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News Voices/Letters American Indians, parks and beer ........................................................4 The Week in Review Softball, wildfires and heat.........................................................6 Briefs Power Tramp, taxes and cellphone distractions.................................................6 Etc. Rocky Boy’s receives a suspicious gift....................................................................7 News Plans for electric vehicle charging stations take shape........................................8 News Forward Montana celebrates 10 years of rapid evolution...................................9 Opinion Founder of Bozeman’s Tea Party searches for common ground..................10 Feature Montana’s lasting links to Major League Baseball ........................................ 14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Zootown Fringe Festival walks the edge..............................................................18 Music Obnox, Richard Album and The Singles, Black Joe Lewis and Soulja Boy Tell ’Em ...............................................................................................19 Music Positive thinking with Blackalicious .................................................................20 Film Guardians puts the “comic” back in comic-book ..............................................21 Film Led Zeppelin Played Here unravels a mystery....................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Food for free....................................................................................24 Hangriest Hour The Chrondo at Flipper’s ................................................................26 8 Days a Week Take me out to the ball game.............................................................27 Mountain High Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden ...................................................33 Agenda Global Meditation for Peace...........................................................................34

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[voices]

Pay it forward

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Aug. 5, on N. Higgins Avenue There’s talk of Missoula adding electric car charging stations.

Do you think this is a worthwhile investment?

Follow-up: Looking into the future, what do you think is the most sustainable and realistic form of personal transportation?

Jason Frisk: Absolutely. Anything to help the environment, right? It would make sense to bring down emissions. Harness the sun: More efficient electric cars or figuring out how to use another renewable resource to power vehicles, like solar.

Eliza Oh: I think I’d have a better answer if I knew how many people in Missoula had electric cars, but the electric car industry can’t grow unless we support things like this. Pedal power: I’d have to say bicycles. There’s no gas or electricity.

It makes more sense.

Pat Crisp: I would say yes because hopefully it would get more people to go electric. Hello, McFly: I would hope that we have the ability to sustain electric cars. But wouldn’t it be great if we could put our garbage in our cars and convert it into an energy to power them like in “Back to the Future”?

Kyle Ferris: Definitely. Being proactive for the future. Good to the last drop: Walking and biking. But long distance, we are built and designed for vehicles. I don’t see that changing. I think we need smaller and more sustainable vehicles but they will be run on gas until we use it all up, then we will transition to biofuels and then solar. It will be a slow progression.

Kendra Bone: Yes, it would help the economy if people stopped here to charge their car because they would have to wait while it is charging and will spend money in town. Feeling charged: I would say electric cars and a movement away from gas. The electric car would be the easiest implementation in cities.

I’m writing to thank Missoula County Commissioners Bill Carey, Jean Curtis and Michele Landquist for approving the Parks and Trails bond for the November ballot.

Last month the board listened carefully to members of the public who came to weigh in on this historic decision. After two public hearings and much deliberation they came to the unanimous conclusion that the voters, not politicians, should be the ones to decide whether or not we continue to invest in our public parks and trails system.

That night they heard from coaches, athletes, parents, pet owners, military veterans and other supportive citizens that value our community parks and trails. The proposal is the result of a citizen advisory group that has been working for years to craft a plan that offers something for everyone.

The bond, which would amount to just a few dollars a month for most home owners, would provide $38 million to build Fort Missoula into a beautiful regional park including a sports complex that is predicted to generate millions of dollars in tourism revenue. It would also provide $1 million to replace aging park equipment throughout the city. And it puts $3 million into building new pedestrian and bike paths that connect Missoula to our outlying communities giving folks an alternate way to get to and from the city center.

These investments do more than increase property values. Parks and trails provide an alternative to the sedentary lifestyle that we find ourselves trapped in.

They provide safe places for kids to play, fields for athletes to compete, jogging paths for the young and old to stay in shape and space for families to celebrate life’s happiest moments. In short, our parks and public open spaces provide a physical space for us to be a community.

“Thanks to the wisdom and support of our local elected officials, we have the opportunity to leave Missoula a little bit better for future generations.”

The rights of all In “Jumping right in: Controversial nonprofit enters Flathead water fight” ( July 31), Jessica Mayrer erroneously asserts that Mountain States Legal Foundation has a “track record” of “working

against preservation of indigenous cultural sites.” That is untrue and she knows it. MSLF has defended the right of all Americans, regardless of their religious beliefs or ethnic heritage, to enter upon and enjoy public or federal lands against demands by American Indian religious practitioners that the lands be closed because it is sacred to them.

MSLF’s position, and that of its clients in those cases, is consistent with a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in which Justice O’Connor wrote, “[T]he Constitution simply does not provide a principle that could justify upholding [American Indians’] legal claims. However much we might wish that it were otherwise, government simply could not operate if it were required to satisfy every citizen’s religious needs and desires ...

The Constitution does not permit government to discriminate against religions that treat particular physical sites as sacred …

Whatever rights the Indians may have to the use of the area, however, those rights do not divest the Government of its right to use what is, after all, its land.”

Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Ass’n, was cited more recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in an en banc ruling that the Supreme Court declined to review. Navajo Nation v. U.S. Forest Service: “No matter how much we might wish the government to conform its conduct to our religious preferences, act in ways that do not offend our religious sensibilities, and take no action that decreases our spiritual fulfillment, no government—let alone a government that presides over a nation with as many religions as the United States of America could function were it required to do so.”

William Perry Pendley President Mountain States Legal Foundation Lakewood, Colo.

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Montana’s best brews, ranked,” July 31

Terrible choice “Cool list. Might be interesting to have a list that isn’t so reliant on distribution and name recognition. For instance, Big Sky’s Ivan the Terrible is 10x the beer Moose Drool is.”

Posted July 31 at 10:05 a.m.

Technically speaking “It should be noted that Double Haul is classified as an English Style IPA, instead of an American style. The latter category had well over 200 entries at the WBC, compared to the 40 Double Haul was up against.”

Posted July 31 at 11:26 a.m.

Road trip “This list is based on exactly what they say it is, and props to you guys for the un-

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I didn’t pay for the bricks and mortar that built the University of Montana. My taxes didn’t build the roads, bridges and rails that connect our communities. The infrastructure that we depend on was built by the investments of those that came before us. That’s part of what it means to be an American, we pay it forward. Now thanks to the wisdom and support of our local elected officials we have the opportunity to leave Missoula a little bit better for future generations.

Denver Henderson Missoula

dertaking. You just can’t have a top 50 beer that half the state hasn’t tried, and hopefully many of these breweries will continue to grow and expand distribution (would love to try them all—haha), but thanks for the criteria that for the most part eliminates personal bias. I was pleased to find many of my daily drinkers on there and many new ones to start working my way through. I think an autumn road trip is order ...”

Posted July 31 at 12:23 p.m.

Spot on ...

“Angry Hanks makes GREAT beer, however the INDY’s judging criteria is pretty spot on. There is zero flawed data if one looks at the criteria employed. Angry Hanks doesn’t

have a website, and has very little distribution.

Same goes for Carter’s. Now if a Billings publication were to craft such a list, you would obviously have drastically different conclusions.”

Posted July 31 at 2:33 p.m.

… Or not “This list is incredibly biased! Poorly done!”

Posted Aug. 1 at 3:19 p.m.

Sour grapes “I get this is in written in/about Western Montana primarily but I’d encourage the authors to make a trip to Carter’s in Billings.

Best Belgian and sour program in the state and it’s not even close.”

Posted July 31 at 11:48 a.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, July 30 Rep. Steve Daines votes with 224 of his Republican colleagues to authorize House Speaker John Boehner to sue President Barack Obama. Republicans believe Obama overstepped his constitutional authority in the process of implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Thursday, July 31 University of Montana President Royce Engstrom and other officials break ground on a new softball stadium near Dornblaser Field.

When complete next spring, the field will be home to the university’s—and the state’s—first NCAA-level softball program.

Friday, August 1 The Digital and Analog Technologies Conference kicks off at Flathead Brewing’s Galaxy Lounge and continues through the weekend at venues all over Missoula, with workshops, parties and sets by DJs from around the country.

Saturday, August 2 The Missoula Osprey announce the addition of Touki Toussaint, the 17-year-old first round draft pick of the team’s Major League affiliate, the Arizona Diamondbacks. The right-handed pitcher’s fastball has been clocked at 97 mph.

Sunday, August 3 Feeling a little hot lately? No wonder. The Washington Post notes that Missoula maxes out at 91 degrees while Death Valley, Calif., known for being the world’s hottest location, reaches just 89 today.

Monday, August 4 Two homes on Colorado Gulch Road are evacuated after a wildfire erupts on the east side of the Grant Creek Valley, northwest of Missoula. Crews from various agencies work to contain the blaze.

Tuesday, August 5 The University of Montana and the city of Missoula temporarily rename Mount Sentinel as “Mount McCartney” in honor of Sir Paul, who plays Washington-Grizzly Stadium before a crowd of some 25,000 as part of his Out There tour.

Sir Paul McCartney pumps up the 25,000 fans who filled Washington-Grizzly Stadium for the former Beatle’s Aug. 5 concert.

Politics

Distracted (policy) drivers?

Members of Legislative Council have spent a good portion of the Montana Legislature’s interim discussing potential guidelines for one of the more routine aspects of life in the state capitol: use of electronic devices during the legislative session. As stated in the July issue of The Interim newsletter, there’s growing concern that lawmakers are paying more attention to laptops and cellphones than the public.

It’s a tricky topic to tackle, says Susan Fox, executive director of the Legislative Services Division. The ways individual legislators use electronic devices can vary widely, from fact-checking to constituent correspondence. Some people may think a legislator is ignoring public testimony during a committee meeting, when that legislator is actually just taking notes.

“It’s the legislature struggling with how to use technology appropriately, let the public know that they’re here listening to them—how to balance those two things,” Fox says.

According to Rep. Chuck Hunter, D-Helena, this isn’t a new conversation at the legislature. There have been informal discussions about potential problems with electronic device use over several bienniums. But this go-

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around, Legislative Council decided to take on the task of drafting formal guidelines for such behavior.

“The committee hearings and floor sessions and that kind of thing, there has been some discussion of to what extent is that fitting, does it cause problems,” says Hunter, who serves as vice-chair on Legislative Council. “Some people believe that it does, others believe that it doesn’t.”

The discussion so far has touched on the appropriateness of using social media during legislative proceedings and what material viewed by a lawmaker is considered public record. Clarifying the latter question, Hunter says, will probably constitute “the bulk of what we write in terms of guidance.” There are those who, in the course of the council’s meetings, have questioned whether correspondence with constituents by text or email gives some more access to the ears of lawmakers than other members of the public.

“But there are others—and I think they have valid points—that say the communication with constituents over the matters they’re discussing is part of their role as a legislator,” Hunter says.

Legislative Council has appointed a rules subcommittee to compose draft guidelines in advance of the 2015 session. Hunter says that process is just beginning, but shouldn’t take long. Meanwhile, Fox has surveyed legislators to gather more information and opinions on the issue.

“That survey’s not coming up with any consensus whatsoever,” she says.

Alex Sakariassen

Taxes

Hamilton increases questioned After two years of cutting property taxes by a combined $930,000, Hamilton Mayor Jerry Steele says it’s time for an increase. If Steele gets his way and the city’s preliminary fiscal year 2015 budget is passed, Hamilton property taxes will increase some 42 percent, adding nearly $2 million of revenue to city coffers. It’s money Steele says is badly needed to maintain and upgrade the city’s infrastructure and to help fund a new justice center, which would house the city’s police department, attorney’s office and court.

Needless to say, not everyone is enthused by Steele’s proposal. Mark Neumann, president of the Downtown Hamilton Business Improvement Area, says the city’s core is hurting, with downtown vacancy rates rising and property values declining. He worries the tax hike will only make matters worse and “drive more people away.”

While Neumann acknowledges the need for repairs to the city’s infrastructure, he says the justice center should not be a priority during a time of economic hard-

[news] ship in Hamilton. City Councilman Joe Petrusaitis agrees, arguing recent work done to improve police and city attorney’s facilities precludes the need for the center.

“We’ve thrown away this money on remodeling, and now all of a sudden we need a new building, when we really don’t,” Petrusaitis says.

“Well, you tell that to the police department and the courts,” Steele responds. “We’ve got the chief of police in a remodeled broom closet. We’ve got security issues in the court and in the police department. Handicapped accessibility—we could go on and on.”

Steele argues the best way to fund the justice center is to save and pay for the cost all at once, in cash. Though the total price tag of the project is unknown, the FY15 budget calls for a transfer of $230,000 of existing funds to purchase the land where the center would be built, and requests $245,000 in new revenue for future construction costs.

Neumann says the city would be better served by raising funds for projects more gradually, through bonds, and by projects that will improve the city’s business climate and residents’ quality of life.

“To me, if you have a higher standard of living and a higher education base, you’re going to have less need for a bigger justice center,” Neumann says.

A public hearing on the budget will take place Aug. 19.

Ted McDermott

Fair

Power Tramp stays home After a July 18 accident involving a North Star Amusements bungee cord ride left a 13-year-old Gallatin County girl with a broken pelvic bone, this year’s Western Montana Fair is absent the ride, known as the “Power Tramp.”

“We don’t want to do anything (with it) until we have it checked,” says Arlene Lauer of North Star Amusements.

North Star signed a three-year contract with Missoula County last spring, and since then the company’s rides have been involved in two high-profile accidents.

Witnesses to last month’s Gallatin County Fair incident told reporters that when the bungee cord failed, teenager Melissa Cotton fell roughly 10 feet to the ground.

“Out of nowhere, I hear this snap,” Hanibal Clayton told Bozeman NBC affiliate, KTVM. Lauer says North Star’s insurance company is investigating what happened.

North Star also garnered headlines in May 2013 after a 16-year-old girl fell off a North Star bungee cord ride at Wyoming’s Freemont County Spring Spectacular. The teenager was hospitalized after hitting her head.

Meanwhile, a lawsuit involving North Star’s Dragon Wagon Rollercoaster was settled out of court in January.

The lawsuit stemmed from a 2009 accident at the Gallatin County Fair when Jared and Debra Schroeder alleged their children, then ages 4 and 5, sustained lasting softtissue injuries on the ride.

In response to questions about safety, Lauer says North Star employs an independent third-party inspector to scrutinize rides annually, as is required by its insurance carrier. Ride operators and carnival supervisors also perform daily inspections.

“Things can happen,” Lauer says. “But we do our best.”

Some question, however, whether carnival operators like North Star are best suited to oversee their own safety. Absent federal oversight of carnival ride operations, states are left to craft their own rules. Montana is one of six states that offer no scrutiny, says Jeffrey Reiff, a Philadelphia personal injury lawyer who frequently goes toe-to-toe with amusement operators.

“Your state is not a good state, in my opinion, for ride safety,” Reiff says.

Montana code states that “an informed patron is in the best position to avoid risks inherent to amusement rides.” The problem with that wording, Reiff says, is there’s no data regarding carnival safety to inform patrons.

“How can you know about the risk if you don’t know about the background?” Reiff asks.

The Western Montana Fair continues in Missoula through Aug. 10.

Jessica Mayrer

Revenue

State pushes for disclosure Montana Department of Revenue officials predict that when the agency sends out newly calculated property tax bills next year, landowners likely won’t understand how the department tallied the amount owed. This presents something of a problem.

BY THE NUMBERS Reports of stolen bicycles to the Missoula Police Department last weekend, according to MPD Sgt. Travis Welsh. “There’s no specific area that’s being hit,” Welsh says.

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“We are putting the property taxpayer at a distinct disadvantage,” says DOR Deputy Director Alan Peura.

Montana is one of 11 states that legally mandates that residential and commercial sales prices remain confidential. Peura and DOR Director Mike Kadas last month asked the Montana Legislature Revenue and Transportation Interim Committee to change the policy. DOR says the absence of sales information leaves landowners no way of deciding for themselves whether the property value assessed by the department is fair, which makes it tough for landowners to make an educated decision about whether to appeal DOR calculations.

Peura says problems with non-disclosure go beyond an individual’s ability to understand and protest tax assessments.

“It makes it much harder, frankly, as a family or as a homeowner to make economic decisions, because you don’t know what’s going on in the market,” he says. “One could argue beyond the purview of taxation that it really puts our citizens at a distinct disadvantage on making the biggest economic decisions that they’re going to have in their lives.”

Nevertheless, the existing policy has its supporters.

During last month’s interim committee meeting, Republican Sen. Art Wittich noted that similar efforts have failed to gain traction largely because organizations like the Montana Association of Realtors and the Montana Building Industry Association argued successfully for personal privacy. They say the Montana Constitution’s strong right to privacy should protect individuals from having personal financial information disclosed.

“If you present it this way,” Wittich told DOR officials, “there’s a good chance it will fail.”

In response to such concerns, Peura says the Montana Constitution has similarly strong right-to-know mandates. A property owner deserves to understand their taxes, and Peura believes the legal scale tips in the department’s favor.

The interim committee approved sending DOR’s pitch to legislative staff, who will put the proposal in bill form. Peura says he’s optimistic the department will persuade lawmakers to nix the disclosure ban during the 2015 legislative session.

“The idea is getting some legs,” he says.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. Montana’s Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation unveiled a new park last week with the help of several VIP guests. Three former NFL players traveled from Washington, D.C., to help celebrate the gleaming $200,000 playground painted in bright burgundy and gold. Tribal member Dustin White told The Washington Post the park was not only a “huge morale boost, but a point of community pride.”

Media reports made it seem like nobody on the reservation minded the four Washington Redskins logos on the park’s slides, nor the team’s garish paint scheme. It also didn’t appear to matter that the former players were only on hand as part of a larger campaign to defend the team’s derogatory name in Indian Country, and that the park was paid for by the team’s embattled owner, Dan Snyder.

Rocky Boy got a new park, and that’s a good thing for Montana’s poorest reservation.

Or is it?

