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News
cover photo by Chris La Tray
Voices/Letters Custer and clean water ...........................................................................4 The Week in Review Maternity wards, electronic music and wildfires .........................6 Briefs Rock Creek, private access and a DUI app ...........................................................6 Etc. The legacy of the Legacy Ranch................................................................................7 News Study shows needs of trans community in Montana.............................................8 Opinion Rep. Ryan Zinke’s misguided attack on “anchor babies” ...............................10 Opinion Sorting through memories in an overstuffed gear shed ................................11 Feature The cleanup crew that handles messes nobody else wants to touch..............14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Q&A with author Zach Dundas on the culture of Sherlock Holmes.....................18 Music Steve Earle and the Dukes, The Delta Saints and Heartless Bastards ................19 Books Crime fiction to beat the “True Detective” blues...............................................20 Books Lee’s Watchman is proof writers should keep writing ......................................21 Film Rogue Nation stays true to its impossible roots ...................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 Flash in the Pan Wasted generation .............................................................................24 Happiest Hour MAM’s Drawing and Drinking class.....................................................26 8 Days a Week “The game is afoot.”.............................................................................27 Mountain High Snowbowl 15K Trail Race ...................................................................33 Agenda Total Feast.........................................................................................................34
Exclusives
Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12
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STREET TALK
by Mary Bradley and Bonnie Chan
Asked Monday, Aug. 3, on Higgins Avenue Q: What’s the biggest mess you’ve ever had to clean up? Follow-up: Let’s talk cleaning products. Name one you couldn’t live without.
Evan Serpa: A coffeemaker exploded in my living room. It was a pressurized one with steam, and I guess the bolts on the side rusted out and it exploded. It literally was like a bomb. It embedded in the drywall. Keepin’ it: Simple Green. It’s generally organic. You could drink it and won’t die, necessarily.
Trina Jellison: The biggest mess I’ve ever cleaned up was when somebody was trying to hemorrhage to death after delivering a baby. That was quite messy. I was a labor and delivery nurse. Suck it up: My vacuum cleaner. Don’t ask me to dust.
Adam Hickman: After the turtleneck party. It was a party where everyone wore turtlenecks and there were a lot of mixed drinks that were spilled in my apartment so the whole floor had to be cleaned. Lean machine: I think it’s called the Dyson Animal. It’s the smallest you can get, but it’s a pretty awesome machine.
Andi Hickman: Our 4-year-old’s Alice in Wonderland themed birthday party. It got out of control. There were crafts, props and a croquet course that had to be disassembled. Quick and dirty: I’m a big fan of bleach wipes. It’s just way too much work to take a spray bottle and separate wipe. I just want a one-size-fitsall product.
Seth Barnes-Smith: I once went to someone’s house and they were storing all their dirty dishes in their basement sink. I cleaned all of them, and there was mold and mildew and half-rotten food. It was for a relative and I am a sucker. The O.G.: I don’t have one that I use all the time, but hot water and soap.
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In Custer’s defense Western history is almost always a fitting subject for our regional newspapers to cover. The introduction provided by feature pieces can encourage further reading, exploration of historic sites and museum visitation. Sadly, the recent opinion piece by Todd Wilkinson on “Custer worship” (see “Last stand,” July 16) offers little except proof that writing about Yellowstone grizzlies does little to prepare one for examining complex 19th century historic personages. The author professes outrage that U.S. General George Armstrong Custer is “celebrated as a hero of conquest” and not castigated as a “bigoted, egotistical, narcissistic villain.” I regret that the author was apparently deprived of even the most basic historical education at the undergraduate level, in which most of us learn quickly that denizens of centuries past rarely fit our perfect silhouette of present-day enlightenment. But, not content to slap Custer around in a contemporary context, the author criticizes Custer’s academic performance, his “vainglorious,” “insubordination,” “insecur(ity),” “craving attention,” and “[getting] on the wrong side of President Ulysses Grant.” Never mind for the moment that the latter came from exposing corruption by Grant’s relatives in the War Department. The overall characterization fits much of the U.S. Army’s officer corps during the Civil War and Frontier eras. The age encouraged self-aggrandizement to extremity. The litany of grievance continues: Custer “pursued a book deal,” and elective office (he would fit right into the world of the current presidential race), “went AWOL” (true enough, but to see his wife, and frontier duty was harsh enough to drive Grant to alcoholism) and “violated treaties” (the 1874 Black Hills incursion, but that was a Grant administration decision, not Custer’s). Custer also “led a ruthless attack on a Cheyenne village, killing several woman and children” (an undeniable fact of frontier warfare. Native American warriors were to be found defending villages, and that is often where combat took place, unless one actually believes the “Fort Apache” playsets of a generation past provide an accurate recreation). Modern condemnations of Custer’s “hubris” at Little Big Horn often reflect an unjustified drawing of a curtain over the Civil War’s events and their ramifications upon the nation’s Western experience through the close of the 19th century. Custer’s “hubris” carried him victoriously through much of the 1861-1865 conflict and he repeatedly risked his life at the nation’s orders to wreak significant damage upon the Confederate Army. Risk-taking and headlong charges were tools of the cavalryman’s trade during the 1860s and ’70s. Timid ones did not last long in command or accomplish
much when transferred to the frontier. But for contemporary understanding, we might simply take Custer and his military generational cohort as they are. The federal officers of the mid-19th century grew up under the tutelage of fathers who could recall the U.S. before the Andrew Jackson era as a beleaguered entity, constantly under incursion and intimidation by foreign powers often in league with Native American allies. When confronted with potential destruction of the nation during the sectional crisis, they channeled their memories into unremitting hardness and determination. They applied such equally to Confederates, Native Americans, French intervention in Mexico and to battling the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. Their legacy was to be a reunified nation of secure borders in which only the federal government would hold a monopoly on military force, and one in which the power of slavery was forever destroyed. A significant
“Denizens of centuries past rarely fit our perfect silhouette of present-day enlightenment.” achievement and one we continue to reap benefits from today. This does not absolve us from seeking to provide a restorative justice to those groups for whom the 19th century proved traumatic and its intergenerational effects negative. Much of the Indian Country faces real and formidable problems, in the context of which the renaming of Little Big Horn Battlefield was a paltry and unsatisfying measure. In our own neighborhood, we might start by shaming opposition to joint Bison Range management and rectification of water rights through the new compact as revanchist and more appropriate to the worst representatives of period frontier settlement rather than 21st century modern Americans. But demonization of Custer and the 19th century military establishment is inappropriate and childish. For all their faults—and there were many—these men restored national unity and laid the basic foundation for the stillstruggling multiracial and democratic society we seek today. That the job was imperfect and often done in a manner we would find brutal are results hardly unique to their times, but one worthy of more than a few monuments and, yes, an accomplishment making us, as a whole, “better than Dixie.” Tate Jones Missoula
Stop fear mongering It is amazing to me the fear mongering that some folks play on the public. If you have a concern about a pending law or policy, then explain specifically what the concern is and how we can become educated and respond to the issue. This letter is in response to Deanna Robbins’ recent letter (see “Sprawling fed control,” July 16) about the upcoming Clean Water Act rule. Numerous court cases and requests have pressured the EPA to clarify the Clean Water Act and reduce its ambiguity. Since Robbins does not seem to have the time to actually read through the rule, and apparently likes polluted water, I have summarized some facts that address her fears. To start, the new rule does not protect any types of waters that have not historically been covered by the Clean Water Act. Prior to the rule, there has been a lot of confusion as to what defines a tributary. Through the analysis of 1,200 peer-reviewed publications and numerous court rulings, the new rule would now clarify a tributary as a water body having an active bed, bank and a high water mark. I think we might all call a tributary, which conveys water (and potentially pollution) through public and private land, within the scope of the Clean Water Act and a public concern. This does not include mud puddles! The rule preserves agricultural exemptions from permitting including: all normal farming activities, conservation practices, stormwater discharge, return flows from irrigation, stock ponds, irrigation ditches, drainage ditches and flooded fields. A permit will be needed, as in the past, if connected water is polluted or destroyed, which is why we have the law in the first place. It will now explicitly exclude artificial lakes, ponds, pits, water treatment systems and prior converted croplands from the Clean Water Act. According to the EPA, it actually does not add any new requirements for agriculture. It also “does not interfere with or change private property rights,” “change policy on irrigation or water transfers,” “address land use,” or include groundwater, shallow subsurface flow and tile drains. We need to stop bashing the EPA every time they propose updating rules and instead actually read the proposals and respond with specific concerns. As with most federal agencies, 99 percent of the employees of the EPA were not hired by Obama and were hired based on their qualifications. Should we condemn everyone in the Army, Navy and Marines because Obama is their commander in chief? Lastly, I think most of us appreciate that we live in a country that has laws protecting the clean water that we all depend on for survival, recreation and livelihood. Rep. Tom Woods, Democrat Bozeman
missoulanews.com • August 6–August 13, 2015 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Robin Carlton
Wednesday, July 29
St. Patrick Hospital unveils its new Family Maternity Center, marking the first time the facility has had a maternity ward since the 1970s.
Thursday, July 30 The National Wildlife Federation and other environmental groups host a rally on Higgins Avenue at the XXXXs to mark the impending release of the Clean Power Plan, which will require existing power plants to reduce emissions by one-third over the next 15 years.
Friday, July 31 The second annual DAT Music Conference kicks off at venues in downtown Missoula, with three days of conferences and workshops related to electronic and analog music. Unlike most other conferences, this one features dance parties late into the night with DJs like Kris Moon and Kafka.
Saturday, Aug. 1 An Indy staffer is delighted to find an unopened bag of potato chips on the bank of the Clark Fork before taking off on a twohour float. #blessed.
Sunday, Aug. 2 Wildfire smoke envelops western Montana, prompting officials to release air quality alerts throughout the region. The National Weather Service attributes the haze mostly to the Wolverine and Baldy fires in Washington.
Monday, Aug. 3 Democrats block a vote to defund Planned Parenthood in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Jon Tester joins other Democrats in affirming the necessity of Planned Parenthood, which recently came under fire from pro-life organizations after the release of videos edited to give the impression that the family planning provider sells aborted fetal tissue.
Tuesday, Aug. 4 Firefighters extinguish an early morning fire in a Northside apartment building on Turner Court. The flames were traced to a bathroom ceiling fan and had burned through the floor of an upstairs unit when fire crews arrived. No one was injured.
The Historic Dupuis Barn, built in 1915, sits in the Mission Valley as weekend smoke filters through the Mission Mountains.
Clearwater
Riverbed ownership murky The Clearwater River lives up to its name this time of year, with the rocks in its riverbed visible as it gently flows through the Seeley-Swan Valley. This land is public, but a private bridge proposed to cross it shows how the state’s control over its riverbeds has become muddled. John Dimar wants better access to his property on the west side of the river, just below Salmon Lake. For several years he has assembled plans to connect the Big Waters Ranch to Highway 83 so he need not rely on a miles-long gravel road, records indicate. The proposed access cuts through the corner of another subdivision of picturesque homes and cabins, known as River Watch, whose members have been fighting since at least 2012 to block the project. First the parties went to court over an easement leading to the river’s edge, which Dimar won. But the homeown-
ers think Dimar also should need permission to build over the Clearwater. “We have been told by the State that they own the bed of the river, and we believe Dimar is obligated to obtain some form of authorization,” they wrote in a letter to The Montana Department of Transportation in July. The state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation isn’t requiring Dimar to apply for an easement over the river it owns because the agency doesn’t have the authority, says Mike O’Herron, area manager for the southwestern land office. The state has long claimed ownership over all waterways in Montana that were navigable at the time of statehood, including the Clearwater, and has managed them as state trust land. However, in 2011 the Montana Legislature changed how the rivers are managed by redefining navigable waters as only those which have been decided in court. Since the Clearwater and nearly every other Montana river (including the Blackfoot and Clark Fork in Missoula County) still aren’t ad-
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judicated, DNRC can’t force builders to pay state easement fees or undergo the agency’s environmental assessment. “Enforcing that claim is an issue for us,” O’Herron says. DNRC doesn’t exactly broadcast this. In an initial letter to Dimar sent in April, the agency said he would “need” a DNRC easement for his bridge. And Missoula County believed it was required to purchase one for its proposed reconstruction of another bridge over the Clearwater, commissioner Jean Curtiss says. The state’s tone changed in a follow-up letter sent in May to Dimar’s attorney, Colleen Dowdall, in which O’Herron clarified that DNRC only suggests that he apply for an easement. Dowdall didn’t return a call for comment, but O’Herron says his office has not received an easement application from Dimar, even as MDT reviews the highway approach. River Watch Homeowner’s Association President Carl Knudsen says DNRC’s new tack seems to contradict the way it has managed the stretch of the Clear-
[news] water in the past, including when a floating dock he proposed was rejected for interfering with the river’s navigability and potentially disturbing a nearby bald eagle nest. Knudsen figures that if the state stands by as Dimar builds his bridge without an easement, it would set a bad precendent for the Clearwater and other state-owned rivers. Derek Brouwer
Rock Creek
Stabilizing the bank The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last month solicited public comment on a proposed bank stabilization project along a 486-foot stretch of Rock Creek some 2,500 feet upstream from its confluence with the Clark Fork. The proposal was submitted by landowner and conservationist Don King in an effort to address erosion and side channel issues hampering access to his property, and if approved would involve use of an increasingly popular method of bank stabilization known as bioengineering. King’s project has already been reviewed by a number of local and state agencies, and received the approval of the Missoula Conservation District in early June. The primary goal, King says, is to ensure Rock Creek maintains its current course under the existing road bridge. Starting about six years ago, a side channel became more active, at times making the road to his residence impassable and raising concerns that the river could change course completely. Not only would the project protect access to his property, King says, it would also keep Rock Creek from bypassing the U.S. Geological Survey water gauge immediately downstream of his bridge. Due to Rock Creek’s status as a bull trout fishery, the Corps is consulting with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine what effects the project would have on endangered fish or critical habitat. Corps Project Manager Nathan Green says many of the considerations for the endangered species are “baked into the project design.” “Overall, they’ve taken these minimization efforts to make this project as least impactful on the fish as possible,” Green says. The proposal calls for the temporary diversion of Rock Creek’s main channel into an abandoned side channel to facilitate construction. The western bank would then be built out and the mouth of the existing side channel reinforced, all using large woody debris,
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rootwads and brush layers containing willow clippings, pine boughs and dogwood. Similar bioengineering practices have been implemented elsewhere in the state including the upper Clark Fork, Silver Bow Creek and upstream portions of Rock Creek. Chris Brick, science director with the Clark Fork Coalition, calls it “the new trend.” “After five, 10 years, you can’t really tell it’s there,” she says. While the magnitude of the project did prompt the Clark Fork Coalition to keep a close eye on it, Brick says the nonprofit recognizes the need to protect infrastructure and knows of King as an avid angler and conservationist. King was among the Rock Creek residents who rallied together in 2006 to defeat a proposed subdivision at the river’s mouth—land that now belongs to Five Valleys Land Trust. Executive Director Grant Kier says King has been a staunch supporter of the land trust’s efforts, and believes that ethic is reflected in the approach he’s chosen to take with his proposal. “It’s Rock Creek,” King says. “My family spent a lot of time with a lot of others around here trying to fight that guy who was trying to build a housing development … Rock Creek is very special to everybody.” Alex Sakariassen
DUI
DueyDialer debuts An app newly available in Montana has been billed as a “lawyer in your pocket” for drivers pulled over for drunk driving. St. Louis-based Daniel Delgado is a co-founder of DueyDialer. He says that when pulled over, users can open the app and press a red button, which will send their contact information and a 30- minute recording of the incident via text and email to a participating attorney. Delgado says being pulled over and arrested can be a highly emotional time and recording the process keeps everybody honest. If users have been driving while intoxicated, officers can subpoena the information. But the app can also be
BY THE NUMBERS Number of DUI arrests made by the Montana Highway Patrol last weekend while patrolling the area around Rock Creek Lodge, which held the 33rd annual Testicle Festival. MHP Captain Jim Kitchin notes that there were no serious injuries or DUI fatalities related to the festival.
