the Wild Coyote Band is playing rock music at the Mineral County Fair. Take I-90 to Superior Exit 47 and follow 4th Avenue to the fairgrounds. Join the Sierra Club on the Pintler Loop Trail 4day Backpack, beginning on Thu. and going through Sun., Aug. 7 for a brisk, 24-mile backpack expedition in the little-used Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness. Check out high mountain circques and hanging valleys with dozens of lakes. You’ll hit elevations up to 8,600 feet, so pack light. Contact hike leader John Wolverton at yodelingdog@hotmail.com. Free and open to the public. Spelunking means technical caving, and technical caving means what now? Experienced teenage cavers can have at it with the City Life Community Center, 7:30 AM to 6 PM. Be advised, only participants who’ve attended one of their rock climbing camps and prove technical competence are eligible. Ages 13–18 only. $35/$25 for non-members. Visit citylifemt.com or call 532-1558. Talk transit with the Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, which meets the first Thu. of every month. Join them at 10 AM at the Missoula Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine. Don’t even bother trying to control yourself, because Wild Theater Thursdays are back at the Roxy Theater, which features a different award winning wildlife film every Thu. at 10:30 AM, now through Aug. 18. Tickets ar $3. See wildlifefilms.org/showing.html. Look back at a year of accomplishments at the Destination Missoula Annual Meeting Luncheon, 11 AM–1 PM at the Doubletree Hotel, where attendees will nominate and vote on a new Board of Directors, important people will receive awards and more. Visit destinationmissoula.org.

nightlife The streets of downtown Kalispell are hopping this and every week this summer for Thursday

Fractured faces. See Barb Schwartz Katz’ First Friday gallery opening, Grids: Start Spreading the News, Fri., Aug. 5, 5–8 PM at Mikesell’s Fine Jewelry, 201 W. Main St. in Hamilton. Free.

Fest, with food, beverage, and tunes at Third St. E. between Main St. and First Ave. E. from 5–7:30 PM. This week catch Moonshine Mountain Band. Call 253-6923. Free. For those about to rock, you’re probably in Caras Park this and every Thu. night from 5:30–8:30 PM for Downtown ToNight, this week with Blue Collar. Free. Insert pun about grabbing onto some moody, experimental folk-rock here when Handful of Luvin play an all-ages show at Bitterroot Brewery from 6–8:30 PM. Visit bitterrootbrewing.com. Free.

BACK TO SCHOOL Times Run 8/5- 8/11

HAIR

Highlights • $25, $40, $65 Men/Kid’s Cut • $10 Women’s Cut • $20 (blow dry & cut)

Cinemas, Live Music & Theater

Beginners Nightly at 9:00 Will NOT show Sat (8/6), Tue (8/9) or Thur (8/11)

Note: No matinees this week.

www.thewilma.com

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., August 5, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

homeWORD August Classes

“Get Ready for Home Ownership” Saturday, August 13 • 9am-6pm Mountain West Bank, 3301 Great Northern Ave (behind Costco) $20/person or $35/household

Page One: Inside the NY Times (R) Nightly at 7:00 and 9:00 Buck Nightly at 9:00 Will NOT show Sat (8/6), Tue (8/9) or Thur (8/11)

It’s E to the power of 3 (that’s encaustic, expressions and explorations) into the work of Whitefish artist Marylou Patterson, 6–9 PM at the Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, 305 Baker Ave. in Whitefish. There will be music by Local North Valley Music students from 6–7 PM. Free.

NAILS

Free Manicure w/Pedicure • $35

SKIN

Beer & Wine AVAILABLE

Spray Tan • $5 off Waxing • $7 Lip/Eyebrow

“Financial Fitness” Saturday, August 20 • 9am-6pm homeWORD, 127 N Higgins, Ste 303 $10/person Register and pay online at www.homeword.org

131 S. Higgins Ave. Downtown Missoula

Shear Art Salon

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1804 North Ave W, Suite F 406-214-3112 • shearartsalon.com

Childcare vouchers available for Busy Hands Fun Center

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Watch ducks fall out of trees and other natural things at John Ashley’s photography exhibit, Curious by Nature through Aug. 30, with an opening reception tonight from 6–9 PM, at the Stumptown Arts Studio, 145 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not r e q u i r e d : Tr i v i a l B e e r s u i t , Missoula’s trivia night for the layperson begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. The grown ups are coming out to play for a night of music with Kevin Schlereth, Pyro Spiders, Big Kids Band and Celeste Pain for $5, 8 PM at the ZACC, 235 North 1st. St. W. Meet the woman who made the Dixie Chicks famous. Susan Gibson performs with John Floridis, 8 PM for $5. 5646 W. Harrier. missoulawinery.com. (See Noise in this issue.) Spend the night with music by the guy who wrote “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” during An Evening with Frank Loesser, 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreprojects.org. $18–$37. This event is just what it sounds like: Bernice’s Bakery hosts Blues & Bread outside on their patio. Enjoy the gutbucket blues of MudSlide Charley along with hot fresh bread. Proceeds go to the Missoula Fund Food Bank, 8–10 PM. Free. Local hip hop takes the stage and rhymes words about it with Bodi, Linkletter, Codependents, Doctype, Engineers in Your Year and Smash Moody, 9 PM at the Palace. $3/$8 for ages 18–20. It took me a second to get the joke behind the band name Party Trained, playing 9 PM tonight at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand. Cover TBA. It’s night of the living no longer dead at the Badlander for their brand new Thursday night dance party, Prehab, with sets of hip hop and electronic music from local DJs Vyces, Chris Moon and James Two, plus $1 wells and $1 Pabst from 9 PM to midnight, begining at 9 PM. $2. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. Check out some homegrown comedy at the Missoula Homegrown Stand Up Comedy Open Mic, 10 PM at Union Club. Get there by 9:30 PM if you want to sign up to perform. Free. Things have changed and so can you! Tonight marks the inauguration of Dead Hipster Dance Party at its new location: Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com. J. Wail, featuring Chuck Morris (Lotus) plays electronica to make

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you laugh or cry or both, with openers Forever Growing, 10 PM at the Top Hat, $5.

FRIDAY

August

Summertime rides get dirty, and the Talbot Summer Day Program wants to help dust them off with a car wash this and every Fri. through the summer to benefit the Missoula Youth Homes at Holiday Station Store, 605 S. Higgins. Donations only. There are too many jokes to make about this year’s Testical Festival to pick just one. Testy Festy runs Aug. 3–7 at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. For ticketing, event schedule and directions, check out testyfesty.com.

Aim your sights on the perfect rifle for hunting season during the annual Missoula Gun and Antique Show at UM’s Adam Center, which is dubbed as the best gun and antique show in the state and features 800 tables with a number of firearms and other items to scope out. Lock and load for details by calling 549-4817. Get warm and cozy with style when C a b i n Fe v e r Q u i l t e r s p r e s e n t s , Decades of Reflection, a quilt show celebrating their 10th anniversary, 10 AM–6 PM at Super High School multipurpose room, 410 Arizona Ave. Free. Call Sherrie at 678-4240. And the living’s easy with The Top Hat’s Summa Time Evening Marketplace, 4–8 PM and every Fri. through the summer.

nightlife Start your First Friday walk off with an early Street Party in front of the Badlander around 5 PM, free. Grace, by artist Rachel Hawkinson is a collection of photographs and writing dedicated to those whose lives have been affected by cancer, 5–7:30 PM at Computer Central, 136 E. Broadway. Free. Get up onto that thing! Mark Alexander has made a bunch of funky furniture, jewelry and accessories to make your house a home. Anna Moura Alexandra made stuff as well out of recycled materials. Check it all out as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM at Frankie’s Mercantile, 223 W. Front St. Free. Andrew Kemmis’s photography exhibit, 5 features just a day in the life through pictures of the skaters who’ve made MOBASH park their own in its first five years. JK on the “just,”—it sounds incredibly rad. 5-8 PM at The Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. thebrinkgallery.com. Free. Who wouldn’t want to see paintings of duck people travelling by the power of bees? See what I mean at Malia Budlong’s First Friday painting and photo gallery at Bernice’s Bakery. 5–8 PM, 190 S. Third W. Free. See Shannon Corsi capture small moments and feelings like nobody’s business through her art and photography at Betty’s Divine, 5–8 PM, 521 S. Higgins. Free baked goods and wine!

Experience the visual language of Crow Indian’s Wendy Red Star alongside Pat Hoffman’s ceramic work at the Missoula Art Museum’s First Friday art gallery event, 5–8 PM at 335 N. Pattee St. Free. (See Scope in this issue.) Take in some block rocking drum beats curtesy of Djebe Bara and help Doreen Stokes bring water to 3,000 people in Maasai with one stone at the Being Part of the Solution fundraiser at the Downtown Dance Collective as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM, 121 W. Main St. Free. Remember when all those artists took to the street to paint moving still-life and called it, Paint Out! Well, I do. See the fruits of their labor at The Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM. Free. Check out the colorful world of extreme, salvaged lumber with Merrill Bradshaw Carpentry at the Prudential Montana Real Estate Store, 314 N. Higgins, 5–8 PM. Free. Art rules and so can you by seeing original works by local artist Emily Harrington at the Montana Natural History Center as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM, 120 Hickory St. MontanaNaturalist.org. Free. Tiptoe through Petals, an exhibit of intricately wire-woven flowers by Jamie Burton Moe at The Tides Gallery in Bathing Beauties, 501 S. Higgins Ave, from 5-8 PM. Free. Help hungry animals and art collide when Monte Dolack paint’s live and auctions off what he comes up with to benefit Animeals, 5–8 PM as part of First Friday. 139 W. Front St. Visit dolack.com Local landscapes and figurative pieces are all put onto canvas for Teresa Garland’s art show, The Art of Healing at the women’s care center in St. Patrick Hospital, 500 Broadway as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM. Show runs through Oct. 21. Free. See new works by artist Nelson Rosendahl as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM at Buttery Herbs, 232 N. Higgins. Free. The effect behind Barb Schwartz Katz’ tiled, assembled paintings as part of her gallery opening Grids: Start Spreading the News needs to be seen to believed. Check them out at Mikesell’s Fine Jewelry, 201 W. Main St. in Hamilton. Free. Odd lenses and odd approaches are the subject of Peter Keefer’s photo collage drawings, on display from 5–8 PM at the Frame Shop and Gallery, 325 Main St in Hamilton. Call 363-6684. Just look at those ceramic wall murals as rendered by Loree and Mark West, 5–8 PM at Lutzenhiser Jewelry, 116 Main St. in Stevensville. Free. Settle in to a wet painting when Murphy-Jubb Fine Art presents new watercolors by Kendahl Jan Jubb, with entertainment by Stan Anglen on Guitar and vocals, 5–8 pm, 210 N. Higgins Ave. #300. Get global when photojournalist Brendan Work displays and sells portraits from around the world. The show features 14 portraits from Palestine, Nepal, Botswana, and Morocco, and 100% of profits will go toward the

Central Asia Institute, 5–8 PM at 115 1/2 S 4th St. W., on the Hip Strip. Free.

monies, 9 AM–5 PM, 16425 Hwy 43 W. in Wisdom. Call 689-3155. Free.

Support the Missoula Aids Council and look at gorgeous photographs by Misa-Rae as part of First Friday, 5–8 PM, 500 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Somebody made a birdhouse and wants to sell it to you, plus other items at the Sandpiper Outdoor Art Festival, which happens on the Polson Courthouse lawn, 10 AM to 5 PM in conjunction with the Crusin By the Bay Vintage Car Show.

See oil paintings, encaustics, watercolors and more from Jim Dew, a man who’s been around and and around the block, 5–9 PM at Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. call 541-7100.

Get warm and cozy with style when C a b i n Fe v e r Q u i l t e r s p r e s e n t s , Decades of Reflection, a quilt show celebrating their 10th anniversary, 10 AM–6 PM at Super High School multipurpose room, 410 Arizona Ave. Free. Call Sherrie at 678-4240.

Christy Leskovar has some skeletons to dust off at a reading and signing of her new book Finding the Bad Inn, 5:30 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

My old MFA friends are running a free summer workshop on campus called the Montana Free School, this and every Sat. through the summer from 11 AM–1 PM in LA233 on the UM Campus. No registration or sign up required, just bring yourselves and your writing. Free.

Fall in love with the national parks all over again through the photography of Ken Dvorak, at Yellowstone Photo from 5:30–8 PM as part of First Friday, 321 N. Higgins Ave. Free. See the former executive director of The Clay Studio, Jayson Lawfer return to his old stomping grounds for a gallery showing of his new collection, Bending the Line, where all manner of wood, soda, and electric fired pottery will be exploited, 5:30–9 PM as part of First Friday, 1106 A Hawthorne. Free. Let’s let babies in bars for The Top Hat’s Family Friendly Fridays at 6 PM, this week with Freetown Turnaround. Free. I was going to make a joke about the occupation of Blacksmithing for this listing but I genuinely don’t remember what it is they do. See Tony Furtado play a live show at Blacksmith Brewery from 6–9 PM as part of First Friday, 114 Main St. in Stevensville. Free.

