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NAKED BIKE RIDE RUBS RELIGIOUS GROUPS WRONG WAY; CITY EMPLOYEES BECOME BUTT OF BACKLASH

ABOUT THAT BIKE RIDE: BOYHOOD LIVES SUPER MUTANTS OPINION MUSIC SPANDEX, FILM HERE’S ONE SOLUTION UP TO THE HYPE HELP FILL OUT TOTAL FEST

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NEWS

NAKED BIKE RIDE RUBS RELIGIOUS GROUPS WRONG WAY; CITY EMPLOYEES BECOME BUTT OF BACKLASH

ABOUT THAT BIKE RIDE: BOYHOOD LIVES SUPER MUTANTS OPINION MUSIC SPANDEX, FILM HERE’S ONE SOLUTION UP TO THE HYPE HELP FILL OUT TOTAL FEST

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cover illustration by Pumpernickel Stewart

News Voices/Letters Baseball, Daines and voting..................................................................4 The Week in Review Fair food, Walsh and wolverines ................................................6 Briefs Movies, bridge jumping and the bison range.....................................................6 Etc. The quick rise and even quicker fall of John Walsh ...............................................7 News City gets heat as clash over naked bike escalates ................................................8 News Lawmakers debate who should pay for megaload improvements......................9 Opinion I have a solution to the naked bike ride controversy...................................10 Opinion Missoula should be careful not to waste so much .......................................11 Feature Build your own legal case..............................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Spandex, super mutants and stage antics at Total Fest........................................18 Music Boris, Lenguas Largas and Gaytheist ................................................................19 Theater Behind the scenes of Viscosity’s Mystery Mark.............................................20 Film Mischa Jakupcek on Missoula’s role in The Hero Pose .......................................21 Film Linklater’s masterpiece cooks up true emotion .................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................23 What’s Good Here Real talk about wine....................................................................24 Happiest Hour The Rhino Grail.................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Law & Disorder ..................................................................................27 Mountain High 49th annual Augúst Road Race ..........................................................33 Agenda “Women, Internet and Mobile Phones in Rural Zambia”...............................34

Exclusives

Street Talk.....................................................................................................................4 In Other News ............................................................................................................12 Classifieds .................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess.................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle.....................................................................................................C-6 Camp Sleepover .....................................................................................................C-11 This Modern World ................................................................................................C-12

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[voices]

The old ball game

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Aug. 12, on the University of Montana campus.

The naked bike ride: You in?

Follow-up: When, if ever, have you been naked in public?

If never, when would you like to be naked in pubic?

Steve Amish: I’m going, but the question is, am I gonna bring my kids?

Skinny dipper: Swimming in Lake Washington in Seattle and in the hot springs at Stanley.

Seth Bates: I don’t think people want to see me naked. I’m a red head. I support it though! Would you like fries with that? Me and two buddies streaked from the Madison Street footbridge to Burger King. The bet was we had to tap the drive-through window and run back to the bridge.

I want to congratulate the Independent and writers Jeremy Watterson and Skylar Browning for their excellent piece titled “Safe at home” (Aug. 7). Besides reading your paper on all of the current musical happenings in our city, it is nice to know that you haven’t forgotten “that grand old game of baseball.”

There are a lot of us who live here who used to see Major League Baseball games before we moved here. I am one of them, having followed the Los Angeles Dodgers since they moved from Brooklyn. And your cover illustration of Babe Ruth: I am fortunate to have in my 70year personal collection of sports clippings a letter sent to me on March 15, 1974, by his wife, Mrs. George Herman Ruth. I also had the honor of meeting some of the greatest to ever play the game, like Hank Aaron, Pete Rose, Willie Mays, Bob Feller, Roy Campanella, Satchel Paige and many more. So, thank you for the article for us “baseball fans.”

It was much appreciated.

David Mirisch Missoula

Marissa Lehner: No. It would be frightening what people would see. I support what they’re doing, but it’s not for me.

In the buck: I went skinny-dipping in Flathead Lake. But maybe running naked would be nice when it’s hot in the summer.

Jamie Russo: Mine’s broke, but I would if I had a bike. Maybe I will rent one. Nudist colony: Never. This bike ride would be a good first time. You’re in a group and it’s safer.

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“Besides reading your paper on all of the current musical happenings in our city, it is nice to know that you haven’t forgotten

Double play

John Raskovich: There’s a naked bike ride? I gotta get a bike! Muddy matrimony: I was at a wedding. There was mud wrestling. Some guests stripped down and wrestled.

means that 44 times as many acres burned as were responsibly harvested and restored.

Congressman Steve Daines understands the crisis in our federal forests, and he clearly recognizes the negative impact of current federal policies on jobs in our rural communities. He is working hard to pass a solution that reforms these policies to protect our forests for future generations while simultaneously revitalizing rural economies.

In “Safe at home,” your work could have included Herbie Plews, Helena, and Billy Elbert, Miles City and Anaconda, both of whom made it to the majors. I think Plews played infield for the Senators and Elbert pitched for the Red Sox. I enjoyed your article very much.

Bill Jones Missoula Editor’s note: Thanks for reading.

You’re right that Plews and Elbert were born in Montana, but according to BaseballReference.com, both are still alive.

Also, it doesn’t look like Elbert ever actually reached the majors.

‘that grand old game of baseball.’”

Daines has co-sponsored the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act to improve forest health and to benefit our citizens. Since forest projects are commonly tied up in bureaucracy and environmental lawsuits, the bill streamlines the process to allow more projects to proceed. No other solution pending in Congress offers this level of certainty to effectively create jobs and help prevent catastrophic wildfire from destroying our public lands.

Elizabeth Toenyes Missoula

Daines gets it Forest fires burned 9.3 million acres of federal forest land last year, making 2013 the third worst fire season on record for acres burned. Meanwhile, only 200,000 acres were harvested last year by the U.S. Forest Service. This

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Keep the right Women across the state are preparing to vote in the general election on Nov. 4.

Current law secures their right—and the right for every voter—to register and cast

a ballot through the close of polls on Election Day. It’s a fundamental liberty that should be secured and protected as we celebrate 100 years of victories in the women’s suffrage movement, and the freedom for all Americans to participate in elections.

On Nov. 3, 1914, Montana voters granted full voting rights to non-Native women. The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920. When American Indian women gained access to the ballot in 1924 under the federal Indian Citizenship Act, no person in Montana was denied their right to vote on the basis of gender.

It’s ironic that on this centennial anniversary of a step toward equal suffrage, your right to vote is under attack. This year, among the candidates and local issues, every ballot will contain two proposals referred to voters by the Montana Legislature. One of these legislative referenda threatens to revert state law back to a time when our families, friends and neighbors were handily denied access to the polls on Election Day. Appearing on the ballot as LR-126, the proposal sets out to eliminate Election Day voter registration in Montana. Election Day voter registration has successfully secured voting rights for more than 29,000 Montanans since 2006 (that number increases when you include local elections). It’s a good law that acts as a failsafe for any person who needs to register, change or update their information in order to vote in a statewide election. In fact, the majority of voters who use Election Day voter registration are hardworking Montanans who have recently moved across their county or the state and need to update their address in order to cast a ballot.

There is no reason to change a law that works, especially when that law secures your fundamental right to actively participate in our democracy.

As you consider the choices on your ballot, consider all that has been accomplished to guarantee your right to vote.

Let’s work on solutions that increase turnout and enhance the overall integrity of elections in Montana. No state that has Election Day registration has ever taken that right away from the voters. Let’s make sure Montana isn’t the first state to do so.

Linda McCulloch Secretary of State Helena

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, August 6 Federal land management agencies announce the implementation of Stage 1 fire restrictions, which prohibit campfires outside of recreation sites and restrict smoking to certain areas, throughout the Flathead Indian Reservation and the Bitterroot and Lolo national forests.

Thursday, August 7 Sen. John Walsh ends his 2014 Senate campaign, two weeks after The New York Times exposes plagiarism in a research paper Walsh wrote in 2007. The Montana Democratic Party has until Aug. 20 to recommend a new nominee to challenge Rep. Steve Daines for the seat.

Friday, August 8 Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech sets bail for Mechailiah Aiden Tembreull and Kenneth Damien Hickman at $50,000 and $150,000, respectively, for their roles in the beating and murder of Gilbert George Berry, 36, whose body was found in the Clark Fork on Tuesday.

Saturday, August 9 Jason Allen of Florence reaches speeds above 120 mph while fleeing the Montana Highway Patrol on a motorcycle. When apprehended on Highway 93 after a 10minute chase, he is cited for seven misdemeanors.

Sunday, August 10 The Western Montana Fair ends after five days of rodeos, rides and serious health violations. Though inspectors shuttered three food vendors after finding unsanitary conditions on Friday, preliminary counts indicate attendance at the fair was up overall, according to fair director Todd Garrett.

Monday, August 11 Four years after the Missoula City Council overcame vocal opposition to pass the state’s first ordinance protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Billings Mayor Tom Hanel casts the deciding vote to reject a similar measure in his city.

Tuesday, August 12 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces it will withdraw a proposal to protect the estimated 250 to 300 remaining wolverines in the United States under the Endangered Species Act.

Darko Butorac, music director and conductor of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra, opened Symphony in the Park on Aug. 10 with “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The event, now in its 10th year, is the largest annual gathering at Caras Park.

Bridge jumping

Injured man sues It’s been just more than a year since a bridge jumper landed on Andrew Hill as he floated the Clark Fork, breaking both of Hill’s legs. Hill now alleges in a lawsuit filed against Missoula County on Aug. 5 that officials knew the Bandmann Bridge posed a danger, but failed to take measures to protect the public.

“Defendant owed a duty of care to construct and maintain (the bridge) in a safe manner, to take appropriate safeguards to minimize the danger that activities on the Bridge posed to the public, and to warn of any known or hidden dangers,” Hill argues in the lawsuit.

Hill claims the county was negligent because it failed to erect barriers to prevent jumping on the East Missoula bridge. He argues further there were no signs warning floaters of the potential danger. “Defendant willfully and wantonly breached its duty of care as a landowner by failing to take reasonable measures,” the suit alleges.

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In addition to the broken legs, Hill sustained injuries to his back, neck and hip. “He was confined to a wheelchair for most of the summer,” according to the lawsuit. Hill says he’s entitled to damages.

In response to the allegations, Missoula County Risk Manager Hal Luttschwager says he’s contacted Hill’s attorneys in an attempt to settle the case out of court. “They’ve agreed to sit down with me,” Luttschwager says. Luttschwager adds that he’d prefer to find common ground rather than litigate.

Last month, Missoula County Justice of the Peace Amy Blixt ordered the man who jumped on Hill, Corey Hewitt, to pay $22,589 in restitution after a jury found him guilty of negligent endangerment.

Another bridge jumper, Charles David Ament, is also facing negligent endangerment charges after knocking a man unconscious during a July 12 landing in the Clark Fork. Charging documents indicate Ament jumped “after consuming substantial amounts of alcohol and ignoring posted signs that jumping from the bridge was illegal.”

Ament also jumped from the Bandmann Bridge.

His next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 20.

Jessica Mayrer

Justice

Informant case slated for trial The mother of a local man who committed suicide while under pressure from law enforcement to divulge information about local drug dealers is lauding a federal judge’s Aug. 6 decision to allow her lawsuit against the Missoula Police Department to go forward.

“I finally feel that someone in the system understands and has a good grasp on why I started on this path in the first place,” says Juliena Darling, whose son, Colton Peterson, killed himself in 2010.

Darling says she filed her lawsuit against Missoula city and county law enforcement to raise awareness about the dangers involved with using young confidential informants to track and arrest drug dealers. “My whole focus was trying to say, ‘This is wrong,’” Darling says.

When ordering Darling’s case go to trial, Judge Dana Christensen noted that Peterson’s suicide came less than two hours after Missoula High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force members gave him an ultimatum to name drug dealers, or, as Christensen writes, “face a lengthy prison sentence.”

[news] On July 26, 2010, law enforcement searched Peterson’s home based on information that Peterson, who was a registered medical marijuana provider, was growing more cannabis than legally allowed. There was also information that he had attempted to fire a gun in a dispute with three other men. During the search, police found 15 freshly harvested marijuana plants and 14 large cannabis plants bearing maturing buds. In addition, they discovered a brass knuckle knife and a snort tube.

When Darling arrived to Peterson’s apartment during the search, she told police her son had been acting erratically and that he was suicidal. Darling told law enforcement she had tried unsuccessfully to get him to seek help. She pleaded with them to take Peterson into custody and give him a mental health evaluation.

Instead of taking him to jail, court documents indicate that when Missoula Police Detective David Krueger met with Peterson on July 27, Krueger told Peterson to name local drug dealers. Within two hours of that meeting, Peterson shot himself with a rifle at the O’Brien Creek Trailhead.

Christensen found merit to Darling’s claims that Krueger violated Peterson’s constitutional right to due process when placing the already suicidal Peterson in an even more precarious position.

“Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Plaintiffs, a reasonable jury could conclude that Detective Krueger’s actions aggravated Colton’s known risk of suicide and made him more vulnerable to the danger he already faced,” Christensen wrote.

Christensen dismissed Darling’s claims against other members of the drug task force, including the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Department. MPD representatives cited pending litigation when declining to comment for this story.

If a jury finds for Darling during the yet-to-be scheduled trial, she stands to recoup attorneys fees and damages for emotional distress.

Jessica Mayrer

Bison

FWS releases tribal agreement Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new shared management agreement for the National Bison Range designed to increase the role of the Confederate Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The environmental assessment, published Aug. 5, comes on the heels of two failed attempts in the past decade to enact a similar Annual Funding Agreement on the 26,604-acre complex near Moiese and, in the words of tribal spokesman Rob McDonald, “paves the way for a bright future.”

According to the EA, the goal is to “allow CSKT to design, manage and implement the biology, visitor services, fire and maintenance program on the National Bison Range Complex.” The tribes requested that negotiations begin on a third agreement back in November 2010, shortly after a U.S. District Court judge rescinded an agreement implemented in 2009.

The court reached that ruling based largely on procedural grounds regarding FWS’s compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. “It didn’t have anything to do with the merits of the agreement itself,” says CSKT tribal attorney Brian Upton.

The tribes’ desire to enter a partnership with FWS on the bison range dates back roughly 20 years, and in April 2003, CSKT sent a letter to the Secretary of the Interior requesting that negotiations com-

mence for an Annual Funding Agreement. That 18month agreement went into effect in 2005, but, according to FWS, as the expiration date approached the following year, the agency’s regional director halted discussions about a new agreement.

Now the tribes and FWS are poised to build on the success cut short by the court four years ago.

Upton says the current draft agreement will bring CSKT “back to the bison range” and is “largely similar” to the one rescinded in 2010.

“The tribes are really happy to see the draft EA finally being released,” Upton says. “We’ve been working with the service on this for over two years, so we’re very happy to see the next step being taken.”

Alex Sakariassen

College

UM adds online BA As a kid growing up in Missoula, Mark Shogren dreamed of making movies. But that was something

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Mountain Line bus fare beginning Jan. 5, 2015. The Missoula Urban Transportation Project announced this week that it will launch the three-year zero-fare demonstration project as part of its efforts to increase ridership. you could only do in New York or Los Angeles, so as soon as he finished high school, Shogren left town to pursue his goal.

Now, Shogren is back in Missoula and the director of the School of Media Arts at the University of Montana, in an office with old horror and monster movie masks on the shelves, preparing to launch the university’s first entirely online undergraduate degree. By offering it via the Internet, Shogren hopes the Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Digital Media will allow those isolated by geography and circumstance, as he once was, greater access to the knowledge and technology needed to make movies.