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used as evidence by a defense attorney if someone was wrongly arrested. “It makes sure that [the incident] is being recorded,” Delgado says. “It’s being captured, it’s being witnessed.” Since the official, launch in May, the app has attorneys providing counsel in all states except Alaska. Attorney Mark Flores of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall and McCarthy out of Salt Lake City is providing legal counsel in Montana, with other attorneys in the state being vetted by Delgado and his team. The app is free to download, but attorneys have to pay a monthly fee after the first six months of being listed on the app. Users still have to pay regular attorney fees. Public Information Officer Travis Welsh with the Missoula Police Department says officers have yet to see the app used in Missoula. Welsh says every citizen is entitled to legal counsel if arrested and says the app should not be used as a reason for someone to get behind the wheel intoxicated. “The only thing I would hate to see is if there are portions of the population that think that having this app is going to be like a ‘get out of jail free card’ or prevent the officer from performing his duty and making a lawful arrest,” Welsh says. Delgado acknowledges the app has received mixed reviews. Some confusion has stemmed from whether he and his team are advocating for drunk driving, which he says is not the case. He says the app’s creation was based on a need for legal representation and making the process as seamless as possible. “If you do run into a DUI situation–whether you are guilty or not–it’s really about preserving your rights and that preserving those rights is an automated process for you,” Delgado says. Mary Bradley
ETC. Last Friday, District Judge James Haynes in Hamilton brought an end to nearly a decade of contention in the Bitterroot Valley. What was once poised to be the largest subdivision in Ravalli County is now dead in the water, and members of the plaintiff group Bitterrooters for Planning are celebrating a long and hard-fought victory. Barring an appeal by Legacy Ranch’s developers or the county commission, it would appear the battle is finally over. Looking back, the Legacy Ranch debate has been a pretty ugly chapter for Ravalli County, pitting, at times, neighbor against neighbor. Critics of the subdivision leveled allegations of impropriety against commissioners relating to campaign contributions. Letters to the editor accused those same critics of being hysterical, chronic whiners spreading outright lies. The debate left many citizens feeling marginalized or ignored, even as county officials went on the defensive. By the time the commission granted Legacy Ranch preliminary plat approval in August 2013, Bitterrooters for Planning was already geared up for the next phase of the fight. Haynes’ ruling affirmed what so many feared—that the Ravalli County Commission failed to take a hard look at the potential impacts to public safety and the environment stemming from the 639-unit subdivision. Haynes also found the commission had violated the public’s right of participation by green-lighting the proposal before developing a complete traffic impact study. It’s the closest Haynes came to acknowledging a larger problem, one that fell outside the scope of his opinion and one that no reversal of subdivision approval could mend: the distrust this years-long battle has sown between a cadre of Bitterroot residents and the officials elected to serve them. Ravalli County Commission Chairman Jeff Burrows said this week he and his fellow commissioners were “surprised” by Haynes’ decision and that one of the aspects Haynes took issue with— the long-term phasing of subdivision projects—has actually been standard operating procedure in the county for years. He went on to predict the ruling will “probably change how we do business as far as subdivisions go.” But as the Bitterroot enters a new post-Legacy Ranch chapter, maybe that’s the wrong place to focus. Instead, maybe the commission should greet this legal opinion as a sign and begin looking at ways to change how it does business with its constituents.
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Outside the box Study shows needs of trans community in Montana by Kate Whittle
A new study funded by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is revealing insights into the needs of the local transgender community. The Assessment of the Health Needs of the Transgender Community in Montana is the first of its kind in the state. As part of the study, about 120 people took a comprehensive online survey this spring, answering questions about their personal history and health. Annie Sondag, a health and human performance professor at the University of Montana, conducted the study along with others in the UM Community Health Program. She also collaborated with the Missoula-based nonprofit Gender Expansion Program. It’s difficult to pin down the number of trans and gender-nonconforming Montanans, though there might be as many as 2,500–10,000, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality. Sondag says 120 survey responses isn’t as big a sample size as she hoped for, but the answers still provided a wealth of information. “The thing that came to light is that gender is not binary,” she says. “Thirty percent of respondents did not identify as either gender.’” A staggering 53 percent of survey respondents replied they had tried to kill themselves. That’s higher than the national rate of attempted suicide for transgender and gender-nonconforming people, which is 41 percent, according to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. Sondag says a factor that made a huge difference in mental well-being was social support—and surprisingly, support from coworkers and neighbors was statistically more significant in reducing risk of suicide than support from families or spouses. “I think that’s kind of important for people to recognize their support of their transgender or gender-nonconforming coworkers, and how they feel when they go home at night to their neighborhoods,” she says. “Do they feel safe, do they feel like people support them?” The major impetus for the study was to learn about STD rates since, nationwide, trans people are among the highest risk
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groups for HIV infection. Sondag says transgender Montanans seemed to buck that trend and weren’t especially high risk when it came to safe sex practices, HIV infection and general STD rates. None of the study results surprised Anita Green, a 24-year-old University of Montana graduate who participated in the survey. She’s also Missoula’s first openly transgender city
come involved in politics, and I want to inspire the transgender community to go do what they want to do with their life,” she says. “I don’t want somebody to feel that their transgender status is holding them back from what they want to accomplish in their life.” At UM, Sondag stresses that the transgender health assessment survey is still open and taking responses. She’s also plan-
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Anita Green is one of 120 respondents to a recent study of transgender Montanans. She’s also Missoula’s first openly transgender city council candidate, running in the upcoming Ward 2 primary.
council candidate, running against three other candidates in the nonpartisan primary for an open seat in Ward 2 on Sept. 15. “I’m glad that something is finally getting done on a local level,” Green says. “It says to me that we actually care about everyone in our community.” Green has faced her share of challenges, including a 2012 incident when a man was convicted for assaulting her after he realized she was biologically male. Her council campaign is focused on local issues she’s passionate about, such as affordable housing and services for intoxicated homeless people. She’s also hoping to be a role model for other young trans people. “I want to inspire trans people to be-
ning to show the report to health care providers around the state. “I feel like part of my job is to create visibility and awareness, to make it safe for transgender people to let themselves be known and feel comfortable,” she says. She points to the sudden emergence of prominent transgender people in pop culture, from TV shows like “Orange is the New Black” to celebrities like Caitlyn Jenner. “They say the thing that makes people less discriminatory towards gay people is if they know someone who’s gay,” Sondag says. “And I think the same thing is going to happen with people who are transgender, only I think it’s going to happen a lot faster.” kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Low-percentage play Commander Zinke’s misguided attack on “anchor babies” by Dan Brooks
Commander Ryan Zinke is a smart man. The U.S. Navy did not promote him to the rank of Follower Ryan Zinke. But in his first year as Montana’s sole delegate to the U.S. House, he needs friends. If Rep. Zinke wants to meaningfully influence Congress during his freshman term, he must become part of a coalition. I mention this because I am looking for charitable ways to understand the commander’s decision to co-sponsor HR 2484, colloquially known as the Stop Birth Tourism Act. Currently in committee, the bill would require women who apply for visas to the United States to submit medical proof that they are not pregnant. In demanding to search the vaginas of foreign businesswomen, Rep. Zinke joins co-sponsors Steve King of Iowa and Louie Gohmert of Texas. Both men are Tea Party favorites and both hold outspoken views on immigration. King famously claimed that for every child of immigrants who becomes a valedictorian, 100 more have “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” Addressing the House last year, Gohmert warned that an “unprecedented, organized, massive invasion of the United States is occurring along our southern border.” He suggested Texas deploy soldiers to stop it. That’s what a serious person might call pandering. The threat of “anchor babies”—children of foreign nationals who are born American citizens because their mothers came here to give birth—sits in the sweet spot between actual thing that happens and bigot’s myth. No one knows exactly how many “birth tourists” travel to the U.S. each year, which makes them a fine occasion for just sayin’ stuff. The Center for Immigration Studies— whose slogan is “low-immigration, proimmigrant”—claims as many as 36,000 foreign women traveled to the U.S. to give birth in 2012 before acknowledging that fewer than 8,000 women listed overseas addresses in their paperwork. Depending on whether you ask them or a state
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agency, birth tourism accounts for between 1 percent and 0.2 percent of babies born in the United States. Ask a Tea Party voter in Texas, though, and you will learn that anchor babies are a huge problem. You will also get corroborating evidence of Gohmert’s Mexican invasion and King’s theory that among kids whose parents speak with accents, drug mules outnumber valedictorians 100 to 1. These statements are factually inaccurate. They are widely believed because they are racist. The men who said them are demagogues.
“Zinke should take care that his new friends in Congress do not lead him away from the values he learned at home.”
I don’t believe Commander Zinke is the kind of person who follows demagogues. I suspect he is less interested in King’s and Gohmert’s ideas about immigration and more interested in the support they command. Populism is big business in the 114th Congress, and by throwing in with the firebrands of the Tea Party caucus, Zinke has apprenticed himself to influential senior colleagues. But I question his wisdom in choosing the Stop Birth Tourism Act to do it. Anchor babies are a hot issue in Texas and Iowa because those states have large and growing immigrant populations. (Those who doubt this claim about my home
state should remember Iowa’s massive agribusiness industry.) Like Texas and Iowa, Montana is rural and historically conservative. But unlike those states, we have few non-Canadian immigrants. I submit that the number of Montanans who get fired up about anchor babies is therefore lower than average, whereas the number who find it distasteful to make tourists submit to gynecological exams is about the same. Our representative has co-sponsored a bill that will alienate as many voters in Montana as it will in Texas and Iowa, but win the support of far fewer. It’s a low-percentage play. Commander Zinke needs to do some political calculus to effectively represent Montana’s interests in the House, but in this case he has calculated poorly. His support for HR 2484 is likely to put him in a national coalition at the expense of local support. In many ways, the Tea Party caucus seems like a natural fit for the freshman representative from Montana. Its emphasis on small government and rugged individualism resonates with the voters who put him in office. It champions rural values against urban corruption. And his war record is just the kind of patriotism the Tea Party loves. But Montanans—even very conservative Montanans—are not obsessed with immigration in the same way as their counterparts to the south. Zinke should take care that his new friends in Congress do not lead him away from the values he learned at home. In Montana, the Tea Party is more concerned with guns and taxes, and less concerned with what color babies get born in America. It’s okay if Commander Zinke uses the Tea Party for our benefit. That’s the kind of dirty work we sent him to Washington to do. He should be careful, though, not to become the conduit by which the Tea Party uses us. Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and the responsibility of command at combatblog.net.
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Shopping, eating, then more shopping Cyndia and Denise
Gently used Sorting through memories in an overstuffed gear shed by Mary Emerick
I could put it off no longer. The gear shed had long been an object of contention in my marriage. “You don’t use half this stuff,” my husband observed, more than once. “You need to go through it and make more room.” Defiantly, he rolled his fat-tired bike into the living room and left it there. He met my gaze. “Why is that bike in here? That bike is in here because there’s no room in the shed! Because the shed is full of your stuff!” I surrendered. “Okay, I’m going in,” I said, and steeled myself for the task ahead. For decades, I was a gypsy. Everything I owned fit in the back of a Chevette. A seasonal park ranger, I followed summer, ranging from Washington to Idaho to California, making a long loop through Florida and New Mexico, fighting fires and leading interpretive talks. More recently, I moved from Oregon to Alaska and back again, stripping down to the basics. I pared down everything—except for my outdoor gear. I kept it all because I suspected that it would be hard to let anything go. And I was right. This was like an archaeological dig: I was finding my way down through the layers of the person I used to be. Each item I added to the to-go pile felt like letting go of a memory. Here were the water-bottle packs from my pre-knee surgery days, when I could still run 26 miles in four hours and change. Sorting through them, I remembered my intrepid running partner, Ken, just outside of Sitka, Alaska, the two of us dodging salmon guts freshly dragged by brown bears onto a fish-hatchery road. I could hear us singing, “I’ve lost that lo-o-ving fee-ee-ling,” bellowing soulfully at the top of our lungs to scare away the bears. That Coleman backpacking stove, the first one I bought with my own money, was a behemoth by today’s standards. The up-
grade, the finicky MSR Whisperlite, had a bad habit of exploding in a ball of flame in the Idaho backcountry as a result of overpriming. I remembered nights at high lakes camped with long-gone companions encased in down jackets, the darkness giving us the courage to talk about our dreams. A dozen backpacks lay piled on a shelf. They reminded me of old boyfriends: The good-looking ones who were too good to be true, the ones who worked until the relationship became uncomfortable, the ones who turned out to be unexpectedly fragile. A few of them— the backpacks, not boyfriends—ended up getting chewed by marmots.
“This was like an archaeological dig: I was finding my way down through the layers of the person I used to be.” In one corner lurked the Xtra Tuf rubber boots and kayak paddle from my southeast Alaska days. In this landlocked, sun-drenched corner of northeast Oregon, would I ever need them again? Would I ever fix fence again with these leather gloves, feel the full-body shudder of a rock bar hitting immovable earth, or hold one end of a misery whip, slicing through a downed tree
that blocked a trail? I had once had the latest in firefighting gear: high-heeled logger boots that slid like butter onto my feet, a fancy lumbar pack that hung just right around my hips. Now that was old school. There was newer, better gear. By the end of the day, I had accumulated a large pile to bring to my town’s gear swap—sleeping bags I’d forgotten I owned, a kayak cart, tents that could house a small family. Piling everything in the truck, I felt both relief and sorrow. Why was it so hard to let the past go? I had a great life now, no longer subject to the whims of the weather, no longer beaten down by a $5-an-hour wage and the hefting of a heavy chainsaw in the freezing bitter rain. Those were the times it was easy to forget when reminiscing. The truth, I knew, was this: It’s hard getting older when you’re still in love with the outdoors. As much as you fight aging tooth-and-nail, as much as you work to keep up the pace, you will never be 20 again, scrambling fearlessly up a talus slope, knowing everything will turn out all right because it always has so far. But how many more years, months, days did I have? When would 20-mile days become 15, 10, five, zero? I knew I was luckier than others who had succumbed to random falls, lightning strikes, illness. It was unfair to complain. But I did. I wanted it all—the freedom to follow the seasons, plus the security of steady work, the sense of being footloose yet firmly anchored—a thousand more sunsets and mountains, and a life with no end in sight.
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Roland Sweet, who has provided In Other News for the Indy since 1995, died from heart failure in Mount Vernon, Va., on July 24, 2015. He was a private pilot, Washington Nationals fan and foster father to four elephants, and his weekly accounts of human folly ran in 16 U.S. and Canadian newspapers. In honor of his passing—and his 20-year presence in the Indy’s pages—we’ve compiled a collection of some of his quirkiest Montana-related clips.
NEGATIVE I.D. (FROM SEPTEMBER 16, 2004) – Montana residents can list “bald” as their hair color when applying for a driver’s license. “It’s a newer option, along with other hair colors, such as sandy,” said Patrick McJannet, manager of field operations for the state Motor Vehicle Division.
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE (FROM MARCH 31, 2005) – Two unnamed men from Montana reported to police in Denton, Texas, that two teenagers robbed them while they were passing through town. According to the Denton Record Chronicle, the victims said they were on their way to Baton Rouge, La., because they needed money and had read on the Internet that a medical school there would pay $100,000 for testicles. DRINKING-CLASS HEROES (FROM JULY 19, 2007) – Adam T. Lundgren, 42, was cited for drunk driving twice in the same day by the same police officer in Missoula, Mont., according to court records. Lundgren was jailed the following day when he showed up drunk for his arraignment.
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN (FROM DECEMBER 2, 2010) – Parole absconder Robert Lewis
these are the good old days.