Wine and music go together like two other delicious things when Charla Bauman plays at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 6:30 PM, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Visit tenspoon.com. Free. Tea and sledgehammers? These things may or may not be involved in the performance art show, Escape Velocity, which takes place in the parking lot behind Butterfly Herbs at 7 PM. Direct questions to Nita at 493-2496. Free. Artist Juan de Santa Anna will be at Bigfork’s Grille 459 in Seeley Lake to meet and greet you at 8 PM, and his photography will be there, too. 475 Electric Ave. Free. Learn how the west was won by ladies at the presentation, How Women Influenced the Wild West, 8 PM at Beavertail Hill State Park, off Exit 130 on Interstate 90. Call 273-4253. Jes Mullette is a dancing machine with many faces in her one-woman dance theatre piece, Pinkie Tudorovich, 8 PM at the PARTV building on UM’s campus, $10/$8 child, student, senior.

No road runners are involved when the Wild Coyote Band play two nights at the Eagles Lodge starting at 8 PM, 2420 South Ave. W. Free. Catch some local live music without breaking the bank, this and every Fri. night at the Union Club, when Russ Nasset & The Revelators take the stage, 9 PM, free. You’ve had a long day of looking at art. Time to never stop partying ever at Eclectic Electric, a dance party featuring everything from pop to industrial, with The Mermaid, Djs Erastaroth, Raven and Logisticalone., 9 PM–2 AM and absolutely free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Your bluegrass needs will be met when White Water Ramble & Milkdrive play live at the Top Hat, 10 PM. Free.

SATURDAY

August

Live it up and enjoy an early afternoon High Tea & Tour of the Conrad Mansion Museum. Check out the 26 rooms built in 1895 and all the grandeur therein. $25. Register by the Wed. before. Next tour is July 2. 330 Woodland Ave. conradmansion.com. Who’s in the mood for an afternoon of historical make-believe? Discover Travelers Rest is about bringing the history of Travelers’ Rest to life through demonstrations to see how early Native Americans lived off the land in the

Bitterroot Valley, all afternoon at Travelers Rest State Park, 6717 Hwy 12 W. in Lolo. $5 per vehicle. Visit travelersrest.org. Everything must go when bluegrass rockers’ Rose’s Pawn Shop play a free, all ages show at Bitterroot Brewery from 6–8:30 PM. Visit bitterrootbrewing.com.

Alpine Artisans, Inc. in the Seeley Swan are pleased as punch to announce Open Studios on first Saturdays this summer from 11 AM–5 PM, featuring studio art from Flying Popcorn Ranch, Rockin’ Horse Studio, Swan Valley Images, KornUtopia Pottery, and One Hand Clapping Studio. Look for the “Studio Open” signs on Hwy 83. alpineartisans.org.

Drink wine and listen to acoustic guitarist George Carlton when he plays at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 6:30 PM, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Visit tenspoon.com. Free. Hungry honky-tonk lovers take heed: Russ Nasset and the Revelators are playing at the Town and Country Lounge at 7 PM for a customer appreciation party. It’s sort of a potluck thing, so you can bring a dish, or do what I always do and come empty handed for the free food and entertainment. 1616 S. Third St. W. Free. See the Osprey battle the Helena Brewers tonight at 7 PM for a special discounted ticket price of $7.50 and support Animeals all at the same time! 700 Cregg Lane. Check out animeals.com. Two voices, two names, four eyes, four feet, I could go on and on. Wilson & Mckee are playing dulcimers, guitars, Irish bouzouki, a Celtic Harp and an accordion, plus stories, dances and more, 7 PM at Montana House in Apgar. Free, but visit montanahouse.info or call 888.5393 to reserve your seat. A bunch of rag tag musicians with who knows what kind of instruments

Keep it local every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If you’re after non-edibles, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample. Hurl yourself to personal victory during the Helena Ultra Runner’s League’s HURL Elkhorn Endurance Runs, which occur in the Elkhorn Mountains near Montana City, and include 50mile and 50 km distances on trails and dirt roads that feature demanding terrain and spiffy views. Sprint for details at vigilanterunning.org. Get hooked during the Great Montana Mac Attack on Flathead Lake, a two-day competition where contestants try to catch the largest lake trout and whitefish. Get some bait and call 261-6445 for details. Run, walk, and roll for the Bitterroot Breastfeeding Coalition during the Bitterroot Baby Run & Stroller Stampede, a 5K walk/run and 1-mile fun walk for kids, beginning 9 AM at South Valley Child and Family Center, 515 Madison St. in Hamilton. Visit bitterrootbreastfeedingcoalition.org.

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Heidi Zielinski and the rest of her clan keep Art in the Family with their fiber art and traditional quilts from 6–9 PM at the River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art in Stevensville. Show runs through Aug. 30. Call 777-0520. Free.

Support the Missoula Aids Council and look at gorgeous photographs by Misa-Rae as part of First Friday, Aug. 5, 5–8 PM, 500 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

The Big Hole National Battlefield Summer Speaker Series continues with featured speaker Michael Penny along with Nez Perce Nation Drum. Talk begins after the 134th Commemoration sometime after 5 PM and repeats on Sun. Aug. 7 at noon. 16542 Hwy 43 W. in Wisdom. Call 689-3155.

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FrontierSpace’s guest curator Yaro Neils gives snail mail it’s proper respect at the event, To Missoula, with Love: A Postcard Show, 6-9 PM in the alley between Pine and Spruce. Free.

Hang out with bear biologists, eat free bratwurst and promote animal-bear coexistence at the family friendly Bear Fair, 11 AM–3 PM at the Hungry Bear Steak House, 6287 Hwy. 83 in Swan Valley. Visit swanecosystemcenter.org, and call 754-3137 to reserve your brat.

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get together on the first Sat. of every month for The Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree, a musical concert from 7–9:30 PM at The Grange Hall, 1436 South 1st St. Call Clem at 961-4949. Don’t let this band’s 5 million plus records sold Hinder you from seeing them live at the Wilma, (oh my god, I’m so funny) 7:30 PM, with Adelitas Way, Egypt Central and 9 Left Dead. Tickets are $26.50 and available at Rockin Rudy’s, and online at redtieconcerts.com. Jes Mullette is a dancing machine with many faces in her one-woman dance theatre piece, Pinkie Tudorovich, 8 PM at the PARTV building on UM’s campus, $10/$8 child, student, senior.

No road runners are involved when the Wild Coyote Band play two nights at the Eagles Lodge starting at 8 PM, 2420 South Ave. W. Free.

Judgement Hammer and the Mount Poverty Well Diggers bring you stoner, thrash and other varieties of metal, 9 PM. $5.

Kris Moon and DJ Monte Carlo guarantee to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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

Swig drinks while listening to old-school rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free.

SUNDAY

Summer time and the moshing is easy at the Palace when Tidal Horn,

August

There are too many jokes to make about this year’s Testical Festival to pick just one. Testy Festy runs Aug. 3–7 at Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. For ticketing, event schedule and directions, check out testyfesty.com. Locavores unite at the Target Range Community Farmers’ Market, which features a plethora of local foods and assorted goods and runs from 10 AM–1 PM every Sun. until Oct. 9 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free. Call Peggie at 728-5302. Yet another opportunity to peruse and purchase local crafts and produce hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 11 AM–3 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 16 at the New Park parking lot,

between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park Pavilion. This week’s music is by Bob Mislevic with a kid’s activity put on by The Children’s Museum. Visit carrousel.com/carouselsunday-market-and-fes.

the golden age of radio at the Missoula Elks Lodge, beginning at 7 PM. Tickets are $25, plus an extra $17 if you want to eat. Get tickets at star.skytics.com or call 360-STAR.

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

Feel as lucky as I do that all these greatly-named bands made their way to the zoo when Chicago pop punkers BUST! play an 8 PM show at the ZACC, plus The Please and Thank Yous and Candyland Liberation Front. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

See how New York piano man Randall Atcheson takes to the big sky at his 4 PM show as part of the St. Timothy’s Summer Music Festival at 2285 Southern Cross Rd. $15/$10 students. Visit sttimothysmusic.org.

Enjoy a brew and a moving picture when the Palace hosts a movie night, which kicks off August’s theme, “A Match Made in Heaven” with screenings of Wild at Heart and Bonnie and Clyde starting at 9 PM. Free.

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Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike. This week features The Front Street River Group and $4 martinis as always, plus DJ Mermaid spinning between sets, beginning around 9:30 PM. Free.

Join the Top Hat in a fundraiser to benefit a local artist named Wyatt who was injured in the pursuit of awesomeness. See groups like Monks on Fire, DJ Logisticalone and The Kevin VanDort Band play, plus stuff by the Bellatrix performers and local comedian Tate Hoskins. Show is 5–8 PM and $5. Get your show tunes here! Broadway & Bubbly will feature all your favorite Hamilton Players singing broadway hits in a night of wild abandonment, 7 PM at the Daly Mansion, Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Hwy in Hamilton. $20/$35 encore. Visit hamiltonplayers.com. When you go Swingin’ On A Star, that means you’re at a live tribute to

MONDAY

August nightlife

Pizza and trivia go together like two things that don’t necessarily but could at Front Street Trivia Night, this and every Mon., 7 PM at the Mackenzie River Pizza, 137 W. Front St. Free.

SPOTLIGHT you’re the omnivores The Omnivores are a three-person, Missoula raised hip-hop collective who are, in their own words, “on the run from the terrible.” They’re all 23 and they love each other, which is the number one thing I look for in a group. How are you going to make a western-themed hip hop album that is also a metaphor for a greedy, insatiable culture that rules us with religion and oppressive consumerism if you don’t love each other? (That question makes about as much sense as “How can you eat your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?” So much sense.) The three of them plan to take you on a metaphorical journey through the Wild West, each of them embodying a different facet of what they being thoughtful. When you buy a mixtape at the consider to be the dystopian experience known as life. show (which it turns out is a rapper’s figure of Brendan Work, aka Knuckleberry Finn, aka Thizzly Bear, speech; it’s in fact a CD) it comes complete with a mini-sized graphic novel written, produced, and staraka the Prophet seems to be the group’s ring the MCs, along with all the lyrics ringleader. Casey Carter, aka C-Snake, to their music. Their message isn’t aka Tha E-Street Butcha, aka the WHAT: The Omnivores designed to go in one ear and out the Casanova is responsible for getting down WHEN: Wed., Aug. 10, other; they would prefer it linger. The and partying. (If they were Ninja turtles, at 9 PM inaugural concert by the Omnivores is he would be Michaelangelo, the party brought to you by kids who love both dude.) Finally we have Dan Trimble, aka WHERE: The Palace hip hop and the world enough to be DJ Spooky, aka the Gunslinger. To comcritical of what they’ve seen happenHOW MUCH: Free plete the turtles metaphor, Work is ing to it. Leonardo, Trimble is whoever’s weapon I asked the rappers if they had anything else to add of choice most resembles a gun, and I’m April, the to the interview, and at least two of them, possibly all beautiful, yellow jumpsuit-clad investigative reporter. The group has been making music together for a three yelled back to me via speakerphone, “We’re the couple of years, and this is their first live show. They Omnivores!” It was, by far, the cutest moment I’ve ever produce all their own beats, and it’s been clear to me had the pleasure of experiencing in my short career as through talking to them and listening to their music a yellow jumpsuit-clad investigative reporter. that they prioritize the art of examining culture and

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When you go Swingin’ On A Star, that means you’re at a live tribute to the golden age of radio at the Missoula Elks Lodge, beginning at 7 PM. Tickets are $25, plus an extra $17 if you want to eat. Get tickets at star.skytics.com or call 360-STAR. Sip some wine and listen to some music at the same time, like watching and chewing gum, 7–10 PM at Red Bird Wine Bar, this week featuring the debut performance of Candace Neaves & DR Halsell. Free. Drink wine and hear gypsy punk by local heavyweights El-3 Oh! with John Rosette, Barrett Meigs and Pete Hand Trio, 7–10 PM at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Free. So you think you can fill in the blank? Prove it at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night this and every Monday at 8:30 PM. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign up. Have a drink and take a load off in the company of your fellow laborers during the Badlander’s Service Industry Night, which runs this and every Mon. and includes drink specials for service industry workers starting at 9 PM. Free. Also, if you have an iPod, bring it in and they’ll play it. Free. The boys of Milkcrate Mondays are bringing you my two favorite things at the palace: Lazers and Rap, a show featuring performances by The Co-Dependents, Wormwood, Tigerlilly, Special K, Executive Keu and Lootcakes, plus a lazer show to blow your mind, starting at 9 PM. Free. It’s looking to be another night of Monday Metal Madness when Vengeance and Beefcurtain play the Dark Horse, 9 PM, 1805 Regent St. $3. The Top Hat will bring on both the noise and the funk when Otis Heat plays at 10 PM, $5.