“We just [want] to reach out to a broader audience,” Shogren says. “And I feel like we’re in a great place to see that happen.”

In addition to increasing opportunities for students, Shogren sees the online degree as a way to help the School of Media Arts thrive despite the university’s shrinking budgets and stagnating enrollments. University Provost Perry Brown also sees the potential in what media arts is doing and anticipates online degrees being offered in other schools and departments.

“It certainly represents a way to increase enrollment,” Brown says, “because you end up dealing with some students who are unlikely to be here on campus that become part of our total enrollment.” The university can serve more students, Brown adds, “but not necessarily increase the pressure on housing or food service or whatever else.”

While this decreasing pressure will reduce costs, there is some question about whether it will also reduce the economic and employment footprint of the university as it becomes less tied to its physical campus location. Shogren and Brown, however, think the opposite will happen.

“The impact will be on actually needing, potentially, to hire additional people to help with online demand, because the total population is growing,” Brown says.

For now, Shogren and others on the media arts faculty are working hard to make sure they are ready for the new semester to begin on Aug. 25. But instead of making lesson plans and picking out textbooks, they are filming lectures, creating online discussion forums and waiting to see what happens when students log onto course websites instead of filing into their classrooms.

Ted McDermott

ETC. On March 8, 2012, Steve Bullock’s then twomonth-old gubernatorial campaign rolled out a video introducing his new running mate: Brigadier General John Walsh. The two stood side-by-side, flanked by the American and Montana flags, talking about getting things done for the state. In a few short seconds, Bullock hit the highlights of Walsh’s three-decade military career before turning the announcement over to Walsh himself.

“Today,” Walsh told the camera, “I’m embarking on a new mission. I know it won’t be easy, but important missions rarely are.”

Naming Walsh as his prospective lieutenant governor seemed like a fairly brilliant move by Bullock. As the leader of the Montana National Guard and a decorated Iraq War veteran, Walsh could appeal to vets statewide in a way Bullock, then the state’s attorney general, could not. The Democratic duo claimed victory at the polls that fall, defeating Republicans Rick Hill and Jon Sonju by roughly 7,500 votes. Walsh had officially gone from soldier to politician.

But the mission wasn’t over, and not 10 months after assuming office, Walsh released a video announcement of his own. With Max Baucus retiring from the U.S. Senate, and with former Gov. Brian Schweitzer refusing to run for the seat in 2014, Walsh set his sights on Washington, D.C. “Oh, I’m sure I’ll be accused of being naïve,” Walsh said in declaring his Senate candidacy. “That a boy turned soldier, not really a politician, can make a difference back there. It’s idealistic.”

Naiveté was the least of the accusations Walsh’s abrupt political leap-frogging would attract. Within months he was responding to questions about a 2010 U.S. Army inspector general report claiming he’d improperly used his position for private gain. He rebounded in February when Bullock named him to replace Baucus, who left office early as the new U.S. ambassador to China. The appointment was decried by his Republican opponent, Rep. Steve Daines, as “The Big Sky Buy Off,” a backroom deal hatched by D.C. Dems, but Walsh had still arrived on yet a bigger stage.

Walsh swept the primary, and was slowly gaining ground in the polls—until his campaign flamed out this month amid revelations that he’d plagiarized the final paper for his master’s degree at the U.S. Army War College in 2007.

Walsh officially quit the race Aug. 7, leaving the Montana Democratic Party 13 days to name a replacement for the November ballot.

Walsh called it in 2012: His was an important mission. It wasn’t easy. And now it’s over.

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Revealing ride City gets heat as clash over naked bike event escalates

by Ted McDermott

When Nita Maddux returned to Mis- as an endorsement of the bike ride but should the climate and temperament of Montana soula earlier this year, she wanted to relax be seen as a prudent means of keeping the is? … People have a mythology about Montana that is not necessarily Montana.” and reconnect with friends and family. event safe, predictable and contained.

John McFarland, a financial advisor, says “They don’t need to have a permit to She’d been living and working in Maui, on the property of spiritual teacher Ram ride bikes on the street,” Merriam says. his family has lived in Missoula for five genDass, and doing humanitarian work in “The mayor thought it would be better to erations. McFarland has emailed the mayor grant the permit they requested for a cou- several times to express his opposition to the Asia, where she contracted malaria.

“I just wanted to come home and rest ple of reasons. One being that it would be ride, and he was among those who spoke at discriminatory to say, ‘No, we’re not going the council meeting. So did his 12-year-old for a moment,” Maddux says.

She also wanted to continue her work to give you a permit because you’ll be daughter. McFarland says he has been civil as an activist and a student of Buddhism, naked,’ because there is nothing illegal and respectful in expressing his opposition, and she decided she’d organize a naked about being naked. But also, if we permit but he urgently wants the city to revoke the permit for an event bike ride. She’d taken part in that, he claims, “erodes such rides in Portland, Seatour community values,” tle, Eugene and Chicago, and relies on taxpayer dolshe thought it would be fun lars, opens the door to and constructive to bring one sex crimes and effecto Missoula. She believed it tively closes downtown would allow people to tranto those who don’t scend social norms, to escape want to view public nuthe shame people are made dity. McFarland says to feel about their bodies, to he’s working to organdraw attention to vulnerabilize lawsuits against ity of bicyclists and to help photo courtesy of Elly Blue Maddux and the city to shift the “cultural paradigm.”

“To me, it just seems Participants in Portland’s annual World Naked Bike Ride have stop the event.

“There is also my like, oh my gosh, [Missoula] been pedaling through the Rose City in various states of undress since 2004. right to free speech and is the perfect place for that,” she says. “The culture is right for it. The it, we know when it’s happening and we my right to be on public property,” McFardowntown people will totally get it. The have the described route and a designated land says. “And for those that say, ‘Well, if culture I exist in here—this will be so much starting time and a designated ending time, you’re just not interested, don’t go,’ that’s infun. And it’s holding a container for a mo- so we can warn citizens who don’t want to fringing on my rights to be at a public area at ment that’s, like, it feels really good to strip be around when it occurs, and so that we a certain time. That’s illegal. So she’s discrimaway the illusions and just be authentic and can have law enforcement and public safety inating against me because of my beliefs.”

Like Maddux, McFarland says the say, ‘You know what? This is it. Things sag. staff present for whatever happens.”

Despite this explanation, criticism has heart of the matter is the corruption of We all have cellulite. Who the heck cares?’”

Instead of receiving a welcome recep- continued. More than 35 people spoke Montana values by outside forces.

“She’s obviously an activist for her tion, the Bare As You Dare bike ride has be- against the ride during the public comcome a lightning rod for criticism—and ment period of an Aug. 4 council meeting, cause and seems to have come here just to Maddux has found herself overloaded with even though the council had no role in do that, where those of us that have lived stress and the object of numerous graphic approving the permit. Because Mayor here, raised our families here, work here, death threats, she says. When the city of Mis- Engen was unable to attend the meeting, we’re against it,” McFarland says. “And so soula gave Maddux a permit for the ride, crit- Merriam read aloud a statement from I have a hard time with people coming icism spread to Mayor John Engen and him. An audience member tried to shout from Portland trying to get what’s acceptable in Portland to be acceptable here.” others in city government, who were over her as she did so.

With so much acrimony and contention “A lot of people are being quite abucharged with endorsing and encouraging an immoral and illegal event that could jeop- sive to the local government officials,” city leading up to the ride, there is concern ardize the safety and well-being of locals and attorney Jim Nugent says. “In a way, it’s a about what will happen when an estimated visitors. According to City Communications sad commentary, because intimidations 300 nude and partially nude cyclists pedal Director Ginny Merriam, the mayor and his and pressures like that are not what our along the river and through downtown at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17. McFarland office received some 98 emails and 25-30 constitution is based on.”

Maddux, who is originally from White- hopes to pursue his legal options without phone calls from opponents of the ride befish and raised her children in Missoula, attending the event, but says if complaints tween July 7 and Aug. 7.

“It is many, many calls that are very believes those opposed to the ride are out- of indecent exposure must be filed in person hateful, as in full of hatred and hate siders attempting to impose their own nar- “some of us, I guess, will take that route.”

Maddux says that while she’s considered speech, as you would probably define it,” row mores on the local population.

“There is a whole side that is coming stopping the ride due to the controversy, she Merriam says. “And it’s been challenging because lots of the callers do not wish to out to oppose this, and this is the real “cannot give in to hate stuff.”

“Nobody’s stepping off,” Maddux says. story: Who are those people?” she says. listen to anything we have to say.”

In both personal responses and a form “Where is that hate coming from? And why “If I ride all by myself, it’s happening.” statement, Mayor Engen has been telling peo- do a whole lot of people who only recently ple that the permit should not be construed moved to the area feel that they know what tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

[8] Missoula Independent • August 14–August 21, 2014

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Picking up the tab Lawmakers debate cost of Montana’s megaload corridor

by Alex Sakariassen

Montana lawmakers again took up the single corridor is such a wise choice. “You sitive nature of the project four years ago. issue of megaload traffic in the state last just don’t know where commerce is going Back then, they were “trying to beat winter,” month, with part of the discussion in the to require that kind of infrastructure,” she Livesay says, as Imperial Oil had hoped to interim focusing on whether to urge the says, adding that she’d vote against any ship more than 200 megaloads to the CanaMontana Department of Transportation to measure committing state money to such dian tar sands under its Kearl Module Transportation Plan. The oil company intended identify specific corridors for the oversized improvements.

For Barrett, the issue of an oversize to pay for the alterations up front, but its shipments. This time, the legislature’s Revenue and Transportation Interim Commit- load corridor requires a much broader plan fell apart in the face of several legal tee had a few rough dollar figures on consideration of future energy policy. challenges, creating delays that prompted hand—a cost analysis spreadsheet prepared Tying such a discussion—and any mone- Imperial Oil to find an alternate route.

“If there is less of a time crunch,” at the behest of Committee Vice Chair Rep. tary investments—too closely to extractive Livesay says, “then acNancy Ballance, R-Hamilton, celeration could go that outlined estimates for away, and acceleration permanent mitigations on is a tangible cost and a three potential corridors. real expense.”

The results of that reUltimately, Kaufsearch, compiled by Legislamann isn’t confident tive Services, ranged widely, the committee will with a route from Billings to come up with any recSweet Grass comprising the ommendations for the lowest estimate—between 2015 Montana Legisla$320,000 and $620,000 for ture. The interim so permanent infrastructure imfar has been “an opprovements. But the price portunity to hear pubtag for changes along the photo by Alex Sakariassen lic comment, and we’ll most high-profile route currently used by megaload A megaload destined for Billings navigates traffic signals on Re- make the best recomtransport companies, a series serve Street in May 2011. A recent cost analysis of potential mega- mendations—or not— load routes by the Montana Legislature puts the price of replacing that we think we’ve of highways connecting Lolo such traffic signals in the millions. reached in the course and Sweet Grass, came in at a minimum of $8.5 million, including an projects like the Canadian tar sands in- of our study,” she says. Ballance echoes estimated $7 million for permanent traffic volves potentially high risks. From an eco- that skepticism, saying she is “not seeing nomic standpoint, Barrett says, “you don’t a piece of legislation that we can bring signal alterations mostly in Missoula. that’s going to solve this problem” but While the cost differences highlighted want to invest in buggy whips.”

“I’d certainly hope that our future in- that there could be “some things we can in last month’s analysis are considerable, the interim committee has found itself fo- volves a lot more renewable energy, a lot do to work around the edges.” Livesay, for cusing on a bigger question: Who would more conservation, a lot more non-fossil one, feels the question of who should infoot the bill? Sen. Dick Barrett, D-Mis- fuel energy than it does right now,” he vest could have been solved years ago.

“We still have the same problems we soula, says there have been a number of adds. “So in that regard, wouldn’t it be suggestions raised during the committee’s better to build highways that would allow did then, and the solution was there, paid meetings, including putting the burden of manufacturers of wind turbines to get for, approved and scheduled in 2010,” he says, referring to Imperial Oil’s intended investment on the companies shipping their wind turbines to the right place?”

As for analyzing rough costs associ- investment. those oversize loads. Vice Chair Ballance Meanwhile, another load is scheduled is amenable to having the state pay up ated with several corridors, Kaufmann is front, so long as those expenses could be unsure how worthwhile the project was. to travel from Washington to the Calumet recouped through fees charged for mega- “There’s just so many unknowns on it,” Refinery in Great Falls. The Idaho Transshe says. In fact, the spreadsheet indicates portation Department last week issued a load permits.

“I’m not in favor of the state paying for the $7 million for traffic signal improve- permit for transport company Bigge Crane it, but the state fronting the money or part ments between Lolo and Sweet Grass is and Rigging to ship a 311-foot-long, of the money might be a solution that “likely inflated.” According to the research 926,000-pound piece of equipment on a makes sense,” Ballance says. “There it analyst who completed the data, that fig- route across the nearly two-mile-long Long would depend on how many of these trans- ure comes from a 2010 study conducted Bridge over the Pend Oreille River into port loads you could count on, so you’d by Great Falls-based traffic lighting con- Sandpoint. The load will enter Montana on Highway 200 and turn north on Highway have to make sure you had some pretty struction firm Montana Lines.

“That was a very fast-tracked estimate 56, passing through the Kootenai National good estimates for how quickly you were for Imperial Oil,” says Montana Lines Gen- Forest and skirting Bull Lake. From there it going to be able to recoup those costs.”

Committee Chair Sen. Christine Kauf- eral Manager Trevor Livesay, adding that the will pass through Libby, Kalispell and Comann, D-Helena, agrees that taxpayers estimate factored in replacing the northeast lumbia Falls before traveling south through aren’t likely to approve of shouldering traffic signal at every intersection between the Seeley-Swan Valley back to Highway 200. The load entered Idaho Aug. 10. thousands or even millions of dollars in Lolo and Bonner with a rotating one.

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Morally exposed Here’s a solution to the naked bike ride controversy

by Dan Brooks

Due to circumstances wholly within my control, I will be out of town during the Bare As You Dare bicycle ride. For me, it will be like the event never happened.

Probably I will read about it from afar, and maybe people will still be talking about it when I get back, so in that sense it will be real. But operatively, the naked bike does not exist for me. I mention this because my experience of Bare As You Dare is almost exactly the same as that of the people who oppose it, except those people are going insane.

Perhaps you heard about the recent Missoula City Council meeting, with the outrage and the complaining and the traumatizing of children. Opponents of the naked bike ride spoke for 90 minutes, issuing a variety of condemnations and warnings about our moral fiber.

The pleasingly named Leroy Lowry said he had “never seen anything so disgusting” as the city’s decision to permit the event. Valentine Simonovich warned that “our children will be scarred for life if they ever see something like this,” which only raises the question of how like a naked bike ride something must be to scar a child.

Spin class? Uncooked dough falling onto a wire hanger? Council did not pursue this line of inquiry, opting instead to give the floor to 16-year-old Tessa Fausett.

She warned that people with disabilities, who are “sweet and childlike,” will be irreparably harmed, adding: “As a Christian and a Mormon, I stand for purity. And I would like to ask everyone here what they stand for, and I think when people think of Missoula, Mont., they should think of it as a place that stands for goodness.”

With due respect to Fausett, who seems thoughtful and articulate, this is why we shouldn’t let teenagers speak at council meetings. It’s nice that this child regards disabled adults as children and herself as a symbol of purity, but the role of Missoula

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government is not to uphold a religious youth group’s notion of goodness.