Crose, 47, managed to evade California authorities for 12 years but then led them right to him when he complained on his Facebook page about the cold weather in the northern Montana town of Cut Bank. A fugitive task force in California notified Glacier County, Mont., sheriff’s Sgt. Tom Siefert, who arrested him. “He said he’d worked cutting up here, harvesting, for the last 10 years,” Siefert said. (The Billings Gazette)
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN (FROM JANUARY 20, 2011) – During a traffic stop in Great Falls, Mont., Jonothan Ray Gonsalez, who had three outstanding warrants for his arrest, told police his name was Timothy Michael Koop Jr. The officer learned that Timothy Michael Koop Jr. was also wanted and arrested Gonsalez. When he told authorities his real name, they added a charge of issuing a false report. (Great Falls Tribune)
SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES (FROM APRIL 28, 2011) – RadioShack and Dish Network partnered to offer free guns to first-time subscribers of satellite TV services in western Montana and southwest Idaho. “I might not even consider such a program if I were in Detroit city, but we have a different demographic out here,” said Steve Strand, owner of a RadioShack store in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, who came up with the guns-for-subscriptions offer. “All I can tell you is, grandma is packing a gun in Montana.” (Reuters)
WINNERS AND LOSERS (FROM JUNE 23, 2011) – When Robert Stayton claimed $10,000 for a winning scratch ticket, Montana State Lottery officials failed to check his background. He has two Flathead County arrest warrants on felony drug charges and owes $65,000 in child support in Washington and Idaho. Lottery officials explained they’re supposed to check child-support records of winners only in Montana and are “not statutorily required to check criminal backgrounds.” (Butte’s KTVM-TV) FALSE ALARM (FROM MAY 30, 2013) – After workers at an energy company in Great Falls, Mont., discarded several boxes of scratch-and-sniff cards used to teach customers to recognize the artificial smell added to natural gas to signal a leak, the garbage truck that picked them up compressed the load. “It was the same as if they had scratched them,” Energy West general manager Nick Bohr said after the resulting odor prompted numerous false alarms and building evacuations while the truck traveled through downtown streets. (Associated Press)
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WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED (FROM APRIL 23, 2015) – Aaron Anthony Doney, 19, an inmate at Montana's Cascade County Detention Center, was charged with possession of a deadly weapon after he reportedly sharpened a plastic spork. (Great Falls Tribune)
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t seemed like something from a television crime drama, a quirky side plot to distract the overly serious hero from the evening’s primary concern: A truck driver picks up a trailer full of 35,000 pounds of raw chicken, transports it a few hours down the highway, then decides to hold it for ransom. When the trucking company—Dixie River Freight of Nampa, Idaho, in this case—doesn’t cave to the rogue trucker’s demands, the driver simply abandons the frozen birds and absconds with the drivable part of the rig. This was no episode of “Justified,” though. The drama—what to do about a trailer full of melting cargo slowly oozing rotten chicken juice on the asphalt of the Flying J truck stop off I-90 at the Wye— played out sensationally around Missoula last September. But like the latest Internet meme, after a couple days of handwringing and media brouhaha, it seemed like the story, and the trailer full of chicken, just disappeared. Turns out, cleaning up the mess marked just another day at the office—or
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out of it, as generally happens—for the crew at West Central Environmental Consultants in Missoula. “That one was weird because it was such a big deal, media-wise, but it’s really just garbage,” says Jim Rolle, director and regional manager for WCEC’s Environmental Services Division. “I mean, it’s rotten chicken. There’s no environmental danger there.” In other words, the high-profile job wasn’t among the most challenging or critical cleanups for a business that specializes in taking care of other people’s messes. According to Rolle, 90 percent of WCEC’s work entails the investigation and remediation of “petroleum release sites,” a technical term for toxic leaks that occur either during transport or at a fixed facility. He and his colleagues offer everything from client consultation on how to secure these sites to suiting up and handling the dirty work themselves. “One day it’s rotten chickens, the next day you’re getting deposed on litigation,” Rolle says. “Most of our work is pretty unpredictable. The upside is it’s
pretty engaging to not always know what you’re going to do—the element of the unknown. But it’s not for everybody.”
NOVEMBER 2011 Rolle’s cellphone rang early on Saturday morning. A tanker truck pulling two pup trailers crashed on Highway 12 in Idaho near the Lochsa River, east of the Wilderness Gateway Campground. The tanker and one pup trailer were upright, but the second pup was on its side and breached, spilling gas into the dry ditch. It was one of WCEC’s clients and Rolle needed a crew out there right away. “Administratively,” Rolle says, “we want to have a contract before we roll. But for a lot of our clients we have standing spill contracts, and that goes for probably the top half-dozen national fuel distributors [doing business] in Montana.” In addition to WCEC, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, the Idaho Department of Transportation, the Idaho Highway Patrol, a regional hazmat
crew out of Lewiston and the Nez Perce tribe all responded to the accident. Having to travel all the way from Missoula, Rolle and his colleague, Nate Olson, were the last to arrive on the scene. “There was a big crack in the tank with gas leaking out,” Olson says, “and no one doing any kind of containment. In all honesty I don’t know if they have any options. Responders like firefighters are more about immediate public threats— which there really weren’t any—not longterm remediation costs.” Rolle and Olson quickly built a makeshift basin out of plastic to collect the gasoline, then pumped it into 55-gallon barrels they’d brought with them until the trucking company could get another tank to the site. Tanker trucks and trailers are compartmentalized for better safety, as well as to allow a single truck to transport multiple types of fuel. This particular trailer had two compartments, one carrying diesel and one carrying gasoline. Only the gasoline container was breached, though the diesel side also needed to be drilled open and recovered.
“Within 20 minutes we were offloading fuel so it wasn’t contaminating the ground,” Rolle says. A Nov. 14 report from KLEW-TV in Lewiston quoted Region II HazMat Response Team member Mike Schmidt as saying “Crews spent about six hours cleaning up the spill. They were able to save all 2,000 gallons of diesel and about half of the 17,000 gallons of gasoline.” A Missoulian story the same day reported “no evidence of any fuel reaching the water by the time Schmidt and the seven others left the scene to return to Lewiston at about 8 p.m. Saturday.” But those reports only covered part of the story. While the immediate threat— fuel pouring out of the tanker into the ditch—had been addressed, the trucking company was still responsible for the roughly 850 gallons of gasoline that wasn’t recovered and threatened to leak into the Lochsa. Rolle wanted to dig it out immediately. His logic was that if they didn’t act quickly, the product would mix with the groundwater and possibly find its way into the river. He suggested to his colleagues at the site that they should tear out the westbound lane of Highway 12 to avoid a remediation project that could extend for years. Doug Stahman, WCEC’s general manager and Rolle’s boss, started receiving phone calls by 6 the next morning. Rolle recalls hearing how those conversations went: Hey, you guys have some crazy guy in Montana who wants to tear out Highway 12. He needs to not do that. Rolle laughs about it now. “Then the Coast Guard is calling him (changes to the Clean Water Act have made the Coast Guard ultimately responsible for any gas and oil spills affecting surface water) and Doug is calling me saying, ‘What the hell are you doing over there?’” WCEC did not dig up Highway 12. Instead, the company was required to get a permit to dig out just the ditch line, a process that took two weeks. When they did break ground, Rolle found the gasoline had indeed migrated beyond the initial spill site. Four years later, it’s still an open project, as WCEC continues to monitor and sample the river for signs of the spill. Rolle expects the project to close this year.
“It’s always a chess match,” he says. “You show up and say what you most want to do. And then six people say no.”
NOVEMBER 2002 On a frigid morning in Wibaux, a small town close to the North Dakota border, Rolle worked on taking fuel samples at a gas station off Interstate 94. Due to heavy snowfall and the way the lot’s been plowed, the well was buried under a mound of snow that had since frozen into a solid block of ice. His best bet was to pick away at the mound with a shovel. As Rolle worked, his pickup truck sat in the lot. It wasn’t marked with the WCEC logo, but the license plate did have a “4T,” indicating it was from Missoula. Rolle didn’t think anything of it until he heard a noise from the service station. “This guy comes out of the place and just accosts me,” Rolle says. “I mean, he knew why I was there and what I was doing, but the combination of western Montana and ‘environment’ to that guy just set him off. He bursts out of that door and starts hollering, ‘You environmentalist liberal faggot!’” It’s not uncommon for people to get the wrong idea about what WCEC does and how it relates to “the environment.” Even in Missoula, residents are often confused about the company’s work. “I get [asked about it] all the time,” Rolle says with a laugh. “A couple times a week at least. They screw the name up too. People ask, ‘What is this WCEC Environmentalists thing? What do you guys even do?’” Olson has had similar prickly encounters, although not quite as confrontational. “Mostly people on-site expect us to act more like regulators, like we are the EPA or something,” Olson says. “They don’t realize that we are a private company hired by their bosses to do a specific task. Once we explain that, and why it’s important, things usually go smoothly.” WCEC started about 25 years ago when Jim Van Alstine, a geology professor at the University of Minnesota-Morris, teamed up with three other men. “We were a banker, an attorney, a businessman and me,” says Van Alstine, now the company’s vice president and senior consultant. “We incorporated in the winter of 1989 and officially went into business in the spring of 1990.”
photo by Chris La Tray
photo courtesy of West Central Environmental Consultants
TOP: Jim Rolle, left, and Nate Olson flush an alcohol and water mix through contaminated groundwater as part of a 2008 gas spill remediation project in Polson. CENTER: A damaged load of leaking industrial batteries necessitates a clean-up of hazardous, highly toxic fluids. BOTTOM: West Central Environmental Consultants prepares to clean up a load of plastic cheese bags from this trailer overturned in the St. Regis River. photo courtesy of WCEC
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The Morris, Minn., operation flourished, in part because it happened to be in the right line of work at the perfect time. Underground storage tanks, or USTs, refer to any single or combination of tanks containing regulated substances, like petroleum, and their connecting pipes. They were largely unmonitored and without regulation until the 1980s, when it became clear that USTs were responsible for huge brownfields that often led to Superfund sites. Many of these tanks, scattered widely across the country beneath sites like service stations and military installations, were corroding and leaking underground. As a result, soil and groundwater was being contaminated with petroleum and gas vapor was seeping into buildings from below. The EPA, as required by the 1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, worked to prevent more damage by developing regulations for the industry. In fall 1988, the agency published new regulations for USTs that included a 10year phase-in period for compliance. Basically, anyone who owned USTs had 10 years to locate and inspect, then remove or upgrade, their systems with leak detection and spill prevention equipment. Enter WCEC. “The businessman in our group was in the underground storage tank business,” Van Alstine says. “Both building them and removing them.” In addition to knowing USTs, the company added its own consulting division to assist clients with proper cleanup
protocol. By 1994, the Missoula office opened to help meet demand in the western part of the country. Rolle, who holds a biology degree from the University of Montana, joined the company in 2000. He describes the Missoula crew as small and versatile, able to respond to fieldwork and consult with clients. But he’s quick to explain that, as a company, they aren’t environmentalists. Whatever their personal opinions may be, they work to protect their clients in an often complicated and changing regulatory climate. “As consultants,” Rolle says, “we’re working for the industry side, that’s our client. Our job is to help them comply with the environmental laws that apply to their situation.”
or that, sure,” Rolle says. “But that’s when, in our role as consultants, we have to say they do, because the consequences of not reporting it are way worse than the consequences of reporting it. When we go get a sample, if we don’t like what it says, we can’t say, ‘Oh, we don’t like this result, let’s get a different one.’ As a company, that’s just not how we operate.”
JUNE 2015 Rolle, Olson and another colleague, Myles Morris, set up along the roadside just beyond Mile Marker 5 on Highway 35 on the east side of Flathead Lake. The highway was temporarily reduced to a single lane as the trio built a small dam out of or-
“dense, non-aqueous phase liquid,” or DNAPL. In this case, gasoline has gotten into the groundwater. Chemicals—a mix of alcohol and water—are “flushed” into a system of wells positioned to sweep the area and extract the gasoline so it can either be disposed of or treated on-site. “This is a one-time deal,” Rolle says. “It took a serious amount of permitting. It’s not something you get to do every day. This is the first one we’ve done as a company, and very few are ever done on private sites.” On April 2, 2008, a tanker driver came around this corner of the highway and felt his trailer get pulled into the ditch, where it turned over and the rock face opened it up like a can opener. More than 6,000 gal-
“The upside is it’s pretty engaging to not always know what you’re going to do—the element of the unknown. But it’s not for everybody.” Rolle says that while he’s sure it still happens in some industries, his clients know the days of covering up and hiding things are over. Messes are expensive to clean up, and the risks are too great not to comply with regulations. It makes more business sense to invest in prevention on the front end. And if something does go wrong—which it inevitably will—transparency is key. “There have been times when a client has asked if we really have to report this
ange plastic in the ditch bordering the northbound lane. At the base of the steep hillside, they pumped water smelling vaguely of alcohol into the shallow ditch. Meanwhile, Andy Knapp and Sarah Kuhn, also with WCEC, huddled in a large shed full of machinery at the base of the hill next to a collection of lakeside homes. Knapp and Kuhn monitored the results of what was being pumped into the ground above. The process is called “co-solvent flushing,” a removal technology used for
photo courtesy of WCEC
Deployment of absorbent pads on the water surface stops the spread of oil and facilitates clean-up.
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lons of gasoline leaked into the surrounding area. Five homes were evacuated, a couple for more than a year. “I got a call from one of our clients, the Lake County Commissioners, the morning it happened,” Rolle says. “They wanted to know if we were going to be working on it, but at that point we hadn’t gotten a call from anyone.” While they weren’t the first consultants hired to attack the problem, WCEC eventually got asked to step in. Next thing
he knew, Rolle was speaking in front of a town hall-type meeting in Polson attended by lawyers, various regulatory agencies and concerned homeowners—as well as the previous consultants. As projects go, this one was huge— multiple regulatory agencies involved, private residences impacted and all of it playing out on a prime piece of real estate. It was made clear in the meeting there would be no half measures. “Basically,” Rolle says, “the EPA said this: ‘You will not let gasoline or gasolineimpacted groundwater reach Flathead Lake. Go.’” Once fuel goes into the ground, that soil is never chemically the same. WCEC was tasked with implementing three immediate phases. First, collect any recoverable gasoline still in the ground. While this process was already underway by the first consultants, WCEC needed to finish the job. Second, they needed to address the gasoline that had dissolved into the groundwater and the vapor that was being produced from impacted soil, especially as it related to the basements of the five nearby homeowners. Third, WCEC entered the “adsorbed phase,” meaning the soil heavily impacted with gasoline. This was the stuff Rolle and his crew were still going after, seven years later, with the co-solvent flushing. To see the site now you’d never know such a huge undertaking had occurred or is essentially still underway. Each house has been fitted with a system that prevents vapors from impacted underground soil from intruding into the living spaces and the yards of the five homes are restored. The hillside is no longer dug up, and if
photo by Chris La Tray
Gas spills like the one in 2008 have spurred lakeside residents to try and get tankers like this one banned from use on Highway 35 bordering Flathead Lake.
you didn’t know the purpose of the big metal shed at the end of the road you could easily assume it’s someone’s shop or garage. Underground is a different story. WCEC is basically dewatering roughly 500 feet of the mountainside. All the water coming off the hill from springs and seeps is collected into pipes and drained into basins, maintaining a water level a couple feet below the natural water table. That water is pumped to tanks in the shed, treated, then released back into the ground via a discharge point near the lake. These basins are constantly sampled and monitored, and will be for years to come because there is still quite a bit of contamination at the site. “It’s a real eye-opener,” Rolle says. “I remember the first site I ever worked on, like my first week, I started pulling water out of this well and it smelled like a gas can. I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe this water smelled like gas. At the source in Polson it’s still like that. The whole point of the system is to capture that stuff.”
SEPTEMBER 2014 For all the attention, the disposal of the truck full of rotting chicken was relatively straightforward. It wasn’t a roadside mess, so there weren’t any traffic control
photo by Chris La Tray
“Working with a small, familiar crew, where you know what everyone’s experience and abilities are, makes getting the job done much more efficient,” Nate Olson says.
requirements or multiple overlapping regulatory agencies. The Missoula CityCounty Health Department took the lead as the regulator agency, as the solution pertained to getting rid of food that is damaged and not appropriate for human consumption. At that point it was mostly
a matter of just coordinating all the necessary paperwork with the rotten chickens’ final resting place—the landfill. Nate Olson took the initial call from a third-party spill response company working on behalf of Dixie River Freight asking WCEC to take care of the mess.
“They were a little taken aback with all the media attention,” Olson says. “But as a policy, WCEC does not discuss sites with the media without prior approval from the client. By the time we were involved, I don’t think our name was even mentioned.”