TUESDAY

August

Bring talent or an instrument or both along with you to the Blacksmith Brewing Company for an Open Jam Night, starting at 5:30 PM, 114 Main St. in Stevensville. Free.

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superhero capes for kids and to hand write letters to deliver to Senator Baucus. Free. Visit womensvoices.org.

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Country bumpkin needs will be met at the Jocko Valley Farmer’s Market this and every Wed. through Oct. 5th from 4–7 PM, located on Hwy 93 in downtown Arlee and now accepting SNAP, credit and debit cards. This week, The Arlee High School boys basketball team will be serving Indian Tacos to benefit their team. Call 726-5550.

There’s a new sheriff in town, but he has no judicial authority, he just loves to rock. The Tuesday Night Open Mic/Jam Night is now at the Lucky strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave, hosted by Louie Bond, Teri Llovet and the UFOkies. Sign up is at 6 PM and music goes 7–10 PM. Shake what your chosen deity and/or science gave you at Improvisational Theatre & Movement Night this and every Tues., 6:25 PM at Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. 3rd St. W. $5 Night/$15 Month. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with ageappropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691. Both a river and Technology Runs Through It, and Chance McKinney is playing a country benefit concert at the Wilma at 7:30 PM to benefit said organization. Tickets are $15 and available at Rockin Rudy’s. Visit chancemckinney.com. (See Noise in this issue.) Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What’s a pescatarian? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.) That’s No Way to Treat a Lady! Don’t miss the regional premiere of this musical comedy thriller, Aug. 9–21 at the Whitefish Performance Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. Shows start nightly at 8 PM, with 6 PM shows on Sun. Tickets are $37–18. Visit alpinetheatreproject.org. All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features free pool plus reggae, dancehall and hip hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace. This week features DJs Supa J, General Smiley and Green. Free. I’m dreaming of a Stoney Holiday filled with bluegrass, funk and rock, 10 PM at the Top Hat. free.

WEDNESDAY

August

Your weekly lunch date with almost everyone comes 11 AM at Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by Shodown. Call 543-4238 or visit missouladowntown.com. Free. We can do it! Join Women’s Voices for the Earth for a Stroller Brigade in downtown Missoula, asking Senator Baucus to be a hero for health by supporting the Safe Chemicals Act! Meet at the fish statues at Caras Park at noon to get

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Discuss the future and controversies surrounding a new location for the Poverello Center (a refuge for the city’s homeless) at St. Patrick Hospital, Conference Rooms 2/3. Childcare will be provided. Call 541-6891. That’s No Way to Treat a Lady! Don’t miss the regional premiere of this musical comedy thriller, Aug. 9–21 at the Whitefish Performance Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. Shows start nightly at 8 PM, with 6 PM shows on Sun. Tickets are $37–18. Visit alpinetheatreproject.org. Music lover’s rejoice: The Missoula City Band is playing their concert series tonight at Bonner Park. This week is the finale with their own Jay Straw. Show starts at 8 PM and please bring your lawn chairs. Call 728-2400 ext. 7041. Mainstream music does not rock. Bomb the Music Industry! at the ZACC, a show featuring The Sidekicks, Haircuts, The Have To’s and others to be announced. 8 PM. 235 First St. W. $8. (See Soundcheck in this issue.) You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing the epically long, house favorite tune, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and other fine staples during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays and Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where drink specials mix with music by The Tallest DJ in America every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Put on your trance pants and get groggy when the Palace hosts Progressive, a night of progressive house music and trance spun by local DJs starting at 9 PM, this week with Dj Mike Stolin vs. Vyces, Jay Boogie, DJ Chunkiye and Dre. Free with 25 cent pint beers which go up 25 cents every half hour.

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Have your blues rock needs thoroughly explored when George Thorogood & The Destroyers play 8 PM at the Wilma. Tickets are $32 day of/$31 advance at Rockin Rudy’s, by calling 1-877-4FLY-TIX and online at TicketFly.com.

punk and Americana, 10 PM at the Top Hat. $3. Local hip-hop crew The Omnivores are playing 9 PM at the Palace in what just may be Missoula’s first ever graphic novel hip-hop western to be enacted on the stage. Every copy of the mixtape (which is actually a CD) comes with a tiny version of the comic. Free. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

It’s night of the living no longer dead at the Badlander for their brand new Thursday night dance party, Prehab, with sets of hip hop and electronic music from local DJs Vyces, Chris Moon and James Two, plus $1 wells and $1 Pabst from 9 PM to midnight, begining at 9 PM. $2.

THURSDAY

August

Those brave enough to venture out of Big Sky country might want to check out the Braun Brothers Reunion Music Festival in Challis Idaho, Aug. 11–13. For ticket information,directions and a complete lineup of events, check out braunbrothersreunion.com. Send your little one tiptoeing through tulips for the miniNaturalists at the Gardens program, which lets kids explore the natural world through hands-on activities and play, 10–11 AM at Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens (under the big silver water tower). $3/$1 MNHC members. Visit MontanaNaturalist.org. Don’t even bother trying to control yourself, because Wild Theater Thursdays are back at the Roxy Theater, which features a different award winning wildlife film every Thu. at 10:30 AM, now through Aug. 18. Tickets ar $3. See wildlifefilms.org/showing.html.

See oil paintings, encaustics, watercolors and more from Jim Dew, a man who’s been around and around the block, Aug. 5 from 5–9 PM as part of First Friday at Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. call 541-7100.

nightlife The streets of downtown Kalispell are hopping this and every week this summer for Thursday Fest, with food, beverage, and tunes at Third St. E. between Main St. and First Ave. E. from 5–7:30 PM. This week catch Cocinando. Call 253-6923. Cellar Door promises to rock so hard at Downtown ToNight, as part of Caras Park’s ongoing concert series on Thursdays from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a Fellowship Club meeting featuring a talk on Karol K. Truman’s book,

Feelings Buried Alive Never die, 6–7:30 PM in the west meeting room of the library. Free. Call 363-1670. That guy who says funny stuff on TV about funny videos on the internet who my brother thinks is really funny is stopping by the UM Theatre on his “Tosh Tour on Ice” at 7 PM. His name is Daniel Tosh, I should mention. Tickets are $45 and available at all GrizTix locations, online at griztix.com or by calling 888-Montana. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not r e q u i r e d : Tr i v i a l B e e r s u i t ,

Missoula’s trivia night for the layperson begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & C a s i n o , 1515 D e a r b o r n Av e . Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. That’s No Way to Treat a Lady! Don’t miss the regional premiere of this musical comedy thriller, Aug. 9–21 at the Whitefish Performance Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. Shows start nightly at 8 PM, with 6 PM shows on Sun. Tickets are $37–18. Visit alpinetheatreproject.org.

Gatherings are magic at Synergy Sessions, a DJ night featuring all varieties of electronica spun by Portland’s Enzymes and locals Inevitable Thought, Primecutz vs Osiris, and Logisticalone, along with live paintings, hooping and silk performances, 9 PM, Free. He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. There’s so much good art this week at First Friday. I so excited! Are you? Be excited and also send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 5 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternatively, snail mail your events to Molly Llama c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 543-4367. You can submit things online in the arts section of our website. Scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says, “submit an event.”

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Bill Nelson • Hand-Crafted Log Benches & Birdhouses

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Sean Kochel • Ornate Musical Stringed Instruments, Cedar Chests, and Honey

Marna Zmak • Paw Printz Custom Ceramic Pottery and Ceramic Magnets

MOUNTAIN HIGH I magine a world where humans and bears coexist. Bear biologists and their fans are keeping that dream alive at the 4th annual Bear Fair this Saturday at the Hungry Bear Steakhouse in Swan Valley. Experts like Tim Manley, (what a name!) a grizzly bear management specialist, Amy Macleod, a wildlife biological research associate, plus many other bear experts will be on hand to answer all your bear related questions. They’ll also give you a bear pepper spray demonstration. Like burglars, bears have been known to steal backpacks and purses on the trails, so this is very relevant. Free bratwurst will be

served at noon, so long as you request your brat in advance at 754-3137, or email them at info@swanecosystemcenter.org. There will be games, activities for the kids, a bake sale and raffle with proceeds going to support Swan Valley Bear Resources. Do bears really eat steak? I guess hungry bears will eat anything, hence the pepper spray. Hang out with bear biologists, eat free bratwurst and promote animal-bear coexistence at the family friendly Bear Fair this Sat., Aug. 6,11 AM–3 PM at the Hungry Bear Steak House, 6287 Hwy. 83 in Swan Valley.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 4 Join the Sierra Club on the Pintler Loop Trail 4day Backpack, beginning on Thu. through Sun., Aug. 7 for a brisk, 24 milke backpack expedition in the little-used Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness. Check out high mountain circques and hanging valleys with dozens of lakes. You’ll hit elevations up to 8,600 feet, so pack light. Contact hike leader John Wolverton at yodelingdog@hotmail.com. Free and open to the public. Spelunking means technical caving, and technical caving means what now? Experienced teenage cavers can have at it with the City Life Community Center, 7:30 AM to 6 PM. Be advised, only participants who’ve attended one of their rock climbing camps and prove technical competence are eligible. Ages 13–18 only. $35/$25 for non-members. Visit citylifemt.com or call 532-1558. Don’t even bother trying to control yourself, because Wild Theater Thursdays are back at the Roxy Theater, which features a different award winning wildlife film every Thu. at 10:30 AM, now through Aug. 18. Tickets are $3. See wildlifefilms.org/showing.html.

FRIDAY AUGUST 5 Aim your sights on the perfect rifle for hunting season during the annual Missoula Gun and Antique Show, at UM’s Adams Center which is dubbed as the best gun and antique show in the state and features 800 tables with a number of firearms and other items to scope out. Lock and load for details by calling 549-4817. Learn how the west was won by ladies at the presentation, How Women Influenced the Wild West, 8 PM at Beavertail Hill State Park, off Exit 130 on Interstate 90. Call 273-4253.

SATURDAY AUGUST 6 Who’s in the mood for an afternoon of historical make-believe? Discover Travelers Rest is about bringing the history of Travelers’ Rest to life through demonstrations to see how early Native Americans lived off the land in the Bitterroot Valley, all after-

noon at Travlers Rest State Park, 6717 Hwy 12 W. in Lolo. $5 per vehicle. Visit travelersrest.org. Hurl yourself to personal victory during the Helena Ultra Runner’s League’s HURL Elkhorn Endurance Runs, which occur in the Elkhorn Mountains near Montana City, and include 50-mile and 50 km distances on trails and dirt roads that feature demanding terrain and spiffy views. Sprint for details at vigilanterunning.org. Get hooked during the Great Montana Mac Attack on Flathead Lake, a two-day competition where contestants try to catch the largest lake trout and whitefish. Get some bait and call 261-6445 for details. Run, walk, and roll for the Bitterroot Breastfeeding Coalition during the Bitterroot Baby Run & Stroller Stampede, a 5K walk/run and 1-mile fun walk for kids, beginning 9 AM at South Valley Child and Family Center, 515 Madison St. in Hamilton. Visit bitterrootbreastfeedingcoalition.org. Join Nez Perce veterans and tribal elders at the 134th Commemoration in honor all who have fought and died on Big Hole National Battlefield through pipe and empty saddle ceremonies, 9 AM–5 PM, 16425 Hwy 43 W. in Wisdom. Call 689-3155. Free.

THURSDAY AUGUST 11 Send your little one tiptoeing through tulips for the miniNaturalists at the Gardens program, which lets kids explore the natural world through hands-on activities and play, 10–11 AM at Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens (under the big silver water tower). $3/$1 MNHC members. Visit MontanaNaturalist.org. Don’t even bother trying to control yourself, because Wild Theater Thursdays are back at the Roxy Theater, which features a different award winning wildlife film every Thu. at 10:30 AM, now through Aug. 18. Tickets ar $3. See wildlifefilms.org/showing.html. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Candid camera Photographer Wendy Red Star explores her contemporary Crow Indian life by Michael Peck

At the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, artist Wendy Red Star noticed a lonely pair of Crow moccasins sitting in a glass case. “I remember looking at these,” she says, “and knowing that if they’d put a name there that I probably would know who the family is. Perhaps they were my relatives.” Afterwards, she found herself looking at the idyllic dioramas, watching visitors gazing at the collection, she says “assuming that these native tribes were nonexistent… And here I was—a real-life Crow Indian—sitting among them. That made me feel really strange… When they were collecting that stuff it was because they thought we were going to vanish… because they were killing us off.” Red Star has always been fascinated by exploring stereotypes, especially those attached to her Crow heritage. But it wasn’t until that alienating museum experience that she began to accumulate items for her Four Seasons series, which attempted to ironically dissect the public’s idealized view of American Indians in contemporary society. Using comedic, blow-up wildlife in ’70s panoramas of mountains and lakes, Red Star assembled a cathartic, mocking look at indigenous, dioramic representations, even posing as the principal model in each tableau. “I don’t take art too seriously, so all of it has some sort of humorous aspect to it,” she says. “The issues with Native American art are so complex that there’s not much I would have to do for social commentary, because the commentary is already there.” Red Star creates tightly focused body of works, ranging from electrically bright lithographs featuring old automobiles to three-story high tipi poles arranged according to positions laid down by Chief Sits In The Middle Of The Land in a speech to the Crow nation. Baloowappaache, a “big, mock sweat lodge” installation piece, is outfitted with chairs, a wall filled with photos of Crow Indians throughout history and a television set that is constantly tuned to Crowthemed YouTube videos.

