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- OPEN MIC NIGHT Thursdays • 9pm Viscosity Breakdown

News Voices/Letters Crowing with delight ..................................................................................4 The Week in Review Sam Schultz does Missoula proud. ..................................................6 Briefs The Clark Fork inner-tube parade ............................................................................6 Etc. Tester, Rehberg strategically skip party conventions....................................................7 Up Front Couple flees state pot policies, sues. .................................................................8 Opinion With species loss come new possibilities.............................................................9 Opinion Citizen science resurges online..........................................................................10 Feature Gimme shelter: One woman’s odyssey in Missoula. ...........................................12

Mark Chase

Friday, August 17th 10pm No Cover Red Carpet Devils

Arts & Entertainment Arts TotalFest! We’ll be your guide....................................................................................18 Music Stormy weather, Guantanamo Baywatch, Broken Water and more .......................20 Books Blood, Bones and Butter is a full-on ride. .............................................................21 Film Beasts is an imaginative tale. ...................................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ..........................................................23 Flash in the Pan Dietitians’ dirty secrets..........................................................................24 Happiest Hour Bayern’s Kaiser Pilsener Lager.................................................................26 8 Days a Week Two words: Dirty tutus ............................................................................27 Mountain High Go Diggler yourself.................................................................................33 Agenda New Belgium Brewing’s short-film fundraiser Clips of Faith ..............................34

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Saturday, August 18th 10pm No Cover

Exclusives Street Talk............................................................................................................................4 In Other News ...................................................................................................................11 Classifieds ........................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess........................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .........................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle............................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World .......................................................................................................C-12

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Crowing with delight

STREET TALK Asked on Tues., Aug. 14, on and near the University of Montana Oval.

By Chad Harder

What’s the most unusual space you’ve ever lived in?

Follow-up: What’s your strangest roommate experience?

Darlene Burgess: When I first moved here I lived in a motor home on my girlfriend’s property just this side of Arlee. I had electric and sewer, and it was just like camping for three months. It was great.

Meow seriously: I had a roommate with a cat that got into a bag of my sweaters in the summertime and just ruined them— yes, it peed on them. The smell just wouldn’t come out, and it was a horrible deal.

Marci Watson: I haven’t had any unusual ones. Pumpin’ the Pav: I rent out rooms, and I have a specific clause that says the tenant will be respectful regarding noise and of other people’s privacy. Still, I’ve had people playing, and even singing, opera during the early morning hours. Or sometimes they’ll leave stuff at the property, like a bike on the porch, and then come back a year later, wanting it back.

Clint Lundell: The most unusual was living with the in-laws all this past year. It was small, and we didn’t really have our own space. Besides, nothing was mine, I was just borrowing the space. So that was rough. S’cuse me, pardon me: I haven’t had a lot of roommates, maybe only once. There were eight guys in a small two-bedroom, and it was the same problem, we were just walking all over each other. We were just trying to save some money, and everybody was cool.

Thank God for Molly Laich! Her articles are just quirky enough to be engrossing, but still informing. Especially edifying is the article on crows (“Lost caws,” Aug 2). It introduced me to an “unkindness” of ravens while warning me that “there’s no escape from the clinging, unknowable dissatisfaction that lives in the hearts of men.” What delight! And—she knows nothing of guns. My joy is boundless!

Patricia A. Hogan Missoula

Eat crow I was very dismayed about your portrayal of all crows and corvids as dirty, nefarious and negative (“Lost caws,” Aug 2).

They happen to be my favorite bird because of their intelligence, craftiness and inventiveness. Your article was just cawful! Shame on you for disparaging this fascinating bird! Please print a positive article about this wonderful bird!

Patty Bowers Polson

Make your move, Griz fans I worked a booth at the Western Montana Fair this week and it was very rewarding participating in a new campaign to end sexual violence called “Make Your Move.” Helping raise awareness of sexual violence issues and encouraging bystanders to intervene is an important cause for our community.

However, reading comments made by some readers on recent articles regarding this topic has left me feeling like there is a divisive component to an issue that should have us all united. While working at the fair, a friend stopped and introduced me

to someone as “a huge Griz fan,” then asked what I was doing. After explaining our campaign, he solidified my concerns by replying, “Isn’t that a conflict for you?”

The answer is no. Being a Griz fan and being against sexual assault is not a conflict.

Unfortunately, that is the perception of many—that playing for the Grizzlies makes a person a criminal, or that being against

“Being a Griz fan and being against sexual assault is not a conflict.

Unfortunately, that is the perception of many.” sexual violence means one is anti-football.

I love Grizzly football—so much, in fact, that I wrote a book about my experience of becoming a fan. In it, I described learning about the game, bonding with other fans and the many metaphors between football and life. There are many positive life lessons to be learned as a fan and many good people involved in the program.

Sexual violence prevention is something I will play a role in forever. Someone close to me was assaulted as a child by a man we trusted. Through this experience,

I understand the pain and shock of victim blaming, as we were both attacked and slandered for reporting the abuse. The denial of his supporters runs deep and the extent of his manipulation is astounding.

As a result, I am motivated to protect victims from similar attacks as they are processing painful events and issues.

I take pride in my committee of intelligent people who are organizing this campaign and are making a difference, raising awareness, working towards prevention and encouraging the community to do their part to keep everyone safe. I also take pride in many of the young men who are current or former Grizzly players. I sympathize with the good guys on the team who’ve had their image marred by the actions of a few.

Obviously, Griz fans don’t condone sexual violence, understand that athletes have an obligation to treat others with respect and would like to restore the reputation of our team.

So, let’s stand together! Let’s recognize that the young men who play for the Grizzlies don’t deserve be stereotyped.

Let’s recognize that sexual violence is a real issue that affects all of us. As a community, we have an obligation to speak up if someone tells a sexist joke or crosses the line, and to step in and prevent friends from hurting someone else.

Let’s break down the barriers that prevent productive communication, educate ourselves and support one another.

Let’s not begin this football season with division and hostility, but a cohesive attitude of support. We should all be proud of our team that has brought many positive things to this town, and we should all stand together and say “no” to sexual violence and victim blaming.

Stacy McCarthy Missoula

[online comments] Kathy Frantzreb: I lived in a lookout in Idaho, on Oregon Butte, in 1977, working as a fire lookout for the Forest Service. I was flown in by a chopper, and they flew in food once a week. Oh, honey: I had two cats at the lookout, but they weren’t strange. I actually haven’t had many roommates.

Rob Livesay: Foreign countries count as unusual, right? I lived in Ireland all last year, in a city way more congested than Missoula, while I studied geology.

Shell game: When I lived in the dorms, in Knowles Hall, my roommate would let my hermit crabs out onto my bed, and one time one fell off and died. I guess it made sense to him to just put it back, and I didn’t notice that it hadn’t moved until a month or two later.

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Powerful apology

Forgive

Energy shift

As my family and I witnessed the meeting of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, I can say we felt so very blessed to be there (see “Apologies accepted,” Aug. 9). As Custer’s great-grandniece afforded an apology, you could feel the shift of energy at the powwow ring. It was very powerful. More of this type of action is really needed to begin the life the creator originally intended our lives to be. God bless Jessica Mayrer for writing this beautiful account. I know a blessing has surrounded you for this work.

Posted on 08/09/2012 at 11:51 a.m.

This was one of the most compelling stories I have read in quite some time. As a woman of Guatemalan descent, I am reminded that brutal colonialism affected all of the Americas’ indigenous peoples.

To date, Mayan ancestors’ culture and population are in danger because of white evangelical oppression. Perhaps women of all cultures will be able to openly apologize and forgive each other’s ancestors’ wrongdoings.

Posted on 08/10/2012 at 8:29 a.m.

The gathering was very powerful and healing on many levels. I am honored to have witnessed and experienced this sacred event. The shift of energies was profound. We need more events such as this on a global scale to encourage peace, unity and compassion. The grandmothers are doing amazing work and need to be commended for their efforts!

Posted on 08/13/2012 at 2:44 p.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Chad Harder

Wednesday, August 8 A canoe carrying sisters Carol Heater, 48, of Kalispell, and Fern Johnson, 60, of Plains, and Johnson’s husband, Robert, hits a logjam and capsizes on Eagle River near Anchorage, Alaska, killing the two sisters. Robert Johnson is unable to free them from the log jam.

Thursday, August 9 In Bismarck, N.D., John Bridges, 42, of Missoula, pleads guilty to kidnapping and murdering Lee Edward Clay, 40, on July 6.

Bridges told investigators that he was compelled to kill Clay after a dream.

Friday, August 10 Appearing at a $150-a-head campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill in Missoula, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reportedly says the biggest difference between Republicans and Democrats is that “we’re right and they’re wrong.”

Saturday, August 11 Before 2,248 fans at Ogren Park Allegiance Field, the Missoula Osprey overcome a 9-0 deficit to beat the Billings Mustangs 11-10, despite getting out-hit 19-9. The comeback is capped by the O’s triple-play in the top of the ninth inning.

Sunday, August 12 On the last day of the Olympic Games, U.S. mountain bike champion Sam Schultz, 26, a Hellgate High School graduate, finishes the three-mile course in 15th place, 3:22 behind the gold medalist, Jaroslav Kulhavy of the Czech Republic.

Monday, August 13 Protesters pack the state Capitol in Helena in opposition to the potential development of southeastern Montana’s Otter Creek coal tracts, coal from which would be hauled across the state and shipped to Asia. Several protesters are taken away in handcuffs.

Tuesday, August 14 Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock joins 13 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a previous ruling allowing race to affect college admissions decisions.

During a shift cleaning up after Western Montana fairgoers, Sue Holden pulls a cart full of garbage across the Missoula County Fairgrounds on Tues., Aug. 14. Among other things, Holden found a truck tire, an unmatched shoe, an empty wallet, a bucket of pickles and Easter egg hunt remnants.

Nightlife

Upscale wine bar on deck Nick Checota has big plans for Missoula’s old Army Navy building downtown. He sees the 100-yearold red-brick structure, at 322 North Higgins Ave., fully renovated to its historic glory, with well-dressed locals sipping merlot and pinot noir on a rooftop deck. “The project is a vast improvement over what was there previously,” Checota told the Missoula City Council Aug. 13.

After decades in business, the Army Navy Economy Store moved out of the space earlier this year.

Checota purchased the building in February. On Monday night, he asked council for what the city calls a “tavern/nightclub conditional use permit.” It would enable Checota to operate an upscale restaurant and wine bar there.

Checota plans on leasing the structure to a group of partners that includes Brett Evje, who owns a stake in Missoula’s Ciao Mambo, and in Plonk Wine, in Bozeman. “My guess is he gets open in early January,” Checota told the Independent in an interview after the meeting.

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Though there are still some hoops for the developer and restaurateurs to jump through, including acquiring a liquor license, they aim to pattern the North Higgins gathering place after Plonk, known for fancy cocktails and savory appetizers. According to application materials submitted to the city, the establishment will “attract an affluent clientele that is currently under-served.”

After Checota’s Monday night pitch, Mayor John Engen quipped, “Sounds like a place I wouldn’t be allowed to frequent.”

Despite Engen’s humor, council was sold on the idea, approving the permit unanimously.

During the Monday night public hearing, however, one local cautioned that the new bar might make late-night traffic on the strip next to Feruqi’s even more of a party hotspot. Another local voiced support for the project. Engen seemed to agree with the council majority. “A whole bunch of people are going to be very happy because they can go to Plonk in Missoula,” he said.

Jessica Mayrer

Water

Utility seeks rate hike Mountain Water is asking the Montana Public Service Commission to sign off on a rate increase. If it’s approved, the average metered water user in Missoula would see a $2.61 monthly bump, to $48.56.

Missoula, which has a privately-owned water system, already pays higher monthly water rates than most city-owned municipal water systems in the state.

The average metered water user in Helena pays roughly $41.49 each month. In Butte, it’s about $37.

In Billings, $35.

Mountain Water President John Kappes points out, however, that it’s not uncommon for those cities to recoup costs through other charges, including meter connection fees. For instance, public works departments in Helena, Billings and Butte all charge to install meters on new homes. Mountain Water does not. “Municipalities collect revenue in different ways,” Kappes says.

Kappes adds that revenue generated from the proposal would help pay for $5 million in improve-

[news] ments made to the Garden City’s municipal water system since 2009. Mountain Water has replaced 2.4 miles of water main and 1,957 meters. A total of 669 new meters were installed. The company also purchased generators to power wells and pumps in the case of a power outage.

When Mountain Water last asked for a rate increase, in 2010, the company requested a 12 percent hike. The PSC signed off on 8.77 percent.

This is the first rate increase request since the Carlyle Group, the world’s largest private equity firm, purchased Mountain Water’s parent company, Park Water, last year. The request is based on improvements made prior to the sale.

Missoula’s PSC representative, Gail Gutsche, says the company’s requests in the recent past have been significantly higher than the current 5 percent proposal.

Even so, the commission will vet Mountain Water’s request before making any decision. It will consider, among other things, investments versus revenue. Interested parties, including the Montana Consumer Counsel and the City of Missoula, will have a chance to weigh in. The public will be invited to comment in a hearing before the PSC. That hearing, Gutsche says, is “six to eight months out.”

Jessica Mayrer

Park. He also thinks the removal of the Milltown Dam, just upstream at the confluence with the Blackfoot River, has “helped people pay more attention to the river … In conjunction with Brennan’s Wave and some of the kayak events, people are recognizing the river more.” And that section will only become more popular, he says, when the confluence with the Blackfoot opens to the public next year.

The trend hasn’t caused many problems so far, Crowser says, just car congestion at put-ins and take-

Recreation

Missoula’s lazy, busy river On a recent Saturday afternoon just east of Missoula, the Clark Fork River is a parade of tubers. Inner tube flotillas glide past, one after another. Many floaters hold beers. One twenty-something man hollers to anyone within earshot to look for a sandal he’s lost. Another cries out in jest as three merganser ducks flap past on their way upstream.

It’s a common scene, and increasingly so. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports that over the last couple of summers, floaters have been flocking to this stretch of the Clark Fork between East Missoula and downtown.

“I don’t know exactly what really prompted the shift,” says Chet Crowser, FWP’s regional river recreation manager, “but it seems like a couple of years ago, we saw more people starting to utilize [East Missoula’s Sha-Ron Fishing Access Site], especially, and floating into town. It’s always been a popular spot...but the float access has definitely picked up.”

Crowser suspects that has something to do with Missoula’s new downtown boat take-out at Silver

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outs. “I wouldn’t say that litter is exponentially worse.

If you get higher volumes of people, of course you’re going to have some incidental trash...but it’s not like we’re going down and picking up heaps of bags like we used to at Johnsrud [Park, on the Blackfoot,] at the end of a busy weekend.”

As for alcohol consumption on the river, that’s not under FWP’s jurisdiction. Nor the city’s: Missoula’s open container law doesn’t apply below the high water mark. “Our only concern would be that people are behaving responsibly and safely,” says Sgt. Travis Welsh of the Missoula Police Department.

Matthew Frank

Bison

Beyond the park Yellowstone National Park’s iconic bison herd has fought year after year to roam free in Montana.

And every spring, animals that have strayed beyond

BY THE NUMBERS calves born this year in Fort 21 Bison Peck’s new herd. All 82 bison—in-

cluding the 61 relocated from Corwin Springs in March—were released onto a larger, 2,100-acre pasture this month.

the park boundary are turned back by officials on ATVs and horses and in helicopters.

That annual eviction may be less extreme from now on. Last month, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced a proposal to allow bison to occupy certain areas adjacent to Yellowstone year-round. The proposal, issued alongside the Montana Department of Livestock, is nearing the end of its public scoping process. The agencies hope to make a final decision by mid-December.

FWP regional supervisor Pat Flowers says the latest move to accommodate bison beyond the park sprang from recommendations over the past year from the Citizens Working Group on Yellowstone Bison. Many landowners have expressed a desire to see free-roaming bison outside the park, Flowers says, and increased habitat availability would allow FWP to better manage the roughly 4,230-strong herd through hunting.

Bison have historically migrated north out of the park in winter months in search of better forage. Concerns over transmission of brucellosis to cattle have prompted officials to haze the ungulates back before the onset of summer. But livestock grazing has scaled back in those areas proposed for year-round occupancy, significantly lowering the risk of contact between cattle and bison.

Some conservationists have hailed the proposal as another step toward greater tolerance for freeroaming bison. A court ruling from July still stands in the way of establishing new bison herds elsewhere in Montana, but Defenders of Wildlife regional representative Jonathan Proctor says the Yellowstone proposal is “a great test for whether we can successfully co-exist with free-roaming bison.”

Proctor adds that Defenders, along with the Sierra Club and other conservation groups, has started a fund to help landowners in the Gardiner and Hebgen basins who are less than enthusiastic about the proposal. The fund will cover 50 percent of the cost for materials and labor—up to $1,000—for fencing to keep bison out of yards and gardens.

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. On Sept. 6, President Barack Obama will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination before thousands of people in Charlotte, N.C. Sen. Jon Tester won’t be among them. Neither will embattled Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, or West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. North Carolina Congressman Larry Kissell is also taking a pass.

National conventions seem to have fallen out of vogue on both sides of the aisle this year. More than a dozen Democrats opted not to attend the festivities in Charlotte next month—most from moderate or conservative states where Obama has little to no chance of carrying the top of the ticket.

And a number of Republicans are steering clear of the Republican National Convention in Tampa at the end of August, including Rep. Denny Rehberg.

Tester’s opponents have repeatedly portrayed the senator as an Obama clone. Tester has fought hard against that, highlighting the times he’s disagreed with Obama’s policies.

A recent ad from Montanans for Tester, for example, states the Senator “took on the Obama administration to delist wolves” and that he was the only Democrat who voted against Obama’s auto industry bailout.

Similarly, Rehberg has kept the GOP at arm’s length. As we mentioned last week, one ad this summer paints Rehberg as an “independent thinker,” a maverick among Republicans in D.C. Both candidates appear to be vying for a position somewhere in the political center, which would seem to explain the physical distance each is placing between himself and his party’s convention.

Rehberg’s campaign promptly denied any such motive in avoiding Tampa. “Denny is focused on doing what’s best for Montana, not on party politics,” the campaign wrote in an email. “And he simply feels it’s a bigger priority for him to be in Montana at that time.”

Tester was perhaps a tad more candid when excusing his absence from Charlotte.

It goes back to 1998, he told the Indy during an interview last week. During Tester’s bid for the Montana Senate, he was encouraged by a friend to skip the Mansfield-Metcalf dinner in Helena and remain in his district, where his votes were. “My votes are in Montana,” Tester says, “and that’s where we’re going to be.”

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Labor pains Couple flees state pot policies, sues hospital

by Jessica Mayrer

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The Hoeflichs alleged in a lawsuit, ing guidelines can be “good policy.” He On May 20, 2010, Jennifer Hoeflich was scared. She had a history of difficult filed March 12, that the hospital caused says the problem is that there’s not pregnancies. The birth of her eldest son, extreme emotional distress when it took enough proof to show that marijuana is now 12, had landed her in intensive the drug test without Jennifer’s permis- harmful to fetuses.

Jennifer did not smoke the drug. care. Her second son was also prema- sion. According to the suit, the hospital ture. In 2010, it looked like her third acted with reckless indifference to her Joseph said she ingested her prescription child, a daughter, would arrive early, health when it told Jennifer during an al- orally, mixing it into butter or oil extract.

Some research has shown that maritoo. She was 30 weeks pregnant when ready “medically risky and stressful she checked into North Valley Hospital, episode of her pregnancy” that it would juana use by an expectant mother decreases in Whitefish. Her contractions were report her marijuana use to DPHHS’s birth weight and contributes to cognitive challenges, but other scientists have critiChild and Family Services Division. coming quickly. cized those studies as skewed by Before checking into the factors such as tobacco and alcohospital, Hoeflich told her gyhol use. Other research, like that necologist that she was a medconducted by Melanie C. Dreher ical marijuana patient with a at Rush University, has found valid registration card. “We’d althat marijuana alleviates pregready discussed with the doctor nancy’s nausea and fatigue withthat, being medical marijuana out damaging the fetus. patients, we didn’t want to be “The problem is, we don’t discriminated against,” says Jenknow whether or not marijuana nifer’s husband Joseph Hoeuse ever affects a child,” Lindsey flich, who worked as a Flathead says. “We’re sort of left with Valley medical marijuana carewives’ tales and peoples’ biases.” giver at the time of his wife’s The Hoeflichs say other pregnancy. medications that doctors preJennifer is still so shaken scribed to slow her contracby the events surrounding the tions didn’t work, but small birth of her third child, Joseph amounts of cannabis did. The says, that he spoke to the Indecouple credits marijuana for pendent on her behalf. She’d helping her carry the pregused medical marijuana to help nancy to full term. “She was slow early contractions, he able to stop the labor,” Joseph says. It also eased the post-trausays. “Instead of harming the matic stress disorder she susbaby it was, in our opinion, tained while hospitalized as a helping the situation.” child. Court documents state Photo courtesy of Joseph Hoeflich After the baby girl was that she was diagnosed with born, Child and Family Servthe disorder in 1994.

Jennifer and Joseph Hoeflich with their youngest ices did not pursue the case.

The Hoeflichs say that child in Maine The family filed a lawsuit their gynecologist, Dr. Jennie North Valley Hospital declined to against the hospital in March, however.

Eckstrom of Glacier Medical Associates, in Whitefish, told them that Jennifer’s med- comment for this article. Eckstrom, Jen- The case is dismissed until they first atical marijuana card would be treated as a nifer’s doctor, did not return phone calls tempt to resolve their claims through an administrative hearing, as is required by prescription and that she would not be from the Independent.

Montana’s voter-approved Medical law. The Montana Medical Legal Panel, a tested for drugs. According to court records, the hospital tested her for mari- Marijuana Act has been on shaky ground group of licensed health care providers since the federal government cracked charged to vet such complaints, is slated juana use anyway.

The test found THC, the psychoactive down on medical marijuana caregivers in to take up their claims Aug. 27.

The couple now lives in Maine. ingredient in marijuana. The Hoeflichs 2011. However, the Hoeflichs’ Missoula now allege that Jennifer’s status as a med- attorney, Chris Lindsey, points out that Among the contributing factors that they ical marijuana patient prompted the hos- the law was still in full effect when Jen- say lured them east is Maine’s liberal medical marijuana laws. pital to contact the Montana Department nifer was hospitalized in 2010.

Joseph says though they are required Montana’s Medical Marijuana Act of Public Health and Human Services, which launched an investigation to deter- specifically stated that card holders in to participate in the upcoming adminismine whether the unborn child was jeop- good standing “may not be arrested, pros- trative hearing, his wife remains committed to suing North Valley Hospital. The ecuted, or penalized in any manner...” ardized by parental abuse.

But, in Hoeflich’s case, that law ap- couple wants to ensure that what hap“She’s got a baby in her belly,” Joseph says. “It’s an emergency labor. She’s to- pears to have conflicted with mandatory pened to Jennifer doesn’t happen to anytally concerned for the baby’s health and reporting guidelines obligating health one else. “What they did is wrong,” he well-being. And they’re saying, ‘Even if care professionals to report prenatal drug says. “They need to not do that again.” you have a healthy baby, we’re going to exposure to Child and Family Services.

Lindsey acknowledges those reporttake it away.’” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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The art of vanishing With species loss come new possibilities

by Sarah Gilman

How do we grieve? How do we grieve for all that disappears into the maw of human appetite? How do we grieve for something as beautiful and terrifying as the polar bear?

The white-haired woman’s voice broke as she stood to ask her difficult questions, the other audience members turning somber faces toward her — lines of attention spun inward like the spokes of a wheel, like mourners reaching hands to their most bereaved.

We panelists, the poet Kim Stafford, author Luis Alberto Urrea and myself, paused to exchange glances. We were supposed to be discussing the future of writing in the West, closing a conference celebrating 25 years of Fishtrap, a nonprofit in Enterprise, Ore., dedicated to western writing. It was an unwieldy topic, but it seemed suddenly manageable in comparison. How do we grasp the obliteration of so much we have known and loved?

Biologists once collected specimens of life from all corners of the world just to understand the variety it contained. These days, we catalog and collect to forestall complete loss and to understand our role in that loss, not just of distinct species, but of our collective memories of them, of what the world has been. National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has his Photo Ark. Trish Carney has her meditation on roadkill. Even architect and artist Maya Lin, perhaps best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, is working on a memorial to the nature-that-was, perhaps the most ambitious project of them all.

Lin’s What is missing? seeks to raise awareness that we are in the midst of — and are ourselves mostly responsible for— Earth's sixth mass extinction. It includes permanent and traveling installations and sculptures displayed around the world— larger-than-life gramophone-inspired listening cones that play film clips and sounds of threatened and endangered species, an “empty room” where viewers enter a darkened space and see species

only by catching flickering projections on a hand-held screen, electronic billboards in Times Square and over 75 films. Its center, though, is a spare website that opens with a black screen and a constellation of bright dots that rearrange themselves into mammal, bird and amphibian shapes before resolving into a map of the world's losses—a global “Map of Memory”—including the West's once mind-boggling abundance of salmon and bison, its California grizzly bear, its undisturbed rivers and topsoil.

In basic ecology, you learn that destruction is itself a creative force. Mass extinctions are followed by the frenzied development of new life.

Viewers can add to this catalog: the meadowlarks they no longer see at the ends of their driveways, the horned toads that used to haunt their gardens.

But here is where the traditional concept of elegy breaks down. For Lin's is a pre-emptive memorial, insisting that the cascade of loss-yet-to-come can be prevented. It lists ways to shrink your environmental footprint. And if you turn the clock on the map to the present, descriptions of current conservation efforts appear across the globe. The clock turned

forward will eventually present “A Greenprint for the Future,” satellite images of Earth by night, with the lights rearranged to reflect how it would look if human needs were balanced with, well, those of everything else.

What is missing? will allow people to see an entire river system as a place, or the African Plains migratory corridors as a place—habitats that must be seen outside of man-made boundary zones,” Lin writes in her artist's statement. More than that, though, it asks viewers to see the Earth itself as a whole place, characterized not just by its collective losses, but by the upswell of efforts to stem them and to reimagine our lives.

Perhaps here is an answer to that woman's question at Fishtrap. Looking forward, grieving for what has been, we must remember that loss is not new to the world, and that loss is also possibility.

In basic ecology, you learn that destruction is itself a creative force. Mass extinctions are followed by the frenzied development of new life. And habitats prone to strong forces of change—volcanoes, blowdowns, wildfire, extremes of weather and disease—are often the richest and most diverse. These landscapes provide a greater variety of niches for creatures to occupy, and force innovation through evolution. The end (and never-ending) result is a living menagerie that is continually reborn with improbably spectacular results.

You can think also of the creative world this way. As the writer David James Duncan pointed out at that same Fishtrap conference, artists often produce their best work from places of great pain, the personal and societal disasters that shape their vision. Perhaps this world of deepening wounds is already multiplying our creative opportunities.

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Sarah Gilman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org) in Paonia, Colorado. She is the magazine’s associate editor.

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[opinion]

Friending nature Citizen science resurges online

by Sharman Apt Russell

As someone who writes about nature and the West, I’ve been urged to get more involved with social media. “Search out your readers,” I’m told, don’t just sit back like a wallflower too shy or too proud to dance. But as a writer in rural Silver City, N.M., I have to wonder: Who wants to dance with me—posting photos of the charismatic western red-bellied tiger beetle, with its scissor-like mandibles and bulging eyes? Who wants to Tweet the nesting habits of a willow flycatcher, or talk about the role of fire in the Gila National Forest?

When I plug key words into Facebook’s search engine, I get 7.8 million likes for the TV show “Animal Planet” and 5 million “likes” for a spectacular photo of a waterfall. When I type in “birds,” I end up briefly at Angry Bird Friends, with 14.2 million monthly users, though “ornithology” takes me to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with 96,447 “likes.” Clearly, nature and Facebook mix just fine because people love animals, as well as waterfalls, beauty, diversity and “otherness.”

What I’m drawn to write about these days is a field called “citizen science,” which has experienced a renaissance thanks to the internet. Just as amateur naturalists once used the penny post to mail their insights to men like Charles Darwin, citizen scientists join online programs that track the natural history of plants and animals. We’ve exchanged the pen for the login, and people everywhere are now watching the flowering of backyard trees, measuring snowfall and entering data on everything from butterflies to pikas.

My own citizen-science project is the study of a tiger beetle found only in New Mexico and Arizona, in the U.S., and I’m guided by the emails of two kindly entomologists, Barry Knisley and David Pearson, who are world experts on tiger beetles. I’m also in contact with a high school biology teacher, Kristi Ellingsen, who first discovered that tiger beetles lived in Tasmania, where it was thought none existed.

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Ellingsen began by using Flickr to post detailed shots of insects she found.

At night, she’d post a photo of some obscure fly, and the next morning wake to an internet conversation that had narrowed down its identity by focusing on the insect’s wings. Soon, someone would identify the species. But when she pho-

Just as amateur naturalists once used the penny post to mail their insights to men like Charles Darwin, citizen scientists join online programs that track the natural history of plants and animals. tographed a large beetle with intimidating jaws on a sand dune in Tasmania, she didn’t bother with Flickr, because her new friends had already given her the conventional wisdom: Tiger beetles don’t exist in Tasmania. Through a broader Web search, she found David Pearson, emailed him her best pictures, and went to bed. The next morning, she had a reply and later a confirmation.

“Now we have a living Tasmanian tiger,” Ellingsen marveled—courtesy of one person who ventured outside, took some photos and was aided by far-off experts sitting in front of computers.

At the small New Mexico university where I've taught for 30 years, I now work online with students from Maine to California, and nature writing has become one of my most popular classes. I marvel at how convenient it is to use high-tech smartphone apps—just Google Project Noah—to help track global warming and catalog biological diversity.

Going online has environmental costs, too, however. In 2011, Google reported that it emits 1.5 million metric tons of carbon annually and estimated that all internet data centers account for 1 percent of the world's electricity use.

Everything we do consumes the world.

Today, I'm going to step away from the computer and “like” nature by walking down to the Gila River, looking for the larval burrow holes of tiger beetles and probably startling a raft of green-headed mallards who will fly away quacking. I feel like giggling, like the small child always amused by peek-aboo, never getting tired of the joke: ducks actually quack, complaining and petulant.

There's the delight of onomatopoeia, the delight of being in the physical moment.

Nature doesn’t count her friends. But while it might seem counterintuitive, we can now explore the natural world virtually, monitor climate change, educate ourselves and others, or rally political will, all by using the new mediums of social connection. Can web-centered technology help us sustain the original web of life?

As someone relatively new to this dance, I'm saying yes.

Sharman Apt Russell is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She lives in Silver City, N.M., where she is working on a book about citizen science.

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Curses, Foiled Again – British authorities uncovered a terrorist plot to bomb Jewish sites after the couple planning the attacks got into an argument that resulted in police being called to intervene. Prosecutor Bobbie Cheema said Shasta Khan, 38, told officers Mohammed Sajid Khan, 33, was “a home-grown terrorist” and proceeded to “spill the beans” about his terrorist activities while denying any involvement herself. Officers then searched the home and found beheading videos, al-Qaeda propaganda, bomb-making guides and addresses in Manchester’s Jewish community. Mohammed Khan pleaded guilty, and Shasta Khan was convicted on three terrorism-related counts. (Associated Press) Sheriff’s investigators accused Zackary Dexter Pace, 24, of robbing the fast-food restaurant where he worked in Jefferson County, Ala., after his co-workers recognized him because his disguise was so bad. “Just about every employee in there called him by name and thought he was joking around,” Chief Deputy Randy Christian said, until he showed a gun and grabbed cash. He fled but returned three days later while detectives were interviewing witnesses. “He showed up just to see how everyone was doing, and we arrested him,” Christian said. “So obviously, not the smartest man in the world.”

(The Birmingham News and WBRC-TV) Monkey See, Monkey Do – Zookeepers at Indonesia’s Taru Jurug Zoo moved a female orangutan out of sight of visitors to stop her from smoking lit cigarettes that people throw into her cage. Zoo official Daniek Hendarto said the orangutan has been smoking for 10 of her 15 years, aping humans by holding cigarettes casually between her fingers and puffing away while visitors watch and photograph her. (Associated Press) Second-Amendment Follies – After his girlfriend refused to shoot a .380-caliber, semiautomatic handgun in his family’s backyard in Alamo, Texas, Israel Torres, 17, grabbed the weapon and fired at a butane tank. The bullet richoted, fatally hitting him in the head. (Associated Press) Adaisha Miller, 24, died from a gunshot by an off-duty police officer who was dancing at an outdoor party in Detroit after she hugged the officer from behind, causing the holstered weapon to accidentally discharge and strike her in the chest. (Detroit Free Press) An unidentified 32-year-old man accidentally shot himself in Teaneck, N.J., when the .45-caliber gun he was carrying in his waistband slipped. Police said that when the man tried to grab the gun, he accidentally pulled the trigger, shotting himself in the leg and rupturing an artery. (Bergen County’s The Record) Charles Robert Kimball, 19, died at a gun range in Livingston County, Mich., while his 19-year-old friend was firing an AK-47 assault rifle. Sheriff Bob Bezotte said the friend was applying lubricant after the weapon jammed when he accidentally engaged a bullet, which fired and struck Kimball, who was standing about 12 feet “down range.” (Detroit Free Press) Federal authorities blamed Craig Shiflet, 23, with starting a wildfire that burned more than 18,000 acres of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest by firing a shotgun at a bachelor campout with four other men. The round was an “incendiary shotgun shell” whose packaging promises, “Shoots 100 feet of fire, setting everything in its path ablaze. Warning: Extreme FIRE HAZARD.” (The Smoking Gun) Not-So-Great Escape – When sheriff’s deputies approached a man they found lying in a motel parking lot in Modesto, Calif., he ran behind the motel and disappeared. A deputy noticed a hole in the ground, 18 inches in diameter, leading to a septic tank, where the man was hiding up to his shoulders in liquid. Deputies and fire rescue crews spent 30 minutes trying to coax the man from the tank. He remained “verbally combative,” Battalion Chief Bryan Hunt said, until agreeing to leave the tank if his mother told him to. After she spoke with him by phone and sent his stepfather to the scene, he emerged from the hole, lit a cigarette and refused to be hosed off. When deputies asked the unidentified man why he jumped into the tank, he answered he’d seen people make similar moves on TV. (The Modesto Bee and Sacramento’s KTXL-TV) War Toys – Thailand paid $30 million for 1,576 GT200 and Alpha 6 handheld bomb detectors issued to a dozen government security forces, including the army and the agency responsible for the security of Thailand’s royal family, despite a U.S. warning that the devices are as useless as “a toy” and appear “to be a glorified dowsing rod.” British explosives expert Sidney Alford added that he examined one and found that the so-called “detection card,” which is supposed to be inserted into the plastic device to identify explosives or drugs, is nothing more than a useless piece of paper. Despite these findings, the government continues to deploy the devices, which top defense officials insist work. Some observers believe the military refuses to admit it was duped into buying useless bomb detectors because doing so “may invite unwanted investigation into suspected corruption,” Bangkok Post former editor Veera Prateepchaikul said. (The Washington Times) Unclear on the Concept – Police arrested Shannon White, 36, in Belleville, Ill., for calling 911 six times on a Saturday night to complain that her boyfriend wouldn’t give her more beer. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) After Tonya Ann Fowler, 45, spotted her police mugshot on the front page of a local publication that circulates pictures of recently arrested people, she called 911 to complain “about how she looked” in the photo. Police in Winder, Ga., responded by arresting her and taking a new mugshot when she was booked at the Barrow County Detention Center for unlawful use of 911 and disorderly conduct. (The Smoking Gun) America’s Footprint – Instead of closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the miltary announced plans to spend $40 million to upgrade communications at the Navy base, whose outdated satellite communications system was overburdened by the military court hearing the cases of the top plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks and other terrorist suspects, and by ongoing detention operations. Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale explained that the new underwater fiber optic line from Guantanamo Bay to Florida has more bandwidth, is more reliable than satellites and “will bring the base online with communication technology equal to that of the Department of Defense footprint around the world.” (CNN) Reasonable Explanation – When police confronted Flora Burkhart, 58, about leaving the scene of an accident after rear-ending a pickup in Van Burean, Ark., they reported her telling them, “I left because I did not want my ice cream to melt.” (The Smoking Gun) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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hey administered career tests in school, and my results were always the same: Molly, you’re a withdrawn, intuitive feeler. You’re not suited for any job. They said I should do arts and crafts—which, okay, I may have been a child, but I knew that wasn’t a real job. I’ve known people who strive to find their purposes, who settle on dentistry or accounting because they’re fine trades. Barring a brief period in kindergarten where I waffled between rock star and dinosaur bone digger, I always knew I’d be a teacher and a writer.

It’s winter semester 2012 and I’m teaching a freshman composition course at a community college in the suburbs of Detroit, where I grew up. The last time I spent any time on this campus was 10 years before, when I was made to scrub gum off the bottoms of desks as a condition of my probation for underage drinking. Now I’m standing in front of a white board showing a bunch of 18-year-olds where the commas go. It’s my dream come true. But did you know that most dreams are actually unpleasant? You’re always being chased, or you’ve lost an important key or you’ve said a dumb thing to a room full of strangers and they’re all laughing at you.

The semester is almost over. We’re starting the last big research paper, and I’m projecting as much enthusiasm as I can muster. “You can write about anything you want,” I tell them.

“Anything at all that interests you.”

I tell them that school writing is the same as any kind of writ-

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ing, that it’s about engaging the reader with a good story. Twenty smooth faces stare back at me. They don’t read books. They’ve never heard of David Foster Wallace or Joy Williams. They’ve never even seen Pulp Fiction. They’re having a hard time picking a research project because these kids aren’t interested in anything.

They want to know if spelling counts. They’re interested in pointing at the word “tense” that I wrote in red ink on the margins of their paper and asking how much they’ll be marked down for it.

After an hour, most of the class has nailed down a topic: Coral reefs, FoxConn, a paleolithic diet, video game violence, diet pills. But there’s one girl in the back of the class whose name I can never remember because she never speaks, who can’t think of anything to write about.

“Can you think of some topics you’ve been learning about in your other classes that might interest you?” I ask her.

“Not really,” she says.

“What do you plan on majoring in?”

“Human resources,” she says.

I literally don’t know what that is.

“I don’t know what that is. Come on.

There must be something. What do you like to do outside of school for fun?”

“Sleep?” she says.

I know it’s illegal to shake a baby, definitely, but what about a young adult?

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ventually, she reveals an interest in reality television and we settle on something to do with a changing media or whatever. The experience rattles me. It starts to seem like their skulls are filled with fireflies, that the next generation is a sleepwalking army of gamers and TV babies. I don’t care about where they put their damn commas. I just want them to want to know things.

These kids come to community college straight out of high school because everybody tells them they’ll never get a job without a college degree. It’s a four- to five-year plan so scary you’d think Stephen King wrote it. Spend $40,000 and the prize at the end of the line is a job, maybe?

Higher education feels like a lie.

Teachers make expensive promises the world can’t deliver because we’ve got student loans of our own to pay. As an adjunct instructor teaching two sections of composition for a semester, I make about $3,500. After the money spent on gas to commute to campus, food, clothes and movies to make the pain go away, by the end of April I have about $1,500. Take into account my student loans, in a perpetual state of deferral, slowly accruing interest like an abominable snowman rolling down the mountain to crush me, and I’m worth negative many thousands of dollars.

But that’s okay. I’m not interested in money.

I just want to go to the woods and live deliberately. I want to stand in a field of rye and catch children. Barring all that, all I can think is, how can I get back out West, to Montana? And once I’m there, how long can I get away without working?

“I’ve had it,” I tell my mother. “The day after the semester ends I’m going back to Missoula for the summer, and then who knows!”

She doesn’t understand. She wants to know where I’ll live. My car is on its last legs, she reminds me. How will I get around? What will I do for money?

“I don’t know, but I have friends with couches,” I tell her. “I’ll watch people’s dogs when they’re away. I’ll read tarot on the street.

I’ll get a bike and ride the bus.” As for money, there’s the savings, but savings get spent. “The money part is a little iffy,” I admit.

It’s not true that I don’t want to work. Or, it depends on your definition of work. I want to make my living as a writer, which is an audacious notion at any time, but particularly now, with book sales down and print journalism gasping. I just want to finish my novel and write articles and get an agent and a dog. When you’re a kid, they say you can be anything you want to be. It’s not a lie per se, but then again, we can’t all be astronauts. If everyone were a ballerina, they wouldn’t be special, either. They’d litter the streets like crows in dirty tutus, begging for change. At some point, you’re supposed to give up and get a real job—but when? And what?

There’s the work of building and moving things with your hands. My father started doing maintenance for a rich school district in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., when he was 19, before my parents were married. He put in his 30 years and retired at age 50. He worked with machines because he could leave his job at the door, freeing up the rest of the week to party. These days, he loves smoking weed and traveling the country in a VW bus with my stepmother. He plays bass in a cover band called Ruff Edgez.

My mother started out as a secretary and worked her way up to an important job in intellectual property law. She works long hours in a beautiful building surrounded by woods, on a street called Corporate Drive. When I’m living at home, I’m like a dog. At night I hear the garage door open and I brace myself for her slow, sad trudge through the breezeway. Always it is this way: She sets her parcels on the table and sighs.

The sigh is terrible, not just for its content but its bleak predictability. Every night it’s a shank in my belly, a voice that whispers: “Here’s what life looks like when you make all the wrong choices.”

I don’t want to be a patent paralegal or a custodian—although I did work a few summers in my dad’s school district on the summer cleaning crew. How’s this for a humble brag: Remember Cranbrook, the school where Mitt Romney held a kid down, cut his hair off and never once felt bad about it? In the summer of 1998, I applied hot wax to Cranbrook’s gymnasium.

In 2008, I went on the market with a bache-

lor’s degree in English and Psychology. The Detroit Lions lost every game that year. GM went under. The banks failed. It took me six months to find a job, writing ad copy for an online sporting goods retailer. “You’ll love these skis!” I’d write. “These skis will make you so fast and good.” I made $9 an hour, and by the end I started to unravel. I remember a description for a $200 child’s ski jacket. I wrote: “You should probably buy your kid this ski jacket, or else something really bad is going to happen.” It only took a year of office work for me to arrive at a fundamental truth. Working hard in order to make a living doing what you love isn’t just important: It’s the most important thing.

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voice inside me says I should go to the REI in Troy, Mich., and spend all $500 of the birthday money my mom gave me on backpacking equipment. “How much for a hiking backpack, a sleeping bag and a tent?” I ask.

The floor salesman tells me he can get me into a pack, gladly. The people at REI are always trying to get you into a pack. Also, goose down sleeping bags.

“What’s the vegan position on goose down?”

I ask. “Oh, they’re against it,” he says, so I go with synthetic.

There are all these questions: “What kind of a trip are you planning on taking?”

“I don’t know.”

“How long will you be out?”

“I don’t know.”

“For your tent, are you looking to sleep one or two people?”

I tell him I’m planning for a moment in my future that I’ve seen in my dreams, when I won’t have a home. Luckily, he thinks I’m kidding and we’re spared the heaviness.

The night before I set out to leave Michigan forever, I have a breakdown. I have a few couches in Missoula to sleep on, but the housing situation is tentative at best. There’s the money I saved.

Still, it will never be enough. I got blonde highlights in April, but who will love me in June when my roots start showing? Every morning I spit blood in the sink from my gums. It’s troubling.

What if I fall off a mountain or get my foot caught in a trap?

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week later, on my 30th birthday, we look at the photo album of my home birth and weep. I am my mother’s third and youngest child. In the photos she looks happy and beautiful. My father hovers over her with a thin mustache and curly hair, poised to cut the cord. I cry for my mother’s red hair and everything that came after. I’m leaving her alone with three cats and that job. Fold the moment in half and in another 30 years I could be standing where she is.

First, I fly to Boston so my brother can draw a baby elephant on my shoulder. The tattoo doesn’t mean much, or it means that I love my brother and I’m proud of how good he is at putting ink on skin.

I’m proud that he’s my idea of rich, because we were once poor together. He used to paint trains and everybody hated him for it. Today, my big brother owns a horse and a motorcycle.

In Boston, I go to an open-mic night at the Cantab Lounge, where I read a poem about unrequited love: “No one ever talks about the second world, but it exists, like plate tectonics exist: It’s called Detroit. Imagine we’re standing there the moment the city splits in half. It’s not your fault, but you’re the reason. I want to know you.”

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he river I left running through Missoula is exactly as I remember it. For the first month, life is a clumsy commute between living rooms. My friend Karin, from my days in the UM English department, lets me stay in her family’s basement for a week. She tells me that she was

homeless too once. She has a gift for making me feel like less of a jerk. I do a few nights on Emily and Emma’s couch, then a night at Zoey’s, then Mackenzie and Carl’s, repeat. I try to space it out so they don’t get sick of me.

My friend Alice drives me from place to place in her pink Oldsmobile. For stretches of the summer she’s moving me every couple of days. We talk about our writing and our shared, singular obsession with finding a true love who we believe will make us whole. We wish we could pay for rent and breakfast with back rubs, but we can’t. I’m writing every day, and sometimes I even get paid for it, but still, I’m spending more than I’m taking in. My bank account suffers a slow drain.

Nestled in the South Hills are two women who say I can live in their house for free in July and August in exchange for watching their dog. It’s a disproportionate exchange and they seem to know it. In the interview I try very hard to be friendly and normal. The dog is part cocker spaniel, part poodle, and it’s the weirdest thing. Usually when I pet an animal, my heart bursts. When I touch their dog, I don’t feel anything. I give them a million references and they call all of them before offering me the gig, but I can’t shake the feeling that these women don’t trust me. As in just about every job opportunity I have with anyone in Missoula, the paranoid thought occurs: How much do they know? I wonder if they’ve read that essay about my enthusiastic drug use, the one that ends with me not learning any lessons. So the email they send a week later, telling me they’ve changed their mind and given the job to someone else, doesn’t

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here’s a house on Missoula’s south side filled with radicals and secrets. A beautiful, frightening girl with strong arms and a septum piercing says I can rent the laundry room for $100 a month, under the condition that I never write about the house. It stings, but I agree.

The place is a haven for punks, DIY bands on tour, anarchists and travelers. Besides the three bedrooms inside, people sleep on couches, in the garage or in a cargo net suspended from the front porch. They’ve got two cats and a rambunctious puppy. Police are not welcome. Property is bullshit. They don’t write their names on food in the refrigerator. I’m told it’s been this way for years.

I arrive at the house for the first time at night.

The yard is littered with beer cans and bicycle parts. There’s a wheelchair tipped on its side, because fucking anarchy, and a naked Ken doll hangs from a noose off the porch.

Some kids have just returned from dumpster diving. I find them sifting through a pile of packaged goods, mostly loaves of bread and candy.

“Do you want some candy?” one asks me.

I’m afraid of the candy and decline.

“Is it because you’re vegan?”

I lie and say, “Yes.” The pierced girl takes me to the basement and opens the door to the laundry room. There’s a rusted sink filled with mouse poop, but no washer or dryer. Every ounce of floor space is occupied

by a single mattress. “Is this it?” I say in a meek, pitiful voice, and straight away I’d give anything to shove the comment back inside of me.

“It’s a room,” she says, shrugging. And really, what was I expecting for three dollars a night? The room is exactly what I need and nothing more.

Who cares that I’m way too old to be living with a bunch of 21-year-old punks? Anything’s better than getting a job.

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lost my wallet in a movie theater at the beginning of the summer. If not for my passport, I would barely exist. Here’s what it’s like to live in America with no car, no driver’s license, no home address and no job: It’s uncomfortable. It’s better to just have all of those things.

In a gift economy, we work for the sake of work and we gain status the more we’re able to give away. I use Facebook to take the gift economy out for a spin. My status updates become a list of demands. I try to couch them in charming rhetoric, but I’m just a beggar: I need a yoga mat. I need a bike. I need a ride to and from the drop-off point to go tubing. I need a ride to the movies to see a terrible movie so I can write a review for the paper.

People are happy to help when they can, and I begin to think of myself as a good person for affording my friends the opportunity to be so generous. I have nothing to offer in return but my company. I can workshop your poem? I can write you a news article? I can wait here with the tubes while the car you put gas into powers you back to the drop-off point?

The buses of Missoula are good, clean machines that don’t run past 7 p.m. or at all on Sunday. It’s easy to become smug about your carbon footprint when you’re too broke to keep a car. By midsummer, my blisters have callused and my feet are made of leather. I’m IrishGerman and I’ve got a weird tan.

Street kids seem to take on a dusky look from top to bottom. I think I’m starting to look like them.

I’ve got blonde hair and black roots and the people of Missoula are falling over themselves to give me bicycles. A guy on Facebook is eager to loan me the bike he flipped over and broke both his legs on. His cursed bicycle is the best I’ve ever ridden. We’re both very tall, and it’s a gift to fall into a road bike with a milk-crate basket and custom-built BMX handlebars.

But then his legs heal and he wants his bike back. My friends and I make a lot of jokes about breaking his legs again, ha ha. I return the bike with two new tires, but I busted up the helmet and burned out the headlight. I think it’s an equitable tradeoff, but he’s sore. The gift economy is not always precise.

Another friend of mine volunteers at Free Cycles, where in exchange for labor you can

build your own bike out of recycled parts. I meet my friend in the warehouse after hours. We renovate a black bicycle with gold rims. He makes me turn my own wrench. For a few brief moments, I’m doing actual work. We change out the pedals and the tires and save the brakes for another day. The men are happy to get me into a bike. All they want in exchange is me.

Life would be easier with a partner, but I’ve found that I’m not capable of maintaining intimate relationships. I don’t like men who build me bicycles, and it’s a shame, because I’m starving for love. I wish I could pay for everything in kisses, but I have impossible tastes. Like cats who always sniff out the one cathating person in the room, I only want to crawl into laps that won’t have me.

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here’s a woman who lives at the punk house, and she’s sweeping the porch and crying. “I just feel like some of the people here are more interested in cheap rent than actually living in an anarchist collective,” she says.

I assume she’s talking about me, since this describes my position exactly. Later we have a house meeting, and it turns out hers are just ordinary roommate concerns having to do with keeping the house clean. In a house that eschews money and patriarchy, figuring out whose turn it is to clean the bathroom or buy toilet paper presents challenges.

The girl with the septum piercing throws up her hands and says, “Why are we having this meeting? People should just clean whenever they feel like it.”

It’s made clear that while I live at the house and pay rent, I’m not actually one of them. In normal company, my tattoos scare old people, but among these kids, having arms full of cute birds,

baby animals and pink flowers makes me feel spoiled and ridiculous. They’re all totally metal, and here I am shut up in my room in a flowing skirt playing a droll rendition of “Hungry Like the Wolf ” on my acoustic guitar over and over.

I’m not sure what it means to be a practicing anarchist in 2012. If anarchy is about rejecting capitalism, religion, popular media and other profitdriven institutions that enslave us, I’m on board.

But there’s a belligerent subversiveness that I’m not as sure about. I’m not willing to walk into a restaurant whose business practices I disagree with and shit in their sink, for example.

The kids I live with are not like ordinary people. They don’t spend money on anything if they don’t have to. They’re scavengers. They’ll circle around and around a grocery story sampling the free coffee until their caffeine needs are met. There seems to be an unspoken ban on politeness that I find enormously refreshing. You know where you stand. Most people act out of social obligation and

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then build up resentments. At the punk house, a stranger will give you his last cigarette like it’s nothing. My roommates go to bed whenever they feel like it, and then they get up with the sun and read books.

The animals, the strangers coming in and out, the loud music, the beer cans everywhere, a bottle of ketchup spilled on the counter and tipped on its side—I find it comforting.

It reminds me of my childhood.

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o be clear: I don’t know anything about real want.

If I run out of money, I can call my mother and she’ll deposit double whatever I ask for into my bank account. She still pays my cellphone bill, based on the shared lie that she needs to in order to keep in contact with me, like if I didn’t use my iPhone to call my mother I would have no need for such a device. She tells me that 30 is the new 19. She refers to this time in my life as an “adventure,” which I consider only a little condescending.

I apply for food stamps and they arrive in my post office box a week later. On the application, you can either put down a home address or just describe where you live. You’re supposed to feel bad about buying junk food with food stamps, but it’s the decadent salads and green smoothies I purchase every day at Good Food Store that rack me with guilt. Like, people on welfare don’t deserve to get a jumpstart on the day? Before too long it flips and I start thinking, “Why can’t I pay my late fees at Hastings with my food stamps? This is bullshit.”

The summer is winding down. I’ve spent my days camping in the woods, in and out of coffee shops writing, studying birds and floating down the river. It feels like I’m getting away with something.

I try to use the food stamps to buy food for my friends with jobs, but it makes them uncomfortable. They don’t want my government handout. The worst thing about being broke all the time is that you have less to share with the people you love. In the gift economy, I’m sick of having nothing to give back but my wit.

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he punk house landlord says he wants to sell the place and we all need to be out by September. The gutter punks are sad. A kid with a Mohawk tells me I should write something in the paper about what’s being done. I tell him that I specifically agreed to never write about the house as a term of my staying there.

“But now it’s a story,” he argues.

In their fervor, the kids talk about staging a coup of some kind. I’m having a hard time pinpointing the injustice other than the vague principle that no one should be allowed to own anything, and then I feel like a total narc for thinking that. The idea of a coup loses steam. The kids go looking for new apartments, just like anyone would.

Earlier in the summer, my friends and I were in and out of a lot of bars and somewhere along the way I lost my backpack with my laptop inside. I retraced my steps and nobody had it. Things were looking grim. I mourned for the 37,000 words of my unfinished novel trapped inside the computer.

“I didn’t like that novel anyway,” I told my friend John.

“Isn’t the computer worth more?” he asked.

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Turns out my backpack was tucked behind the bar at Charlie B’s, but it’s a defining question of the summer: Which is worth more?

And what’s with this fantasy world of cheap rent and no rules? I need to get a job and an apartment already.

I spend the first half of every afternoon on Craigslist, and what a grim place that is. None of the jobs look good. I go look at a lot of apartments, but people on Craigslist are strangers and this time of year everybody wants to live near the university with other students. With my paychecks from the Independent, plus the $9 left of my savings, I figure I’ll be just short of enough money to put down a deposit on a new place.

I spent July working on an article about crows for the pure joy of the pursuit and also, for the money. For weeks, all I could talk about were birds. Floating down the river, I was the best at spotting the animals. I cut birds out of a book and put them up on the wall in the laundry room.

It’s time to take those bird pictures off the wall. The girl who signed the lease wants me out of the house now. Turns out they were more serious about “Don’t write about us” than I thought.

Things have a way of stacking up: The punks want me out on Thursday because of a story I need to get to my editor by Monday morning. I’ve got two crumpled-up tens and a handful of singles. One of the tens is the old-fashioned kind and I’m superstitious about spending it. I don’t know where I’m going to sleep or put my stuff. It’s a serious situation, definitely.

My possessions have multiplied since when I first got back in May. My mother sent my guitar in the mail, along with a suitcase full of hoodies in the dead of summer for some inexplicable reason. People keep giving me books. I forgot to put the crow’s foot Mackenzie gave me in rock salt, so it will probably break apart in my backpack, but it doesn’t matter. These are just things.

I keep trying to stir myself into a panic, but I’m having too much fun. I wake up whenever I want and ride my bike across town to drink so much coffee. The romantic foibles keep coming. I love my friends, and they love me. We float down the river and talk about writing. There are so many dogs. It’s hard to worry about money as it becomes increasingly useless at giving me what I need.

I go to a poetry reading on a slab in the middle of a field behind the bike trail. There’s a poet I’ve never met, with a one-hitter and a beard. He tells me he’s been following my writing and he thinks it’s bullshit, and my first thought is, “I wonder what it would be like to kiss him.”

A kid I met on the Westside while apartment hunting says I can pitch my tent in his backyard until I find another place.

Ours is a friendship built on a single conversation about Russian Literature. We’re taking a chance on one another. But anybody who really loves Gogol’s “The Nose” is probably on the level, right? His yard is filled with long, white grass. It’s been warm most nights. I’m thinking everything will be perfect, as long as September never comes.

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[arts]

Musical empire Total Fest is ready to topple Missoula’s downtown Guantanamo Baywatch

by Jason McMackin and Erika Fredrickson

For its first several years, Total Fest always took place at one single venue—whether it was Jay’s Upstairs, the fairgrounds or the American Legion Hall.

Once the local independent rock festival moved to the Badlander/Palace complex (and added Saturday afternoon shows at the Big Dipper) it felt a little heftier. Last year, when it expanded to include the Top Hat and Zoo City Apparel, it started to seem like a fantastic, all-consuming monster.

There were whisperings Total Fest XI might trim their empire this year, but that’s not what happened.

What happened is, they added yet another venue: the VFW. Holy rock ’n’ roll, Buzzo! With 41 bands at six venues in three days, Total Fest is not going on a diet, which is a such a good thing. If it were a Thanksgiv-

ing turkey, Total Fest could feed us all—and here we give you a glimpse at the tastiest cuts:

Cave art Listen, we can tell whether or not you bought that Mötley Crüe Theatre of Pain tour shirt at Hot Topic or not. We can tell by the cut, the colors and the texture of the logo. And, yes, it’s really important to us. That is why we were hesitant to donate any of our “classic” (i.e. scummy and old) T-shirts to Amanda Browder’s Total Fest art installation Spelunca.

Browder, a Missoula native currently living in New York City, has collected a farmer’s grip of shirts,

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which she intends to mend into the form of a cave that will fit over the The Zoo City Apparel stage. She doesn’t intend to go it alone, as she invited any and all to a community sewing day at Selvedge Studio prior to the rock ‘n’ roll blow up. The goal of Browder’s project is twofold: “I want people to know that they can make something larger than themselves,” she says,” and I want to insert contemporary art into the everyday lives of people.”

The project takes Browder back to her younger days hanging at the fabled Jay’s Upstairs. She has even donated two of her old band shirts from that era: Chicks with Chainsaws and the Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. We suppose if she can do that it wouldn’t hurt us to part with that Long Cold Winter

Cinderella T-shirt or the perfectly-folded-circa-1990 Prong Beg to Differ shirt in the attic.

What’s in a name?

I like to think that any time someone utters the words “Gay Witch Abortion” a 13-year-old boy in midAmerica sprouts the first of many pubic whiskers. I know I would have, much as I did when I first heard the Butthole Surfers’s album Locust Abortion Technician‑or was it the Dayglo Abortions on a black 60minute cassette tape labeled “Amy Grant”? Those were/are two great band names, but Gay Witch Abortion wins outright in the pubic hair sprouting contest. In other words, best band name this Total Fest.

[arts] Swap and snarf The Saturday Record Swap goes down at the Big Dipper parking lot again this year, but this ain’t yer mee-maw’s swap: Missoula’s dopest audiophile event is more swappier than ever. For those uninitiated newbs, the swap is for all who like to comb through other people’s vinyl, as well as peeps looking to unload copies of The Doors’ LA Woman. So bring a table and your loot. Ear Candy, KBGA and independent record labels Good To Die and Sleeping Giant Glossolalia are selling and swapping wares along with Total Fest bands. Don’t have anything to swap? You can hang in the parking lot and listen to The Magpies, The Pharmacy and Abe Coley perform, not to mention indulge in Black Coffee Roasting Co.’s and La Petit Outre’s delicious free coffee and num-nums. Look for Missoula artist extraordinaire Matthew LaRubbio’s hand-drawn flier around town; it’s a visual representation of how it all goes down.

Ass-kicking filth There is a sub-genre of rock that we adore: asskicking hard rock. This genre is made for throwing furniture from inside the house and onto the lawn, for spinning dirty burn-outs, for getting drunker than you should. The sound can be sludgy and full of bellows; it can groove and it can shred. Mainly, though, it’s a fusillade of ear-damaging dirty distortion rocking your face off before lighting your skull bones aflame.

Total Fest always features a filthy line-up of asskicking hard rock bands and this year is no different.

Seattle’s Sandrider puts the “ow” in power-trio. The band’s rhythm section grooves heavy with a bass sound just north of scuzzy and drums adroitly locking it down, allowing the guitarist to perform both heavy riffs and catchy hot licks. The vocals are reminiscent of Total Fest vets Big Business, but the band seems to focus on their instruments rather than vociferous melodies.

TF loves duos, especially guitar/drum duos. Iron Lung fits the bill. The Seattle powerviolence duo plays fast and plays dissonant, but they know when to lock up the brakes and scream to a stop. Here is the only correct reaction to a cranked-up Iron Lung: tear off your shirt, stare into a bathroom mirror and scream until you pass out. Post-hardcore old schoolers Harkonen claims a member of TF fave Helms Alee among their number, and they are the real raw deal.

With rumbling fuzzed-out bass and the slow bang of drums backing up the spook-tastic guitar licks, and vocal shouts that would impress a Texas high school football coach, the punishing repetition combined with spiffy lickety-split transitions could bring down a dictatorship faster than a neutron bomb.

The highly-anticipated Miami’s Torche always seem to be on the verge of famous. They have toured with the likes of Baroness, The Sword and

High on Fire and are so gall-darned versatile that they mos def fit the bill of being hard rock. They can make four-on-the-floor stomp-rocking interesting again with great compositions and freaked out guitar licks that warble and cry. They can slow it up and sing you a song. If I were to build a castle high atop Mt. Sentinel, surely Torche would awaken the city each and every morning with two-minute blasts of ass kickery.

High-rollers arise!

One of the favorite aspects of Total Fest is the reunion band. This year, the International Playboys, which broke up many moons ago, fills that role. Colin Hickey, curator of entertainment and pillar of the downtown business community, reprises his role as frontman Monty Carlo—a whiskey swilling, sweaty, howling high-roller. Back in the day, at a San Diego club where the Playboys were playing, a manager hinted that the band might not get paid and Hickey changed his Monty Carlo persona to the band’s no-nonsense businessman alter-ego “Jack DeSonne.” After a few shots of whiskey in a back room where a Russ Meyer film rolled in the background, he convinced the manager to surrender the cash. Expect a sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll sheen and songs like “Cobra Blood Hangover.”

The Total Lineup This year’s Total Fest kicks off Thu., Aug. 16, and runs through Sat., Aug. 18. Three-day passes cost $50 at the door. Per-night costs vary. (see below)

Thu., Aug. 16 The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.: Dan Deacon, Unnatural Helpers, No-Fi Soul Rebellion, The Bugs, The Best Westerns Doors at 8 PM. $15.

Friday, Aug. 17 Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St.: Dikes of Holland, Guantanamo Baywatch, Rock N Roll Adventure Kids, Shane Hickey and His Magical Ukelele, Needlecraft Doors at 5 PM. Badlander/Palace, 135 W. Broadway: Torche, Lecherous Gaze, Iron Lung, Broken Water, Sedan, Criminal Code, Pins of Light, White Walls, The

Funeral And The Twilight, Cousins Doors at 8 PM. $20 for the night.

Sat., Aug. 18 Record Swap at Big Dipper Ice Cream, 631 S. Higgins: The Pharmacy The Mag pies, Abe Coley Noon to 2 PM. Free.

Ole Beck VFW Post 209, 245 W. Main Street: Walls, Dreamdecay, Brain Tumors, Tidal Horn, VTO Doors at 6pm Badlander/Palace, 135 W. Broadway: Harkonen, Sandrider, Lozen, Tenement, Tacocat, Buildings, Gay Witch Abortion, Mjolniir DXP, The International Playboys, Bacon & Egg Doors at 8 PM. $20 for the night.

Go to totalfest.org for more info.

Choosing darkness If you go through the list of T-fest bands you can guess which one has the gothest tendencies, and its not Milwaukee’s Cousins or the happily-named California group Rock N Roll Adventure Kids. It’s, you guessed it, The Funeral and the Twilight, of Minneapolis. What’s sweet about this band is that it exploits your secret wish to wear black lipstick but keeps you in a social mood by crossing dramatic Dio-esque vocals with Spanish sarabande rhythms.

There is blackness here and also yearning tunes, so if you’re mourning the Cure cover band show from months ago, dry your tears. The Funeral and the Twilight are here.

Local smorgasbord If you don’t know your hometown bands, here’s your chance. The diversity of local bands represented this year is stunning. You want heavy mythological rock, just set your sights on Tidal Horn.

Need a vacation? How about Shane Hickey and His Magical Ukulele or The Best Westerns tantalizing you with brooding, Cash-enzian country western.

Need some really weird 1950s crooning and squealing? The ladies of Needlecraft got your back. By the time Bacon & Egg’s illogical noodling wizardry hits you on Saturday night you’ll be ready to sleep sound knowing you’ve heard some of the best music this side of the hemisphere.

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The pounding music from last night’s show still hums in your ears. That is to say, Broken Water is what I remember from my youthful 1990s: fuzzy guitars strummed with earthy ease and shimmery minor-key interludes.

The Olympia band clearly comes from the same roots as Unwound and Team Dresch. A droning in “Orange Blossom Stains” sounds like a warning. The vocals drown in their own softness, like the lonely, glittering darkness of The Sundays or Mazzy Star. It’s music for a tripped out, Alice-in-Wonderland evening smoking the hookah with the caterpillar. But I don’t mean to imply childlike fragility. Broken Water is rockful and warped and heavy, with driving, cacophonic intros. If you like early Nirvana, you’ll love the way this album stirs itself

into a consuming frenzy that will either make you dance or make you feel like you’re caught in that jar, happily drugged by the mesmerizing sound of buzzing. (Erika Fredrickson) Broken Water plays Total Fest Fri., Aug. 17, at the Badlander/Palace.

Guantanamo Baywatch: Oh Rats!

For a band that started off by getting as drunk as possible during their first year of shows in 2008, Portland’s three-piece Guantanamo Baywatch is building a good reputation on tightly-crafted surf music, tinged with enough punk scunge to make it cool for the basement-show set.

Their release, Oh Rats!, available as a 7-inch and at bandcamp ( Jonnycat Records), serves as a great introduction to Guantanamo, though the initiated will just crave their full-length record, Chest Crawl.

The title track on Oh Rats! starts with a pensive bass line for a few seconds before the lead guitar noodles into classic ’60s reverb, kicking the song into Guantanamo’s trademark “California beach party

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dumped on by Oregon rain” sound. Next, “A Boy to Love” gets heavier with the heartache and more sugary with the pop, though I must admit I can’t really understand a damn thing guitarist/vocalist Jason Powell is singing.

The band’s records can make for a good soundtrack to lying on the bedroom floor feeling heartbroken yet groovy, but after having the privilege to see them this spring in a packed Portland dive, I can attest Guantanamo Baywatch is nothing but a fierce dance party live. I’m already practicing my shimmies and shakes. (Kate Whittle) Guantanamo Baywatch plays Total Fest Fri., Aug. 17, at Zoo City Apparel.

Dikes of Holland: Braindead USA As any fan of ODB will tell you, the music you like best on the stereo does not always make the best show. Choosing which bands you want to see live— if, for example, you find yourself attending some sort of “total” festival—you should consider that certain types of music are more fun to jump around and yell at than others. Dikes of Holland play a familiar microgenre of rock created almost entirely by the Stooges: garage. They play it well, with an intensity that will shake you around and sore your neck and make your festival highlight list later.

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(Dan Brooks) Dikes of Holland plays Total Fest Fri., Aug. 17, at Zoo City Apparel.

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Kate Eldridge doesn’t sound like a wilting flower, but her tough vocals have a vulnerability that make me think she’d be the heroine in a John Hughes film. Her Seattle band, Big Eyes, is catchy power pop punk, but not the manufactured kind. It’s rowdy and catchy in a Ramones-esque way. It’s the soundtrack to rebellion and also to heartache. On the new 7-inch from Grave Mistakes Records, the trio offers two impetuous tunes that celebrate the angst of living and loving. “Back From

the Moon” where Eldridge sings, “Fly back from the moon!/I hope you get here soon” feels like it’s in flight, soaring on shiny chords and fist-pumping sentiments.

“I Don’t Care About Friday Night” starts out as a fast, pouty lovesick anthem, but it’s so much fun that by midsong you don’t care about Friday night either. You just want to party with Big Eyes. (Erika Fredrickson) Big Eyes plays Total Fest Thu., Aug. 16, at Zoo City Apparel.

[books]

Foodie force Blood, Bones and Butter is a full-on ride

by Michael Peck

while attending creative writing classes, first at New York University and then on to Hampshire College and the University of Michigan, Hamilton is never far from a kitchen, picking up insanely challenging gigs at catering services that would lead to cooking for a summer camp in Massachusetts. Her voice is intermittently mean-spirited, snarky, proud and modest, sad, ebullient, rueful and moody. And that’s just a sampling of a few pages. From a vivid remembrance of her parents’ lavish lamb-roasting extravaganzas, through the frustrations of memorizing arcane lit-crit babble and on to raising two children, her perspective is always cathartic and expeditious.

This is a memoir of luminous self-discovery. Hamilton deconstructs her years of identity crises, leading to an obligatory trek through Europe uncovering exotic foods, and culminating with her return to America and her decision to open her own restaurant. The decision inevitably provokes a new set of problems: the 18hour days, the weltering heat, her marriage to a disengaged Gabrielle Hamilton will read from Blood, Bones and Butter at Italian man, pregnancy and the Shakespeare & Co. next week, Sat., Aug. 25, at 1 PM. Free. under-acknowledged gender A small disclaimer: I’m not a food snob. Of the politics of the business. A to-do list of the author’s daily three or four dishes I can cobble together with some routines superbly summarizes the overwrought routines confidence, my omelets are a pinnacle, even if they of her entrepreneurship: normally resemble a sort of Dadaist collage. I don’t watch the Food Network, nor would I pick up anyGet w/AT and limit menu thing by Anthony Bourdain or other chefs whose Train CR on a 2-man line names I wouldn’t recognize. And so I came reluctantly Call Rhode for fill-in to Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones and Butter. A Have baby memoir about food and its demanding preparation, I Tell brunch crew vinaigrette too acidic thought this would be just another foodie tell-all lining Pick up white platters the Crate & Barrel bookshelves. It turns out to be far Change filters in hoods from it.

Figure out pomegranate syrup Founder and proprietor of Prune restaurant in New York, Hamilton has written a multifaceted memAll in all, Hamilton covers a lot of emotional oir that goes well beyond its anticipated subject, be- ground, and 95 percent of it is incredibly absorbing. ginning with her quirky, culinary childhood in Her personal relationships—with her girlfriend, her Pennsylvania in the 1970s. Soon after her parents’ di- husband, and her mother-in-law, who acts as a sort vorce, she finds herself on her own at the age of 13, of stand-in for Hamilton’s own family—often cast her committing petty acts of vandalism and scoring a local in an unlikable shade, but this only seems to magnify job as a busser, only to flee to New York and acquire a the authenticity of her story. Occasionally, tangents few waitressing gigs at dives and diners. dead-end her enlightening tone, but they are few and It’s around this point that Blood, Bones and brief. Otherwise, this book is a no-holds barred acButter becomes something riveting and entirely un- count of a dedicated chef and writer: sometimes put-downable. chatty, often funny and filled with exquisite rage and With tersely eloquent prose and a hankering for persistence. exploring her own desperation and anger, Hamilton excels at filling her story with extreme insight. Even arts@missoulanews.com

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Wonder world Beasts is a wildly imaginative tale

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Bursting onto the indie film scene with the same relentless ferocity as the maelstrom that ravages the movie’s tight-knit island community of Bathtub is Beasts of the Southern Wild—and it’s a force of nature that you can’t help but get swept up in. Tense, tragic and filled with a sense of wonder rarely found on a modern movie screen, Beasts leaves a lasting impression long after Dan Romer’s affecting score closes out the film and the curtain falls.

cluding its brave protagonist. The journey Hushpuppy must take is a difficult one, made even more challenging by the search for a long-lost mother, the increasing presence of ancient, tusk-adorned monsters called Aurochs and the prospect of facing the mortality of her gruff but well-meaning father. No small potatoes for a 6 year old. More than up to the task of portraying this pint-sized warrior-poet is 8year-old Quvenzhane Wallis, who was reportedly

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Before winning both the prestigious Caméra d’Or award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Beasts began life as a portion of a one-act play from director Benh Zeitlin and his writing partner, Lucy Alibar. Shot on 16-millimeter film by a small crew of Zeitlin collaborators who dubbed themselves “Court 13,” the film boasts some of the most striking imagery of any released so far this year. It reveals both the indignant cruelty of the natural world and the simple, symbiotic beauty inherent in the cycle of life and death. It deserves praise for its eye-popping cinematography alone. In fact, the creaky, water-damaged texture of Bathtub has far more depth and three-dimensionality to it than any computer-crafted blockbuster that requires gimmicky, 3-D enabling glasses.

The film chronicles the exploits of Hushpuppy, a young girl who lives with her father in a bayou collective off the coast of Louisiana. Impoverished and in perpetual danger of monsoons, the extended family that makes up Bathtub is cheery despite everything. Early on, Hushpuppy even remarks that Bathtub has “more holidays than any other place in the world.” Certainly, the seeming abundance of alcohol and seafood can’t hurt. The film effortlessly switches between depicting the gritty, somewhat frightening reality of life in Bathtub and the magical, wide-eyed astonishment that only the perspective of the resilient, imaginative Hushpuppy could bring to such a world.

Numerous characters in Beasts service the film’s tough-but-true, “this is how life works” mantra, in-

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chosen for the role after revealing a talent for reading, screaming and burping on command (skills that all come in handy throughout the course of the film, trust me).

While Wallis’s gentle, endearing narration and bold, earnest portrayal of Hushpuppy is the standout performance of the film, bakery-owner-turned-actor Dwight Henry also manages an impressive turn as the precocious tyke’s tortured father, Wink. Although he almost always appears with a beer in hand and initially comes across as cruel and taciturn, it soon becomes apparent that Wink’s tough love is a more than necessary evil in the damp, peril-filled swamp of the Bathtub. In many ways, the tumultuous but candid relationship between Hushpuppy and her father makes up the film’s brazen yet softly-beating heart. Several scenes featuring the two will leave a few squalls of their own, albeit the kind that usually manifest in tear ducts.

As far as noteworthy debut films go, Beasts is one for the books. The name Benh Zeitlin is one any cinefile worth their popcorn salt should be keeping an eye on. Moviegoers are promised a visually stunning and emotionally engaging experience despite a seemingly miniscule 92-minute run time. And “Best Actress” Oscar buzz for an 8 year old? Through the whimsical and inspiring lens of Hushpuppy, anything is possible.

Beasts of the Southern Wild continues at the Wilma Theatre. arts@missoulanews.com

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Circus crew go ape in motorized vehicles. Rated PG-13. Village 6.

THE EXPENDABLES 2 Who’s back for more? Dude, only the baddest mofos since Ronald Reagan and Captain Crunch. Only this time their luck isn’t so great.

One of their own is murdered and the boys find themselves praying to Xena for a way out of enemy territory. Starring Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, Van Damme and more. Rated R. Carmike 12 (Big D) and Pharaohplex.

SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED A peculiar classified ad inspires three sardonic Jet City reporters to meet up with the eccentric who placed it. Perhaps the three may learn a little sumpin’-sumpin’ from the aforementioned weirdo? Perhaps about time travel? Belief systems? Or love?! It must be love! Please let it be love! Rated R. Wilma.

THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN A childless couple does what all childless couples do: bury a box of hopes and dreams in the backyard. Wouldn’t you know it, a child appears, and likely teaches the world a thing or two about hopes and dreams. Starring Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton. Rated PG. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

PARANORMAN Norman, a real derelict kid who can speak to ghouls and ghosts, takes on the worst of the netherworld in order to save his town from certain ruin in this animated film. Starring the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

SPARKLE Back in the ‘60s, when times were simpler, three sisters formed a girl group and became Motown sensations. Here’s to hoping fame and “Incense and Peppermints” don’t tear them asunder. Starring Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo and the late, great Whitney Houston. Rated PG13. Carmike 12.

NOW PLAYING BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD In this wonderwall of fantasy that takes place in a sequestered piece of bayou country, a child lives in a crumbling world of pathetic fallacy, which she believes she must resuscitate

More cowbell. The Odd Life of Timothy Green opens Friday at the Carmike 12.

in order to save her dying father. Rated PG-13.

Wilma.

THE BOURNE LEGACY Due to a scheduling conflict, Jason Bourne wasn’t available for this film. Starring Jeremy Renner.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and the Pharaohplex.

BRAVE A princess gets the whole fruitin’ kingdom in an uproar and finds herself rolling with a witch before she can make it all right again. Starring every Scottish actor except Sean Connery, including Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson and Kelly Macdonald. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

THE CAMPAIGN Will Ferrell plays his George W. character and Zach Galifianakis plays a dimwit when they battle each other for a seat in the North Carolina House of Reps. This probably looked real funny on paper. In 2003. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and the Entertainer.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES The fairly reluctant hero and caped crusader of Gotham City returns to do what the police cannot: stop terrorists from destroying the world, in a mere 164 minutes. His nemesis? Bane, a dude with a face mask that would make Hannibal Lector squee. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS Schools out, now what? Our hero gets a job at the local country club. Here’s to hoping there aren’t any perennially embarrassing social miscues involving Baby Ruths in the pool, right Spalding? Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6.

HOPE SPRINGS Baby Boomers, Hollywood finally made a film just for you! One a little close to the ol’ maple syrup bucket. See, this couple, one that has been married for 30 years, needs to start being sweet on each other again. Queue the Viagra gags. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT In the fourth installment of this kid-friendly money-making monolith of “jokes that adults get, too” the crew finds itself untethered from land and having adventures as they float aimlessly upon the ocean, all the while secretly dispatching left-wing notions about climate change. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6.

TED Mark Wahlberg’s childhood wish comes true and his teddy bears turns into “Family Guy”’s Peter Griffin, and his only true pal...until a woman comes along and tries to separate the man from his foul-mouthed friend. Rated R. Carmike 12.

TOTAL RECALL You may recall the plot of this remake: A man has had pleasant memories planted in his subconscious by an evil corporation which later hunts the man down. Most likely, however, you recall that there is a woman in this film with three breasts. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times, please contact the theaters’ telephonically or via their websites in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6: 5417469. Wilma: 728-252. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 961-FILM. Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan: 883-5603.

MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson directs this story of young love and follows two 12-year-olds on an adventure after they run away from home. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

NITRO CIRCUS: THE MOVIE More extreme then Dan Cortese chugging Mountain Dew in a hot pink bandana, the Nitro

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When Steve Cooksey was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, a registered dietician advised him to eat a lowfat, high-carbohydrate diet. Rather than follow that advice blindly, Cooksey read the available scientific literature and decided to do roughly the opposite of what he’d been advised. He proceeded to lose 78 pounds on a high-fat, low-carb diet that was nearly absent of processed foods. Cooksey’s blood-sugar level dropped into the normal range, and he was cleared by his doctor to stop taking insulin. Three years later, Cooksey remains slim and healthy, but now finds himself with a different sort of diet problem, thanks to a letter he received from the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. It accused him of practicing nutrition counseling without a license, and threatened to charge him with crimes that could result in jail time if he refused to make changes to his blog, diabetes-warrior.net.

The legal basis for the letter is a North Carolina law known as the Dietetics/Nutrition Act. It’s one of 47 state laws that criminalize the giving, by “unlicensed persons,” of nutritional advice regarding a medical condition. Such laws are in place largely due to lobbying efforts by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the professional organization that represents the nation’s registered dietitians.

The North Carolina law claims its purpose is “to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare and to protect the public from being harmed by unqualified persons by providing for the licensure and regulation of persons engaged in the practice of dietetics/nutrition.”

But internal memos recently leaked to Forbes via AND members concerned with the direction of the organization paint a different picture of its purpose: “Registered Dietitians (RDs) and Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTRs) face a significant competitive threat in the provision of various dietetic and nutrition services.”

The document goes on to explain that laws like North Carolina’s can be enforced only if somebody files a complaint against a violator, and encourages RDs to file complaints against unlicensed persons practicing nutrition counseling.

According to Judy Stone of the Michigan Nutrition Association, the Michigan Board of Dietetics and Nutrition used a similar tactic in 2006 to “prove” to legislators the need for a licensing law to protect the public. It ran a contest in its newsletter to encourage submissions by Michigan RDs of undocumented anecdotes of harm caused by non-RDs. “People have to choose what they eat every day, many times a day,” Stone told me by phone. “Nutrition knowledge has traditionally been handed down by family, and healers in the community. If a husband says to his wife, ‘Hey, I think that granola is bad for your blood sugar,’ he is giving nutrition advice about a medical condition. Where do we draw the line?”

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In addition to protecting the interests of its registered members, AND is also beholden to corporate sponsors like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars, Hershey’s, General Mills and other makers of the kind of processed foods that Cooksey, and many others, have recovered from illness by quitting. This relationship between food processors and AND sets up a conflict of interest that hinders AND’s ability to protect the public health, Stone told me.

She recalled a recent collaboration between Hershey’s and AND, in which “Hershey’s paid RDs to set up and speak at house parties, during which guests would be taught how to use Hershey’s products as part of a ‘healthy diet.’” Samples of s’mores, product coupons and recipes were given out.

It would be a mistake to assume that all RDs toe the party line handed down by AND. There are many outspoken critics of the organization’s recommendations who wish to keep their differing opinions on the down-low, for fear of retribution from AND, or because they are trying to work for change discretely from within. The latter strategy is the preference of the registered dietitian who told me via email that “corn-dogs and doughnuts” were part of her training in the early ’70s. She noticed things going off the rails in 1994, at the annual symposium for the American Dietetics Association. The National Council Against Health Fraud gave the keynote presentation. “Instead of any lecturing, they used the stage for many skits, complete with sets and costumes. They play-acted patients going to a chiropractor, acupuncturist and other ‘quack’ professionals and created scenes that made all alternative practitioners into money-greedy, uneducated, and dangerous charlatans. Their skits were pure mockery,” said the anonymous dietitian. “And we received continuing education credit for this!”

Fast forward to 2011, when Food Safety News reported that AND’s annual event included a presentation that downplayed the dangers of pesticides on food. It’s possible that the pesticide industry is behind this pro-pesticide agenda, but AND has been cagey about revealing all sources of its funding despite pressure from Sen. Chuck Grassley.

It seems that AND is engaging in a turf war over the right to give nutritional advice, while selling the content of that advice to the highest bidder, all in the name of protecting the public health. In other words: It’s a racket. But while pursuing these tactics, AND is beginning to find itself on the defensive. In Michigan, laws that would deregulate dietetics and nutrition and dissolve the licensing board are sitting on the governor’s desk. Meanwhile, Steve Cooksey has filed a lawsuit against North Carolina’s Board of Dietetics/Nutrition, claiming the order to change his blog is an infringement of his right to free speech.

[dish] Alcan Bar and Grill 16780 Beckwith St. Frenchtown 626-9930 Tantalize your taste buds with Angus beef burgers, chicken strips, shrimp, and biscuits and gravy from Alcan Bar & Grill. With more than 20 years of experience and 10 years in the business, we have been offering fresh meals and beverages at the area's most competitive prices. Our friendly professionals offer personalized service and make sure you leave our restaurant as one of our friends. We offer have a variety of specials for ladies night and sports events featuring drink specials and free food. Contact us today and enjoy our incredible menu selection. 9 am – 2 am MonSun.

Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$

Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) 728-8900 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.

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eMpanadas @ the Clark Fork River Market Under the Higgins St. Bridge www.empanadalady.com 728-2030 Hechas a mano con amor...¡Qué sabor! Made by hand with love…what flavor! Carne de búfalo, pollo, lamb, salchicha, humita, acelga & more. Since 2005, Missoula’s original Argentine-style empanadas are crafted from premium, homegrown ingredients and delivered by bicycle, straight from the oven to the market, every Saturday 8am – 1pm. Taste the difference.

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Bernice’s Bakery is a Missoula Landmark.

34 years of baking goodness. Open 6a – 8p Bernice’s offers an incredible selection of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, breads and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you’ve never been in you are missin’ out. And if you haven’t been in lately you really should make it a point to stop by. August is a great month for slow walks along the Clark Fork while you sip Bernice’s iced coffee or Mountain Huckleberry iced tea and nibble on a coconut macaroon.

Picnic? Bernice’s is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice’s: made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. Xoxo Bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. 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. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your

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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.

taste buds! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St 9262038 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. 11am-9pm Tuesday-Sunday.

Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 41-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Spring is here! It's the perfect time of year to enjoy our newly expanded patio! Happy Hour from 4-7pm every day! We now have a huge selection of bottled India Pale Ales. Tuesday Music Showcase from 7-10 pm. Thursday is Trivia Night. $6 Bud Light Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday 7-10pm. Win your bar tab! 1st place gets $50 tab, 2nd gets $30 tab, & 3rd gets $20 tab. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

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It’s Bayern’s 25 birthday and we’re celebrating at the brewery’s Montana Street taproom. It’s especially festive on this warm afternoon as we sip Bayern’s new Kaiser Pilsener Lager. It’s a limited release hybrid brew that Bayern owner Jürgen Knöller rolled out especially to mark the occasion.

“Jürgen decided he wanted to do something special,” says Bayern brewer Justin Lee. The birthday brew is actually a new kind of beer, an Imperial Pilsener Lager or “IPL.” It’s hoppy and light, perfect for summer drinking on Bayern’s sunny patio. Bayern used three types of hops, including a hefty amount of German Hallertauer Magnum, which gives it a slightly bitter taste. “There’s a lot of people that are into hoppy beers these days,” Lee says.

Kaiser Pilsener Lager is available at Bayern.

The brewery is also rolling out 1,000 cases as part of a limited release. It will be sold in sixpacks at local stores such as Worden’s Market, Pattee Creek Market, Good Food Store and Orange Street Food Farm. Local artist Monte Dolack created the artwork for the label, which depicts Bayern’s many beers floating above a Montana mountain range.

Since Bayern tapped the Pilsener during its Aug. 4 birthday celebration, the brew has quickly become a favorite among local beer connois-

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 $-$$ $$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

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seurs. That means if you’re looking to get some, you should do it soon, Lee says. “The most important thing to let people know is it’s limited.”

—Jessica Mayrer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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, MondayFriday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates.

Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. 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 MonSat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your fa-

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Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.

Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

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Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 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 Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week.

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Who loves ya baby? Great American Taxi performs every kind of americana there is at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., on Fri., Aug. 17, at 10 PM, with Whitewater Ramble. $12/$10 advance.

THURSDAYAUG16 Total Fest XI gets its kicks with hot licks and badass chicks when it gets the party started tonight with shows at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., from 5 to 9 PM and the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., from 8 PM to 1 AM. Three-day pass $50/$45 adv. Thu. pass $15. Zip over to totalfest.org for full line-ups.

The Moving Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial visits Missoula through Sun., Aug. 19, and can be seen near the Van Buren Street footbridge. The wall is a one-half scale replica of the Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. The visit is sponsored by American Legion Forgotten Warriors Post #101. Free.

Borg! Time for pannkaka bomber at the Swedish Pancake Supper over at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., with bingo to boot. 4 PM, bingo at 6 PM.

nightlife Bring your belly to the 11th Annual Farm Party Celebrating Local Food and Community, with num-nums galore such as burgers and the dee-lish Tom Catmull and the Clerics and Mudslide Charley. PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Dr. 5:30 PM. $20/$10 kids.

Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and the MSO Hub. Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Down-

town ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from 5:30-8:30 PM. This week’s tunes by Joan Zen. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

John Adam Smith is three letters away from being our next president. See him play Draught Works Brewery in the meantime, at 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

Kevin Van Dort is giving out Dutch rubs and playing you-name-it when he hits the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Sat, August 18th Cocktails 5 Pm, Dinner 6PM • Dinner $15/Person (Kids under 10 FREE)

Traditional Hawaiian Dinner Get on your Hawaiian Gear!

Hawaiian Music, Full Bar & More!

Proceeds go to St. Peter's Foundation (non-porofit) Cancer Treatment Center For Patient Care

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Desperados. The Werner Chamber Ensemble performs at the St. Timothy Summer Music Festival at Georgetown Lake, on Sun., Aug. 19, at 4 PM. $15/$10 students. Visit sttimothymusic.org.

Community Conversations on Death and Dying, sponsored by Hospice of Missoula, gathers each month at the Loft of Missoula from 6 to 9 PM and features a variety of guest speakers. 119 W. Main. Visit hospiceofmissoula.com.

Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Maggie Vee & Soul Pattern Project get their “indie-alt-folk” on at the Glacier Brewing Co., 6 10th Ave. E in Polson. 6 pm. Free.

Author Jessie Knadler can’t spit rhymes like Imperial but she can spin a yarn. She reads from her book Rurally Screwed at Fact & Fiction, 225 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.

Unfortunately for them, the Idaho Falls Chukars are a minorleague affiliate of the Kansas City Royals; fortunately for us, they’re in town to battle the Missoula Osprey, at 7:05 PM for four nights (5:05 PM on Sunday). Call 543-3300.

Movies Go Musical is MCT’s yearly production featuring hundreds of teenagers and plenty of Axe body spray (maybe...hopefully?). MCT Center for the Perform-

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ing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $12-$15.

Karaoke Battle USA at the Silver Coin in Hamilton is a war of attrition, in which folks with pipes seek to destroy one another’s versions of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in a bid to attend the national championships. 9 PM–1:30 AM. $10 registration fee.

Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Finn Thomas Helgerson, is for all you fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, so grab your usually useless knowledge and head down. 143 W. Broadway St. 9 PM. Free.

Spring to life with a night of drum ‘n’ bass for Bocks Elders Session with locals Bocks Elder, MAD, Iam Musian and Asyn9 at the Palace at 9 PM. Free DJ Bionic can rebuild your dance moves with his well-spun beats at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 10 PM. Free.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is where you can get sweaty with all the beautiful people and a place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, show the naysayers that

your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking. 9 PM. Free. Call 5421471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

Party Trained is all our arts editor and my gardener talk about, especially after all-you-can-eat hotcakes.

Go hear why when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

The Hard Arnold Palmers bring the hooch, you bring the tea. Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free.

FRIDAYAUG17 Great American Taxi, aka the band with the guitarist from Leftover Salmon, visits familiar territory with a night at the Top Hat. You know, if they’re so familiar we should refer to him by name: Vince Herman. Also featuring Whitewater Ramble. 9 PM. $12/$10 adv.

Marcusfest 2012 raises money for local cancer patients and boasts live music by The Chris Hiatt Experience, Mick Hart Band, Blue Collar and many more, as well as silent auctions, BBQ, pizza and parlor game tourneys, at Boomers Pub, 2021 Brooks Ave. 4 PM to close.

Free or donate, el cheap-o!

Drummers of all abilities and ages are welcome at the Montana Outdoor Rhythm Camp given by the Drum Brothers. The camp takes place at the Montanagua Sanctuary near Kalispell over the weekend. $172-$405. Visit drumbrothers.com.

nightlife David Boone pays the bills while you make with the wine at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 5–9 PM. Free.

Movies Go Musical is MCT’s yearly production featuring hundreds of teenagers and plenty of Axe body spray (maybe...hopefully?). MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams. 5 and 8 PM. $12-$15.

Total Fest XI gets its kicks with hot licks and bad ass chicks when it gets the party started tonight with shows at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., from 5 to 9 PM and the Palace/Badlander, from 8 PM to 1 AM. Three-day pass $50/$45 adv. Fri. pass $20.

Zip over to totalfest.org for full line-ups.

Family Friendly Friday with Erin and The Project at the Top Hat is a great place to meet upwardly mobile singles with children. Borrow your brother’s kids if you have to.

134 W. Front. 6–8 PM. Free.

[calendar] Jim Wallace and Pete Hand keep The Keep keepin’ on (apologies). 102 Ben Hogan Dr. 7– 10 PM. Free.

The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula, 546 South Ave., at 7:30 PM. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info.

Dan Dubuque does what he do and entertains you at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

New Belgium Brewing’s Clip of Faith rolls into town to share their beer and films. The free event raises money for the Missoula Bike/Walk Alliance via beer sales and MUD cleans up your mess! Caras Park. 8 PM. 12 oz. samples $5/3oz. $1.25. Visit clipsoffaith.com. (See Agenda) Maggie Vee & Soul Pattern Project bring their chill scene and a selection of tuneage to the Missoula Winery, my homies. 5646 Harrier Way. 8 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Pick of the week if you’re the arts editor: Party Trained performs music at the Eagles Lodge. 2021 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset and the Revelators offers up plenty of music for you and your Russian professor’s wife to swing to all night long. Union Club.

9 PM. Free.

The Hard Arnold Palmers bring the hooch, you bring the tea. Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free.

DJ Siniztor aka Aldo (aka you DJs are really pushing it with these names) makes the music go boom at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 10 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free.

Call 728-8799.

SATURDAYAUG18 Get out your Smurf suit for the Blue Beam Foam Party, with DJ LRock, karaoke comps and all sorts of cheap drinks and eats.

Where? At the Deanos parking lot, 5336 Harrier Way. $5.

Smoke up, Johnny, and sniff the sweet scent of pork gesticulating in its own juices at the twoday Stumptown BBQ Smoke Off at Depot Park in Whitefish. This event is a pro/am contest with $8,000 in prizes. Bands, cherry pie and vendors, too. 510 Railway St. stumptownbbqsmokeoff.com.

Western Montana’s farmers’ markets are chock-full of the beau-

tiful people, fresh-baked yummies and gorgeous veggies. In Missoula, at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville, on Main Street; and in Hamilton, at South Third and Bedford Streets. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes down between 8 AM and 1 PM. Mobash Skateboard Mentors are on hand at the skate park each Saturday to guide the kids who are possessed to skate and make sure they wear helmets and listen to the first three Suicidal Tendencies albums. 9–11 AM. Free. Call 721PARK for more info.

The Milltown Bridge Market serves up fresh greens, baked good and wares, all while suspended high above the beautiful Blackfoot River. Park across from Town Pump mega-station. 10 AM– 2 PM. Free.

Promote responsible pet ownership and watch a wiener dog race emceed by Mayor Engen at Pet Fest. Bring along your well-behaved pets or adopt one on site at Caras Park. 10–3 PM, with the wiener dog race starting at 2 PM. Free. Visit petfest.net.

Ginnie Lo and Beth Lo sign their delicious-sounding book, Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins. 10:30–1 PM. Free.

The Hot Springs Farmers’ Market busts out the dee-lish grub for all you all from 11 AM to 3 PM, with tunes come 4 PM at the Aftermarket Music & Arts Series.

Bring that special pal to the ZACC for BOGO Pottery Saturday, where you can paint mugs and the like and get a discount on your second one plus maybe a smooch from that special barista. 235 N. 1st St. Noon–6 PM. Prices vary.

nightlife Country and Western entertainer Jay Barber performs at Ekstrom’s Restaurant out on Rock Creek way, 81 Rock Creek Road, to be more precise. 5–9 PM. Free.

Say aloha to the ordinary at the Hotel Lincoln’s 2nd Annual Memorial Hawaiian Luau, which includes roast pig, pineapple rice and more, more. Remember, never shake hands with your poi side. Proceeds benefit the St. Peter’s Hospital Foundation Cancer Treatment Center. 101 Sleepy Hollow Ln., Lincoln. $15/10 and under free. Call 362-4822.

Stephen Jackman performs for birds and they cry. Simply amazing. Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 5–9 PM. Free.

Total Fest XI gets its kicks with hot licks and bad ass chicks when it gets the party started tonight with shows at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., from 5 to 9 PM and the Palace/Badlander, from 8 PM to 1 AM. Three-day pass $50/$45 adv.

Sat. pass $20. Zip over to totalfest.org for full line-ups.

Off in the Woods is not a hardcore band performing out-ofdoors, but they are some cutie-cats doing right at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole. 5–8 PM. Free.

Mudslide Charley do his nasty bit of blues down at the Blacksmith Brewing Company on Main Street in Stevensville. 6 PM. Free.

Tapas plays a world of jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

George Harrison’s old country outfit, The Dark Horse Band, performs at the Lumberjack Saloon up Hwy. 12 west of Lolo. 9 PM. Free.

More events online: missoulanews.com Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo bring the kind beats and gnar-gnar kind-grind bro, brah, bree during a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Julie Bug and Northern Lights light up your snug little life with tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent. 9:30 PM. Free.

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

Headphone Steve and Saturns Rings do break-beat and electro tunes at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 10 PM. Free.

SUNDAYAUG19 Susan Gibson, she of the “Wide Open Spaces,” performs at the Missoula Winery, with Tom Catmull. 5646 Harrier Way. 8 PM. $12/$10 adv. at the winery.

The Carousel Sunday Market & Festival is the finest Sunday stroll in town. Take a spin on the carousel and sniff out some up local veggies, crafts and all sort of yummikins.

Every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM at the New Park parking lot near A Carousel for Missoula. Visit carrousel.com/acfm/carousel-sundaymarket-and-events.

Purchase tickets for $8.00 at sponsor locations Ravalli Republic and Massa Home Center in Hamilton the Missoulian in Missoula Tickets may be purchased at any Tour Home for $10.00

Friday & Saturday 10am — 8pm Sunday 10am — 6pm

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[calendar] The Montana Fiddlers fiddle around like nobody’s business. One caveat: Don’t you dare ask them to play “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” unless you like rosin in your eye. Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent. 1 PM. Free.

The fatal fourway that is the Werner Chamber Ensemble performs its brand of sibling-powered chamber music during the St. Timothy Summer Music Festival at Georgetown Lake. 4 PM. $15/$10 students. Visit sttimothymusic.org.

Get your “Portlandia” on and Put a Bird On It! at the ZACC’s printmaking class. Learn how to make bird stencils that can be mounted to any old thing. Suggestion: Put a bird on a cat wearing headphones. 235 N. 1st. 4–6 PM. $20/Free for members. Visit zootownarts.org.

Clark, Julia & Ann make a toothsome threesome when they play Draught Works Brewing, 915 Toole. 4–7 PM. Free.

nightlife Slide into some slacks and slip on down to the American Legion Hall for Sunday Dance Parties with the Five Valleys Dance Club.

Lesson at 5 PM, DJ from 6 to 9 PM. 825 Ronan St. $7/$12 per couple.

Visit fivevalleysdanceclub.com.

The Alpine Theatre Project waits until the hot days of August to spice things up with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the story of a rock band fronted by an East German transgender singer. It’s all steeped in the androgynous 1970s David Bowie era, and the story is both gleefully trashy and sweetly moving. Catch it at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St., at 6 PM. $18– $39 at alpinetheatreproject.com.

Nibble on a variety of world jazzy jamz with Tapas at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front. 7 PM. Free.

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 & DJs.

Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

MONDAYAUG20 Slide guitar and charango? Dan Dubuque must be in the house at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins. 7–10 PM. Free.

The High Country Carvers welcome carvers of all abilities to their meetings, which take place at the Evergreen Fire Dept. No power tools, but you need gloves and a bench hook. 2236 Hwy. 2. 2–4 PM. Those looking for mother-tomother breast feeding support can find it when the La Leche League meets every first Mon. of the month at 10 AM at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth St. W., and on the third Mon. of the month at 6 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Children and babies are always welcome.

rural highness In her first book-length memoir, Rurally Screwed, Montana native Jessie Knadler shares her life as a newly minted country gal after years of living in New York City and writing for women’s magazines. Fish out of water tales are one of our great loves, whether it be TV, film or books. Think Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America (or Trading Places for that matter) or Steve Martin’s greatest film, The Jerk. The beauty of this sort of plot lies in its ability to instantly create tension, thus readers and viewers alike have a character to root for or against.

Knadler’s memoir combines romance with

Women’s New Moon Meditation at the Empowerment Institute teaches ladies how to strengthen the female energy system. 725 W. Alder #4. 6–8 PM. $15.

Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $10 buy-in.

Meow, Milkcrate Monday’s presents Random Music for Random Kitties, a night of electronical tuneage with DJs Osiris, Tigerlily and the Milkcrate Mechanic.

Badlander. 9 PM. Free, with $5 pitchers of PBR. Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

Come by and do that funk-a-doo.

10:30 PM. Free. Call Phil at 2240816 to sign-up.

TUESDAYAUG21 Toby Thompson reads from his chronicle of our ‘hood, Riding the Rough String: Reflections on the American West, down at ol’ Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon– 1 PM. Free.

WHEN: Thu., Aug. 16, at 7 PM

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

WHERE: Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. HOW MUCH: Free

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Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

If you’re grieving the loss of a pet, take comfort at the Pet Bereavement Group, which meets the third Tue. of each month at 21st Century Homeopathy, 813 1st St. in Hamilton, at 6:30 PM. Call 370-0699.

WHAT: Jessie Knadler reads from her book Rurally Screwed

this classic plot structure to create something more than “Chick Lit.” In her review of the book for the Indy, Sarah Aswell suggests that Knadler’s book is part of a new subgenre, “Sex in the City, Out of the City.”

That’s not a bad thing. It creates immediacy and concern for readers, not to mention bringing up questions about how the heroine can meet the demands of rural life, something both city and country folks alike can find interesting, endearing, annoying or frustrating.

As with all stories rural or western, the theme of authenticity arises. Knadler questions her relationship with her husband, her choices and herself. Fish out of water

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Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. 3rd St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Missoula Aging Services offers a Caregiver Support Group. 337 Stephens. 4–5 PM. Free. memoirs naturally lead to epiphanies and catharsis for the heroine and reader alike. That’s what makes them so frightening to write and so intriguing to read.

–Jason McMackin

nightlife You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something

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Rainy day weekend. The garage-rocking Naomi Punk performs at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., on Tue., Aug. 21, at 10 PM, with locals Boys and Skin Flowers. $5.

about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s beginner/ intermediate hip-hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com The Pickin’ Circle at the Top Hat would prefer stringed instruments over nostrils, but who’s to judge? 6– 9 PM. Free.

YWCA Support Groups for women take place every Tue. from 6:30 to 8 PM. An American Indianled talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-6691.

The Musician Showcase features some good players and fine times, at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn Downtown, 200 S. Pattee St. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. Free.

Unity Dance and Drum’s African Dance Class at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins St, requests newbies and vets of all ages to join up or drop in anytime for an evening of live music and dancing. 7–8:30 PM. $10 per class or $35 for four. For more info., call 549-7933 or email tarn.ream@umontana.edu.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: Who is the biggest selling girl group of all-time?

(See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

ZACC’s weekly one-hour poetry workshop says don’t just express yourself, be expressive. 235 N. First St. 8 PM. Free.

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa J, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

The Badlander’s Live and Local Night is a great place to get sick with it, straight gangsta mack, when local TBA musicians toot horns and make music. 9 PM. Free.

Seattle’s Naomi Punk pops and locks into a garage rock pickle barrel, with locals Boys and Skin Flowers at the VFW, 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $5.

Come down the mountain for Zootown Throwdown with Javier Ryan and tell ‘em Perry Farrel sent ya. Top Hat, 134 W. Front. 10 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAYAUG22 Make a move to the left and shake off the right during Progressive at the Palace, a night of house, progressive house and more electronical tunes by TBA DJs. Progressive PBR drink specials, too. 9 PM. Free.

Kettlehouse Community U-Nite Pint Night for the Missoula Youth Athletic Council requires

no jockstraps, but bring one just in case. Northside Kettle House, 313 N. 1st. 5–8 PM. Everybody into the pewl, it’s time for Pool Party at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front. 10 PM. $5.

Num-nums and various vittles are the order of the day at Missoula’s Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM to 2 PM. This week’s tunage provided by Three Eared Dog. Free.

Visit missouladowntown.com The Arlee Community Development Corporation’s Jocko Valley Farmers’ Market helps you fill up on your neighbors’ num-nums. Music this week

by Rennie Frank. Uptown Arlee.

4–7 PM.

nightlife Kids’ Hip-Hop (for ages 7–10 years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective requires no dance experience and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com Jean and Friends play their accordions during the Missoula Senior Center’s Potluck Supper. 705 S. Higgins. 5:30 PM. Chekhov of the suburbs John Schiever performs tunes at Stevi’s Blacksmith Brewing Co., at 6 PM. Free.

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Get filled up on B12 and iron at Hamilton’s Wednesday Evening Farmers’ Market on Bedford St. 6–8 PM. Kraptastic Karaoke welcomes Black Eyed Peas fanatics to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

THURSDAYAUG23 Dynamic duo Tom Catmull and John Sporman might perform many of Loverboy’s deep cuts at late night jamborees, but perhaps not this evening when they play the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

Protect your egg, y’all, by wearing a darned helmet. Don’t have one? Then “head” to the helmet sale at the Old Western Montana Clinic Building. Bike, board, ski and horsey helmets range from $8–$23.

Smokin’ deals. 515 W. Front St. Noon– 3 PM.

nightlife Meet up with the crew and do that voodoo that you do so well at Downtown ToNight, a weekly food fete at Missoula’s Caras Park from 5:30-8:30 PM. Tunes by Montana bands and plenty of pretty people to gander upon. Free. Visit missoualdowntown.com.

Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

David Boone brings his talents and a secret love of Fudgsicles® to Florence’s Caffé Firenze, 281 Rodeo Dr. 6–8 PM. Free.

Kick it old skool, like pre-electricity old, with the Steel Toe Floes when they perform old-timey numbers at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole. 6–8 PM. Free. Pub trivia answer: The Spice Girls, with 75 million albums sold worldwide. Zig-uhzag-ahh!

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is where you can get sweaty with all the beautiful people and a place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent).

Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Finn Thomas Helgerson, is for all you fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, so grab your usually useless knowledge and head down. 143 W. Broadway St. 9 PM. Free.

Karaoke Battle USA at the Silver Coin in Hamilton is a war of attrition, in which folks

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with pipes seek to destroy one another’s versions of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in a bid to attend the national championships. 9 PM– 1:30 AM. $10 registration fee.

Party Trained is all our arts editor and my gardener talk about, especially after all-youcan-eat hotcakes. Go hear why when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset done gone and cured ya of your tremors with a sweet shot of country hits up at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thurs. at 10 PM. Free.

The Final Week of the Total Fest VFW Residency brings ear hole pleasure to your sonic antennae via cute-as-a-button locals I Hate Your Girlfriend, James Rabbit and, bummeringly, Cat Heaven in their final appearance. Bring those nice boys some hugs and Diet-Rite. VFW, 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $3.

The meteor showers are petering out and school is upon us. Summer is about to end.

The good news? Fall is coming, and fall is the

best! Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 17 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online.

Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH

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y normally articulate wife said this out loud last weekend: "I really Digglered myself good that time." Before visions of Mark Wahlberg’s false phallus in Boogie Nights comes to mind, an explanation is in order. The Diggler is a mountain scooter available for rent at Montana Snowbowl. Most anyone with a modicum of cycling experience can handle one. All you need to do is stand atop the scooter as you cruise through the woods kicking up dust and taking in nature on gravel roads ranging in distance from five to eight miles. That said, there is single-track too, but only for the truly skilled. Instead, stick to the roads, pick some huckleberries, have a beer at the lodge, head

back up, take in the views and repeat. A caveat: if you run close to 300 pounds be sure and ask your friendly lift-operator for the model with disc brakes, otherwise you will most definitely Diggler yourself good, too.

—Jason McMackin Digglers are available to rent at Snowbowl Fri., Sat. and Sun. from noon to 5 PM through Sun., Sep. 9. Cost is $27 all day or $17 for a 90-minute trial run (includes lift ticket). Some loaner helmets are available, but it's a good idea to bring your own. Visit montanasnowbowl.com or digglerstore.com.

Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY AUGUST 16 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for summertime learning and such. The Montana Natural History Center has moved it to the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens, where bugs, dirt and explorations abound. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Get hip to local flora and fauna at the Montana Master Naturalist Class held at the Montana Natural History Center. 120 Hickory St. The class is Tue. and Thu. evenings from 4 to 7 PM throught Oct. 6. $395. College credit is available.

To register call 327-0405.

Lightweight Backpacking Basics at REI might have you leaving that cast iron pan behind, but then what will you do for a hat? 3275 N. Reserve St. 6:30 PM. Free.

FRIDAY AUGUST 17 The Rocky Mountaineers are at it again with their 8th Annual Glacier Classic, a weekend of hiking, climbing and hangin’ out up at Glacier’s Bowman Lake Campground. For a really, really full schedule contact Forest at 240-7612.

hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

SATURDAY AUGUST 18 The 2nd Annual Rockin’ Race For AIDS Awareness is a 5K and 10K fun fest, with live music along the course, water features, costumes and “unexpected events.” Starts at the XXXXs downtown at 8:30 AM. To register go to openaidalliance.org.

Big Hole Battlefield Summer Speaker Series with Nancy Fonicello is bound to tickle any and all crafty folks as she demonstrates the many techniques used by the Nez Perce in porcupine quill work, as well as hide tanning and natural dye use at the Big Hole National Battlefield Visitor Center, east of Lost Trail Pass on Hwy. 43 17 miles. Noon and 3 PM. Free.

This week’s Wildlife Talk at Big Pine Fishing Access is An Inside Look at What Lives Outside with FWP Region 2 Wildlife Manager Mike Thompson. He plans to talk about the future of the area and give you all some for-real numbers to ponder. To Big Pine FAS: take Exit 66 on Interstate 90 and drive south on Fish Creek Road for 4.5 miles. 7 PM. Free.

The Wilderness Institute backpacking trip to Crystal Lake and Devil’s Chute Cave sounds like an ’80s horror film waiting to happen; alas, ‘tis not. Instead, you can help conduct research and see some rad stuff, not to mention have someone cook supper for you. Newbs welcome. Call 2435361.

The Salmon Lake State Park Summer Speakers Program Mountain Lions is a must-hear for any outdoorsperson, as there seems to be more and more of them bad kitties in the hills. Salmon Lake State Park, five miles south of Seeley Lake. 8 PM. Free.

Ladies, Girls on the Gorge is your one-stop shop for introductory kayaking lessons and good times in the water. Over the course of three days, the fine folks at Zoo Town Surfers teach all the tricks one needs to have a hoot and a toot in the water, from the Frenchtown Pond to the Alberton Gorge. $175. Visit zootownsurfers.com for a full schedule.

SUNDAY AUGUST 19

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5

Mullan Reserve combines the best of regional design and environmental sensitivity with amenities that promote an exceptional lifestyle.

The result is Missoula's most innovative and comfortable apartment community.

The 4th Annual Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup Community Potluck is more than food and fun; it’s got ol’ Chuck Bartlebaugh learning you how to live safely with bears, too. Bring food, good cheer and your best vest to the Ninemile Community Center. 4–7 PM. Free. For more info. visit ninemilewildlife.org.

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MONDAY AUGUST 20 At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to the Freestone Climbing Center, at 935 Toole Ave., to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

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With summer rapidly coming to a close (yes, rapidly), let’s quickly discuss one of the seasonal wonders of Missoula: pretty ladies on bikes. Before there is a hullabaloo, I’d like to say that there are undoubtedly cute boys on bikes as well, but let’s be real, fluttering dresses and bicycles are a much more elegant sight than Dickies shorts, black socks and hairy calves. However, I digress. Really, it’s great that a town our size is as bike-friendly as it is. Sure, there are jerks who drive and jerks who ride and jerks who are jerks whether they are riding or driving. All in all, though, with a little practice and knowledge, navigating Missoula by bike or by hoof is easy, healthy and cheaper than driving, not to mention less stressful. One of the reasons walking and riding isn’t difficult is due to the efforts of folks like the Bike/Walk Alliance of Missoula. BWAM’s mission is to promote and enhance bicycling and walking for everyday transportation. They do this by advocating for infrastructure upgrades and host-

ing web lessons on topics such as intersection improvement and reducing pavement footprints. Obviously, this isn’t the rootin’ tootin’ good time fun stuff, but these are the types of things needed to keep Missoula on the path (yes!) to less traffic and safer commutes. This Friday BWAM hosts a fundraiser at Caras Park, in conjunction with Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing. The Clips of Faith event is made up of several short films created by fans of the beer. New Belgium brings the tour around the country specifically to raise money for worthy non-profits. What’s more worthy than a simpler, safer commute?

–Jason McMackin New Belgium Brewing’s short-film fundraiser Clips of Faith takes place at Caras Park on Fri., Aug. 17, at 8 PM. 12 oz. beer samples are $5/3 oz. $1.25. Visit clipsoffaith.com and bikewalkmissoula.org.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY AUGUST 16

TUESDAY AUGUST 21

The Moving Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial visits Missoula through Sun., Aug. 19, and can be seen near the Van Buren Street footbridge. The wall is a one-half scale replica of the Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. The visit is sponsored by American Legion Forgotten Warriors Post #101. Free.

If you’re grieving the loss of a pet, take comfort at the Pet Bereavement Group, which meets the third Tue. of each month at 21st Century Homeopathy, 813 First St. in Hamilton, at 6:30 PM. Call 3700699.

FRIDAY AUGUST 17 Marcusfest 2012 raises money for local cancer patients and boasts live music by The Chris Hiatt Experience, Mick Hart Band, Blue Collar and many more, as well as silent auctions, BBQ, pizza and parlor game tourneys, at Boomers Pub, 2021 Brooks Ave. 4 PM to close. Free or donate, el cheap-o!

SATURDAY AUGUST 18 Say aloha to the ordinary at the Hotel Lincoln’s 2nd Annual Memorial Hawaiian Luau, which includes roast pig, pineapple rice and more. Remember, never shake hands with your poi side. Proceeds benefit the St. Peter’s Hospital Foundation Cancer Treatment Center. 101 Sleepy Hollow Ln., Lincoln. $15/10 and under free. Call 362-4822.

MONDAY AUGUST 20 Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Caras Park fish sculpture at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. 3rd St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 13 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Missoula Aging Services offers a Caregiver Support Group. 337 Stephens. 4–5 PM. Free.

YWCA Support Groups for women take place every Tue. from 6:30 to 8 PM. An American Indianled talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22 Kettlehouse Community U-Nite Pint Night for the Missoula Youth Athletic Council requires no jockstraps, but bring one just in case. Northside Kettle House, 313 N. First St. 5–8 PM.

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

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MOWGLI•She may have a boy's name, but our Mowgli is a sweet young lady who misses being someone's companion. She's well-behaved, friendly, and gets along with other dogs. She'd make a great family pet.

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ZAFTIG•This brown tiger cat is big and sleek, and she has an incredibly sweet face.

She was left on the shelter porch just before a huge hailstorm, so she was pretty skittish at first. Now she just purrs and talks and hopes for attention.

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Penelope is a real beauty! Her fluffy coat is always groomed, and her lovely eyes just shine. She's also quite a talker; if we could just understand her language, we know she'd have lots of interesting stories to tell.

HUMPHREY Humphrey, a neutered Pointer/Hound X, can't live with cats or chickens, pulls on the leash, is very strong, and acts bonkers.

The bonkers act is bogus. Removed from his kennel and allowed behind the front desk with shelter workers, Humphrey lies calmly and on an overstuffed bed, indifferent to all the noise and activity. If invited to cuddle, he snuggles.

His watchdog skills rival those of a German Shepherd.

When he played in a boarded courtyard, a stranger quietly walked by outside. Humphrey couldn't see the man, but immediately stopped playing and ran around looking for a way to see what his ears and nose told him was there. When that investigation failed, he jumped up and down for aerial observation.

Humphrey enjoys other dogs, and the shelter's volunteer trainer says he's very responsive to the clicker. He has lots of potential and just needs a chance.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 JAKE•How could you resist a smile like this? Jake is an outgoing young adult who gets along well with most other dogs. He's in search of someone looking for a large dog with an even larger heart! He enjoys learning new things and meeting new friends.

BAILEY•Bailey is a 5-year-old black Labrador Retriever. She loves spending time with people and going for walks along the riverside. Bailey is loving and active but not hyper. She is house-trained and already knows the basics.

BANSHEE•Snuggly Banshee is the purrfect cat! He gets along great with kids and other cats. He adores sitting on your lap and being picked up. Banshee is only 2 years old so he has many years to spend with his new family. Looking for an outgoing and playful cat to share your home? Consider Banshee!

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Tropicana is a ton of fun to be around. This sleek black cat will be by your side helping you out around the house.

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BOULDER•A boulder is defined as a large, smooth piece of rock detached from its place of origin. Boulder was detached from his place of origin as kitten during our 2010 kitten season. He is a beautiful 1 1/2-year-old Tuxedo kitty.

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Piano Lessons LOVE ME TINDER I met a woman, and we hit it off like wildfire. It seemed everything she said and did was perfect. In six months, we were engaged. She and her four kids moved in with me and my two kids. Shortly afterward, it turned sour. We parent quite differently. Her kids are bad-mannered, curse at her, respect no property or space, and constantly get kicked out of school. When I tried to correct them and improve their behavior, her ex-husband got a restraining order on my fiancee to keep their children away from me. She and the kids moved out, but we kept dating. I soon became aware that she was also dating an old boyfriend. She said she was scared and wanted a backup plan in case we didn’t work. I got sick of this and ended it. She claimed she wanted to be with me, yet she now seems very happy with the old boyfriend. How does a person move on so fast? How do I get past feeling totally dumped?

—Heavy Heart As a parent, you’re supposed to be in the business of buzz-kill, not only setting boundaries for your kids but modeling the mature, adult thing to do. For example: “Come on, kids—I found this hot stranger we can live with!”

There are people who can act this impulsively; they’re called “single, childless adults.” Six months into a relationship, you’re in a sex fog, meaning the windows of your judgment are steamed over, meaning it’s the perfect time to commit to nothing more long-lasting than a week’s vacation. You defend your impulsivity by saying you two “hit it off like wildfire,” which, if you think about it, is like saying “like one of the most dangerous and destructive natural disasters.” (Not exactly the best basis for forming the new Brady Bunch.)

This woman didn’t change; you just saw more of her as time went by. As I’ve written before, people don’t break up because somebody’s got a great laugh or they’re awesome in bed—the stuff that’s apparent at the start. That’s why, before you commit to somebody, you need to put in time and effort to dig up all the unpalatable things—like mouthy delinquent children and an ex with an itchy court-filing finger—and see if you can deal. Doing this takes wanting to see what a person’s all about, as opposed to wanting to believe you’ve found true love and tightening your

blindfold. When you’re honest about who a woman is, you can predict what she’ll do instead of learning it through hindsight—a term which pretty much spells out the problem. To put it delicately, you should reread the directions on your contact lenses, because you’ve probably been putting them in the wrong area.

MOMMY DISAPPEAREST After mutually ending a 20year marriage that was more friendship than passion/romance, I met a man I love.

We’re considering buying a home together. The complication is my 16year-old daughter, who’s downright frosty toward my boyfriend. It’s hard to be spending weekdays with my daughter and weekends with him, like I’m living in two camps.

She’s got two years of high school left, and it’d be okay with me if she wanted to live with her dad (if he were okay with that).

Should I ask her if she would consider that?

I’m afraid she’ll feel really rejected.

—Divided You’re essentially suggesting doing what some people do with their pets. The dog growls at the new boyfriend, so she gets “rehomed”: “She’s really not working for us anymore. Here’s her dish and her iPhone.”

Sorry, but “I’m just not that into you” isn’t something a mother gets to say to her daughter. Divorce is damaging enough to a kid. Sometimes it’s the best-case scenario— like if there’s constant high conflict. But it’s extremely indulgent of parents to break up a family simply because their romance waned and the sex got kinda yawny. This is of no interest to a kid—nor should it be. And what are you thinking now, what’s a little more psychological damage on top of what you’ve already inflicted? “Honey, I know you wanted a car for your birthday, but I thought I’d give you abandonment issues instead.”

You’ve got just two years until your “complication” leaves for college. You can either build a working time machine and go back and use birth control or act like a mom and treat your daughter like a priority instead of excess baggage keeping you from the life you want with your boyfriend: “Wherever do we put her? I guess we could store her at her father’s for the next couple years...”

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The game of tic-tac-toe is simple. Even young children can manage it. And yet there are 255,168 different ways for any single match to play out. The game of life has far more variables than tic-tac-toe, of course. I think that’ll be good for you to keep in mind in the coming weeks. You may be tempted to believe that each situation you’re dealing with can have only one or two possible outcomes, when in fact it probably has at least 255,168. Keep your options wide open. Brainstorm about unexpected possibilities.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of history’s most notorious trials took place in Athens, Greece in 399 BCE. A majority of 501 jurors convicted the philosopher Socrates of impiety and of being a bad influence on young people. What were the impious things he did? "Failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities." And so the great man was sentenced to death. This is a good reminder that just because many people believe something is true or valuable or important doesn’t mean it is. That’s especially crucial for you to keep in mind. You are in a phase when it might be wise and healthy to evade at least one popular trend. Groupthink is not your friend.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With all the homework you’ve done lately, you’ve earned a lot of extra credit. So I’m thinking you’ll get a decent grade in your unofficial “crash course” even if you’re a bit sleepy during your final exam. But just in case, I’ll provide you with a mini-cheat sheet. Here are the right answers to five of the most challenging test questions. 1. People who never break anything will never learn how to make lasting creations. 2. A mirror is not just an excellent tool for self-defense, but also a tremendous asset in your quest for power over yourself. 3. The less you hide the truth, the smarter you’ll be. 4. The well-disciplined shall inherit the earth. 5. You often meet your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Hubble Space Telescope has taken 700,000 photos of deep space.

Because it’s able to record details that are impossible to capture from the earth’s surface, it has dramatically enhanced astronomers’ understanding of stars and galaxies. This miraculous technology got off to a rough start, however. Soon after its launch, scientists realized that there was a major flaw in its main mirror. Fortunately, astronauts were eventually able to correct the problem in a series of complex repair jobs. It’s quite possible, Libra, that you will benefit from a Hubble-like augmentation of your vision in the next nine months.

Right from the beginning, make sure there are no significant defects in the fundamentals of your big expansion.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To some people, sweating is regarded as an indelicate act that should be avoided or hidden. But there are others for whom sweating is a sign of health and vigor. In Egyptian culture, for example, “How do you sweat?” is a common salutation. In the coming weeks, Scorpio, I encourage you to align yourself with the latter attitude. It won’t be a time to try to impress anyone with how cool and dignified you are. Rather, success is more likely to be yours if you’re not only eager to sweat but also willing to let people see you sweat. Exert yourself. Extend yourself. Show how much you care.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount,” wrote poet Antonio Porchia. “The exact amount is no use to me.” I suggest you try adopting that bad-ass attitude in the coming days, Sagittarius. Be a bit contrarian, but with humor and style. Doing so would, I think, put you in sweet alignment with the impish nature of the vibes swirling in your vicinity. If you summon just the right amount of devil-may-care jauntiness, you’ll be likely to get the most out of the cosmic jokes that will unfold.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What is the longest-running lie in your life? Maybe it’s a deception you’ve worked long and hard to hide. Maybe it’s a delusion you’ve insisted on believing in. Or perhaps it’s just a wish you keep thinking will come true one day even though there’s scant evidence it ever will. Whatever that big drain on your energy is, Capricorn, now would be a good time to try changing your relationship with it. I can’t say for sure that you’ll be able to completely transform it overnight. But if you marshal a strong intention, you will be able to get the process underway.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may have heard the theory that somewhere there is a special person who is your other half—the missing part of you. In D. H. Lawrence’s version of this fantasy, the two of you were a single angel that divided in two before you were born. Personally, I don’t buy it. The experiences of everyone I’ve ever known suggest there are many possible soulmates for each of us. So here’s my variation on the idea: Any good intimate relationship generates an “angel”—a spirit that the two partners create together. This is an excellent time for you to try out this hypothesis, Aquarius. As you interact with your closest ally, imagine that a third party is with you: your mutual angel.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to shed your emotional baggage and purge your useless worries and liberate yourself from your attachments to the old days and the old ways. In other words, clear out a lot of free, fresh space. And when you’re finished doing that, Pisces, don’t hide away in a dark corner feeing vulnerable and sensitive and stripped bare. Rather, situate yourself in the middle of a fertile hub and prepare to consort with new playmates, unexpected adventures, and interesting blessings. One of my readers, Reya Mellicker, sums up the right approach: “Be empty, not like the bowl put away in the cupboard, but like the bowl on the counter, cereal box above, waiting to receive.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let’s turn our attention to the word “mortar.” I propose that we use it to point out three influences you could benefit from calling on. Here are the definitions of “mortar”: 1. a kind of cannon; 2. the plaster employed for binding bricks together; 3. a bowl where healing herbs are ground into powder. Now please meditate, Gemini, on anything you could do that might: 1. deflect your adversaries; 2. cement new unions; 3. make a container—in other words, create a specific time and place—where you will work on a cure for your suffering.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Nirvana’s song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was a mega-hit that sold well and garnered critical acclaim. But it had a difficult birth. When the band’s leader Kurt Cobain first presented the raw tune to the band, bassist Krist Novoselic disliked it and called it “ridiculous.”

Cobain pushed back, forcing Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl to play it over and over again for an hour and a half. In the course of the ordeal, the early resistance dissolved. Novoselic and Grohl even added their own touches to the song’s riffs. I foresee a similar process for you in the coming week, Cancerian. Give a long listen to an unfamiliar idea that doesn’t grab you at first.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 27, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on the City First Share Model draft resolution, the City CoPay Model draft resolution, and a separate resolution/language on retroactivity all pertaining to providing City assistance for public right-of-way improvements including curb, gutter, sidewalk, and alley approaches. For further information contact Steve King, Public Works Director at 5526353. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on September 10, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution of the Missoula City Council levying and assessing a special assessment and tax on the lots, pieces and parcels of land situated within special lighting districts of the City of Missoula, Montana, to defray the cost of street lighting in special lighting districts during the fiscal year 2013 in accordance with sections 7-12-4301 through 4354, Montana Code Annotated. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk

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INVITATION TO BID - Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the following: Curb and Sidewalk Improvements Spruce and Woody Street City of Missoula Project 10-033. This project consists of removing approximately 12,400 square feet of sidewalk, 1,400 square feet of driveway, 400 lineal feet of curb, 3,200 square feet of asphalt, unclassified excavation and fill; installing 11,300 square feet of 4� sidewalk, 3,000 square feet of 8� sidewalk, 620 lineal feet of curb, 1,600 square feet of 3� asphalt and associated work. Bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Manual addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for City of Missoula Project 10-033 Spruce and Woody Street curb and sidewalk improvements� The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name, Address and Montana Contractor’s Registration Number. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn

2012 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers,140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a resolution to levy a special assessment and tax upon all property situated within pooled sidewalk curb, gutter and alley approach bonds series 20012 of the City of Missoula, Montana, in the total amount of $7755,000 excluding debt service, to defray the cost of installing sidewalks, curbs, gutters and alley approaches pursuant to resolution number 7708 ratifying the sale of bonds. For further information contact Brentt Ramharter, Finance Director, at 552-6108. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk

and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability. A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished the Contractors making application therefore from the Office of the City Engineer, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash can not be accepted). Full amount of payment will be refunded upon return of the plans and specifications in good condition within ten (10) days after bid opening. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in

MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project.

All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor performing work on a “Public works contract� shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the contract documents. The provisions of this part do not apply in those instances in which the standard prevailing rate of wages is determined by federal law. “Public works contract� means a contract for construction services let by the state, county, municipality, school district, or political subdivision or for non-construction services let by the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision in which the total cost of the contract is in excess of $25,000. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against on the basis race, ancestry, color, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or familial status, creed, ex-offender status, physical

condition, political belief, public assistance status or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, except where these criteria are reasonable bona fide occupational qualifications.

Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements. The City of Missoula reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any and all bids, and, if all bids are rejected, to re advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the bid opening at 3:00 p.m. on August 28, 2012. The City of Missoula provides accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person’s ability to participate in any service, program, or activity of the City. To request accommodation, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (406)552-6079. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula, Montana will meet Monday, August 27,

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PUBLIC HEARING - The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 27, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying and assessing the lots and parcels within the City of Missoula Park District Number 1 in the amount of $510,788 for the costs associated with providing certain maintenance, purchasing and improvement services in fiscal year 2013 for City-owned facilities, land and equipment under the responsibility and care of the City of Missoula Parks and Recreation Department; providing for a method of assessments; and providing for other matters properly relating thereto. Copies of the resolution are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk, at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA

PUBLIC HEARING - The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 27, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying and assessing the lots and parcels within the

City of Missoula Road District Number 1 in the amount of $353,510 for the costs associated with providing certain maintenance, purchasing and improvement services in fiscal year 2013 for City-owned facilities, land and equipment under the responsibility and care of the City of Missoula Public Works Department’s Street, Engineering, and Vehicle Maintenance Divisions providing for a method of assessments; and providing for other matters properly relating thereto. Copies of the resolution are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802.

For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk, at 5526078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Deer Creek (Seeley Lake) FWP Acquisition: This project proposes to use $75,000 of Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of 640 acres currently owned by Plum Creek Timber in the Seeley Lake area. The land would ultimately be owned and managed by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) as part of the 24,170 acre Marshall Creek Wildlife Management Area. The acquisition would be temporarily held

by Five Valleys Land Trust until FWP completed the purchase. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 22, 2012, in Room B14 of the County Administration Building, 199 West Pine, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners. Offices: 199 West Pine. Mail: 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

FAX: (406) 721-4043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422.

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Request for Proposals – Missoula County Carnival Operator for Western Montana Fair Missoula County is seeking proposals for an operator to provide a carnival to the Western Montana Fair for three years with an optional two year renewal period beginning in August 2013. Proposals will be accepted until 5:00 PM, Monday, October 1, 2012. Interested parties may obtain a complete copy of the Request for Proposals on Missoula County’s website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Barbara Berens, 406-258-3227 or bberens@co.missoula.mt.us.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor, 199 W Pine St, Room 136, Missoula, MT until 2:00 p.m. local time on August 30, 2012 for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the Missoula County Fairgrounds - 2012 Pavement Improvements. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes construction of asphalt parking lot, storm drainage structures, pin-down curbs; excavation; asphalt & concrete removals and replacement; pavement markings; landscape restoration and associated work. The project includes a Base Bid and two Add Alternates. PROJ-

ECT FINANCING – The project is funded by Missoula County. SITE OF WORK: The site of the work is the Missoula County Fairgrounds located at 1101 South Avenue West in Missoula, MT. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 30 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the notice to proceed.

OPENING OF BIDS: Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 p.m. on August 30, 2012, by Missoula County at the office of Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor, 199 W Pine St, Room 136, Missoula, MT. OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: The contract documents consisting of Drawings and a Project Manual may be examined or obtained at WGM Group, Inc., 1111 E. Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802, (406) 728-4611.

Copies of half-size sets of Drawings and Project Manual may be obtained upon paying a non-refundable fee of $50.00 each. Full-size drawings are not available for bidding. An additional charge of $10.00 will be applied for shipping and handling, if required. Plans will also be available at plans exchanges. Contact Jon Gass at WGM Group with questions.

BID SECURITY: Each bid shall be accompanied by bid security made payable to Missoula County in an amount of ten percent (10%) of the bidder’s maximum bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a bid bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the General Conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the contract, secure pay-ment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satis-factory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent (100%) of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent (100%) of the contract price. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: Montana law requires all contractors to register with the Department of Labor prior to execution of the contract agreement.

Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Ave., Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 406-444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by the contractor or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The bidder shall guarantee the total bid price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Missoula County Fairgrounds – 2012 Pavement Improvements, Bid Opening August 30, 2012�, and marked “Sealed Bid� with the contractor’s name and address, and be addressed to: For Hand Delivery: Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor, 199 West Pine Stree Room 136, Missoula, MT 59802 For Delivery by Mail: Barbara Berens, Missoula County Auditor 200 W. Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Facsimile bids or late bids will not be accepted. WAGE RATES: The Contractor shall not pay less than the latest Montana Prevailing Wage Rates. A copy of the applicable wage rates are attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910. PREBID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend a pre-bid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the Owner and Engineer at the Missoula County Fairgrounds Office,1101 South Avenue West in Missoula, MT at 10:00

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PUBLIC NOTICES a.m. on August 15, 2012. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the Engineer. No specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The Engineer for this project is: WGM Group, Inc., 1111 East Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; with questions addressed through email to Jon Gass at JGass@wgmgroup.com. OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the Owner. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing.

Notice of Public Meeting:

Missoula Housing Authority is seeking public comment on a proposal to the state HOME program to purchase and modernize a 4-Plex located at 1914 Scott St. Meeting will be held on Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 6:00 pm in the Missoula Housing Authority Board Room at 1235 34th St., Missoula MT. phone 549-4113, ext.

104. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 549-4113, ext. 105.

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SHERIFF’S SALE DAVID CHRISTENSON, Plaintiff, Against JAMES MICHAEL REED, Defendant. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 6th day of September A.D., 2012, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, towit: Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Section 29, Lots 29 and 30, Block 46 of Daly’s Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Note: This sale will be sold by public auction to the highest bidder. No guarantee as to condition of property. Dated this 16th day of August A.D., 2012. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By /s/ Patrick A. Turner, Deputy Central Mini Storage will action to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: #25.

Units contain misc items. These units may be viewed by appt only by calling 543-9798.

Please speak to Shannon. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage offices at 401 SW Higgins Missoula, MT 59803 prior to August 24, 2012 at 4:00 pm. Auction sales will be final after this date. Buyers bid will be for the entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. ONLY cash or money order will be accepted as form of payment.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-127 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCES M. DRISCOLL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 MAUREEN LESLIE NICHOLS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of July, 2012 /s/ Maureen Leslie Nichols, Personal Representative. REELY LAW FIRM P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representative. By: /s/ Shane N. Reely Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY

Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-130 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JENNIFER GOODRICH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to ANDREW M. GOODRICH and MALCOLM H. GOODRICH, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of July, 2012 /s/ Andrew M. Goodrich, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Malcolm H. Goodrich, CoPersonal Representative. REELY LAW FIRM P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representative. By: /s/ Shane N. Reely Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-683 Dept. No. 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Rachelle Kay Potton This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Rachelle Kay Potton to Rachelle Kay Weisenburger. The hearing will be on August 21st, 2012 at 1:30 o’clock p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: July 24, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-814 Dept No 4 Karen S. Townsend. Notice of Hearing on Name Change in the Matter of the Name Change of Andrea Alberty, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Andrea Alberty to Andrea Roslie. The hearing will be on 9/4/12 at 2:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATE: July 24, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Andrew Jenks, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-891 Dept. No. 4 Karen Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Mary-Ellen Correia-Murphy. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Mary-Ellen Correia-Murphy to Mary-Ellen Correia. The hearing will be on September 11, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 8/3/12. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Case No. DP-10-131 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ROBERT BAUER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Attorney for the Estate and Parker Bauer who 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 Raymond P. Tipp, Esq., Tipp & Buley, PC, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806-3778 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court with a copy thereof to the undersigned. DATED this 9th day of August, 2012. TIPP & BULEY, PC /s/ Raymond P. Tipp, Esq., Attorney for the Estate and Personal Representative, Parker Bauer, PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806-3778 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-12-12 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM L. FREEZE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be either mailed to Jack E. Freeze, the personal representative, return receipt requested, c/o Attorney John W. Hart, Rossbach Hart, P.C., PO Box 8988, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 1st day of August, 2012. /s/ Jack E. Freeze, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-113 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RAMONA JEAN

MIEWALD, ALSO KNOWN AS MONA MIEWALDD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed the Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DAVID ALAN MIEWALD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 29th day of June, 2012. /s/ David Alan Miewald, Personal Representative NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on the 30th day of November, 2012, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, DON C. ST. PETER, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligation set out below, has elected to sell and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale to said Successor Trustee without warranty or covenant, expressed or implied as to title, possession or encumbrances, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Don C. St. Peter, of the Grantor, George Frisby and Kathy Frisby, and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: Tract 7 of Certificate of Survey No. 1853, located in the Southeast one- quarter of Section 33, Township 15 North, Range 14 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of a certain Trust Indenture dated the 12th day of March, 2010, and recorded the 17th day of March, 2010, in the records of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 856, at Page 1243, wherein George Frisby and Kathy Frisby are the original Grantors, Insured Titles, LLC is the original Trustee, Scott L. Tuxbury and Karen F. Tuxbury are the original Beneficiaries. The interest of Karen F. Tuxbury as Beneficiary was assigned to Scott Tuxbury on June 8, 2012, notice of which was recorded June 12, 2012, in Book 895, at Page 446. Don C. St. Peter has been named Successor Trustee by virtue of Appointment of Successor Trustee dated June 21, 2012, recorded July 25, 2012, in Book 897, at Page 645. The Grantors, George Frisby and Kathy Frisby, and his successors in interest, have: 1) defaulted in the terms of said Trust Indenture in that they have failed to provide, maintain and deliver to Scott L. Tuxbury insurance on said property; 2) defaulted in that they have failed to pay in full immediately and without demand the amount owing to Scott L. Tuxbury, on the obligation secured by said Montana Trust Indenture, after the transfer of said property to Mignon Diskin; 3) defaulted in that they have failed to keep said property in good condition and repair. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Indenture is the sum of Fifty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred Sixteen and 84/100 Dollars ($53,816.84), together with interest at the rate of 12% per annum from and after the 19th day of January, 2012, until the date of sale, interest and late charges continued to accrued.

That on the date of sale there will be due and owing the sum of Fifty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred Sixteen and 84/100 Dollars ($53,816.84) in principal; Five Thousand Five Hundred Ninety-One and 5/100 Dollars ($5,591.05) in interest; Four Hundred Eighty Seven and 89/100 Dollars ($487.89) in Property Insurance, equalling the total sum of Fifty-Nine Thousand Eight Hundred NinetyFive and 78/100 Dollars ($59,895.78), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure.

The Beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and directed the Trustee to commence such sale proceedings.

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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property, on the 10th date of the following sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid 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 (included costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due has no default occurred and thereby cure the default therefore existing. DATED this 25th day of July, 2012. /s/ Don C. St. Peter Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) : ss.

County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me this 25th day of July, 2012, by Don C. St. Peter, Successor Trustee. /s/ Karla M. Lyons (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: 11/18/2015

[C6] Missoula Independent • August 16 – August 23, 2012

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/14/01, recorded as Instrument No. 200103390, BK 641, Pg 303, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jason P. Decunzo was Grantor, Long Beach Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and Chicago Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Chicago Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 in Block 2 of Elms Addition No. 3 in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201204489 B: 890, P: 1166, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company formerly known as Bankers Trust Company of California, N.A., as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2001-2. 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 10/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 8, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $123,579.81. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $109,941.69, 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 22, 2012 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# 7037.91904) 1002.220570-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/03/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200721525, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark R. Ziegler was Grantor, U.S. Bank National Association was Beneficiary and U.S. Bank Trust Company, N.A. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded U.S. Bank Trust Company, N.A. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 1, 2, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 in Block 10 of Central Addition, lying South of highway, 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 29. Recording Reference: Book 686 of Micro Records at Page 624. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201202631, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to NW Evergreen Opportunities I, LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 20, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy

the Loan was $1,874,901.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $1,705,126.02, 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 26, 2012 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# 8195.20009) 1002.220844-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/24/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200809483 B: 817 P: 1258, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jeffrey Ellis, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit 214 of The Uptown Flats, a residential condominium situated on the following described property: Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and the West 1/2 of Lot 1 and Lots 16, 17, 18, 19 and the West 1/2 of Lot 20, and vacated alley, Block 97 of Urlin’s Addition, according to the official plat thereof in Book 1 of the Plats at Page 15, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference is in Book 138 at Page 685 Micro Records. Lots 8, 9 and 10 of Block 97 of Urlin’s Addition to the City of Missoula according to the plat or map on file and of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 15 in the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder, Missoula, Montana. Together with a 1/42 interest in the general common elements and an exclusive right to use the limited common elements appurtenant to each unit as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in the Declaration of Condominium.

And subject to the Declaration of Condominium recorded April 12, 2007 in Book 795 at Page 297 Micro Records, the Bylaws of The Uptown Flats Condominium Association recorded April 12, 2007 in Book 795 at Page 299 Micro Records and Exhibit “A” recorded April 12, 2007 as CONDO139.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 18, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $179,663.48.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $171,314.18, 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, 2012 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 nonmonetary 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# 7023.100590) 1002.221435-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 17, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT A110 OF WINDSOR PARK PHASE V, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF JAMES T HUNTLEY & DONNA L. HUNTLEY, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED ON OCTOBER 24, 2008 AND RECORDED ON OCTOBER 29, 2008 IN BOOK 828, PAGE 916, UNDER DOCUMENT NO 200824530. The beneficial interest is currently held by MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife Bank, N.A..

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 $1,319.83, beginning July 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 11, 2012 is $199,854.04 principal, interest at the rate of 5.0000% now totaling $9,433.80, escrow advances of $1,539.14 and other fees and expenses advanced of $280.34, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.38 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 14, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 14th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Metlife v Huntley 41305.234 Published 8/2, 8/9, 8/16/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 17, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 89 of Drew Creek Addition, Phase VII to the Double Arrow Ranch, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Thadeus D Williams and Kelly A Williams, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 9, 2004 and recorded on June 14, 2004, Book 734, Page 500 as Document No. 200416531. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation aka PHH Mortgage Services. 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 $1,301.39, beginning September 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 27, 2012 is $196,424.61 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $7,553.64, late charges in the amount of $130.12, escrow advances of $2,334.95, and other fees and expenses advanced of $339.67, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.62 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, whereis 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 8, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 8th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley,

PUBLIC NOTICES know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 PHH V Williams 41392.855 Published 8/2, 8/9 and 8/16/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 24, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6 OF LAKEWOOD ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Michelle M Bissonnette and Carl C Johnsen, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson of Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby and Kloster, PC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 2, 2005 and recorded June 10, 2005 in Book 754, Page 458 under Document Number 200514153 and re-recorded November 8, 2006 in Book 786, Page 1057. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,743.65, beginning December 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of March 29, 2012 is $230,905.28 principal, interest at the rate of 3.0% now totaling $2840.44, escrow advances of $-464.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $404.56, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.98 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 18, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 18th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage V. Bissonnette 41926.379 Published 8/2, 8/9 and 8/16/2012

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 24, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 38 OF 44 RANCH, PHASES 1 AND 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THREREOF Geoff C. Ramsay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on March 05, 2008 and recorded on March 07, 2008 in BK-814, Pg-496, under document No. 200804931. The beneficial interest is currently held by M&T Bank. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,469.57, beginning September 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 23, 2012 is $344,093.37 principal, interest at the rate of 5.125000% now totaling $12,819.48, late charges in the amount of $220.44, escrow advances of $3,103.53, and other fees and expenses advanced of $532.06, plus accruing interest at the rate of $48.31 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 18, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 18th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 M & T Bank v Ramsay 41902.150 Published 8/2, 8/9 and 8/16/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 24, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3755, A

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Travis Pennock and Natasha Pennock, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 21, 2005 and recorded on January 25, 2005 in Book 747 and Page 74 as Document No. 200502026. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $347.83, beginning March 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 26, 2012 is $151,780.20 principal, interest at the rate of 2.75%, late charges in the amount of $213.42, escrow advances of $2,081.13, suspense balance of $-577.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,328.18, plus accruing interest at the rate of $11.44 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 17, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 17th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Pennymac v Pennock 41961.022 Published 8/2, 8/9 and 8/16/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 28, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2A of Huson Lots, Lots 2A and 3A, a Recorded Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Plat of Record in Book 30 of Plats at Page 17 DALE HESS AND SHERRY HESS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Na-

tional City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 2, 2007 and Recorded October 12, 2007 in Book 807, Page 406 under Document No. 200727046. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association successor by merger to National City Mortgage a Division of National City 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 $672.01, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 30, 2012 is $189,016.67 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $2,505.57, late charges in the amount of $ 168.00, escrow advances of $1,555.69, and other fees and expenses advanced of $70.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.36 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, whereis basis, without limitation, the s ale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 24, 2012 /s/ Marti Ottley Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 24th day of May, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Marti Ottley, know to me to be the Asst Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 1/19/2018 Pnc V Hess 41230.510 Published 8/2, 8/9 and 8/16/2012 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/09/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RUSSELL C SMITH, AND TRACI SMITH, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIP as

Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/05/2009 and recorded 06/15/2009, in document No. 200914280 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 841 at Page Number 720 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 52 OF SOUTHPOINTE-PHASE III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT. THEREOF. ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO: 3471301 Property Address: 3615 BRANDON WAY, MISSOULA, MT 59803-2965. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $236,299.95 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 04/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 06/28/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120057405 FEI NO. 1006.162753

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 48 and 122. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers.

These units may be viewed starting August 20, 2012 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 August 23, 2012, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

“Hybrid Cars”–I wouldn't drive these, though.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 McMuffin ingredients 5 Canterbury title 15 Bunches 16 Little shaver 17 Hybrid pickup with really low visibility?

19 It's scored on a second roll 20 Torah repositories 21 Seabird that can be "sooty" 22 D.C. United's org.

24 Minuscule 25 ISP that used to mail free trial discs 28 It may feature a store from a mile away 33 Hybrid car that floats in the ocean?

39 Morales of "NYPD Blue" and "La Bamba" 40 New York city on the Mohawk 41 Depend (on) 42 Hybrid car with a really old sound system?

45 Land speed record holder 46 Pallid 47 Comedian Kennedy 51 She was Dorothy on "The Golden Girls" 53 "Supermodified" DJ ___ Tobin 54 Catch-y item?

58 Trash-talker on daytime TV? 62 Hybrid car that runs a few seconds, then stops, then runs again, then stops again...?

65 Get past the highs and lows 66 "Right Now (Na Na Na)" rapper 67 Classification for comfortable jeans or shirts 68 Salt's performing partner, in a 1980s hip-hop group

DOWN

1 "Good ___" (Alton Brown show) 2 Unidentifiable stuff on a cafeteria tray Last week’s solution

3 "Saturn Devouring His Son" painter 4 It may be a-brewin' 5 Legendary Notre Dame coach Parseghian 6 ___-tat-tat 7 Russian ruler, once 8 Pawn 9 Super Mario ___ 10 Company behind Deep Blue and Watson 11 Blue-gray shade 12 Tony-winning actress Uta ___ 13 Junkyard emanations 14 Flower once a national emblem of China 18 Where many fans watch football games 23 Heaps, as in loving or missing someone 24 College URL ender 25 Banda ___ (city devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami) 26 Pretentious phrase of emphasis 27 Meat market specification 29 "Stretch Limousine on Fire" folk rocker ___ Curtis 30 Word repeated in Duran Duran's "Rio" 31 Permissible 32 1981 Genesis album that's also a rhyme scheme 34 Kid-___ (G-rated movies) 35 Hockey legend Bobby 36 Yelp of sudden pain 37 Jazz legend Fitzgerald 38 Actress Cannon 43 It may be worth one in the hand 44 "Street-smart kid moves to Newport Beach" FOX series 47 Bad guy in "Aladdin" 48 "Bust ___" (hit for Young MC) 49 Spongy-looking mushroom variety 50 Hindu god of war 52 Musician's rights gp.

54 Buster Brown's dog 55 Netflix founder Hastings 56 Since 57 Watermelon seed spitting noise 59 "Motorcade of Generosity" band 60 Perched upon 61 "Mazes and Monsters" novelist Jaffe 63 Get the picture across?

64 MCI competitor, way back when

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PUBLIC NOTICES Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/13/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS SKOOG, A SINGLE PERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/08/2010 and recorded 04/08/2010, in document No. 201006639 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 857 at Page Number 1324 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 3A OF PEERY ADDITION, LOT 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2413 39TH ST, Missoula, MT 59803-1122. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges

as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $162,056.97 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.25% per annum from 11/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/02/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110011175 FEI NO. 1006.128934 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST

COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JIMMIE D. CARTER AND ROSENDA P. CARTER, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/21/2009 and recorded 10/27/2009, in document No. 200925754 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 849 at Page Number 1002 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 20 IN BLOCK 2 OF REMICK’S SWAN RIVER TRACTS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO: 1886100. Property Address: 1536 REMICKS ROAD, Condon, MT 59826. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2012 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $344,010.75 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.875% per annum from 04/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and

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costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/09/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0061900 FEI NO. 1006.163239 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which HEATHER HALTER AND CASEY HALTER, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/30/2008 and recorded 07/07/2008, in document No. 200815839 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 822 at Page Number 619 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION:

LOT 72 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2320 WEST CRESCENT DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $195,346.62 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.00% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/09/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0062139 FEI NO. 1006.163240

Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LINDA L MORRIS, AND JOANNE T MORRIS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to *MISSOULA* CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTARTION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/19/2009 and recorded 02/22/2010, in document No. 201003438 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 855 at Page Number 921 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 15, LESS THE NORTH 6 FEET, OF JOYCE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 6 OF MICRO AT PAGE 957. THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON KNOWN AS 7 JOYCE DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59801. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY WHICH, BY DEED DATED JANUARY 23, 2008, AND RECORDED IN THE RECORDER OF DEEDS OF THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA, IN BOOK 812, PAGE 403, WAS GRANTED AND CONVEYED BY SARA M. HUENTELMAN AND JEREMY G. STUBBS UNTO

LINDA L. MORRIS AND JOANNE T. MORRIS. Property Address: 7 JOYCE DR, Missoula, MT 59801-8411. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $189,946.52 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.50% per annum from 08/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/09/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120062318 FEI NO. 1006.163242

PUBLIC NOTICES Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/20/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DARREN JONES, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/07/2006 and recorded 06/12/2006, in document No. 200613935 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 776 at Page Number 743 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SE1/4 OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT A-2-A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5727. PARCELL II: TOGETHER WITH EASEMENTS AS DESCRIBED BY CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1277 AND GRANT OF EASEMENT RECORDED IN BOOK 755 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1086. Property Address: 17949 COUGARS DEN LANE, FRENCHTOWN, MT 59834. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-19CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-19CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $308,390.94 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.125% per annum from 03/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/11/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120063019 FEI NO. 1006.163385 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/21/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West

Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which GREGORY D ZIMMERMAN AND BECKY JO ZIMMERMAN, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 03/27/2009 and recorded 04/01/2009, in document No. 200907164 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 836 at Page Number 599 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 117 OF PINEY MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 32900 PINEY MEADOWS LANE, HUSON, MT 59846. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 12/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $221,026.02 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/11/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120063075 FEI NO. 1006.163386 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/26/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRENDA LEE DOMINGUE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/15/2008 and recorded 10/17/2008, in document No. 200823691 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 828 at Page Number 77 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: UNIT A OF PAXSON STREET CONDOMINIUMS, A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM SITUATED ON LOT 6 IN BLOCK 2 OF FARNUM ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR PAXSON STREET CONDOMINI-

UMS RECORDED IN BOOK 801 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 42. TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS, LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS AND EASEMENTS APPURTENANT TO THIS UNIT AS DEFINED IN RESTRICTIONS FOR PAXSON STREET CONDOMINIUMS. Property Address: 2008 36TH ST #B, MISSOULA, MT 59801-8806. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $192,187.69 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 06/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/13/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120063636 FEI NO. 1006.163519 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/27/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which GREGORY B. WATKISS & ERIN C. WATKISS, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/12/2007 and recorded 06/15/2007, in document No. 200715163 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 799 at Page Number 696 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2, BLOCK 2, OF WOODLAND HEIGHTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 7205 DEVONSHIRE LANE, MISSOULA, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2011, and

all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $417,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 02/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/16/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0063662 FEI NO. 1006.163592 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 11/28/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DEBRA J. BROWN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/22/2007 and recorded 01/26/2007, in document No. 200702117 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 791 at Page Number 138 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 8 OF RIVER ROAD ESTATES, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 625 LAFRAY LANE, MISSOULA, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-5CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-5CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $168,862.45 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.50% per annum from 03/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the

Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/17/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0064414 FEI NO. 1006.163639 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED To: Bill L. Staggs, 2022 Burlington Ave, Missoula, MT 59801 Bill L. Staggs, 2016 Burlington, Missoula, MT 59801 Bill L. Staggs, 420 SW Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT 59801 Collection Bureau Services, Michael J. Moore/Alison Clarke, DV-01-393, DV-01-394, DV-05-157, 212 East Spruce St., Missoula, MT 59802 Office of the Attorney General, Justice Bldg., 3rd Floor, PO Box 201401, Helena, MT 59620-1401 Bruce M. Spencer & Craig D. Charlton, Smith Law Firm, Attorneys for Worldwide Asset Purchasing, 26 West Sixth Ave., Box 1691, Helena, MT 59624 James R. Frohich, Agent CBM Collections, 11430 Casman Court, Missoula, MT 59802 Dustin Chouinard, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, PC, Attorney for Judy Pluid, 201 West Main St., Missoula, MT 59802 Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 City of Missoula, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 Montana Dept. of Revenue, PO Box 5805, Helena, MT 59604-5805 Collection Bureau Services, Jeffrey Koch, Registered Agent, DV01-393, DV-01-394, DV-05-157, 212 East

Spruce St., Missoula, MT 59802 Ross W. Cannon, Attorney for General Motors Acceptance Corp., 111 N. Last Chance Gulch, Suite D, Helena, MT 59604 David J. Steele, II, Geiszler & Froines, PC, Attorney for Richelin Stewart, Terrace West, Suite K, 619 Southwest HIggins, Missoula, MT 59803 CBM Collections, Inc., 416 Ryman St., Missoula, MT 59802 U.S. Treasury Internal Revenue Service, Rocky Mountain Division, MS5021 DEN, 1999 Broadway, Denver, CO 80202-2490 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: CARLINE ADD No. 2, E2 of LOT 22 & all of 23 in BLK C OF CARLINE ADDITION #2. 2. The property taxes became delinquent December 2, 2008. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 8, 2009. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 8, 2009, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to James P. Fleischhauer, whose address is 30694 Hi Francis Rd., Arlee, MT 59821, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs is: Tax $3,243.67 Penalty $64.82 Interest $656.65 Costs $259.24 Total $4224.38. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the

date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to James P. Fleischhauer, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested parties rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 1st day of August, 2012. /s/ James P. Fleischhauer

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1 Russell Park West. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with basement & single garage. Central location. $189,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $429,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com

114 Bentley Park Loop. 3 bed, 2 bath 2 story home in central location.

Open, airy floor plan. $184,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 11689 Stollen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $329,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 1375 Woodhill Court. 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 car garage on quiet street with river access. $176,500. Betsy Mil-

yard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 1500 Phillips. 2 bed, 1 bath with single garage on corner lot. Fenced yard with deck. $154,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 1925 Burlington. Updated 2 bed/1 bath on large centrally located lot. $130,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

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2 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $184,999. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2640 Tanbark. 5 bed, 4 bath, basement, 2 decks, garage. Near Ranch Club Golf Course. Views! $375,000.

Ann Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath Rose Park/Slant Streets home. $229,000. Prudential

Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 345 Brooks. 4 bed, 1.5 bath with basement and large 3 car garage near UM. $259,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $295,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $258,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula, 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $189,500.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 5 Bdr, 4 Bath University District Home. $549,900. Prudential Mon-

tana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 521 Daly. 3 bed, 2 bath in U District.

Single garage, basement, studio, enclosed front porch. $385,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 541-547 South 2nd West. Wonderful 4-plex in great neighborhood. Suitable for condo conversion. Newer rubber membrane roof. $275,000.

MLS #20120840 Rochelle Glasgow

REAL ESTATE @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.541547s2ndst.com 605 Parkview. 4 bed, 2 bath with basement, 2 car garage and great Missoula views. $180,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 6785 Prairie Schooner. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1/2 acre at end of quiet culde-sac. $229,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 815 39th Street. 4 bed, 3 bath, basement & 2 car garage. Wrap around decks. Private neighborhood with pastoral views. $288,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com 833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 8821 Haven Heights Road. 5 bed, 4 bath with basement & 3 car garage on 5 end-of-road acres. $549,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 9585 Glacier Lily Drive. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with basement & 2 car garage with large fenced yard. $184,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, greenbuilt development may be your ticket.

STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $375,000. Call Anne for details. 546-5816 www.movemontana.com Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks. Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university.

Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $259,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Historic Preservation AwardWinning Marshall House Beautiful professional building with great design for offices or home and awesome exposure for business. 436 S 3rd W. $395,000 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home!

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PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm. 2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $279,000.

MLS #20120012. 9869 Lee’s Lane, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com

Energy-Efficient Sweet Bungalow in Slant Street ‘hood with double lot and raised beds ready to plant!

835 Rollins. $179,500. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Slant Street Condo 525A Cleveland.

Upgraded and beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Slant Streets: $164,900 porticorealestate.com 240-5227

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1333 Toole #C14. 2 bed, 2 bath affordable downtown living. Main floor, great southern exposure. $120,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 1545 Cooley #H. 2 bed, 1 bath Northside condo with garage & deck. $127,000. $150 HOA fees.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate.

546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 1725A Park Place. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1 car garage. Fenced, landscaped backyard. No HOA fees. $150,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail,com 2025 Mullaan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues. Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2238 Hillside. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage on quiet cul-de-sac. $40 HOA fees. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 2441 McIntosh. 2 bed, 2 bath. Lowmaintenance living in lovely 55+ community.

MLS #20121579. $106,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage.

Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage on corner lot with Mount Jumbo views. $289,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 6614 McArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath with 2 car garage. Fantastic views! $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

702A Charlo. Newly remodeled 3 bed, 1.5 bath on corner lot with single garage. Fenced yard with deck. $149,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. $250,000. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900.

Great downtown living! Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Treehouse Feel in this fairly new condo with single garage. Great location close to school, bike trail, Good Food Store and town. 935B Garfield. $117,500. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MANUFACTURED

HOMES

15436 French Valley Lane, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath mobile on rented lot. $48,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

LAND FOR SALE 2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $224,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 23645 Mullan Road. Beautiful 14 acre meadow with pasture & trees near Huson. $169,900. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

Lot 16A MacArthur. New 3 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage.

Fantastic Missoula views. MLS #20122947. $184,900. Robin Rice

@ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties NHN Twin Creek Road/Bonner.

3.69 acres with creek. Mobiles on permanent foundations allowed. $165,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville. Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

RICE TEAM

321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $65,000.

240-5227 porticorealestate.com

OUT OF TOWN 11674 Highway 200 East. Residential or commercial property on the Blackfoot River. $469,999. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 15305 Spring Hill Road/Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forst Service. $595,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

1623 Wild Turkey Lane, Stevensville.

Over 200 acre private ranch with creek surrounded by conservation easement land. $998,500. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

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Robin Rice 240-6503 15305 Spring Hill, Frenchtown • $595,000 • Beautiful cedar-sided 4 bed, 2.5 bath on over 3 acres • Wrap around deck, finished basement & heated 3 car garage SELLER MOTIVATED! 232 Cap de Villa • $219,900 • Well-maintained 4 bed, 1.5 bath • Fenced backyard with deck & UG sprinklers

19488 Highway 200 East $399,900 • 4 bed, 3 bath • On 3 acres near Blackfoot River

1641 Stoddard $99.500 • Single wide 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage • Fenced yard, deck & lots of trees • Great building lot

1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell Two story 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 bed, 1 bath basement apartment & 2 bed, 1 bath garage apartment Corner lot, great front porch & lots of trees 1136howell.com • MLS #20125053 • $429,000

170 South 1st • Clinton • Quaint mini farm on 2.2 fenced acres close to Forest Service & river • 2 bed, 1 bath • 2 car garage & outbuildings • End-of-road privacy & lots of natural light 1701stclinton.com • MLS #20123028 • $203,000 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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Rochelle

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REAL ESTATE 170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres.

Close to the river and Forest Service land. $203,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 19488 Highway 200 East/ Bonner.

5 bed, 3 bath, basement & 3 car garage on 3 mountain view acres. $399,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 1978 Waters Edge, Bonner. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.3 Blackfoot River acres. $499,999. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Stevensville log home on 1.2 acres. $139,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

2110 Petty Creek, Alberton. Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2351 Highway 83 West, Seeley Lake. 2 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 2.4 lakefront acres. $599,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 28 Rock Creek Road, Clinton. 4 bed, 3 bath on 70 private acres with indoor pool & waterfall. $849,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6.3 acres. Large shop. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Ravalli home on 2.65 Acres. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres. $399,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 406 Main Street, Superior. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided on 1/3 acre. Basement & 3 car garage with mechanic’s pit. $150,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos $144,900 - $249,900 Under new ownership! 1 and 2 bedrooms. Large units, nice finishes, secure entry, secure U/G parking, riverfront, affordable HOA dues and much more. Owner financing comparable to FHA terms available with as little as 3.5% down!

Units, pricing and info available at www.mullanheights.com

5471 Wildlife Way, Florence. 4 bed, 3 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 1 acres. Trex decks & mountain views. $309,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 9010 Scharf, Clinton. 2 bed, 1 bath with 3 car garage & heated shop on over 9 private acres. $225,000.

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Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/- acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house?

Here it is! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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345 Brooks Street

801 North Orange, Unit 214

4 bed home reduced to $229,000

Condo short sale $140,000

835 Rollins

114 Bentley Park Loop

Slant street home now priced at $179,500

Great floor plan $183,000

1725A Park Place

4600 Monticello Place

3 bed townhome reduced to $146,000

3 bed, 2 bath, private yard $189,500

TONIGHT! Thursday, August 16

The Mark Alan Hart Foundation presents

MARCUSFEST 2012

Fulfilling his dream!

Join us to help raise money for Missoula-area cancer patients

Friday, August 17, 4pm to closing Boomers Pub Music and much more!

PERFORMANCES BY: Mick Hart Band from Seattle Party Trained Andrea Harsell Vultures of Bakken from Sitka, AK Blue Collar Mark Chase FEATURING The Chris Hiatt Experience More info: markhartfoundation.org

Image from card available at Rudy’s.

Garden City Harvest’s annual

Farm Party Come eat, drink and dance under the midsummer moon!

5:30pm at the PEAS Farm (in the Rattlesnake) FEATURING Tom Catmull & the Clerics OPENING WITH Mudslide Charley More info: gardencityharvest.org