Olson says the scene inside the trailer didn’t turn out as dire as expected. The insulated refrigerator trailer had remained relatively cool due to the volume of frozen food inside. Most of the chicken, individually packaged and sealed in boxes, had thawed, but some of it was still frozen. The majority of the product also appeared to be preprocessed chicken strips and nuggets, with raw chicken making up only a small portion of the load. “There’s really not that much there,” Alisha Johnson with the health department told The Associated Press. “Some of the pictures make it look like a river running out of the trailer, but it was really just a few drips every few minutes.” At the landfill, a type of hydraulic excavator called a gradall pulled the pallets of chicken off the truck while Olson and Andy Knapp looked on. Landfill personnel buried it with cover dirt immediately after the unloading was complete. A YouTube video apparently shot from Waterworks Hill appears to show the undramatic conclusion to the saga, with the trailer and attending equipment barely recognizable in the distance. Before long, the mess was gone with hardly any trace—just as WCEC hoped. editor@missoulanews.com
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Elementary, my dear Author Zach Dundas on the culture of Sherlock Holmes and his new book, The Great Detective by Chris La Tray
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hen 11-year-old Zach Dundas stumbled across a dusty collection of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories at an elementary school library in Missoula, he was, in his own words, essentially “never seen again.” The century-old tales of the detective and his sidekick, Dr. John Watson, captivated Dundas and left him obsessed. By the time he was a teenager, for example, he was running his own international fan club by mail. As he got older, Dundas grew away from Holmes and Watson, but eventually found his way back to the stories with renewed interest and a burning question: What is it about these guys that makes them so eternally popular? In his new book, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Dundas travels to England, attends gatherings of Holmes fanatics and trawls the Internet in an effort to understand why this Victorian detective has had such a lasting influence on pop culture and its fans. I’ve never been a Doyle/Holmes guy, but I know what it was like to grow up a dreamy book nerd. I loved Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian. In the spirit of literary obsessions, I caught up with Dundas now, an executive editor at Portland Monthly, to talk about fan culture and the inimitable voice of Doyle.
around in age from story to story. Did Doyle write his Holmes stories in any order? ZD: No, not even close. One of the original Sherlockian games is to try and put the stories in some kind of chronological order of Holmes’ life, and it is virtually impossible. Are you a fan of Doyle’s other books and stories? ZD: Well, his body of work is huge, some of it great, some not so great. He wrote thousands and thousands of words and published almost all of them. His Napoleonic stories with Brigadier Gerard are subtly hilarious and a lot of fun, but his big historic novels are, I find, almost unreadable. Doyle wrote the defining Sherlock Holmes stories over a couple of months at top speed, without any care for continuity or logical consistency. I think of it like a band, someone like The Who, who wrote, like, 10 of the top rock songs ever in a period of
about 18 months early in their career, then never reached those heights again. The stories feature Watson as the narrator. In the book you write, “The Watsonian narrative voice defies reproduction. I sympathize. I’ve tried it myself. The results, so far, have been carefully destroyed.” Care to expand on your efforts to write a Holmes-esque story? ZD: Most dedicated fans take a shot to reproduce the Watson voice. The challenge is that [Doyle] is a very solid writer. There is this kind of inherent magic he pulls where he makes you feel there is more to his writing—you feel this kind of magic, menace or intrigue—that when you break it down isn’t actually there. He has these memorable characters that will pop in very briefly, then you never hear from them again, and it makes you wonder about them. When trying to capture that, I think people tend to flesh out and overdo things that Doyle just let kind of be.
What’s the weirdest Holmes-related spin-off thing you’ve encountered? ZD: That’s a tough question. Something from the fan art world. The whole fan fiction/art culture is where things get weird, with lots of stuff with Sherlock and Watson as lovers and things like that. But it’s probably Tunalock. Tunalock? ZD: Yeah. This thing on the Internet, which is Sherlock Holmes as a tuna fish. That’s probably the weirdest. Zach Dundas reads from The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes at Shakespeare & Co. Wed., Aug. 12, at 7 PM. arts@missoulanews.com
How bitter are you toward kids these days now that geek/nerd culture is essentially mainstream culture, versus how it was viewed in our day? Zach Dundas: I guess I’ve made my peace with it. [Laughs] I don’t know that it’s the same choice between geeking out or being into sports or anything else these days. I have an 8-year-old kid now who is this kind of weird jock-nerd hybrid. I don’t have any bitterness. In the book you refer to hardcore Holmes fans as “Sherlockians” as opposed to people who got into Holmes when the movies starring Robert Downey Jr. came out. Is there a split or animosity between fans of Arthur Conan Doyle, inclusive of his other work, and people who just get into Sherlock Holmes? ZD: I think you can be a fan of Holmes without knowing Doyle, but to “know” Sherlock Holmes you need to go to the source, which are the original stories. In the book I used the chronological order of the publication of the original stories as windows to find insight into the “character as phenomenon” thing with Holmes. I know with Conan the Barbarian, Howard’s stories weren’t written in any particular order. In the first story he’s this middle-aged king, and he jumps
Growing up in Missoula, Zach Dundas was an avid fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. Years later, he has turned that obsession into a book called The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes.
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Roots man Steve Earle continues his reign on Terraplane Over the last three decades, Steve Earle has fearlessly and competently branded himself as roots music’s Everyman. From his 1986 Grammy-winning country album Guitar Town to the bluegrass album The Mountain, recorded with the Del McCoury Band, Earle has proven there’s little in the Americana spectrum he can’t convey with authority. On his 16th studio album, Terraplane, he takes yet another turn and channels his Texas blues influences for a swampy romp that’s more Crossroads than Copperhead Road. Terraplane has everything a blues record should have: plenty of booze, sex and midnight meetings with Ol’ Scratch. Earle ladles on plenty of appropriate rasp over these tracks, and at his grungiest, like with
the rattletrap stomper “Baby Baby Baby (Baby),” his voice sounds like a drawknife tearing through tree bark. His storytelling is in top form, particularly on the spooky spoken-blues tale “The Tennessee Kid.” The Dukes transition between electric and acoustic tunes with ease and conviction, whether with wailing blues harp or fingerpicked guitar runs, and resident Dutchess Eleanor Whitmore’s vocal duet with Earle on “Baby’s Just As Mean As Me” is a playfully charming addition. Few artists can pull off such scope in their discography with this much authenticity. (Jed Nussbaum) Steve Earle and the Dukes play the Top Hat Tue., Aug. 11, along with The Mastersons. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$30 advance at tophatlounge.com.
The Delta Saints, Bones It’s always impressive and somehow comforting when a band is capable of instrumental dynamics to an extent where the music has emotional heft that equals the sentiment of the lyrics. On their second full-length studio album, Bones, Tennessee-based The Delta Saints measure their attack as needed, from the agitated funk of “Heavy Hammer” to the damaged soul of “Butte La Rose.” Helping deliver this controlled violence is Ben Ringel, with a voice that serves the song, not the singer. His creaky, bluesy wail lets you see the cracks with just enough vulnerability on “Into the Morning,” while piano and harmonic gui-
tar parts weave together, building a tiny symphony in just over three minutes. On “Sometimes I Worry,” he belts it fullthroated while the Dobro trades slippery licks with snarling, fuzzed-out guitars. The Delta Saints are a focused band that seem to be discovering their own personality on this release, using the guitar-and-drums rock band template to craft their own sound. In today’s fragmented climate of rock music, that’s a hell of an achievement. (Ednor Therriault) The Delta Saints play The Real Lounge Mon., Aug. 10. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $10.
Heartless Bastards, Restless Ones Heartless Bastards founder Erika Wennerstrom can write a hell of a song, and her distinctive voice is a tremendous asset to their sound. The Bastards’ new release, Restless Ones, is also the first time the same lineup has appeared on consecutive records, and it shows. Could be it’s just the earned familiarity that comes with playing together over copious shows on several long tours, but this sounds like a band now more than just Wennerstrom and some studio cats. Still. While “Hi-Line,” a track featured in the 2013 film adaptation of James Welch’s novel Winter in the Blood, is as good a song as anything Wennerstrom has ever written, and “Black Cloud” continues
that jaunty pop/rock/Americana-ish vibe the band does so well, I’m not sure where I am with this record yet. Their previous offering, 2012’s Arrow, was my hands-down favorite album that year, so Restless Ones has quite a bit to live up to. I do know I haven’t yet come to favorable terms with opener “Wind Up Bird,” but then the sixth track, “Pocket Full of Thirst,” owns me. I also really like “Into the Light,” which features some fine guitar work by Mark Nathan. Of course it’s an excellent record. Heartless Bastards are a fantastic band. Even if it isn’t my favorite record of the year it will still be in the top 10 or so. (Chris La Tray)
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Every week for the past two months some buddies and I have gathered to watch the latest episode of the second season of “True Detective.” Unlike the gripping first season, we’re mostly watching this one to gape at what confusing plot twist and overwrought monologue the actors will have to cough up next. Case in point: when Vince Vaughn’s gangster character hoarsely emotes that his disappointment at losing a business deal was “like blue balls in your heart.” Most unforgivable is that this season of “True Detective” also lost sight of the point of a detective story, which is to have a suspenseful mystery at its core. The muddled plotline turns backward on itself so much that I’ll be surprised if it’s resolved by the season finale on Aug. 9. If you’re looking for an intriguing detective story to keep you engaged this summer, I’d recommend shutting off the TV and reading a book. As luck would have it, there’s a ton of excellent new crime fiction out there that’s as dark and edgy as “True Detective” Season 2 has tried to be. Here are a few recent favorites. Girl on A Train by Paula Hawkins Three troubled women’s lives intersect in author Paula Hawkins’ acclaimed novel. Until nearly the very end of the story, the reader can’t be sure just who was really responsible for the disappearance of a young British woman who’d been cheating on her husband. A movie version is in preproduction, and there’s gossip that Emily Blunt will star as Rachel, the alcoholic, down-on-her-luck protagonist. Only We Know by Karen Perry On a hot summer day in 1982, three children on holiday play a game that ends with deadly consequences. Thirty years later, three adults are inextricably linked by what happened that day. The international tale takes place in locales such as Nairobi, Dublin and Kenya. This is the second novel from Karen Perry, which is actually the nom de plume of Irish couple Paul Perry and Karen Gillece.
Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths History and romance intertwine with a thrilling gothic mystery that begins when a WWII-era American plane containing the remains of a pilot is found in contemporary Norfolk, England. Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to figure out who the longdead pilot was while also escaping various close calls and tangling with her love interest, a foxy professor named Frank. The Whites by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt This list would be remiss without a hard-boiled police drama. The Whites begins with NYPD detective Billy working on St. Patrick’s Day, the “worst of the year” for the night watch. “St. Patrick’s was the ugliest, the violence the most spontaneous and low-tech,” he muses. The story unfolds from there in brief, efficient prose, with a murder in Penn Station connecting Billy back to an unsolved crime from his past and eventually leading to events that threaten his family. The Martini Shot by George Pelecanos George Pelecanos, who’s known for his crime fiction as well as his work as a screenwriter on “The Wire,” presents a new collection of shorts and a novella. Like all his work, it draws on realistic details—even the title refers to Hollywood slang for the day’s final shot before the cast and crew start drinking. Seamy underbellies are the order of the day here, with gangsters, police informants, working families struggling to survive and, in the title novella, the backstage of a TV cop show where not all is as it seems. If only Pelecanos could’ve lent “True Detective” his expertise. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Harper Lee’s lesson Watchman is proof writers should keep writing by Gaaby Patterson
You should know right away that I am one of through a 22-year-old TA whose, like, lectures are, those people. You know, the ones who confused At- like, peppered with, like, superfluous likes.) As I ticus Finch with some kind of deity. And I mean that slogged my way through Go Set A Watchman, this in the most literal sense. When I was at the end of skill was very helpful. I was able to dismiss all those myself—22 years old and lugging around some kind glaring and sometimes painful WTF?s to find what was of skin-peeling, life-stealing darkness that would not good and useful. I could look upon this little mess of leave me—Atticus Finch saved my life. I can’t care a book with great love and compassion, even though how cheesy it sounds, because it’s the truth. I needed one part of my brain was screaming, “NO! That’s not something to believe in and he was it: the only man what happened!” or “I don’t have to know every I ever trusted. Atticus represented all things good and thought that runs through Scout’s head” or “Wait, she’s straight?!” I could let go kind and honorable. It was of the judgements those something tangible and it other reviews covered. If helped. there’s one thing I know, it’s So when I heard of the that people are often stupid impending publication of when it comes to discriminatHarper Lee’s Go Set A Watching taste in literature. You man, I reacted as you might know who else is on The New expect. I was thrilled to get York Times best-seller list more of my beloved Finches. right now? E.L. James. Then I caught the faintest In 1960 Lee slid through whiff of early reviews. I didn’t the wormhole that is Perfect seek them out, but ran past Timing. She wrote not only enough scathing headlines an iconic American novel, but while scrolling through Facean inspired, transformative book to get the gist: the manwork. Until now, I think I’ve uscript had been found in a been under the impression it safety deposit box, it was writhad been easy. ten before Lee’s famous first As Uncle Jack says in novel To Kill A Mockingbird— Watchman, “Human birth is a first draft of sorts—but the most unpleasant. It’s messy, story took place after, and Go Set A Watchman it’s extremely painful, somethere was some question Harper Lee times it’s a risky thing. It is alabout the amount of responhardcover, Deckle Edge ways bloody. So it is with sibility the 89-year-old author 288 pages, $28 civilization.” And, I would had in the decision to publish. submit, with writing books. Oh, right. And Atticus was acBirthing a novel requires an inordinate amount of tually a racist. Still, it’s not every day you get to lay hands on perseverance. In the face of shitty first drafts, heartthe “first draft” of a bestselling, award-winning, life- break, criticism, rejection and crushing waves of low changing novel. My fear of its content and of poten- self-esteem and doubt, writers keep writing. It’s tortial trespass weren’t big enough to keep me from turous and no one would do it unless they had to. With Go Set A Watchman, Lee confirms she’s just buying it. Surprisingly, it was not my unnatural attachment like the rest of us. “Here’s proof,” she might as well to the former Atticus that led me through Go Set A have said, “I have to fight through pages of garbage Watchman. It was my life as a writer. So I offer you to find the real story, too. Don’t listen to the voices not a review detailing Lee’s shocking first-round ren- in your head saying you don’t know what you’re dering of my former god or the rough-draftiness of it doing and you should go get a job in retail.” Yes, the all or the controversy surrounding its publication and writing seemed unsure of itself and it wasn’t the book the supposition regarding the author’s state of mind. we wanted it to be. Yet it is precisely the road that led That’s been done. Instead, a look at this strange cir- her to her masterpiece. Atticus Finch isn’t the only one to become cumstance through the eyes of the late-blooming human with the publication of Go Set A Watchman. writer. If there’s one skill I’ve honed being a 40-year-old So has the iconic Harper Lee. college junior, it’s the ability to remain teachable regardless of the teacher. (Sometimes the lesson comes arts@missoulanews.com
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Thrilling enough Rogue Nation stays true to its impossible roots by Molly Laich
Not-so-easy rider.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation begins with our hero, Ethan Hunt, as he chases down an airplane during takeoff. He leaps onto the vessel and then clings to the wing for several uninterrupted minutes while he waits for his friends on the ground to hack into the plane’s computer system so he can get inside and somehow retrieve the stolen war missiles. An aging but still limber Tom Cruise continues his role as Hunt in the fifth installment of the MI franchise, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. If you can stomach every unbelievable conceit that comes standard in a spy/thriller/action picture, then Rogue Nation is a pretty good time. The film assembles the team from 2011’s MI: Ghost Protocol. Jeremy Renner is William, head of the secret government organization they’re all a part of called the IMF. Simon Pegg plays a fellow field agent named Benji and Ving Rhames is Luther, an IMF computer hacker who uses a laptop and communicates via Bluetooth. Even though the airplane stunt is highly successful, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, played by Alec Baldwin, is annoyed by the IMF anyway and campaigns to have the program disbanded. That leaves Ethan, without a country and actively wanted by the CIA, out in the field to pursue the evil shadow organization known as “The Syndicate.” There’s another rogue agent out on the field named Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), who Ethan meets while he’s strung up shirtless and about to be tortured for government secrets by a mean Russian man they call “The Bone Doctor.” It looks to be a gnarly torture—I don’t even think this guy’s a real doctor. We’re 20 minutes into this movie, so who believes anything bad could happen to Ethan so soon anyway? He suffers a few gut shots that would incapacitate a normal man and then he and Ilsa proceed to disarm
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and probably kill just about everyone in the room before Ethan makes his great escape. Who Ilsa is and what side she’s playing for is a yarn poised to unravel. The stunts these guys pull are elaborate and crazy. Everything has to be meticulously plotted out in advance and requires superhuman athletic ability. Not a single thing can go wrong. I understand that for some people, that’s part of the fun, but my prevailing feelings are incredulity and concern. For this installment, the major impossible mission sends Ethan into a big spinning tank of water where he’s tasked with replacing a security chip in under three minutes, lest Benji be discovered and captured. “Well, that doesn’t sound impossible at all!” says the guy who doesn’t have to perform any frightening underwater feats. The long, elaborate motorcycle chase that follows had me very concerned about the drivers’ safety: The ones we’re not supposed to care about kept tumbling off their bikes at top speeds with PG-13 style violence—and then the girl gets away with the USB file anyway. Somebody get a colorful lanyard for that thing so it stops getting lost or stolen! To be clear, I think action movies, in general, are dumb and, worse, incomprehensible, but this one held my interest with mostly compelling characters and a plot that manages to stay equal parts simple and convoluted. Best of all is the score, which incorporates that recognizable hook throughout but in restrained, retro and inventive ways. When it finally gives the big crescendo at the end and the heroes come out on top, I have to admit that I was moderately thrilled. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] beefy, ripped boxer in Southpaw. Guy must have one hell of a personal trainer. Screening at the Carmike 12.
OPENING THIS WEEK CADDYSHACK If you play a round of golf and no one quotes Caddyshack in the first 15 minutes, get the hell out of that foursome. Murray Me continues with Bill’s iconic performance in the greatest sports movie of all time. Hey, everybody, we’re all gonna get...popcorn! Rated R, screening at the Roxy, Wed., Aug. 12, 8 PM.