Wendy Red Star’s 2011 photograph “Interference.”

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Likewise, her photographs are illustrative of her dualperspective of archiving “Crow land, Crow reservation” and her aspiration to demystify her fellow Crows. “I want to focus on real people and who we are and what our houses look like,” she says. Her photos depict the disused cars, rundown movie theaters, churches—“all the churches I could find, she says”—and the other manufactured objects dotting the Crow landscape and its rural surroundings. A similar multi-media project involves a set of star quilts onto which she’s emblazoned slides from the 1970s. “I love the historical photos of my ancestors… But to me these pictures of the Crows… in their bellbottoms, are just as interesting.” Red Star’s current exhibit, My Home is Where my Tipi Sits (Crow Country), is at the Missoula Art Museum and, like so much of her other work, it speaks with humor and candidness to her experience as a Crow Indian in contemporary society. Born in Billings in 1981, Red Star was raised in a thoroughly multi-cultural environment on the nearby Crow reservation: Her mother was an Irish nurse, her father fullblooded Crow, and later she would be joined by a Korean sister whom her mother adopted. “My mom was really great at making sure my sister and I were involved in our culture,” Red Star says. “She pushed me more than my dad did to participate in Crow culture.” That included going to the local Crow Fair every third week in August. “I did the rodeo,” she says. Red Star’s attraction to the saturated colors and the flamboyant patterns that would mark her later work came from her grandmother and her grandmother’s beadwork. When she was 18, she moved to Bozeman to study sculpture at Montana State University, and then went on to receive an MFA at UCLA. Immediately in these larger cities, she came face to face with the disjunction between

reservation life and the pre-conceptions of a misinformed outside world. “I started to realize these major differences,” she says. “Mostly how poor people were on the reservation… I started getting these stereotypical questions, like ‘Do you still live in tipis?’” Red Star laughs softly. “I always approached it as educating people, whereas my dad would just say, ‘Oh yeah, we still live in tipis.’” Describing herself as a “cultural archivist,” Red Star tries to document and preserve the social contrasts that she still encounters, on and off reservation. She is also an educator who teaches art as an adjunct professor at Portland State University, where she started the Contemporary North American Indigenous Artists blog. She had her students interview prominent American Indian artists, asking what it meant, essentially, to be considered American Indian artists. When I flipped the question on her, she hesitated a moment. “There’s a big debate going on in the Native American community about that,” she says. “Some of the artists don’t want to be associated with their background at all.” But having that label, she says, does relate to her work. “There is going to be a movement of Native American artists,” she says excitedly. She sees her photography, paintings and staged dioramas as ways to awaken people “to this new Native American image, instead of the Hollywood Indians.” “A lot of my work is anti-romanticism—which usually means just telling the truth.” Wendy Red Star’s exhibit My Home is Where My Tipi Sits (Crow Country) opens at MAM with a reception and gallery talk Friday, August 5, from 5 PM to 8 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Susan Gibson The Dixie Chicks raised a little hell when they spoke out against the Iraq war in 2003. But they’re also known because of a ditty called “Wide Open Spaces,” which blew up to number one on the Country Singles charts in 1998 for four weeks in a row. The woman behind that song is Susan Gibson, who actually wrote it while going to school at the University of Montana. Being a popular songwriter is sort of an always-thebridesmaid situation. But Gibson has been putting out her own albums for almost a decade. Her latest, Tightrope, has clever metaphors involving evergreens and hope diamonds, and is a fairly earnest collection. But one of those songs, “The Wood Wouldn’t Burn,” is subtler, and, for that, more powerful; she sings about a 1952 Gibson Flattop guitar with blisters on the neck, ashes on the headstock and held together with rusty wire.

BUST! Fuck It Cassette Deck

Like my friend Stinky Ole Trapper says, “Punk’s not dead, it’s just resting.” Perhaps the scene is resting—BUST! is not. “Amen At Work” ignites the album with a phonic conflagration billowing forth 10 seconds of dissonant, jangling, overdriven guitar and hot-to-trot bingo-bango, bingobango drumming before settling into a driving verse and killing the whole damn thing with a dead-blow hammer in one minute, 52 seconds. Ignore the desire to repeat that track, instead slip on your rubber panties and ride the rawk wave to “Jin and Juice,” and its Black Flag-like breakdown/chorus that may even

Chance McKinney Be Real Music City Madness

As I see it, male country singers can follow one of two career trajectories: be a lone wolf outlaw type who purportedly does things his own way (think Travis Tritt, Waylon Jennings) or take the Kenney Chesney/Brad Paisley route and be the nicest son-ofa-pumpkin in the whole darned patch. Chance McKinney is a son-of-a-pumpkin. On the 2010 album Be Real, the Lolo-bred singer and his band deliver a farmer’s grip of modern country stylings filled with parties, populism, and prayer. Kicking it all off is the let the good times roll of “When Rednecks Get Together,” a John Rich as sung by Jason Aldean-esque party jam which suits McKinney’s talk-singing baritone perfectly. With cocksure winks and agreeable nudges he sings the

Iceage New Brigade Dais Records

The irony of punk rock—a music founded on the subversion of convention—is that since 1985 it’s hard to come up with a new sound. There is hardcore and there is pop, and pretty much every variation within the genre has been some ratio of the two. One way to address this dilemma is with noise, which solves the problem of new sound the

You could easily imagine Carrie Underwood or Martina McBride gussying up these songs for the pop country charts. What makes Gibson great is that she tackles them with down-to-earth vocals marked with a folky affect. She uses a pencil eraser on a cigar box for percussion and a warped dobro which makes her seem more authentic. That, and she writes her own songs. (Erika Fredrickson) Susan Gibson plays the Missoula Winery Thursday, August 4, at 8 PM with John Floridis. $5.

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have the crustiest hesher slow-banging her head. Up next? Who gives a turkey? More of the same. This is the most cohesive 12.9 minutes of rock ’n’ roll of 2011. The duo’s ample energy and hep musicianship make them the creamy sauce atop a platter of Taco John’s super potato olés. (As superlatives go, this is tops.) Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! was my all-time fave band with an exclamation point in its name until OFF! came along and atomized us with nuevo SoCal hardcore. However, Chicago’s BUST! is the winner, winner of the chicken dinner now. ( Jason McMackin) BUST! Plays the Zootown Arts Community Center Sunday, August 7, at 8 PM with The Please and Thank Yous and Candy Liberation Front. $5. lines “Fire up them big ol’ barbeques / Tell them cows to watch their backs / Seven kegs with different kinds of brews / Blondes and brunettes on tap.” Don’t worry ladies and bears, I’m sure the 6’ 6” vaquero has a sweet spot for raven and ginger hair, too. While moving through the modern country pantheon—guilt, redemption, fatherhood, motherhood, parties, beach parties, pirates, the road, trains, American Dream, authenticity—McKinney manages an uncommonly predictable collection. If he’s seeking Top 40, he’s on the right track. ( Jason McMackin) Chance McKinney n’ Crosswire play the Wilma Tuesday, August 9, at 7:30 PM. $15. way a national park solves the problem of new food. It’s definitely out there, even if it’s not exactly a meal. Iceage’s New Brigade is a place where sounds run free. They resolve themselves into songs in exhilarating bursts, as with “Collaps” and “White Rune.” In these moments the Danish quartet sounds like a cross between Wire and Avail, forging unity from dissonance with moving sincerity. At other moments New Brigade uses the guitar less as instrument than act, evoking fierce energy without a melody to channel it. These drifts of noise will please the Fugazi purists even if they refuse to go anywhere. Punk rock is a form like any other, and part of that form is formlessness. Fortunately for Iceage, it’s not so important to go somewhere as it is to just go. (Dan Brooks)

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Extreme vacation BMI keeps evolving its explosive style by Aaron Carnes

When Jeff Rosenstock’s band The Arrogant Sons of Previously, writing had always been an outlet for Bitches broke up in 2004, instead of starting a new Rosenstock when he was feeling negative. This time band, he decided to record a bunch of weird songs around, he consciously chose to write songs when he alone on his computer and just give them away for free was feeling good. Vacation showcases that shift in tone. “It’s not as pessimistic, like the world is ending on the internet. He called this project “Bomb the Music cause I’m in a bad mood,” he says. “This record is like, Industry.” “When I realized I could record in my room, I went ‘Alright. Things are messed up, but I can deal with it,’” As Rosenstock wrote more and more songs for wild,” he says. “I recorded everything I was thinking. Instead of waiting for people to practice or CDs to be Vacation, he began to notice a theme. He was remindpressed, if I thought of a song, I just recorded it and put ed of a time recently when he found himself barely leaving the house, just watching a lot of TV, eating it out.” Seven years later, Bomb the Music Industry, now a pasta and drinking root beer, being complacent and five-piece band, is one of the most important names in not wanting to take risks. He eventually got fed up with the underground punk rock scene—if not the living that way. “A lot of the record stems from the feeling that if I strangest. Through the course of the group’s career, they’ve gained a reputation for being all over the map take chances, bad shit will happen,” he says. “But that’s genre-wise and playing insane, cathartic music with a way better than sitting inside being paralyzed by fear.” no-holds-barred attitude. They play pop-punk, hardcore, ska, electronica, indie rock, circus music and anything else they can think of, often times all within the confines of one song. The one rule about Bomb the Music Industry is that it is constantly evolving. The early albums were just Rosenstock. Then he went the other direction and recorded with a rotating cast of 30-plus musicians. But over the past couple years he’s formed a more consistent band with Bomb the Music Industry hits Missoula on its Vacation tour. which he tours and records. Another big change was when Rosenstock decided The release of their sixth album, Vacation, marks what might be Rosenstock’s most unique and interesting to start his own record label, Really Records, to put the album out. Even though Bomb the Music Industry has album to date because of its subtlety and restraint. “Goodbye Cruel World was so spastic and insane, always given away their albums online—and continue people are like, ‘That’s a crazy person,’” Rosenstock to do so—the physical CDs and vinyl have been says of the band’s third album. “I wanted to keep released by Asian Man Records. “We were really comfortable with Asian Man [Vacation] subtly interesting.” Instead of bouncing around between different Records. With this record, we were like, ‘Let’s make styles of music every few seconds, Rosenstock has real- ourselves a little bit uncomfortable,’” Rosenstock says. So far, he’s quite uncomfortable running his own ly focused on his songwriting and written songs unlike anything he’s done before. For instance, the opening label, but is working through it anyway. “It feels weird,” track, “Campaign for a Better Next Weekend,” begins he says. “We’re doing this enormous press mail thing with a two-minute keyboard/vocal drone. “Sponge for this record. It’s like, ‘Yup, send this to Rolling Stone. Board/Baby Waves” is a 40-second Beach Boys-esque, That’s four dollars in the trash.’” Maybe the mainstream music industry will continvocal-harmony-laden interlude. “Sick, Later” sounds almost like a Superchunk song. “The Shit that You ue to ignore Bomb the Music Industry. For Rosenstock, Hate” is a six-minute amphitheater-rock ballad. And it it doesn’t really matter. They have their own way of doing things, and that’s what counts. But Vacation is just keeps going from there. What’s missing are some of the identifying traits the kind of album that could very well appeal to a from his past albums. There is, for instance, almost a wider audience without losing the fans they already complete lack of ska, hardcore and synth sections on have. Vacation. “I was trying not to add unnecessary parts, Bomb the Music Industry plays the Zootown basically,” he says. “I was trying to not put a ska part in Arts Community Center Wednesday, August 10, or a hardcore part just because we’re a band that puts at 8 PM with The Sidekicks, Haircuts, and The ska parts and hardcore parts in.” Have To’s. $8. Rosenstock says the biggest change he’s made on this album is the method he used to write the lyrics. arts@missoulanews.com