Other tribes have rejected similar efforts from Snyder based on principle. “We know bribe money when we see it,” a Fort Yuma Quechan tribal member told USA Today after turning down a $250,000 burgundy-and-gold skatepark. The National Congress of American Indians also decried Washington’s efforts, telling the newspaper, “no amount of money makes it acceptable to promote a derogatory racial slur.” Migizi Pensoneau, a Missoula-based member of the Native American comedy troupe 1491s, addressed the issue in a cover story for the Indy earlier this year. Last week, the 1491s posted on its Facebook page: “Be better, people. A sovereign nation doesn’t sell out for some swag.”

It’s worth noting the swag—and the team’s campaign—is extensive. In addition to the playground, Rocky Boy received 150 new iPads and sponsorship for its rodeo team. Snyder’s Original Americans Foundation claims it’s working on 145 other projects with 40 tribes, though it has declined to provide specifics.

The foundation also recently launched a website, RedskinsFacts.com, that attempts to present “historical evidence” about the name’s origins.

Never mind the site omits significant portions of the slur’s history, or that Slate discovered it was created by a PR firm specializing in crisis management. The firm’s past clients include the manufacturer of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

The “Redskins” debate is about as divisive as any today, with emotions high on both sides of the issue. But take a look at what’s happening here and try not to roll your eyes. The team’s painfully transparent efforts to rewrite history and use money to cover a racial slur smacks of arrogance. The 1491s put it another way: “Manhattan for beads.”

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Plugging in Plans for electric vehicle charging stations take shape

by Ted McDermott

Currently, Montana has only two public EV charging stations—fewer than any other state, except Alaska. In Missoula, the only existing charging station is a private one at Missoula Nissan, on Brooks Street. (Nissan manufactures the Leaf, an electric sedan that gets about 100 miles per charge.) The first public station will most likely be a Tesla Supercharger station located near I-90. Though a spokesperson with the company says the site “is not yet entirely confirmed,” Denise Alexander, the city’s permit and land use section manager, says Tesla has inquired about setting up charging stations at two different hotels on North Reserve Street.

A Tesla station in Missoula would fill a gap in a growing national network of free stations for the company’s customers. Just last month, Tesla opened a station in Billings, and the city of Bozeman approved a plan for another one.

Anne Guest, director of the Missoula Parking Commission, says she is also looking into the idea of adding a public charging station in the new Park Place garage, which was built with the necessary infraphoto by Cathrine L. Walters structure. She adds, however, Missoula Nissan’s Max Siebert charges a Nissan Leaf, an electric vehicle that gets about that she’s still far from deter100 miles on a full battery, at the only EV charging station in town. With EV use on the mining if, when and how to rise, plans for two new public charging stations in Missoula are in the works. implement one.

“Do we have a need at fast,” he says. “It had to break the paradigm effect of public visibility of charging infra- this point? I don’t know that,” she says. “So, structure actually helps consumers feel safe I think there’s got be a lot of further investiof an electric car.”

When the San Francisco-based Tesla making the purchase of an EV, even if they gation to say, ‘Are we ready for it? Is Missoula came out with a refined version of the Road- don’t necessarily have to use the public ready to have a charging station?’”

According to the Montana Motor Vehister in 2010, Kreisel saw it as a way to meet charging station.”

Some, however, are urging the city to cle Division, of the more than 2 million regthe immediate needs of his family, abide by his principles and contribute to the early suc- exercise caution and consider how EVs fit istered vehicles in the state, only 674 are into the broader energy and transportation electric. Elsewhere, however, the prevalence cess of a revolutionary company. of EVs and charging stations is much There was only one drawback: He picture.

Jenny Mish, director of the Missoula higher—and rising. A U.S. Department of couldn’t easily take the car long distances.

The Roadster can only hold a charge for Sustainable Business Council, notes that Energy spokesperson says the number of about 240 miles and takes about six hours “electricity production remains problem- public charging stations has risen from to fully power up from the 220-volt outlet in atic—it is ultimately dependent on coal and fewer than 500 in 2009 to more than 20,000 other fossil fuels.” Instead of encouraging now. Late last month, Tesla announced Kreisel’s garage.

For the rapidly growing number of peo- greater use of cars, Mish would like to see plans to produce 100,000 cars a year by the ple who, like Kreisel, own Teslas and other the city promote carpooling and alternative end of 2015.

With the cost of EVs dropping, and sales EVs, the functionality of their vehicles is de- modes of transportation. Bob Giordano, dipendent, to varying degrees, on the avail- rector of the Missoula Institute for Sustain- and production increasing, Missoula might not have a choice except to accommodate ability of public charging stations. As the able Transportation, agrees.

“Completing our bike system, our walk these new vehicles, despite some reservaweb of such stations grows to meet demand, Missoula appears to be on the cusp system and our transit system should proba- tions about what doing so might mean.

As Kreisel says, “It’s one of these inof adding a couple of its own. Tesla is close bly be a higher priority than an electric systo opening a station near I-90 and the Mis- tem, although it’s given that lots of people are evitable waves that are coming.” soula Parking Commission is discussing driving, so if we can improve the driving system, that seems to be a plus,” Giordano says. adding one downtown. tmcdermott@missoulanews.com Before Missoulian Glenn Kreisel could buy a Tesla Roadster, an electric car that costs $150,000, he had to get a driver’s license. He hadn’t driven in 23 years due to concerns about the environmental impact of conventional cars, but he and his wife had recently had a child and his bicycle was proving insufficient for his new parenting duties. Still, Kreisel was reluctant.

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Kreisel and others argue that, as more people turn to EVs, these stations will be vital to the health of the area’s economy and environment. Jakki Mohr, a marketing professor at the University of Montana, owns a Chevy Volt, which runs on electricity for about 40 miles and then switches to a gas backup. She says the existence of public stations will likely increase convenience for EV owners and, thus, drive up sales in the area.

According to Mohr, studies have shown “the

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Looking back Forward Montana celebrates 10 years of rapid evolution

by Alex Sakariassen

Ten years ago, a small clutch of University of Montana students coalesced around the question of whether it was possible to get young people excited about politics.

They’d often heard members of older generations dismiss youth, saying there was no reason to engage them because they didn’t vote. It was particularly vexing, recalls Matt Singer, given that most in the group were already working on a variety of political issues on campus.

pink bunny logo—now officially a part of the separate Forward Montana Foundation—and its role in several key issues and close elections. In 2008, the group worked against a move by the Montana Republican Party to challenge the eligibility of 6,000 Montana voters. In 2010, Forward Montana threw its support behind Missoula’s nondiscrimination ordinance, a local step forward for LGBT equality that Councilman Jason Wiener calls “one of the more moving

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Forward Montana Executive Director Kayje Booker registers passersby to vote during a recent Downtown ToNight. For 10 years, the nonprofit has successfully used bus trips, monthly happy hours and silly costumes to draw youth into politics.

“We felt like we were just running our heads up against the wall,” Singer says, “partly because young people weren’t taken very seriously.”

From that group’s frustration rose Forward Montana, a nonprofit that Singer believes survived its early years due as much to luck as hard work. Singer, one of the group’s co-founders, remembers filling out forms in Vinnie Pavlish’s Aber Hall dorm room, unsure if anyone really knew how to start a nonprofit. Their first major effort in 2005—a successful opposition campaign to the confirmation of Student Regent Kala French—was launched with just a handful of volunteers and a $1,000 budget.

“We were all pretty jaded by the idea that was being put out by everyone out there that young people didn’t care, young people didn’t vote, young people weren’t involved,” says fellow Forward Montana founding member and current state Rep. Bryce Bennett. “From that, we just organically came together and said, ‘There’s got to be a better way to do this in a way that gets young people excited about politics.’”

Now Forward Montana is a constant presence in state politics, recognized for its

and stunning pieces of public policy to be involved in as an elected official.” And in 2012, volunteers registered more than 11,000 college students statewide to vote.

“It’s not like your civics class covers getting registered to vote, forming an opinion, volunteering for a cause that you care about—although clearly that would constitute a civic education,” says Wiener, a longtime supporter of Forward Montana. “So they fill that ably.”

As Forward Montana prepares to commemorate its 10-year anniversary in Caras Park on Aug. 16, volunteers are continuing to register voters and engage the public about upcoming ballot issues.

(Legislative Referendum 126, a measure to eliminate same-day voter registration, is of particular interest.) Executive Director Kayje Booker says the organization has worked hard to maintain momentum from the 2012 electoral cycle, a watershed year that saw Forward Montana attain its biggest staff and furthest reach. Of course, in keeping with oddities like the pink bunny—dreamed up, Singer says, in 2007 by a designer who’d had too much coffee—Booker has also busied herself secur-

ing foam cowboy hats and stick ponies to help volunteers attract attention.

“You know you work at an awesome organization when you are, within the same day, ordering costumes from the clown store and working on an important policy piece,” Booker says.

In perhaps its boldest move yet, Forward Montana recently established an office in Bozeman; local recruits have already hit the pavement supporting that city’s non-discrimination ordinance. Yet one of the group’s biggest hurdles remains the same: How to get youth interested in politics.

Booker says it can be frustrating to come across young people who feel their vote doesn’t matter. And while she admits it’s also an understandable mentality, past experience for Forward Montana has highlighted the importance of a single vote; after the group sent a bus of volunteers to Billings to knock doors for him in 2010, Democrat Kendall Van Dyk defeated incumbent state Sen. Roy Brown by a mere four votes.

“When you win by four votes, everybody can claim a little bit of the credit,” Van Dyk says. “But I think it’s fair to say without that busload of young folks from Forward Montana, we probably wouldn’t have got it done.”

Booker and others feel one of the most profound impacts Forward Montana has had in its 10 years is inspiring some of its own members to run for office. Bennett won his first bid for the Montana Legislature in 2010, and over two sessions has introduced policy touching on many of the same issues he once tackled with Forward Montana.

“I doubt I would have ever run for office if I had not been involved with Forward Montana,” Bennett says. “Not only did I learn the mechanics of a campaign by knocking on doors and making phone calls and helping build plans for campaigns, but I also had the people around me who were pushing … the idea that somebody who’s 25 and openly gay on top of that had a chance to win in Montana.”

Bennett feels none of the group’s original members would have guessed that Forward Montana would take on as much work as it has in such a short time. Yet despite its rapid evolution, Singer, who now lives in Portland, Ore., still sees the same youthful energy at Forward Montana when he returns to visit.

“Every year I get older and Forward Montana stays the same age,” he says.

“That’s been the moment I’ve known this thing is going to work, and it’s going to work well past this point.”

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Every once in a while, someone asks me why I helped start the Tea Party in Bozeman. To make the story short, I say something like this: It was spring 2009, and I’d become increasingly disenchanted with both political parties’ support of rampant government overspending. I worried about its impact on our nation and on future generations. I’m the son of Holocaust survivors, I say finally, and that compels me to fight for what I believe in.

Once begun, I found that our Tea Party events large drew crowds and also lots of controversy. On Independence Day 2009, for example, we drew over 2,000 people to Bozeman’s Main Street, filling over eight city blocks with Americans voicing both their love of liberty and their concerns about the federal government’s over-taxing and over-reach.

Later that summer, we protested the government takeover of health care outside President Barack Obama’s Town Hall event at the nearby airport. Despite being goaded to violence by out-of-town union organizers who took over our permitted area, we exercised self-restraint. Our rally was fiery but peaceful.

During the last couple of years, much has been written about the so-called “death of the Tea Party,” as the news media and Liberal Left have attempted to demonize the movement. None of these tactics worked.

Nonpartisan polls, including a recent ABC/Washington Post survey, show that more than one-third of Americans support the Tea Party.

According to pollsters Scott Rasmussen and Douglas Schoen, authors of Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking the Two-Party System, membership of the Tea Party mirrors the demographics of America with only slight differences. We are somewhat better educated, slightly more affluent and have slightly less minority involvement. I know of lawyers, doctors, engineers as well as construction workers, housewives and painters who are Tea Party members. But demonizing the Tea

Party, no matter how often it’s done, won’t make our nation’s problems go away nor solve them. Nor will it make us go away.

While we no longer hold huge rallies, Tea Party members stay involved. They run for office, work for grassroots organizations and canvass door-to-door trying to awaken folks to get involved in the political process.

Most Americans agree that we cannot sustain current levels of debt and spending.

According to the U.S. Debt Clock, our national debt exceeds $17 trillion. Unfunded liabilities

“Demonizing the Tea Party, no matter how often it’s done, won’t make our nation’s problems go away nor solve them.

Nor will it make us go away.”

(Medicare, Social Security and pensions) exceed $122 trillion. These are mind-boggling numbers, but let’s personalize it: Including unfunded debt, every American taxpayer bears $1.25 million in debt, and what if the federal government goes broke? Millions of Americans would suffer as many government programs came to a screeching halt.

Today, I work for Americans For Prosperity-Montana. We promote economic freedom as the pathway to a better life. As defined by economists Robert Lawson of Auburn University and James Gwartney of

Florida State University, economic freedom is determined by the size of government, the amount of regulation (and the seen and unseen costs for compliance), sound money, free trade, and the rule of law.

Where there is economic freedom, people live happier, healthier, better quality lives.

Education is better, especially for young women. The environment is cleaner. (If you doubt that, get this: Just last year, PBS’s “Nova” referred to North Korea as nearing “environmental collapse.” North Korea ranks dead last in economic freedom and its environment suffers in consequence.)

In 2000, the U.S. ranked third in the world in economic freedom, but 12 years later, we’d dropped to 18th, coming in behind Estonia, Qatar, Switzerland and Chile.

Why? Massive government over-spending, our growing debt and increased international competition.

Our economic freedom is determined in part by regulations, and the tighter the regulations, the greater the threat to our economic freedom, and ironically, the environment, because a robust economy pays for clean technology. One current threat comes from the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Waters of the U.S.” proposed rule. While the EPA contends the new rule expands exemptions to farmers and ranchers, many believe the rule would make it more difficult to farm and ranch and would hurt local family and organic farmers who make valuable contributions to our communities.

The Tea Party’s influence continues to be widely felt, and rightly so. So rather than attacking each other, let’s look at issues caseby-case and search for common ground. Let’s disagree in a civil manner and let the free market of ideas decide what’s best for this great experiment in liberty called America.

Henry Kriegel is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is deputy director of Americans For Prosperity-Montana and a co-founder of the Bozeman Tea Party.

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The frightened driver pulled away, and Carl’s truck, which he had forgotten to shift into park, rolled forward and ran over Carl, who failed field sobriety tests and was arrested after being treated at the hospital for foot and hand fractures. (The Gainesville Sun) The judge presiding over the burglary trial of Bobby Lee Pearson, 37, in Fresno, Calif., said he had no choice but to release the defendant after the jury mistakenly signed a not-guilty form. Pearson went to his sister’s home to get some belongings, police said, but got into a fight with his sister’s boyfriend. Later, Pearson was found dead of a stab wound, and police arrested the boyfriend, Willie Gray, 35. After police noted that Pearson might still be alive were it not for the jury’s mistake, prosecutor William Terrence commented, “There’s not a death penalty on a burglary. I’m not sitting here thinking he got what he deserved.” (Associated Press) A worker installing signs limiting parking to 75 minutes on a downtown street in Santa Barbara, Calif., was ticketed for parking more than 75 minutes to do the job. “I was dumbfounded,” Dan Greding explained. “I said, ‘But I’m putting these signs up,’ and he (the officer) says, “Then you should know you can’t park here more than 75 minutes.’” (Santa Barbara’s KEYT-TV)

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ontana holds but a handful of connections to Major League Baseball. There’s Butte’s Rob Johnson, a bluecollar catcher familiar to contemporary fans because he’s played for four different teams over the last seven seasons. There are potential future stars, like Missoula’s Riley King, who’s currently working his way through Kansas City’s farm system in hopes of reaching the majors. There’s also, of course, the Pioneer League, which has long cultivated big league talent, and spends a few months every summer in Great Falls, Billings, Helena and Missoula. But since professional baseball officially started more than 143 years ago, only 23 players and one manager can say they were born in Montana—and few of them ever spent considerable time here.

While these players and teams help tie the Treasure State to the national pastime, there are 10 names that provide perhaps the most lasting connection between Montana and the game. They’re the oldtimers who played during baseball’s heyday, lived in the state during its formative years and then chose Montana as their final resting place. Of the more than 16,000 who have officially suited up for a Major League game since 1871, these 10 are the only ones buried in Montana.

Who are they? How’d they end up here? Why’d they stay?

Sifting through old bios and box scores, reading obituaries and news clippings, the answers reveal bonafide superstars and spectacular flameouts, community pillars and small-town footnotes. There are storybook stare-downs with Babe Ruth, comical run-ins with Honus Wagner and battles with Cy Young.

There are threads to Montana’s cornerstone industries, their booms and busts, as well as lasting legacies in the form of dedicated landmarks. There are nicknames like Doc, Dad, Buddy and Big Serb.

There are controversies and frauds. Why do these stories matter? For a baseball fan, following the path of these 10 Montanans offers an intimate glimpse into a game that’s long captured the nation’s imagination. For everyone else, it provides a peek at the history of this place we—and those ballplayers—call home.

MONTANA’S MOONLIGHT

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In the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner plays a farmer who tears up his crops to erect a baseball field for a bunch of ghosts, including “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.

The film, which is based on W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe, involves a road trip where Costner recruits others who are destined to visit his field. One is a former ballplayer named Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, who only played in one professional game and didn’t register an official at-bat. Graham, who

is based on a real-life Minnesotan, abandoned his baseball career to return home and become his small town’s only doctor.

William Wiman Andrus could be considered Montana’s version of “Moonlight” Graham. On Sept. 15, 1885, the Canadianborn Andrus dressed for one game with the Providence Grays against the St. Louis Maroons. He played third base, replacing Jerry Denny, an ambidextrous defensive specialist recognized as the last player to go his entire career without using a fielding glove. Andrus went to bat four times that day, but failed to get a hit. He never played again in the Major Leagues. His lifetime batting average is .000.

Better things awaited Andrus once he left baseball. Throughout his playing career— Andrus barnstormed around secondary leagues before and after his one game with Providence—he spent his winters studying medicine at Trinity University in Toronto. He graduated in 1893, and he moved that same year to Billings to pursue his medical career.

By October, the ambitious Andrus moved again to open his own practice in Miles City, a bustling trade destination at the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone rivers. Miles City had only been founded 16 years earlier by the military as an outpost before the Battle of Little Bighorn, and incorporated just six years before Andrus’ arrival.