STRATFORD FESTIVAL: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Is that an asp in your pocket, or are you just glad to be a co-ruler of Rome? Marc Antony isn’t supposed to fool around with Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. What would the Mesopotamians think? But he succumbs to Cleopatra’s irresistible charms, and that’s all she wrote. Screening at the Roxy, Tue., Aug. 11, 7:30 PM.
FANTASTIC FOUR A scant 10 years after the last remake of the Fantastic Four, a fresh set of actors star in this origin story of the Marvel comics superheroes. Rated PG13, screening at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. THE GIFT Jason Bateman stars in this thriller about a married couple who is terrorized by someone from the husband’s past. This is why you should pay off those student loans. Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12. IRRATIONAL MAN Woody Allen’s latest stars Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone in a dark thriller. Phoenix plays a philosophy professor whose downward path takes an unexpected turn. Rated R, screening at the Roxy, Fri., Aug. 7–Thu., Aug. 13, 6 PM and 8 PM. MR. HOLMES As in Sherlock, not John. Sir Ian McKellen plays the iconic detective who looks back on his amazing life while he tries to solve a case. Rated PG-13, screening at the Roxy Fri., Aug. 7–Thu., Aug. 13, 5:15 PM and 7:30 PM, matinee Sun., Aug. 16, 3 PM. Also at the Pharaohplex. RICKI AND THE FLASH With big names on both sides of the camera, this movie has to be good, right? Yeah, tell that to Aloha. Meryl Streep plays a veteran rocker who returns to her family to make up for lost time. Rated PG-13, playing at the Carmike 12. SHAUN THE SHEEP Aardman Animations produced this spinoff from their Wallace and Gromit universe. When Shaun takes a day off and hits the Big City, he gets in trouble with the Man, aka the Farmer. Rated PG. Screening at the Carmike 12.
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH The First World War from a woman’s point of view, Testament of Youth is based on Vera Brittain’s memoir. From youthful hopes to despair and back again, it’s a gripping journey. Screening at the Roxy, through Thu., Aug 6, 5 PM and 7:30 PM. So that’s what happens when you put a light bulb in the microwave. Fantastic Four is showing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
NOW PLAYING ANT-MAN Paul Rudd is great as Ant-Man, but it’s Michael Peña who steals the show. Ant-Man teams up with his mentor to plan a heist that will save the world. Rated PG-13, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, and Mountain Cinema 4. INSIDE OUT When young Riley moves with her family to San Francisco, her emotions, given life by Bill Hader, Amy Poehler and other comic heavy hitters, are thrown into turmoil. Up director Pete Docter knocks it out of the park, showing once again that Dreamworks will always be the Steven Tyler to Pixar’s Mick Jagger. Carmike, Pharaohplex.
tage industry. Now they finally get their own feature. After eons of failure serving under historical villains, they hook up with Scarlett Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock) in a plot to swipe Queen Elizabeth’s crown. Rated PG. Screening at the Carmike, Pharaohplex and Showboat. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION Sure, Tom Cruise hangs on the side of an airborne plane, but he’ll never top that tighty-whitey floor slide in Risky Business. Ethan and the IMF battle the Syndicate. Stunts abound. Rated PG-13, showing at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. PAPER TOWNS A trio of straight-laced high school dudes hit the road to find a missing mystery girl. Rated PG-13. Screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.
TRAINWRECK Amy Schumer teams up with Bill Hader in the story of a commitment-phobic career woman who considers settling down with a stable dude. Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. VACATION Is there such a thing as movie karaoke? A grownup Rusty Griswold follows in his father’s footsteps by taking his family on a road trip to Wally World in a last ditch effort to patch up things with his wife and kids. Rated R, showing at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET From the director of Amélie comes this breathtaking spectacle. A 10-year-old cartographer splits from his Montana family’s ranch to ride the rails to the Smithsonian for an award. Screening at the Roxy, through Thu., Aug. 6, 5:30 PM and 8 PM. Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault.
JURASSIC WORLD Chris Pratt, a revelation in Guardians of the Galaxy, stars as the scrappy, charming misfit who faces a full-on dinosaur revolt when the theme park’s GMO dolphin-lizard thingy pops its cork. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
PIXELS Adam Sandler’s id continues to spill onto the big screen with this latest vehicle, co-starring Kevin James. When aliens misread a message sent into space, they turn our classic arcade games against us in a CGI spectacle. Rated PG-13. Screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
MINIONS The babbling, begoggled, Twinkie-shaped sidekicks from Despicable Me have spawned their own cot-
SOUTHPAW Jake Gyllenhaal returns from his role as the 150lb. psycho videographer in Nightcrawler to play a
Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 5417469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Wasted generation by Ari LeVaux Ron Clark is no stranger to food waste. After more than 20 years of working to supply fresh produce to California’s food banks, he knows every point along the route from farm to table where produce leaves the human food chain to be plowed under, composted, fed to animals or buried in a landfill. Most of this food is healthy and delicious and is discarded for cosmetic reasons. By the time he left the food bank system, Clark says he was filling 60-80 truckloads a week with food he recovered from farmers and packers, bringing 125 million pounds of produce to hungry food bank clients. Today he looks on in awe at a new wave of innovators looking to tackle the problem of food waste. In 2014, one of France’s largest food retailers, Intermarche, began selling “inglorious” produce at a discount. Store traffic increased 24 percent. In mid-July, Jordan Figueiredo of EndFoodWaste.org initiated a petition calling on Wal-Mart and Whole Foods to follow Intermarche’s lead. Most of the newer efforts to end food waste are just as mission-driven as a food bank or EndFoodWaste.org but are sustained by sales of recovered produce, and the products made from it, rather than from grants and donations. They are also run by kids. “It really is a millennial movement,” Clark says. “It’s refreshing to see a whole generation of people so passionate and excited about this issue. They aren’t
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interested in old organizations, which tend to be hierarchical and structured, like corporations. The energy in the new generation doesn’t mix with that culture. They’re going after the food waste issue in different ways, and for slightly different reasons. The millennials certainly care deeply about hunger, but are primarily concerned with saving the planet.” Wasted food is responsible for about 45 trillion gallons of wasted water, according to Evan Lutz, the 22-year-old CEO of Hungry Harvest in Baltimore. Hungry Harvest recovers surplus produce from farms and wholesalers and sells it in CSA-style boxes at a steep discount. For each box sold, a healthy meal is donated to someone in need. Lutz sees his work as inevitable, given the profoundly unsustainable situation. “Our society can’t sustain itself when 6 billion pounds of produce is wasted annually while 51 million Americans are food-insecure,” he says. Despite being mission-driven, Lutz has no reservations about turning a profit on his work. “We are for-profit so we can scale in a sustainable way,” he says. A year into the project, Hungry Harvest is comfortably afloat. It recently secured some investments that “exceeded our expectations,” Lutz says. On the other coast, a Bay Area startup called Revive Foods began making jam out of recovered produce about a year ago. Co-founder Zoe Wong came
is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh
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from a nonprofit background where, she says, “I felt frustrated constantly having to rely on donations in the nonprofit world and wanted to have the ability to be financially sustainable so I could get stuff done.” The business was going well, but she and cofounder Kay Feker weren’t satisfied. “We realized that remaining a consumer product food business was going to be tough to scale from an impact perspective,” Wong says. So they changed focus and started selling recovered produce to food businesses. She says doing so will allow them to divert “so much more produce from going to waste streams.” In their new model, recovered produce will be sorted and stabilized (read: frozen) for sale to food businesses like caterers, juicers and restaurants. She says one unnamed “major baby food company” is interested in perhaps “building out a dedicated product line made from our recovered produce.” Wong and Feker share space with another Oaklandbased startup called Imperfect, which aims to create the first national brand of cosmetically challenged produce. A major step in that direction commenced last month
when 10 outlets of the Sacramento-based supermarket chain Raley’s began selling “ugly” produce at a discount. If it goes well, they hope to expand the program to all 127 Raley’s stores, according to Imperfect cofounder and CEO Ben Simon. Ultimately, they want their Imperfect produce in every store, nationwide. Simon had co-founded Hungry Harvest with Lutz before moving west to pursue his national vision. And like Hungry Harvest, Imperfect also operates a CSA-style box delivery service, delivering throughout the Bay Area. One of the first steps Simon took in creating Imperfect was to bring in Ron Clark, the former food bank supplier. “Imperfect is a great combination,” Clark says. “A group of bright, ambitious, energetic millennials, and the old guy here who is well-connected to the supply side.” While these startups are riding a wave of success, Wong of Revive says there’s still a ways to go. “We will only feel successful if ‘surplus food’ is no longer a term because we’ve reached that level of efficiency,” she says. “Given how much is being wasted out there, I don’t think we will hit that point any time soon.”
coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $
The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $
Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$
Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 97:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef
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Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) • 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Missoula Farmer’s Market N. Higgins by the XXX’s missoulafarmersmarket.com Find us on Facebook Seasonal, Homegrown and Homemade! Fresh local vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, eggs, honey, baked goods and coffee provided by over 100 vendors. Saturdays 8am-12:30pm. “Music at the Market” performers on Saturdays 9am-noon. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$
Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon– Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$
Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and
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MAM’s Drawing and Drinking class HAPPIEST HOUR What it is: A Missoula Art Museum class in which you draw a scene in the park while enjoying a glass of wine. Because nothing goes better with al fresco drawing than al fresco drinking. What you’re drinking: Wine and beer provided by MAM. If you’re picky about beverage selection, you’re also welcome to bring your own. What you’re drawing: Whatever the instructor tells you to draw. Just kidding. You’ll get guidance in selecting a subject and planning the composition, but then it’s all up to you. Sketch a tree, a single leaf, even a squirrel if you’re quick on the draw. A clothed model will also be present for those interested in figure drawing. MAM will provide a range of drawing materials to work with including pencils, paper and paints. You’re welcome to bring your own art materials as well. Who you’re drawing and drinking with: Instructor Bayla Laks, a freelance artist and teacher who works primarily in watercolors. Laks says she plans to lead a lighthearted class welcoming all skill levels from professional artist to total novice. “The fun of the class is the experience and environment, and
Bitterroot Beanery Multiple Locations Find us on Facebook Serving organic, free trade coffees, iced mochas & lattes, fruit smoothies, milkshakes & shaved ice drinks. Check out our menu on Facebook. Open daily 6:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. South Hamilton • 363-4160, North Hamilton • 363-2519, Woodside • 381-4196, Victor • 3814407, Corvallis • 274-4074. $ Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton 363-7468 bitterrootbrewing.com Bitter Root Brewing is open 7 days a week serving delicious microbrews and tasty hand-crafted food. Live music EVERY Thursday and Saturday from 6-8:30pm. Check out our website or find us on Facebook for upcoming events, menus, and other information. Cheers! $-$$ Bouilla 111 S. 3rd Hamilton 406-361-0223 Serving breakfast and lunch. From scratch modern American cuisine served in the beautiful Bit-
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it’s a great way for local artists to meet each other,” she says. How to join the fun: The class is Aug. 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. Fee is $30, or $27 for MAM members. All materials—and alcohol—are included. To register, go to missoulaartmuseum.org. —Bonnie Chan Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
terroot Valley. Check out our menu on Facebook. Open Monday - Saturday. $-$$ The Hamilton - A Public House 104 Main St., Victor 642-6644 Enjoy traditional pub fare in a warm, comfortable atmosphere. Serving a variety of appetizers, soups and salads and pub favorites of English Style Fish & Chips to Calamari & Chips to a Grand Tattie. Open at 11a.m. Monday-Friday and 4:00p.m. on Saturday. $-$$ Taste of Paris 109 N 4th St., Hamilton (406) 369-5875 tasteofparis.info FRENCH BISTRO and Crêperie offering authentic, yet affordable French homecooked specialties. French Wines. Gourmet Gifts. The outdoor patio, open in summer, adds a lot to the Parisian experience. Open TuesSat 9am– 8pm. $-$$
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August 6–August 13, 2015 PM through mid-September. Aug. 6: Salsa Loca, Aug. 13: Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts. Free to hang out. Learn about the emotional and physical support offered by doulas at the Meet the Doulas reception at the Nursing Nook, 734 Kensington Ave., every first Thursday of the month from 5:30-7:30 PM through August. Refreshments provided. John Floridis coaxes all kinds of aural pulchritude from his guitar at Lolo Peak Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. VonCommon Studios is a space where massive amounts of creativity happen, from visual art to band performance. Check out the ongoing projects tonight at their Open Studio, 1909 Wyoming St., #7, 6–9 PM. For more info, call 360-7452.
Learn how, join in at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 5–8 PM. Free.
Wartime Blues are busier than a one-legged man in an asskicking contest this summer, but they’re making time to entertain the brew crew at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free.
Downtown ToNight celebrates a w h o p p i n g 15 y e a r s o f food, music, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, every Thursday from 5:30-8:30
Erin and the Project have their own genre, Soulternative, and they’re going to lay it on you at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM, free.
Looks like we picked Door Number One. Hillstomp play the Badlander in the Park show along with Von Stomper and Dodgy Mountain Men at Caras Park, Fri., Aug. 7, 5–10 PM. Admission is free.
THURSDAYAUG06 Folky trio Wooden Sleepers come straight outta Portlandia for an evening of whimsy at Stage 112, with Missoula’s Gerygone & Twig. 9 PM. $3. 18plus. Check out stage112.com.
Wake and make with a hit of creativity at Art Start, a morning DIY series with projects laid out for you and your child ages 2 and up to work on. Meets at the ZACC the first Thursday of every month from 11 AM-1 PM. $6/$5 for members. Visit zootownarts.org/artstart.
nightlife To honor the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center invites the community to join them in folding 70,000 origami peace cranes.
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[calendar] It takes two to tango, but it only takes one to really screw things up. The music of Neil Sedaka is featured in Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do, performed by the Port Polson Players. Curtain at 8 PM. 32 Golf Course Drive, Boetcher Park on Hwy 93, Polson. $18/$17 seniors and students. Find more info at portpolsonplayers.com Come celebrate the bison-tennial with Donna the Buffalo and their excellent rootsy folk-rock at the Top Hat. $17/$15 adv. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. 18 and over. Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, drink specials aplenty and attractive local singles in your area. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. No cover. Small town girls, city boys and anyone else can share the night on and on and on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore, at the Badlander on Thursdays, with opening guests SharkWe3k. No cover, plus $1 wells from 9 PM to midnight. Experience a rare, indoor viewing of the Northern Lights. You can even dance to them at the Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, no cover. Michigan power-pop-punkers The Plurals are the musical majority at the VFW, along with Cali noisecore band Sissy Spacek and local duderinos Jake Osborne, FUULS and Deep Downers. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. 18-plus. Cover TBA. $2 PBR drink special. Wisenheimers will be cracking wise at John Howard’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform; things usually start around 10. Free.
FRIDAYAUG07 It ain’t real country unless there’s a pedal steel. No bro country allowed when the Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club. 9:30 PM, no cover. Art aficionados and downtown revelers alike can enjoy First Friday in Missoula, wherein shops, cafes, bars and galleries host free art viewings for all to enjoy. Sometimes there’s totally excellent free wine and snax, too. Runs about 58 PM every first Friday of the month. Check out missoulacultural.org/gallery-guide and our special listings.
go-to guitarist Fronting a three-piece band is no piece of cake. First and foremost, you'd better have a rhythm section that's capable of kicking ass and taking names. Would Stevie Ray Vaughan have become a blues icon without Double Trouble? Would the Stray Cats have set the world on fire without the smoking doghouse bass of Lee Rocker and the locomotive drumming of Slim Jim Phantom (who did it all with only two drums, for crying out loud)? No way, José. But you also need to be a flexible, multitalented frontman, with a great voice and deep skills on the guitar. Portland's Ben Rice is just such a player, and his stock is rising quickly on the national stage. In fact, a single band isn't enough to hold all his talents. He tours around the Northwest with the Ben Rice Band, a five-piece rhythm and blues crew, and WHO: Ben Rice and the Illamatics WHAT: Out to Lunch WHEN: Wed., Aug. 12, 11 AM–2 PM WHERE: Caras Park HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: missouladowntown.com
a trio, Ben Rice and the Illmatics, that will take the stage at Out to Lunch this Wednesday. Fronting the trio, Rice plays a variety of guitars, from classic hollow-bodied electrics to resophonic steel guitars to funky homemade cigar box contraptions. He manhandles them all with aplomb. Backed by the muscular rhythm of Ryan Rustrum on drums and Cahlen Ughlig on bass, Rice sings and plays with
The 40th annual Virginia City Art Show brings fine art from around the Northwest to the boardwalk and Community Center Building, Fri., Aug. 7-Sun., Aug. 9. Free to peruse. Visit virginiacity.com for more info. Can you ever have enough books? Stock up at the Friends of the Library Book Sale at the North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., Stevensville. 10 AM–6 PM. Proceeds will fund future library projects.
nightlife It’s like the Badlander, only bigger! Badlander in the Park celebrates the summer’s last First Friday with live music at Caras Park. Portland’s Hillstomp share the stage with Von Stomper and our own
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as the new Missoula chapter of Food Not Lawns officially starts up. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins, 7–9 PM. Local theater troupe The Moonrisers puts on a dandy of an evening with the two-act mystery play Arkady T. Wells Midnight Theater Presents The Parasite. Performances at the Roxy on Fri., Aug. 7 and Sat., Aug. 8 at 8 PM, with additional matinee on Aug. 8 at 3 PM. $10. Dusk provides the after-dark musical mayhem at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
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a southern soul that sounds like it was ripped from the Mississippi Delta itself. Indeed, his style is a clear distillation of several American genres, including soul, rockabilly, blues and a touch of funk. As a kid, he grew up in a household where his parents spun records by an equally broad sampling of artists, from Alice Cooper to Teddy Pendergrass. Rice absorbed all this music, and it comes roaring out of him with such conviction that you almost believe the man will fall over dead if he doesn't have this musical release. His bands have a habit of getting the crowd jacked up with energetic solos and a joyful dynamic as they play off each other, all locked into the beat. But it's the man up front who's got his hands firmly on the wheel, and Ben Rice wants to take you along for the ride. —Ednor Therriault
Dodgy Mountain Men. 5–10 PM. Food vendors, drinks and beer available. Free admission, all ages.
up some swinging honky tonk al fresco to spice up your First Friday. Old Post Pub, 7 PM.