The role of Missoula government is to help us all live in this mountain valley together, with minimal intrusion on one another’s lives. And given the problem that some people don’t want to see naked people on bicycles, I can think of a nongovernmental solution: those people can stay home.

Bare As You Dare lasts for one hour.

It follows a predetermined path described

“The role of Missoula government is not to uphold a religious youth group’s notion of goodness.” in its permit application, so those churchgoing extroverts who cannot bear to stay indoors for 60 minutes can still stay off the route. With a little foresight, restraint or flexibility—far less than that required to address a council meeting—these people can experience the naked bike ride the way I will: as if it never happened.

But that’s the difference between such people and me. Naked cycling is not my thing, so I am content to not experience it. Naked cycling is not their thing, either, but somehow they are bothered that anyone is experiencing it at all.

Here we encounter the difference between ethics and morals. From the standpoint of municipal government, ethics are concerned with how we impact one another.

Bare As You Dare is not unethical, since the

ride will not affect anyone who doesn’t come out to watch. But morals remain insistently concerned with what people do, whether it affects the rest of us or not.

Ethics have no problem with a naked bike ride, but morals cannot bear it. While ethical people worry about how they are treating others, moral people worry about how others treat themselves.

I am here to tell you that morals have no place in city government. We should shut them out at every opportunity, lest a vocal minority of busybodies demand control over all our lives.

Perhaps I am indulging in hyperbole here. But if the very existence of nude cycling threatens to scar children and embitter the disabled, maybe letting church people tell the city to tell people how much clothing to wear is dangerous, too.

This problem is not easily solved, since those of us who do not care what other people do are at a disadvantage in local politics. We tend not to show up, whereas busybodies love a public forum.

They have a plan for themselves and a plan for us, too. That’s their whole thing.

Our thing should be to make fun of them. With all due respect to their religions, their religions deserve no respect in the corridors of city council chambers.

We already have a system for determining our collective values and what we intend to do about them, and we vote from time to time to uphold it. That’s how Missoula decides who will ride a bicycle, and how naked they can be: with permits and municipal ordinances, not a book transcribed from golden tablets via magic stones. City government is for all of us. The guardians of goodness keep appointing themselves, but I don’t remember voting for any of them.

Dan Brooks writes about culture, politics and body image at combatblog.net.

His column appears every other week in the Independent.

[opinion]

Water warning Missoula should be careful not to waste so much

by Emily Withnall

I am fairly new to Montana, and I now walk the streets of Missoula with an uncanny feeling that I’m a messenger from the future.

No, I’m not a nut job claiming to hail from Mars or another galaxy. But I do come from a place that has become a mutated version of itself in the past 15 years.

Comparing it to another planet is not all that far-fetched.

I arrive here from the high mountain desert of northern New Mexico, from a place drought-deep in wildfires that outsize Montana’s Lolo Creek Complex fire by hundreds of thousands of acres. I come from a place where the annual precipitation in 2012 was 8 inches.

I’m from the tiny town of Las Vegas, N.M., where two manmade lakes have dried up, one of them the city’s back-up water supply. The main water supply? A stream that we call a river, which is actually the size of Missoula’s neighborhood creek. That river supplies 15,000 residents and commercial buildings, hospitals, school, hotels and three colleges. How? It seems nothing short of a miracle.

To be sure, there are significant water restrictions in Las Vegas. No outside watering is allowed, ever. Laundromats and car washes are open only a few days a week. The three landscaping options locals in my city avail themselves of are native plants (yucca, cacti, red-hot poker plants and anything else tough enough to survive without water), bleached Astroturf and just plain dirt.

The lush green lawns of Missoula seem luxurious by contrast and are certainly pleasing to the eye. But as I walk around my neighborhood, I am perpetually traumatized by sprinklers. I resist the impulse to drag hoses away from sidewalks when I see concrete being watered.

I harbor secret longings to sidle into side

yards and turn faucets off. Perhaps the reflexive impulse to disconnect hoses seems melodramatic. But I trail my previous home behind me, its charred trees feathering in my wake.

I’ve heard about the abundance of the Missoula aquifer. Missoula’s privately owned Mountain Water Company describes the aquifer on its website as a “seemingly endless source of clean, fresh water.” That word “seemingly” sets off

“I’m not advocating bucket baths.

What I am saying is that water conservation is vital.” warning bells. How things “seem to be” sounds like the start of a story that could take on epic proportions. A rough trap to fall into—like one of those pyramid schemes. Untenable.

The Mountain Water Company site explains that annual rain and snow “recharge” the aquifer via the area’s many streams and rivers. You’d need an endless and healthy water cycle for perpetual recharging, but precipitation is declining here just as it is throughout the entire West. In 1998, Missoula received roughly 21 inches of precipitation. The average yearly precipitation it receives now is closer to 13 inches. In 15 more years, what will the number be?

Southwestern droughts are moving north. Colorado, once a green haven for New Mexicans like me, is drying up. Endless stands of trees have been killed by the pine beetles—beetles that can survive through the now-mild winters—and whole forests have been transformed into tinderboxes.

Snow that once lingered on 12,000-foot peaks well into July is now gone by the end of June, and rivers in Colorado drop lower than anyone has ever seen. And I don’t need to mention the gory details of last year’s two suburban Colorado Springs fires.

I’m not advocating bucket baths.

What I am saying is that water conservation is vital. Being mindful about how and why we use our limited drinking water could make all the difference in how Missoula fares when full-fledged drought arrives. I cannot see into Montana’s future to predict when this will be, but in August of last year, the Montana state website showed that Madison County—not far south of Missoula—was experiencing “Severe Drought.” And if you’re worried about cash flow, Missoula’s already higher water rates, double what residents of my small town currently pay, will only increase as the aquifer shrinks.

Las Vegas, N.M., sported green lawns on every street only 15 years ago. People washed their cars weekly, took 20-minute showers and didn’t worry when the plumber took three weeks to fix the leaking faucet. Hindsight is 20/20 now that farmers downriver no longer have enough water to irrigate their crops and have packed up and moved away. What good is a lawn or a clean car when you can’t grow food and don’t have enough clean drinking water to go around?

Emily Withnall is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). She lives in Missoula.

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Missoula Self Help Law Center coordinator Sheri Taylor, left, works with a customer.

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young woman with her hair tied back in a ponytail takes a break from filling out a stack of divorce and custody documents to reassure her baby, who plays in a car seat perched atop a chair. The woman coos at the child, then directs her attention back to the paperwork and the one person in the room focused on helping her make sense of the documents. The mother asks if she should write on the custody filing that the child’s father is violent.

“Don’t bash him,” responds Sheri Taylor, coordinator at the Missoula Self Help Law Center.

Taylor offers to help the woman transfer an order of protection from another state. She also suggests the woman answer the questions on the form as simply as possible.

That form is just one of hundreds Taylor keeps filed in a massive brown bookcase that spans much of the center’s west-facing wall. There are stacks of packets tailored to help customers through everything from divorce to custody disputes, declaring bankruptcy to divvying up the estate of a deceased

relative. Each packet constitutes something like a Cliff ’s Notes for a particular issue to help those who can’t afford proper legal representation and need to navigate their own way through often complicated civil proceedings. Taylor, a paralegal, can’t offer formal legal advice, but she can guide customers through the center’s considerable library of resources.

Just as the mother with the baby sets to work on the form, another woman carrying a child arrives in the doorway of the center’s second floor office inside the Missoula County Courthouse. This mother tells Taylor she needs a divorce—fast.

“Is the other party in agreement?” Taylor asks.

“I don’t know,” the woman responds.

Taylor leads her to the appropriate packet of information and they start to review the materials.

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number of Montanans who are not only being asked to play the role of lawyer during some of the most critical decisions of their life, but are also hampering a legal system unable to fairly accommodate them.

In criminal proceedings, the accused has a right to request a lawyer be provided to them at no cost.

People engaged in civil lawsuits, however, such as custody battles, fights with creditors and family disputes, have no such right.

High attorneys’ fees mean many end up representing themselves. Even an amicable divorce can run at least $5,000. Nearly 75 percent of the law center’s customers report household earnings of just $30,000, below the federal poverty guidelines for a family of four.

Meanwhile, the courts are already clogged with civil lawsuits. Montana district courts topped 50,000 legal filings for the first time in 2012, with one in five involving family law. More than half of those cases— roughly 6,500—had at least one party not represented by legal counsel.

The Montana Supreme Court has long recog-

nized the problem. While the Montana and United States constitutions require that all people receive equal treatment under the law, a report released last month by a court-appointed task force found the system still fails to deliver on those fundamental mandates. Titled “The Justice Gap in Montana,” it found that roughly nine of 10 low-to-moderate income people with legal needs didn’t receive help in 2013.

The Missoula Self Help Law Center stands as one of the few entities working to narrow that gap, despite not being able to offer the one thing needed most: case-specific counseling.

“Some of the difficulty with the Self Help Law Center is they can’t really give legal advice,” says Missoula County District Court Standing Master Leslie Halligan. “It’s like self help—you read the manual to fix your washing machine, and you hope you don’t get electrocuted along the way.”

While the center has made a difference, some believe a reliance on this do-it-yourself representation is not enough.

“Imagine that you went to the emergency room and they said to you, ‘Okay, the medical tex tbooks are over there in that room.

Go look and diagnose yourse lf.

Once you have a diagnosis , the equipment is in the next roo m.

Go ahead and treat yourse lf.

And if you survive that, the exit is over there.’ That’s what we do with people in the legal system who don’t have money.”

Nick Jones has been fighting for two years with his ex-girlfriend over custody of his 3-year-old son. “When you’re trying to juggle work, trying to juggle your kids, your girlfriend, bills, it’s frustrating that you have to take more time to go in to court,” Jones says.

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Nick Jones lost his temper last year while arguing for custody of his 2-year-old son. He had been fighting with his ex-girlfriend for a year, and his frustration boiled over during yet another day in court.

“This is crap,” Jones recalls saying. “I’m tired of this.”

A year later, he’s still fighting to take care of his son. Every two months or so, the boy stays with Jones in Missoula for visits that last a few weeks. He says it never feels like enough time.

The boy’s mother wants him to drop the issue and simply leave the child with her, Jones says. “I told her that’s just not going to happen.”

Jones estimates that he’s appeared in court six times during the past year and, since the custody battle began, spent 80 hours at the Missoula Self Help Law Center working through the voluminous paperwork associated with his dispute. He balances that time with working between 24 and 30 hours a week at a Holiday Gas Station. He’d like to hire a lawyer, but even a “modest means attorney,” one who has agreed to work at a discount through the State Bar of Montana, is out of reach.

“You’re still looking at between $60 and $80 an hour,” Jones says. “Who can afford that?”

Jones’ challenges are similar to many who use the Missoula Self Help Law Center. His one advantage, however, is he’s done this before. This is the second time Jones has represented himself during a custody dispute. His eldest son has a different mother, and he says the fight with her over who should care for their child was even more difficult. The main difference: she had an attorney.

“You don’t know what to say,” he says. “You’re sit-

ting there, the guy knows exactly what he’s doing. And I’m thrown under the bus pretty much.”

Jones says his eldest son’s mother now has the child most of the time.

Despite not getting the desired outcome with that first custody battle, Jones says the experience left him better equipped to handle the current dispute. After spending so many hours in the center, he at least understands the basics of how the legal system works.

You’d think that added knowledge would lead to progress, but it hasn’t.

“When you’re trying to juggle work, trying to juggle your kids, your girlfriend, bills, it’s frustrating that you have to take more time to go in to court,” he says.

Jones believes if he had professional representation the case would have been settled months ago.

He’s hoping to find a pro bono attorney, but that process is moving just as slowly. Whenever he calls the Montana Legal Services Association, which provides direct legal services at no cost, as well as refers clients to low- or no-cost attorneys, he says no one answers.

“I’ve been trying to call for about four days,” Jones says. “The phones are just ridiculously busy all the time.”

That leaves Jones with only one place to go: the Missoula Self Help Law Center.

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Sheri Taylor is a plain-speaking Billings native with two kids. A paralegal with a bachelor’s degree in applied science from the University of Montana, she came to work for the Missoula Self Help Law Center in February 2013 after spending seven years at the Montana Legal Services Association. Her naturally friendly demeanor prompts her to routinely ask customers how they’re feeling.

Much of what Taylor does can be compared to the work of a librarian. When a customer arrives seeking a divorce, she steers them to the right packet or online form. She can explain statutes that detail, for example, the difference between a Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, but she can’t advise which one is best.

On any given day, she could be hit with dozens of different types of cases. Like on a recent afternoon, when Taylor hustles to keep up with seven different people all waiting for her help. One of the customers, a woman wearing shorts and a tank top, fishes from a stuffed blue folder a picture of her kids and a stack of loose-leaf binder paper. The papers are character references, she says. She wants to submit them to the court, to help show that she’s a good mother.

Taylor says the handwritten documents won’t work. For starters, they’ll clog her copy machine.

“Do you have a job?” Taylor asks.

“No,” the woman says, explaining that she was making $8 an hour before her ex-husband caused her to get fired.

Taylor supplies the woman with a packet to amend a parenting plan, including a form requesting a fee waiver from the court, and directs her to complete it at a nearby table.

Next, Taylor notices a man in blue jeans and a baggy T-shirt and asks what he needs. The man says he also has a custody dispute. “My probation officer told me to come to the courthouse to file paperwork to prove ownership of an animal,” he says. “My girlfriend is trying to say—she’s claiming ownership of my cat.”

While Taylor suggests the man contact Missoula County Animal Control, another customer, a man with

a child, advises him the Clerk and Recorder’s Office prints birth certificates.

“That’s what I did for him,” the father says, pointing toward his son. “I just got it printed up.”

The man with the cat says he’ll try animal control and sets off, minutes before a couple arrives. The woman speaks quickly, explaining that someone took their child from the hospital. She points to her partner and tells Taylor they have six kids between them.

“I haven’t seen my babies in a year and a half,” the woman says. “I’ve been doing everything Judge Larson asked of us.”

Taylor, seeing that the couples’ legal problems will require more than the center has to offer, suggests they call the Montana Legal Services Association for a pro bono referral. She then directs her attention to another customer, offering cookies and juice while he waits.

Taylor uses food and humor to deal with what can often be an emotionally exhausting job.

“Sometimes that’s all you can do is give them a cookie and hope for the best,” she quips.

“I’m not here to sob with them,” she says, turning serious. “I don’t mind giving them a hug. But I like to focus them on why they’re here. ‘Let’s get this done, and then, you need to go through the rest of your life.’”

It takes a certain type of person to coordinate help center operations, says Charlotte Beatty, a Missoula attorney who was instrumental in launching the Missoula center in 2008. Taylor seems to fit the bill.

“The burnout, it is hard,” says Beatty, who now serves on the center’s advisory board. “These people take this job because it’s in their hearts they want to help people. Sheri wants to help people.”

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Charlotte Beatty is largely responsible for launching Missoula’s Self Help Law Center. Before the center opened, she says people representing themselves presented even more of an institutional challenge than they do today.

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Charlotte Beatty calls the Missoula Self Help Law Center her “baby.” Six years after launching it in Missoula, she still keeps a picture of the grand opening perched in her office. The photo shows her cutting a cake made to look like a court petition.

Beatty glances at the picture when discussing the problems that prompted the center’s creation. She and District Judge Robert “Dusty” Deschamps first applied for funding through a small grant program with the Montana Supreme Court that aimed to ease the personal and institutional strain of self-represented litigants. Beatty, as Deschamps’ staff attorney, routinely saw those challenges firsthand.

“They would just place this pile of paper on the bench and say, ‘I don’t know if I did this right,’” Beatty says. “People would come in and nothing would be done right.”

As it takes a certain type of personality to coordinate a help center, Beatty notes that people representing themselves also need some basic skills, as well as some patience and emotional fortitude. The center attempts to prepare them for what lies ahead.

“This is the hardest thing that most people have ever had to do in their life,” Beatty says. “They had a dream that they were going to be married to someone and

have a family. That’s a dream, it’s like the American dream. And then this dream starts not working out. And then it doesn’t work out at all. And you’ve got all of this stuff. And you have kids. And you have this law, Title 40, it’s the code for family law, it’s huge.”

At the program’s inception, self help law centers were viewed as controversial from all sides of the legal system. Erin Farris-Olsen, who oversees operation of centers statewide on behalf of the Montana Supreme Court, says there were questions about whether the centers would actually do more harm than good.

“The court was concerned with the influx of self-represented litigants and maybe [the centers] would increase the court’s burden—that maybe more people would self-represent if they had assistance.” FarrisOlsen says. “Or from the attorney’s perspective, ‘Are these potential clients for me?’”

Farris-Olsen notes the program gauges its success in part by asking judges and court clerks to report on how satisfied they are with filings submitted by help center customers. They’re seeing improvements, she says, and that “does actually save time on the part of court staff.”

Beatty acknowledges the center remains controversial among a small yet vocal group. One common complaint involves how the centers differentiate between providing information and offering legal advice.

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“It is such a blurry line and such a fine line that we’re always treading, you know, ‘What should we tell people?’” Beatty says.

“Some people think telling someone how to fill in a blank is legal advice. Some people think calculating child support is legal advice. I don’t agree with that.”

Because Beatty now serves as a standing master, essentially an associate judge, she’s had to stop working directly with customers in the center. She now serves on its advisory board, and remains a staunch supporter of its mission. It’s filling a need, she says, and the numbers back that up. Between April 1 and the end of July, Taylor and a rotating crew of volunteer attorneys, paralegals and at least one retired judge served 1,157 people at the Missoula center. That’s up from 289 during the same period in 2012.

“We can schedule twice the number of final hearings and divorces that we used to be able to,” Beatty says, “and get those things completed.”

While the center points to its successes, the influx of customers speaks to larger problems within the legal system.

Beatty surmises that the center’s numbers are increasing in part because of budget cuts at the Montana Legal Services Association, the largest statewide entity charged with providing direct representation to low-income people in civil cases.

MLSA “triage attorney” Ed Higgins says funding shortfalls have forced the association to close offices and cut staff in recent years. Updated census data prompted a cut of nearly one third of MLSA’s federal funding, some $400,000 annually.

Higgins explains the problem using basic math. Thirteen MLSA attorneys serve the state. According to the Montana Supreme Court’s “Justice Gap in Montana” report, roughly 167,000 low-to-moderate people statewide needed help with a civil legal dispute last year. That leaves one legal services attorney for approximately every 13,000 people.

Funding cuts contributed to MLSA’s decision to stop providing representation in family law cases, except when domestic violence is involved. Less than 45 percent of income-qualified individuals who requested services from MLSA actually received assistance.

“The reality is we are touching a tiny fraction of the people that need help,” Higgins says. “There just isn’t enough of anything to go around.”

Most states devote resources from their general funds to providing some civil legal assistance. Montana does not. According to the Montana Supreme Court report, “Montana’s is one of the lowest [states] at a funding level of about $20 for every person with income below the federal poverty level.”

State funding for civil legal services is limited. The Court Help Program receives $325,000 annually, which, in addition to covering overhead at the six statewide law centers, also operates unstaffed kiosks in Custer, Fergus and Park county courthouses, as well as at public libraries in the Bitterroot, Butte, Glendive, Havre, Polson, Sidney and Wolf Point. The kiosks offer free legal forms and a “live chat” option, which connects people to a “navigator” capable of directing them to pertinent legal information.

Higgins surmises that many of the local people who can’t get help through MLSA or through the Western Montana Bar Association’s pro bono program, which is now handling roughly 165 cases on a volunteer basis, will end up ignoring their legal problem. That neglect can lead to even worse fallout, including an eviction, or, in the case of a credit dispute, seizing a bank account.

He also acknowledges why some people don’t see the DIY model as the ultimate answer to the problem, and uses an analogy employed by legal professionals to underline the point.

“Imagine that you went to the emergency room,” he says, “and they said to you, ‘Okay, the medical textbooks are over there in that room. Go look and diagnose yourself. Once you have a diagnosis, the equipment is in the next room. Go ahead

Taylor admits sometimes the legal problems she’s presented are more than the center can handle. “Sometimes that’s all you can do is give them a cookie and hope for the best,” she says.

and treat yourself. And if you survive that, the exit is over there.’ That’s what we do with people in the legal system who don’t have money… If you compare that to some of the medical stuff, it seems inhuman the way that we treat people in the civil legal system. And I think there’s some truth to that.”

Recognizing the gaps in the system, the Montana Supreme Court is doing more to help level the playing field longterm. Specifically, the court’s asked the Montana Legislature to simplify family laws and also tweaked ethical rules governing attorney conduct to encourage pro bono volunteerism.

“We tried to expand it so it will allow lawyers sort of bite-sized pro bono,” says Patricia Fain, who oversees statewide pro bono coordination for the court. She says Montana attorneys donated 157,463 hours of free and reduced services to low-income litigants in 2013, totaling approximately $20 million.

Still, progress can be slow and the money remains tight. Beatty, for one, is concerned about simply maintaining the little funding the help centers currently receive before seeking additional financial support. “There have always been legislators that don’t want to fund us,” she says.

Absent a larger cash commitment from the state, Beatty and others believe it will take a collective effort throughout the legal community to help those in need of services. She notes as an example the lawyers who practice for free in public places, such as the one attorney who rou-

tinely sets up a help desk at the Ravalli County Courthouse. Beatty herself makes sure to be part of the solution. She works pro bono in Ravalli County, where her position as a standing master in Missoula doesn’t present a conflict.

“I’m more of a boots-on-the-ground type of person,” she says. “I kind of wish people would stop talking about [the problems] and just do something about it.”

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It’s 4:40 p.m., 10 minutes after the Missoula Self Help Law Center closes, and Taylor finally takes a breather. Just as she leans back in her chair and exhales after the whirlwind of activity in the past several hours, an upset-looking man and woman open the center door and enter.

“I need to know what it takes to file for slander,” the woman says. “Someone is attacking me.”

Taylor calmly suggests the couple return tomorrow and she can direct them to the right resources.

Rather than bemoaning injustice or dwelling on the systemic challenges, Taylor prefers to focus on the small victories she witnesses everyday. While representing oneself can be grueling, eventually cases come to an end. That’s when Taylor sees the benefit of her work.

“When they come in after their final hearing and they give me a big hug, it’s like, ‘This is why I’m here. I love it,’” she says.

“It’s like, ‘Yeah, they can do anything.’”

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THE TOTAL LINEUP

Lucky 13

Thursday, Aug. 14 Zootown Arts Community Center, at 5 PM Al Scorch

Greco

Boys Ol’ Doris MASS FM Woolen Men Obnox Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Shannon and the Clams

Friday, Aug. 15 Free Cycles, at 4 PM Megagiant Al Scorch Shitty Weekend

Spandex, super mutants and stage antics at this year’s Total Fest

by Erika Fredrickson

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very year I write about Total Fest I fall into despair. The task of picking a few bands to highlight in just a few words feels impossible when sifting through the list of festival veterans, buzzworthy newbies, local stalwarts and weirdo one-person projects. As with any festival, not every band is up my alley; the lineup is picked by a committee with varying tastes—and that’s how it should be. But as far as noteworthy acts who will either blow your mind or make you think, or who will at least break down the fourth wall and throw themselves into the crowd? This year’s lineup has that in spades. Perhaps it’s not a bad problem to have.

In its 13th year, Total Fest has continued to establish itself as a premier music festival, especially in the Northwest, pulling in bands from the hotbeds of Seattle and the Bay Area, Denver and Olympia.

As in past years, bands will also come from Chicago, Minneapolis and Brooklyn.

Obnox arrives from Cleveland and Sediment Club hails from “the general Northeast” around Massachusetts. This year, the all-ages festival gets an additional venue, the Zootown Arts Community Center, which dipped its toes in last year when it hosted a Total matinee show. But some things haven’t changed: mainly, three days of adventurous live music. Here are just some of the festival acts and events you shouldn’t miss.

Big buzz Chastity Belt used to show up to frat parties in college, play songs and sometimes break things. Back then, it was a joke band, but now these Seattle women can play a

Badlander, at 7:30 PM

Chastity Belt

Treasure Fleet

punky dream-pop song like nobody’s business. If you’re not paying attention you’ll miss the humor in gems like “Giant ( Vagina)” or “Nip Slip,” in which guitarist Julia Shapiro sings beautifully and desperately, “I’m so drunk, I just want some chips and dip. Chips and dip!”

Wolf Eyes, one of the festival’s most anticipated bands, is a weird noise outfit that lives up to song titles like “Half Animal, Half Insane.” If you only like songs with choruses, this isn’t going to be your thing. But what the Michigan band does bring is perfectly rendered sounds that build suspense like the scariest nightmare you can imagine.

It’s trippy and abstract stuff, and if you let yourself get pulled in, it’s a wild ride.

Super mutations The word “supergroup” gets a bad rap because it implies the pooling of talented musicians into something that doesn’t rise to expectations. But you know what? Not always true. Treasure Fleet is a supergroup in that it combines members of stellar bands The Arrivals, Smoking Popes and Lawrence Arms—some of which have been standouts at Total Fest before. And unlike Audioslave or Velvet Revolver, Treasure Fleet’s dreamy Britrock style doesn’t feel contrived.

Of local interest, Recessions is another super-mutant (ah, that sounds cooler, right?) with musicians from former Missoula band Ass-End Offend and its subsequent Portland, Ore., mutation Squalora, plus guys from Disgruntled Nation, a band dating back to Missoula’s old Jay’s Upstairs days.

Dreamsalon, with its angular-psych sound, includes Chris Chambers from longtime

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Total Fest vets The Lights. Peace Creep has former members of beloved Total veterans Triclops. And, finally, Lord Dying boasts musicians from Black Elk and Le Force, both of whom have slayed at Total Fests past.

Returning favorite There’s no reason to pick a favorite band, but last year I fell hard for Animal Lover. The name seemed whimsical although not as fun as, say, Shitty Weekend, who I assume I’ll fall in love with this year.

But the hyper, not-too-mathy rock of Animal Lover seduced me in the way 10 Red Bull vodkas will. The Minneapolis band returns this year. But with Ed Schrader and Al Scorch in this year’s lineup, I’m not going to be monogamous.

Stage antics When you hear the names JonnyX, Nasty Travis, DJ Invisible Touch and Professor Romagna what do you imagine on stage?

Did you guess spandex, strobe lights and fog machines? Even if you didn’t, you’re probably not surprised. The Portland “cybergrind” band JonnyX and the Groadies is even known to wear Santa suits. And then there’s Chris Greco, a solo synth-pop project from Flagstaff, Ariz., who has photos of himself performing in a spandex tiger leotard crushing a PBR can. ( You see the theme?)

Some call him Tim Tim Midyett used to be Tim Midgett of Silkworm, the most famous band to ever leave Missoula. For those of us going to shows at the Welcoma Club, the Underground and Trendz in the early and mid-

1990s, Silkworm was a staple of the scene.

Songs like “There is a Party in Warsaw Tonight” served as a defining sound of our youth when the free world was just coming into reach. Midyett has done several projects since then including the solo acoustic Mint Mile. It’s exciting to see Midyett in what feels like a new era. He’s moved on, and so have we. Almost.

Swap and slurp The Saturday afternoon show at the Big Dipper is one of the best parts of Total Fest because it’s free and you can bring children and eat ice cream. Plus, the light-of-day parking lot scene is a refreshing change from bars and basements. This year, Missoula’s J. Sherri joins Dear Rabbit from Colorado Springs and King Lollipop from Oakland to charm or freak out the familyfriendly audience. Don’t forget that the parking lot will be filled with vinyl, CDs, tapes and random stuff for the Record Swap—and if you’ve got something to trade, don’t hold back. Your family and friends might glaze over when you geek out on music, but these record hoarders won’t.

Local not yokel When it comes to art, “local” sometimes gets treated like a dirty word, as if it’s not up to par. And maybe because we see them more often, Missoula bands that get picked for Total Fest get less hype, and that’s a total shame. If you are lax about supporting Missoula bands, here’s your chance.

MASS FM won the Indy’s Best New Band title this year, so you can start with them. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

Chemical Lawns Ex-Nuns Sediment Club Is/Is JonnyX and the Groadies Animal Lover Lord Dying

Palace, at 7:30 PM Greco Manx Treasure Fleet Underground Railroad to Candyland Dreamsalon Peace Creep White Night The Bugs Prizehog Lil Tits

Saturday, Aug. 16 Big Dipper Record Swap, noon J. Sherri Dear Rabbit King Lollipop

Badlander, 7:30 PM Toupee American Cream Wimps Kitten Forever Mint Mile/Tim Midyett Lenguas Largas

Palace, 7:30 PM Shramana Chastity Belt Gaytheist Darto Nerve Beats Recession Omotai Wolf Eyes Criminal Code

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Japanimation Boris’ experimental rock doesn’t alienate If The Land of the Rising Sun has a holy trinity of experimental heavy rock bands, it would be made up of Eternal Elysium, Church of Misery and Boris. While all three bands launched their careers in the ’90s, Boris

remains the most prolific into the second decade of the 2000s, and is probably the most familiar to stateside audiences due to relatively frequent tours.

The easiest comparison to make to the band’s sound would be to the Melvins; the Japanese trio takes its name from the opening track of that venerable band’s essential Bullhead record. It’s a fair comparison too, given the wide influences and experimental choices that Boris makes that are as likely to alienate fans as thrill

them. Based in the heaviest of doom metal, the band doesn’t hesitate to infuse their sound with pop, drone or any other sound that catches its ear.

Noise, the band’s 19th release, is no different.

Opener “Melody” has an almost jangly, 1990s alt-rock feel to it, yet “Heavy Rain” is as thick, slow and droning as anything the Melvins ever did, only with airy, female vocals. “Angel” clocks in at nearly 19 minutes and can only be described as a soundscape that begs for headphones and, perhaps, some form of brain-altering substance acquired in the gray areas of legality.

I’d be lying if I said I have much patience for experimentation in my heavy music, but something in the way Boris pulls it off works. It’s an exciting, interesting listen, and Noise is an excellent starting point for those curious about the band. (Chris La Tray) Boris plays Stage 112 Thu., Aug. 14, at 10 PM. $18/$15 advance. 18-plus.

Lenguas Largas, Come On In If you’ve ever wondered what a flock of freaky rockand-roll trumpeter swans sounds like, just aim your earholes toward the tripped out sounds of Tuscon’s Lenguas Largas’ new release, Come On In. But don’t get too attached, as these guitarists are seemingly able to conjure any tone, anytime. The title track brings to mind the slithering leads of Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, while “Lower Profile” is reminiscent of Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis and the best of his ’90s slide whistle hot licks. “Mr. Reviewer Feller,” you’re probably saying, “you are prone to hyperbolic similes and lazy, dated analogies—can these guys play cowpunk, too?” Indeed, Dear Heart, the riffery on “Circles” will make you bow to your partner, corner salute, circle left and go lickety-scoot. Quickly, though, “Circles” takes a promenade off a short pier and begins croaking with wah-wah and dirty ol’ bass as the ostensibly bummed-out vocalist, Isaac Reyes, repeats the refrain, “Who needs a day when the sun’s not shinin’?” For a song

that is half the length of a Missoula stoplight, it’s mighty powerful stuff.

Who does Reyes sound like anyway? Bobby Darin?

Jay Reatard? A crazed pysch-rock super clown called Syphilitic Steve? All of the above. While Reyes’ voice is often layered in echo and buried in a soundslide of guitar, dude can sing. “No Wrong, No Right,” especially, shows Reyes doing his best and Lenguas Largas channeling all its skills. Any song, or band for that matter, that can at once summon comparisons to Sam Cooke’s “Cupid” as well as David Bowie’s “Win” from Young Americans, all while sounding utterly like itself, is aces.

(Jason McMackin) Lenguas Largas plays Total Fest Sat., Aug. 16, at the Badlander with Kitten Forever, Mint Mile, Wimps, American Cream, Toupee and more.

Doors at 7:30. $20/$55 full three-day pass. Visit totalfest.org for schedule and tickets.

Gaytheist, Hold Me...But Not So Tight Gaytheist’s greatest gift is making the most of two minutes. The mixture of a thrashing guitar complete with crunchy riffs and heavy bass under Justin Rivera’s tenor wail leads to quick satisfaction on almost every song. The Portland trio takes the fun and brevity of The Minutemen and sharpens it with the voracious posthardcore of Glassjaw, but the sum of this comparison is greater than its parts.

Hold Me...But Not So Tight, released in 2013, is the fourth release in the band’s consistent sounding catalog.

Not much changed since 2012’s Stealth Beats, and that’s a good thing—anything but raw rock would feel watered down. The band sets itself apart with a focus on treble found in the crashing cymbals and vocals, avoiding any

sludge that might slow the bullet train of sound. Unlike similar noise-y acts, the lyrics are discernible, which is especially rewarding on the consumerism-bashing “60 Easy Payments” and the silly “Poocano” where Rivera sings, “Let’s rip off the mountaintops and defecate down the holes, wait until it erupts across the United States.” It’s not hard to hold anyone’s attention with such short songs, but even so, Gaytheist bridges punk and metal with the kind of ease that makes you want more, not less.

(Brooks Johnson) Gaytheist plays Total Fest Sat., Aug. 16, at the Palace with Wolf Eyes, Chastity Belt, Omotai and more. Doors at 7:30. $20/$55 full three-day pass.

Visit totalfest.org for schedule and tickets.

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theater

Exit here Behind the scenes of Viscosity’s Mystery Mark

by Cab Tran

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Theo Ellsworth, left, and Josh Wagner collaborated on Viscosity Theatre’s upcoming Mystery Mark, a book-turned-theatrical installation that shows as part of the Zootown Fringe Festival.

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In May 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre—the influential 20thcentury philosopher, critic, writer and all-around Very Intelligent Person—premiered No Exit at the VieuxColombier in Paris two weeks before the Allied landings in Normandy and just three months before Paris was liberated from her Nazi occupiers. One can only imagine sitting in the audience watching Sartre’s existential hell being performed through the damned characters of Garcin, Serrano and Rigault, all while keeping in mind that attending such performances past the German-imposed curfew could lead to summary execution. Now, 70 years later, it might be difficult to fathom an era when seeing a play meant one could be put before a firing squad.

How times have changed. Live theater hasn’t gone the way of the Third Reich, but its status as a means of entertainment and a form of literary discourse has diminished in the face of Twitter, Netflix and other technological advancements. And it’s that very technology that has created a different existential unease: People we barely know on Facebook know what we ate for breakfast, and yet these new technologies have only compounded our sense of isolation and alienation.

In Viscosity Theater’s upcoming production, Mystery Mark, the Missoula theater group captures the struggle of the lonely individual living in an absurd world, like in No Exit. Except this time it’s the kind of technologically induced existential loneliness inextricably woven into our modern age.

The story centers on a man named Clay Searle who lives in an unnamed city. His face is frozen in a permanent state of terror and his only friends are a stuffed “wee dino” plush doll and a TV set, though the world hasn’t broadcasted TV in years. He carries a briefcase, but he doesn’t know the combination and has no idea what’s inside. Every night a Might, an eight-legged creature with human hands for claws, comes out and tries to unlock it. The anxiety mounts.

Mystery Mark began as a novella written by Josh Wagner and illustrated by comic-style artist Theo Ellsworth. “I’ve been wanting to work with Theo for years,” Wagner says. “He doesn’t collaborate and is always busy, so I tried to trick him into working with me.”

The longtime friends met up for a drink at Charlie B’s along with Daniel Scott Morris, Viscosity’s artistic director, whose role was to expand the novella into the realm of theater. “Scott was getting into masks and puppets at

the time, so I connected the dots between Theo’s work and Scott’s,” Wagner says.

Sporting a dark goatee, shaggy hair and classic Woody Allen glasses, Wagner could pass for a boulevardier and frequenter of the all-night jazz clubs in Sartre’s postwar Paris. He founded Viscosity in 2012 with Rebecca Schaffer, Morris and Diego Burgos, and they’ve already staged six original productions. He has helped produce short films, written novels like Deadwind Sea and The Adventures of the Imagination of Periphery Stowe and tried his hand at playwriting. As the titles of his multifarious projects suggest, Wagner is most comfortable with playful characters in speculative settings—less in the vein of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series than, say, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

On a recent afternoon, Wagner put out a mass text on social media—and people responded. Morris’ stucco house in central Missoula has been the setting for DropIn Art Night, a weekly DIY workshop where Mystery Mark’s cast, crew and anyone else willing to show up can help with the project. The residence has a European flavor and a distinctly artistic vibe. There’s a white Piaggio scooter parked in the driveway. French doors open breezily out onto the back deck where the new arrivals are hunched over masks, puppets, frames, buckets filled with flour paste and a mountain of paper bags.

The production, which can be seen during Zootown Fringe Festival this week, now includes a performance space incorporating closed-circuit television and social media. Actors, costume and set designers, prop makers, a media guru and even a local band, Cash For Junkers—who will live score the novella-turned-playplus-art-installation—have all had their input into the ever-changing Mystery Mark recipe. “The whole thing,” Ellsworth says, “seems untraceable now.”

More people arrive at Morris’ house with paper bags and add to the growing mountain. Not far away, Wagner sits alone on the deck like one of Sartre’s lonely No Exit characters. A faint blue light flickers across his nose as his thumbs swipe the screen. Updating his Facebook status, no doubt.

Mystery Mark shows at the Downtown Dance Collective Thu., Aug. 14, and Fri., Aug. 15, from 7 to 8 PM and Sat., Aug. 16, from 9:30 to 10:30 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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“M” for marvelous

these are the good old days.

Mischa Jakupcek on Missoula’s role in The Hero Pose

by Erika Fredrickson

Mischa Jakupcek’s short film The Hero Pose features a father, Joe, trying to sell an old car, and his daughter, Mia, a wise-beyond-her-years preteen in a jean jacket and tutu who listens to NPR. Mia sits on an American flag, puts jumper cables on her braids and makes confident observations about life as Joe talks on his phone and dismisses Mia’s antics. At first. But as the 12-minute film rolls along, there are sweet moments of clarity between the father and daughter—including one in which they talk about what the “M” on Missoula’s Mt. Sentinel stands for. For Joe it’s “motor,” “mass” and “mortgage.” For Mia it’s “marvelous” and “magpie.” It’s “Mackerel. As in, holy!”

Jakupcek, a Missoula native and now-seasoned filmmaker, has won dozens of awards across the country for The Hero Pose in Seattle, Spokane, Toronto and as far as Oaxaca, Mexico. For its Missoula premiere this week, we spoke with Jakupcek about her feisty characters, her love of film and why Missoula plays a special role in her work.

MJ: The character of Mia is based on my niece, Eliza—easily one of my all-time favorite people. She is 9 years old and wise beyond her years. I definitely channeled her language and sassiness when I wrote Mia’s dialogue.

What made you fall in love with film?

MJ: I went to a matinee by myself at a cheap theater in Lynnwood [Seattle] one rainy afternoon and saw Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. It was so beautiful and compelling, and as I watched the credits roll, I saw lists of individuals who had somehow managed to work in the film industry and I thought to myself, why couldn’t

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You started writing The Hero Pose at the Missoula Colony in 2012.

Where did the idea come from?

Mischa Jakupcek: The subject for that year’s Colony was “Missoula Stories.” To get ideas, I got online and sifted through Missoula’s Craigslist and started exploring dif- Nikki Hahn stars in The Hero Pose. ferent ads. I was amused by the “for trade” section where people were wanting to trade I find a way to do this as well? Is it possible? Having Game Boys for guns, for Dobermans, etc. It reminded grown up on a goat farm down the Bitterroot, it seemed me of how much I love the distinct, sometimes odd cul- a bit far fetched. But … I began volunteering at the ture of Missoula and the random collision of strangers Northwest Film Forum delivering their newspapers that occurs because of Craigslist ads everyday around [and] I eventually attended the London Film School, getting an MA in filmmaking. the globe.

Joe, the main character, is played by Chaske Spencer, who is also in Winter in the Blood and the Twilight series. How did you end up working with him?

MJ: It’s funny, I didn’t know that he was a star in Winter in the Blood—though now I am dying to see that film—or that he had a starring role in the Twilight series.

I had been co-producing an independent film that was shot in eastern Washington called Desert Cathedral. I saw several versions and was immediately drawn to the subtle, quiet charisma that Chaske’s character embodied.

I got in touch with the director, Travis Gutiérrez Senger, who put me in touch with Chaske.

Nikki Hahn is so wonderfully charming in how she inhabits Joe’s young daughter, Mia. MJ: She was by far the most professional person on our set. She often helped prompt Chaske and myself as well, having memorized the script better than anyone else.

I first heard about her from our friends and sound technicians [at] Digital Sorcery. I watched a piece called “Toddlers & Tiaras” on “Jimmy Kimmel” where Nikki plays Tom Hank’s beauty pageant daughter and I was impressed immediately. She is whip-smart and seems to have an effortless talent in front of the camera.

Is she based on anyone?

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What has been the most interesting feedback you’ve gotten from people on the film?

MJ: I didn’t set out to write a children’s story. In fact, the language that the father character uses was sort of inappropriate for kids, I thought. But after I made the film and started sending it to festivals, it kept getting selected to screen at Children’s Film Festivals.

What else are you working on?

MJ: I have a feature script that is set in Missoula called Walrus. It’s a comedy about a woman in her 20s who is returning to Missoula after dropping out of law school and features her friendship with a young girl—basically the Mia character from The Hero Pose—and an older, gay man who is dying of cancer.

Why do you like filming in Missoula?

MJ: It’s a cliché, but there is an authority as a writer that comes from setting stories in places that you know.

Every time I come back to Missoula, I climb to the M. It’s the perfect setting for so many stories—and of course has special meaning and nostalgia to me.

The Hero Pose screens at the Roxy along with The Duchess of Suchness and Bastard Fri., Aug. 15, at 7 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Reel time Linklater’s masterpiece cooks up true emotion

by Molly Laich

“I can’t hear you over my ’90s haircut.”

I have to admit, I went into my first viewing of Richard Linklater’s latest film Boyhood with just the slightest hint of dread. If you haven’t heard by now, the movie was shot a little bit at a time over 12 years, which means we watch the actors age and evolve alongside the story. It’s just that I’d heard so much hype. One of my favorite filmmakers had made such a good movie. A game-changing movie. I was afraid I would be overwhelmed, or worse, that it would disappoint me.

I’m happy to report that Boyhood is every bit as profound and special as I hoped and feared it would be. It’s a period piece shot in real time, reflected in the soundtrack and haircuts. A movie can encompass years with trickery and makeup, but never before have we seen a plot of this scope rendered with so much heartbreaking authenticity.

The story begins with a 7-year-old boy named Mason and follows his life up until he goes away to college.

Mason lives with his divorced mother (Patricia Arquette) and his slightly older sister, Samantha, played by Linklater’s own daughter, Lorelei. You might remember her with the dreamcatcher at the beginning of Waking Life (2001). I read that Lorelei lost interest at some point during filming and wanted her character to be killed off, to which her dad probably said something like, “No, we’re not changing the entire arc and tone of my film to cater to your teenage whim.” I’m guessing.

Mason and Samantha have a cool, hip dad played by Ethan Hawke. He’s young and imperfect, but like everyone else, he’s doing the best he can. He picks them up and takes them bowling, and I found myself thinking for the first time of many, “This is my childhood.” But then, what child of divorce doesn’t remember that time our dad took us bowling? Viewers will find their own entryways of identification sprinkled throughout the story, because the film is, above all else, emotionally true. Linklater structures the script from a vignette of impressions and memories, the way certain events burn holes in our brain and how we weave a narrative of our past from those rememberings. Pay special attention to the shot of Mason poking at a dead bird behind his house. You remember doing that, right? Ogling boobs from a stolen bra catalog with your friends at a time when you barely comprehend what sex is, your mother lying dejected on the floor, your first

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beer, the way you felt when your parents savagely broke their promises—these are the moments.

Sometime in Mason’s pre-adolescence, his mother marries her college professor, a man who seems okay until you notice he’s always walking around with a mixed drink in his hand, barking orders at everybody. (Suffering your mother’s boyfriends: another pleasure particular to children of divorce.) Boyhood remembers what it’s like for a kid to see the fallibility of the people in charge of raising them, how nobody gives you credit for knowing and the helplessness that feeling brings.

The tone of the movie evolves as Mason takes on a new awareness of the world. He’s an artistic, sensitive kid who’s bright but maybe too nonconformist to fully thrive in a high school environment. He has conversations that remind me of the rambling characters from Linklater’s other Texas films about young people: Waking Life, Slacker, Suburbia. I can only assume much of his character mirrors Linklater’s own childhood experiences. (I remember fondly something I read Linklater say about why he quit college, simply: “It cut into my reading time.”)

The adult characters have their own growth to contend with. Suddenly we see that Mason’s mother has graduated and is teaching her own college class. Rarely does a movie make me cry from happiness, but sincerely, I was so proud of her. It could have been my own mother up there. The adults remember their own childhoods through the eyes of their children, and they’re eager to give advice. They want their kids to be better than they were, to learn from their mistakes, but in this need to instruct, the adults have forgotten that we all have to fumble through and make our own mistakes. Time has made them think a kid’s feelings are less real, when in fact they’re the realest.

Linklater is one of the best filmmakers we have. His work is imperfect and at times clumsy, but so entirely original and unpretentious that I don’t think it could be improved upon by a more skilled director. It takes a mind untethered from convention to even dream up an idea this crazy, and after that, boundless grit and courage to make it happen. This is one of the very best films.

Boyhood opens at the Wilma Fri., Aug. 15. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK APNA DESH A young man in 70s-fabulous Bombay must expose wrong-doers and clear his innocent brother’s name. Starring Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz and Om Prakash. Screening at the Roxy Sun., Aug. 17, at 7 PM as part of its new Bollywood Mania series.

BOYHOOD Watch a kid literally grow up in Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making epic. Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Rated R. Wilma. (See Film.)

THE EXPENDABLES 3 Explosions and bad guys! Every mega-ultradudebro you can think of is here for the testosterone-fest, plus Kelsey Grammer. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

FANTASTIC MR. FOX Wes Anderson gets his paws in animated kids’ flicks with this story about a shrewd, chickensnatching fox voiced by George Clooney.

Screening at the Roxy Thu., Aug. 14, at 8 PM. THE GIVER Lois Lowry’s intriguing classic novel gets the bigpicture treatment, because eventually Hollywood will ruin every book you ever loved. Starring Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

LET’S BE COPS Count how many felonies these dudes commit as they pose as police officers and fumble with weapons. Starring Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., and Rob Riggle. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT Colin Firth plays an Englishman wrapped up in screwball romantic shenanigans, in Woody Allen’s latest picture that critics so far have described as “watchable.” Also starring Antonia Clarke and Emma Stone. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

NOW PLAYING GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Basically, imagine Andy from “Parks and Rec” as a space pilot goofball leading a team of misfits.

Totally excellent. Starring Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

INTO THE STORM A town is plagued by a bizarre onslaught of cyclones in a single day. Reviews indicate that the

“Good heavens, is that a parade of nude cyclists?” Magic in the Moonlight opens Friday at the Wilma.

plot kind of... blows. Starring Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies and Matt Walsh. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

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.

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.

Starring Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou and Gad

Elmaleh. Screening at the Roxy Aug. 15-17 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. 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.

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.

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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Real talk about wine

by Jule Banville An older gent and his wife walked into a wine store in Missoula with this tip: “If you can make wine in Idaho, you can make it in Montana.”

It came in response to the guy not finding what he wanted inside Corkscrew, the fantastic little shop on South Third Street off the Hip Strip. Neva Loney, who lists her title on her email as “la presidenta” of Corkscrew Wine Corporation, doesn’t carry wines from Idaho. She doesn’t carry them from Montana, either, because—and we’re gonna get real here—she hasn’t found one she likes.

Here’s the thing about that: You can trust her.

And isn’t that what most of us want from buying wine, anyhow? Someone who knows what she’s doing to tell us what to pour and swirl or, you know, just drink with a hunk of beef?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into Missoula’s CVS wine superstore (a couple. I have kids.

I don’t have time to dawdle) and panicked at the rows, the displays, the critters on the labels ready to pounce. If I can settle on a white or a red or maybe a rosé, that’s progress. Beyond that, I’m lost.

But let’s say you are not lost. Let’s say you know your sangiovese from your petit verdot (duh, one’s Italian. I just looked it up!). Corkscrew is as friendly to wine nerds as it is to wine dopes.

Chief wine nerd is Aaron Taylor and he’s someone you need to know. You probably already do because you’re cooler than me. He moonlights as a door guy at the Top Hat and has logged time at high-end restaurants in Portland, Charleston and Chicago. He’s also worked the scene in Missoula, notably at Iza. You may not know he grew up in Stanford, the son of beekeepers who’s horribly allergic to bees. But I digress.

Taylor makes clear he’s the Jedi knight clearing the path for Princess Neva. And yet. His talent for understanding wine and explaining it at warp speed with references to Dr. Who’s scarf, HP Lovecraft, holographic Harry Potter and his friendship with the Gator cannot be overhyped. Really, it’s sort of magical.

He’s the one who turned me onto the Nero d’Avola from Poggio Anima, but it was because he knew what I was eating that night, that this wine would be perfect (it was) and that I was someone sold by him riffing on the “bat-wolf-dog” on the label. Also, having a glass of Nero d’Avola is, in his words, “like drinking a blueberry bathrobe. A velvet one.”

“When I taste or smell something, I get moments in time,” he says. “It’s not just that I get tangerines,

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WHAT’S GOOD HERE

it’s eating tangerines up on the Clark Fork on a certain Sunday with some salty chips somebody brought.”

Loney and Taylor let me sit in on tasting a rare cabernet sauvignon from Three Rivers Winery in Walla Walla. They’d been dying to try it, especially Taylor. I watched him swirl and sip. Then I watched him as he aerated it with a Dixie cup because it’s what he had nearby. Then I heard him conclude it was like watching a super model through a dirty window. Sexy, but kinda grimy. He also noted hints of chocolate, leather and wooden spoon.

All I could offer was that the finish was not unlike a sweet-and-sour pickle. To Loney and Taylor, that was fine. They’ll gladly push you in a direction if willing, but their prevailing attitude can be summed up in five words: What you like is right.

“And don’t let people mess with that,” says Taylor.

“Wine is the new beer and beer is the new snooty thing,” he adds.

For both Taylor and Loney, the idea is that a wine shop doesn’t have to be intimidating, either in massive selection or in finding something memorable at a price you can pay (most of the wines Corkscrew stocks are under $25).

Loney, 36, grew up about 20 miles outside Seattle in a family that started celebrations with at least two cases of Washington’s finest. She lived in Chicago and Portland, studied hospitality management, managed catering, worked in restaurants. Her husband really wanted to get to Missoula, so they did that in 2010, and she found out quickly “there’s not a lot of good career paths here. A lot of us have to do our own thing.”

She opened the shop almost a year ago, on the day she found out she was pregnant. She also has a 5-year-old and a spouse working at the Kettlehouse.

Figuring it all out has had its moments. But she doesn’t regret taking the leap.

“Wine is something that has endless knowledge, endless things to know and learn about,” she says.

And it’s fun. Describing wine means she can make up words like “rhubarbarity” for a white and figure out what goes on the “gateway” table, where everything is fabulous and only 10 bucks.

But the best part about Loney and Taylor tasting, describing and having Wikipedic knowledge about wine? That’s less homework for the rest for us. If you want to know what’s good at Corkscrew, here’s my tip: Just ask.

[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway • 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi.

Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you!

Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's Bakery has been a Missoula Landmark business since 1978. If you haven't been in, you should! If you come in every day you should know what we're talkin' about: freshly made and baked croissants daily, iced coffee to die for, a cup o'joe like no other, crazy cheap lunches, and treats, upon treats, upon treats. If you haven't had a Vegan Pumpkin Muffin lately then you don't know what you're missing. Sit inside one of Missoula's homiest of atmospheres or scoot out back to enjoy a view of downtown Missoula at one of the picnic tables. Need a special dessert? Plan ahead!

We've got plenty in stock, but if you want a special flavor of cake we need 48 hours. Call ahead and place your order. Heck, skip that. There is a lot of hard rollin' action around this joint. Just come on in and see what we're talking about. xoxo bernice $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ 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 8/14 Big Brains Trivia 8-10 pm. Friday 8/15 Live Music with Andrea Harsell 6-9 pm. Monday 8/18 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 8/19 Burger + Beer $8. Wednesday 8/20 $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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fees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area.

We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm

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El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm

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The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious!

Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

SUSHI TUESDAYS 5pm to close • Reservations accepted.

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Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu.

Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

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The Rhino Grail HAPPIEST HOUR of scotch—or collect 25 The search: This spring, stamps, if that’s how you the Rhino unveiled its latest want to look at it—you get a challenge for Missoula T-shirt depicting a rhinoceros drinkers: an ongoing contest in blue Braveheart face-paint co-owner Kevin Head with the word “Bravehorn.” dubbed The Search for the Make it to 50 glasses—or, Rhino Grail. Consider it a gloagain, stamps—and you get rified punch card for scotch a Rhino Grail jacket (custom fans. Individuals get a mock passport, and for each brand photo by Alex Sakariassen ordered in your size). of scotch you drink, the bar The alternatives: If scotch ain’t your will “stamp” your passport (actually, they pen in the name of the scotch and the date). Those thing, the Rhino still has some killer chalstamps add up to cool Rhino swag, just like the lenges for you. The aforementioned 50 Ways bar’s other quirky promotions. According to to Love Your Liver will get you a Rhino T-shirt Head, it’s like 50 Ways to Love Your Liver, only provided you drink all 50 beers the bar has on tap. Similar story with Around the World in this one’s got an obvious Scottish theme.

40 Beers, a contest requiring participants to The scotch: The Rhino’s long had a reputa- down 40 different beers from, you guessed tion as a prime place to sample the wares of Scot- it, around the world. Of course, these chaltish distillers. Some of the more popular bottles lenges aren’t necessarily designed to be comon display behind the bar include The Macallan pleted in one night, so pace yourselves.

Cask Strength, the Lagavulin 16, the Ardbeg CorThe starting line: Begin your search for ryvreckan and the Bowmore Darkest. The bar even hosts the occasional Lonach scotch tasting, the Rhino Grail at 158 Ryman.

—Alex Sakariassen a perfect opportunity to test-drive some of the single malts you’ll need to obtain the Rhino Grail.

Happiest Hour celebrates western MonThe swag: Head went all-out on this one, tana watering holes. To recommend a bar, ordering special Rhino duds exclusively for bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, Rhino Grail hunters. Once you drink 25 glasses email editor@missoulanews.com.

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. $

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. $-$$

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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. $$-$$$

Butterfly House Blend

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. $$-$$$

$10.95/lb.

IN OUR COFFEE BAR

BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

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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. $-$$

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.

ICE CREAMS

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. $-$$

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

$…Under $5

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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August 14–August 21, 2014

THURSDAYAUG14 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.

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.

Austin’s Black Joe Lewis plays ballsy, soulful tunes at the Top Hat, along with the Boxcutters. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16/$14 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

21-plus.

Check out the results of summertime learning when MCT campers present The Bard on Broadway: Shakespeare, Rattle and Roll, a revue of Shakespeareinspired 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.

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photo courtesy of Deone Jahnke

Free to be you and me. Black Lillies play Stage 112 Wed., Aug. 20, along with The Hasslers. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16/$12 in advance at brownpapertickets.com and Rockin Rudy’s.

The Bitterroot Performing Arts Council presents a sneak peak of its 201415 season with an announcement party and hors d’oeuvres at the box office, 127 W. Main St. in Hamilton, from 5-7 PM. Call 381-8580 for more info.

The lucky 13th edition of the almighty Total Fest brings rock, punk, metal and

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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. 1416. $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. 57 PM. No cover.

Burn the midnight oil after Jeremiah and the Red Eyes play bluesy Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover.

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.

A Montana gal recounts an exploration into another faith when Shelley Kirilenko reads from My Year as a Jew. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Bust out a little geetar at the Open Mic at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. JB and the Moonshine Band teams up with Wild Coyote for a barn-burner at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 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

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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. (See Music.)

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 18-20. Tickets at holdmyticket.com, or check out seafarerentertainment.com.

FRIDAYAUG15 Wendy Woollett presents The Lost Montana Monologue, about a goofy California gal trying to make her way in Montucky, starring Rachel Petite.

Performances at the Roxy Aug. 15 at 7:30 PM and Aug. 16 at 8:30 PM. $12.

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.)

Check out the results of summertime learning when MCT campers present The Bard on Broadway: Shakespeare, Rattle and Roll, a revue of Shakespeareinspired 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.

Green Ribbon Books hosts a used book sale with $1 paperbacks and $2 hardcovers on Aug. 15-16, from 10 AM-4 PM. 800 Kensington Ave. Suite 210 C. Proceeds benefit the Missoula Food Bank.

UC Santa Barbara professor Lisa Parks chats about her years of field work in “Women, Internet and Mobile Phones in Rural Zambia,” as part of the YWTalks series at the YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Noon-1 PM. Free.

(See Agenda.)

It’ll make a pretty picture when the Rocky Mountain School of Photography culminates its Summer Intensive course with a graduation and exhibit at the UM Music Recital Hall, 2-4 PM. Visit rmsp.com.

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Missoula Public Library marks the release of the film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s beloved classic The Giver with a party for ages 10-14. 4-5:30 PM. Free.

Bring a lawn chair, a spiffy hat and expect “world-class blues and spectacular views” at the Flathead Lake Blues Festival, featuring artists like Ben Rice, Bill Magee, Lisa Mann, Polly O’Keary and more, Aug. 15-16., at Salish Point on Polson Bay. $20 in advance at flatheadlakebluesfestival.com.

nightlife 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.)

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 for improv at 7, followed by main show from 7:30-9, and another dose of raw improv from 9:30-10:30. 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.

Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture.

Plus, Civitella Espresso Bar opens up to serve tasty treats and drinks.

Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Free.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton.

6-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Galactic plays its brand of outta-this-world funk at the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. $24/$22 in advance. 18-plus.

The Idle Ranch Hands head over to Ovando to boogie at

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Broadway: Shakespeare, Rattle and Roll, a revue of Shakespeareinspired 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.

Remember when “local” and “sustainable” were unavoidable food buzzwords? I’ve noticed lately that they don’t get tossed around as much anymore. But unlike trends such as molecular foams, bacon sundaes or cronuts, it isn’t because local and sustainable-sourced food is a passing fad; rather, it’s becoming a given.

Make a splash with the Bitter Root Water Forum’s Riverfest in the Root, at Hamilton’s Kiwanis Park, with tunes, animals, food, beer and raffle prizes. Check out the Bitter Root Water Forum’s Facebook page for more info.

In Missoula, one of the biggest banner carriers for local food is the nonprofit Garden City Harvest, which runs the PEAS Farm and community gardens around town. The fruits (and vegetables) of Garden City’s labor end up on a whole lot of plates, since its produce is sold at the farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture shares, the Missoula food bank, low-income and senior housing devel-

The li’l town of Philipsburg puts on a real big party for its fifth annual Summer Concert, Charity Auction and Brewfest, Aug. 16-17 at WInninghoff Park Outdoor Amphitheater, with lots of brewskis and tunes from the likes of the Tomcats and Cold Hard Cash Show. Free. Visit philipsburgrotary.org to learn more.

WHAT: Garden City Harvest’s Farm Party WHERE: ZACC Below WHEN: Thu., Aug. 21 from 5:30-8:30 PM

Early rising produce-seekers, occasional walk-of-shamers and waffle sandwich lovers rejoice, the Clark Fork Market is back in action under the Higgins Bridge. Saturdays through October from 8 AM-1 PM.

HOW MUCH: $20/$10 kids, or $15/$5 for kids if purchased in advance MORE INFO: gardencityharvest.org

opments and city school lunch programs. One of Garden City’s plots, the Youth Farm, helps at-risk teens learn job skills and get therapeutic support while they’re at it. I had the Youth Farm CSA share last year, and I was impressed with the abundance of produce it included every week—and the sincere dedication of the teens who ran the stand.

All that hard work deserves a little celebration, and so Garden City presents its annual fundraiser Farm Party out at the PEAS Farm up in the Rattlesnake. There’ll be live music with Lil’ Smokies

Trixi’s Antler Saloon, on Highway 200 past Clearwater Junction. 9 PM. Kansas’ Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy trip on into the VFW, along with Filthy Still, The Helligans and Whiskey Hooves. 9 PM. $7/$10 for ages 18-20.

photo courtesy of Rachel Mockler

and Mudslide Charley, beer, wine and, of course, burgers and all the fixins, fresh out of the field.

Trends come and go, but celebrating good food in good company is pretty timeless.

—Kate Whittle

Curl that tinted hair and kick up your boots when Wild Coyote Band plays the Sunrise Saloon, corner of Strand and Ryman. 9:30 PM. No cover.

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Keep those ginger jokes to yourself when performer Jordan Lloyd Watkins presents Project Gingervitis, a “savage comedy” about a dystopia wherein all the redheads have been exterminated. Showing at the Crystal Aug. 15 at 9 PM and Aug. 16 at 5:30 and 10 PM as part of Zootown Fringe Festival. $10/$8 students and seniors.

Find out, once and for all, who let the dogs out at the ninth annual Pet Fest, with exhibits, adoptions, Davis’ Muttley Crey, the Doggie Olympics and more at the Adams Center, 10 AM-3 PM. Wiener Dog Dash at 2 PM. Donation of pet food asked in lieu of admission.

Check out PetFest.net.

Party under the light of the neon moon when Band in Motion plays tunes at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7-11

PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

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. 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 Music.)

Check out the results of summertime learning when MCT campers present The Bard on

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.

While parents navigate the obstacle course at the waffle stand, kiddos 12 and under can run the obstacle course set up by Mismo Gymnastics at the Clark Fork Market under Higgins bridge.

10 AM-1 PM. Free.

Green Ribbon Books hosts a used book sale with $1 paperbacks and $2 hardcovers on Aug. 15-16, from 10 AM-4 PM. 800 Kensington Ave. Suite 210 C. Proceeds benefit the Missoula Food Bank.

Ceramic aficionados can learn mad skillz at “Decorating on Greenware with Underglazes, Slips and Terra Sigillata,” a class led by Courtney Murphy. The Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St. 10 AM-4 PM. $75/$65 for members, includes lunch and materials. Visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org.

Bring a lawn chair, a spiffy hat and expect “world-class blues and spectacular views” at the Flathead Lake Blues Festival, featuring artists like Ben Rice, Bill Magee, Lisa Mann, Polly O’Keary and more, Aug. 15-16.,

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[calendar] at Salish Point on Polson Bay. $20 in advance at flatheadlakebluesfestival.com.

nightlife 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)

Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

Keep those ginger jokes to yourself when performer Jordan Lloyd Watkins presents Project Gingervitis, a “savage comedy” about a dystopia wherein all the redheads have been exterminated. Showing at the Crystal Aug. 15 at 9 PM and Aug. 16 at 5:30 and 10 PM as part of Zootown Fringe Festival. $10/$8 students and seniors.

The fittingly named Virginiabased soloist Toney Rocks plays his progressive bluesy rock tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Robbers Roost is in the house to spread tunes at Draught Works

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 on Aug.

Tickets to the gun show. Andrew W.K. parties at Stage 112 on Mon., Aug. 18. 9 PM. $20/$18 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s.

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

Wendy Woollett presents The Lost Montana Monologue, about a goofy California gal trying to make her way in Montucky, star-

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ring Rachel Petite. Performances at the Roxy Aug. 15 at 7:30 PM and Aug. 16 at 8:30 PM. $12.

The Missoula Summer Dance Intensive sends out the week with a performance by Laurel

[calendar] Wall-MacLane and Jes Mullette, plus works-in-progress from Joy French’s choreography workshop.

Downtown Dance Collective.

7:30 PM. $5.

Stop and look around once in a while when Missoula Outdoor Cinema screens Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at Head Start, 1001 Worden Ave. 8:45 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.

David Raitt (aka Bonnie Raitt’s brother) and the Baja Boogie Band are gonna look for a shaker of salt at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM. Show at 10.

No cover.

Getcher hot licks and cool kicks when Russ Nasset and the Revelators play tunes at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover.

SUNDAYAUG17 May the benevolent spirit of Freddie Mercury oversee proceedings at Missoula’s first As Bar As You Dare Bike Ride, which starts at 11:30 AM near the Boone and Crockett club and cruises along the riverfront trail. Wear as much or as little as you like. (See: Opinion and News.)

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)

The li’l town of Philipsburg puts on a real big party for its fifth annual Summer Concert, Charity Auction and Brewfest, Aug. 16-17 at WInninghoff Park Outdoor Amphitheater, with lots of brewskis and tunes from the likes of the Tomcats and Cold Hard Cash Show. Free. Visit philipsburgrotary.org to learn more.

nightlife Get back to your (musical) roots when Russ Nasset plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 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 on Aug. 16 and 17. $50/$80 for two, at stensrudplayhouse.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.

MONDAYAUG18 Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning tunes and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM-1:30 AM. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

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.

Beth Lo and David Horgan play snazzy tunes at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building, from 7-10 PM. No cover.

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.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout.

Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

To tantalize those neurons, here’s a question: Who was the first female lawyer in the United States? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Longtime reggae outfit Israel Vibration brings the positive wavelengths to the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $18/$16 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

We have it on good authority that partying on a Monday with Andrew W.K. at Stage 112 is just about the partiest thing you could ever party. 9 PM. $20/$18 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s.

Wild beasties can cut loose when the So Cal rooted All Hail the Yeti comes down from the Northern Territories to play their tunes Palace.

Doors at 9 PM. $8/$5 in advance at ticketfly.com/purchase/ event/639963.

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PM. EBT, WIC and senior vouchers accepted.

Learn whether ‘tis better to ask forgiveness than permission when the Tell Us Something storytelling event presents Busted, tales of getting in trouble. Top Hat. 6 PM. Visit tellussomething.org if you have a story to tell. No cover.

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.

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 elkcamp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Beat the heat at We Real Cool: A Scholastic Awards Poetry Pop-Up, where teen writers can share their voice at a workshop from 45 PM and open mic at 4 PM. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Registration is limited, so contact Heather.Bruce@Umontana.edu or 243-4680 for more info.

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

Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

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

The Summer Songwriters’ Circle shindig (say that three times fast) features Trevor Green, Sista Otis and Ryan Bundy at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. Doors at 6:30 PM, show around 7.

Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writer’s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Austin Scorch-folk duo Hogan and Moss is here to light a fire under the Top Hat, starting at 8:30 PM. No cover.

(Trivia answer: Arabella Mansfield, who successfully challenged an Iowa state law restricting women from becoming lawyers. She passed the bar in 1869.)

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

Portland-based folk outfit The Weather Machine fore-

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[calendar] casts for foolin’ around, along with Terence Jack. 9 PM. No cover.

Free, but advance registration required by calling 542-0236.

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SoCal rock dudes Acidic, fresh offa Warped Tour, play the Palace with special guests. 9 PM. No cover.

The Rebelution will not be televised, so best head to the Big Sky Amphitheater for the Count Me In Summer Tour, along with Iration, The Green and Stick Figure.

Doors at 5 PM, show at 6:30. $30/$27.50. Tickets at Big Sky’s taproom, Rockin Rudy’s or knittingfactory.com.

WEDNESDAYAUG20 Traveling poets Matt Pasca and Terri Muuss stop by Shakespeare and Co to read selected pieces of their works.

103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM.

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.

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.

The sweeties at Garden City Harvest present the Farm Party, out at the PEAS Farm, with freshpicked produce, burgers, beer and wine and live music from Mudslide Charley and Lil’ Smokies. 5:30-9:30 PM. $20/$10 kids, or $15/$5 for kids if purchased in advance. Visit eventbrite.com or the Garden City Harvest Facebook page. (See Spotlight.)

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.

J. Bradley and Jimmy Rogers team up to deliver the goods at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

Post up and have a brew while post-pop singer-songwriter Luke Dowler plays tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Get in touch with healing arts at the Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors workshop, every third Wednesday of the month at Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. Noon-1:30 PM. Free. Call 549-5329 for info.

Scoot that ba-donka-donk on down to the Sunrise Saloon, where the Dark Horse Country Band plays tunes into the night. 9 PM. No cover.

Quit surfing Facebook on lunch break and take a chill pill with the Reduce Stress, Restore Balance class led by Michelle Voigt. Meets at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., from noon-1 PM. Wednesdays through Sept. 10. $40.

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.

nightlife The Shintangle soiree presents dinner, art and tunes from Rob and Halladay Quist out at 33 Bar Ranch on Barber Creek Road in Condon. 6-9 PM. Proceeds benefit the Swan Ecosystem Center and Northwest Connections. Concert is $15/free for kids 12 and under, or $25/$10 for kids with dinner included. Tickets available at the Swan Ecosystem Center, Grizzly Claw Trading in Seeley Lake or swanecosystemcenter.org/SEC_E vents.html.

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.)

Take a dip. The Missoula Summer Dance Intensive presents performances by Laurel Wall-MacLane, Jes Mullette and Joy French's choreography workshop. Downtown Dance Collective, Sat., Aug. 16. 7:30 PM. $5.

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.

icana tuneage, along with The Hasslers. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16/$12 in advance at brownpapertickets.com and Rockin Rudy’s.

Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg reads from her new book, The Carnivore’s Way: Coexisting with and Conserving North America’s Predators, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM.

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.

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THURSDAYAUG21 Have a real gourd time when Shinyribs plays the Top Hat, along with John Adam Smith. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30. $15/$12 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

Registration is open for the NAMI Family to Family Education Course, First class meets Wed., Sept. 3 from 6:30-9 PM.

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.

Totally awesome. 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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he second-oldest footrace in the state (the oldest is Butte’s 77-year-old Veteran’s Day Race) is also just about the simplest. Helena’s 49th annual Augúst Road Race, coming up on Aug. 21, is described as the “ultimate, minimalist, no frills race,” and friendly contest for all levels of experience. It was founded in 1965, when some high school kids paid 50 cents to compete in the first “City Cross Country Meet,” organized by Helena High cross-country coach Bill Gilbert, a fixture in local athletics for decades.

Helena’s nonprofit running group, the Vigilante Runners, are organizers of the race today. They put less emphasis on post-race goodie bags and more on

community involvement and appreciation of the local scenery. Augúst means “marked by dignity or grandeur,” according to Webster, plus it is an easy way to remember what time of year the race is. And the nicest warm fuzzy of all: proceeds still benefit local high school cross-country programs.

—Kate Whittle The 49th annual Augúst Road Race cruises along a 3.8-mile point-to-point stretch in Helena Thu., Aug. 21, to support high school cross-country programs. 7:15 PM. Entry fee is an “exorbitant” $5. Check out vigilanterunning.org.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 14 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.

FRIDAY AUGUST 15

Bike MS Montana features 17- to 100-mile routes by day, plus food, music, beer and rallies by night, Aug. 16-17 at MSU Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman. Minimum of $250 fundraising required to bike. Proceeds benefit research and support for northwest folks living with MS. More info and registration at bikeMSnorthwest.org or 406-252-5927.

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.

The annual Bitterroot River Cleanup invites volunteers to sign up for stretches from Sula and Painted Rocks to the confluence with the Clark Fork in Missoula. Gloves and garbage bags can be picked up at the Run for the River, Hamilton Farmers Market and valley fly shops, and trash can be dropped off at 3 PM at Kiwanis Park during Riverfest, where volunteers get a barbecue. Visit brwaterforum.org.

Secret super-soaker agents will be on hand to motivate y’all at the Run for the River 5K, which kicks off at Kiwanis River Park in Hamilton at 7 PM. $25 registration fee includes T-shirt, drink ticket and prizes.

Call 375-2272 or register at racemontana.com/search/event.aspx?id=27648.

Bug out all day during Entomology 101 with Amy Gannon and Tracy Dahl, where you’ll meet up at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., and head into the field to study insect anatomy and identification. $80/$70 for members.

Call 327-0405 to register.

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Beginners and experienced vets alike are welcome to try the 2014 Polson Triathlon, which benefits local youths. Includes a 1,500-meter swim in Flathead Lake, 24.9-mile bike ride and 6.2-mile run. Team entries are welcome this year, although you won’t be eligible for awards. Visit polsontriathlon.com for more details.

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.

Climb the highest hill in the ‘Root with the Sierra Club’s Trapper Peak day hike, featuring a 12mile round trip, 3,800 feet of elevation gain and hella scenic views. Join in by contacting Bob at bob.clark@sierraclub.org.

Crack open another Salmon Fly Honey Rye for the Ennis on the Madison Fly Fishing Festival, Aug. 20-30. Includes seminars, competitions and entertainment for the whole family. Check out madisonriverfoundation.org.

Brush up on birdies with the Beginning Birder Walk and Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, hosted by Bitterroot and Five Valleys Audubon. Meet at the headquarters at 10 AM for a two-hour junket with minimal walking. Call Terry at 214-1194 for info.

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.

Missoulians on Bicycles are destined for the Lochsa Lodge this day. Meet at McCormick Park at 9:15 AM for carpool; disembark at Lolo Creek Campground at 10 AM for the ride, with a visit to the Lumberjack saloon on the way back. Visit missoulabike.org.

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far from The Gods Must Be Crazy’s disruptive Coke bottle scenario. Rural access to information technology can help people access emergency services, improve education, dispel ignorance and solve arguments with a quick Google search. (Let us not discount this important use of the Internet.)

UC Santa Barbara professor Lisa Parks has spent years in the field studying how access to mobile phones can make a difference in the lives of women in rural Zambia, where electricity is rare and education limited. In science journals, Parks has said that bringing technology to remote communities brings with it the responsibility of first understanding and respecting the local culture. Parks’ work includes projects like VillageCell, which provides cellphone service to places where before, people had to walk for miles to get a signal.

Parks will chat about her work at an upcoming edition of YWTalks, the brown bag lecture series hosted by the YWCA Missoula.

—Kate Whittle The prevalence of mobile devices in our modern society is often derided by stand-up comedians and crabby older folks alike. It’s easy to forget what a privilege it is to have access to mobile devices and wireless Internet, and just how important they can be for quality of life, especially in rural areas. This is

UC Santa Barbara professor Lisa Parks chats about her years of field work in “Women, Internet and Mobile Phones in Rural Zambia,” Fri., Aug. 15, at the YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Noon-1 PM. Free.

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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.

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.

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.

SATURDAY AUGUST 16 Sifu David Briggs, of Philadelphia, teaches a Tai Chi weekend, where beginners and experienced chi-ers alike can learn this ancient practice. Montana Sky Lodge, 211 Tippy Toe Trail in Anaconda. Aug. 1617. $60 per day/$100 for both. Email erictither@gmail.com to register, or visit butteacupuncture.com/taichi for more info.

Folks are welcome to take what they need at the King’s Christian Church Annual Clothing Giveaway, with many sizes and household items, too. 9830 Valley Grove Drive in Lolo, from 9 AM-5 PM. You can also donate items by bringing them to the church office before Aug. 14, or call Donna at 273-3294.

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tion drive to help stock its future nonprofit home improvement store. Drop off new or gently used household goods and building materials at 3655 Highway 200 East from 10 AM-4 PM. Call 549-8210 with any questions.

The Blue Skies Campaign hosts a nonviolent protest against coal exports at the intersection of East Spruce and Madison Streets. 11 AM-noon. Visit blueskiesmt.com to learn more and RSVP. Paws for a moment and check out the Bitterroot Humane Society’s benefit with food, music, games and raffle at the St. Mary’s Family Center in Stevensville. 7 PM.

MONDAY AUGUST 18 The Right Question Project hosts a Bullying in Schools workshop, followed by ice cream social.

Council Groves Community Center, 1904 S. Third St. W., 2-4 PM. Free, and childcare provided. Register by contacting Erica at edeforrest@wordinc.org or 543.3550, ext 211.

THURSDAY AUGUST 21 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.

Blue Mountain Clinic hosts another edition of Sex in the Zoo: Abortion, where local women and men share their personal experiences. Stage 112.

Doors at 6:30 PM, speakers from 7:30-9:30. Visit the Blue Mountain Clinic Family Practice Facebook page to find the event listing and contact info to submit your own story.

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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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.

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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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CHEAT EXHAUSTION My girlfriend and I are mostly happy together, but we have this ongoing fight where she accuses me of wanting to cheat whenever I so much as glance at a woman she perceives to be my "type" (any woman roughly her age and ethnicity).

Even flipping through a magazine that shows a woman in an ad is enough to set her off. She says I need to eliminate all contact with other women, or I'm being unfaithful. But I don't see how I can stop doing things like talking to the checker at the supermarket or looking at someone crossing the street.

—Blamed It's normal for a girlfriend to expect her boyfriend to "keep it in his pants." Only yours wants your eyeballs in there, too, as she considers crossing the street with your eyes open a form of cheating.

When you love somebody, it isn't exactly outrageous to fear losing them. And the suspicion that a partner is cheating can often be an instinctive response to subtle signs that they are. But such signs include flimsy excuses for working late or ducking into the hall closet to take phone calls—not merely daring to open a magazine that includes pictures of females who lack beaks, paws, and tails.

There's a good chance your girlfriend behaves this way because she has a giant crater where her self-worth is supposed to be. As for her paranoia, to be human is to have a tendency toward ridiculous, overblown fears, but we also have the capacity—gone unused in your girlfriend—to follow them up with a chaser of reason.

The sad thing is, you might have compelled her to work on changing if only you'd told her "enough is enough" instead of just wagging your tail while she tightened your choke collar.

Thanks to your enabling, there are now 300 of you in the relationship—you, your girlfriend, and her 298 fears. If you'd like to change that, wait for a moment when you aren't being prosecuted for something and ask to talk about the relationship. Explain that you love her and want to be with her but that she's increasingly pushing you away with her irrational (and, frankly, insulting) accusations and behavior. Tell her that she'll need to see a therapist and show meaningful improvement if she wants to keep you around. (Cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people use reason to solve emotional problems, is probably the best bet.)

Give yourself a deadline, and reassess— maybe at the three-month mark—so you don't keep getting used to crazy little by little until crazy becomes the new normal. That's how a guy ends up being the one apologizing when he comes home to a bonfire of his clothes, computer, and Xbox after his girlfriend catches him in the act—smiling and thanking the supermarket checkout lady instead of staring at his shoes and wordlessly extending his palm for his change.

FLING THEORY I've been casually seeing a woman for a year. Early on, I told her I wasn't looking for a girlfriend. I think she was disappointed, but we continued seeing each other nonexclusively.

She never pressures me for more commitment, but I suspect she's getting more attached. I'd like to keep seeing her, but is it on me to break this off?

Maybe she should be trying to find a real relationship with another guy.

—Informal Maybe she hopes you’ll eventually come around—at least to the point where you're standing beside her at the altar, sliding her wedding ring on, and saying, "Hey, don't read too much into this." Still, even if she does want more from you, she might prefer having less to having nothing at all.

Also, if she is looking for something "real," this thing with you can help her avoid coming off hungry and desperate, much like snacking before grocery shopping can help you avoid waking up next to a bunch of empty doughnut boxes.

Let her know you're still up for less, simply by saying you want to make sure she's still okay with how you want to keep things casual. If it's too painful or unrewarding for her to continue, it's on her to break it off.

The thing is, though "serious" relationships are supposedly the only "real" relationships, there are people out there—women, too— who are most comfortable with a less intense form of togetherness. This kind of slimmed-down relationship can end up lasting for years—even decades. In other words, 50 years from now, when you're reserving side-by-side burial plots, you could find yourself whispering to the cemetery guy, "Wouldja do me a favor and bury me a few extra feet from her? I don't wanna give her the wrong idea."

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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.: CV-2014-46693 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

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DATED this 8th day of August, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Dorothy D. Erickson BOONE KARLBERG P.C. /s/ By Robert J. Sullivan, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-157 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

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The leaves and berries of the deadly nightshade plant are highly poisonous. If ingested, they cause delirium and death. On the other hand, a drug obtained from the same plant is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. It's helpful in treating many illnesses, from gastrointestinal and heart problems to Parkinson's. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your life, Gemini? An influence that can either be sickening or healing, depending on various factors? I suspect that now is one of those times when you should be very focused on ensuring that the healing effect predominates.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): A New York doctor offers a service he calls Pokertox. Jack Berdy injects Botox into poker players' faces so as to make their expressions hard to read. With their facial muscles paralyzed, they are in no danger of betraying subtle emotional signals that might help their opponents guess their strategy. I understand there might sometimes be value in adopting a poker face when you are in the midst of trying to win at poker or other games. But for the foreseeable future, Cancerian, I recommend the opposite approach. You're most likely to be successful if you reveal everything you're feeling.

Let your face and eyes be as eloquent as they can be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When we are launching any big project, our minds hide from us the full truth about how difficult it will be. If we knew beforehand all of the tests we would eventually face, we might never attempt it. Economist Albert O. Hirschman called this the principle of the "hiding hand." It frees us to dive innocently into challenging work that will probably take longer than we thought and compel us to access new resources and creativity. To be clear: What's hidden from us are not only the obstacles but also the unexpected assistance we will get along the way.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The literal meaning of the Swedish word smultronställe is "wild strawberry patch." Metaphorically, it refers to a special place that feels like your private sanctuary. It may be hard-to-find or unappreciated by others, but for you it's a spot that inspires you to relax deeply. You might have had a life-changing epiphany there. When you're in this refuge, you have a taste of what it's like to feel at home in the world. Do you have a smultronställe, Virgo? If not, it's time to find one. If you already do, spend extra time there in the coming week.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I'm reading the astrological omens correctly, the bells are about to ring for you. The festive lights will flash. The celebratory anthems will throb. It's like you're going to win a fortune on a TV quiz show; like you will get an A+ on your final exam; like you'll be picked as homecoming king or queen. But it's possible I'm a bit off in my projections, and your success will be subtler than I anticipate. Maybe, in fact, you are about to accomplish the Healing of the Year, or discover the Secret of the Decade, or enjoy the Most Meaningful Orgasm of the Century.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A teenage Pakistani boy decided he wanted to help his country's government clean up the local Internet. Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah gathered a list of over 780,000 porn sites and sent it to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Big job! Hard work! I would love to see you summon similar levels of passion and diligence as you work in behalf of your favorite cause, Scorpio. The coming weeks will be prime time for you to get very excited about the changes you would like to help create in the world.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Working as a journalist for the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Simon Eroro wanted to interview a group of indigenous rebels in a remote jungle. He decided he was willing to do whatever was necessary to get the big scoop. After making a difficult journey through rough terrain to reach them, he was told he would be given the information that he sought on one condition: that he be circumcised with bamboo sticks as part of a cleansing ritual. Eroro agreed to the procedure, got the story, and ultimately won a prize for his report. I don't recommend that you go quite that far in pursuit of your current goal, Sagittarius. On the other hand, it might be wise for you to consider making a sacrifice.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Kintsukuroi is a Japanese word that literally means "golden repair." It refers to the practice of fixing cracked pottery with lacquer that's blended with actual gold or silver. Metaphorically, it suggests that something may become more beautiful and valuable after being broken. The wounds and the healing of the wounds are integral parts of the story, not shameful distortions to be disguised or hidden. Does any of that resonate with you about your current experience, Capricorn? I'm guessing it does. Let's call this the kintsukuroi phase of your cycle.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Near the end of his career, the painter Henri Matisse created a paper-cut composition he called Le Bateau, or The Boat. It is an abstract piece that does not depict a literal boat. That's why the Museum of Modern Art in New York should perhaps be forgiven for mistakenly hanging it upside-down back in 1961, upon first acquiring the piece. Fortunately, after a month and a half, a knowledgeable person noticed, and the position of *Le Bateau* was corrected. I'm wondering if there's a comparable phenomenon going on with you right now, Aquarius? Is it possible that a part of your life got inverted or transposed? If so, will you be sharp enough to see the goof and brave enough to fix it? I hope you won't allow this error to persist.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Researchers in Peru have recently tracked down many previously unknown varieties of wild cacao plants. What that means is that there are exotic kinds of chocolate that you and I have never dreamed of, and they will be commercially available within a few years.

As delicious as your Chocolove XOXOX Extra Strong Dark candy bar may taste to you now, you will eventually journey further into a new frontier of ecstatic delectability. I propose that we use this theme as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of you right now. It is time for you to make good things even better—to take fun diversions and transform them into experiences that engender transcendent bliss. Turn "yes" into "YESSSS!!!!"

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice," said British author G. K. Chesterton, "and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

I'm going to endorse that approach for you, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, I don't think anyone can possibly give you accurate counsel in the coming weeks. Your circumstances are too unique and your dilemmas are too idiosyncratic for even the experts to understand, let alone the people who care for you and think they own a piece of you. I do suspect it might be useful for you to hear what everyone has to say about your situation, though. Seeing their mistaken or uninformed perspectives should help you get clarity about what's right.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Representatives of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be 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 above-entitled 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. 3 Cause No. DP-14-162 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EMMA BELLE JACOBSON, a/k/a EMMA B. JACOBSON, a/k/a EMILY BELLE JACOBSON, a/k/a EMILY B. JACOBSON, 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 Lori Lee Jacobson, 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 31st 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. DATED this 31st day of July, 2014. /s/ Lori Lee Jacobson, 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 above-entitled 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.

DATED this 15th day of July, 2014. /s/ Glenda J. Carroll, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-14-132 NOTICE 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 COURT, MISSOULA 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: BOONE 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 Represen-

MNAXLP tative, 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. DP-14-150 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 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 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 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 abovedescribed 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 prop-

erty 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 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 interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.110044) 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 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.Northwesttrustee.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

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PUBLIC NOTICES (“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

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made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.108101) 1002.262819-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/20/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200427413, Bk 740, Pg 649, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Paul H. Greenwood and Kimberly B. Greenwood, husband and wife as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Stewart Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Surface rights only in a portion of the N1/2 S1/2 SE1/4, Section 12, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, and being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the SE-SE 1/64 corner of said Section 12, Township 15 North, Range 20

MNAXLP West, P.M.M., thence N. 34 degrees 26’ 56’’ W., 582.85 feet to the Point of Beginning; thence N. 00 degrees 05’ 16’’ E., 180.00 feet; thence N. 89 degrees 53’ 34’’ W., 472.00 feet to the Easterly right-ofway of Montana Rail Link Railroad; thence on and along a curve to the right with a central angle of 2 degrees 42’ 26’’ and a radius of 3919.83 feet for an arc length of 185.21 feet; thence S. 89 degrees 53’ 34’’ E., 515.58 feet to the Point of Beginning. Together with the right of ingress and egress over and across the N2 NW4 SE4 SE 4 for a width of 30 feet. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201020233, Bk 867, Pg 926, 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 08/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $227,087.66. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $158,012.17, 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 November 3, 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.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.73147) 1002.270420-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/27/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200432291 Bk: 743 Pg: 820, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David M. Philips was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. 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 de-

scribed as follows: Lots 5 and 6 in Block 55 of Daly’s Addition, a Platted Subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/02/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $157,281.52. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,705.96, 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 31, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.110292) 1002.270248-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 14, 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 7 AND 8 IN BLOCK 12 OF BECK’S HOME ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Judy D. 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 September 23, 2005 and recorded September 30, 2005 in Book 761, on Page 642, under Document No. 200525872. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Federal National Mortgage Association (“FNMA”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,233.40, begin-

ning April 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 6, 2014 is $182,833.19 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0% now totaling $12,948.60, escrow advances of $3,103.15, suspense balance of $518.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,492.77, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.05 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

MNAXLP 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: June 10, 2014 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 10 day of June, 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 acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 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

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 30, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula

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.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

MNAXLP 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

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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 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 ONE-QUARTER 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

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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

APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $600, Downtown, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $650, walkin closet, open concept, DW, W/D hookups, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking.

GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $675, Off Broadway, Newer Complex, Walk-in closet, A/C, open concept, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 7287333 1024 Stephens Ave. #12. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops, cat? $675. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 109 Turner Ct. #4 2bd/1ba, w/d hkups, near park, pet? $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106 2318 55th St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, off-street parking. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2329 Fairview #2. 2 bed/1 bath, shared yard. Central location. $725.00. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2bd Miller Creek farm APT. 2 bed, 1 bath apt. UPPER Miller Creek in Missoula - ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED: $1200.

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Finalist

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The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

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For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com

2116 West Kent. Charming 2 story, 3 bed, 1.5 bath home with single garage. Low-maintenance front yard & garden in back. $174,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2264 Grape Arbor Court. 6 bed, 3 bath in Target Range. $660,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 2304 River Road. Energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath with solar system. Close to Milwaukee Trail. $215,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 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

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240-7653 pat@ properties2000.com 3411 Paxson. 4 bed, 3 bath recently remodeled with fenced yard & double garage. $285,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.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 5614 Gharrett. 4 bed, 3 bath with deck, Bitterroot views & 2 car garage. Mary Louise ZappKnapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260. mlzappknapp @lambrosera.com 6 Greenbrier. Upper Rattlesnake 2 bed, 2 bath with 1 bed, 1 bath

lower level apartment. Close to Rattlesnake Wilderness Area. $322,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apart-

ment on 5 view acres. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com Anne Jablonski, Realtor with Portico Real Estate, recently obtained her Montana State Broker

6 Greenbrier Drive $322,000 Cedar-sided 2 bed, 2 bath in Upper Rattlesnake with 1 bed, 1 bath downstairs apartment.

Rock fireplace, hot tub & 2 car garage.

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2304 River Road $215,000 Remodeled energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath with solar system. Large lot with privacy fence, patio & UG sprinklers.

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PORTICO REAL ESTATE

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REAL ESTATE license. Anne has 12 years of experience helping clients buy and sell real estate in Missoula and surrounding areas.

You can find her at www.MoveMontana.com

“Find your way home” with David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321

Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com.

Visit my website at www.on93.com

Buying or selling homes? Let me help you find your way home.

David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406-241-3321

Let me help save you time and energy. I know about Missoula and have lived here 30+ years. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321 Lolo - 3 bed, 1.5 bath, 2042 sq ft, garage, full basement, living & family rooms, fireplace, deck, large yard with garden area and UG sprinklers. $179,900. 113 Dallas. Brent 619-990-6870 More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience.

JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Newer 2 bed, 1 bath 1200 sq.

ft. home on 1.02 acre lot. 1200 sq. ft. attached garage, recently fenced, new roof sealant. Easy to maintain. Bring you own landscaping ideas to this wonderful home. It’s easy to live in this semiremote area with quiet and views. Only 10 Miles from Reserve Street. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 329-2059. loewenwarter.com Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate.

(406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com

RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-5428644 Slant Street Charmer 733 Marshall $225,000. Slant Street charmer with lots of light, a wonderful yard with raised beds, and an awesome shop all in a convenient location and ready to move in to. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com UNDER CONTRACT: 1605 34th Street. 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 2 fireplaces, mother-in-law apt. & swimming pool. $319,900.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

Real Estate is not always Black & White Call Rita Gray 406-544-4226

When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.

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

mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com

Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more.

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

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

Building lot north of Philipsburg with power 1/2 mile away & no covenants. $150,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter.

Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321

LAND FOR SALE 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296.

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/ TOWNHOMES 1400 Burns Street #15. $150,000. A rare, spacious 3 bedroom unit in the awesome Burns Street Commons!

This upstairs corner unit is all on one level with a secure private entrance and a balcony. KD 2 4 0 - 5 2 2 7 . porticorealestate.com 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $199,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.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 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 2405227 porticorealestate.com

6 TIPS

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

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

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

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REAL ESTATE

COMMERCIAL 101 Church Street, Stevensville.

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

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glas-

gow@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 1229 Iron Cap, Stevensville. 4 bed, 3 bath ranchette on 15.33 fenced acres.

Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit mindypalmer.com

info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, 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 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

Easy access to the highway and the river. 17430 Six-Mile, $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 build-

ing, 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

@ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula.

Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Bonner area home close to Blackfoot River & public lands. $324,000. Prudential 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 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Stevensville area home on 3.2 acres. $529,000.

Prudential Montana. For more

124 Bridger Court • $209,900 MLS # 20145388

Situated on a cul-de-sac, this home features an open floor plan with spacious kitchen and dining area. 3 bed + 2 bonus / 2 bath & 2 car garage.

Many updates, attached double garage and fenced backyard with patio.

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

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

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