In addition to serving as the town doctor, Andrus, a Republican, was elected alderman and then mayor, serving five successive terms from 1899 to 1909. He then spent two terms representing Miles City in the state legislature, was named president of the Montana State Medical Association for one year and also served as the surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway. A biography included in The History of Montana, Volume 3, published in 1913, notes he was also recognized as the official Custer County physician for two terms and the county health officer for three.

“Among the many eminent names to be found in Montana’s roll of professional men, none is more worthy of mention than that of William Wiman Andrus,” wrote Helen Fitzgerald Sanders in A History of Montana. “... A man of scholarly tastes and able to throw light on almost any subject connected with his [medical] profession, yet drawing from a fund of rich experience and ripened knowledge, Dr. Andrus is also a man of rare sympathy, great kindness of heart and magnetic personality.”

The book adds that Andrus often vacationed in his native Canada, “where for a time he is able to lay aside the cares and responsibilities which are the portion of a man of his prominence and abilities.”

Andrus died in 1935 at the age of 76 and is buried in the town he basically presided over for most of his adult life. Regarding his various political, medical and athletic pursuits, Andrus was frequently quoted as saying, “Gentlemen, it’s a poor horse that can’t change directions.”

SMOKE EATERS Opportunity attracted Dr. Andrus to the West, and no place promised more opportunity before and after the turn of the century than Montana’s boomtowns.

Butte, in particular, became the destination for thousands from across the country and around the world looking to be a part of what had become one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi.

Naturally, that influx of people led to a deep pool of athletic talent. For instance, at least five future or former Major Leaguers played in 1900 for Butte’s minor league team, the Smoke Eaters. Two of those players are among the 10 now buried in Montana.

James St. Vrain moved to Butte in 1898 at the age of 15 to work at William Clark’s Reduction Works mine at the base of Timber Butte. During the summer, the left-hander also pitched for the Smoke Eaters, where he caught the attention of professional baseball scouts.

After a minor league stint in Washington, St. Vrain debuted in the majors for the

electrician. While many moved as Butte’s fortunes started to wane in the ’20s and ’30s, St. Vrain stayed. He lived and worked there until his death in 1937. His headstone in the Mountain View Cemetery features two crossed bats and a baseball.

Jim Powell played alongside St. Vrain on that famed 1900 Smoke Eaters squad, and he also split his time between playing ball and working a full-time job. But Powell didn’t toil in the mines. He was into theater.

Powell’s mother worked as a stage manager in Richmond, Va. Powell grew up surrounded by the arts, but first pursued baseball. He played for his hometown Richmond Virginians in 1884, then the Philadelphia Athletics in 1885. The first baseman played in 60 Major League games, registering 49 total hits and scoring 28 runs.

When Powell arrived in Butte in 1892, he continued to play minor league and semi-professional baseball for the Smoke Eaters, Miners and Fruit Pickers, among other colorfully named teams. When not on the field, he served as stage manager of Maguire’s Opera House.

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rancher near Virginia City. He died in 1929.

Mike Mattimore called Butte home during the same time as Powell and St. Vrain, though the smelter wasn’t well known as a ballplayer. Perhaps that anonymity can be chalked up to a baseball career that ended in controversy.

The diminutive pitcher/first baseman played for the New York Giants in 1887 and the Philadelphia Athletics in 1888.

During the ’88 season, as the Athletics were chasing the American Association pennant, Mattimore became part of a sensational scandal involving “hilariously and shockingly drunk” behavior. According to The Philadelphia Times, as retold by BaseballHistoryDaily.com, Mattimore was among a group of players found “frequently in a beastly state of intoxication.”

“It is a matter of notorious publicity that a portion of the best players on the Athletic Base Ball Club are not living up to their contracts,” wrote the paper. “They drink, carouse and make exhibitions of drunkenness that are disgusting the people who so liberally contribute to the support of the national game ...”

“Mattimore was among a group of players found ‘frequently in a beastly state of intoxication.’”

Chicago Orphans in 1902 at the age of 19, making him the youngest player in the National League that season. (There is some dispute over his real age, but most accounts recognize him as a teenager.) His career didn’t last long—less than a season—and was marked mostly by follies. In an often-told story captured most colorfully in the book The Glory of Their Times, the left-handed pitcher, who normally batted right-handed and often struggled to make contact, tried hitting left-handed at the suggestion of his manager.

“So the next time he went up he batted left-handed,” teammate Davey Jones explains in the book. “Turned around and stood on the opposite side of the plate from where he was used to, you know.

And darned if he didn’t actually hit the ball. He tapped a slow roller down to Honus Wagner at shortstop and took off as fast as he could go … but instead of running to first base, he headed for third!

“Oh, my God! What bedlam!” Jones continues. “Everybody yelling and screaming at poor Jimmy as he raced to third base, head down, spikes flying, determined to get there ahead of the throw.

Later on, Honus told us that as a matter of fact, he almost did throw the ball to third.”

St. Vrain kicked around with six minor league teams over the next two seasons before finally returning to Butte. He worked again in the mines, and then as an

West Broadway in 1885 to rave reviews. Despite Butte being situated some 700 miles inland, West Shore, a magazine published out of Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, Ore., remarked in an August 1885 article that it was “the finest [theater]… on the Pacific Coast outside of San Francisco.” According to Montana: A State Guide Book, the theater presented such operas as The Bohemian Girl and Carmen with “some of the best operatic stars of the period.” The original building burned down in 1888, but was quickly rebuilt, and Powell worked there during perhaps its most famous performance.

Mark Twain made five stops in Montana during summer 1895. The Anaconda Standard gushed about his sold-out Butte show, declaring it “doubtful if Maguire’s opera house ever contained a more delighted audience than the one that filled it to-night to listen to Mark Twain,” adding, “the people laughed until laughing became painful.”

Twain himself later wrote in his diary about the performance. “Beautiful audience. Compact, intellectual and dressed in perfect taste,” he remarked. “It surprised me to find this London-ParisianNew York audience out in the mines.”

As for Powell, he grew tired of that refined city life. Sometime after the turn of the century he left the theater and the bustle of downtown Butte to become a successful

It came as little surprise when, once the expose hit newsstands, the team tanked and finished in third place. Mattimore was released. It was then that he went west to find work. He ended up in Butte, a town generally welcome to those familiar with beastly states of intoxication, where he lived until his death in 1931.

KINDLY TACT In the late 19th century and early 20th century, there was a concerted effort throughout the country to assimilate American Indians into mainstream Euro-American culture. Sports like baseball and football played a key role at government-funded boarding schools, where children were often sent against their will, and through programs implemented on the reservations by missionaries and merchants.

Hartman Louis “Doc” Oberlander practiced medicine and coached an all-Native baseball team at the boarding school in Pryor Creek on the Crow Indian Reservation. The New York-educated doctor moved to Montana in 1902 after serving in similar roles at a Cherokee reservation in Swayne County, N.C., and he developed a sterling reputation among his superiors in the Office of Indian Affairs.

Pitcher Roy Crabb, top, played under Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack for the 1912 Philadelphia Athletics. Sports Illustrated named Dave McNally, middle, “Montana Athlete of the Century” in 1999. H.L. “Doc” Oberlander, bottom, played less than a month in the majors before practicing medicine and coaching baseball on the Crow Indian Reservation. His baseball card is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

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“Dr. H.L. Oberlander … is one of the most efficient men I have met in the Indian Service, for in addition to his manifold duties as subagent physician, farmer, and general factotum, he is a power for good along social-service lines,” wrote George Vauxhall Jr. in a 1917 report to the Department of the Interior. “Pryor Creek Indians, almost all of them full bloods, seemed to me to be the most progressive on the reservation, and this is largely due, I am sure, to the indefatigable labors and kindly tact of Dr. Oberlander.”

Oberlander’s tact as a professional ballplayer was decidedly less laudable.

According to The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball, he “owned an excellent drop ball but had no clue how to control it;” he once walked 10 batters in a single minor league game. During the last inning of what

A similar sort of allure could be applied to an otherwise nondescript September series during the 1912 season between the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Naps. For many, it featured two middling teams playing out the string, waiting for the season to end. For others, it produced a who’s-who of the era— “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Napoleon “The Frenchman” Lajoie, Frank “Home Run” Baker and manager Connie Mack were all there—and a chance for two young players to make a small bit of history for Montana.

“Happy” Jack Kibble, a 20-year-old backup third baseman for the Naps, had been in the league for all of three days when Philly came to town. His only claim to fame—if you could call it that—was to be erroneously labeled by some media outlets as the first Montanan to play in the

never felt right after getting hit once by a line drive.

For all their apparent insignificance on the field, Crabb and Kibble still made their mark on the game that weekend: They are the only two players buried in Montana to ever appear on the same Major League field together.

A HERO Only 10 Major League ballplayers chose Montana as their final resting place, but six others died here and chose to be cremated or their remains went unlisted in public records. There’s Curtis Barclay, who played alongside Willie Mays with the Giants in the late 1950s, and called Missoula home until his death in 1985.

There’s John “Big Serb” Miljus, a pitcher

“The official cause of death was lung cancer, though Crabb told friends and family his chest never felt right after getting hit once by a line drive.” ended up being his last start for the Cleveland Blues, he not only lost command of his pitches, but also his temper. He “blew up” at teammates, who later derided him for “his babyish exhibition,” according to the book.

All told, Oberlander lasted less than a month in the majors. Aside from his work in Pryor—he died in 1922 and is buried at nearby Rockvale Cemetery—he’s perhaps best remembered by his 1888 Old Judge Cigarettes baseball card, which is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

UNDER THE RADAR There’s a certain romance to the West that presumably helped attract many of these ballplayers to Montana. That gauzy view of life under the Big Sky often gets repurposed in popular culture, packaged in a way that sometimes leaves the harsher realities of Rocky Mountain living by the wayside.

Baseball can have the same effect on people.

Ed Colgan wasn’t a community doctor or man of the theater, but rather a nondescript switchman on the railway for Montana Central. He had no family in Montana, but he did play minor league baseball for Missoula and Great Falls following one unremarkable season as a catcher for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys in 1884. When Colgan was brutally crushed by a derailed coal car in 1895, The Great Falls Weekly Tribune treated Colgan like a hero, noting his “strong and hearty” physique, “strictly sober” lifestyle and how he was “a favorite in the ball team.” He’s buried in Old Highland Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

majors (that distinction actually belongs to Butte’s St. Vrain). Kibble, who was born in Illinois, moved to Roundup at age 15 to work the coal mines. Now, he was trying to latch on in The Show.

In the opposite dugout, Philly dressed a 21-year-old right-handed pitcher named Roy Crabb. The Iowa native joined the team a month earlier and was set to start the second game of the Sept. 13 doubleheader.

The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph hyped Crabb as “the diminutive speed merchant, who is said to have as much speed as [future Hall of Fame pitcher] Walter Johnson.”

But like Kibble, Crabb was just a rookie trying to stick around the majors for more than a cup of coffee.

The coffee hardly had time to go cold for either player.

Kibble lasted all of 11 days with the Naps before a leg injury forced him back to Roundup, where he married and opened a sporting goods store. His final stats: eight at-bats, zero hits. He reached base once after being hit by a pitch, and scored. The World War I veteran is buried at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery.

Crabb pitched four innings that Saturday against Cleveland; the game was called in the fifth due to darkness. Despite his feared fastball, he finished the 1912 season with a 2-5 record and then kicked around the minors for a few more years.

In 1924, he moved to Montana for reasons unknown and became a professional painter. Sixteen years later, he died in the Burke Hotel in downtown Lewistown and was buried in an unmarked grave in the city cemetery. The official cause of death was lung cancer, though Crabb’s obituary in the Lewistown Democrat News noted that he told friends and family his chest

who faced Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig during the 1927 World Series, but lost the series’ decisive game after unleashing a wild pitch that allowed the winning run; he lived in Bigfork and Polson before his death in 1976 at Fort Harrison. There’s also Charlie “Bud” Bicknell, Sam “Dad” Moffett, Jay Ward and Ed Kelly. Vern Ulrigg would appear to belong on the list of 10 players buried in the state; his headstone in the Missoula Cemetery reads, “Pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates.” Except there’s no record of Ulrigg ever playing an official game in the majors.

Even with these names added to the mix, there’s only one ballplayer who died in Montana and was also born in the state.

He happens to be the most accomplished of the bunch.

Dave McNally, of Billings, pitched in the majors from 1962 to 1975, spending all but one season with the Baltimore Orioles. Baseball historian Bill James called his curveball the best of his era. He won at least 20 games four consecutive years, was named an AllStar three times and helped the Orioles win two World Series. During the second of those championship runs, in 1970, he became the first—and still only—pitcher to hit a World Series grand slam. Two years later, he signed a contract paying him $100,000 a year, making him the first American League pitcher to earn a six-figure salary.

For all of his considerable achievements on the field— Sports Illustrated named him “Montana Athlete of the Century” in 1999—McNally made the biggest impact at the end of his career, with a piece of paper.

Before the 1975 season, Baltimore traded McNally to Montreal. The two sides couldn’t agree on a contract, meaning Mc-

“Happy” Jack Kibble, top, played third base for the Cleveland Naps alongside teammate “Shoeless” Joe Jackson before opening a sporting goods store in Roundup. Mike Mattimore, middle, saw his professional career marred by a team drinking scandal. A scorecard from Sept. 13, 1912, includes both Kibble and pitcher Roy Crabb, marking the only time two players buried in Montana ever appeared together on a Major League field.

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Nally had to play under the terms of his previous deal. He left the team in June, expecting to retire and return to Billings.

The players association had another idea. Led by Marvin Miller, it persuaded McNally and another pitcher involved in a similar contract dispute to file grievances with the league. The association wanted to overturn an old rule dating back to the 19th century, known as “the reserve clause,” that allowed teams to renew the rights of its players even if a player refused to sign a new contract. In effect, McNally and the other pitcher made the first moves in the fight for player free agency.

They won, forever changing the game.

With talent going to the highest bidder, the average annual salary rose from $44,000 in 1975 to $1.38 million in 1996 to $3.39 million today, according to the Associated Press. Miller, who wrote a memoir titled A Whole Different Ball Game, declared that McNally’s “willingness to challenge the reserve clause—what many called ‘the backbone of the game’—led to the most important arbitration decision in the history of professional sports.”

Not that any of it ended up mattering to McNally. He stuck to his word and stayed retired. He and his brother ran a car dealership in Billings, Archie Cochrane Motors.

When McNally died in 2002, after a long

The right-handed pitcher joined the Pirates on the last day of August. A month later, he was part of the first modern World Series between Pittsburgh and the Boston Americans.

In the fifth game of that best-of-nine series, the two teams were locked in a pitchers’ duel, scoreless after five innings.

In the sixth, Pittsburgh unraveled. Boston scored six times, then added another three in the seventh. That’s when the manager pointed to Thompson to mop up the mess and pitch the rest of the contest.

He did, giving up one run. Boston held on to win the game, then the series, behind its ace pitcher, Cy Young.

Thompson never played for Pittsburgh again. He bounced around the minors and then started 12 more Major League games in 1906 for St. Louis, losing 11.

As Thompson chased the last days of his baseball career, he made his home in Kalispell. He ran a cigar shop and pool hall on Main Street and was known as the local “father of baseball,” according to an October 1966 article in the Daily Inter Lake.

But not everyone remembered Thompson or his connection to the national pastime.

In 1953, Major League Baseball honored the 50th anniversary of the World Series by inviting all of the surviving Boston

lights are gone. Wood benches in the dugouts are slowly collapsing.”

After being the city’s main Little League park for decades, the neglected Thompson Field had fallen into disrepair. Nobody knew it was named in honor of Gus. Lotshaw’s article focused on a few neighbors and former Little Leaguers who grew up playing on Thompson Field, and wanted to spruce it up. At the same time, as they learned about the park’s history, they hoped to revive Thompson’s legacy. Less than two months after the article, on December 2, 2013, the Kalispell City Council voted to rename the entire area again, and officially christened Thompson Memorial Park.

“I played on that field as a child,” says Chad Fincher, director of Kalispell Parks and Recreation. “My foreman played on that field as a child. Knowing what that field represents, how it’s a part of our community history, gives us all the more reason to fix it up.”

Fincher says everyone from neighbors to a local Boy Scout to the Kalispell Lions Club has offered to help in some way.

There’s even a Facebook group dedicated to reviving the site. Together, they all plan to clean the field, replace fences and rebuild the dugouts. There’s also talk of erecting a permanent plaque behind home plate explaining the field’s significance.

“Knowing what that field represents, how it’s a part of our community history, gives us all the more reason to fix it up.” fight with lung cancer, the Billings community mourned the death of the local icon and leader. Among those quoted in the Billings Gazette story of McNally’s death was Jeff Ballard, who grew up playing baseball alongside McNally’s son in Billings. Ballard went on to pitch seven years in the majors, becoming the second-best Montana pitcher to ever play the game.

“I feel very sad,” Ballard told the Gazette. “... I respected him so much. He was a hero in my eyes.”

NOT FORGOTTEN With so much of these personal stories saturated in baseball nostalgia, it’s easy for the non-fan to wonder why any of these old tales matter. It’s an ancient game, surpassed now in popularity by football and basketball, with nothing to cling to but dust-covered statistics of days gone by. Who cares? What’s the significance, if any, to today’s Montanans?

John Gustav Thompson, better known as Gus, may provide the answer.

Late in the 1903 baseball season, the Pittsburgh Pirates picked up Thompson after he’d blown through the Pacific National League for the Helena Senators.

and Pittsburgh players to that year’s event—except Thompson. The snub prompted Thompson to march into the Inter Lake offices and introduce himself.

“I just wanted to tell you that I pitched in the 1903 Series for Pittsburgh against the Boston Red Sox,” Thompson told sports editor Grover Fletcher, according to the paper. “They invited all of the players who participated in that first World Series classic to be guests at the DodgerYankee series this year and I’d like to know why they can’t find me. I’ve been living here in Kalispell for a good many years.”

The Inter Lake also reported on a similar, more recent slight.

In 2007, almost 50 years after Thompson died in Kalispell at the age of 80, the Eastside Neighbors Group spearheaded an effort to update one of the city’s aging parks. They resurfaced the tennis and basketball courts and built a new gazebo along 10th Avenue East.

They named it Eastside Park.

Meanwhile, a neighboring baseball field that was considered part of the park sat untouched. In an October 2013 article, the Inter Lake’s Tom Lotshaw described its dirt infield as “choked with weeds. Its

“It’s a little more work for us, sure,” Fincher says, “but I know the pride I felt after learning about who it was named after and what he did. It’s worth it for the historical value and what it means to the people who live here. It’s a part of us.”

In some ways, Thompson’s story encompasses all the elements of Montana’s connections to professional baseball. Those connections, like sports in general, offer little more than an odd

escape. They also offer entry points to learning a bit more about the state, the game and history in general.

For years, few knew Thompson’s significance within his own community—just as few would ever bother to learn about Ed Colgan, the speed merchant Crabb or any of the other players now laid to rest here. But when the neighbors did learn about Thompson, they rallied to preserve a part of their community—and, in the end, to build a place where kids could continue to play a silly summer game with a long and storied past. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

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Outskirt art Zootown Fringe Festival walks the edge with porch shows, parking garages and the future of redheads

by Erika Fredrickson

A Spokane artist collective brings the exhibit Not From Here to the Zootown Fringe Festival.

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t’s not so weird that Missoula would start up a Fringe Festival. After all, people in the eastern half of the state have been reminding us of our outcast status since at least the 1960s. What is strange is that we haven’t been part of the Fringe Festival network until now—67 years after the first Fringe sprung up in Edinburgh, Scotland, and 56 years after it became an emulated event across the world. Missoula’s Zootown Fringe Festival had its debut last August with help from organizer Michelle Klinger Risho, but this year it was officially accepted as a recognized Fringe member, which bodes well for its future. For those in the dark, the Fringe Festival is four days (and a handful of prefestival activities) where music, theater, art, dance, film and other performances fill venues around town in obvious places like theaters and not-so-obvious places like residential porches and parking lots. It’s non-juried, so the events are wildly diverse and they cost anywhere between nothing and $12. Here we highlight some of this year’s fringiest aspects.

Porch monkeys When you think of summer in Missoula you think of floating the river and barbecues. But don’t you also imagine lazily sipping beverages in the shade on some grand old porch? Porchfest indulges that fantasy of whiling away the evening by bringing live music to stoops up and down Fourth Street at private residences with hosts who apparently don’t mind strangers hanging out on their property. You’ll be able to hear folk, roots rock, kirtan and jazz from 5 to 11 PM as you travel from one porch to another.

It’s a classic summer activity with a wandering gypsy twist.

Porchfest musicians play Thu., Aug. 14, 5 to 11 PM on Fourth Street West. Free. Visit zootownfringe.org for more details.

Roast, take two Do you know Abe Abramson? It’s likely you do (or he knows you). Maybe you saw him at Burning Man or you know him from the library council or some other nonprofit board. He’s a mentor for veterans and a Bob Dylan enthusiast. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch and Ancient Greek. According to Fringe Festival organizers, he describes himself as a “secular humanist” and a “radical centrist Democrat.”

They describe him as a “mentor to many.” We can sum him up as a Missoula character. For all his local celebrity, Fringe organizers decided to have a roast for him last year, but on the day of the event, Abramson fell off his bike and got a concussion, and the event was canceled. This roast, therefore, is a redo, which makes it all the more weird. Let’s hope Abramson, in the meantime, takes it easy on the pedals.

Abe Abramson’s roast takes place at the Roxy Theater Sat., Aug. 16, from 6 to 7 PM. Free.

Paved paradise Sometimes we are so narrow-minded about parking garages. All that space and those crazy acoustics and we merely park our cars there? A travesty. A jazz duo and a hip-hop collective will change that depressing fact by playing in the otherwise dull concrete structure of the Central Parking Garage on Main Street.

Minneapolis’ Cherry Sky, which includes Abhinav, eL.I.Be, T’la Shawn, Rico Polo and Rich Garvey, will

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perform its groovy, jazz-influenced beats on Thursday evening following a set by “Steve and Dave.” Remember how Joni Mitchell sang “paved paradise, put up a parking lot?” She might feel a little bit better knowing that a parking lot doesn’t have to be quite so lame.

Jazz duo “Steve & Dave” play the Central Parking Garage Thu., Aug. 14, at 8 PM followed

by Cherry Sky at 9 PM. Free.

Spokane invasion An artist collective from Spokane has created an exhibit called Not from Here that is all about playing with your emotions. Soothing landscape photography mixes in with graphic paintings—one shows a large-assed devil stealing a child from a crib, another has a Ku Klux Klan member juggling. What’s interesting about this exhibit is the artists also include phrases and images that speak to what they find offensive—things like Honey Boo Boo, programming on the Learning Channel and taxes and limitations on green living. In other words, ideas and images that often horrify religious and mainstream viewers contrasted with things that should horrify them.

Not From Here opens at the Missoula Mercantile Wed., Aug. 13, through Sat., Aug. 16, 11 AM to noon daily. Free.

Keys and toys At first blush, a piano player at an art gallery isn’t that surprising. One might even say it’s quite conventional. But Steven Ansell’s music has been described by festival organizers as a “misinterpretation of Beethoven” and “music for future cartoons,” so already we’re talking about something off the beaten

path. You can catch Ansell at the Brink Gallery twice over the course of Zootown Fringe, but you might also see him down at the public yellow piano on Higgins Avenue by Wordens. His playing is free, but any donations will go toward a good cause. Ansell’s 3year-old son, Benjamin, lost a load of his possessions (toys especially) when they were recently stolen from a bike trailer in a church parking lot. ( Yep, we know what you’re thinking.) Instead of money you can also bring Lincoln Logs, stuffies or other toys to help.

Steven Ansell plays The Brink Gallery Thu., Aug. 7, from 6 to 7 PM, and Sat., Aug. 16, from 7 to 8 PM. Free.

Red and dead The old and often hurtful jokes about redheads get a kind of futuristic treatment in creator/performer Jordan Lloyd Watkins’s Project Gingervitis. Directed by David Bloom, Watkins takes what appears to be a mildly teased group of people and uses it creatively as yet another example of the harm that a society causes when it marginalizes people. This isn’t just a one-man play—it’s an hour-long multimedia production that encourages viewers to interact with the ideas using the dramatic, fringe-worthy hashtag #lastofyourkind.

Project Gingervitis will be staged at the Roxy Theater Fri., Aug. 15, at 9 PM, and Sat., Aug. 16, at 5:30 PM and 10. $10/$8 students.

Find the full Zootown Fringe Festival schedule and ticket info at zootownfringe.org. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

Pushing limits Obnox busts past the confines of punk In the song “Marcy Mays,” Lamont “Bim” Thomas yells, “Rock and roll is my birthright, man. Get it right!” to squealing horns and distorted guitars. The title of the punk-rock, acid-jazz track is a reference to the frontwoman of 1980s band Scrawl, and it feels like both a tribute to her and a subversion of the punk genre. What makes it a sub- Obnox version is the audacious way Thomas employs soul and hip-hop without losing the punk spirit. But it’s also that the punk scene is so white-male oriented and here’s Thomas, an African-American musician singing about a riot grrrl.

Obnox came from the early Ohio alternative scene and is best known as the drummer for The Bassholes.

His influences include Tim Kerr and Minor Threat, and his recent EP offers distorted, magnetic covers of The Urinals and Gaunt. Last year, he spoke candidly with

Pitchfork about race in rock.

“Rock and roll could stand some more brothers right now, some more swagger,” he told Pitchfork. Even as a lover of three-chord punk, I agree that punk feels safer than ever.

Listening to songs like “How to Rob (The Punk Years),” where Obnox pairs biting hiphop with angular guitar riffs is photo courtesy of YouTube like hearing punk rock in a parallel universe. Elements of it are as recognizable and enjoyable as any Dead Kennedys or Dwarves song, but he adds an edge that reignites the revolutionary core of the style. This isn’t just mixing genres, it’s the kind of true punk invention that makes you say, “Ah, so that’s what we were missing.” (Erika Fredrickson) Obnox plays Total Fest Thu., Aug. 14, at the ZACC with Shannon and the Clams, MASS FM, Boys and more. Show starts at 5 PM. $15/$55 for full Total Fest pass. Visit totalfest.org for ticket info.

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Richard Album and The Singles, Richard the Third Richard Album’s power pop occupies the interesting space between sincere and tongue-in-cheek.

“She’s the singer of a hardcore band, the words of which I can’t understand,” Album sings with boyish charm on “She Only Wants to be a Punk,” one of the best tracks on Richard the Third, released this month.

The record refines the endearing goofiness the Chicago transplant-by-way-of-Olympia started putting out in 2012. The songs are less rushed, more attention is paid to catchy riffs and the songwriting is a step up as well. Much of the credit is owed to Album’s new backing band, The Singles, and guitarist Mike Meegan’s hand at co-producing. (The Lifestyles was

the less-aptly named backing band on Album’s second release in 2013, The Sophomore Album.)

Richard the Third comes off like landlocked surf rock in the way the songs are relaxed and carefree (though not careless) in their construction. “Jonathan” nails that happy-go-lucky feeling with its repetitive choruses and minimal chord choices. Then “Called Out” and its synthy melody confounds any attempt to give the band’s sound a place in time. It’s not a throwback to anything, just unpretentious pop rock. (Brooks Johnson) Richard Album plays the VFW Thurs., Aug. 7, at 10 PM with Gerygone & Twig, Desert Center and Crooked Cops. $5.

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Black Joe Lewis Black Joe Lewis has come a long way since his 2008 hit “Bitch, I Love You.” His sensibility has refined, in the sense that he less self-consciously exploits the chitlin-circuit iconography his name and that song title evoke, but he is still a boogie wild man. Lewis is selling a kind of punk version of funk and soul. As he develops, that version becomes less sloppy and more furiously intense. His most recent album, 2011’s Scandalous, is tighter and quieter than 2009’s Tell ’Em What Your Name Is. Lewis is still capable of hitting the power shots, though, as on the screamed-through “Since I Met You Baby.” As his natural talent converges

on the musically demanding tradition of Texas roadhouse soul, he seems to come closer to the ecstatic release he has been reaching for throughout his career.

The Honeybears are getting tighter and more dynamic, and Lewis himself is developing more intermediate settings between talking and yelling. It would appear that they are approaching the height of their powers. Now is the time for Black Joe Lewis to make good on his natural gifts. He seems more comfortable with the quiet parts, and that makes the screams more thrilling. (Dan Brooks) Black Joe Lewis plays The Top Hat Thu., Aug. 14, at 9 PM. Doors open at 8. $16/$14 advance.

Soulja Boy Tell ’Em I assume that Soulja Boy Tell ’Em made a deal with the devil sometime around summer 2007. The devil would make him a ringtone millionaire with the insanely popular dance jam “Crank Dat.” Soulja Boy Tell ’Em would become the most successful rapper ever to have an imperative in his name, and then he would spend the rest of his life failing to replicate that success. That’s the kind of irony the devil likes.

It’s hard to say whether the terms of this deal bother Soulja Boy so much. His first album was titled Souljaboytellem.com, so maybe he is not troubled by a grand artistic vision. But he has also released nine al-

bums in the seven years since “Crank Dat.” If he is merely cashing in, he is working awfully hard at it.

2014’s King Soulja 3 is a cookie-cutter execution of contemporary southern rap that borrows heavily from the cadences of Gucci Mane, but it is not half-assed. The last seven years of Soulja Boy’s career prove that making it does not mean you quit working. The rap game lasts longer than one summer, and Soulja Boy seems intent on taking it into the late rounds. (Dan Brooks) Soulja Boy ’Tell Em plays the Wilma Wed., Aug. 13, at 8 PM. Doors open at 7. $32.50/$29.50 advance at jadepresents.com and Rockin Rudy’s.

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In a YouTube video posted just a few weeks ago, Blackalicious rapper Gift of Gab stands at the front of the stage in Athens, Georgia’s, Terminal West club, hyping the crowd up with news about Blackalicious’ upcoming album, Emoni, which is the Swahili word for faith.

“We gotta have faith,” he tells the crowd, as Blackalicious’ other half, DJ/producer Chief Xcel, keeps a simple beat playing in the background. “It’s one of the most powerful forces. It’s the power to believe.

You create your life through what you believe.”

He launches into a new song from the album, “Blacka,” spitting intelligent, rapid-fire verses a capella: “Blacka than a panther, blacka than Atlanta, blacka than the buildings of the pyramids in Africa...” as Xcel drops just a taste of the beat, and a room full of converts bob their heads in mesmerized unison.

The California hip-hop duo has the confidence of preachers in a mega-church, and a fanbase to go with it. But the rappers haven’t played by the rules of most popular acts. In two decades, Blackalicious has only released three full-length albums and a few EPs. The one before Emoni came out a decade ago. Their touring has been just as sparse. In an era when audiences have ringtone-length attention spans, when music bombards the Internet daily, Blackalicious has managed to maintain a buzz despite its slow-burning, low profile.

Part of the reason is the distinctiveness of its music.

Blackalicious built its reputation on dense rhyming patterns, positive messages and live-instrument-based beats that seem simultaneously classic and progressive.

Xcel assembles crashing piano chords, subtle horn inflection and stabbing guitar licks for a diverse funk/soul smorgasbord that Gab chews up with astonishing finesse. Club-friendly grooves and mellow storytelling blend effortlessly with tracks like the tempo-juggling, scientific brain twister “Chemical Calisthenics” and the nine-plus minute “Release part 1,2 & 3.” The latter two disregard conventional hip-hop song formats with a nearly prog-rock display of structure.

Serious musical peers can be counted among the converts, and that goes a long way to the group’s credibility. The liner notes of its last two albums, Blazing Arrow and The Craft, read like a laundry list of top musicians that spans way past hip-hop, from George Clinton and Gil Scott Heron to Questlove and Rage Against The Machine’s Zack de la Rocha. Gab’s control of syntax and phrasing has made him a coveted guest emcee on songs by artists like Galactic, Zion-I and G. Love. But the other part of Blackalicious’ success is

that it has never bent to mainstream hip-hop’s idea of cool—hard-knocks backstory and thuggish caricature.

Gab and Xcel are highly talented and intelligent, but they also come off as pretty regular guys in their lyrics.

“These are things I have conversations about every day with my friends, my family, my loved ones,” Gab tells the Indy about the topics he chooses. “I’m not trying to create some sort of persona; these are my views and my observations.”

After the release of The Craft in 2005, Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel put Blackalicious on the backburner and spent the bulk of their time in the studio with different solo projects and collaborations. In the meantime, the landscape of hip-hop changed dramatically. Commercialization and Top-40 formulas have pushed the art form further up the Billboard charts but the sophistication has suffered. Whether that’s due to an industry that doesn’t take risks or the non-discerning tastes of the general public—or both—is open for debate.

In order for an artist to progress, they must also have faith in their audience to want something smarter. And Gab says the pendulum is swinging back in the duo’s favor.

“Remember back in the ’90s, people were like, ‘Music sucks, we need that old soul from the ’70s?’” Gab asks.

“Now, people are feeling that about hip-hop, and the ’90s and early 2000s are like the new ’70s. People are wondering, ‘What happened to the hip-hop with substance?’”

If the “Blacka” video is any indicator, Emoni will fit that bill. It might not top the charts, but that measure of success hasn’t kept the public from knowing who Blackalicious is. With its first EP, Melodica, dating back to 1994, Blackalicious is among a short list of elder statesmen still active and referenced in the industry.

“Used to think 30 years old then the end comes/now I feel like I’m just gaining momentum,” Gift of Gab rapped on the The Craft’s “World of Vibrations” almost a decade ago. Now in his early 40s, that perspective has remained unchanged. He has a lot of faith in what Blackalicious does, but he also has hard evidence in the fans.

“Belief and faith can work for you or it can work against you,” Gab says in the “Blacka” video. “So be positive. Think positive, be positive, do positive things, do positive acts. And create that power.”

Blackalicious plays the Palace Thu., Aug. 14, at 10 PM. $18/$15 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s or seafarerentertainment.com. arts@missoulanews.com

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Galactic guffaw Guardians puts the “comic” back in comic-book

by Scott Renshaw

The most confusing police lineup ever.

In the last several years, since the Marvel Cinematic Universe started to take over the multiplex universe, we’ve seen heroes introduced to us in many different ways. They’ve been gods fallen to earth, and scrawny men turned into something like gods. They’ve been badasses and screw-ups and tormented scientists, but they’ve all more or less felt the way superheroes are supposed to feel.

And then there’s the way co-writer/director James Gunn introduces Peter Quill (Chris Pratt)—aka StarLord—in Guardians of the Galaxy: as a thief on an alien planet, wearing an old-school Walkman and headphones, dancing along to Redbone’s 1974 song “Come and Get Your Love” while turning a lizard-like specimen of the local fauna into an impromptu Mr. Microphone.

Even if you’re the biggest geeky fan of Marvel’s attempt to create an integrated series of movies, it’s hard to deny that all that planning and strategizing has resulted in a certain sameness of fan-pleasing structure and tone. But there’s something singularly weird about Guardians of the Galaxy for most of its running time. Where other comic-book fare has felt like action blockbusters with sprinkles of comic relief, Gunn has been allowed to make a comedy that happens to feature comic-book characters.

The titular quintet is nothing like a team as the story opens; indeed, they mostly seem interested in killing one another in various permutations. Quill, an Earth man kidnapped by intergalactic pirates as a child and raised in their ways, has alienated his gang while trying to obtain a mysterious orb. A pair of mercenary partners—the genetically-modified raccooncreature Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and the sentient tree-thing Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel)—have been hired to retrieve Quill for the disgruntled pirates. The assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana)—working for the villainous Ronan (Lee Pace)—is out to get the same orb that Quill has recovered. And the hulking Drax (pro wrestler Dave Bautista) wants to murder Gamora, or at least use her to get to Ronan, who was responsible for the death of his wife and child.

The dysfunctional family dynamic has played a role in other comic-book teams—including Joss Whedon’s mega-successful take on The Avengers—but there’s a different vibe to Gunn’s approach here.

These five characters are all isolated in some fashion, whether by loss of their family, or never actually having one, and in their own way kind of desperate for genuine connection. Even when the movie is getting silly, Guardians manages to lock in on that sense of how their emotional need for one another overrides their instinct for distrust.

It gets quite silly, indeed, but that turns out to be its secret weapon. For anyone who saw Gunn’s 2010 feature Super—with Rainn Wilson as a costumed vigilante wreaking disproportionate vengeance on criminals—it’s no surprise that Gunn has a particularly demented take on comic-book tropes. What’s surprising is that Marvel allows him to cut loose with his B-movie, what-the-hell abandon, even as he’s cranking out energetic set pieces like the chase that finds Rocket, Groot and Gamora all pursuing Quill through an alien-world metropolis. He throws in oddball touches like Quill regaling Gamora with a tale from his planet about the importance of dancing, “The Legend of Footloose.” The characters are prickly and charming, led by Pratt’s wonderfully charismatic take on anti-heroic heroism, and a surprisingly funny Bautista as the literal-minded Drax.

Guardians is so wonderfully idiosyncratic for much of the time that it’s kind of a bummer to watch it wrap up with an obligatory world-in-peril finale, as Ronan’s massive warship attacks the capital of the empire with which he has a racial-separatist beef. The sprawling dogfight hits all the “look at this, ain’t it spectacular” buttons, yet that’s exactly when it feels as though Gunn was obliged to take script notes from the Marvel formula, lest fans somehow wind up disappointed that it’s more hilarious than awesome.

Guardians of the Galaxy is, however, most delightful exactly when it’s its own goofy, punky self.

Sure, Gunn’s gonna give you the sequence where the team finally pulls together and does its slow-motion “hero walk.” But he’s gonna work from Quill’s beloved Walkman mixtape and have them do that walk to the Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb.” We could use more heroes like that.

Guardians of the Galaxy continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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Stairway to Wheaton Led Zeppelin Played Here delves into a mystery

by Kate Whittle

I can’t quit you, babe.

Human memory, as all sorts of studies have shown, is generally untrustworthy. Real memories can easily be replaced with false ones. And sometimes, people just want to believe that something happened a particular way, so much that they don’t realize they’re lying.

The 2013 documentary Led Zeppelin Played Here, directed by Jeff Krulik, finds its tension in the question of just how reliable memory is. “That’s how I remember it, anyway,” says more than one person interviewed by Krulik, who is most well known for the short doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Led Zeppelin Played Here introduces us to a smalltown legend about a snowy January night in 1969, the same day Nixon was inaugurated, when Led Zeppelin played Wheaton Community Center in Maryland to a small crowd of teens who had no clue what they were witnessing. The band had just released its first album and was still fairly obscure. Months after the alleged Wheaton show, Led Zeppelin would go on to play now-legendary concerts with groups like The Who and become one of the best-selling bands in history.

But did Led Zep really play Wheaton? No ticket stubs, posters or photos remain to prove whether it happened. Krulik grabs a camera and interviews people who remember hearing secondhand about the concert the next day at school, and a couple people who insist they were there, including a woman who gives a suspiciously detailed blow-by-blow, demonstrating, “And this is where Jimmy Page stood, and here’s where Robert Plant was...”

During the course of Krulik’s thorough investigation, the film revels in ’60s kitsch and memorabilia, and gives historic atmosphere with clips of the Nixon inaugural ball and lots of amateur footage of bands (seeing Jethro Tull in 16 mm is pretty hilarious). Krulik meets a lot of music producers, executives and fans who try to recall the cannabis-infused events of 1969. “I don’t know, man, all the pot we was smokin’,” says one old-timer when asked if he remembers Zeppelin playing Wheaton.

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It’s perfectly plausible that Zeppelin played Wheaton, as Krulik finds. Posters from other shows prove the band was in the area at the time. Wheaton and other community centers in the region did host acts like Rod Stewart, Dr. John, Rare Earth and Brownsville Station. Iggy Pop played the Wheaton Center, too, much to the chagrin of a venue staffer, who says in a phone interview that it was a mess to clean up all the peanut butter that Iggy smeared everywhere.

But for all the people who swear up and down that they were there for the Led Zeppelin show, or that they heard from someone who was there, others in the film present perfectly valid arguments for why it wouldn’t have been possible. A local music columnist says he would have wrote about it in his show listings if it had really happened, and that it’s suspicious that there are no photos, since plenty of teens brought Kodak Instamatic cameras to shows in those days.

Toward the end of the film, Krulik even attends a Kennedy Center event red carpet and asks Jimmy Page whether Zeppelin might have played Wheaton.

“I don’t know, I can’t remember,” Page says amiably.

While there’s plenty of fun moments, Led Zeppelin Played Here probably didn’t need to be feature length.

The interview soundbites rehash things that we already learned in the introduction, and at a point, the mystery loses its intrigue. Some of the Woodstock anecdotes from gray-haired hippies feel like extra padding. The end of the film picks up, though, when Krulik finds one final piece of evidence that lends some credence to the Wheaton legend. But it’s still ultimately based on a person’s hazy memory—so whether to believe it or not? That’s up to the viewer.

Led Zeppelin Played Here screens at the Top Hat as part of the Big Sky Film Series Mon., Aug. 11, at 8 PM. Free. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK INTO THE STORM A town is plagued by a bizarre onslaught of cyclones in a single day. Advance reviews indicate that the plot kind of ... blows. Starring Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies and Matt Walsh. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

LED ZEPPELIN PLAYED HERE The filmmaker from Heavy Metal Parking Lot investigates a local legend that Led Zeppelin played a Maryland community center in 1969.

Not rated. Screening at the Top Hat Mon., Aug. 11 at 8 PM. (See Film.)

MOOD INDIGO (L’ECUME DES JOURS) Young lovers in a whimsically surreal version of Paris must find a cure for the gal’s flower growing in her lungs. Directed by Michel Gondry, the Science of Sleep dude. Starring Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh. Screening at the Roxy Aug. 8-10 and 15-17 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. STEP UP ALL IN Your favorite all-stars from previous Step Up movies come together for an ab-tacular Vegas showdown. Starring Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan and Adam G. Sevani. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Because nothing is sacred, now the turtles are getting the CGI-and-explosions Michael Bay treatment. Starring Megan Fox, Will Arnett and William Fichtner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

Way cooler than an electric car. Mood Indigo opens Friday at the Roxy.

GET ON UP See how a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks grew up to be James Brown, Godfather of Soul. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis and Dan Aykroyd. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

LIFE ITSELF Steve James’ documentary recounts the life of the late film critic, commentator and one of the best people to ever use Twitter, Roger Ebert.

Rated R. Wilma.

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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Basically, imagine Andy from “Parks and Rec” as a trenchcoat-wearing space pilot goofball leading a team of misfits. Totally excellent. Starring Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

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LUCY Scarlett Johansson becomes a merciless superhuman after a scientific experiment. As a nerd, I am compelled to tell you that the plot’s science is based on a fundamental fallacy, but hey, it’s still ScarJo. Also starring Morgan Freeman and Min-sik Choi. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

BEYOND THE EDGE Follow the dramatic ups and downs of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary’s 1953 ascent of Mount Everest, in archival footage and reenactments. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Aug. 1-3 and 9-10 at 7 and 9 PM.

HERCULES The Artist Formerly Known as “The Rock” plays the legendary buff Greek demigod. Also starring John Hurt and Ian McShane. Rated PG-13 for partial nudity and epic battle, so sign me up.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

OBVIOUS CHILD A dumbass 20-something Brooklyn gal gets dumped, fired and knocked up in a groundbreaking pro-choice rom com. Starring Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy and Gaby Hoffmann. Rated R. Wilma.

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

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

IDA Before a young Polish woman can take her vows as a nun, she discovers a dark family secret that could derail her life plans. Starring Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska and Dawid Ogrodnik. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE Intrepid Dusty joins forces with his helicopter buddy and a team of smokejumpers to battle a wildfire. Starring the voices of Dane Cook, Ed Harris and Julie Bowen. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE DARJEELING LIMITED Three brothers with rather distinct schnozzes take a train trip across India together. Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Thu., Aug. 7, at 7 PM, as part of the Wes Anderson series.

SLUGTERRA: RETURN OF THE ELEMENTALS Slugslingers gotta use that Slug Fu to unite against an evil alliance in this family friendly anime. Not rated. Screening at Carmike 12 on Saturday and Sunday at noon.

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

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Food for free

by Ari LeVaux The voice on the phone gave me directions to a house in a residential neighborhood. The way she spoke made me feel vaguely like James Bond receiving an assignment from “M.” “The owners gave permission for the tree to be picked, but they don’t get home from work until 2.

Before then, don’t even knock on the door because they have two yipper dogs who will go crazy. If the dogs are in the backyard, knock on the neighbor’s door and he’ll put them inside,” she explained. “The tree is really tall, and I think it might be grafted, which means the upper cherries could be better than the lower ones, so if you have a ladder you should bring it. In this heat they aren’t going to last long so you should go soon. Do you think you can go today?”

My assigning officer had manila envelopes full of information on more than 100 trees around town, including 23 apricot, 52 apple, 16 plum and seven pear, as well as grapes, cherries and berries. When she’s out and about, she takes note of new ones, knocks on doors, and asks residents if they plan to pick their fruit. If not, she asks permission to send hungry harvesters like myself to do the picking.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 33 percent of the food grown worldwide goes to waste without being consumed. Valued at $750 billion, it would take a farm the size of Mexico to produce this amount of wasted food. And when it rots in a landfill, the UNFAO estimates that the gases that are created account for 6 to 10 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. If global food waste were a country, Grist.org reports, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

In the face of a growing population, much attention has been paid to various ways of producing more food, usually via modern agricultural techniques. A less sexy approach to feeding the hungry, while simultaneously cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions, would be to reduce the amount of food that is wasted.

Enter the gleaners.

The act of gleaning, as it relates to food, is to salvage food that would have gone unharvested. It’s an act as old as agriculture. The poor used to prowl the harvested fields of rich landowners and pick the grains or vegetables left behind. In the world’s poorest countries, the same practice still occurs in much the same way. In wealthier nations like the U.S., gleaning takes on myriad modern forms.

Activist groups have emerged in some cities to forge relationships with grocers, caterers, restaurants and growers, as well as with food pantries, homeless shelters and other organizations feeding the hungry.

Many of these organizations, such as Food Shift in the

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Bay Area, consider reducing greenhouse gas emissions to be an essential part of their missions—along with feeding those in need.

And then there are rogue gleaners like myself, working in cahoots with the likes of the woman who told me about the cherry tree. Beginning in mid-summer, it’s easy to walk the residential streets and alleyways looking for trees from which ripe fruit is dropping to the ground.

All it takes is a knock on the door to determine if the homeowner would be open to you picking the fruit. I usually offer to pick up the rotten fruit that has already fallen as well, in exchange for harvesting the potential future mess still dangling from the trees.

Then, if everything goes according to plan, I have a lot of fruit on my hands, which must be dealt with quickly. It can be frozen, whole or juiced, or turned into jam, or dehydrated. I prefer dehydrating my fruit because it’s simple and it doesn’t involve any extra ingredients. The finished product takes up very little space, and I can bring it hiking.

Later in the season, I’ll turn my attention to fall vegetables, like kale, which gets sweeter after a frost.

The freeze is usually beginning just as the farmers markets are ending, and farmers are ready to turn their fields under for the year. During the last few markets of the season I’ll strike deals with growers to acquire large amounts of their kale before it meets the plow.

Sometimes the grower will invite me to come glean it myself, old-school style. But more often they’ll offer to harvest a massive amount and sell it to me at a bargain rate. Technically speaking, food that’s acquired in this manner isn’t “gleaned,” but “recovered.”

Either way, it’s food that wasn’t wasted, and food that puts less demand on a carbon-intensive, land-hungry food system.

For those who don’t have an associate like the woman who guided me to the cherry tree (from which I used a steam juicer to make cherry juice, which I froze), the Internet can make a good substitute. A new organization called Falling Fruit (Fallingfruit.org) is building a worldwide database of urban edibles, including, according to a video on the site, “Apples, apricots, mangoes, plums, avocados, star fruit, citrus, nuts, berries, vegetables spices, herbs [and] mushrooms.” A smartphone app is under development, soon to be released.

I loaded the map onto my laptop and took a look.

It showed, within blocks of my house, apples, apricots, plums, peaches and grapes. So I took a walk, and there they were. There was also a nice gooseberry bush. Many trees were hanging over fences above the sidewalk. There were no mangos to be scrounged, but I pigged out nonetheless.

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35 years of baking goodness. Open 6a8p Bernice's offers an incredible selection of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you've never been in you are missin' out. And if you haven't been in lately you really should make it a point to stop by. July is a great month for slow walks along the Clark Fork while you sip Bernice's iced coffee or a refreshing Arnold Palmer and nibble on a coconut macaroon. Picnic? Bernice's is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice's: made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. xoxo bernice. Open 6a - 8p seven days a week. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns: Thursday 8/7 Big Brains Trivia 8-10 pm. Monday 8/11 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 8/12 Burger + Beer $8. Wednesday 8/13 $2 Wells & $2 PBR Tall Boys. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ 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, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh cof-

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The Chrondo at Flipper’s HANGRIEST HOUR the lack of spirits. While we think a cold pint of Kokanee offers the best means of balancing the heat and heft of the Chrondo, there are many options, including Roscoe’s Red, an amber ale that Kettlehouse brews specially for Flip’s.

What you’re eating: A locally ground, 1/3-pound hamburger topped with bacon, jalapeños, pepper jack cheese and Sriracha sauce, plus lettuce, tomato and onion.

How it’s made: The beef for Flipper’s burgers comes from downtown Missoula’s K&C Foods at least twice a week, so the patties are always fresh and made to order. For those who go for the Chrondo, Flipper’s day-shift bartender and cook McCoy Connor says there are three levels of heat: “You can make it crazy, or you can make it normal, or you can make it a little weaker, too.”

Make it hot: If you’re the kind of person who splashes Tabasco sauce in your red beer, you’ll probably want to ask for your Chrondo made crazy. If you do, Connor won’t just add extra Sriricha and extra jalapenos, he’ll also grill the jalapenos in Sriricha. The result is a kick of flavor and heat that will make your beer or other beverage taste even more refreshing than it already did.

What you’re drinking: Flipper’s doesn’t have liquor, but the beer selection makes up for

What you’re passing up: Connor says the Chrondo is the most popular of Flipper’s four speciality burgers, but the rest of the menu is loaded with good options. In addition to the selfexplanatory Bacon Bleu and Mushroom Swiss burgers, the Ringer offers a border-hopping combo of Canadian bacon and American cheese, plus barbecue sauce and an onion ring.

For those with an extreme appetite and a jaw that can pop in and out of its socket at will, all burgers can also be made as doubles.

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Where you’re eating: Flipper’s is at 125 South Third St. W., just south of the Clark Fork and just west of Higgins Avenue. It’s a comfortable, casual hangout with a casino, pool tables, Big Buck Hunter, pinball machine and a bunch of TVs, most of which show sports (and “Jeopardy”).

—Ted McDermott

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

Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers

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

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

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

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

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

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The Children’s Museum of Missoula hosts a Pop-Up Adventure Playground for imaginative kiddos in Northside Park, 1-3 PM. Free.

nightlife Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:30-8:30 PM.

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Get a tad saucy while Caleb Coffey plays tunes to drink to at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover.

Clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn hosts a Medicinal Plant Walk: Downtown Missoula by the Riverfront, where you can learn basic identification and uses for botanical medicine. 68 PM. $25. Registration required by calling 8300949 or britta.bloedorn@gmail.com.

Grab a bucket of suds with some hep cats while Joan Zen Jazz plays tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Acoustic folk trio Nickel Creek is hitting the road and stopping along the way at the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $55 for floor seats/$45 for balcony. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketweb.com.

Bust out a little geetar at the Open Mic at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Tell me, man, at the Big Sky Telemann Festival in Great Falls, featuring four all-Baroque concerts with local musicians at FIrst United Methodist Church, 610 Second St., nightly from 7:30-9:30 PM. $10/$7 for students, or $30 for pass/$21 for student passes.

New York rapper Cage hits Monk’s Bar, along with Sadistik, MAULSKULL, Codependents and Rude Max. Doors at 9 PM. $10 in advance at flavorus.com/cagemissoula.

Leave ‘em in your dust when Wild Coyote Band plays tunes at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM to 1:30 AM. No cover.

It’ll be positively irie when reggae veterans Natural Vibrations play tunes for jammin’ at the Top Hat. 9 PM. $10.

Suspenders of disbelief. Shannon and the Clams play the ZACC Thu., Aug. 14, as part of Total Fest XIII. 5 PM. $55 for pass/$5-$20 per show depending on the night. All ages. Tickets at totalfest.org and Ear Candy.

THURSDAYAUG07 Weird Missoula presents un-sun summer fun with experimental “un-noise” thingy Desert Center, Chicago’s Richard Album, plus Crooked Cops and Gerygone and Twig, at the VFW. 10 PM. $5. (See Music.)

Grab your sparkliest denim short-shorts, a lotta sunscreen and a straw hat, ‘cause it’s time for the Western Montana Fair, with carnival, food, bull-riding, Missoula Stampede PRCA Rodeo, concerts and more, Aug. 5-10 at the Missoula Fairgrounds Events Center. Visit missoulafairgrounds.com.

The Magic City Blues Festival presents four days of tunes in Chill-ings (as the locals do not call it) with headliners Jonny Lang, Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite and Huey Lewis and the News. (The locals do call it ‘Illings, however.) Most events are 18-plus or all-ages. Check out magiccityblues.com.

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

Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free.

Do them dirty deeds dirt cheap when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover.

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There’s a big waft of bands out there classified as genre-hopping bluegrass/folk/honky tonk/country, and it’s a kind of sound that we’re plenty familiar with here in Missoula. But while Alabama’s Pine Hill Haints fit under that label, they’re also more distinctly WHO: Pine Hill Haints, King Elephant, Whiskey Hooves, The Hasslers WHERE: ZACC Below WHEN: Fri., Aug. 8 at 8 PM HOW MUCH: $8/$6 in advance MORE INFO: zootownarts.org

odd and downright fun. This is just about the only band to claim the “Alabama ghost music” label, for one thing. The band’s line-up often features instruments you don’t see every day, like a musical saw and washtub bass. Lead singer Jamie Barrier tells

FRIDAYAUG08 Works from UM visual arts and creative writing graduate students come together in The Incarnate Poem, where works based on MFA student Julie Rouse “meet to reflect a wholeness of purpose as well as new approach to the relationship between text and material.”

ZACC. Second Friday reception from 5:30-8:30 PM. Lord knows there’s way more art than one Friday can hold, so check out the ZACC’s Second Friday Gallery Opening, with local art, refreshments and free screenprinting. The name of Bob Ross frequently gets invoked.

5:30-8:30 PM. Visit zootownarts.org.

Grab your sparkliest denim shortshorts, a lotta sunscreen and a straw hat, ‘cause it’s time for the Western Montana Fair, with carnival, food, bull-riding, Missoula Stampede PRCA Rodeo, concerts and more, Aug. 5-10 at the Missoula Fairgrounds

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ghost stories in Razorcake magazine interviews. Astonishingly for this day and age, the Haints haven’t even set up a Facebook page.

And not too many bands out there are familiar with Browning, especially not bands from Alabama, but the Pine Hill Haints busted into a jam about the town the last time they played Total Fest, in 2010.

Pine Hill Haints’ gothic rural sound could be a gimmick, but rather, the ladies and gents put too much hard work, musicianship and dedication to be anything but legit. The Haints play the ZACC on Aug. 8 along with a few of our own punk-hillbilly types, like the Whiskey Hooves and the Hasslers.

As a super special bonus, King Elephant reunites to round out the bill with some heartfelt punk rock, and presents its long-awaited record release for its latest album. You can use whatever adjectives you like for this show, but I’m gonna go with “awesome.”

—Kate Whittle

Events Center. Visit missoulafairgrounds.com.

Davidson Buell, Aug. 8-10, at 5106 E. Harrier St. Visit mtknifemakers.net.

The big-ass, nine-day MontanaFair kicks off today with fuzzy animals, mean animals, carnival rides, hobby exhibits, cheap 4-H ice cream cones, sushi vendors (not kidding) and much more. Also, Train and Chris Young play headlining concerts. Aug. 8-16 at MetraPark in Billings. Visit montanafair.com.

Celebrate all things Gaelic with the An Ri Ra Montana Irish Festival, featuring Irish authors, musicians, activities and film screenings, Aug. 8-10 in Butte. Visit mtgaelic.org.

All your butt-rockin faves like Queensrÿche, Winger, Lita Ford and Vixen are partying at Rockin the Rivers, Aug. 8-10 in Three Forks. Visit rockintherivers.com.

Sample a berry that cannot be tamed with the 35th annual Huckleberry Festival in Trout Creek, up Highway 200 past Thompson Falls, with pie-eating contest, pancake breakfasts, pageant, 5K run, dancing and dog agility demonstration. Visit huckleberryfestival.com.

The Butte Vigilante Rodeo promises broncs, bulls, barrels and “lots of clowns” (shudder) out on the rodeo grounds on Albany Avenue. Aug. 8-9. Call 494-3002 for info.

Whitefish invites you to have a berry good time at the annual Huckleberry Days Arts Festival, with lots of vendors serving up arts, food, bake-off contests and more at Depot Park, Aug. 8-10. Free. Visit whitefishchamber.org.

Crocodile Dundee will have a field day at the annual Montana Knifemaker Show, featuring handmade knives from makers all over the country. Hosted by Montana Harley

The fifth annual Big Sky BBQ Festival brings all manner of roasted meats and cold beers to Caras Park. 4 PM. Proceeds benefit the Montana Food Bank Network.

[calendar] nightlife Rock out with your dad out when ZZ Top and Jeff Back play a doubleheadliner at Ogren Park. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6. $49.50 for general admission field and seats. Tickets at MSO Hub, Rockin Rudy’s, 866-4687624 or knittingfactory.com. Kids under 14 get in free if accompanied by paying adult.

It’ll be a cheesy evening at Zootown Improv sketch comedy and improv evening at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. W. Doors at 6:30 PM. Beer, wine and Tarantino’s pizza available. $12/$22 for two if purchased online. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM, with a rotating group of live, local musicians. No cover.

Sip beers under the Big Sky while Charla Bauman plays songs from “Under the Big Sky” to at Higherground Brewery, 6-8 PM. No cover.

Enjoy zee cinema at Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema night, the second Friday of every month. Doors open at 6:45, show at 7 PM. Check missoulapublibrary.org for info. Free.

Chris Bianco provides tuneage on the outdoor terrace at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, from 7-10 PM. No cover.

Tell me, man, at the Big Sky Telemann Festival in Great Falls, featuring four all-Baroque concerts with local musicians at FIrst United Methodist Church, 610 Second St., nightly from 7:30-9:30 PM. $10/$7 for students, or $30 for pass/$21 for student passes.

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

Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Leave the pillowy folk at home when local outfit The Ruins play Hard Folk at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM-bar time. No cover.

The Roxy Theater celebrates one whole year of being a funky little indie cinema with ice cream, a bike raffle and screening of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. 8 PM. Free.

Rose-colored lenses. Nickel Creek plays the Wilma Thu., Aug. 7. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $55 for floor seats/$45 for balcony. Tickets at Rockin Rudy's and ticketweb.com.

Alabama’s Pine Hill Haints are in town for a Total Fest pre-blast, so the Whiskey Hooves, Hasslers and King Elephant are showing up to party with ‘em. Plus, it’s King Elephant’s long-awaited record release show.

ZACC. 8 PM. $8/$6 in advance at Ear Candy or totalfest.org. All ages. (See Spotlight.)

Show that tromboner with pride when Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue play the Top Hat. 8 PM. $30.

18-plus. Tickets at tophatlounge.com.

Hold on to your butts, ‘cuz the Chicks ‘n Chaps after-party is headed to the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM to close.

No cover.

Seattle’s eight-piece outfit Eric Blu and the Soul Revue gets horny at the Badlander, along with Shakewell. 9 PM. No cover.

Mess around with a buncha knobs when Tom Catmull’s Radio Static plays the Union Club, starting around 9:30 PM. No cover.

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

It’ll be an international love song when Beijing rock band Alpine Decline arrives at the Ole Beck VFW, with Italy’s Japanese Gum and Missoula outfits Boston Tea Party and Javier Ryan. 10 PM. $6/$8 for ages 18-20.

SATURDAYAUG09 The I-90 Collective, featuring violinists, lutists and cellists from across the country, presents baroque fantasias by Vivaldi, Bach and others in “The Corelli Connection.” Terry Cyr Photography Studio, 2218 Wylie Ave. 4:30-7 PM. $15/$5 for students. Refreshments included.

Check out i90collective.com.

Get hot coffee, baked treats, fresh produce and bump into all the friendly acquaintances you can handle at the Missoula Farmers Market, now running for 42 years. 8 AM-1 PM. Grab your sparkliest denim shortshorts, a lotta sunscreen and a straw hat, ‘cause it’s time for the Western Montana Fair, with carnival, food, bull-riding, Missoula Stampede PRCA Rodeo, and concerts Aug. 5-10 at the Missoula Fairgrounds Events Center. Visit missoulafairgrounds.com.

Get a first glimpse at upcoming totally cool art with the Total StageOut Sneak Peek, where you can pop in and see what artists like Jack Metcalf, Adelaide Every and Michael Workman are creating in the ZACC basement before the work is unveiled on the first day of Total Fest, Aug. 14.

10 AM-6 PM or so. Free.

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

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under the Higgins Bridge. Saturdays through October from 8 AM-1 PM. The Herbal Foundations SEED Program offers an in-depth course in the healing power of plants, particularly herbs native to the Rockies. Students will learn how to grow and use herbs for medicinal purposes. Meets on the second Saturday of every month at Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. W., at 9 AM, through August. $650. Call 728-0543 or email gp@herbsmt.com to learn more.

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

The South Valley Quilt Show and Sale invites one and all to see the fruits of this meticulous craft down at the Darby Community Clubhouse, from 10 AM-4 PM, with baked goods and coffee available. $1, or free with donation to the Darby Bread Box.

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Weapon of choice. Blues legend Robert Cray plays with the Robert Cray Band at the Top Hat Wed., Aug. 13, at 8 PM. Doors open at 8. $40.

Let art set your heart a-flutter at the annual Sandpiper Art Festival, featuring more than 80 booths of arts and crafts, plus live music and performance on the Lake County Courthouse Lawn. 10 AM-5 PM. Free admission. Learn more at sandpiperartgallery.com.

Whitefish invites you to have a berry good time at the annual Huckleberry Days Arts Festival, with lots of vendors serving up arts, food, bake-off contests and more at Depot Park, Aug. 8-10. Free. Visit whitefishchamber.org.

The Saturday Family Art Workshop: Papermaking with Erin Roberts takes it outside to use blenders and pulp to make unique and colorful creations. Missoula Art Museum, 11 AM-12:30 PM. Free, on a first-come, first-served basis.

nightlife Bring Mom and Pops and sister Susie, too, when The Whole Family plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Recall the good old days when Nashville duo You Knew Me When plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

The latest installment of the Murder at the Stensrud series presents Spirits of Suspicion, a comedic Thin Man tribute, with dinner theater catered by Tarantino’s Pizza. Aug. 9 at 7 PM. Take note: the final shows are

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on Aug. 16 and 17. $50/$80 for two, at stensrudplayhouse.com.

Tell me, man, at the Big Sky Telemann Festival in Great Falls, featuring four all-Baroque concerts with local musicians at FIrst United Methodist Church, 610 Second St., nightly from 7:30-9:30 PM. $10/$7 for students, or $30 for pass/$21 for student passes.

Let your inner dancing queen cut loose with Tango Missoula’s Argentine Tango at the Downtown Dance Collective from 8-11:45 PM on the second Saturday of the month. $10/$16 for couples. Check out tangomissoula.com.

Missoula Outdoor Cinema screens Sabrina—not the teenage witch, but rather the 1954 classic about a playboy and a chauffeur’s daughter—at Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. Starts at dusk, around 9:07 PM. $5 donation requested.

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

Don’t be a drag, just be a queen at ISCSM’s summer show at the Palace. Doors at 9 PM. show at 10. $5/$10 for ages 18-20. Proceeds benefit ISCSM’s annual scholarship.

Count on the Dirty Dozen Brass Band getting up to funky hijinks at the

[calendar] Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30. $18/$16 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

Boogie with our deputy calendar editor all nite long when the 406 Band plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

SUNDAYAUG10 Sweat? Hair? Riffage? You betcha when Talk Sick Brats, featuring members of Houston punk outfit Muhummadali, play the ZACC along with Seattle’s Bad Future, Missoula newbies Earthbound and possibly even the Rock Ness Monsters themselves, Total Combined Weight.

7 PM. $5.

Grab your sparkliest denim shortshorts, a lotta sunscreen and a straw hat, ‘cause it’s time for the Western Montana Fair, with carnival, food, bull-riding, Missoula Stampede PRCA Rodeo, concerts and more, Aug. 5-10 at the Missoula Fairgrounds Events Center. Visit missoulafairgrounds.com.

The Target Range Farmers Market gets into the swing of the season with several local produce vendors, out at 4095 South Ave. W. 10 AM-2 PM, Sundays through Sept. 28.

Whitefish invites you to have a berry good time at the annual Huckleberry Days Arts Festival, with lots of vendors serving up arts, food, bake-off contests and more at Depot Park, Aug. 8-10. Free. Visit whitefishchamber.org.

Let the creativity (and the drinks) flow at Art on Tap, a social painting class led by an instructor, with materials provided. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. 2-4:30 PM. $32. Visit artontapmissoula.com for tickets and more info.

Unleash that inner Monet or Degas with the Art on Tap sociable painting class, led by an instructor, with materials included. Montgomery Distillery. 2-4:30 PM. $32. Visit artontapmissoula.com for information and more tickets.

As part of the St. Timothy’s Summer Music Festival, Eden Atwood and other esteemed jazzy guests per-

form at the chapel, above Georgetown Lake near Anaconda, at 4 PM. Tickets and more info at sttimothysmusic.org.

Cash For Junkers plays tunes at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building, from 7-10 PM. No cover.

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Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free.

Three makes for cozy company when the Carla Green Trio plays tunes at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

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.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz.

Free.

MONDAYAUG11 The simplicity-loving dudes known as The Minimalists read from their memoir about shedding material possessions at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St., at 7 PM. Stop doing that plié for a second and take note, dancer-types, ‘cuz the first-ever Missoula Summer Dance Intensive starts today, with a series of choreography and technique courses Aug. 11-16 at Downtown Dance Collective, culminating in a public performance Aug. 16. Find more info and registration costs at ddcmontana.com.

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

Grab that ol’ trombone and head on over to Sentinel High School’s band room, where the Missoula City Band rehearses from 7-9 PM to practice before the Wednesday concert at Bonner Park. Call 7282400, ext. 7041.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and free shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander.

9 PM. Free. To tantalize those neurons, here’s a question: In Major League Baseball, what substance is every single new baseball rubbed with? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Put a bunny on it when Portland duo Hart & Hare play the Badlander’s posttrivia show, starting around 11 PM. No cover.

TUESDAYAUG12 Joseph, which is a trio of ladies, ironically enough, stop at the Badlander to play Americana tunes, along with the Marshall McLean band. 9 PM. No cover.

Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

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

All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning.

Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40. Students must have doctor’s okay.

nightlife Dangit, you slept in on Saturday again, but have no fear, the Missoula Farmers Market sets up on Tuesday evenings at the XXXXs to provide flowers, baked goods and all the servings of fruit and veg you layabouts need.

5:30-7 PM. EBT, WIC and senior vouchers accepted.

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

Jeepers, are your peepers tired and red? The seated Liu Dong healing qigong class with Libby McIntyre aims to replenish the qi of your eyes and brain. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 6-7:30 PM. $35, includes manual to take home.

Visit redwillowlearning.org.

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

Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 79 PM. Play ruff when Seattle’s funky three-piece McTuff grooves at the Palace, along with Ticket Sauce. 9 PM. No cover. (Trivia answer: Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud from a secret location on the Delaware River in New Jersey.)

Find that creative outlet ye seek at the Open Mic Night at Stage 112, starting at 9 PM. Call Mike at 207-7097 after 4 PM on Monday to sign yourself up.

WEDNESDAYAUG13 Robert Cray brings his mad blues skillz to the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40. Tickets at tophatlounge.com.

Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials. 7:30-10:30 PM. No cover.

All good things must come to an end, and so it is that the Missoula City Band presents its finale concert with Jay Straw. Bonner Park bandshell.

8 PM. Free.

The Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo brings lively entertainment day and night with carnival, PRCA rodeo, concerts, food, Indian relay races, demolition derby and, take note, is just about the last big fair in the state to include horse racing. Aug. 13-17 at Flathead County Fairgrounds on North Meridian Road in Kalispell.

Visit nwmtfair.com.

Party outside the box at the second annual Zootown Fringe Festival, which features a truckload of art, music, performance, workshops, experimental scrap percussion and “Steve on the Piano.” Go Steve!

Venues throughout Missoula, Aug. 1317. Events are $0-$12. Find a detailed schedule and info at zootown fringe.org. (See Arts.)

Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow.

Wednesdays, 7:30-8:15 AM. Previous experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/$8 drop-in.

Hold all my calls, Sally, for I’m stepping down to Caras Park for Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM-2 PM on Wednesdays with live local music and all manner of tasty things served out of food trucks.

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

Portland punk quartet Rotties is destined for Zombie Tools this day, with a show at 3 PM. Cover TBA. All ages.

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

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Triple threat. ZZ Top and Jeff Beck play Osprey Stadium Fri., Aug., 8. Doors at 5 PM. $49.50/free for kids under 14, if accompanied by paying adult. Tickets at MSO Hub, Rockin Rudy's or knittingfactory.com.

nightlife The Glass-Fusing Orientation Class will impart basic glass-fusing wisdom upon you and a friend (or a date, heyo) at the ZACC. 6 PM. Every second Wednesday of the month. $15, plus about $5-$20 for the cost of glass.

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night, featuring a rotating lineup of local jazz enthusiasts. 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Show ‘em your best Ellen Degeneres dance moves impression when Soulja Boy comes to the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$22 in advance. Check out jadepresents.com.

(See Music.)

Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus PBR pitcher special.

Find this week’s lineup and info at facebook.com/milkcrateproductions.

Party in the wild wild west when DJ LRock rocks the Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM to close.

THURSDAYAUG14 Shine up that belt buckle for the 29th annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Western Music Rendezvous, with literary proceedings, barbecue, stage show starring Sons of the San Joaquin and Sunday morning cowboy church.

Aug. 14-17 in Lewistown. Visit MontanaCowboyPoetryGathering.com.

Party outside the box at the second annual Zootown Fringe Festival, which features a truckload of art, music, performance, workshops, experimental scrap percussion and “Steve on the Piano.” Go Steve!

Venues throughout Missoula, Aug. 13-17. Events are $0-$12. Find a detailed schedule and info at zootownfringe.org. (See Arts.)

Austin’s Black Joe Lewis plays ballsy, soul-inspired tunes at the

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Top Hat, along with the Boxcutters.

Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16/$14 in advance at tophatlounge.com. 21-plus.

(See Music.)

Burn the midnight oil after Jeremiah and the Red Eyes play bluesy Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Check out the results of summertime learning when MCT campers present The Bard on Broadway: Shakespeare, Rattle and Roll, a revue of Shakespeare-inspired show tune material, at the Missoula Children’s Theatre on Thursday at 8 PM, Friday at 5 and 8 PM and Saturday at 1 and 4 PM. $12 for matinees/$15 for evening performances. Visit mctinc.org.

Rick Springfield, aka “Jessie’s Girl” dude and a secret Australian (well, it was news to me, anyhow) plays his rescheduled show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $45 for balcony seats/$55 orchestra/$70 for the pit. All ages. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

nightlife The Bitterroot Performing Arts Council presents a sneak peak of its 2014-15 season with an announcement party and hors d’oeuvres at the box office, 127 W. Main St. in Hamilton, from 5-7 PM. Call 3818580 for more info.

The lucky 13th edition of the almighty Total Fest brings rock, punk, metal and lotsa weirdo genres for three days of sweat, dancing, beer and rad times with Shannon and the Clams, Lord Dying, Chastity Belt and many more. Venues include the ZACC, Free Cycles, Badlander, Palace and Big Dipper, Aug. 14-16. $55 for three-day pass/$20 per day.

All ages, as always. Passes at totalfest.org and Ear Candy. (See Music.)

Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:30-8:30 PM. Feel the fraternity when the Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets to discuss Marianne Williamson’s The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life. The club meets every second Thursday of the month from 6-7:30 PM. Bitterroot-based string-band Poor Henry plays tunes at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

Bust out a little geetar at the Open Mic at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers.

Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2 for dudes, no cover for women. (Hey, gotta make up for that wage gap somehow.)

Do them dirty deeds dirt cheap when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover.

Japanese metal legends Boris are here to crush Stage 112, along with Sub Rosa. 10 PM. $18/$15 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s, Ear Candy at 1111presents.com. 18-plus.

Cali hip-hop maestros Blackalicious play the Palace, along with Tonsofun, Traff The Wiz and Ambedext Eastwood. 10 PM. $18/$15 in advance, plus $2 surcharge for ages 1820. Tickets at holdmyticket.com, or check out seafarerentertainment.com.

(See Music.)

Must be jelly, ‘cuz jam don’t shake.

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

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hen it comes to getting chores done, podcasts are my saving grace. Even the most banal thing on the to-do list goes by much faster if there’s something interesting to listen to while I, say, scrub a tub or lube my bike chain.

The Montana Natural History Center hosts weekly volunteer events with an educational component that’s kind of like a podcast, except with a real person chatting. The Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden, founded almost 15 years ago, is managed by the MNHC as an outdoor learning space. On Aug. 7, for instance, after volunteers help out in the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden, they’ll get a lesson about how to identify native and invasive grasses. On Aug. 14, vol-

unteer gardeners will learn about collecting native seeds and starting a native plant garden. Folks are welcome to drop in any time between 4-6 PM. So you get the double bonus of lending a hand while learning practical knowledge—and you don’t have to download a thing.

—Kate Whittle The Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden’s upcoming educational volunteer afternoons are Thu., Aug 7, and Thu., Aug. 14, from 4-6 PM. Kids welcome. Call 327-0405 or visit MontanaNaturalist.org to learn more.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 7 Thursday Night Race League is more about the beer than it is about the winner, bless it, with 65100 racers competing in all sorts of categories on the lower mountain bike trails at Whitefish Mountain Resort, July 10-Aug. 21. Visit skiwhitefish.com.

The Great Burn Study Group hosts citizen science backpacking junkets into the Great Burn Proposed Wilderness Area, lasting 3-5 days each. You gotta supply the gear and supplies, but trip leadership is provided and it’s free to join in.

Trips run July 24-27, Aug. 1-3, 7-10, 20-24 and 28-30. Visit greatburnstudygroup.org to learn more, or call Val at 978-831-2373.

FRIDAY AUGUST 8 Outdoorsy gals are invited to a weekend hiking and camping trip, departing today, out to the Absaroka-Beartooths with the Montana Sierra Club’s women-only adventure. Contact Karen for info at 396-3945.

SATURDAY AUGUST 9 The 10th annual Bitterroot Classic Triathlon promises you’re “never 2 old to tri” such feats as a 750-yard swim, 20K bike ride and 5K run. (And take note that it’s two weeks earlier this year.)

Mosey over to bitterrootclassictriathlon.com.

This weekend kicks off another volunteer backpacking trip in the Frank Church Wilderness with the Wilderness Institute, where you’ll help clear trails, monitor impacts and perform other satisfying sorts of physical labor in beautiful country.

Dinners provided. Visit cfc.umt.edu/wi/citizen_science.html to sign up and learn more.

Hop on board for the Missoulians on Bicycles’ Rock Creek Rendezvous trip today,

which meets at Eastgate Center at 10 AM to take frontage roads and I-90 through Clinton to Rock Creek and lunch at the Stage Station. Visit missoulabike.org for more info.

TUESDAY AUGUST 12 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13 The women-only Welcome Creek day hike with the Sierra Club goes up through the Sapphire Mountains to enter the wilderness for a six-mile round trip and 1,200 feet of elevation gain. Join in by contacting janetfiero77@hotmail.com or call 203-2164.

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

Hunters take note, today is the last day for the special mountain lion license drawing. Visit fwp.mt.gov.

Lend a hand at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden’s volunteer afternoon and get a lesson in collecting native seeds while you’re at it.

Everybody wins! 4-6 PM. Call 327-0405 or visit MontanaNaturalist.org ahead of time to learn more. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Western scientists are discovering what folks from other cultural traditions have known for a long time: meditation of all kinds has powerful benefits for mind and body. Recent Harvard research even found that consistent relaxation practices over time “switched on” genes responsible for protecting against inflammation and cancer.

The more people habitually practiced meditation and deep breathing, the lower their blood pressure Deepak Chopra and incidence of joint pain. Meditation has even been recommended for patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

So while the Global Meditation for Peace on Aug. 8 has a lofty goal, who’s to say that it doesn’t stand a chance? The Global Meditation aims to bring together people worldwide to set their intention on peace, and while they’re at it, break the Guiness World Record for largest group meditation in history.

The online meditation is led by Deepak Chopra, of The Chopra Center, along with Gabrille Bernstein and India Arie.

Missoula’s own Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is joining in, as you might expect, and the meditation

begins at 10 AM. You can stop by the center, or just take a couple minutes to check the meditation website and join in from home or work. The beauty of meditation is that you can do it anywhere, at just about any time.

—Kate Whittle The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center hosts a local gathering for the Global Meditation for Peace, led by Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstein and India Arie. Fri., Aug. 8 at 10 AM. Learn more at global meditation.chopra.com.

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Registration ends today for A Camp to Remember: Flathead Youth Camp, Aug. 18-21 with the Tamarack Grief Resource Center, where kids ages 815 grieving a family member can get healing and fun camp experiences, regardless of ability to pay. Call Molly at 541-8472 for info and registration.

Consider your conscious and unconscious influences at the “Collectives, Mass Movements, Individual Development, and Trauma” class with Ken Silvestro. Mondays until Aug. 25 at the Red Willow Learning Center, 825 W. Kent Ave., from 6:30-7:30 PM. $100. Visit redwillowlearning.org/Collectives to learn more.

It’ll be a real barn-burner when UM hosts the Residential Wood Smoke Conference with the Montana Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association, Aug. 7-8. Visit umt.edu/events.

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

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

TUESDAY AUGUST 12 Farmers can get hip to the rules and regs these days with the Farmer Field Day: On-Farm Food Safety, featuring a walk-through of Fresh Roots Farm in Polson with food safety experts Jan Tusick and Nancy Matheson. 2-5 PM. $5, includes snacks. Visit missoulacfac.org/on-farm-field-days.html for more info.

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Social Security claims expert Mary Olson hosts a Social Security Q&A session and brown bag lunch at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. 11:30 AM. $5 donation requested, and folks are welcome to bring a lunch. Space is limited, so register by calling 728-7682.

Teens can learn how to foster leadership and relationship skills at NCBI’s High School Train-theTrainer summer camp, out at Georgetown Lake Aug. 8-10. Visit ncbimissoula.org or call 541-6891 for more info.

Homeword presents a tour of the Orchard Gardens Community Center and info about housing counseling and education. 210 N. Grove St., noon-1 PM. Free, with light lunch provided. RSVP to jessica@homeword.org or 532-4663, ext. 16.

The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center hosts a local gathering for the Global Meditation for Peace, led by Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstein and India Arie. 10 AM. Learn more at globalmeditation.chopra.com.

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

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 BELLA• Bella is a female 2-3 year-old rottweiler mix. She is very playful, especially when she is out of her kennel. Her favorite things to do are wrestle, chase tennis balls, and play with squeaky toys.

Bella becomes quickly attached to her family and doesn't want to share so she would do best as the only dog in the home. Please come meet this beautiful girl.

JASMINE•Jasmine is a female pit bull around 3 years old. She is very high-energy and would make an excellent hiking/running companion. Jasmine is one of our long-term residents at the shelter so we really would love to find her a home. She likes cats a little too much so she would do best in a cat-free environment. Jasmine would make any home a happy place.

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CONSTANCE•Constance is a 6-yearold female declawed cat. She originally came to the shelter in 2013. She took a long time to adjust to shelter life but now she is a very sweet, mellow cat. She would do best in a quiet home with no other pets. Constance is looking for a nice bed to spend her afternoons on.

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FELIX•Felix is a 2-3 year-old male cat.

He is very playful and loves attention.

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TURNER• Turner is a 3-year-old orange tiger cat. He enjoys roaming around and looking for interesting objects to play with. He doesn't enjoy being picked up so he would do best in a home without kids.

If you ever leave the faucet running, he will play in the running water for hours.

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BUBBA• Bubba is a big Tabby boy with lots of love to share ! This 8-year-old is an indoor-only cat and loves to take naps in cozy places. Bubba loves to play with wand toys and would love to find a forever home that enjoys playing and can help him lose a few pounds. If you are interested in meeting Bubba, come to The Humane Society of Western Montana today!

PERONI•Peroni is a 5-6 year-old female Chihuhua. He likes moderate exercise and snuggle time. This sweet, independent fellow is looking for his forever home. You can meet him at the Humane Society Tuesday - Friday from 1:00 - 5:00 and Saturdays 12:00 - 5:00.

SUNSHINE•Sunshine is a small, 9year-old, female Shih Tzu mix. She likes moderate exercise and is happy to snuggle in her bed. Her bright eyes will melt your heart. Sunshine is eligible for our Seniorsfor-Seniors program and, therefore, her adoption fee is waived for adopters 60 and over.

STELLA• Stella is a beatiful orange girl who came to us because her owners couldn’t take care of her anymore. She has been an indoor/outdoor cat in her previous home and she loves her string toys!

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PET OF THE WEEK Meet Bronson, a 6 year old boxer/pit mix. This friendly boy would love to find himself a forever family that will go on walks with him and have lots of time to snuggle. Bronson loves to meet new people and would love for you to come give him a visit today at The Humane Society of Western Montana or visit Bronson at our off-site adoption event at Dunrovin Ranch (Saturday, August 9th, from noon to 3 pm). 549-3934 www.myHSWM.org

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TALES FROM THE CRYPTIC My boyfriend of two years got an early birthday present from his sister and her husband: a really expensive, second-row ticket for a major sporting event next year. The trouble is, it falls on my 30th birthday (a Saturday). He knows I usually don't care about my birthday, and I confess that I also judge people who care about theirs.

Still, I can't help but feel that my 30th is a bit of a milestone, and I wanted to spend my birthday weekend together somewhere with my boyfriend. I understand that he doesn't want to seem ungrateful for his sister's gift, and he's courteously told me about this conflict well in advance. Do I need to just get over myself? Or should I raise my concerns?

—Neglected As a child, I was not one to turn down birthday loot, but around age 8, I developed a sort of jadedness about birthdays that continues to this day. The way I see it, if you are over 12 and not a cancer patient, do we really need to throw you a party and give you prizes for surviving another year?

It seems you communicated some similar thinking to your boyfriend. Bizarrely, he believed you. Yet, apparently out of love and consideration (and perhaps the suspicion men have that all women are at least a little nuts), he let you know a year in advance that hockey or auto racing or whatever's special day coincides with your usually-not-so-special day. What more was he supposed to do—well, other than travel back in time and ask your mom, "Hey, can you hold the baby in one more week?

There'll be a scheduling conflict in 30 years."

Wait...were you expecting him to turn down the ticket? If so, what's that really about? Maybe a recent public service announcement from your ovaries? "Hi, we're also turning 30, as in, it won't be long before we retire, move to the countryside, and take up scrapbooking." You may also be looking for what evolutionary psychologists call a "costly signal"—some show of commitment requiring such a big outlay of money, effort, or forgone opportunity that it's likely to be sincere. (In the absence of a proposal and a diamond, maybe it seems the least he could do is light that ticket on fire.)

If you do want more from the relationship, you may be able to get it, but expecting a man to read your thoughts is like expecting your dog to understand algebra.

Tell your boyfriend you're feeling sensitive about your birthday, your future, or whatever else, and you'll at least find out where you stand. Assuming you get the reassurance you need, maybe you can do the loving thing and put your partner's interests up there in importance with your own, perhaps by celebrating your birthday the weekend before the actual day. You might also try to get in the habit of using spokenword communication—fun as it can be to surprise a man with a game of naked charades, aka "Guess what I'm thinking when I weep inconsolably during sex!"

CLAIROL AND PRESENT DANGER After reading a magazine article about movie stars with "pixie cuts," my girlfriend got her hair cut really short, and I absolutely hate it. She's very pretty, and short hair doesn't change that, but I love how she looks with long hair. Is it controlling to ask her to grow it back?

—Worried The good thing about bad haircuts is that they are fixable with time. (You can't tell your girlfriend, "Hey, I'm not a big fan of your personality; can you grow it out a little?")

When you first saw her new do, you probably squeezed out something positive like "Looks great!"—while thinking, "Did your stylist go blind in the middle of cutting your hair or pretty much right when she started?" It's good to be kind, but because staying happy with somebody takes staying attracted to them, it's best for your relationship to be kind in a verging-on-honest way. Wait a few weeks and say, "You know, you'd be beautiful even if you shaved your head, but I love your hair long. Would you grow your hair out for me?" (You aren't asking her to bolt on a new set of boobs; you're just requesting more of what's already on her head.)

And yes, you do have to tell her what you need, because if you don't, there's a good chance you'll get resentful and act like a jerk about things that aren't really the thing. It might even lead to a breakup.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Every February, you go through a phase when it's easier to see the big picture of your life. If you take advantage of this invitation, your experience is like being on a mountaintop and gazing into the vastness. Every August, on the other hand, you are more likely to see the details you have been missing. Transformations that have been too small and subtle to notice may become visible to you. If you capitalize on this opportunity, the experience is like peering through a microscope.

Here's a third variation, Gemini: Around the full moons of both February and August, you may be able to alternately peer into the microscope and simulate the view from a mountaintop. I think that's about to happen.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You wouldn't sip dirty water from a golden chalice. Am I right? Nor would you swig delicious poison from a fine crystal wine glass or ten-year-old vinegar from a queen's goblet. I'm sure you will agree that you'd much rather drink a magical elixir from a paper cup, or a rejuvenating tonic from a chipped coffee mug, or tasty medicine out of a kids' plastic soup bowl you bought at the thrift store. Don't you dare lie to yourself about what's best for you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Every 12 years, the planet Jupiter spends about a year cruising through the sign of Leo. It's there with you now, and will be with you through early August, 2015. What can you expect? EXPANSION! That's great, right? Yes and no. You might love to have some parts of your life expand; others, not so much. So I suggest you write down your intentions. Say something like this: "I want Jupiter to help me expand my faith in myself, my power to do what I love, and my ability to draw on the resources and allies I need. Meanwhile, I will prune my desires for things I don't really need and cut back on my involvement with things that don't inspire me. I don't want those to expand."

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): TV comedian Stephen Colbert confesses that his safeword is "pumpkin patch." Does that mean he participates in actual BDSM rituals? Is it the codeword he utters when he doesn't want the intensity to rise any further, when he doesn't want his next boundary crossed? I don't know. Perhaps he's simply joking or speaking metaphorically. Whether or not you engage in literal BDSM, Virgo, there's an aspect of your life right now that has metaphorical resemblances to it. And I suggest that you do the equivalent of using your safeword very soon. Nothing more can be gained from remaining embroiled in your predicament. Even if the ordeal has been interesting or educational up until now, it won't be for much longer. Escape your bondage.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you're planning to hurl a thunderbolt, make sure you are all warmed up and at full strength before you actually unleash it. It would be sad if you flung a half-assed thunderbolt that looked like a few fireflies and sounded like a cooing dove. And please don't interpret my wise-guy tone here as a sign that I'm just kidding around. No, Libra. This is serious stuff. Life is offering you opportunities to make a major impression, and I want you to be as big and forceful and wild as you need to be. Don't tamp down your energy out of fear of hurting people's feelings. Access your inner sky god or sky goddess, and have too much fun expressing your raw power.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In your dreams you may travel to Stockholm, Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize or to Hollywood to pick up your Oscar. There's a decent chance that in your sleepytime adventures you will finally score with the hot babe who rejected you back in high school, or return to the scene of your biggest mistake and do things right this time. I wouldn't be surprised if in one dream you find yourself riding in a gold chariot during a parade held in your honor. I'm afraid, however, that you will have to settle for less hoopla and glamour in your waking life. You will merely be doing a fantastic job at tasks you usually perform competently. You will be well-appreciated, well-treated, and well-rewarded.

That's not so bad, right?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Lake Superior State University issues a "Unicorn Questing Privilege" to those people who are interested in hunting for unicorns. Are you one of them?

I wouldn't be surprised if you felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial for you to entertain. (You can get your Unicorn Questing License here: http://tinyurl.com/unicornlicense.)

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ethical code may soon be tested. What will you do if you see a chance to get away with a minor sin or petty crime that no one will ever find out about? What if you are tempted to lie or cheat or deceive in ways that advance your good intentions and only hurt other people a little bit or not at all? I'm not here to tell you what to do, but rather to suggest that you be honest with yourself about what's really at stake. Even if you escape punishment for a lapse, you might nevertheless inflict a wound on your integrity that would taint your relationship with your own creativity. Contemplate the pleasures of purity and righteousness, and use them to enhance your power.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't just be smart and articulate, Aries. Dare to be wildly wise and prone to unruly observations. Don't merely be kind and well-behaved. Explore the mysteries of healing through benevolent mischief. Don't buy into the all-too-serious trances. Break up the monotony with your unpredictable play and funny curiosity. Don't simply go along with the stories everyone seems to believe in as if they were the Truth and the Way. Question every assumption; rebel against every foregone conclusion; propose amusing plot twists that send the narratives off on interesting tangents.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "The thorn arms the roses," says an old Latin motto. The astrological omens suggest you'll be wise to muse on that advice in the coming weeks. How should you interpret it? I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions, of course, but here are a few hints. It may be that beauty needs protection, or at least buffering. It's possible that you can't simply depend on your sincerity and good intentions, but also need to infuse some ferocity into your efforts. In order for soft, fragile, lovely things to do what they do best, they may require the assistance of tough, strong, hearty allies.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you go to an American doctor to be treated for an ailment, odds are that he or she will interrupt you no more than 14 seconds into your description of what's wrong. But you must not tolerate this kind of disrespect in the coming days, Pisces— not from doctors, not from anyone. You simply must request or, if necessary, demand the receptivity you deserve. If and when it's given, I urge you to speak your truth in its entirety. Express what has been hidden and suppressed. And this is very important: Take responsibility for your own role in any problems you discuss.

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PUBLIC NOTICES IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV2014-46693 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION THE DWELLING PLACE INC., Plaintiff, v. TIM HERMAN, et al., Defendant. TO: Tim Herman, 6307 Buena Vista Loop, Missoula, MT 59808 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, PO Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 24th day of July, 2014. By: /s/ Marie A. Andersen MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14157 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY JANE SCHULER, 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 deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be mailed to Sandra A. Marotta, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o J. Tiffin Hall, Attorney at Law, 124 Riverside Drive, Suite 101, Eureka, Montana 59917 and filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 28th day of July, 2014. /s/ Sandra A. Marotta, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, Missoula County Cause No. DV-14-780 Dept.

No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Tina Reinicke-Schmaus, Petitioner.

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Date: 7/23/2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Heather Olean, Deputy Clerk of Court

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-14-151 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STEWART K. PRICE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed as 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 Susan Marie Price Slehofer and Frances D. Price, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 21st day of June, 2014. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

DATED this 17th day of July, 2014. /s/ Susan Marie Price Slehofer, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 8th day of July, 2014. /s/ Frances D. Price, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-14-147 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MITTIE M. CARROLL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Glenda J. Carroll, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 15th day of July, 2014. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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MNAXLP TICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: ZACKARY L. MORRIS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Charlotte Morris has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Charlotte Morris, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24th day of June, 2014.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 25th day of June, 2014. /s/ Charlotte Morris, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT C O U R T, M I S S O U L A COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-14 154.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEVIN W. LEONARDI, Deceased. NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRS, APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND FOR SUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Polly Rich Leonardi has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for adjudication of intestacy, determination of heirs, and the appointment of Polly Rich Leonardi as Personal Representative and for supervised administration of said estate. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 27th day of August, 2014, at the hour of 1:30 o’clock p.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Service of this notice is being made in accordance with the attached Certificate of Service. Dated this 28th day of August, 2014. /s/ Polly Rich Leonardi c/o Boone Karlberg, PC PO Box 9199 Missoula, MT 59807-9199 APPLICANT’S ATTORNEY: B OONE KARLBERG P.C. /s/ Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Polly Rich Leonardi

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-14-136 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RONALD D. KELLY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be mailed to the Personal Representative, Brent Randall Kelly, return receipt requested, at c/o Irwin Law Office, P.C., P.O. Box 9437, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Prepared By: IRWIN LAW OFFICE, P.C. /s/ Clifford Irwin 7/25/2014 DATED this 25th day of July, 2014. /s/ Brent Randall Kelly, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-14-148 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN THOMAS COOK, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to James E. Cook, 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 July, 2014. /s/ James E. Cook, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-14-130 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: ESTHER H. STEVENS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jeffrey T. Stevens has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jeffrey T. Stevens,

Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2014.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 23rd day of June, 2014. /s/ Jeffrey T. Stevens, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP14-150 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL GENE MCLATCHY, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that PATRICK H. MCLATCHY, has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to PATRICK H. MCLATCHY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Date: 7/29/2014 Place: Missoula /s/ Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney For Patrick H. McLatchy, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-14-140 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BRUCE N. THISTED, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that William Allen Chandler has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to William Allen Chandler, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 3700 S. Russell Street, Suite 104, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3rd day of July 2014. /s/ Kyle D.

Cunningham, Attorney for Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to §71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 10th day of October, 2014, at 10:00 o’clock a.m, on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 5A of Certificate of Survey No 2408, a tract of land located in the Northeast one-quarter of Section 20, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana Marvin A. Woldstad and Colette M. Woldstad, as Grantors, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Gateway Community Federal Credit Union, who was designated as Lender and Beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated July 10, 2008 and recorded on July 16, 2008 as Document No. 200816641 and put of record in book 823 at Page 22 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana. Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 22, 2014, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Marvin A. Woldstad and Colette M. Woldstad have defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,679.22 for the month of September 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. As of June 4, 2014 the sum of $36.792.20 is past due. As of June 4, 2014, the total amount due was the sum of $338,400.54 principal, plus $17,314.86 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the rate set out in the Promissory Note, which is 6% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse such amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust.

In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Note and has elected to sell the interest of Marvin A. Woldstad

and Colette M. Woldstad, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed.

Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants 10980 Saddleback Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Marvin A. Woldstad 10980 Saddleback Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Colette M. Woldstad 2770 Rocky Draw Road Troy, MT 59935 Melissa Stiegler Director of Western Montana Chapter for the Prevention of Elder Abuse as Conservator for Marvin A. Woldstad 2770 Rocky Draw Road Troy, MT 59935 Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner and Nygren, P.C. Attn: Cory Gangle and Gerry Steinbrenner, Attorneys P.O. Box 4947 Missoula, MT 59806-4947 Colette M. Woldstad 10980 Saddleback Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Melissa Stiegler Director of Western Montana Chapter for the Prevention of Elder Abuse as Conservator for Marvin A. Woldstad 10980 Saddleback Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Marvin A. Woldstad 2770 Rocky Draw Road Troy, MT 59935 Marvin A. Woldstad P.O. Box 17800 Missoula, MT 59808 Collette M. Woldstad P.O. Box 17800 Missoula, MT 59808 Melissa Stiegler Director of Western Montana Chapter for the Prevention of Elder Abuse as Conservator for Marvin A. Woldstad P.O. Box 17800 Missoula, MT 59808 Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 5th day of June, 2014. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ): ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 5th day of June, 2014,

by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee. (Notarial Seal) /s/ Tami Gibbons Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My commission expires: March 1, 2017 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200628154 Bk: 786 Pg: 347, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Charles R. Abell & Karen R. Abell, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage

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JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s “Metric Feet” – a conversion diversion.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Botch the job 4 Electronic keys 8 Fiji rival 14 "___ won't do that" (Meat Loaf line) 15 Ghostly glow 16 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" king 17 911 call responder 18 Making all your beer the night before?

20 Be eco-friendly 22 Quentin cast her in "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" 23 Lead character in "Zoolander"?

24 Magnificent car driven by giant B-movie ants?

29 Drake's acronym 30 Swanson and Burgundy 31 Digging 34 Brandish 36 Diacritical dots 38 Impressed reactions 41 Beaver with a mohawk?

43 Driving range barrier 44 Stir-fry ingredient 46 Flat-screen variety 48 Daly of "Cagney & Lacey" 49 Ashen 50 "Right, right" 54 Part of a door to a cemetery?

58 As a rule, in the dict.

60 Chronic complainer 61 "Watchmen" actor Jackie ___ Haley 62 Comeuppance at the pool?

67 "___ the ramparts we watched..."

68 Lackey 69 Enthusiastic Last week’s solution

70 Chillax 71 Grow too old for an activity 72 Entreats 73 Dir. from Dallas to Philly

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1 Cabinet department 2 Joker portrayer Cesar 3 Ceremonial act 4 Turned towards 5 Pronoun for two 6 Sports ___ 7 Filmmaker Peckinpah 8 "Nessun ___" 9 "You could really be ___ Brummell baby..." (Billy Joel line) 10 Do some quilting 11 Emma Stone, by birth 12 Fourth piggy's portion 13 Dramatist who wrote "Picnic" 19 Rear ends 21 The white stuff?

25 Bald tire's lack 26 "Chariots of Fire" Oscar nominee Ian 27 Tactic in bridge 28 Up to the point that, casually 32 Weekday abbr.

33 Mel of Cooperstown 35 Groom's answer 36 Anesthetized 37 NYSE or NASDAQ 38 Fitting 39 "You, there!"

40 Optimistic 42 "The Daily Bruin" publisher 45 According to 47 Plastic option 49 Violin tuners 51 ___ Tuesday 52 Brennan who played Mrs. Peacock in "Clue" 53 Become apparent 55 Kind of pear 56 Speak boastfully of 57 "Dirty ___ Done Dirt Cheap" 58 Cadets' inst.

59 Drink from a flask 63 "Water enhancer" brand 64 Caps Lock neighbor 65 "___ seen worse" 66 It takes a light, for short

PUBLIC NOTICES Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13 and the West 23.5 feet of Lot 14 in Block 62 of School Addition, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 613 of Micro Records at Page 1056. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201208407 Bk: 893 Pg: 884, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 19, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $186,092.27. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $171,194.87, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 27, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an

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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.Northwest trustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.1100 44) 1002.268297-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/04/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201208270 Bk: 893 Pg: 747 and re-recorded on 10/25/13 Bk: 921 Pg: 375, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Michael K. Fitzpatrick, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 16 of Certificate of Survey No 370, located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 11, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s

MNAXLP failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 19, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $210,111.81. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $198,263.89, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, City of Missoula on October 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal

as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrust ee.com or USA-Foreclosure. com. (TS# 7023.110048) 1002.268321-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/17/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200608980 BK 772 Pg 2229, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Betty C. Melton was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The East one-half of Lot 16 and all of Lot 17 in Block 118 of Town Company’s Addition, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Plat of Record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 17. Recording Reference: Book 435 of Micro Records at Page 1373. 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 19, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $167,205.78. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $161,508.24, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 30, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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.Northwesttrust ee.com or USA-Foreclosure. com. (TS# 7023.108101) 1002.262819-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 29, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tax ID Number 3626500 Land situated in the County of Missoula in the State of MT Lot 12, of MONTANA VISTA PHASE 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded plat thereof.

Bryce J. Finn and Jennifer K. Finn, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 21, 2006 and recorded July 17, 2006 Book 778, Page 1481 as Document No. 200617421. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ally 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 $542.54, beginning November 1, 2012, and each month subsequent which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 5, 2014 is $192,904.73 principal, interest at the rate of 3.375% now totaling $10,922.15, escrow advances of $7,705.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,194.45, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.84 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 23, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 23rd day of May, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Gmac/finn – 42061.026 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR

MNAXLP CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 30, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 1, 2, AND 3 IN BLOCK 80 OF SOUTH MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David O Larson, and Theresa J Larson, 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 January 11, 2007 and recorded January 18, 2007 in Book 790 Page 982 under Document No 200701444; Modification Agreement recorded May 20, 2013, Book 913, Page 253 under Document No 201309687 Modification Agreement recorded May 23, 2013, Book 913, Page 448 under Document No 201309882. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. 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 $917.92, beginning January 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 21, 2014 is $209,402.43 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% now totaling $4,195.80, escrow advances of $7,349.31, suspense balance of $-46.07 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,367.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.72 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, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 28th day of May, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Bac V Larson 42104.051

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 8, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 45 and 46 in Block 4 of SOUTH SIDE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Eileen H. Hatton, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 20, 2003 and recorded May 27, 2003 in Book 707 Page 239 under Document No. 200318240.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $645.14, beginning December 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 13, 2014 is $56,697.31 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% now totaling $1,433.70, late charges in the amount of $227.92, suspense balance of $-423.04 and other fees and expenses advanced of $241.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.74 per diem, late charges,

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CLARK FORK STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 100, 117, 132, 136, 199, 209. 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 8/18/2014 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 8/21/2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

MNAXLP and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 30, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of April, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said

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County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Citimortgage V. Hatton 42090.101 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on September 8, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M.. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 199 OF DOUBLE ARROW RANCH PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ALTON M. KANE AND EILEEN N. KANE, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 23, 2008 and recorded May 29, 2008 in Book 819, on Page 972, under Document No. 200811995. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,213.07, beginning May 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 1, 2014 is $218,099.74 principal, interest at the rate of 4.625% now totaling $10,087.20, late charges in the amount of $251.05, escrow advances of $4,239.78, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,207.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.64 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 2, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 2nd day of May, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is

subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Green Tree Vs. Kane 42072.118 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEFS SALE on September 26, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 6 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5796, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH EASEMENTS ACROSS TRACT 4 AND TRACT 8 FOR ACCESS AND SEPTIC DRAIN FIELD AND UTILITY SITE AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5796 William J Cleek and Michelle L Cleek, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 17, 2007 and recorded on December 27, 2007 on Book 810 and Page 1440 as Document No. 200733112; Loan Modification dated June 24, 2013 and recorded September 3, 2013, Book 918, Page 1255 under Document No. 201317689.

The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,139.85, beginning July 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 31, 2014 is $253,838.10 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% now totaling $8,884.32, late charges in the amount of $125.98, escrow advances of $4,674.56, and other fees and expenses advanced of

$2,534.81, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.34 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 22, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 309 Plymouth. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Craftsman bungalow with wood floors, sky lights, patio and claw foot tub. 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in lower level. $329,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 3748 Brandon. 5 bed, 3 bath with 2 car garage in Linda Vista. $363,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 3904 England Blvd. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Pleasantview. $230,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lower Miller Creek home on 1 acre. $230,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com 4242 Bordeaux. 4 bed, 3 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $209,900.

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Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe. 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard.

A home with character! $189,000. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

CONDOS 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $199,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

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REAL ESTATE 2121B Jasmine Place. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with deck, patio & 2 car garage. $198,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 324B North Grant. 3 bed, 2 bath condo with fenced yard & 2 car garage. $169,900. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail.

No HOA fees. $289,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros. 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $150,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

Uniquely Missoula! 619 Phillips and 633 Phillips. $165,000 each. The former MUD demonstration site on the Northside. Many outbuildings on each and so many possibilities. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

pliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.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

Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom units for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS ap-

575 Killdeer • $329,000

MANUFACTURED

HOMES

2406 McIntosh Loop. 3 bed, 2 bath Redman 28x56 in Orchard Promenade Community. $109,900. Chris Honzel, Lam-

BETWEEN FLORENCE & STEVENSVILLE

• 5 bed, 3 bath ranchette • 2300 sq.ft. on 7.5 fenced acres • Hardwood floors, tile & granite countertops • Deck with mountain views • Hay barn, UG sprinklers & 2 car garage

bros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com

LAND FOR SALE 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.

1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Edgewood. 3.35 end-ofroad acres on east side of Mount Jumbo. Close to river. $89,900.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 11 acre Mission Mountain building site. $86,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Over 40 acres with 2 creeks near Mission Mountains. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering

Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter.

Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321 Rock Creek Acreage. 20 acres adjacent to Forest Service land. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com Stony Creek. 159 acres with dry cabin & grass airstrip off Rock Creek. $1,100,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 2039 Nighthawk Trail, Victor. 3 bed, 2 bath on 20 acres near Fred Burr Trailhead off Bear Creek Road. $675,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229. tory@montana.com

3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Bonner area home close to Blackfoot River & public lands. $324,000. Prudential

210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $465,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

COMMERCIAL 101 Church Street, Stevensville.

Currently Mission Bistro Restaurant, but zoned for commercial or residential. $255,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. Commercial or Residential. $185,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville.

Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 11901 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo.

2 bed, 2 bath with many upgrades including roof & windows. $179,900. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 1229 Iron Cap, Stevensville. 4 bed, 3 bath ranchette on 15.33 fenced acres.

Mary Louise

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FOR BUYING MORE FOR LESS 512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com

6200 St. Thomas Dr, Missoula $363,500

One fenced acre with gorgeous views.

5 bed/4 bath w/2nd lower-level kitchen.

Well, sewer, modest covenants.

PERFECT PICKS Silcox Place Lot 35, Thompson Falls • $78,000 Mission Bay, Polson • $69,750 2070 Cooper #614 • $219,000 2200 Garland #30 • $112,500

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Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $236,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lolo area home home. $229,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com

4158 Petty Creek. 3 bed, 4 bath log-sided home on 40 acres with 1400’ of Petty Creek frontage. $495,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros 532-9229 tory@montana.com 41608 Melita Island Road, Elmo.

3 bed, 2 bath on 1.3 acres with 400’ of Flathead Lake frontage. $1,000,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Stevensville area 3.2 acres. $529,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com

5 Bdr, 5 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit mindypalmer.com 575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres.

Great mountain views. $329,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 7725 Moe Road, Lolo. Octagon House on 9.7 acres. 5 bed, 3 bath, private office, 3300 sf, views, dead-end road and a

great backyard! $519,000 Celia Grohmann Banana Belt Realty 406-550-1014 celiamontana@gmail.com River Access 17430 SixMile, $250,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com St. Ignatius Price Reduced! Beautiful newer 2 bed, 1.5 bath home with office. 6+ gravity irrigated acres in new pasture grass seeding. Big kitchen with vaulted T&G

ceilings, propane heat stove.

Nicely decorated, generous windows, Breathtaking Mission Mtn Views. Carport/storage building, lilacs & young fruit trees.

Paved road, minimal covenants, well @ 30gpm when drilled.

MOTIVATED SELLER!Bring offers!Price reduced to $199,500.

Call Trudy @ 406-360-5860 for more information.

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NON-

OWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Missoula Properties 728-8270

2116 West Kent Charming 3 bed, 1.5 bath with great front porch and back patio. Low maintenance front yard and garden in back. 1200 sq.ft. of living space & all appliances. Single garage

$174,000

1605 34th Street

$319,900

• Spacious 3 bed, 3.5 bath with hardwood and tile flooring, remodeled kitchen, and many updates.

• Mother-in-law apt., family room and two bonus rooms downstairs.

• Swimming pool, 16,000 sq.ft. fenced lot, covered patio, and 2 car garage. A must see!

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

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