Enjoy some traditional folk numbers along with some cool originals as Russ Nasset plays it sweet at Spice of Life. 163 S. 2nd St., Hamilton, 6 PM.
Poet and UM alumnus Robby Nadler reads from his new collection, Jesse Garon Writes a Love Letter. Shakespeare & Co., 6 PM.
Will this be the week some joker shows up with bagpipes? Find out at the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover. Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. No cover. Cash For Junkers will be dishing
Sally Thompson reads from and signs People Before the Park. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, 7 PM. Take in the mellifluous sounds of John Floridis as you overlook Missoula from the deck of The Keep, off the 18th green of Highland Golf Course. 102 Ben Hogan Drive, 7–9 PM, free. Are you sure Johnny Appleseed started this way? Bring your surplus seeds, plants and garden tools
AC/DC tribute band Hell’s Belles may be even better than the real thing, in that it’s better to bang your head to a bunch of rockin’ chicks than some geezers who might fall over and break a hip. At the Badlander, 9:30 PM, $15/$13 adv. Tickets available at ticketfly.com. Dodgy Mountain Men are not as shifty as their name would make you think. They’re playing hot bluegrass at the Top Hat, 10 PM, free show.
SATURDAYAUG08 Ron Meissner and Louie Bond, two of Missoula’s best guitarists, team up to pump out some killer smooth jazz at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM, free. Mingle among the sweet abundance at the Missoula farmers markets and People’s Market, with produce, arts, crafts, baked goods, hot breakfasts and strong coffee at the XXXXs, Pine Street and riverside parking lot east of Caras Park. Things get running about 8 AM and last til 1 PM. Food Not Lawns author and founder Heather Jo Flores leads a workshop at Blue Sky Stewardship’s new Missoula tree nursery and future aquaponics greenhouse space. Specific topics will be tailored to meet the needs of the students, followed by a potluck. Fee is $30-$50. For registration, visit blueskystewardship.org. Join Neil Chaput and Keith Graham for a tour of their exhibit Chasing Time: Montana’s One-Room Schools and learn about the teachers, students, and experiences at Montana’s last one-room schools. Missoula Art Museum, 10 AM– noon. Free admission.
[calendar] Polson’s 44th annual Sandpiper Art Festival will offer myriad handproduced works. Lake County Courthouse lawn, 10 AM–5 PM. For info, visit sandpiperartgallery.com. Can you ever have enough books? Stock up at the Friends of the Library Book Sale at the North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., Stevensville. 10 AM–6 PM. Proceeds will fund future library projects. Make your pulp fiction a pulp reality with Erin Roberts’ Papermaking workshop. Side yard (it gets messy) of the Missoula Art Mu-
seum, 11 AM–12:30 PM. All ages welcome, free of charge.
St. 4-6 PM. Free. For more information, call 406-549-7555.
The Western Montana Vegetarian Society gets together for a vegan potluck starting at noon at 102 McLeod, the corner of McLeod and Higgins. Potluckers are asked to bring a totally plant-based vegan dish (that means no meat, eggs, dairy, honey or gelatin, yo.) Call 243-6672 for details.
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ZACC is joining the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center in folding 70,000 peace cranes commemorating the bombing for Nagasaki and Hiroshima at ZACC, 235 N. 1st
Bay Area bluesman George Dyer brings his high energy roots show to Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. Local theater troupe The Moonrisers puts on a dandy of an evening with the two-act mystery play Arkady T. Wells Midnight Theater Presents The Parasite. Performances at the Roxy on Fri., Aug. 7 and Sat., Aug. 8 at 8 PM, with additional matinee on Aug. 8 at 3 PM. $10.
DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot.
Wild landscapes and nature studies are the focus of the Killdeer Artisans. View their show at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., 4:30– 6:30 PM.
JFlo and his cohorts Ed Stalling on drums and John Sporman on bass add up to a music school’s worth of talent. John Floridis Trio breaks out a night of jazz at the Top Hat. 10 PM, cover TBA.
Enjoy a closing reception for Scapes: Land Sea Mind, which features over 80 artworks by 61 artists. Music by Caleb Coffey and Emily Emmons. Radius Gallery, 114 E. Main St., 5–8 PM.
Elaine Fraticelli explores differences and similarities of the human individual in her installation, Miracle. Exhibit runs August 7-29. Surrealist painter and printmaker Walter Hook is featured in Walter Hook Another Look, on display at Gallery 709 in Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. Reception from 5-9 PM. You’ll be lichen the scene when Heidi West presents ceramic wall pieces with textures and colors derived from natural patterns of lichen on rock. Berkshire Hathaway Montana Properties, 314 N. Higgins Ave. 5 PM. Artists Neil Chaput and Keith Graham highlight rural Americana in their Montana’s OneRoom Schools photo exhibit, part
It’s a Northwest invasion when Seattle popsters Hoop play the VFW, along with Portland’s Mandarin Dynasty and Missoula newbies Midnight Hotdog pumping out the sludgy jams. 8 PM. No cover. Dusk provides the after-dark musical mayhem at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.
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To honor the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center invites the community to join them in folding 70,000 origami peace cranes. See the display of cranes and add your own. Missoula Art Museum, 5–7:45 PM. Free.
Missoula Outdoor Cinema screens films at the Headstart School, corner of Worden and Phillips, starting at dusk every Saturday through Sept. 5. Tonight it’s Dead Man, considered by many to be Jim Jarmusch’s best film. Rated R. Donations appreciated; popcorn available. Check out missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.
Michael Workman’s multimedia exhibit Mass is featured at Real Good Art Space’s First Friday reception, starting at 8:30 PM.
of Missoula Art Museum’s First Friday reception, 5-8 PM. Art can be fun, kids! “The Sidewalk Art Show” features art on reclaimed, recycled and “liberated” scrap materials. Reception 5–8 PM at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins. Don’t ignore your past, but connect with it like artist Mara Punich. Her work captures the feelings connected with urban isolation, social pressures on body and spirit, and the disconnect that occurs between our past and current selves. Frame of Mind, 1706 Brooks St. 5:30-9 PM. Free. Midnyght Dreams will turn into beautiful reality with Dakota Nyght’s gallery showing at Frame of Mind, 1706 Brooks St., 5:30-9 PM. Free. For more information, give 406-549-8589 a call.
Chad Steve’s large-scale ceramics works are on display in his exhibit Inner Parks, at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne, Unit A. An opening reception will be held 5:30–9 PM. They don’t say “all the tea in Detroit” for a reason. China and Taiwan represent the origins of tea, and you can enjoy the photos, stories, and tea samples from owners Jake and Heather Kreilick’s recent trip to these regions. Lake Missoula Tea Co., 126 E. Broadway, 6 PM. Michael Workman created art for the Masses, his multimedia show examining the ritual of consumption. Opening reception at the Real Good gallery, 1205 Defoe St., #1, “behind the creepy yellow van.” Show at 8:30 PM, live performance at 9 PM.
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Of course we’re smiling! We're from Colorado! Jeff Scroggins and Colorado play as part of Ruby Jewel Jamboree at Ruby's Inn Wed., Aug. 12. Doors open at 6:30 PM, show at 7, $16–$18. Tickets at rubyjeweljamboree.com.
SUNDAYAUG09 Leigh Guest brings her acoustic guitar beauty to Great Burn Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every second and fourth Sunday of the month at alternating locations, 1-5 PM. $4/$3 for members. Email helenj4318@hotmail.com for info. It takes two to tango, but it only takes one to really screw things up. The music of Neil Sedaka is featured in Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do, performed by the Port Polson Players. Curtain at 2 PM. 32 Golf Course Drive, Boetcher Park on Hwy 93, Polson. $18/$17 seniors and students. Find more info at portpolsonplayers.com Channel your inner Bob Ross and paint some landscapes with Plein Air Painting at the ZACC, 235 N. 1st St. 2-4 PM. $20, or free for members.
nightlife Why not cap off your outstanding summer weekend with a nice fresh draft and some quality folk tunes from Russ Nasset? Yeah, I thought you’d see it my way. Draught Works Brewing, 5 PM. The last Total Fest deserves the best, so organizers have put to-
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gether the Total Feast XIV (Last Pizza Party Ever) to celebrate Missoula’s punk rawk fest. Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St. 5–8 PM, $12 all-you-canscarf pizza, cheap PBR available. The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band puts some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons prior at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com. Tux-wrapped rock star Darko Butorac leads the Missoula Symphony Orchestra in its 11th annual Symphony in the Park concert. Food and beverages will be available from onsite vendors, and lawn chairs are encouraged. Free to attend. Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free.
MONDAYAUG10 NPR says they sound like “dipping cotton candy in peyote.” Make mine a large. Moon Honey play Stage 112 with Fuuls and Oh Bone. Stage 112. $5, 18 and over. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Be your own superhero at the ZACC’s costume building camp.
Campers will use fabric, beads, face paint, wire, paper, natural material and found objects to express their inner magnificence. $90//$80 members, 1–4 PM. For more info visit zootownarts.org.
nightlife John Dendy brings his Prinelike style and adds some groove at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–10 PM, free. Shake, rattle ‘n’ roll at the Beginner/Intermediate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer Meyer-Vaughan on Mondays at Downtown Dance Collective, 7:30-9 PM. Yoga pants allowed, regular rates apply. The Delta Saints show there’s much more coming out of Nashville than country music (see Noise). The ambitious rockers play the Real Lounge, $10. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. 18 and over, tickets available at www.ticketfly.com/event/878147.
TUESDAYAUG11 If you don’t like marvelous eats and hilarity, move on along because the Curry Comedy Series is not for you. Local stand-up comedians John Howard, Clinton Lawson, Becky Margolis, Zack Jarvis, and Michael Beers will provide some laughs at the Burns St. Bistro, 1500 Burns St. Dinner starts at 7 PM, show starts at 8 PM. Tickets are $18 at Rockin’ Rudy’s.
[calendar] Shine that belt buckle, slap on some sunscreen and get ready for the Western Montana Fair, Aug. 11– 16 at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, with carnival, critters, games, information booths, bull riding, PRCA rodeo and everything you’ve ever dreamed of dipping in a deep fryer. Amble on over to missoulafairgrounds.com. Join the Mule train at the Montana Distillery. A dollar from every Moscow Mule sold every Tue. in August will go to the Poverello Center. Today the Pov will be on hand to pass out information about the shelter, and raffle off prizes from 5– 8 PM. Kids don’t come with a user’s manual, but they are very cleverly designed. Learn more about raising one at Circle of Security Parenting. Missoula Early Head Start, 2121 39th St. To register, call Becky at WORD, 406-543-3550. Free childcare provided.
nightlife Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time. This week it’s the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre.
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WEDNESDAYAUG12 Rootsy Ohio bluesman Patrick Sweany has a style so gritty you might need to towel off after the show. Top Hat Lounge, doors at 8 PM, show at 9, $12, $10/adv., 18+. Tickets: http://ticketf.ly/ 1Lc5y03 Jeff Scroggins and Colorado’s “bluegrass explosion� features some world-class banjo playing, complemented by his son Tristan Scroggins on mandolin. Ruby’s Inn, $16–$18. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. Tickets available at rubyjeweljamboree.com. Escape the office and get some fresh air at Out to Lunch, the weekly festival with music and food trucks at Caras Park, Wednesday from 11 AM-2 PM through August. Free to mingle. This week’s music: Ben Rice and the Illamatics.
Yoga for Round Bodies is the class for those who are a bit shy. Beginner level, slow pace yoga taught by Leslie Burgess. A doctor’s release will be required. Learning Center at Red Willow, noon–1:15 PM. $70 for seven-week course. More info: redwillowlearning.org. Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing.
nightlife Great Burn Brewing’s Charity Pint Night generates 50 cents from each pint for a deserving Missoula charity or nonprofit. This week it’s Mended Little Hearts of Montana. Have a glass at 2230 McDonald (behind Jaker’s), 5–8 PM. A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds like a Trey Anastasio solo. Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat
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You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What was the name of the aircraft that dropped the Fat Man bomb on Nagasaki? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Steve Earle and the Dukes bring their legendary alt-country to the Top Hat, with special guests The Mastersons. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8, 18 and over. $35/$30 adv. Tickets available at ticketfly and tophatlounge.com
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All day, every Monday. Rock and roll ain't noise pollution. World famous AC/DC tribute chicks Hell's Belles play the Badlander Fri., Aug. 7, 9:30 PM, $15/$13 adv. Tickets available at ticketfly.com.
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[calendar] Reggae, ska and classic rock ‘n’ roll are the purview of Woodblind, playing at Draught Works Brewing, 6–8 PM, free.
every Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Free, all ages. The Glass-Fusing Orientation Class will impart basic glass-fusing wisdom upon you and a friend at the ZACC. 6 PM. Every second Wednesday of the month. $20, plus about $5-$20 for the cost of glass. All-ages.
The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers instruction in dance and drum traditions from nations including Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets every Thursday, 6–7 PM. $5 donation requested.
Anyone is welcome to join the free Acoustic Bluegrass picking circle every Wednesday evening, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Association at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W, Suite F. Wednesdays 6-9 PM. Wine makes everything better, especially drawing. Artist Bayla Laks leads the class in selecting a subject and planning the composition. All materials (and wine) provided. (See Happiest Hour) Missoula Art Museum, 7-9 PM, $27-$30. Scholarships available, contact reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org.
Learn your Swingin’ Thing from your Country Slide when Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5 per lesson, payable in cash. photo by Cathrine L. Walters
I didn’t say, “Simon says.” Darko Butorac will conduct the Missoula Symphony Orchestra at the 11th annual Symphony in the Park. Caras Park, Sunday, Aug. 9, free admission.
Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.
at the Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, no cover. (Trivia answer: Bockscar.)
Former Indy arts editor Zach Dundas reads from his new nonfiction book about a fictional character, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes. Shakespeare & Co., 7 PM.
Trampled by Turtles and Devil Makes Three team up for a major to-do at the Big Sky Amphitheater’s summer concert series. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $35. Tickets on sale at Big Sky Brewing Co, Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.
Bring a lawn chair, but be mindful of those umbrellas! Led by stalwart wand waver Gary Gillett, the Missoula City Band delivers an evening of rousing music every Wednesday at the Bonner Park Band Shell, 8 PM, free. The Crawford Brothers Band bring their sibling country from Heart Butte to the stage
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The MCT Performing Arts Campers are ready to mount their whopper of a production, Booking It on Broadway: A Novel Review. Several stories from well-known books are woven together in an entertaining revue. Play runs Thu., Aug. 13–Sat., Aug. 15. Reserved tickets are $15. For times and info, visit MCTinc.org.
The rhymin’ and schemin’ will be flyin’ and screamin’ at Fact & Fiction Bookstore at a poetry writing workshop and open-mic reading for teens in grades 7-12. Following the workshop, students learn how to submit their work to the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The workshop is free. To register, email Heather.Cahoon@ mso.umt.edu.
nightlife Downtown ToNight celebrates a whopping 15 years of food, music, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, every Thursday from 5:30-8:30 PM through midSeptember. Aug. 13: Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts. Free to hang out. The Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club will discuss Pema Chödrön’s Practicing Peace in Times of War. Meeting at the library, 306 State St., Hamilton, 6–7:30 PM.