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A large segment of the Meekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cutoff audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; namely those who were in middle school during the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it past the first 30 seconds of the film without thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played this game before.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unfair but inevitable comparison, what with the oxen and the covered wagons and the fording of a river and the fact that these pioneers are actually on the Oregon Trail. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be momentarily transported back to the countless hours spent in front of that Apple IIE monitor as your wagon party plodded along the trail, suffered through dysentery and splurged on about 10 times the ammunition you actually required. Thankfully, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long for the film to smack away any semblance of electronic nostalgia, replaced by a feeling of selfish The first mullets. relief that that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live in a time where family heirlooms must be tossed wayside in order to lighten the load or where a broken axle means another day without water. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in those first few silent minutes of Meekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cutoffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in panning long shots of creaky wagons rolling across the sun-baked high desert of Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that it becomes clear this is a film we will not so much watch, but experience. If you prefer gunfights, outlaws and colorful dialogue in your Westerns, go watch the wonderful True Grit remake. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get none of that here in a film that demands patience for its profoundly minimalist ways but which rewards it just the same. The plot is this: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1845 and seven easterners are being led by the contract guide Stephen Meek on the Oregon Trail, destined (they hope) for the lush Willamette Valley. They are lost and almost out of water. There are exactly two gunshots in the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;warning shots, reallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;each fired by Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams), the closest thing Meekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cutoff has to a protagonist. And those shots are fired consecutively in real time, allowing us to experience firsthand the laborious effort of reloading a musket. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a scene as meticulous as the rest of the film. The genius of Meekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cutoffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as crafted by director Kelly Reichardt and writer Jonathan Raymondâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is in the amazing display of confidence that day-to-day life in the early days of the Oregon Trail is enough to fasten together a devastatingly gripping film. And while it certainly helps to be a history buff with an interest in the excruciating details of 19th century exploration, it is by no means a prerequisite. Emily and Soloman Tetherow ( Will Patton) are one of three couples nearing the end of the infamous wagon route. A young boy is among the party

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Scope Noise Books Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK: 17 MIRACLES Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the lives of early Mormon pioneers in a T.C. Christensen film whose website declares is, “bound to be a classic movie.” Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 9:15 nightly, with Wed. and Sat. matinees at 1 and no Sun. show. THE CHANGE-UP What would happen if two guys, one a swinging bachelor and the other a ho hum married man somehow switched bodies and lived each other’s lives? Hilarity, that’s what. Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds star. Village 6: 1:30, 4:05, 7:30 and 10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:45, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES This documentary takes an in-depth look at a year in the life of the New York Times and how the media giant evolves along with the changing industry. Yikes! Andrew Rossi directs. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9.

Samuel L. Jackson also star. Carmike 7 and 10. in 2-D: 1:15, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:50. Tue: No 1:15 or 4:10 show. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with no 9:10 show on Sun. in 2-D: Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3. Showboat in Polson: 4, 7 and 9:20. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:35, 3:35, 6:40 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. in 2-D: 12:05, 3:05, 6:05 and 9:05, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

to be a man looking to charm a woman in these weird, difficult times of demasculinization, or something. Ryan Gossling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone also star. The Oxford comma makes a rare cameo, also. Village 6: 1:15, 4:30, 7:25 and 9:55. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 3:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9 and 9:45, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

CARS 2 Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Caine lend their voices to some cars on an adventure to overcome an obstacle. The straight man, the hick, and a British voice of sophistication add to the intrigue of this Disney Pixar sequel. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: in 2-D: 12:30 and 3:20, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Unlike last season’s romantic comedy, No Strings Attached starring the other two attractive actors, Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake are going to try out sleeping together without emotions. No wait, it’s the same thing. I won’t lie. This one looks a little funnier. Carmike 10: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:55. Village 6: 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell:

BEGINNERS Things get weird for Ewan McGregor when his Dad, played by Christopher Plummer, comes out of the closet and reveals that he has terminal cancer. Mike Mills directs. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 9. No shows on Sat., Tue. or Thu. BUCK This acclaimed documentary from Sundance takes an in-depth look at the life and psychology of a horse trainer named Buck. Think “The Horse Whisperer” without Robert Redford. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7. No shows on Sat., Tues. or Thu. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER What could go wrong when a scrawny young patriot, played by Chris Evans, agrees to military experiments that turn him into Captain America during World War II? Hugo Weaving and

THE SMURFS Great news, everyone. Those annoying little creatures from your childhood are coming back at you in the third dimension. You can thank Gargamel, who is still extremely uncool. Neil Patrick Harris is in it! Carmike 10: 1, 3:30, 6 and 8:30. in 2-D: 1:25, 4:15, 6:45 and 9:15. Village 6: 1:30, 4:20, 6:45 and 9:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Wed. Sat. or Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 2:30, 7:30 and 10, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. in 2D: Noon and 5. “I have advanced cognitive reasoning now and I’m mulling over destroying your race, but don’t worry.” Rise of the Planet of the Apes opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

COWBOYS & ALIENS Plastic hasn’t even been invented yet and already aliens are invading the old west. It’s always something! Will Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig triumph? John Favreau directs. Carmike 10: 1, 1:20, 4, 4:25, 7, 7:15, 9:50 and 10. Village 6: 1, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:50. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. Matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9:10. Showboat in Polson: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:30, 4, 7 and 9:15. Stadium 14: 12:15, 1:15, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15 and 9:50, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE Like How Stella Got her Groove Back, but with Steve Carrell, this comedy explores what it is

Bitterroot

More of the same on the 'root these days with very good fishing mid river and higher and more unpredictable action on the lower 1/3. Conditions are still much more like the beginning of July than the beginning of August with water temps and levels working to your advantage. There are of bug out and about with PMDs, yellow sallies, caddis and terrestrials being the most relevant. A smaller dry that'll cross over between a golden stone and a hopper has been working REALLY well on bigger fish recently. We suggest a size 10 Schroeder's hopper with no dropper. A size 14 purple haze with a size 14 or 16 Goddard caddis has been a demon rig for us midday as well. The evening dryfly action has been stellar on these warmer nights, and pod to pod the fish will be keying on small caddis or rusty spinners. CDC junk and size 16 or 18 red humpies have been the deal on mayfly fatties while goddards in a 16 or 18 have been working for caddis specific fish. Nymphing is solid but unnecessary these days and we're still waiting for the lower river to get it's act together on streamers.

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1:15, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:45, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Harry Potter and his friends aren’t done conquering evil yet! They’ve still got three more of The Dark Lord’s horcruxes left to destroy in a final epic battle to round out the series. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson star. Carmike 10: 1 and 4. in 2-D: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: in 2D: 1 and 7. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: in 2-D: 6:45 nightly, with Wed. Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. in 2-D: 12:05 and 6:10, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Michael Bay throws a bunch of money and machinery at the screen in this third installment of the popular series. Shia LaBeouf, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich and Leonard Nimoy star. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 6 and 9:10. Capsule reviews by Molly Laich. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Aug. 5. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7800. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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dries with some consistency. Bigger droppers like double beads, size 10 prince nymphs and girdle bugs have been VERY consistent for bigger fish lately. Keep them about 18" under some leggy foam attractor big enough to float em. The warm and sunny conditions are actually just what the doctor ordered on this river . . . minus the wind! Fishing medium sized Dave's hoppers in the shallower, faster riffles is Blackfoot gold in the bright sun. If you're fishing the surface, the best of it will be from about 11 until 4:30. Nymph rigs and darker bodied streamers should also be effective if you keep the deep and slow moving. The flashy brown bodied streamers along with a more muted peach colored offering have begun moving some of the fatty spring browns you'd expect too. Like the Bitterroot, the evening fishing up here has been very good and very lonely. Think caddis and rusty spinners!

Clark Fork

The evening dryfly fishing has been VERY good from around 7 until dark. Fishing the riffles on brushy banks with about any kind of caddis you want is producing good numbers. On Blackfoot The fish up here have finally begun to look up for the the slower sections, fish are keying a bit more on spinners

and a size 16 rusty comparadun has been the goods. PMDs, small hoppers and medium sized attractors such as stimi chew toys fished in the slower "summer seams" will motivate fish to the top during the day. A good trick to remember if fishing is slow in the sun is to drop a soft hackle (darker is better) DEEP (like 3') under your dry and let your drift swing straight at the end before you pick it up. We've been tagging quite a few fish this way recently when the dries survive the drift. At this point, the upper and lower river are fishing about equally well.

Rock Creek

Rock Creek is fishing really really well right now . . if you're into that sort of thing, but really, where's the fun in KNOWING your fishing's not going to suck. There's simply no suspense. If you're up for cruising the one lane highway to happiness, take your pick . . on flies AND location. The fish up here are chowing pretty much everything from giant goldens all the way down to size 18 ant patterns. Nymph rigs consisting of smaller mayfly stuff all the way up to Kauffman stoneflies are happening too. We'd avoid peacock patterns to keep the whitefish at bay. Top to bottom, the creek is giving it up.

As a general rule, stick to dries in medium to smaller sizes, whatever they are and nymphs in the smaller size range and it'll be game on.

Missouri Good stuff . . or should we say even better stuff on the Mo now that the water is down to manageable levels. While the fishing remained pretty darn good even through the highest flows of run-off, it's even better now, especially if you're a dryfly addict. The evening caddis is still the go to topwater action, but with the flows being reduced drastically, the midday dryfly action is shaping up. PMDs, ants and SMALL hoppers have been working well for us. The nymphing remains very good all day long and with any kind of overcast conditions, smaller crayfish patterns have been evil. Look for things to get better and better as water levels continue to fall. The flip side to the protracted nymphing season due to high water is that the algae bloom will be far less of a factor late season! Today's flow below Holter is 6020 cfs.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Symbolically speaking, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it. The Grail is a golden chalice filled with medicine that could open what needs opening in you. Luckily, you will soon come into possession (symbolically speaking) of a big, thick magical wand that can give you a new advantage. Here’s what I conclude: Use your wizard stick to locate the cup of wonder so you can take a big sip. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Much of the work you’re doing right now is invisible to the naked eye, maybe even to your own naked eye. You’re learning a lot while you sleep, drawing sustenance from hidden reservoirs even when you’re awake, and steadily improving yourself through the arts of creative forgetting and undoing. Continue this subtle artistry, Taurus. Be cagey. Be discreet. Don’t underestimate how important silence and even secrecy may be for you right now. The healing transformations unfolding in almost total darkness should not be exposed or revealed prematurely; they should be protected with vigilance. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Either Way I’m Celebrating. That’s the title of a poetry comic book by Sommer Browning, and I suggest that you consider it as a worthy title for your life in the coming days. The adventure you’re in the midst of could evolve in several possible directions, each with a different rhythm and tone, each with a distinct lesson and climax. But regardless of what path you end up taking, I’m almost positive you will have good reasons to throw yourself a party at the end. Having said that, though, I also advise you to decide which version of the story you prefer, then make it your strong intention to materialize it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): During the skunk mating season, two robust members of the species made the crawl space beneath my house their trysting place. The result was spectacular. Siren-like squalls rose from their ecstasy, spiraling up into my kitchen accompanied by plumes of a stench that I imagined the Italian poet Dante, in his book The Inferno, might have identified as native to the ninth level of hell. Being as instinctively empathic as I am, I naturally appreciated how much delight the creatures were enjoying. At the same time, I wished they would take their revelry elsewhere. So I called on the Humane Society, an animal rescue group, to flush them out without harming them. If anything resembling this scenario takes place in your sphere, Cancerian—if someone’s pursuit of happiness cramps your style—I suggest you adopt my gentle but firm approach.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle rejected the prevailing scientific theory that life on this planet emerged by accident from a primordial soup. The chance of that happening was as likely as “a tornado sweeping through a junkyard [and assembling] a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.” I do think that something less amazing, but still semi-miraculous, is in the works for you, Leo. What do you imagine it might be? I’m getting a vision of a windy thunderstorm blowing through a junkyard in such a way as to assemble an impressionistic sculpture of you wearing a crown of flowers and X-Ray Specs as you ride confidently on the back of a lion.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Derrick Jensen wrote the book A Language Older Than Words. He weaves together the tale of his abusive childhood with an angry analysis of the damage human beings have done to the earth and each other. It’s a wrenching text, but in the end it offers redemption. A review by Publisher’s Weekly says that “Jensen’s book accomplishes the rare feat of both breaking and mending the reader’s heart.” I invite you to pursue a similar possibility, Sagittarius. Summon the courage to allow your heart to be broken by a blessed catharsis that will ultimately heal your heart so it’s even stronger and smarter than it was before the breaking.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the yellow brick road symbolizes a path leading to all of life’s answers, to a place where fantasies can be fulfilled. Dorothy and her companions follow that road in the belief it will take them to the all-powerful Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City. While I don’t mind you playing with the idea that you may eventually find your own personal yellow brick road, for the immediate future I urge you to adopt the attitude Elton John articulated in his song, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”: “Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road.” It’s time to add more nuts-and-bolts pragmatism to your pursuit of happiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Of all the adversaries I will ever face, my ego is the supreme challenge. It tries to trick me into thinking its interests are exactly the same as my own. It periodically strives to bamboozle me into believing that I should be motivated by pride, competitiveness, selfishness, or judgmental evaluations of other people. When I’m not vigilant, it lulls me into adopting narrow perspectives and subjective theories that are rife with delusions about the nature of reality. Don’t get me wrong: I still love my ego. Indeed, being on good terms with it is my only hope for keeping it from manipulating me. I bring this up, Scorpio, because it’s prime time for you to come to a riper understanding of your own ego so you can work out a tougher, more no-nonsense agreement with it.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Some readers get enraged about the “crafty optimism” I advocate in my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia. Given what they regard as the miserable state of the world, they feel it’s a sin to look for reasons to be cheerful. One especially dour critic said that after reading a few pages of the book, he took it out in his backyard, doused it with gasoline, and incinerated it. You may face similar opposition in your attempts to foment redemption, smoke out hope, and rally the troops, Libra. I urge you to be extra fierce in your devotion to peace, love, and understanding.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Right now you may be feeling especially squeezed by one of the apparent contradictions in your life. But I’m here to tell you that it’s not as contradictory as you think. Its seemingly paradoxical elements are in righteous harmony with each other at a higher level of understanding. Can you rise to that higher level so as to see what has been hidden from your view? I believe you can. For best results, let go of any temptation you might have to act as if you’re oppressively defined by your past.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Psychologist and priest David Rickey counsels people who are about to be married. “You are perfectly mismatched,” he likes to tell them. “As much as you think you have chosen each other because of beauty or shared interests, the deeper reason is that unconsciously you know the other person is going to push your buttons. And the purpose of relationships is for you to discover and work on your buttons.” I share Rickey’s views, and offer them to you just in time to make maximum use of their wisdom. You see, Aquarius, you’re in a phase when you have extraordinary power to learn from and adjust to the challenges that come from having your buttons pushed by those you care about.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his song “Crazy,” British singer Seal repeats the following line numerous times for emphasis: “We’re never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.” I recommend it as a mantra for you to rely on in the coming days. Your emotional health will depend on your ability to laugh at yourself, play along with absurdity, and cultivate a grateful reverence for cosmic riddles. Being a little crazy will not only keep you robustly sane; it will also allow you to enjoy and capitalize on the divine comedy life presents you with. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 14, 75, 152, 244. 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 August 15, 2011 by appt only by calling 5417919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to August 18, 2011, 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 Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Monday, August 22, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: East Broadway — Residential Mini-Storage Conditional Use Request from Alex Duman for a Conditional Use approval for property located at the 1100 block of East Broadway (see Map N),

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Notice of PUBLIC HEARING MODIFYING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY AIRPORT INDUSTRIAL TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT TO INCLUDE CERTAIN PROPERTIES The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct Public Hearings on the above item on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 and Wednesday, August 31, 2011, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway in Missoula, Montana The County has adopted a Resolution of Intention to include certain properties within the boundaries of the existing Missoula County Airport Industrial Tax Increment Financing District. The reason for the boundary alteration is to include additional lands owned by the Missoula County Airport Authority and County land recently rezoned to Missoula Development Park Special Zoning Light Industrial District. The additional lands are shown in crosshatch within the bold line on the map. A copy of the Resolution of Intention, legal description and map of the property to be included in the District is on file at the County Special Projects Office. The boundaries of the Industrial District, as modified, are on file in the same office and are shown on the attached Map. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct Public Hearings on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 and Wednesday, August 31, 2011. All Missoula Board of County Commissioners meetings will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana.

INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, 59802-4297 until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of three building inspection vehicles.. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Building Inspection Vehicles., Closing, 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 16th, 2011”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 16th, 2011; Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 5526387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk

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zoned C2-4 (Community Commercial). The applicant requests a residential warehouse conditional use in order to construct a new mini-storage facility at this location. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and case file are available for public inspection at the Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street. Call 2584657 for further assistance. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

Your attendance and your comments are welcomed and encouraged. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us and/or the Special Projects Office located at 317 Woody Street, Missoula, Montana, Phone: (406) 2584763, Fax: (406) 258-3920. If any attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by call (406) 258-4763. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. By order of the Missoula Board of County Commissioners

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INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, and 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 598024297 until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one hybrid pickup truck. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for WWT Hybrid Pickup Truck., Closing, 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 16th, 2011”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 16th, 2011; Bidders may obtain further informa-

tion and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 5526387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk

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PUBLIC HEARING ON STREET MAINTENANCE DISTRICT #1 RESCHEDULED TO AUGUST 8, 2011 The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 8, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying a special assessment and tax on the lots, pieces and parcels of land situated within Street Maintenance District #1 of the City of Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of defraying the cost of flushing and removing street rubbish from streets and avenues in the district generally located downtown during the fiscal year 2012. The public hearing was originally scheduled for August 1st. Copies of the resolution are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk, at 5526078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO PURCHASE, INSTALL AND SETUP AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATING GPS TRACKING DEVICES AND PROVIDE REOCCURRING FLEET MANAGEMENT TRACKING AND REPORTING SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF MISSOULA Project PR11-7GPS1 The City of Missoula (City) is requesting proposals to provide and install AVL GPS equipment and reoccurring tracking and reporting services, City project No. PR 11-7GPS1. The project is partially funded by a grant from the AMERICAN REINVESTMENT AND RECOVERY ACT. The City will select one (1) Vender to provide all equipment, materials, labor and services for the project as outlined in this request. SCOPE OF PROJECT Questions concerning the bid should be directed to: City of Missoula Attn: Jack Stucky, Vehicle Maintenance Manager Missoula, Montana 59801 406.552.6387 stuckyj@missoula.ci.mt.us COMPLIANCE All equipment must meet and/or exceed all applicable federal and state consumer safety guidelines. Documentation of compliance must be provided to the City with the Vendors proposal. In accordance with MCA 49-3-207, Nondiscrimination Provision in All Public Contracts and the city of Missoula’s affirmative action plan, the Vendor will ensure that hiring is made on the basis of merit and qualifications and that there will be no discrimination in employment on the basis race, ancestry, color, handicap, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, creed, ex-offender status, physical condition, political belief, public assistance status or sexual preference except where these criteria are reasonable, bona fide occupational qualifications. The Vendor and any persons doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. The Vendor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to submitting a proposal on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for out-of-state Vendors.) All laborers and mechanics employed by Vendor in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The Vendor must provide an original Certificate of Product Liability Insurance with City named as certificate holder for a minimum of $1,500,000 coverage. PROPOSAL SUBMITTAL AND CONTENT Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 3:30 pm MST, Tuesday August 16, 2011 and must be addressed as follows: PARKS & RECREATION GPS Attn: Marty Rehbein, City Clerk City Clerk’s Office 435 Ryman St. Missoula, MT 59802-4297 PROPOSAL FORMAT Proposals shall be submitted in accordance with the requirements listed in the attached RFPAll proposal amounts shall be guaranteed for not less than Ninety (90) days after the proposal submittal deadline date. Workmen’s Compensation, Comprehensive and General Liability insurance certificates shall be provided by the successful Vendor. Successful Vender is required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements. No proposal may be withdrawn within a period of ninety (90) days after the bid opening date. Prices shall include delivery f.o.b., freight paid by the Vendor to the jobsite. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procurement and with MCA Ch. 18.4 Part 3 and relevant ARM. Accordingly, the City of Missoula reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate at the sole discretion of the City of Missoula. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, and V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and

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PUBLIC NOTICES handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Interested Vendors are encouraged to sign up for automatic notifications and updates on this and other City projects by visiting www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Click on the “Bid Notification” button in the upper right hand corner of the page to sign up. EVALUATION AND SELECTION PROCESS Proposals will be evaluated by a selection committee based on the following criteria: Criteria Points 1. Price Point per unit (inclusive of any quantity discounts) 0-20 2. Installation price per unit (inclusive of any quantity discounts) 0-20 3. Proposal addresses specifications, performance & Service guidelines 0-20 4. Quality, workmanship, lifespan and maintenance requirements of equipment. Warranty coverage. 015 5. Use of local labor and/or materials 010 6. Overall quality of firm history and references 0-15 Maximum Points: 100 Following the review and evaluation of all RFP submittals, a Selection Meeting will be held at 3 pm on Thursday, August 18, 2011, in the Parks & Recreation Conference Room at 600 Cregg Lane, Missoula MT, 59801. This meeting will be open to the public. The selection committee will present their ranking, selection and justification at the selection meeting. The selection meeting will result in the selection of one vendor. The award will be made to the qualified Vendor whose proposal is deemed most advantageous to the City, all factors considered. Unsuccessful Vendors will be notified in writing as soon as possible. This RFP will be made available to Vendors via the City website, www.ci.missoula.mt.us/ bids starting Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the RFP due date of 5:00 p.m. August 16, 2011. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Base Flood Elevation Determination for Unincorporated Areas of Missoula County, MT and Case No.: 11-08-0184P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on the proposed Base (1-percentannual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) shown in the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and/or on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for your community. These proposed BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence of having in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). For a detailed listing of the proposed BFEs and information on the statutory period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/ fhm/Scripts/bfe_main.asp, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP. INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received by Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC at the office of Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC, 2800 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801, until 2:00 p.m. local time on Friday, 12 August 2011, for the construction of the “Millsite Methane Abatement Project”, and will then be opened and publicly read in the conference room of Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The project consists of constructing a new roadway; excavating, hauling, and stockpiling soil, wood waste on-site and miscellaneous debris on-site; backfilling and grading construction areas with Owner-provided backfill; constructing a passive ventilation trench to intercept methane gas; installing an electrical lighting system; site revegetation; and associated work items at the Missoula Millsite Facility located in Missoula, Montana. Work also includes minor clearing and grubbing, removing and stockpiling clean fill, material segregation, stockpile management, site restoration, and all other work as required by the Specification and Drawings. At the Owner’s option, additional work may be added including wood waste hauling, construction of additional passive ventilation trenches, construction of passive vent wells, and installation of utility trench plugs. PROJECT FINANCING – The Project is funded by a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) subgrant from the City of Missoula (City). The City has received an RLF grant from the EPA under and pursuant to the “Brownfields Initiative”, which grant funds originate from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, and which is administered by the City as the “Missoula Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (ARRA)”. All applicable regulations for the City of Missoula and Montana Public Works projects shall be applicable, as indicated within the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The Project is located northwest of the intersection of Cregg Lane and Hickory Street, immediately south and west of PlayBall Park baseball stadium in Missoula, Montana. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 120 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the Notice to Proceed. OPENING OF

BIDS: Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the time and place stated above. OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: The contract documents consisting of Drawings and a Project Manual may be obtained at the following location: AMEC Geomatrix, Inc. 1001 S. Higgins Avenue Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 5420129 Copies of half-size set of Drawings and Contract Manual may be obtained upon paying a non-refundable fee of $50.00. Full-size drawings are not available for bidding. An additional charge of $10.00 will be applied for shipping and handling, if required. In addition, the project manual, drawings and specifications may also be examined at the Missoula Plans Exchange, (406) 549-5002 and iSqFt® website: http://www.isqft.com. BID SECURITY: Each Bid shall be accompanied by Bid Security made payable to Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC (Owner) in an amount of ten percent (10%) of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a Bid Bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the General Conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the Contract, secure payment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satisfactory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC against liability. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: CONTRACTOR and any of the CONTRACTOR’s subcontractors bidding or doing work on this project will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). No Bid shall be considered that does not carry the bidder’s Montana Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Ave., Helena, Montana 596048011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-406-444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by CONTRACTOR or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by Federal Law. The CONTRACTOR must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, age, marital or familial status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or because of their association with a person or group of people so identified. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Missoula Millsite Facility – Methane Abatement, opening Friday, 12 August 2011 at 2:00 pm” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the CONTRACTOR’s name, address, Montana Contractors Registration Number, and be addressed to: Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC 2800 South Reserve Street Missoula, MT 59801 No facsimile bids will be accepted. WAGE RATES: The CONTRACTOR shall not pay less than the latest Federal Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00810. Bidder is subject to 18-2401, et. Seq., Montana Code Annotated and amendments thereto and regulations issued there under, relating to prevailing wages, benefits, and other requirements. No claim for additional compensation will be allowed based upon a lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of any such requirements by Bidder or failure to include in bid adequate increases in such wages over the term of the Contract. MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are required to attend a MANDATORY pre-bid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the OWNER and ENGINEER at the parking lot of Ogren Park, Allegiance Field (“PlayBall Missoula” or “Osprey Stadium”), at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 4 August 2011. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the ENGINEER. It shall be understood that no interpretation of bid specifications will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The ENGINEER for this project is: AMEC Geomatrix, Inc.,1001 S. Higgins Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801, with questions addressed to Mr. Jon Pederson at (406) 542-0129. OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the OWNER. The low bid shall be determined on the basis of the lowest Basic

Bid, or lowest combination of Basic Bid and accepted Alternative Bids if alternatives are included. The OWNER may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the Alternative Bids. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is specified above. NOTICE TO PROCEED: Notice to proceed on construction of the passive ventilation trench(es) is contingent upon approval of the proposed Methane Abatement Plan by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing.

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FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS The Office of Planning and Grants has received the following applications for Floodplain Development Permits: 1. County Floodplain Permit Application #12-01. An application from MT Fish Wildlife & Parks to place a 240 square foot shed/office work within the Clark Fork River floodplain. The project is located at Beavertail Hill State Park in Section 11, Township 11N, Range 16W. 2. County Floodplain Permit Application #12-02. An application from the MPG Ranch to improve wetland habitat within the Bitterroot River floodplain in an area where artificial ponds were previously constructed. The project is located at 19400 Lower Woodchuck Rd in Section 19, Township 11N, Range 19W. The full applications are available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in these applications may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., August 26, 2011. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ENACT NEW AND REVISED LAND USE FEES FOR SERVICES RENDERED BY THE MISSOULA OFFICE OF PLANNING AND GRANTS AND AMEND MISSOULA COUNTY BUILDING AND ELECTRICAL PERMIT FEE SCHEDULE The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct public hearings on the above items at their regularly scheduled public meeting on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway in Missoula, Montana. The Missoula Office of Planning and Grants receives requests by individuals, businesses and government agencies for land-use related services. Section 8.05 of Missoula County Resolution 76-113 provides for the establishment of fees for permits and other zoning applications. MCA 76-3-602 provides for the establishment of fees for reviewing subdivisions. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners is authorized under MCA 50-60-102 to adopt and enforce building codes within their area of jurisdiction. The Building Code Division has the responsibility to adjust fees to maintain the current level of service. It is necessary to adjust fees for building permits and electrical permits to maintain those levels. Your attendance and your comments are welcomed and encouraged. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices on the second floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 7214043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. A copy of the Resolution to Enact New and Revised Land Use Fees is on file at the Office of Planning and Grants and on the OPG website. For more information on OPG Fees, contact Denise Alexander, Principal Planner, Office of Planning and Grants, at (406) 258-4796 or via e-mail at dalexand@ co.missoula.mt.us. A copy of the Resolution Amending Building and Electrical Permit Fees is on file at the County Public Works Department. For more information on fees and the Building Code Division, contact Greg Robertson, Director of Public Works, at (406) 258-4818 or via e-mail at groberts@co.missoula.mt.us or Jeff Seaton, Assistant Director of Public Works at (406) 258-4816, or via e-mail at jseaton@co.missoula.mt.us. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling (406) 258-4763. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. By Order of the Missoula Board of County Commissioners

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. Title 20 City Zoning Ordinance: Proposed Maintenance Amendments - 2011 This is a consideration of proposed annual

maintenance revisions to Title 20. Thirtyfive proposed corrections and clarifications are proposed and are located in various chapters throughout the ordinance. The proposed revisions can be viewed at the Office of Planning and Grants or on the web at www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb “News and Updates.” As directed by the Missoula City Council, the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants has drafted an annual maintenance review document for Title 20, Missoula City Zoning Ordinance, intended to clarify or correct language in various sections of the code. The proposed revisions were drafted after consideration of comments from interested parties, and agencies. The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on this item on a date yet to be determined. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-136 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ANN MARIE CARPENTER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives 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 Guy Crilly & Robin Abdullah, Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of July, 2011. /s/ Guy Crilly, Personal Representative /s/ Robin Abdullah, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-11-884 Dept. No. 3 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Jenna Michelle Garrett, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jenna Michelle Garrett to Genevieve Michelle Garrett. The hearing will be on August 18, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: July 7, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DR-11-381 Robert L. Deschamps, III Summons for Publication IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: Julie Lumsden, Petitioner and Michael Lumsden, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy upon the Petitioner within twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a :Dissolution of Marriage. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: None. DATED this 11th day of July, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Maria A. Cassidy, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 (Townsend) Cause No. DV-01688 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. MULLAN TRAIL HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, vs LANCE and SUSAN CANNING; and all Original Plaintiffs in Canning v. Theisen Suit; and DAVID THEISEN; and all Original Defendants in Canning v. Theisen Suit; and THEODORE WEBER; and All Other Homeowners in Mullan Trail Subdivision, Defendents. Dept. No. 4 (Townsend) Cause No. DV-00-253 CHARLES and ELIZABETH ANDERSON; DEAN and LEONA BJERKE; PAUL and BARBARA BLAKESLY; KENNETH and GAIL CLIZBE; REBECCA and TIM CREIGHTON; TIM and TERESA DRINVILLE; ROBERT and DEBBIE DUBE; LANCE and MELANIE DURFEE; ROCKY and SHARON HARRIS; JEFF and VANESSA HIMBER; PAULA HOMUTH; RICHARD and THERESA HORST; A.E. KOHL; WILLIAM and HELEN KROPP; GORDON and DONNA LAFOURNAISE; HOMER and IRENE LEFEVER; GREG and LAURA LUSTGRAAF; GRANT and KHANDA MACLAY; DAVID and JANET MARCK; MIKE MARCINKOWSKI and AMY MILLER; TROY MCLEAN; UN-CHONG MOENCH; JIM and PEGGY NESBITT;

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HAROLD, ALEX and HEDY POLAKOW; PATRICIA and TIMOTHY OLSON; TERRY and SANDRA PICKENS; LINDA and SAM REDFERN; ROBERT and KELLY ROBINSON; BILL SANDAU; MONA SANDBERG; DON SCOTT; AREK and PATRICIA SHENNAR; CLIFF and JUDY WALKER; BRUCE WALTERS; MARK and DENISE WARNKEN; RUSSELL and JENNIE WARD; CHARLES and ANNA WELLS; STEVEN WERNER; WILLIAM and DIANE YOUNG; JOHN and JANE DOES 1-100, Plaintiffs, vs DAVID THEISEN, individually and doing business as MULLAN TRAIL ENTERPRISES, INC. a Montana corporation; ROBERT EDWARDS, individually and doing business as EDWARDS LAND DEVELOPMENT, INC.; a Montana corporation; DRUYVESTEIN, JOHNSON & ANDERSON, INC., a Montana corporation; LAMBROS REALTY, a Montana corporation; COUNTY OF MISSOULA, a political subdivision of the State of Montana; CITY OF MISSOULA, a political subdivision of the State of Montana and JOHN and JANE DOES 1-40, Defendants.Dept. 4 (Townsend) Cause No. DV-00-255 VERN A. SANDBERG and MONA SANDBERG; KENT HAAB and MELISSA HAAB; JOHN and JANE DOES 1 through 50, Plaintiffs, vs DAVID THEISEN; MULLAN TRAIL ENTERPRISES, INC., a Montana corporation; DRUYVESTEIN, JOHNSON & ANDERSON, P.C., a Montana professional corporation; LAMBROS REALTY, INC.; a Montana corporation; COUNTY OF MISSOULA, a political subdivision of the State of Montana; CITY OF MISSOULA, a political subdivision of the State of Montana and JOHN and JANE DOES 1-30, Defendants. Before the Court is a motion of Defendants David Theisen and Mullan Trail Enterprises, Inc., seeking to approve a settlement of all claims in these three consolidated cases. These cases arise out of flooding which occurred in the Mullan Trail Subdivision on West Mullan Road, Missoula, Montana in the Spring of 1997. This motion seeks, among other things, Orders of this Court approving a settlement of all claims, and dismissing with prejudice all claims asserted by all plaintiffs, in these consolidated cases. If the requested Orders are granted, they will prevent any of the plaintiffs in this case from seeking any damages or other relief as a result of the flooding occurring in the Mullan Trail Subdivision in the Spring of 1997, except as otherwise specifically provided in the written settlement agreements submitted with the moving papers on said motion. The full details of this motion may be obtained by reviewing the moving papers at the office of the Clerk of this Court, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana or at the Missoula County website, www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb/Floodplain/Floodplain. htm. ALL PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE PROPERTIES INVOLVED IN THESE CASES OR OTHERWISE CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE CLAIMS WHICH ARE THE SUBJECT OF THESE PROCEEDINGS MAY APPEAR AT THE HEARING IDENTIFIED BELOW AND STATE THEIR OBJECTIONS TO THIS SETTLEMENT. Having considered said motion, and good cause appearing, the Court now orders as follows: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that a hearing on the foregoing motion to approve settlement is hereby set on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, commencing at 1:30 p.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all persons interested in these consolidated proceedings shall personally appear at said hearing, and then and there show cause, if any they have, as to why the Court should not enter its order granting said motion, and thereby approving this settlement and dismissing with prejudice all claims of all parties filed in these consolidated cases. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order to Show Cause shall be served by (1) deposit of this Order to Show Cause in the U.S. Mails, postage prepaid, addressed to the last known address of each party to these consolidated cases, and (2) publication of this Order to Show Cause in a newspaper of general circulation in Missoula County for three (3) consecutive weeks. lT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all interested persons shall file, and serve on the attorneys for all other parties, a written response to the foregoing motion to approve settlement no later than twenty (20) days after the last date of publication of this Order to Show Cause as provided above, and that the failure of an interested person to timely serve such a written response may result in the Court entering the default of that party, and awarding to the moving parties all relief requested in their motion. ENTERED this 7th day of July, 2011. /s/ Hon. Karen S. Townsend, Judge of the District Court

Missoula County. Date: 7/14/2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of Court

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Cause No. DV-11-912 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III. Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Natasha Elizabeth Jenkins, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Natasha Elizabeth Jenkins to Natasha Elizabeth Anthony. The hearing will be on August 30, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097, Bk. 788, Pg. 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Trustee will on SEPTEMBER 15, 2011, at the hour of 11:00 o’clock A.M., at the front doors of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, the following described property: A portion of Tract 2D of Certificate of Survey No. 5209, located in the SW1/4 of Section 12, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northerly most corner of said Tract 2D; thence S. 32°24’59” E., 334.67 feet; thence N. 86°28’40” W., 321.53 feet; thence N. 28°18’17” E., 298.45 feet to the point of beginning. Said property is subject to a Montana Trust Indenture recorded May 30, 2002, under Document No. 200215358, Book 682, Page 1654, records of Missoula County, Montana, from P. MICHAEL CROKER, as Grantor, to WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of COLIN F. JOHNSON, as Beneficiary. Christy L. Brandon is the Successor Trustee pursuant to an Appointment of Successor Trustee dated April 25, 2011, and duly recorded in the land records of Missoula County, Montana. Grantor’s default consists of failure to pay the obligation when due at its maturity date on May 29, 2008 and to comply with the terms of the abovedescribed Trust Indenture. The total sums owing on this obligation are $29,633.94 principal balance plus accruing interest at the rate of 15% per year ($12.18 per diem) totaling $2,142.53 as of April 1, 2011, and $350 other fees and costs. The Beneficiary may disburse amounts as may be required to preserve the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, they will be added to the obligation secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. 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. Beneficiary elects to declare all amounts under said Note and Trust Indenture to be immediately due and payable in consequence of the Grantor’s default. Beneficiary directs that Trustee sell the real property above described for the satisfaction of the obligation. This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed and will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances. The sale purchaser is entitled to possession of the property on the tenth day following the sale. The sale is subject to bankruptcy filing, payoff, reinstatement or any other circumstance that would affect the validity of the sale. If any such circumstance exists, the sale shall be void, the successful bidder’s funds returned and the trustee and current beneficiary shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damage. The Grantor or any person having a subordinate lien upon the subject property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the Beneficiary the entire amount then due under the trust indenture and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses 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 and thereby cure the default. This sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that unless you notify this office within 30 days after receiving this notice that you dispute the validity of this debt or any portion thereof, we will assume this debt is valid. On the other hand, if the debt or any portion thereof is disputed and you notify this office in writing within 30 days from receiving this notice, we will obtain verification of the debt and mail you a copy of such verification. You are also advised that upon your request in writing within 30 days after receiving this notice, we will provide you with the name and address of the original creditor, if different from the creditor referred to in this Notice. DATED this 29th day of April, 2011. /s/ Christy L. Brandon, Successor Trustee, P.O. Box 1544, Bigfork, MT 59911, (406) 8375445. THIS NOTICE IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, a platted subdivision in 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 04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 2, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $492,715.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $365,584.06, 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 12, 2011 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17612) 1002.99556-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/17/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200712792, Bk 797, Pg 1388, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Annie Waylett and Travis Lee, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for EquiFirst Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 9 of Hidden Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201100040, Bk 871, Pg 1255, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association as grantor trustee of the Protium Master Grantor Trust. 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 07/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 10, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $193,665.51. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $175,219.13, 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 24, 2011 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 8212.20042) 1002.182170-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/17/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200340403 Bk 720 Pg 867, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Frank Humphreys and Sheryl Humphreys, as joint tenants with right of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 of Mallard Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200900363, Bk 839, Pg 601, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 17, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $117,499.00. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $113,428.41, 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 27, 2011 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.94864) 1002.197674-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/14/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200429576, Bk 741, Pg 1164, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John T. Vein and Kimberly A. Vein, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13 of Traveler’s Rest Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, accord-

ing 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 08/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 17, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $272,118.57. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $254,306.08, 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 27, 2011 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.90174) 1002.180705-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 3, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 7 AND 8 IN BLOCK 5 OF WEST RIVERSIDE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. William D. Ailport, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to New Century Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 18, 2005 and recorded on February 22, 2005 in Bk 748, Page 480 under Document No. 200504234. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-2. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $725.19, beginning December 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 22, 2011 is $100,675.69 principal, interest at the rate of 7.10% now totaling $3,368.36, late charges in the amount of $181.25, and other fees and expenses advanced of $9.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.58 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed

without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 24, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM 38 2nd Ave East Dickinson, ND 58601 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 24, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 FMC V. Ailport 41722.165 August 4, 11 and 18, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 16, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT A A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA; MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE WESTMOST CORNER OF TRACT ‘A’, CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3391; THENCE N. 52°16’16” E., 148.97 FEET ALONG THE NORTHWESTERLY LINE OF SAID TRACT ‘A’; THENCE S. 52°11;30” E., 251.37 FEET ALONG THE NORTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID TRACT ‘A’; THENCE S. 47°05’55” W., 195.84 FEET ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID TRACT ‘A’; THENCE S. 55°16’44” W., 107.08 FEET; THENCE N. 41°02’25” W., 255.87 FEET; THENCE N. 52°16’16” E., 105.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SHOWN AS TRACT ‘A’ OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4110, RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA George J Zeller and Winnie M Zeller, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Nations Title Agency, Inc., MT, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 9, 2009 and Recorded April 27, 2009 in Book 838, Page 190. The beneficial interest is currently held by Financial Freedom Acquisition LLC. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 30, 2011, is 177,155.53 principal, interest at the rate of 0.0251% now totaling $9,097.21, Initial in the amount of $1,813.28, Total Periodic $1,798.29, Monthly servicing $700.00 and Servicing Advances $520.00 plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.15 per diem, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or

health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A D E B T . A N Y I N F O R M AT I O N OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 9, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 9, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Judy Johnson Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 04/04/2017 Financial Freedom Vs. Zeller 41742.280 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 23, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 3 OF MILLER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Erin O. Doherty, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 26, 2004 and recorded January 26, 2004 in Book 725, Page 1090 under Document No. 200402261. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., Successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $991.95, beginning February 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 14, 2011 is $133,954.66 principal, interest at the rate of 4.6250% now totaling $2,285.78, late charges in the amount of $118.14, escrow advances of $398.37, and other fees and expenses advanced of $20.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.97 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days

by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 16, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 16, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Judy Johnson Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 04/04/2017 Citimortgage V Doherty 42011.444 July 28, August 4 and 11, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 23, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 6 in Block 4 of REHDER HOMESITES, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Christopher K. Dunne and Melanie C. Dunne, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 4, 2004 and recorded on October 4, 2004 in Book 740, Page 1602. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,638.01, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 1, 2011 is $199,701.84 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0% now totaling $10,983.61, late charges in the amount of $519.60, escrow advances of $3,485.92, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,848.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.83 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 16, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 16, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Judy Johnson Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 04/04/2017 GMAC V Dunne 41965.335 July 28, August 4 and 11, 2011

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 23, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOTS 11 AND 12, BLOCK 3 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER Fesaitu F. Samuela and Makereta A. Samuela, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 21, 2007 and recorded on April 9, 2007 in Book 794, Page 1572 under Document No. 200708275. The beneficial interest is currently held by Interstate Intrinsic Value Fund A, LLC. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $485.94, beginning November 21, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 20, 2011 is $43,232.62 principal, interest at the rate of 10.89% now totaling $6,926.61, late charges in the amount of $413.10, and other fees and expenses advanced of $264.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $12.90 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 16, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 16, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Mls V Samuela 41997.006 July 28, August 4 and 11, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 26, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: Lot 4 in Block 1 of High Park Addition NO. 6, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Harold R. Slais, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real

property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 24, 2005 and recorded on June 27, 2005 in Book 754, Page 2089 under Document No. 200515784. The beneficial interest is currently held by E*Trade Bank. Jason J. Henderson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $800.29, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 15, 2011 is $154,223.48 principal, interest at the rate of 3.875% now totaling $6,000.80, late charges in the amount of $421.48, escrow advances of $3,687.12, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,165.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 17, 2011 /s/ Jason J. Henderson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM 38 2nd Ave East Dickinson, ND 58601 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 17, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Jason J. Henderson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Colonial Savings Vs. Slais 41870.060 July 28, August 4 and 11, 2011 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/07/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ARMEDA HOOVER AND GERALD HOOVER as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E. NOENNIG as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/05/2005 and recorded 04/06/2005, in document No. 200507784 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 750 at Page Number 417 in the office of the Clerk and

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PUBLIC NOTICES Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 1 AND 2 IN BLOCK 88 OF DALY’S ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2101 SOUTH 14TH STREET, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $131,949.74 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.001% per annum from 07/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/21/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0009283 FEI NO. 1006.128818 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/09/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SANDRA G ROSTAD, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/18/2003 and recorded 08/26/2003, in document No. 200331595 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 715 at Page Number 1344 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE WEST 15 FEET OF LOT 8 AND ALL OF LOTS 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 20 OF CAR LINE ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 2401 WEST KENT AVENUE, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, BY BAC GP, LLC. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY

BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $111,620.16 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.75% per annum from 03/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/24/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0053404 FEI NO. 1006.138873 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/02/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CLIFFORD KIMERLY, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP, AND MARIE ANN KIMERLY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to JOANNE M. BRIESE, ATTORNEYAT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/24/2003 and recorded 12/19/2003, in document No. 200347464 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 723 at Page Number 2085 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DISIGNATED AS TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5410, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 17155 LOLO CREEK RD, Lolo, MT 59847-8400. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-1. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $257,873.18 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 03/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late

charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/17/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110050846 FEI NO. 1006.138532 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/07/2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOSEPH J BECHTOLD, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/08/2007 and recorded 06/25/2007, in document No. 200716097 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 800 at Page Number 302 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3943, BEING LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, PRINCIPLE MERIDIDAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH ROAD AND UTILITY EASEMENT AS DELINEATED ON THE FACE OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3943. Property Address: 1343 THIBODEAU LN, Missoula, MT 59802-5791. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, BY BAC GP, LLC. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $404,201.20 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.50% per annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/22/2011, ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110052700 FEI NO. 1006.138714 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/10/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse,

200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JAMES L CENTIFANTO, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/10/2008 and recorded 04/16/2008, in document No. 200808362 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 817 at Page Number 0139 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: TRACT A-1A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2329, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 17 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A 60 FOOT WIDE ROAD EASEMENT AS DISCLOSED ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2329 AND CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1753. Property Address: 3950 ROCKY MOUNTAIN RD, Bonner, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, BY BAC GP, LLC. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $187,472.51 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.75% per annum from 04/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/28/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 P e r f o r m a n c e D r. T X 2 - 9 8 4 - 0 4 0 7 , Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110054045 FEI NO. 1006.139346 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/14/2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOE R. KRUGER AND CYBELLE L. GORDON, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/10/2006 and recorded 01/17/2006, in document No. 200601142 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 767 at Page Number 972 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 6 OF PETERSON ADDITION TO PILTZVILLE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 9530 CROSS STREET, Missoula, MT 59802. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently

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held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $130,029.34 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 04/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/29/2011 ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0054073 FEI NO. 1006.139135 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/15/2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MARK D BLOTKAMP, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/26/2005 and recorded 09/30/2005, in document No. 200525837 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 761 at Page Number 607 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 28 OF ROSSIGNOL ORCHARD TRACTS,

A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. APN# 3199506 Property Address: 5535 DOVE CT, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $132,096.57 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.50% per annum from 04/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/30/2011 ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110054602 FEI NO. 1006.139164 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/15/2011 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SCOTT KNIGHT, AND BILLIE ANNE KNIGHT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an

obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 07/12/2005, in document No. 200517167 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 1215 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ALSO SHOWN OF RECORD AS LOT 5 IN 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 109 WAPIKIYA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803-1230. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $153,245.73 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.75% per annum from 03/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/30/2011 ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110054601 FEI NO. 1006.139165

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Jessie looks like a youngster, but we estimate her to be five to seven years old. That means she has the spirit and stamina of a young dog and the wisdom of an older one. That's a hard combination to beat!

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MARCY

Marcy appears to be a Shepherd/Sharpei X, which is a mix we don't see often. She's quite a handsome dog, and we've discovered that she's had some pretty specific training. She'd love to show off her tricks for you!

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GABRIEL

If the dictionary people ever need an illustration for the word "happy," they can come take a picture of Gabriel. This big, hefty guy greets every day with a smile and is eager for whatever adventures it might bring. 2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd

FIONA

Fiona is quite petite and very shy. However, she loves to be petted and will purr loudly just as long as the petting lasts. She also has tremendous ear tufts, which we think make her just that much more attractive.

TUCKER

Tucker LOVES to play fetch! This sleek, 2 year old, male lab is a fantastic retriever! He is also housetrained and well mannered. Of course he loves the water and he will be a devoted companion. Through the end of July dog adoption fees are reduced to $50!

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JULIA

Julia is a lovely cat, with a round face framing big eyes and the softest coat imaginable. She's also been declawed, so this quiet beauty needs an indoor home to keep her safe and lots of love to keep her happy. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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GUNNER

Gunner is one of the dogs transferred from Flathead Animal Shelter due to overcrowding. Come shake paws with Gunner and see if he's the canine for you! At 8 years old he is also a candidate for our Seniors for Seniors adoption program.

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HOMES FOR SALE 114 Bentley Park Loop Charming newer home. Quiet street across from park. 3bed,2bath. Large eat-in kitchen, HUGE closets. Convenient central location. $209K. Alyssa Nolan, Fidelity Real Estate 396-1397 anolan@missoulahomes.com

BEAUTIFUL LOLO AREA CUSTOM HOME ON 1.65 ACRES. 5 Bdr/4 Bath, soaring cathedral ceilings, hand-peeled log, exposed beam, and stacked stone accents, gorgeous kitchen and master, amazing deck, and much, much more. $525,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit...

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Farm Houses w/land in Missoula, these funky farm houses boast lots of land to spread out and do your thing, Development potential. 231 & 211 Grove, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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Missoula • $158,900 MLS# 20111473 Pride of ownership with many updates in this townhouse end unit! Brand new carpet, newer paint throughout with very attractive colors, new bath and kitchen fixtures, upgraded light fixtures. Lower level features large living room, with pergo flooring through out. Single attached garage and small backyard. Go to www.1729ethel.com. For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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Three Bed 1.5 bath townhome in North Missoula CUTE & Clean just $149,000. MLS 20111197. Call Anne 5465816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Updated 2 bed 1-1/2 bath condo in Grant Creek Cottonwoods. MLS 20112674. 2721 Crystal Ct #3. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com

LAND FOR SALE Almost 1/2 acre building site with great views. Close to Ranch Club Golf course and fishing access. City sewer stubbed to the property line. NOW ONLY $69,900. MLS# 10007449. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Beautiful wooded 3.69 acres with 550 feet of Twin Creeks frontage. Easy access from Hwy 200 on well maintained county road. Modulars or manufactured homes on a permanent foundation are allowed. Seller will carry contract with $50,000 down at 7 % interest. PRICE REDUCED $194,900. MLS#10005586. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Great building site, with electricity right at the property line. 13.46 Acres with small stream on property. $157,000. MLS#20111016. 10882 Crystal Creek Road, Clinton. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Huge Price Reduction! Beautiful building site with a 40x72 Agricutural Building. 20.78 A c r e s . $ 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 . MLS#20111015. 10900 Crystal Creek Road, Clinton. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. INVESTORS/FARMERS: Quick cash sale 200 irrigated acres near Ronan, MT. Already divided into 7 parcels ranging from 20 to 40 acres. Priced at $2,500/acre, $500,000. Rod @ CFI 406-721-1444 LOG HOME AND 40 ACRES IN THE JUDITH MOUNTAINS Well maintained 4 bedroom, 2 bath log home. Live water, many improvements. $515,000. Online at www.divideroad.net (406)538-7246 MONTANA LAND SALE WINNETT (Missouri Breaks) Reg 410-Trophy Hunting. 20 Acres on sale $19,900. Town rd & utilities. 160 Acres-Roundup MT. Was $189,900 now $89,900. Borders BLM. All Properties-Big Discounts Now! This is your best opportunity to own MT land for investment, recreation or home! Call 888-361-3006 or visit www.westernskiesland.com Natural Housebuilders, Inc., *AFFORDABLE small homes* Additions/Remodels* ENERGY EFFICIENT crafted building* Solar Heating* 369-0940 or 642-6863* www.naturalhousebuilder.net SPECTACULAR HORSE PROPERTY ON THE BITTERROOT RIVER. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, 10.4 acres, cross-fenced, 4 stall cus-

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