Rodney Carrington brings his countryflavored comedy stylings to the Dennison Theatre. 7 PM, $38.50–$43.50. Tickets available at griztix.com. Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, drink specials aplenty and attractive local singles in your area. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. No cover. Folky bluegrass pickers Ten Skip Stone show their pluck (groan) at the Top Hat. Local jam/folk/soulgrass practitioners Hardwood Heart get it started. 9:30 PM, free show. Mr. Calendar Guy is a curious sort. He wants to know about your event! Submit your stuff to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. If you prefer meat space, snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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he inaugural Snowbowl 15K Trail Race, up at Montana’s Snowbowl ski area, makes runners work for their beer. Right from the starting line, the course sends runners climbing 2,140 feet of elevation over 4.65 miles to an aid station at the top of Grizzly Chair where there are water and snacks. Then, the race rewards those who pant their way to the top with precisely the same amount of mileage downhill, cruising the single-track Beargrass Highway to the finish line. Afterward, runners get to guzzle Big Sky beer and devour a catered lunch. It’s perhaps the most perfect manifestation we’ve ever heard of for instant gratification. Each runner also gets socks emblazoned with the Snowbowl 15K logo.
The Snowbowl is the newest event in an annual series of races organized by the Runner’s Edge, the running gear store behind other picturesque races like the Light the Way 5K, Ten Spoon 10K and Blue Mountain 30K. This 15K capitalizes on swoon-worthy views and gorgeous weather to get locals flocking to Snowbowl for something other than shredding and Bloody Marys. —Bonnie Chan The Snowbowl 15K starts at 8:30 AM on Sat., August 8, at the Snowbowl base area. $35-$45. To register, go to runners edgemt.com/events/snowbowl-15k.
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THURSDAY AUGUST 6 There’s more to summer than running through the sprinkler, kid! Get mom or dad to take you to the Montana Natural History Center’s miniNaturalist Program. Pre-K kids get down in the dirt and learn about the natural world through activities. Franklin Park, 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for MNHC members. Adults free. The Staff Gardener at Fort Missoula’s Native Plant Garden will discuss the collection and germination of native plant seeds and why I can’t grow a tomato bigger than a friggin’ golf ball. Fort Missoula, 4:30–6 PM, $4 sugg. donation.
FRIDAY AUGUST 7 Check out all the pretty ponies at the Montana Hunter/Jumper Benefit Horse Show. Runs Fri., Aug. 7 through Sun., Aug. 9 at the Missoula Equestrian Park, 3500 North Ave. W. Trot over to missoulaequestrianpark.org for all the deets. Missoula poet and author Philip Burgess reads from his book, Penny Post Cards and Prairie Flowers, as part of the Becoming an Outdoorswoman program. Through poems and stories, Burgess tells of his grandmother and great-aunt becoming homesteaders in Montana. Lubrecht Forest, 7 PM, free. Get your feet wet, literally, in the Run for the River 5K, a benefit for the Bitter Root Water Forum. Registration is $23-27, and includes a Sport-Tek t-shirt, beer (or ice cream), and prizes. For info, go to brwaterforum.org/.
SATURDAY AUGUST 8 Join Missoulians On Bikes as they wheel their way to the Stevensville Creamery Picnic. Meet at
Lolo Conoco at 10 AM, ride the path to Stevi. Call Ray at 239-1148 for more info. Kids can learn about the travel patterns of the Bitterroot Native Americans at Season of the Salish, part of the Trekker Kids series, 2nd–6th grades. Travelers Rest State Park, 11 AM. $2 for kids, adults free. Girl power takes it down by the river at Stream Girls, a Girl Scout program in partnership with Trout Unlimited. Girls gather at McCormick Park to learn about stream science. To RSVP, call 541-9287 or email water@montanawatershed.org.
TUESDAY AUGUST 11 The Montana Dirt Girls kick into gear with group cycling trips and hiking in the Missoula area, meeting up at 6 PM every Tuesday at various locations. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com to sign up for the mailing list and find out more.
THURSDAY AUGUST 13 Wetland vascular plants are the subject of study in the Naturalist Field Day. The two-day workshop will be led by botanist and author Peter Lesica. Buses will take participants to field sites from the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 9 AM–5 PM, $190/$180 for MNHC members. Visit MontanaNaturalist.org for more info. The Swan Valley Shintangle presents a scenic good time up at the 33 Bar Ranch in Condon, with dinner and live tunes from Rob and Halladay Quist. Entrance at the gate for the concert is $20 for adults and free for kids under 12. Bring a chair and grab a brewski at the cash bar. Proceeds benefit the Swan Ecosystem Center’s conservation education programs. Call 754-3137 for more info.
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Legend holds that at one edition of the annual fundraiser Total Feast, a man crammed 17 slices of pizza down his pie hole. When pizza is all-youcan-eat for one low price, I can’t say I blame him. But here’s a plot twist: the cans of beer are also cheap. And by cheap I mean seriously, totally cheap. (Did I say they were cheap?) So, which will it be, chowing down on a record number of pizza slices or the most amount of ice cold beer one can safely handle? Either way, you’re supporting a good cause, because a portion of the funds from Total Feast go straight into supporting Total Fest, a non-profit, volunteer-run festival that brings together bands for three days of musical genius. But get your tissues out, because this year’s Total Fest marks its 14th and also its last one. Happening at venues all over downtown and the north side of Missoula, Total Fest is a giant combo of
thrashing, rocking, rolling and face-melting as non-commercial, independent musicians take to the stages. This year’s lineup includes touring rock bands like Toys That Kill, Divers, Underground Railroad to Candyland and Naomi Punk, as well as reuniting Missoula favorites like the trashhardcore band Humpy and smartass rebel girls of Sasshole. So, as you are stuffing a pizza (topped with anything from Flathead cherries to good ‘ol pepperoni) into your face, think of Total Fest and all of its glory, because this last time around should–and will–completely kick ass. —Mary Bradley Total Feast will be held at Biga Pizza Sunday, Aug. 9, from 5-8 PM. $12 for all-you-careto-eat pizza, and beer will also be available for purchase. For more information on Total Feast check out wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com.
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Learn about the emotional and physical support offered by doulas at the Meet the Doulas reception at the Nursing Nook, 734 Kensington Ave., every first Thursday of the month from 5:30-7:30 PM through August. Refreshments provided.
FRIDAY AUGUST 7
Can you ever have enough books? Stock up at the Friends of the Library Book Sale at the North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., Stevensville. 10 AM–6 PM. Proceeds will fund future library projects. To honor the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center invites the community to join them in folding 70,000 origami peace cranes. See the display of cranes and add your own. Missoula Art Museum, 5–7:45 PM. Free. Are you sure Johnny Appleseed started this way? Bring your surplus seeds, plants and garden tools as the new Missoula chapter of Food Not Lawns officially starts up. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins, 7–9 PM.
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Girl power takes it down by the river at Stream Girls, a Girl Scout program in partnership with Trout Unlimited. Girls gather at McCormick Park to learn about stream science. To RSVP, call 541-9287 or email water@montanawatershed.org.
TUESDAY AUGUST 11 Join the Mule train at the Montana Distillery. A dollar from every Moscow Mule sold every Tue. in August will go to the Poverello Center. Today the Pov will be on hand to pass out information about the shelter, and raffle off prizes from 5–8 PM. Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time. This week it’s the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12 Find help with food issues at the Overeaters Anonymous meetings on the third floor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Brooks St., Wednesdays. Newbies can come at 6:30 PM, and the regular meeting begins at 7 PM. Free. Call 543-5509 for info.
THURSDAY AUGUST 13 Explore Homeword’s Northside Gold Dust property, which features a rooftop garden. You’ll learn about sustainability methods, and about Homeword’s counseling and education programs. Lunch and beverages provided. 330 N. 1st St. W., noon–1 PM. Free, all are welcome. RSVP to jessica@homeword.org.
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MOURNING BREATH I was engaged to a woman 20 years ago. We were in college and in our mid-20s. I realized that I wasn't ready to get married and called off the engagement. I loved her and wanted to stay with her, but she broke off the relationship. I've had relationships since then, but I still regret not marrying her. She's married now, and I shouldn't even be thinking about her so many years later, but I can't seem to shake the loss of her. How do I get her—and, moreover, the regret—out of my head? —Stuck The reality is, you're the envy of a number of people—like those who ran up $80,000 in legal fees battling for joint custody of the suede sectional and are now working as a manservant for their divorce lawyer while living in a tent in his backyard. You've got a bad case of the "coulda shouldas," which, in psychology, is called "counterfactual thinking," as in thinking "counter" to the actual "facts" of what happened. It's basically a mental redo of the past—imagining what could have been. There's healthy counterfactual thinking— using how things turned out as a reminder to act differently in the future. Also healthy is recognizing that things could have turned out worse, like with all the divorcey fun above, plus having to borrow your kids like library books on alternate weekends. The unhealthy kind of counterfactual thinking is what you're doing—setting aside the now to obsess over how great things surely would have been, "if only ..." Never mind how pointless this is, considering that the closest thing you own to a working time machine is probably a battery-operated cuckoo clock your grandma gave you. And never mind how this woman is forever 24 in your head—preserved like a bug in amber at the peak of her hotitude—and never does things those pesky real women do, like nagging you to fix that broken thingie until your head is about to explode all over the kitchen wallpaper. You can get out of Regretsville. You just need to have a funeral for your relationship. And yes, I know this sounds like a ridiculously hokey stunt, but more and more, researchers are finding that the physical is tied to the psychological—like that physical acts of "closure" lead to psychological closure and that treating thoughts as physical objects makes them as disposable as objects. In a study by psychologist Pablo Brinol, participants who wrote down troubling thoughts and then ripped them up were found to have "mentally discarded
them" and actually experienced relief. Following their lead, put this behind you psychologically by doing it physically: Write down what happened. Burn the paper in a dish. Maybe do a little ceremony. And then scatter the ashes as you would those from Fluffy's urn. And, finally, have a little compassion for yourself. Okay, so it's best not to follow up "Will you marry me?" with "Uh … takeback!" But you were young and probably immature, and you realized that you'd gotten yourself in over your head. And to your credit, you had the guts to admit that you weren't ready, unlike all the people who come to the realization that they aren't but go through with the wedding anyway. ("Who'll join me in a toast to 'miserably ever after!'?")
JERK DU SOLEIL A good male friend (going back 20 years) is a great guy—fiercely ethical and very kind—and is irate about the jerks I've been out with recently. He has two guy friends he thinks I'd like. Is it safe to assume that they'll be cool/respectful because this is coming through our mutual friend? (I figure it can't be worse than truly blind dating online.) —Jerk Magnet A friend who cares about you wouldn't knowingly put you together with jerks— which would be like recommending a prospective tenant to his landlord with "He just wants a quiet, safe place ..." and neglecting to mention "… where he can pursue his hobby of balcony chicken farming." And the good news is that a good guy is likely to have friends "of a feather." Studies by psychologist J. Philippe Rushton suggest that we have a genetically driven preference for both mates and friends who are similar to us—especially in age, ethnicity, and educational level but also in opinions and attitudes. So, if this guy likes and respects women, there's a good chance his friends do, too. But a "good chance" is not the same thing as an "ironclad guarantee." In other words, go in with your eyes wide open, because it's still largely a gamble; it's just less likely that your friend will be all "Found the perfect guy for you. We all call him 'B'—because it's easier than saying 'Beelzebub.'"
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are some tips on being the best Cancerian you can be: 1. Cultivate your sensitivity as a strength. Regard your emotional vulnerability as a superpower. 2. Nurture yourself at least as much as you nurture others. 3. Learn to know the difference between your golden hunches and the glimmering delusions that your demons stir up. 4. Be kind, but don't be exorbitantly nice. 5. Remember that others' unhappiness is rarely your fault or responsibility. 6. Keep reinventing the way you love yourself.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the woods, living matter isn't segregated from the decaying stuff. Rotting tree trunks are host to teeming colonies of moss. Withered stems of ferns mingle with cheerful saplings. Audacious mushrooms sprout up among scraps of fallen leaves. The birds and beetles and lizards and butterflies don't act as if this mix is weird. They seem to be at peace with it. I suspect they thrive on it, even exult in it. That's the spirit I suggest you adopt as you enjoy the paradoxical mélange of your life in the coming weeks, Gemini. Celebrate the mysterious magic that emerges as you simultaneously fade and flourish, decline and increase, wind down and rise up.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An imaginative Welsh man named Liam Bennett has developed a "dausage," which is a blend of a doughnut and sausage. One of his most requested treats is pork meat stuffed with strawberry jelly. Even if this novel blend doesn't appeal to your taste buds, it serves as a good prompt for my advice: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to expand your notion of what types of nourishment are fun and healthy for you. I mean that in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense. Experiment with new recipes, both with the food you provide your body and the sustenance you feed your soul.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Charles de Lint is a novelist whose stories are influenced by folklore, myths, and science fiction. In his book Yarrow, a wizardly character named Toby is skilled at conjuring. He can make small objects appear and disappear, for example. But Toby yearns for more. “I want to be magic," he says. "I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic." If you have ever wished for a comparable upgrade, Aries, now is an unusually favorable time to work on it.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?" This question was posed by Leo author Ray Bradbury in his book Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Even if you're not a writer yourself, you will benefit from responding to his exhortation. It's one of the best things you could possibly do to activate your dormant creativity and intensify your lust for life. This is one of those times when working with your extremes is not only safe and healthy, but also fun and inspirational. So do it, Leo! Get excited and expressive about the best and worst things in your life.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's time to leave behind the golden oldies. You'd be wise to tiptoe away from tradition, and give the ghosts of the past one last kiss goodbye, and wean yourself from nostalgia for the good old days. Frankly, my dear, you've got numerous appointments with the future, and it would be a shame to miss them because you're mucking around with memories. In the coming weeks -- for that matter, in the coming months -- you're most likely to thrive if you become an agent of change. And the most important thing to change is your relationship to the person you used to be.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In Indonesia, the term gotong-royong is defined as the "joint bearing of burdens." In practice it means that you and I and our allies get together voluntarily to help each other achieve a shared goal. It may also be an agreement to provide mutual aid: I help you do what you need to have done, and you help me with my task. Gotong-royong also implies that we enjoy working together. The emotional tone that we cultivate is affection and care. By sharing a burden, we lighten the load that each of us has to bear. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because it's the gotongroyong season for you and yours. Be the ringleader who initiates and sustains it.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In one of his poems, Jack Gilbert mentions "the incurably sane," who are "uncrippled by beauty" and "unbutchered by love." When I read those lines, I felt a surge of protest. Is there a single person on the earth who fits that description? No! I was miffed by such starry-eyed idealism. Later, though, as I studied the astrological omens for you Scorpios, my attitude softened. I realized that the coming weeks may be a time when many of you will at least temporarily be incurably sane, uncrippled by beauty, and unbutchered by love. If you're one of these lucky ones, please use your blessed grace to spread an abundance of blessed grace everywhere you go. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you're not skirting the edges of the forbidden zone, you're playing it too safe. If you're not serving as a benevolent mischief-maker for someone you care about, you're shirking your duty. Your allegiance should be with X-factors and wild cards. You will thrive to the degree that you cultivate alliances with mavericks and instigators. Are you shrewd enough to mess with time-tested formulas? Are you restless enough to rebel against habits that stifle your curiosity?
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How to be a Capricorn, according to my Capricorn reader Sadie Kennedy: When you are younger, take yourself too seriously. Look and act older than you actually are as you serve what's most practical. Sacrifice fun and frivolity, working doggedly to achieve the goals you yearn for, until you reach some level of accomplishment. Then realize, as if struck by a thunderbolt, that fun and frivolity have practical value. Begin to age backwards like Benjamin Button as you balance work with play and discipline with leisure. Enjoy the fruits of your intense efforts as everyone tells you how relaxed and supple and resilient you are becoming.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Cracking open the shell of a soft-boiled egg is a tricky task. You must be firm enough to break the shell, but sufficiently gentle to avoid making a mess. If you live in Germany, you have access to a metal instrument that provides just the right measure of soft force. It's called an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher, translated as "soft-boiled egg shell cracker." Your assignment in the coming weeks is to cultivate a talent that is metaphorically similar to an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. I believe you will need that blend of sensitivity and power on numerous occasions. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Americans often regard Cuba as impoverished and backwards. There is an element of truth in their prejudice, primarily because the U.S. has imposed a stifling embargo on the Caribbean nation for over 50 years. That's why, for example, many Cubans drive cars that were manufactured in the 1950s. But I wonder how my fellow citizens would respond if they knew that in some ways Cuba's healthcare system is better than America's. The World Health Organization recently congratulated Cuba for being the first country on earth to eradicate the transmission of syphilis and HIV from mothers to babies. Can you identify a metaphorically similar situation in your personal life, Pisces? Are there people you regard as inferior or undeveloped who could teach you an important lesson or motivate you to grow? Now is a perfect time to benefit from their influence.
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MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK THOMAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Penni Keersemaker, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of July, 2015. /s/ Penni Keersemaker, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-136 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IRVEN F. PFAU, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807-9410 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: July 10, 2015. /s/ KEVIN PFAU, Personal Representative. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-142 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY ANN TAYLOR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must
MNAXLP either be mailed to SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807-9410 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: July 14, 2015. /s/ JEANNE WAISS, Personal Representative. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-119 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JILL L. PERELMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WENDY L. SCHRIMPER and THE TRUST COMPANY OF OXFORD, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 18th day of June, 2015. /s/ Wendy L Schrimper, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Eileen McCaulay, Its: Fiduciary Officer, c/o Worden Thane P.C. PO Box 4747, MIssoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Co-Personal Representatives By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/07/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200519979 Bk: 757 Pg: 859, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Cameron Z. Griggs, and Kathleen M. Griggs, as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in Common was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Old Republic National Title Co was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Old Republic National Title Co as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Mis-
soula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A Tract of land in N1/2 of Section 19, Township 14 North, Range 19 West and SE1/4SW1/4 of Section 18, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the NW Corner of Section 19, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., thence N. 85 degrees 49’04” E., 2436.23 feet to a point in Butler Creek Road and on the northerly limit of that Deed in Book 212 at Page 468 and the true point of beginning; thence S. 35 degrees 16’43” E., 447.74 feet; thence S.38 degrees 23’38”E., 1081.77 feet; thence South 384.92 feet; thence N.40 degrees 21’56” W., 1770.67 feet to a point on the Butler Creek Road and on the northerly list of that Deed in Book 212 at Page 468; thence N.40 degrees 58’12” E., 329.98 feet along said road and limit to the Point of Beginning. Recording Reference: Book 306 of Micro Records at Page 970. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201001432 B:854 P:314, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, of Harborview 2005-13 Trust Fund. 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 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 1, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $374,425.88. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $298,586.45, 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, Mis-
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PUBLIC NOTICES soula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 14, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7303.24790) 1002.281210-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/25/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200622199 Book 782 Page 239, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Alfonsina Hohman, A Single Person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 27 and 28 in Block “D” of SUPPLEMENT TO GLENWOOD PARK ADDITION, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official 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 death and is grounds for acceleration on the Deed of Trust under paragraph 9 (a) (i) A borrower dies and the Property is not the principal residence of at least one surviving Borrower. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due in full. As of June 10, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $210,774.43. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $210,774.43, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 20, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.111391) 1002.281346File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby
MNAXLP made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/08/99, recorded as Instrument No. 199900837 Bk: 568 Pg: 2221, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Sandefur and Wendy L. Sandefur, husband and wife was Grantor, North American Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Huson Heights, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200704460 Bk: 792 Pg: 735, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. 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 11/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 11, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $116,000.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $89,840.91, 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 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money
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orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.106495) 1002.252209File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 5, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 24 of Block 1 of Rehder Homesites, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Glenna S. Ward, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 26, 2004 recorded January 30, 2004 in Book 725, Page 1416 under Document No. 200402587. The beneficial interest is currently held by Missoula Federal Credit Union. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $820.78, beginning July 21, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation
and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 1, 2015 is $100,545.09 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00000% totaling $5,597.84, late charges in the amount of $752.84, suspense balance of -$353.81 and other fees and expenses advanced of $45.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.76 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 28, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 28th day of May, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Missoula Federal Credit Union V Ward 42087.004 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 5, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 in Block 7 of Seeley Lake Homesites No. 4, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, According to the official recorded plat thereof. Mignon R. Diskin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, a California Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Express America Mortgage Corporation, an Arizona corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 11, 1995 and recorded January 11, 1995 in Book 432, Page 2357 under Document No. 9500778. Modification Agreement recorded October 10, 1995, Book 454 of Micro Records at Page 154 under Document No. 9520428. The beneficial interest is currently held by M&T Bank. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $176.01, beginning August 1, 2014, and each month subse-
quent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 24, 2015 is $1,668.46 principal, interest at the rate of 3.18000% totaling $47.30, late charges in the amount of $35.20, escrow advances of $1,696.38, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,850.74, plus accruing interest at the rate of $.15 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
PUBLIC NOTICES 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 28, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 28th day of May, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Bayview V Diskin 41902.355 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 5, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 29 IN BLOCK 26 OF EAST MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 2 OF PLATS AT PAGE 39. Dennis T. Wilson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 18, 2009 and recorded November 23, 2009 in Book 851 Page 139 under Document No 200927689. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“FNMA”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $499.24, beginning October
1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 12, 2015 is $85,827.65 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% totaling $2,971.87, late charges in the amount of $99.84, escrow advances of $1,015.25, and other fees and expenses advanced of $112.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $11.60 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
MNAXLP 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 28, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 28 day of May, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus V Wilson 42125.017 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 21, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 89 OF MALONEY RANCH PHASE VII, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Michael A. Lowe and Linda K. Lowe, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 20, 2006 and recorded June 22, 2006 in Book 777 Page 454 under Document No 200615081. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America National Association, as Trustee successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificate WMALT Series 2006-8 Trust. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to
a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,548.10, beginning January 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 28, 2015 is $211,537.10 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% totaling $33,519.17 escrow advances of $10,134.47, suspense balance of $-197.48 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,477.31, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.12 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 12,2015 /s/ Lisa J. Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 12th day of May, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J. Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires:2/18/2020 Sps/lowe - 41828.984 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 22, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp., A California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998 and recorded May 13, 1998 in Book 541, Page 296, as Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR
STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004SC1. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $945.00, beginning June 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 30, 2014 is $85,505.34 principal, interest at the rate of 10.0% totaling $3,529.52, late charges in the amount of $519.75, escrow advances of $577.62, and other fees and expenses advanced of $783.07, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.75 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 15, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 15th day of May, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Nationstar V Schafer 41706.582
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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 37, 41 & OS31. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 8/17/2015 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 8/20/2015 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 THEODORE•
Theodore is a 1 1/2-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. This sweet fellow loves big plush ball toys and will carry them everywhere he goes. Theo might take a little time to form a bond with a new family, but once he does, the affection never ends. He definitely needs a cat-free home, and doesn't get along with most other dogs. Theodore would make a great family dog as well as outdoor-adventure buddy.
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LENA•Lena is a 6-year-old female Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix. Lena loves people, but really does not enjoy dogs or cats. She would need to be in an only-pet household, but would love to have a few older kids to play with. Lena has been adopted and returned to the shelter twice in her lifetime. She's really looking for a forever home where she can retire and never have to leave.
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BRADFORD•Bradford is a 3-year-old Pit Bull mix. His goofball personality keeps everyone entertained. He is a rather playful boy but will react if he feels threatened by another dominant 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 dog. In the shelter, he is a ball of energy. Once Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) you get him out on a walk, Bradford has great manners and a happy, silly disposition. He would 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) do well in a single-dog home.
CALEN•Calen is a very affectionate cat who loves to head-rub against you. He would do best in a home where he is the only cat. He is good with other cats but he has a medical condition that makes him prone to upper respiratory infections. This condition does make him contagious to other cats. He has enough love to fill your home by himself so you won't need any other cats to fill that void.
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TIGER•Tiger is a 7-year-old female brown tabby. She is an affectionate cat, but also independent. Tiger likes having her head scratched and brushes against your ankles searching for affection. She is a lap lover, but really doesn't enjoy being picked up. Tiger's owner passed away and now she is searching for a new forever home. CHASE• Chase is a 4-year-old male black tuxedo cat. He is the life of the party, and with his high society tuxedo, he could fit into the most sophisticated gatherings. Chase loves to play with string toys, really enjoys catnip, and gets along well with other cats. This is one classy cat with a sense of humor. Come meet Chase today!
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 GEM• Gem is a sweet girl waiting for someone to come by and take her home. She is friendly, playful and, now that she has been spayed, microchipped and vaccinated, ready for adoption. Cat adoptions at the Humane Society include a bag of food, collar and id tag, carrier and an awesome scratching board. Come meet this beautiful girl Tuesday through Friday from 1:00 to 6:00 and Saturdays from 12:00 to 5:00.
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ROSIE• Rosie is almost certain she will be adopted very soon (she is just so beautiful with intense blue eyes), but she wants to remind everyone that Pet Fest is right around the corner on August 22nd. Join the Humane Society of Western Montana and other pet-related rescues, shelters and businesses for a day of adoptions, contests and entertainment, all pet themed.
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KIZMET•Kizmet is feeling better thanks to a day at the spa (she had quite a few mats) and some TLC in one of our dedicated foster homes. She has gained a few pounds and has decided she is ready to find her furever home. Being a youngat-heart 8-year-old, Kizmet qualifies for our Senior for Senior program, meaning her adoption fee is waived for adopters over 60.
SUMI• Sumi is a sweet Border Collie/Beagle mix recently transferred to the Humane Society from the Polson shelter. Smart, active and friendly, she's looking for a home where she'll get plenty of exercise and mental stimulation, as well as love. Sumi just adores people and finds most Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store dogs pretty OK, too. She says she'd prefer a home www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 South Russell • North Reserve without any pesky cats, however.
SPOCK•Spock has the calm, logical demeanor of his namesake. He will spend his days with you contemplating and logically solving problems like if he should nap or snack first. Spock is friendly, vocal and loves attention. He is looking for a quiet family who can give him a predictable home due to his limited vision. Adopt - it is only logical!
YIKES• Yikes is a good, fun dog to have around. He enjoys spending time with people, taking walks, playing with other dogs and going for car rides on cool days. Please remember to leave your dogs at home during warm weather; the inside of a car can quickly reach 100 degrees even if it seems comfortable outside.
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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1024 Stephens #10. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, DW, coinops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1024 Stephens Ave. #7. 1 bed/1 bath, lower level, coinops, cat? $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1547 S. Higgins Ave. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops, heat paid. $775. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $625, end of N. Russell, well maintained, coin op laundry, storage and off street parking. H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $850, newer complex, near Broadway & Russell, DW, A/C, w/d hookups, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 7287333 303 E. Spruce St. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops on site $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 442 Washington St. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops on site, cat? $725 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 730 Turner St. 31. 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hookups, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 NOW LEASING! Mullan Reserve Apartments
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10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 1305 Bridgecourt. Charming 3 bed, 2 bath with covered front porch, fenced yard & single detached garage. $190,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential MIssoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 13705 Harper’s Bridge. 3 bed, 1.5 bath cabin on 4.99 acres near Clark Fork River. $349,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
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on double lot. Greenhouse, patio & garage. $215,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Rose Park / Slant Streets home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 223 West Kent. Secret Garden Retreat with 3 beds, 2 baths, hardwood floors, solarium and single garage. $297,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties 2000.com 2233 West Kent. Low-maintenance 2 bed, 1 bath with unfinished basement & patio. $149,900, Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 2808 Dublin. 3 bed, 2 bath in Hellgate Meadows with covered front & back porches, fenced yard & detached 2 car garage. $257,500. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambros.com 286 Speedway. 3 bed, 3.5 bath with spa, full finished basement
& 2 car garage. $249,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816 annierealtor @gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Missoula home. $249,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $239,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3839 Duncan Drive. Prairie style 3 bed, 2.5 bath in Upper Rattlesnake. $725,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 401 Daly. 1930’s U District 4 bed, 2 bath with hardwood floors, fenced yard & lovely patio. $444,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 4107 Rainbow Dr. $245,000. 4 bed 3 bath Townhome in lower South Hills. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
515 Cooley. Northside 2 bed, 1 bath with double garage across from park & community gardens. $264,500. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 5205 Skyview. 3 bed, 2 bath with river rock fireplace. $230,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 5442 Prospect Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath in Grant Creek with lower level, deck & double garage. Next to open space. $369,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 5802 Longview Drive. South Hills Split Level. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, double car garage on 9,338 sf fenced lot. $215,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor @gmail.com 615 Fairview. 3 bed, 3 bath vintage ranch home in Lewis & Clark neighborhood with hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $350,000. Vickie Honzel, LambrosERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambros.com
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REAL ESTATE 619 North Curtis. 4 bed, 3 bath energy-efficient home with gas fireplace & large fenced yard. $229,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 863 Discovery. 2 bed, 1 bath in East Missoula with lower level & double garage. $189,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 909 Rodgers. At $152,000 this three bedroom, one bath house on the Northside is going to make someone a very nice home! Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com 9250 Sharptail, East Missoula. 3 bed, 2 bath with walk-out basement. Huge yard & mountain views. $199,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM East Base of Mount Jumbo 970 Discovery. Awesome 3 bedroom East Missoula home in a great ‘hood with gor-
geous views! $190,000 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com House hunting downtown? Stop by the Missoula Farmer’s Market. N. Higgins by the XXX’s. Sat. 8am-12:30pm. Tuesday 5:30-7:00. missoulafarmersmarket.com. Find us on Facebook. If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $350,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal and solar PV. 3690940 or 642-6863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-2413221 LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 2004 Silver Tip Clusters. 4 bed, 4 bath in gated Circle H Ranch. Backed by conservation easement land. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor @gmail.com Condo for Sale-901 Rodgers St 2BR/1.5 bath, 2 level condo, quite Northside neighborhood. Carpet throughout, laminate flooring in LR. Close to downtown, bike to UM, bus stop on same block. Includes W/D (not coin-op),carport pkg & storage unit. Great investment opportunity, must see. $89,900 view at forsalebyowner.com Listing ID: 24027866 or 406.214.7519 2101 Dearborn #40. Contemporary 3 bed, 2 bath on upper floor with community room & un-
derground parking. $339,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambros.com 2945 Fleet Street. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage across from neighborhood park. $239,900. Vickie Honzel, LambrosERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel @lambros.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Commons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $160,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
18 acre building lot with incredible views. Lolo, Sleeman Creek. $150,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $125,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Missoula Lot 310 Sussex. Residential Lot in a very desirable neighborhood, close to the University, downtown, bike trails and more! 6,000 square foot, ready to build. $137,500. KD 240-5227 porticoreal estate.com
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NHN Edgewood. 3.53 acres on backside of Mount Jumbo. $79,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambros.com
1 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $115,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
“There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor,
552 Montana, East Missoula $149.000 MLS# 20154758 UNDER CONTRACT Spacious and comfortable 3 bed manufactured home on private lot. With recent interior updates and newer metal roof, this is a great property for the money. 2015 BEST REAL ESTATE AGENT
Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com
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NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $155,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, unzoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816.
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OUT OF TOWN 15520 Mill Creek, Frenchtown. High-end 5 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. Basketball court & gym. Fantastic views. $675,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $449,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
2 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Alberton / Petty Creek Home on 20 Acres. $245,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
6850 Old Faithful, Lolo. New 3 bed, 2 bath on 1+ acre on quiet cul-de-sac. $325,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambros.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville Home. $209,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
FSBO: Best bargain in Missoula area! Approximately 3800 sq.ft on two levels w/daylight basement. 3 streets uphill off Ridgeway on left overlooking area. 3 large bedrooms, 1
164 Fairway Drive • $465,000 • Updated 3 bed, 3 bath on Highlands Golf Course • 3485 sq.ft. of living space • Sunroom, 2 gas fireplaces & AC • Walk-out lower level has huge family room, bonus room, storage & laundry • Landscaped backyard with deck, UG sprinklers & double garage
[C12] Missoula Independent • August 6–August 13, 2015
large bonus room, 3 full baths. Large family, living & dining rooms & breakfast nook. 2 fireplaces, huge insulated shop, Laundry/utility/office area. Loads of storage. Attached double garage with automatic
opener. All newer appliances & some newer carpeting. Built 1974 so not all the latest features, but is good, solid house. Very close to Lolo School. Not a drive-by. Call Dan: 406-2409371. Asking $257,500/OBO
Lolo Acre 5565 Brady Lane, Lolo. An acre with a view, large shop/garage; beautiful setting. $170,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
4250 WILD FOX Rattlesnake home. 3+ bedrooms, double garage, glassed in sun porch and backs up to huge common area. $339,000
619 North Curtis • $229,900
Pat McCormick
Affordable, energy effecient 4 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan, large fenced yard and double garage.
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FINANCIAL We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite