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Voices/Letters Trapping, water compact and Last Best Conference ..............................4 Week in Review Tourism, a grand salami and dead fish ................................................6 Briefs Remembering Beebe, energy conservation and EKO Compost...........................6 Etc. Medical marijuana takes another hit ........................................................................7 News Selling an ancient product with new technology..................................................8 News Judge dismisses FWP investigation of Bullock appointee .....................................9 Opinion Gianforte’s anti-refugee message smells of desperation................................10 Opinion Bad news sours an otherwise momentous Park Service milestone...............11 Feature The Answers Issue............................................................................................14
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Nashville icon Rodney Crowell feels the pull of Montana.....................................18 Music J. Sherri, Mo Troper and Fitz and The Tantrums................................................19 Books James Lee Burke completes trilogy with Jealous Kind......................................20 Film Don’t Think Twice is more than all right ..............................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 What’s Good Here Masala spices up dessert ...............................................................23 Happiest Hour Rye cocktails at Montgomery Distillery...............................................25 8 Days a Week Fielding inquiries during every one of them .......................................26 Agenda Camp Mak-A-Dream .........................................................................................34 Mountain High Great Outdoor Days............................................................................35
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STREET TALK
by Tess Haas
Asked Monday afternoon at Draught Works What’s the first question you had about Missoula when you got here? Follow-up: What question do you get most often from others about Missoula or western Montana?
Travis Tikka: Why is rent so high here? Income doesn’t substantiate rent here. Happy campers: I have friends from the city and they always ask, “Why are people so happy in Missoula?”
Kenda Kessen: I wondered why people told me to change my license plates as soon as I moved here, or else my car might get keyed. I’m from California. Whoa, Nelly: If we ride horses everywhere.
Alyssa Borchardt: Why are people so obsessed with the Griz? Bears and beaches: What it’s like to live here. People think it’s way more like the West Coast than it really is.
Becky Grassl: Why is it so hard to get a job here? Party time: What is there to do for fun here?
Ryan Drew: I always wondered how many people moved here with dreadlocks and how many people get them when they move here? Familiar faces: Most of my friends know about Missoula so they don’t ask me anything.
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No responsibility
Downward spiral
Last Best chance
While there are very few people that trap in Montana–about half of 1 percent–they impact the enjoyment of other outdoorsmen and women with their prolific placement of traps and snares, many of them lethal, with no responsibility for what steps into them. Unlike fishing and hunting, trapping is a commercial activity, killing wildlife in horrific ways for financial gain. When one person’s use of public lands interferes with everyone else, it is time to consider the rights of the whole. The trapping industry has always strenuously resisted efforts to further regulate trapping. They believe it is their “tradition” and “right” to trap, that trapping takes precedence over other outdoor activities, whether interfering with those activities or not. Additionally, the Montana FWP commission, deep in the trapping lobby’s pocket, has refused to address citizen complaints concerning the effects of trapping on other users. Hence, I-177, an initiative to prohibit trapping on public lands. There is nothing biologically sound about trapping. It is indiscriminate and kills far more creatures than the ones targeted for profit. In addition, Montana FWP has no real knowledge of what this carnage entails or its extent. The trapping lobby will throw up numerous smokescreens about “animal rights” groups, “emotional” people opposing trapping and how the demise of trapping will result in a biological apocalypse. This is all nonsense and scare tactics, as there are many states that have already prohibited trapping without issue, such as Colorado, Arizona and Washington. Concerning farmers and ranchers, I-177 will not prohibit trapping on private land, so they can invite trappers onto their property as they see fit. With FWP unwilling to act, it’s up to Montana voters to take our public lands back for the enjoyment and safety of the vast majority of citizens. Please vote yes on I-177. Mike Koeppen Florence
I am fully behind Greg Gianforte for governor. We sadly and urgently need to unseat current Gov. Bullock. I have talked with Gianforte several times but feel he likely needs more truthful information on the CSKT water compact. Montana candidates and current legislators, including at the federal level, have been extensively propagandized and misinformed by well financed compact proponents. The CSKT water compact, in combination with bills introduced by Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines, have the potential of destroying the Montana economy. The tribes would be acting as conduits to federally manage the administration, allocation and water use “on and off reservation”
In 2011, I opened Advanced Technology Group’s Missoula Solution Center with just a handful of employees. As of this year, we’ve hired nearly 80, 62 of them in Missoula. ATG is a technology business that helps clients optimize their quote-to-cash environment leveraging world-class cloud technologies. I feel lucky as a Montana native to have been able to come home to the state I love, and I volunteer my time and energy to help create a business climate where others can do the same. It’s why I volunteer with the Montana High Tech Alliance’s board of advisors, and why I’m passionate about supporting the University of Montana’s Blackstone Launchpad with the Last Best Conference, or LBCon, coming up Aug. 25 and 26 at the Wilma. LBCon aims to become an annual event in the spirit of Austin’s SXSW or Portland’s World Domination Summit. It is the only experience in Montana where eight national speakers come together with hundreds of amazing people to share their stories of courage and what it takes to pursue their passion. LBCon was inspired by the incredible startup activity in Montana, including our state’s No. 1 ranking for startup activity four years running by the Kauffman Foundation. LBCon matters to my business because part of why ATG can operate from Missoula is because of the high caliber of our employees, most of them University of Montana graduates. Our business depends on securing contracts with large global companies, and we prize those connections. A key goal of LBCon is to strengthen the ties that bind together our business and entrepreneurship community from Spokane to Boise to Billings and beyond, further positioning our state as a regional hub. Learn more and purchase tickets for LBCon at lastbestconference.com. Tom Stergios Advanced Technology Group Missoula
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“When one person’s use of public lands interferes with everyone else, it is time to consider the rights of the whole.” statewide. This also represents indirect federal control of the land, its uses and productivity. Montana legislation would threateningly set precedent for application by some 326 reservations throughout the U.S. Similar forces are already underway in other northwest states, include dam and reservoir removal, and similar tribal water takeovers. Far from representing healthy capitalistic free enterprise business development, this would be the final stages of feeding our natural resources, private property and wealth into a downward spiral of socialistic governmental control. We desperately need a dedicated, knowledgeable, experienced, successful businessman as governor, which would be Greg Gianforte. Clarice Ryan Big fork
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, August 17
The Montana Attorney General’s Office announces the end of a two-year period of oversight into how Missoula authorities handle sexual assault cases. Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst notes that her office is planning to hire a fifth attorney for the Special Victims Unit this fall.
Thursday, August 18 The state announces its “Get Lost (in Montana)” tourism campaign will be ending, and a new company is under contract with the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development. Incoming marketing agency Hoffman York is based in Wisconsin.
Friday, August 19 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks closes public access to 183 miles of the Yellowstone River and tributaries in an unprecedented effort to protect fish populations from the deadly parasite Tetracalsula bryosalmonae.
Saturday, August 20 The Zootown Fringe Festival concludes its fourth annual celebration of underground art, music and theater with the “Zoonie” awards. Adult film actor Frank Bukkwyd wins “Most Insightful Performance” for his presentation on “What I Learned from Porn.”
Sunday, August 21 Paxton De La Garza hits a grand slam and drives in six runs total to lead the Missoula Osprey to a 12-8 win over Billings at Dehler Park. The following day Missoula completes a four-game sweep of its in-state rival.
Monday, August 22 Local and federal agencies respond when a blaze sparks in the Upper Grant Creek neighborhood around 5:30 p.m., leading to the temporary evacuation of some residents along Colorado Gulch. The cause is not yet officially determined, but initial reports say a downed power line was the likely culprit.
Tuesday, August 23 Workers replace a petroleum pipe that runs underneath Rattlesnake Creek in the Lincolnwood neighborhood, turning the normally crystal-clear stream muddy. Missoula County officials say the creek should return to normal within a few days after work finishes.
Two hikers follow a route around cliffs while working toward the summit of Reynolds Mountain in Glacier National Park on Aug. 22.
Firefighting
Remembering Beebe The morning of Aug. 20, thousands of people filed into the stadium at Ogren Park. Family, friends, regional hotshot crews and former firefighters gathered for a ceremony commemorating Justin Beebe, a Lolo Interagency Hotshot Crew member who died the previous week fighting the Strawberry Fire in Nevada. As the audience settled into their seats, the only sounds were the burble of young children and the distant cries of an osprey. Shawn Faiella, assistant superintendent of the IHC, stood up to talk about how Beebe was hired for the crew earlier this spring, making it through a competitive process. Beebe had been determined to prove himself, Faiella recalled. On Aug. 13, Beebe was hit by a falling tree and died from his injuries. He was 26. “There’s nothing that can prepare you for that moment and nothing that can prepare you to be a speaker
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at an event like this,” Faiella said. “But we stuck together as Beebe would want us to. And we did our best. And now we’re here.” Among the hundreds of firefighters at the ceremony, former Lolo IHC member Craig Rigdon attended to show his support for Beebe’s family and hotshot crew. Rigdon fought fires from 2000 to 2005, including the Thirtymile Fire that killed four firefighters in Washington in 2001. Rigdon says Beebe’s memorial stirred bittersweet emotions. “It’s kind of strange, where you simultaneously are grieving for someone who lost their life, but at the same time you’re kind of overjoyed to see people that are still here, still around,” Rigdon says. “You realize just how important people are to you.” Rigdon served under Steve Karkanen, a longtime Lolo IHC supervisor, who also attended the memorial. Karkanen notes that Beebe’s death marks the first fatality he’s aware of in the crew’s 55-year history.
“It affected me greatly,” Karkanen says. “One of the things about this particular crew, we’ve had an outstanding safety record for many years. But this was an accident.” Karkanen says after talking with investigators and crew leaders, it seems apparent to him that Beebe’s death wasn’t due to any extraordinary circumstance. He can think of countless times in his 30-plus years of experience that a sawyer felling a tree had to jump left or right with a split second’s notice to avoid danger. “What happened to Justin is something that could happen to anyone working a chainsaw on a fire,” Karkanen says. “It’s dirty, dangerous work.” Like many firefighters, Karkanen was touched by the outpouring of support from fire agencies across the nation. Even the Washington Monument flew flags at half-staff over the weekend in Beebe’s memory. “It really does help the individuals that knew him, Justin’s family and anybody else that’s close,” Karkanen says. “It’s an honor that is well-deserved.” Kate Whittle
[news] Carbon footprint
Two neutral gears Chase Jones was expressionless as he told members of Missoula City Council that it was “very okay� to celebrate data showing city government had met its first goal on the path to eliminating its carbon footprint. Councilman Bryan von Lossberg responded with a quip. “Don’t oversell it by saying, ‘very okay,’� he said. “We can celebrate it.� While Jones, the city’s energy conservation coordinator, says he’s “thrilled� by the findings of his latest greenhouse gas inventory, his sights are set on more ambitious targets. In 2013, the city adopted a conservation and climate action plan, resolving to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. The first benchmark was a 10 percent emissions reduction by fiscal year 2015; the city reduced them by 11 percent, Jones announced Aug. 17, despite growing infrastructure. Jones attributes the initial progress to a drop in natural gas use, changes in employee commuting habits and a cleaner electricity supply through NorthWestern Energy. The reductions are small potatoes in the larger energy mix, but Jones says the city is “just getting started.� By year’s end, new upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant should cut overall emissions by another 8 percent. And the city has yet to take a comprehensive look at energy efficiency in the buildings it owns. Then there’s the prospect of installing solar panels atop city buildings (currently being studied), converting the 600-vehicle fleet to cleaner fuel sources and more. Still, carbon neutrality remains an exceedingly ambitious goal, as the University of Montana is learning. The university pledged to go carbon neutral by 2020 and achieved its own 10 percent emissions reduction target in 2014. But momentum on campus slowed in the wake of UM’s worsening financial situation, sustainability coordinator Eva Rocke acknowledges. “I don’t think that there’s anyone really on campus who’s deeply engaged in climate action work who thinks we will meet our 2020 commitment,� she says. “It’s hard to maintain morale when you know there’s this goal you’re not going to meet.� Basic energy efficiency projects are on hold until UM’s budget stabilizes, including a proposal to add energy controls to Lommasson Center that consultants say will pay for itself over time.
“Even if the project pays for itself, it’s difficult to spend anything, to go into any kind of debt, because things are uncertain,� Rocke says. While Rocke is switching emphasis to other aspects of environmental sustainability on campus, Jones was urged by city council to look for more opportunities to insert a conservation mindset into city decisionmaking, everything from landscaping to infrastructure. “If we’re going to be successful at this, and we’re going to do this well, we need to be very careful not to create another silo over here,� he says. “The goal is just to integrate these concepts so it becomes business as usual, rather than an add-on.�\ Derek Brouwer
EKO Compost
Waft away A dozen times this year residents have called Ben Schmidt to complain of a putrid poop smell wafting over Missoula. That’s not a bad figure, the city-county air quality specialist says, considering how strong the stench used to get. Then again, by now most everyone who lives or works on the city’s Westside knows where the odor originates, and Schmidt acknowledges “complaint fatigue� could be keeping the number down. In 2009, the city spent $80,000 to figure out who was to blame, pinning it evenly on the city-run wastewater treatment plant and EKO Compost, a private business that composts the plant’s sludge byproduct and sells it. The treatment plant responded by spending more than $1 million to snuff out its sewage smell, but EKO only “marginally invested� in controlling the fumes, according to a new city-commissioned study. In other words, the stench persists—but not for long, Public Works Director John Wilson says. Missoula City Council voted unanimously Aug. 22 to authorize purchase of EKO Compost for $1.24 million, and reducing foul odors is one of the first steps Wilson expects to take once the city assumes control. He thinks the facility shouldn’t smell much worse than a barnyard when all is said and done. Odor control isn’t particularly complicated or expensive compared to the $8.4 million in total infra-
BY THE NUMBERS Days per year an Airbnb-style tourist home could be rented without being subject to city licensing rules, under a new proposed ordinance.
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structure upgrades the city plans to make at the facility. Larger fans for aeration and more woodchips to lay on top of the compost piles as a filter could make a big difference, Wilson says. “If it takes more than that, we’ll do it,� he adds. If the problem is so easy to solve, why hasn’t EKO done so? Wilson isn’t willing to criticize EKO’s existing operation, noting that the facility is in compliance with current regulations. However, an engineering consultant hired by the city to investigate a possible purchase of EKO found the existing “makeshift� biofilter to be 1/ the size recommended as the industry standard 43 and the compost piles underaerated by a factor of 50. The city has worked with EKO Compost since 1977 in what was one of the first public-private partnerships of its kind. But the arrangement has left officials with little recourse with respect to odor issues at the facility. Wilson says the city is in a better position to invest in improvements, since it doesn’t need to turn a profit. EKO Compost currently has a “positive cash flow,� according to a letter supporting the purchase sent to the city by EKO owner Tom Pawlish. (The company’s Missoula plant manager did not return a call for comment.) A financial analysis prepared by city administrators indicates the city can afford the proposed site and equipment improvements without raising taxes or fees. Wilson says many project details, including the final design, still need to be honed, but city control over the entire stream of human waste presents new opportunities for efficiencies and reuse. It also comes with the risks inherent in assuming management of another public works operation—and the responsibility to stop spewing stench onto the neighbors. “I’m perfectly happy to be accountable for that,� Wilson says. Derek Brouwer
ETC. Another nugget of hope for medical marijuana in Montana went up in smoke last week. On Aug. 17, District Court Judge James Reynolds refused to delay implementation of a set of restrictive provisions he’s twice blocked in the past. The odds of a favorable ruling a third time around may have been slim, but it was the last chance advocates had to bridge the gap before voters decide on Initiative 182, a measure on the November ballot aimed at restoring the state’s medical marijuana program. Now, patients and providers alike are left to grapple with a harsh reality. Starting Sept. 1, providers will be limited to only three patients, and numerous dispensaries statewide have already closed their doors. Even for those staying open, like Missoula provider Katrina Farnum at Garden Mother Herbs, the task of choosing just three patients is “a tragedy.� “People look to you for help, and you’re stuck in the position that you, by force, cannot do it,� Farnum says. “I don’t want to jeopardize my ability to help them in the future, so it is absolutely important that I am being compliant with the laws ... In the meantime, the hardest part is they’re all important to me.� State officials have been letting patients know that they can register as their own providers, an option that carries its own set of challenges. They could also dare to drive to Washington or Oregon, where marijuana is legal, but transporting it back home would be illegal. The options are limited, and the number of patients affected is considerable. As of July, the Montana Marijuana Program shows 487 registered providers in the state and 13,710 patients— or 1 provider for every 28 patients. The ratio gets worse in certain specific areas. Ravalli County, for example, has just 14 providers for 494 patients, or 1 for every 35. The situation may seem grim, but Farnum at least has vowed to continue doing anything she can. That includes working with patients to answer questions, calm nerves and perhaps find a non-THC tincture or tea to get them through the next few months. It also means networking with the I-182 campaign, which she feels will need to focus on fundraising and education through Election Day. “That’s the light at the end of the tunnel for people,� Farnum says. “All of their hopes, everything, are riding on the fact that that passes.�
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A sign posted on the fence outside the gloves. An alpaca sweater can cost hun- projects to a memorial for her longtime favorite alpaca, Josie. Tyler’s sent out samples Black Wolf Ranch in St. Ignatius gives an dreds of dollars. “In order to make it work here, I have to prominent bloggers, received coverage unexpectedly friendly notice: “Warning: Alfrom the website Crochet Concupiscence got to do online sales,” she says. pacas Will Steal Your Heart.” A few months ago, Tyler reached out and was recently interviewed by the indusInside the gate, Wendy Tyler and her husband, Bret Schlueter, call for their herd to a connection from her old job at Otter- try magazine Alpacas. Tyler’s business plan and social media of alpacas to come in to feed. More than 200 box, the company that makes sturdy cellanimals trot by the barn—less of a thunder- phone cases. That conversation led to strategy is fairly unusual for most smalling herd than a gentle wave of fuzzy beasts Black Wolf Ranch signing on with Wild time hobby producers, according to Diane with enormous eyes. Crystal, one of the Rock, a marketing firm that helped Tyler Ward, a Whitefish rancher. Ward raises friendliest alpacas, shoves her nose into a develop a sales strategy and lay out specific merino and cormo sheep on 20 acres, and goals. Now Tyler—who still works in IT sells the fleece to other producers who visitor’s hands, expecting a treat. “Oh, we just love them,” explains Tyler. project management to help pay the bills— spin it into yarn. “There aren’t many like [Tyler] that do She and her husband met in Washing- raises the alpacas, sells the yarn and helps ton, D.C., in the late 1990s when they both maintain a social media presence on Face- that, from the animal to the whole worked in the IT industry. They longed to get away from city life and decided that raising alpacas and selling alpaca yarn would be a rewarding challenge. The couple started with seven animals in 2004, and their herd grew exponentially as they bred, purchased or were given more—and suddenly they had 227 alpacas on their hands. “Alpacas are very easy to maintain, and they have to be tough,” Tyler says. “They only photo by Kate Whittle give birth in the daylight. I swear, if one of Hobby yarn producers like Black Wolf Ranch in St. Ignatius are taking to social media to pro’em has contractions mote their product to worldwide audiences. and it’s dark out, they’ll cross their legs and wait until the next day.” book and the fiber-crafting database process,” Ward says. “She does a beautiful job of what she’s doing. And she markets Alpaca yarn also happened to be grow- Ravelry. “They came up with a plan, and said, all over the world.” ing in popularity around the time Tyler deTyler, like Ward, says raising specialty cided to go into the business. A 2015 article ‘This is the content we need from you, from Fortune highlights the benefits of al- the pictures we need from you, and pro- livestock isn’t ultimately about making wild paca, which is warmer, less itchy and more vide it to us on this date and time,’” she profits, but about making the hobby selfsays. “I was just like, ‘Wow, that’s a lot of supporting so they can continue to raise water-resistant than sheep’s wool. animals they love. As she gazes out over her But it’s unusual for fiber ranchers to work.’” So far, though, she says it’s paying off. acreage and looks fondly at the grazing alalso process and sell their products, and Tyler understands why. It’s challenging to Since hiring the marketing firm in July, she’s pacas, she says she hopes Black Wolf Ranch sell yarn on an isolated ranch in the Flat- learned how to post updates and reach out will become a local institution. “Oh yes, for years to come,” she says. head, for one thing. Alpaca yarn is also to prospective customers. Recent Facebook pricey—hers runs about $40 per skein, posts for Black Wolf Ranch include everykwhittle@missoulanews.com which is enough to make a hat or pair of thing from a contest for finished knitting
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Tossed out Judge dismisses FWP investigation of Bullock appointee by Alex Sakariassen
Last month, Lake County Justice of missal, he still has to go before the Mon- tually made him a target for former Lake the Peace Randal Owens threw out a tana Board of Outfitters’ screening commit- County Attorney Mitch Young. After receivseries of outfitter violations leveled tee to answer separate complaints filed by ing Bowen’s reports in February 2012, by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Bowen there. He’s also fighting to regain a Young publicly challenged the warden’s against a Swan Lake outfitter and fishing permit revoked by the DNRC over credibility and refused to prosecute the gubernatorial appointee. The order va- the course of the case, though he says he’s poaching cases until Bowen himself had cated a jury trial set for mid-December already “lost a whole year of revenue off been investigated. FWP exonerated Bowen, and actually and came at the request of Deputy Lake that section of river.” countered with its own allegaCounty Attorney Molly Owen, tions against Young. But as the who filed a motion on July 5 Indy previously reported (see to dismiss the charges against “To serve and deflect,” July 25, Patrick M. Tabor without 2013), agency officials also prejudice citing “an insuffislapped Bowen with what the cient likelihood of convicwarden called a “virtual gag tion.” The investigation had order.” In addition, Bowen been led by FWP Warden claimed his investigation of the Frank Bowen. Coyote Club had been cut short According to court docuby his superiors due to electionments provided to the Indy, year politics. Bullock was in the Bowen issued multiple citamidst of a race for the govertions March 1 alleging Tabor nor’s office, and as Bowen later had violated his commercial photo courtesy MT Fish, Wildlife and Parks stated in a sworn deposition, use license and Montana Department of Natural Resources An investigation by FWP Warden Frank Bowen, pictured here, his regional supervisor had and Conservation regulations into alleged outfitter violations by Patrick Tabor was dis- been concerned about drawing attention to inadequate overseveral times throughout 2013. missed in Lake County last month. Bowen retired Aug. 20. sight of Lake County law enThe charges against Tabor inFWP Chief of Enforcement Tom Flowers forcement during Bullock’s time as state cluded failing to “keep true and accurate records” for his operations on the Swan told the Indy last week he was aware Tabor attorney general. Bowen was reassigned in River in 2013 and allowing a subcontracted had been involved with some sort of en- summer 2012 to an FWP warden position fishing guide out of Bigfork to utilize state forcement action in Region 1 but referred funded by the DNRC. Anderson confirmed lands “without a commercial use license.” questions to Lee Anderson, the region’s war- Bowen retired from the position on Aug. 20. Repeated attempts to contact Bowen The recommended penalty for those viola- den captain, for any details. Anderson says tions was $250 with no jail time. Tabor, he can’t offer much insight either, adding for this article were unsuccessful. Bullock’s who is the president-elect of the Montana there is still some “pending stuff ” before the office did not return messages seeking Outfitters and Guides Association and was Montana Board of Outfitters and the DNRC comment on the Tabor case by press time. Kathryn QannaYahu, founder of the appointed to the Montana Board of Outfit- regarding outfitter violations. ters by Gov. Steve Bullock in March 2014, Asked if Tabor’s position as a guberna- hunting and angling organization Enhancpleaded not guilty to all five violations. torial appointee had any bearing on the in- ing Montana’s Wildlife and Habitat, “The fundamental element of the case vestigation, Anderson says the agency took “a finds the court’s dismissal of Bowen’s was this allegation that business arrange- true look into these things just as we would recent case troubling particularly in light ments I made with guides and outfitters to anybody else.” He’s equally succinct when it of how Lake County handled his past investigation. service clients that were referred to us was comes to the judge’s dismissal of the case. somehow or another not in compliance “That’s not super common,” Anderson “As a conservation hunter and angler,” with my special recreational use license,” says, “but it happens.” she says, “I am angry that after such diliTabor says in response to the case. “That’s The proceedings in Bowen’s latest in- gence, the county attorneys and judges deterribly frustrating because all of our doc- vestigation come nearly five years after he cide, for certain individuals, to not follow umentation, everything I did, was in com- made headlines for an exhaustive probe into through with a trial, instead dismissing not pliance with the board of outfitters rules.” alleged poaching activity by a group of law only the hard work by these wardens but the Tabor adds that he’s spent consider- enforcement officers in Lake County known laws that were created for our benefit.” able time, money and effort “trying to clear as the “Coyote Club.” Bowen’s pursuit of my good name.” Even with the court’s dis- that case prompted death threats and evenasakariassen@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • August 25–September 1, 2016 [9]
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Mailer daemon Gianforte’s anti-refugee message smells of desperation by Dan Brooks
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[10] Missoula Independent • August 25–September 1, 2016
One of the fun things about Montana politics is that it is generally conducted without the benefit of polls. Newspapers run deeply unscientific reader polls, and the campaigns presumably employ consultants, but broad surveys of Montanans’ preferences are not publicly available. Who’s winning? It’s anybody’s guess. Sometimes, though, the campaigns give us a hint. The Gianforte campaign hinted hard last week, when it sent out a mailer prominently featuring a stock photograph of a man in a head scarf holding a machine gun. “Bullock supports bringing Syrian refugees into Montana,” it read. On the flip side, a smiling Gianforte promised to “stand up to dangerous refugee programs” by banning refugees from “countries known to harbor terrorists” and preventing “attacks like we’ve seen around the world.” I’m going to put my journalistic credibility on the line here and predict that regardless of who is elected governor, foreign terrorists will not attack Montana. I’m also going to say that this mailer is a bad sign from the Gianforte campaign. First of all, refugees are admitted to the United States by the federal government, and the governor of Montana has no say in where they go after that. Once you get a visa, it’s good for the whole country. You will notice that the last time you bought a home or rented an apartment, the sheriff did not check your papers to make sure you weren’t from Iran. Putting aside the question of whether refugees are dangerous, pretending the governor has some power to keep them out of Montana is grandstanding at best. Second, the timing of this mailer is awful. It arrived the same week a family of Congolese refugees settled in Missoula, having fled a region of their country where Islamist paramilitary groups target Christians. I don’t know if you’ve heard this, but Gianforte is a Christian himself. The coincidence points out a major flaw in his position, which seems to assume that people fleeing “radical Is-
lamic terrorism” are likely to be radical Islamic terrorists themselves. That’s not the underlying fear, of course. The fear is that terrorists will slip in among the legitimate refugees, but there is very little evidence to support it. Of the 750,000 refugees admitted to the United States since 2001, only three have faced terrorism charges, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Meanwhile, millions of foreign nationals enter the country on tourist, student and work visas each year—all with far less scrutiny than we bring to refugees.
“We don’t know who’s winning the race for governor of Montana. But the Gianforte campaign has given us a strong indication that it thinks it’s losing.” So why has Gianforte taken up this non-issue? This question brings us to the third problem with the mailer, which is not just misleading and insensitive but tactically ill-advised. The fear of terrorists slipping into the U.S. along with refugees, like Islamophobia generally, is a signature issue of Donald Trump. That candidate is currently trailing Hillary Clinton by a wide margin that threatens to drag his whole ticket down with him. Lifelong Republicans who dislike their party’s nominee but still hate
Clinton are likely to stay home on Election Day. The only thing that might turn them out are appealing down-ticket candidates: conventional, measured candidates like Gianforte. Why, in this climate, would he make himself more like Trump? Voters who are worried about terrorism at Fleet Farm will be coming to the polls anyway. Gianforte should be courting the ones who are worried their once-sensible party has fallen to scaremongering. He should pursue the Republicans and moderates who are fed up with tactics exactly like this mailer. Thanks to Trump, xenophobic dummies are already in the bag. We don’t know who’s winning the race for governor of Montana. But the Gianforte campaign has given us a strong indication that it thinks it’s losing. Last week’s mailer smells of desperation— desperation uninformed by a clear sense of what could be done to turn things around. For Republican candidates across the country, Trump’s message is the problem, not the solution. In embracing it, Gianforte is like a man afraid of drowning who clings to a sinking ship. Republicans are not facing a rout in November because they failed to exploit fears of Islamic terrorism. They’re in trouble because the man at the top of their ticket has failed to speak kindly, to describe a hopeful message, to appeal to facts and sense in a way people who don’t already agree with him can understand. Gianforte has made mistakes, but on the whole he has succeeded where Trump has failed. Throughout this election, he projected decency. He was better than his party’s nominee. Then he welcomed a family of Congolese refugees to Montana by mailing out a few thousand pictures of the kind of people who tried to kill them. Voters can decide whether that was an endorsement or merely a bad idea, but it doesn’t look good either way. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and messaging strategies at combatblog.net.
[opinion]
Birthday bashed Bad news sours otherwise momentous Park Service milestone by Paul Larmer
For most of us, birthdays are happy occasions when friends and family pay fond attention, lavishing us with gifts to prove that we are loved and valued. For one day, our foibles are accepted with a smile, or at least diplomatically ignored. The National Park Service’s 100th birthday this August has been less joyful. In fact, anyone paying attention to the news might think the proud agency, which oversees 412 units across more than 80 million acres, has had its centennial celebration ruined by a series of uncomfortable revelations. In January, the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General released a report detailing two decades of sexual harassment by boatmen in the Grand Canyon’s river district and the failure of senior officials to adequately respond. In March, the agency abolished the river district and announced that it would increase sexual harassment training and conduct an agency-wide survey to ascertain how widespread the problem is. Then, in February, Chief Jon Jarvis was reprimanded by his bosses at Interior for publishing a book on the parks through a private company without federal approval. Meanwhile, the Park Service remains hobbled by byzantine bureaucratic policies that have contributed to its struggle to hire a workforce that reflects the nation’s racial diversity, despite decades of “we’re-on-it” rhetoric. Today, 83 percent of its 23,000 employees are white, no more racially diverse than it was a decade ago. The agency also lacks an adequate funding base, not only to maintain current operations, but to address the crumbling, neglected infrastructure at parks around the country. Annual appropriations from Congress, which make up
about 88 percent of its roughly $3 billion budget, declined 8 percent between 2005 and 2014 after adjusting for inflation, according to a December report from the Government Accountability Office. The funding crisis is so bad that the agency is considering corporate sponsorships, a move that has some worried that “America’s Best Idea” will end up auctioned off to the highest bidder: Arches National Park brought to you by McDonalds.
“The fact that we are having such deep, passionate discussions about our national parks and their problems is proof that they are loved and that they matter.” It’s enough bad news that some park officials probably wish that they’d planned a low-key event at some remote park in, say, South Dakota, rather than the yearlong media-saturated, Subaru-sponsored celebration that is keeping the agency in the public eye. But I’m glad the Park Service went big on its centennial, and I’m even glad that its dirty laundry is getting an airing. After all, birthdays are more than just celebrations—they’re also a time for reflection
and redirection. The fact that we are having such deep, passionate discussions about our national parks and their problems is proof that they are loved and that they matter. Besides, there are some bright spots: The agency continues to lead the way in helping us understand how climate change affects ecological systems; over the past five years, its new climate response program has studied climate change impacts on national parks from Acadia in Maine to American Samoa in the Pacific. Director Jarvis has also convened a panel of independent scientists, who in a report called Revisiting Leopold, urge the agency to stop trying to preserve each park as a “vignette of primitive America” and “act immediately, boldly and decisively” to prepare for volatile conditions, including severe wet seasons and deep droughts. That is forward thinking all land agencies need to embrace. And the Park Service has expanded its vision beyond protecting gorgeous landscapes to embracing parks and monument, some brand new, that spotlight America’s unique cultural heritage in all its remarkable, complex and occasionally ugly glory. Places like Cesar Chavez National Monument in California’s Central Valley and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park in Maryland. The centennial may not go down in history as the Park Service’s happiest birthday celebration ever, but hopefully it will be the most memorable and transformative one. We can all raise a glass to that. Paul Larmer is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the magazine’s executive director and publisher.
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missoulanews.com • August 25–September 1, 2016 [11]
[offbeat]
NEW WORLD ORDER – Australians are about to learn how particular some people are about their genders. Queensland University of Technology and three other sponsors have created an online preference survey (currently underway) that asks participants to decide among 33 "genders" (since "gender" is, according to the World Health Organization, “socially constructed”). “Male” and “female” are clear enough -but only where "identity" matches plumbing. Otherwise, it's “trans” or “transsexual,” or else the more complicated bigender, omnigender, polygender, pangender, intergender, genderfluid, “cisgender,” trigender, demigender, “gender non-conforming,” “non-binary,” “none gender” and a few others. LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES – India has supposedly outlawed the “baby-tossing” religious test popular among Hindus and Muslims in rural villages in Maharashtra and Karnataka states, but a July New York Times report suggested that parents were still allowing surrogates to drop their newborn infants from 30 feet up and awaiting the gods' blessing for a prosperous, healthy life. In all cases, according to the report, the gods come through, and a bedsheet appears below to catch the unharmed baby. GOVERNMENT IN ACTION – More federal civilian employees have “arrest and firearms authority” than the total number of active-duty U.S. Marines, according to a June report by the organization Open The Books, which claims to have tallied line-by-line expenditures across the government. Several agencies (including the IRS and EPA) purchase assault weapons and other military-grade equipment (camouflage, night-vision goggles, 30-round magazines) for their agents, and even the Small Business Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Department of Education buy their agents guns and ammo. San Diego Padres outfielder Melvin Upton Jr. was traded on July 23 to the Toronto Blue Jays – in the middle of a series between the Padres and the Blue Jays in Toronto. Normally, such a player would merely gather his belongings and walk down the hall to the other team's locker room. However, while Canada treats Blue Jays opponents as “visitors,” Blue Jays players, themselves, are Canadian employees, and if not residents must have work permits. Upton had to leave the stadium and drive to Lewiston, New York, which is the closest place he could find to apply to re-enter Canada properly. (He made it back by game time.)
LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – Shrewd Tourism Campaigns: Since Bulgaria, on Romania's southern border, lies close to Romania's iconic Transylvania region, Bulgarian tourism officials have begun marketing their own vampire tourism industry – stepped up following a 2014 archaeological find of a 4th century “graveyard” of adolescents with iron stakes through their chests. The new tourism minister of Thailand is threatening to close down the lucrative sex business in Bangkok and Pattaya, even with the country still rallying from a 2014 near-recession. Ms. Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul insisted that visitors are not interested in “such a thing (as sex)” but come for Thailand's “beautiful” culture. Paid to Go Away: Sports Illustrated noted in May that some universities are still paying out millions of dollars to failed coaches who had managed to secure big contracts in more optimistic times. Notre Dame's largest athletic payout in 2014 was the $2.05 million to ex-football coach Charlie Weis -- five years after he had been fired. That ended Weis' Notre Dame contract (which paid him $15 million post-dismissal), but he is still drawing several million dollars from the University of Kansas despite having been let go there, also.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS – Horniness: (1) A yearlong, nationwide investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (reporting in May) found more than 2,400 doctors penalized for sexually abusing their patients -- with state medical boards ultimately allowing more than half to continue practicing medicine. Some doctors, a reporter noted, are among “the most prolific sex offenders in the country,” with “hundreds” of victims. (2) District Judge Joseph Boeckmann (in Arkansas' rural Cross County) resigned in May after the state judicial discipline committee found as many as 4,500 nude or semi-nude photos of young men who had been before Boeckmann in court. (Some were naked, being paddled by Boeckmann, who trolled for victims by writing young men notes offering a “community service” option). FOR GOOD MEASURE – Rhys Holman pleaded guilty to a firearms charge in Melbourne, Australia, in July for shooting 53 bullets into his brother's Xbox. (The brother had urinated on Holman's car.) Mauricio Morales-Caceres, 24, was sentenced to life in prison by a Montgomery County, Maryland, judge in July following his April conviction for fatally stabbing a “friend” – 89 times.
BOLDFACE NAMES IN NEWS OF THE WEIRD! – Police in Southampton, New York, confirmed a July altercation in which model Christie Brinkley water-hosed a woman she had spotted urinating on her beachfront property. Erica Remkus, 36, said her need was urgent after watching a July 4 fireworks show, but Brinkley shouted, “How dare you!” and, “I walk on these rocks (where Remkus had relieved herself).” Also in July, actor Brooke Shields made the news when she –as a curator of an art show in Southampton, New York – managed to rescue a piece that custodians had inadvertently tossed into the garbage. (The cleanup crew had made an understandable mistake, as the statue was a raccoon standing next to a trashcan, ready to rummage.) Thanks this week to Michael Brozyna, Bruce Leiserowitz, Paul Peterson and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
[12] Missoula Independent • August 25–September 1, 2016
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 TATER•
Tater is an 8-month-old male Boxer. He is a happy and energetic young pup with a baby face that will melt anyone's heart. Tater still definitely has a great deal of puppy behavior that he has yet to learn is not appropriate, including being mouthy and jumping up on people. He'd make someone a great dog if they're willing to put in the time and commitment to train him.
GEMMA•Gemma is a 1 1/2-year-old female brindle Straffordshire Terrier. Gemma's first reaction is to greet and give affection to anyone she meets. She loves to play and does well with children, although she can get a little over-excited at first. Gemma knows several commands and is very well-mannered, and treat-motivated. She does well with submissive dogs, but will not back down with more overbearing or pushy dogs.
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RAY• Ray is a 4-month-old male orange Tabby. He is a bit timid and will shy away from people most of the time. He does like to be held close and cuddled for security. Ray needs a home that will help him build some confidence and trust in people so he knows he doesn't have to be afraid anymore. Ray would likely do well in a home with another cat to help show him the ropes.
TANDY•Tandy is a 5-month-old female English Foxhound. She is very social and enjoys interacting with people. At the shelter, she is often seen picking up plush toys and presenting them to you in hopes of play. Tandy is a bit atypical for a hound. While she does have a rather loud bay, Tandy has not yet developed a need to follow her nose to the ends of the Earth.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 DAULTON• Daulton is an Australian Cattle Dog mix looking for a loving home in Western Montana. This energetic 2-year-old has many playmates at the shelter and likes to run and rough house. He is very smart and eager to learn and would love to be enrolled in the Humane Society’s basic manners class or private lessons. He can play all day long and is looking for a family with time to run and time to teach.
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JIGGS•Jiggs is a handsome black and brown Hound/Lab mix. For about 9-years-old he's still an active, playful guy but can sometimes be a bit bashful and need some time to warm up to new people. Jiggs is a prime candidate for our Basic Manners Class to help expand on his training, he's a smart guy and picks things up quickly. Come meet Jiggs at the shelter 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula.
MAX• Max is an active, friendly and playful cat. He'd love nothing more than to find a nice lap to sit on and a person to have a nice conversation with. Max spends most of his time hoping to be held, or looking to find a warm slice of sunshine to take a great cat nap in. He’s been around young children, is social with visitors and has lived with dogs and other cats. Come meet Max at the shelter 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula.
OAKLEY•Oakley is a big, active boy who is looking for a family committed to meeting his exercise needs. This 1 1/2-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier mix loves being with his people and also enjoys swimming, hiking, and car rides. He enjoys playing with other dogs but needs a cat free home. Oakley would love to find a mature family who would love to do training with their new family member.
MARSHALL• This goofy and loveable fellow came to the Humane Society of Western Montana as a stray. But Marshall is now ready to find his forever home! This 10-year-old feline friend loves naps, cuddles, and purring up a storm! He is kind and friendly and ready to make a great companion for a lucky family! You can learn more about Marshall and other adoptable pets on our website www.myhswm.org
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missoulanews.com • August 25–September 1, 2016 [13]
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e learn early that there’s no such thing as a stupid question. The phrase affirms the constant quest for knowledge and guards against the sort of self-censorship that breeds ignorance or allows rumors to fester and eventually become assumed as facts. Sure, those in customer service or working the help desk may think otherwise, but more often than not it’s better to float a query, no matter how basic or obscure, than sit pat or, worse, assume. This is why the Indy launched its Answers Issue a few years ago. It’s timed to coincide with Fresh Facts, our annual back-to-school/newcomers/reminder of what Missoula is kinda sorta about guide. That glossy special section started more than a decade ago by explaining various WTF situations (“What’s with all the letters on mountains?”) and debunking certain local myths (No, Missoula-born director David Lynch did not base “Twin Peaks” and Blue Velvet on his brief time here). This year’s Fresh Facts still covers some of the basics—ever wonder why this place is called Missoula?—but we keep stumbling over enough unexplained quirks and oddities to write about them here, too. Make sure to visit missoulanews.com for our catalog of past questions and keep reading for this year’s discoveries. You might just learn something.
Q: What is Missoula’s oldest building? A: For the last several months, locals have been mired in debate over the fate of the historic Missoula Mercantile. With the city essentially giving developers the green light to demolish the site—save for a few historic features—preservation advocates are left picking up the pieces. That got us to wonder, what is in fact Missoula’s oldest building? The short answer: St. Michael’s Church. But historical queries always seem to come with an asterisk, and the log-andshake-shingle chapel now nestled at Fort Missoula has a pretty big one next to its name. According to Matt Lautzenheiser, executive director at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, St. Michael’s has moved around the Missoula Valley three, maybe four times over the past 150 years. It was originally constructed in 1863 as part of Hell Gate Ronde, about 4 miles west of what we’d consider Missoula proper today. Christopher Higgins and Frank Worden had set up a trading post there along the old Mullan Road several years earlier, and a written account of the village’s history published by Arthur Stone in 1911 claims Hell Gate as the site of the last execution by the famed Montana Vigilantes. Hell Gate only lasted about five years, Lautzenheiser says, at which point
it “died a very quick death” in favor of a new settlement called Missoula Mills. But St. Michael’s hung on, and in 1873 was relocated by wagon to a spot of ground on what is now Providence St. Patrick Hospital. It remained there until 1962, when it briefly returned to the old Hell Gate location. “Development in Missoula, as it moved west, threatened it a second time,” Lautzenheiser says. “So at that point they moved it to Fort Missoula and it’s been here ever since.” As for the oldest building still in its original spot, that would be the blacksmith shed out at LaLonde Ranch near Big Sky Brewing. It’s believed to have been built sometime in the 1870s as a homesteader cabin, and is now owned by Missoula County. Other structures may get mentioned as the oldest in town, but these usually come with caveats: the Montana Hotel, purported to be the oldest building in downtown, or the Missoula Mercantile, which Tom Cook at the Montana Historical Society says is among the city’s oldest “commercial block” buildings. Sometimes these claims are unverified, Lautzenheiser says, and attributable to the kind of lore that pops up around old things everywhere. “Basically every historic house back East claims that George Washington slept here, and we know he didn’t,” he adds. “But there’s an oral tradition that’s passed
down over the years about historic homes and historic buildings, and they tend to take on their own legends.”
Q: Why does it seem like most Missoulians struggle to make ends meet? And—asking for a friend—who are the city’s largest employers? A: Everyone in the valley is broke, or at least it seems that way. Jobs aren’t terribly hard to find, but securing one that pays well? That’s trickier. The most recent data backs up this perception. The U.S. Census put the city’s median household income at $41,968, or more than $10,000 below the national figure, and $4,800 lower than the state median (At $47,020, the countywide figure is just above the state median). Bozeman, Billings, Helena and Great Falls all have higher household incomes. Just 2.4 percent of Missoula households earn over $200,000 each year. Despite the penny-pinching income levels, not everyone is flipping burgers or slinging coffee. Four employers each supplied more than 1,000 jobs last year. Can’t think of them? Hint: education and health care. Missoula’s two hospitals, Providence St. Patrick and Community Medical Center, are the largest private employers. On the public side, Missoula County Public Schools employs around 1,200, including 750 or so classroom teachers. But the University of
Everything you’ve always wondered about Missoula but never dared to ask photo courtesy of Historical Museum at Fort Missoula
by Independent staff St. Michael’s Church
[14] Missoula Independent • August 25–September 1, 2016
Montana is the jobs giant. Associate Vice President of Human Resources Terri Phillips estimates UM employs 2,500 people who are eligible for benefits, meaning they work at least half-time for six months out of the year. Counting everyone who filled out a W-2 tax form with UM, the number jumps to 8,200.
Ellestad says they see a little bit of everything, even with TSA holding onto confiscated items like guns and knives, and the airlines taking care of things left on planes. The volume doesn’t surprise Ellestad—after all, nearly 360,000 passengers travel through MSO during the year, not to mention those there to greet them
aptly named TV Mountain and Big Sky Mountain near Snowbowl, or Dean Stone Mountain above Pattee Canyon. Besides the mountains, everything from snowpack to trees leafing out in spring can affect how television and radio signals bounce around the valley. Human interference, like a tall building going up next to your
Let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of the university’s official brand guidelines. UM has two sets of colors: its official colors and its “spirit colors.” The former date back to when the university was established in 1893, and copper, gold and silver were selected to represent the state’s minerals. The “spirit
rumor attributed the change to then-President George Dennison’s wife, who allegedly hated the clashing copper and gold combination. In a 1996 Missoulian article, Griz fan Mark Braddock lamented UM’s disregard for tradition. “We lost our uniqueness,” he told the paper. We called the sports information department to try and learn more about the decision, and they directed us to former UM sports information director Dave Guffey, who worked in Grizzly Athletics for 37 years before retiring in 2015. Guffey says he wasn’t involved in the decision and doesn’t know exactly why the change was made, but the spirit color backstory is legitimate. He points to “Wild Bill” Kelly’s 1920s-era letterman sweater in the Hall of Champions, which is actually silver and maroon. Ultimately, the switch matters less today because UM now embraces both color schemes. In 2008, the Griz football team entered the field for the annual rivalry game against Montana State in dramatic fashion, donning throwback uniforms for the first time since 1995. The football team, as well as the men’s and women’s basketball teams, have trotted out the copper and gold for special occasions several times, and officially licensed throwback apparel is readily found in stores for purchase. The Griz didn’t necessarily lose their “uniqueness,” but they did find a way to better monetize it.
photo courtesy of Todd Goodrich/UM University Relations
Star quarterback Dave Dickenson wore copper and gold when he helped the Griz win the 1995 I-AA championship. The next season, UM switched to maroon and silver.
Other employers with more than 500 jobs include: AT&T/DirectTV Customer Service, Walmart, Opportunity Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and city and county governments.
Q: What are you most likely to find at the Missoula International Airport’s lost and found? A: Sunglasses. Deputy Director Brian Ellestad says approximately 400 were recently donated to local charities. The airport passes along unclaimed prescription glasses to the Lions Club, while regular shades go to the Poverello Center or Teen Challenge. “We work with a number of local nonprofits and charities to make sure almost all of the items that go unclaimed go to good use in the community,” Ellestad says. Rest assured, that’s after valuables have sat in the airport’s secured lost and found storage area for “quite a while,” Ellestad says. In general, more expensive items are held for at least six months, while everything else is kept a minimum of 45 days. And sunglasses are just the beginning. Laptops, cellphones, outdoor gear—
or see them off. But it is shocking to airport staff that so many travelers don’t track down valuables left behind. So, knowing that, what is the oddest thing that’s landed in MSO’s lost and found? “We got a lamp in the shape of a gun once,” he says. TSA wouldn’t let the passenger fly with it, but it wasn’t confiscated and ended up in lost and found. “That was different.”
Q: Why does the Northside get such cruddy TV and radio reception? A: Missoula’s scenic mountainsides sometimes bounce radio waves around in weird ways. When one Indy staffer recently moved to an apartment on the Northside, right below Interstate 90, she suddenly found it difficult to find some TV and radio stations, including KUFM. “You’re mostly dealing with topography as a problem,” says Saxon Holbrook, an engineer with KUFM and MTPR. “You’re probably seeing the direct line of sight to the antennas being blocked by mountains.” Missoula’s broadcasters rely on towers located in two parts of the valley—the
house or even a refrigerator next to the antenna, can alter signals. “Anything that attenuates or reduces the signal is going to make it worse,” Holbrook explains. “As that stuff changes throughout the year people throughout the valley experience success or failure in all these different transmitted streams, unless they’re in the dead center in the city with a clear view of transmitter locations.” He suggests practical solutions like connecting TVs to an outdoor antenna, which gets better reception than the flimsy wall antennas that are common now. He also points out that many stations, including KUFM, also offer online streaming. “Obviously we want people to listen to our programming, because we think it’s good,” Holbrook says.
Q: Why did Griz athletics change its team colors from copper and gold to silver and maroon? A: We honestly had no idea this question would turn into such a hornet’s nest. Controversy. Conspiracy. Color palettes. We found a little bit of everything.
colors” are silver and maroon and have been used intermittently by athletic teams for decades and exclusively since fall 1996. That 1996 administrative decision is what inspired our question—and what also sparked some debate within Griz Nation at the time. During the first half of the last century, UM athletes wore any number of different color combinations, including the spirit colors and variations of the traditional colors. Finding a consistent shade of copper proved difficult and some uniforms incorporated silver, while others did not. In 1968, the football coach and athletic director, Jack Swathmore, finally brought some order to the situation and declared the official uniform colors copper and yellow gold. Making matters just a bit more confusing, the copper was actually a version of burnt orange, similar to the University of Texas. But whatever— these colors remained for nearly 30 years. Then in 1996, a year after the football team won its first national championship, the administration announced that maroon and silver would be brought back. Longtime boosters booed the move, referring to it as a simple money grab hitched to a more marketable color scheme. One
Q: How do Downtown Ambassadors maintain such a cheery demeanor? A: When the Missoula Parking Commission installed a fleet of digital parking meters throughout downtown in December 2015, plenty of locals were perplexed or annoyed by the newfangled machines. Some drivers also found the placement of the solar-powered kiosks burdened people with disabilities. Change—or, um, in this case, the need for a credit card—did not come easily. The city’s first line of defense for the rush of questions, complaints and, at worst, tantrums is a Downtown Ambassador. Ambassadors patrol downtown throughout the year, and, in the process, bear the brunt of visitors’ frustrations with everything from parking meters to conflicts with homeless people. They also keep an eye out for petty vandalism, graffiti, public drunkenness and assaults. Despite—or perhaps because of— the unpleasantness that can be part and parcel of a bustling downtown, it’s apparent that the ambassadors’ best resource is a relentlessly cheery demeanor. “By next year, the parking meters will be a non-issue,” says Laurie Anderson, a former schoolteacher who’s served as a year-round ambassador since the Business Improvement District, which funds the positions, was created about 10 years ago.
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On a Wednesday afternoon, Anderson sits near fellow ambassador Dave Chrismon at a table in Caras Park while they take a break from their duties during Out to Lunch. It’s a blistering hot day, but they both beam wide smiles, unburdened by the heat. They each wear polo shirts, khaki shorts and tennis shoes with neatly tied laces. Anderson says even when she encounters crabby people, it usually just takes a few minutes of hearing them out to resolve an issue. Chrismon agrees and adds that, by and large, Missoulians tend to be genial in nature.
seems like the perfect place for, say, a hockey rink or rodeo grounds. But a golf course? That’s an odd fit. Perhaps that’s because the golf course didn’t originally belong to UM. According to university records, in December 1916 a group of local golfers leased 160 acres of land near Higgins and South Avenue to build the Missoula Country Club. After they decided to move the club to its present location near Fort Missoula, UM expressed interest in buying the property for the benefit of UM athletics. Legislation prevented
open space and the prospect of selling public land to the private sector. Tensions flared again in 2012 when Main Hall proposed South Campus as a possible site for the new Missoula College. Advocates again rallied and threatened legal action before East Broadway was eventually selected for the new building. Current course General Manager Chris Anderson is less concerned about the past debate and more focused on what the popular facility continues to provide. “It’s all about recreational opportunities for students,” he says.
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UM Golf Course
“People are friendly in Missoula,” says Chrismon. “We get to be called ambassadors, but I think the whole town is recognized for having a lot of ambassadors. It’s the whole team that makes Missoula what it is.” If a situation does become threatening or someone becomes aggressive—city data shows between 12 incidents in August 2015 and zero last December—ambassadors can always turn to city police for assistance. Anderson says it helps that her husband is a school resource officer who patrols downtown for the Missoula Police Department in the summer. “All of the transients know it,” she says. “If there’s somebody new to town that’s floating through, they’ll say, ‘Don’t mess with her, she’s married to a great big cop.’”
Q: Why does the University of Montana have its own golf course? A: An institution of higher learning situated in the Rocky Mountain West
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the university from making the direct purchase, so then-UM President Charles H. Clapp reached out to Missoula businessmen for help. In 1924, the University of Montana Golf Course was established, though UM wouldn’t officially own the property until 1949. UM is the only school in Montana to own its own golf course. Historic memos gathered from the office of the university president show the course was listed as abandoned or in need of remodeling throughout the 1930s and ’40s. In 1955, plans to rebuild the course began in earnest. Though 18 holes were originally designed, student housing on the back nine prevented further construction. More recently, the golf course has been part of a broader discussion over the future of South Campus. In 2005, UM administrators pushed for a private retirement housing project, but it was shot down almost immediately by community members concerned about the loss of
Q: Why is there a bar in the UK named “Missoula”? A: In fact, there are 12. And, yes, the name is intended to pay homage to our beloved town. The backstory starts up the West Fork of the Bitterroot, at the Triple Creek Ranch, where one of the luxury resort’s frequent guests happens to be a pub tycoon. Ian Payne is chairman of the Stonegate Pub Company, which operates more than 600 bars and pubs across the United Kingdom. Payne has visited all 50 states, “and Montana is his favorite,” says Triple Creek manager Molly Smith. For seven years Payne solicited Smith for her help in bringing a piece of Montana to the UK before she finally agreed in 2012. By then, Payne had already renamed a series of bars after Missoula, but “they didn’t have any rhyme or reason why they were called ‘Missoula,’” Smith says, and “no one really related to it.” Smith spent the next 11 months in the UK working as a consultant for
Stonegate as Payne prepared to transform the Missoula-themed bars into higher-end restaurants with a more authentic Montana flair. Smith’s role involved introducing the state to Stonegate’s team of designers and marketers, most of whom had no idea what the “Big Sky” was all about. The result is Missoula Montana Bar and Grill, where the décor includes cowhide upholstery, a wall-sized map of the state and, at the original location, a saddle. Three restaurants—in Milton Keynes, Nottingham and York—currently operate under the brand Smith helped create. Menus include American-style meat dishes, such as pulled pork sandwiches and USDA beef. “They had never heard of prime rib,” Smith says. “They didn’t know what it was.” Payne’s initial ambitions to import huckleberries and Moose Drool beer fizzled out, as did efforts to impart American standards of customer service. Still, between the music mix of rock, country and bluegrass, the bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon and the western photography, Smith likes to think the restaurant captures a semblance of her home state. “It was cool to be able to share Montana, or try to,” she says. “It’s hard to get people to understand it, but they were excited about it, so hopefully it helps our tourism.”
Q: Who runs Missoula’s beloved Good Food Store? A: Contrary to popular local belief, the Good Food Store is not a nonprofit. But they don’t technically have an owner either. According to the Montana Secretary of State’s business database, the store is what’s known as a public benefit corporation without members— basically a community group or foundation that operates for “public or charitable purposes.” The Good Food Store owns its Third Street digs, and a check of Missoula County tax records shows it pays property taxes just like any for-profit corporation. Still, the business’s evolution since a group of friends founded it more than 40 years ago has led to some confusion. The current Good Food Store crew has tried to impart the correct information in the past, as illustrated by communications director Layne Rolston’s explanation in a 2015 Missoulian article about an 8,000-square-foot store expansion. Rolston specified that the store is run by an eight-member management team, with a board of directors serving an advisory role.
time, was undergoing its own struggle with civil rights. Weeks before Doss’ visit, students had marched into Main Hall and demanded UM hire a black faculty member. On his visit, Doss was introduced to then-President Robert Pantzer, who offered him a job either coaching football or teaching humanities. Doss took the teaching job and, once settled in his new offices, hung a sign on the door identifying himself as the Director of Black Studies. As Miller Shearer tells the story, the administration basically said, “Well, okay.” It marked only the second program of its kind created west of the Mississippi— the first started a few months earlier at San Francisco State University—and the third overall. (There’s some controversy over who, exactly, deserves second on the list, but UM’s place has not been challenged.) Doss led the program for 25 years. It continues today as a full-fledged major program. Need more answers? Check out missoulanews.com for past questions, including: Why does Missoula have so many urban deer? When did the Hip Strip become the Hip Strip? Why do we have an entire “Slant Street” neighborhood? What’s with all the casinos and video gaming machines around town? Plus many others.
“We’re a taxable, for-profit corporation,” Rolston said at the time. “Our profits go back into the store and we contribute a lot into the community. Because we don’t have owners, we’re able to give a lot back into the community.” Rolston declined to speak with the Indy, stating he could not reach all of the board members needed to approve an answer before press time.
Q: How is it that UM has one of the oldest AfricanAmerican Studies programs in the nation? A: It’s true—the third oldest, to be exact. According to Tobin Miller Shearer, the program’s current director, UM’s surprisingly early foray into African-American Studies was not an institutionally mandated plan, but a matter of historical circumstance. Ulysses Doss felt lost and burnt out following the 1968 assassination of his friend and fellow civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Doss, also a faith-based, grassroots organizer, decided he needed to get away from his work in Chicago and he took a trip to visit an acquaintance in Missoula. His friend, who worked as campus minister, showed Doss around. UM, like many campuses during such a volatile
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[arts]
Star on the water Nashville icon Rodney Crowell talks commercial country, the Opry and the allure of Montana winters by Erika Fredrickson
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few weeks ago, I visited Nashville, stepped off the plane and into an airport bar where a musician sang, “Turn me loose, set me free—somewhere in the middle of Montana!” It reminded me of all the ways Music City has a romantic connection to Big Sky Country. A few days later, I saw Vince Gill perform for his 25th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry and he brought out a bevy of guest musicians, including Rodney Crowell. I was most excited to see Crowell, who won a Grammy with Gill for their song, “It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew Your Ass All Day Long.” Crowell is Nashville royalty—a noncommercial, but highly successful singer-songwriter who has established himself playing with Emmylou Harris (they won a Grammy for their 2013 album Old Yellow Moon) and with Roseanne Cash (to whom he was once married). He’s also written charttopping songs for Keith Urban, Alan Jackson and Tim McGraw. But it’s Crowell’s own solo releases that have continued to solidify him as a serious musician. The singer-songwriter has been coming to Montana for over 20 years to play far from the bright city lights, in small venues and at community festivals. In advance of this weekend’s River City Roots Festival appearance, I talked with him about his songwriting career and his romance with Montana. I saw you play in White Sulphur Springs at Red Ants Pants Festival, but it was really great to see you at the Grand Ole Opry. How does it feel to be able to play both cow pastures and hallowed big-city stages? Rodney Crowell: [Laughs] You’re talking about the cow pasture at Red Ants? Yeah, well, I’m an Ivan Doig fan and I’ve read This House of Sky and everything else he ever wrote and I had a friend from White Sulphur Springs and friends in Livingston. I thought, “Well, I’m going to play music where Ivan Doig went to grade school.” That kind of romance is right up my alley. And then there’s the Grand Ole Opry. Just a few nights ago I was the music director for the Guy Clark tribute
lishing contract for $100 for a bus ride home. It was all a lie. I lived in my car from August until the first of November when I finally found a girl who was willing to let me sleep on her couch. There was a place called Bishop’s Pub where you could play songs and pass the hat so I could make $6 sometimes four or five times a week. Breakfast was 69 cents and I got a free hamburger and a pitcher of beer from the gal who ran the stoves. It was a great time to be homeless with a guitar.
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Rodney Crowell is Nashville royalty, but he’s spent plenty of time playing the wide open spaces of Montana.
in the Ryman Auditorium. I’ve played everywhere from the Carlsbad Tavern in San Antonio to the Royal Albert Hall in London, that’s a pretty wide swath. And sometimes the more famous venues don’t sound as good as the back alley dumps. Does the Opry stage ever feel like old hat to you? RC: It’s never gotten old to me … I don’t walk on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium without closing my eyes and taking a breath and remembering Hank Williams broke off of this stage in the early ’40s, you know. Have the proper attitude. Your friend in Livingston, I’m guessing that’s the late musician Ben Bullington, right? I interviewed him in 2013 while he was sick. I admired his sincerity, which was something he displayed in his songwriting. RC: Ben was a very smart man and a doctor out in White Sulphur Springs. I’d say, “Some of your songs are as quiet as a Montana winter,” and he said, “Well I’ve spent many of them.” The landscape and the environment and the weather patterns are in his songs. I spent a month in Montana, in January, for the purpose of experiencing winter there. You have to go
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inside yourself to endure those winters. And also, the dinner and conversation on those long winter nights—it’s a real blessing to have those, to be able to hang out at the table and talk into the night. Ben’s songwriting and his sensibilities were formed by that cultural and social exchange. He didn’t rush anything. Did spending that January in Montana affect any of your songwriting at the time? RC: At the time I was working on a memoir, so this would have probably been the winter of 2010. It was great. I got 100 mile-an-hour winds from the Yellowstone into Livingston and got in a real whiteout in a friend of mine’s truck. All along I was writing every day, so it served me exactly the way I wanted it to. I imagine the writers in Montana—the Jim Harrisons and Tom McGuanes—holed up writing in the wintertime. Is there anything better to do? So I was sort of living the fantasy and nature came through for me. I got it all. Diamonds and Dirt and Fate’s Right Hand are two of my favorite albums but they’re both so different. What was happening in your life that contributed to that?
RC: When I was making Diamonds and Dirt I was consciously fusing the music from my childhood, from my formative youth and teen years. I grew up on Hank Williams and Buck Owens, but the Beatles and Bob Dylan were emerging around the same time. So, when I made Diamonds and Dirt in 1987, I was very consciously expressing those tonalities in that music. Flash forward to 2003, when I was making Fate’s Right Hand. By then I was working on a memoir and I was spending a lot of time writing sentences and paragraphs. The verbiage in Fate’s Right Hand is pretty thick, as you probably know, so my daily workshop with words was very much reflected in that record. Can you tell me about your first days in Nashville? RC: I showed up under false pretenses. I’d made a record in Crowley, La., with this producer who went off to Nashville. He called my partner and I and said, “I signed you to a 10-year recording contract with Columbia Records and you’re going on tour with Kenny Rogers and the First Edition—get up here!” So we hopped in the car from Houston and drove up there. Unbeknownst to us the producer had sold the tapes and the pub-
It’s not a new subject, but my friends and I always talk about the decline of country music where pop artists just list country tropes and call it a song. As a singer-songwriter, what do you think makes a song good? RC: When I hear those songs you’re talking about, I don’t hear an artist at work, I hear a craftsperson who is writing commercials for a genre that doesn’t exist anymore. Country music exists in the world, but it does not exist as a commercial, viable art form right now. Those songs are written for commercial reasons rather than for selfexpression. Hank Williams wrote “Your Cheatin’ Heart” because it hurt, you know? I’ve had a very successful career as a songwriter … but I harbor no illusions that I have nothing to contribute to the current style. I’m sticking to the old way, which is that the song needs to be the truth. I know a lot of people are excited to see you at River City Roots Festival. RC: I remember playing it years ago. I wrote a song there at the hotel on the river, so I have a good memory of those particular festivals. I might have even played [Missoula] back in the Diamond and Dirt days. Like you were talking about, playing cow pastures and down by the river and hallowed venues—part of the fun of being a musician is where you get to make music. Rodney Crowell plays the main stage at River City Roots Festival in downtown Missoula Sat., Aug. 27, at 8:30 PM. Visit rivercityrootsfestival.com for full schedule of events. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Looking good Drunk dialing with J. Sherri’s latest album Listening to a J. Sherri album is a little like talking on the phone: You can hear the person just fine, but because you can’t see their face and gestures it’s slightly harder to get a full read of the conversation. That comparison says more about the local band’s super fun live performance than anything. Still, as much as it can, Tell Me I”m Best captures the group’s off-kilter, lo-fi style. On first listen, the vocals and beats are just enough out of sync that it’s maddening—it’s almost too laissez faire. But by the third listen, the collection of songs start to carve out a groove in your brain. The synthy, drum machine-textured, crunchy dance music is bolstered by Lukas Phelan and Rachel Patrie’s sleepy but dope-as-hell raps. Some songs, like “Gator,” have a sensual Kesha flavor wrapped in threads of MGMT’s
lonely new-disco sound. Others have a goofy 1980s cheesiness and are funny and playful, especially when the chorus is just “Fuck I look good,” over and over. A few parts seem even a little subversive, like on “How to Make Out for the First Time,” which is mostly composed of what sounds like found phone conversations depicting everything from casual friendships to pissed-off arguments to painfully heartbroken drunk dialings. Tell Me I”m Best almost delivers the band’s live appeal. When I listen to it, I just want them in the room with me. (Erika Fredrickson) J. Sherri play the VFW Thu., Aug. 25, at 9:30 PM with Stef Chura, Hermina Jean and Ancient Forest. $3. And again Sat., Aug. 27, at 9 PM, along with Iji, Pender, Tiny Plastic Stars and Ancient Forest. $5.
Mo Troper, Beloved One of the best consequences of pop music’s 1990s obsession with punk rock was the emergence of big pop: loud, guitar-driven songs anchored to melodic vocals about broken hearts and hopeful alienation. This rising tide lifted Matthew Sweet and the Mr. T Experience alike. During the years after “alternative” curdled into a marketing strategy, a few fun, noisy songsmiths emerged from the rancid slurry of Bush and Smash Mouth like so many nuggets of delicious cheese. Twenty years later, Mo Troper sounds at home among those bands. On Beloved, Troper yelps about ex-girlfriends over reliable three-chord progressions with the kind of lacerating self-pity that would do Dr. Frank proud. These
are songs about pain, but they sound like they’re vying to be the first track on your road trip mix. This contrast between bitter and gum-popping sticky sweet is the genre’s secret recipe. Beloved expresses as much angst as, say, David Comes to Life, but it carefully channels it into threeminute ditties. Troper seems to have mastered the popsmith’s art of making hard sentiments easy to listen to. Beloved is the sound of messy feelings carefully organized into forms—sounds and sensations that feel paradoxically new, even as we remember them fondly. (Dan Brooks) Mo Troper & The Assumptions play at The Joe Below (basement of Zootown Brew) Wed., Aug. 31, at 7:30 PM, along with Sunraiser and Ratbath. $5.
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to expect, and for the most part it falls flat. Problems include too much repetition, saccharine lyrics and auto tune. Instead of being fun and light, Fitz and The Tantrums sounds overproduced. Fitzpatrick and singer Noelle Scaggs’ voices are so digitized they’re almost unrecognizable and the staccato keyboards and inauthentic choruses border on cheesy. The album’s saving grace are the two singles, “Hand Clap” and “Roll Up.” Those, at least, are still undeniably catchy. (Tess Haas) Fitz and The Tantrums play Big Sky Brewing Company Sun., Aug. 28, at 7 PM, along with Phases and Shakewell. $30.
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Somewhere along the way James Lee Burke fore his senior year of high school. Aaron’s an aspiring changed. That’s a funny thing to say about someone writer who, like Burke, plays a Gibson in his spare who’s been as consistent as Burke’s been over the time. (Check YouTube for clips of the author jamming course of 35 novels, two collections of short stories with the Lil’ Smokies.) Most notably, Aaron’s also and nearly three decades on The New York Times’ about the same age that Burke, now on the cusp of bestseller list. But I think the longtime Lolo resident 80, would’ve been in ’52. It doesn’t take Dave Robicheaux to connect the would be the first to admit his last three books, a trilogy that concludes with the Aug. 30 release of The dots on what this trilogy—and The Jealous Kind, in Jealous Kind, stand out with a different level of un- particular—might mean to Burke. It’s as if he’s pleading with the reader to underabashed pride, urgency and stand the importance of the sense of grandeur than the era and how it’s shaped rest of his considerable body everything since. of work. “I was raised to believe The shift started with that good triumphed over The Wayfaring Stranger in evil, that justice ultimately 2014, an episodic novel prevailed, and that God was about a changing America, on our side,” Aaron muses at set in Texas in 1956. Burke one point, before mentioning called it at the time “the the Marshall Plan by name. most biographical book I’ve “… I still believe in those predone.” He continued with cepts, but as we grow old and last year’s House of the Risleave behind the pink clouds ing Sun, which followed of our youth, we learn that Hackberry Holland, an early truth often exists in degree 20th century Texas Ranger rather than absolutes.” and one of the burliest In The Jealous Kind, that branches on a family tree fa“truth” is hidden by a thicket miliar to Burke’s fans. of mob activity, turf wars and Both books included the high school shenanigans. It’s usual Burke components— an admittedly odd mix, made flawed but noble men The Jealous Kind all the more awkward by battling unspeakable evil, James Lee Burke Aaron falling madly for the sprawling webs of deceit, hardcover, Simon & Schuster most gorgeous girl in all of often outlandish confronta400 pages, $27.99 South Texas. (Thanks to our tions and, of course, Burke’s singular ability to describe a Southern setting right pubescent narrator, I counted almost a dozen differdown to the last bead of sweat—but they operated in ent references to a penis in the first 100 pages, ina different arena. Dave Robicheaux, the beloved de- cluding “swizzle stick” and “twanger,” usually in tective in 20 of Burke’s novels, always backed his way reference to an ill-timed erection.) Luckily, Aaron is into traditional crime fiction, the everyman in a time- forced to mature as the action ratchets up around honored tale of black and white. These last two nov- him, those stilted love scenes quickly fade and matters more attuned to Burke’s strengths prevail. His els were much more sepia-toned. Burke completes the transition with The Jeal- protagonist may be preternaturally adept at navigatous Kind. Like Wayfaring Stranger, it takes place ing organized crime, but he at least assumes the sort in Texas during America’s “Golden Age.” This time of presence needed to deliver this book’s intended it’s 1952, in Houston, and instead of looking at the message. “People don’t change,” one character explains to period through the gauzy lens of souped-up cars, classic music on the jukebox and post-World War II Aaron. “They grow into what they’ve always been. courage, Burke is determined to set the record They just stop pretending, that’s all.” I get the impression with The Jealous Kind, straight. There’s a class war and racism and the boys are blindly lining up to fight in Korea. Fear is Burke’s done pretending. James Lee Burke reads from The Jealous prevalent. His narrator is Aaron Holland Broussard, a 17- Kind Tue., Aug. 30, at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. year-old who’s part of that hallowed Holland family tree and eager to come of age during the summer besbrowning@missoulanews.com
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Funny friends Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice is more than all right by Molly Laich
Acting hard.
Don’t Think Twice follows the lives of six friends in their 30s as they try to make it together as a comedy improv troupe in New York City. The film’s written and directed by Mike Birbiglia, whose previous film Sleepwalk with Me borrowed elements from his personal life and stand-up show to great effect. In Don’t Think Twice, Birbiglia slides into a supporting role as Miles, alongside other talented names. Gillian Jacobs (“Girls,” “Community”) plays Samantha, who’s dating Jack, played by Keegan-Michael Key (“Key & Peele”). There’s also Allison (Kate Micucci), Lindsay (Tami Sagher) and Bill (Chris Gethard). Together they are “The Commune.” Beyond their weekly performances, the group is bound by shared dreams, talents and cramped NYC apartments. I’m a sucker for on-screen friendships, and this is the film’s principal virtue. Friendship is for me the most comforting and inviting form of love, and yet
it’s often hard to capture with any real authenticity. When the characters in Don’t Think Twice talk and play and interact, they do it with a depth that feels cultivated over many years. The members of The Commune haven’t done what they’re supposed to; that is, break off and make their own families, because goddammit, they’re artists. It’s inspiring to watch people at this stage in their career, where years of hard work will either pay off or not. But it’s nerveracking, too, because some of them won’t make it. The plot takes off with the arrival of some talent reps in the audience from “Weekend Live,” the film’s thinly veiled proximity to “Saturday Night Live.” Jack can’t help but do a little grandstanding for the reps with his perfected Obama impersonation during an unrelated sketch, and the ploy works. Both Jack and Samantha get auditions for “Weekend Live,” and the rest are feeling left in the dust.
Don’t Think Twice invokes the indie spirit of ’90s classics like Reality Bites and the films of Richard Linklater, all of which are imbued with a perceived outside pressure to justify unconventional lifestyles. Birbiglia’s film exists mostly in small spaces: a cramped apartment, tiny clubs and little theaters. The characters at times feel piled on top of one another like hamsters. It reminds us that in the cutthroat world of comedy, you have to carve out a place for yourself, and only the most talented and ambitious will make it. This is a film about comedians, but it plays more like a family drama than a comedy. Most of the humor comes from overhearing the actors being funny, both in their improv show and in the moments before and after, when they’re practicing voices to themselves in the corner or improvising for fun. In one scene, we see Samantha and Jack break into comedic banter
when they’re supposed to be making love. It’s hard to tell which activity they find more enjoyable. Audiences and critics universally love this film, and I think I know why. There’s an honesty and urgency to the characters’ plight that thoughtful viewers can’t help recognize. The troupe has worked hard to get where they are and they want to be even more successful, together. But in its own sly way, Birbiglia’s story invites his characters to recognize that in regard to what’s most important in life, they’ve basically already made it. Bill says to his friends, “I don’t want my dad to die thinking I was a failure.” Samantha answers, “You’re not a failure, Bill. You’re in The Commune!” We should all be so lucky. Don’t Think Twice opens Fri., Aug. 26, at the Roxy. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] PONYO (GAKE NO UE NO PONYO) A tsunami is brewing, but what does it have to do with the fish-girl demanding ham? Rated G. Stars the voice talent of Tina Fey, Matt Damon and Liam Neeson. Playing Tues., Aug 30 at 11 AM and Thu., Sept. 1 at 8 PM at the Roxy.
OPENING THIS WEEK ANTS ON A SHRIMP One of the world’s best restaurants, the Copenhagen-based NOMA, and its renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo. Not Rated. Playing at the Roxy.
SAUSAGE PARTY Learning food is meant to be eaten by humans, a hot dog decides to swear about it. A lot. Rated R. Starring Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and Michael Cera. Playing at the Carmike 12.
DON’T BREATHE Three down-on-their-luck burglars think they’ve hit the jackpot when they break into a blind veteran’s house, only to find themselves stuck in a death trap. Rated R. Stars Jane Levy, Stephen Lang and Dylan Minnette. Playing at the Pharaoplex and Carmike 12. DON’T THINK TWICE Is there any worse feeling than when your friend succeeds at something when you don’t? This improv troupe is about to find out. Rated R. Stars Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs and Mike Birbiglia. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film.) MECHANIC: RESURRECTION Arthur Bishop thought he was out of the globe-trotting assassination game until his past pulls him back in. Now he has to kill three high-profile targets, and make them all look like accidents. Rated R. Stars Jason Statham, Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones. Playing at the Carmike 12.
NOW PLAYING BAD MOMS Three overstressed moms decide the best way to unwind is to turn into party monsters. I wonder what the PTA will say. Starring Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn. Rated R. Playing through Thu., Aug. 25 at Carmike 12. BEN-HUR The director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter takes us back to the past for another take on the story of a Jewish slave who takes the fight to the Roman Empire. Rated PG-13. Stars Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman and Nazanin Boiadi. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE Society is doomed unless George Carlin can give two slackers a time machine to help them with their history homework. Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS The creator of the “Minions” series lets us in on what our pets do while we’re at work. If they’re anything like humans, I imagine they probably scroll through Facebook and think about writing a novel while worrying about student loan debt. Stars Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Dana Carvey Playing through Thu., Aug 25 at the Carmike 12. If the director’s previous films are any indication, these two are looking at something super gross and gory. Don’t Breathe opens at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. Winter and Terry Camilleri. Rated PG. Playing Sat., Aug. 27 at the Roxy at 9 PM as part of Movie Cult.
of Emily Mortimer, Lauren Bacall and Christian Bale. Playing Thu., Aug. 25 at the Roxy at 8 PM.
CAFÉ SOCIETY Woody Allen’s new film follows a boy from the Bronx who heads to Hollywood to meet stars and producers, only to move back to New York to work in his brother’s night club. Rated PG-13. Stars Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carrell and Kristen Stewart. Playing through Thu., Aug. 25 at the Roxy at 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM.
JASON BOURNE Robert Lundum’s amnesiac super soldier is back, wresting control of the franchise away from Jeremy Renner. Starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander. Rated PG-13 Playing at Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Living off the grid is all good and well for this survivalist until he must take his children into society for the first time after his wife dies. Rated R. Stars Vigo Mortensen, Missi Pyle and Steve Zahn. Playing at the Roxy.
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Ancient vendettas and mysterious spirits send a young man on a quest to find an ancient suit of magical armor in a beautiful, stop-motion animated adventure. Rated PG. Stars the voice of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS A 1940s socialite thinks everyone loves to hear her sing, even though she is hilariously awful at it. If only reality TV had been around. Rated PG-13. Stars Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and Rebecca Ferguson. Playing at the Carmike 12.
MISS SHARON JONES! With a powerful voice and a stronger personality, this former corrections office was on top of the world until she was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Not Rated. Playing through Thu., Aug 25 at the Roxy at 5 PM and 7:15 PM.
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (HAURU NO UGOKU SHIRO) Aging 90 years is a pretty crummy way to spend the day, but at least Sophie has a friendly scarecrow, a talking fire and the nicest mobile home imaginable to help her. Rated PG. Starring the voice talents
PETE’S DRAGON Disney relights its classic candle on the water about young boy’s imaginary friend that might not be as imaginary as everyone thinks. Rated PG. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley and Wes Bentley. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaolplex.
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STAR TREK BEYOND The baby-faced crew of the NCC-1701 returns to boldly go where no one has gone before. As usual some sort of space monster is there waiting for them. Typical. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Carmike 12. SUICIDE SQUAD DC Comics’ team of supervillians who dress like time-travelers from a 2003 Hot Topic go full Dirty Dozen when the Joker comes to town. Rated PG13. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto and Viola Davis. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharoplex. WAR DOGS Not a sequel to 2011’s War Horse, two small business owners get in over their heads when they secure a government contract to arm America’s allies in Afghanistan. Rated R. Stars Miles Teller, Jonah Hill and Kevin Pollack. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaoplex. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Masala spices up dessert by Kate Whittle In the minutes before lunch hour, the Masala restaurant kitchen is humid and noisy. A cook nearly drops a hotel pan of brown rice while trying to scootch it into a warmer. A vat of green paneer curry hits a hot kettle with a sizzle. In the middle of all the action, pastry chef Jenny Fawcett patiently examines a gleaming, perfectly smooth, white two-layer cake. She grabs a pastry bag filled with red frosting and leans in to place a single perfect dot in the center of the cake. “God, this is stressful,” she says. “Hold on, I’ll be back in a second.” She returns a minute later with a coffee mug of white wine. Just a splash to calm her nerves and steady her hand. “Hey, I’ve been up since 5:30,” she explains, and laughs. Fawcett says the mandala patterns, inspired by traditional Buddhist sand paintings, were the first thing to come to mind when Masala owner Theo Smith approached her about joining the restaurant as a pastry chef. When Masala opened in late February, she had full power over the dessert case. The mandala cakes, which incorporate coconut milk and spices into a European-style white layer cake recipe, quickly caught on and became a customer favorite. She proudly adds that local Buddhist groups are among the regulars, having ordered them for celebrations. “Before I even knew what they were going to be, I was practicing piping buttercream mandalas on all of my plates at home,” Fawcett says. “Like, all over every horizontal surface, there was a plate with a mandala on it.” Like most of Fawcett’s creations for Masala, the cakes use traditional western pastry techniques while nodding to Indian flavors. Cuisines vary widely across the subcontinent, but as a general rule, most Indian sweets are quickly cooked, rather than baked in an oven. “There’s not really a lot of any baked treats,” Fawcett says. “It’s all stirred over a stove and you’re working sugars and milk together until you get some sort of fudge.” That’s how she makes the dense, rich coconut birfis, one of the best-selling desserts at Masala and also the most classic Indian treat. Other items on the menu, like the chocolate chili torte and intensely nutty pistachio cake, are less about tradition and more about adhering to her belief that, strictly authentic or not, dessert should chiefly be about pleasure.
WHAT’S GOOD HERE “Maximum butter, maximum eggs, maximum calories,” she says. “You’re gonna eat a piece of cake.” Baking professionally and at home brings Fawcett joy, though she acknowledges this wasn’t quite how she expected her life to go. In 2009, she left the University of British Columbia, where she’d been in the women’s studies graduate program. After months of unemployment, in 2010 she took a gig baking for the legendary Polebridge Mercantile, near Glacier National Park, where she learned how to juggle a dozen tasks at once. Some of those tasks were the “only in Montana” kind. “I remember walking out to the dumpster at 4 a.m. with a can of bear spray in each hand,” she says. Later on, she managed the front of the house and baked at Burns Street Bistro, where she encountered different kinds of large, hairy creatures at 4 a.m.— namely prominently bearded baker Jason McMackin. “Jason does ‘man’ baking,” she says, recalling how McMackin doesn’t use recipes and works from memory. She still thinks of the Bistro fondly; in fact, when she got married last October, she decided not to order a cake and instead served dozens of Burns Street’s “stoner cookies,” loaded with pretzels and chips. She’s delighted that she has full creative reign in her work at Masala, although it comes with a learning curve. She made a Fourth of July cake and was crushed when all the icing slid off while she drove it to the party. (She went back to the kitchen and re-did the frosting, and no one was the wiser.) She’s also catering an upcoming wedding in Whitefish and hasn’t yet figured out how she’ll keep the cake stable during a three-hour drive. “Maybe someone can sit in the back and hold it the whole way,” she says, only half joking. All of that is out of mind in the humid kitchen as she focuses her attention completely on the mandala cake at hand, a special order for a teenager’s birthday. She carefully draws elegant flower petals around the cake, totally freehand, without looking at any pictures for reference. It’ll take her about 45 minutes to finish the icing. By the time it’s done, it will be an intricate masterpiece of yellow, red, orange and blue paisley artwork. And just like the Buddhist sand painting it’s inspired by, the mandala cake will soon disappear. Beauty, just like a piece of cake, is impermanent. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$
Order Online Lunch & Dinner 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
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BUTTERFLY HERBS COFFEES, TEAS AND THE UNUSUAL 232 N. HIGGINS • DOWNTOWN
Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 C O M M U N I T Y d r i v e n , L O C A L LY owned. Bernice’s Bakery has been keepin’ Missoula sweet since 1978. Hand-crafted pastries, cakes, a bevy of delicious treats and fresh lunches are served daily. Shared tables and no wi-fi create an opportunity to chat with community members, employees, tourists and children as you take in the historic surroundings of Bernice’s. It’s like home. We welcome you to our home away from home. ESPRESSO: the best Missoula has to offer! Truly. Try it and you shall see. Bernice’s Bakery. We haven’t been around for 37 years for nothin’. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $ - $$. 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 timehonored 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. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice
cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 • grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ 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 $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula’s only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our housemade Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am-3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ photo by Erika Fredrickson
Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: Cocktails made from Sudden Wisdom Rye, which is milled, fermented, distilled and bottled in Missoula. The Montgomery Distillery released the whiskey last year and it’s considered the first legal batch ever made in Missoula. Distiller Christopher Conley notes he was inspired by Neil Young’s 1979 album Live Rust. The rye— with its dried apple, spice and autumn leather flavor—is now featured on the distillery’s cocktail menu. Sazerac: The New Orleans cocktail is one of the oldest known mixed drinks, made popular about 10 years before the Civil War. It mixes rye whiskey, demerara sugar and aromatic bitters, plus lemon peel garnish, and the inside of the glass is sprayed with absinthe to provide added aroma. Future versions will involve other sprays, including a pipe tobacco wash. Whiskey Sour: This classic cocktail changes with the seasons. The current sum-
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mer version mixes rye whiskey, mint, lemon, honey and lemon bitters. In fall, the distillery will combine the rye with egg whites, maple syrup, lemon, almond liquor and pecan bitters. New Old Fashioned: Technically, an Old Fashioned didn’t originally include fruit, which is why Montgomery added “new” to the title of its concoction of rye whiskey, demerara sugar, brandied cherries, orange and aromatic bitters. Most bars nowadays serve the truly old-fashioned drink with cherry and orange. Semantics aside, what makes Montgomery’s distinct is its homemade brandied cherries— and, of course, the rye. Where to find ’em: Montgomery Distillery is located at 129 W. Front. —Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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SAT | 8PM | PALACE Crack a beer at the Palace and enjoy the dad country of Best Westerns and Jonny Fritz Sat., Aug 27. 8 PM. $5.
SAT | 10PM | STAGE 112 THU 8-25 | 4PM | BIG SKY Avatar, pictured, anchors the bill for Big Sky Brewing's inaugural Backyard BBQ. Saint Asonia, Breaking Benjamin, Shaman's Harvest and Stitched Up Heart provide a night of rock and metal Thu., Aug 25. Doors at 3 PM, show at 4. $30 at ticketweb.com.
[26] Missoula Independent • August 25–September 1, 2016
If there was a Venn diagram showing the overlap between punk rock and hip-hop, Sammy Warm Hands would be right in the middle, lighting a trash can on fire. Catch him and Ogar Burl at Stage 112 Sat., Aug 27. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.
FRI | 2:30PM | RIVER CITY Indie-folk darlings Gipsy Moon kick off River City Roots Festival on the main stage with Latin rhythms, Celtic melodies and bluegrass drive Fri, Aug 26. 2:30 PM. Free
SAT | 10PM | TOP HAT Everyone's favorite non-cocktail snack, the Lil' Smokies rock the Top Hat at the River City Roots Afterparty Sat., Aug 27. Joined by Steep Ravine, the doors open at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.
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The Last Best Conference hopes to keep this trend going by inspiring pursuits that leave a lasting impact. Head to lastbestconference.com for registration and full schedule.
The Indian National Finals Flathead River Rodeo features a day of rodeo action followed by live music. Food and drink vendors on hand to keep you fueled up. Polson Fairgrounds.
Your backyard ain’t big enough for this barbecue. Breaking Benjamin anchors the bill for Big Sky Brewing’s inaugural Backyard BBQ. Saint Asonia, AVATAR, Shaman’s Harvest and Stitched Up Heart provide a night of rock and metal. Doors at 3 PM, show at 4. $30 at ticketweb.com.
The stars at night are deep and bright CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP up on Blue Mountain Observatory. University Astronomers will be on hand to guide viewers. Visit hs.umt.edu for times and to reserve free tickets. Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to
Summer’s winding down, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go out in style at the Lost City of Atlantis Pool Party at Lolo Hot Springs. Two days of music, fun and sunken cities. Swim over to hold myticket.com for more info and full lineup. $60–$100. Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre’s summer season features the Vaudeville Variety Show. See operahouse theatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids.
The bane of autocorrect everywhere, Jony Richter and the Hog Ranch bring a heaping pile of folk and blues to Break Espresso. 7 PM–9 PM. Free, donations encouraged.
Choke Sign, blessiddoom, Two foot Titan and Shot Stereo are kicking off the Zoo-pocalypse at Stage 112. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. 18–20 $12/ 21-plus $10.
I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as the ones by Z.G. Tomaszewski and Todd Davis. Catch the powerful pair of poets reading from their new books at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.
Russ Nasset and the Revelators are opening the final seal of the musical End of Days at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.
Making God Laugh depicts one family as they move through 30 years’ worth
The Badlander has all your back-toschool needs as long as you’re majoring in cheap drinks and awesome music. I’ll House You takes you
nightlife Downtown ToNight features live music, family activities, food and drink vendors and a beer garden. Every Thursday at Caras Park. This week listen to the music of County Line. 5:30–8:30 PM. Check missouladowntown.com for details. Free. Blues artist Andre Floyd has no reason to feel sad. Not only is he a well-loved musician, he’s also playing at beautiful Big Sky Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Poet Christianne Balk reads from her new book The Holding Hours at Fact & Fiction. 6:30 PM. Free.
Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two cops and three crooks through eight doors at the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre. See operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20/$10 for kids. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. In Dido of Idaho, a musicologist with a drinking problem competes with a former Miss Idaho for the affections of her married poet lover. She calls upon her estranged mother for support and advice in this hilarious tragedy set in Moscow, Idaho. MASC Studios 7:30 PM. $15/$12 in advance. Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it. The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Ancient Forest’s band residency kicks off with Stef Chura (Detroit), Hermina Jean and J Sherri. 9:30 PM. $3/$5 18–20. With words like daggers, Hawthorne Roots takes the stage at the Top Hat Lounge. 10 PM. Free.
MT + NYC Collaborative presents Dido of Idaho at MASC performance space, 1200 Shakespeare St., Thu., Aug. 25–Sun., Aug. 28, at 7:30 PM nightly, plus a 2 PM pay-what-you-can Sunday matinee. $15/$12 advance at mtnyccollaborative.org. UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info. Indie-folk darlings Gipsy Moon kick off River City Roots on the main stage with Latin rhythms, Celtic melodies and bluegrass drive. rivercityroots festival.com for more info. 2:30 PM.
nightlife River City Roots is back for it’s 11 year in Missoula. Check out the music, art and food at this free show. Head to rivercityroots festival.com for a full lineup and schedule.
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At Girls Rock Camp, young rockers, ages 8 to 15, formed three bands, learned to play instruments, wrote their own songs, and now perform publicly for the first time live at Family –Friendly Fridays at The Top Hat Lounge. 6 PM. Free. Andrea Harsell music pairs with cold beer and delicious pizza at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Venture up the Rattlesnake to enjoy made in Montana wine and live, local music by Larry Hirshberg at Ten Spoon Vineyard. Have a drink in the tasting room from 4 PM–9 PM. Music at 6. $8–$10.
of holidays. Oy! See www.opera housetheatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. In Dido of Idaho, a musicologist with a drinking problem competes with a former Miss Idaho for the affections of her married poet lover. She calls upon her estranged mother for support and advice in this hilarious tragedy set in Moscow, Idaho. MASC Studios 7:30 PM. $15/$12 in advance. Dusk provides the tunes at the Eagles. I wonder what Prodigy, Ricochet and Stinger are doing. 8 PM–1 AM. Free. It’s the end of Missoula as we know it, but I feel fine because Universal
back2skool with Kalub Swirvin, Hotpantz and Kris Moon. 9 PM. Free. You can ignore every other event today. This is a very important show. Goddammitboyhowdy, Young Go Hards, Birds Mile Home and Battlestations unite for a razor sharp night of music at the VFW. 9 PM. 1820 $8/ 21-plus $5. Boston Tea Party and Iron Eyes close summer out at Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. 18plus. Free. I always do when I hear their music. Join Shakewell for the River City Roots after party at the Top Hat Lounge. 9 PM. $5.
Saturday to Orchard Homes as part of the River City Roots Festival. 6:30 PM. Head to rivercityroots festival.com for more info. Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre’s summer season features the Vaudeville Variety Show. See operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. In Dido of Idaho, a musicologist with a drinking problem competes with a former Miss Idaho for the affections of her married poet lover. She calls upon her estranged mother for support and advice in this hilarious tragedy set in Moscow, Idaho. MASC Studios 7:30 PM. $15/$12 in advance. Crack a beer at the Palace and enjoy the dad country of Best Westerns and Jonny Fritz. 8 PM. $5.
The Indian National Finals Flathead River Rodeo features a day of rodeo action followed by live music. Food and drink vendors on hand to keep you fueled up. Polson Fairgrounds. Missoula’s Farmers Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music. Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave.
Yoga and Beer: the two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. All money goes to Free Cycles.
nightlife Surprisingly, a city where every third building has grizzly somewhere in its name is deep in bear country. Learn how to keep yourself safe by learning how to avoid and deter bears. Cabela’s. 2pm3pm as part of Fall Great Outdoor Days. (See Mountain High.)
Unnecessary Farce attempts to follow two cops and three crooks through eight doors at the Philipsburg Opera House Theatre. See operahousetheatre.com for showtimes. $20/$10 for kids. Advance towards Missoula Brewing Co. for pizza, beer and the live music of Jeff Carroll. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Steal yourself away to the Ten Spoon Vineyard to catch the live music of David Horgan and Beth Lo. Tasting Room is open 4 PM–9 PM. Music at 6. $8–$10.
Missoula’s Clark Fork Market feaKeema and the Keepsakes are the tures vendors offering local produce keenest band around. Katch them and meats as well as locally made River City Roots is back for it’s 11th at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM– products, hot coffee and prepared year in Missoula. Check out the 8 PM. Free. foods. Music starts at 10:30 under music, art and food at this free show. are predestined see The Time Travelersat Monk's. Sat., 27.Jeff 10:30 PM.Band Free. provides the theYou Higgins Bridge. 8 to AM–1 PMGood Head to rivercityrootsfestival.com forAugThe Austin electro-driven bluegrass soundtrack every Saturday through October. a full lineup and schedule.
They’re going to be your Band in Motion, all they need is a pair of wheels to take them where their future’s lyin’. Maybe at the Union Club? 9 PM. Free. Powered by good vibes and seltzer, the VFW hosts LJI, Pender, Tiny Plastic Stars, J Sherri and Ancient Forest for a musical Voltron. 9 PM. (See Music.) Everyone’s favorite non-cocktail snack, the Lil’ Smokies rock the Top Hat at the River City Roots Afterparty. Joined by Steep Ravine, doors at 9 PM. Show at 10. $5.
Dusk provides the tunes at the Eagles. I wonder what Prodigy, Ricochet and Stinger are doing. 8 PM–1 AM. Free.
DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.
If there was a Venn diagram showing the overlap between punk rock and hip-hop, Sammy Warm Hands would be right in the middle, lighting a trash can on fire. Catch him and Ogar Burl at
Unlike that jerk that keeps saving Stalin from that sniper’s bullet, The Good Time Travelers just want to play some delicious soul-folk. You are predestined to see them at Monk’s. 10:30 PM. Free.
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Sunday MT + NYC Collaborative presents Dido of Idaho at MASC performance space, 1200 Shakespeare St., Thu., Aug. 25–Sun., Aug. 28, at 7:30 PM nightly, plus a 2 PM pay-what-you-can Sunday matinee. $15/$12 advance at mtnyccollaborative.org. Children ages 8–12 are invited to Frenchtown Pond to participate in Frenchtown Fire’s first Bike Safety Rodeo! Children will be able to
Finally a chance to actually use my liberal arts degree. Stand straight, oh rogue, upon the lip of age And fast attend the words of life long spent, The Bard himself calls out from heaven's cage WHAT: Shakespeare in the Park WHEN: Richard III Mon., Aug 29 at 6 PM. The Comedy of Errors Tue., Aug 30 WHERE: UM Oval HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: umt.edu/events
showtimes. $20 for adults, $10 for kids. John Adam Smith provides the perfect soundtrack to good times and good beer at Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. The Crown Guitar Festival kicks off its week-long celebration of music with Jim Messina and Josh Turner. $40 at crownguitarfest.org for more info and tickets. Flathead Lake.
Spear shaker, he, an actor like George Wendt. Comes first Richard the third of broken back, Whose nephew's blood he wants to spill, you see. He'll be the king, and get his life on track Like Game of Thrones: a seed from Shakespeare's tree. I grant I never saw a goddess pass, but twins are seen in face of fault often. Such as the ones you'll see next in the grass and hear lost brothers’ names clearly spoken. For late summer fun, there's no better lark than chilling out with Shakespeare in the Park.
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Fitz and The Tantrums bring their big rock show to Big Sky Brewing. Sun., Aug. 28. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. participate in an “on road” obstacle course to learn proper etiquette while riding on the streets as well as how to change a tire and do basic maintenance. 10 AM–1 PM. Free.
You are very very sleepy. You want to see hypnotist Josh McVicar at the University Center. You want to send the Indy’s calendar editor bottles of fancy booze. 7 PM. Free.
Camp Mak-a-Dream opens its doors and the entire facility to the public for a free open house. Come tour the facility and learn about Camp Mak-A-Dream cost-free programs for kids and families affected by cancer. 90 Church Rd, Goldcreek. 12 PM to 4 PM. RSVP at camp dream.org (See Agenda.)
Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy. Music starts at 8 PM. Free.
nightlife Making God Laugh depicts one family as they move through 30 years’ worth of holidays. Oy! See www.operahousetheatre.com for
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Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, enjoy the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour every fourth Sunday of the month at the VFW, at 8 PM. This month Portland’s Rochelle Cote headlines. Music from No More Excused, deadbeats and Prints follows. $3 suggested donation.
Monday After three long months you’ve sent your kids back to school. Celebrate at the Top Hat Lounge with Mamalode ‘Em Up and free champagne with lunch entree. 11:30 AM. Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM.
crownguitarfest.org for full lineup and tickets. The Thomas Meagher Bar hosts Meet You at the Mar Bar, where 20% of all food and drink will go to help Habitat for Humanity of Missoula’s work to eliminate poverty housing in our community. Now I’m really craving the lobster mac. 6 PM–10 PM. Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at
Russian Circles bring their instrumental metal to the Palace with Cloakroom. Doors at 9 PM. Shows at 10. $18/$15 advance. 18-plus. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at The Base. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
nightlife Great Scott! Missoula Brewing Co. is going bock to the future! 50 cents of every beer, and 75 cents from every bock sold goes to help out New Directions Wellness Center. 5 PM–8 PM. The Crown Guitar Festival continues at Flathead Lake. Head to
Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Shakespeare in the Park Montana presents Richard III. Catch the free performance at the UM Oval. Show starts at 6 PM. (See Spotlight.) Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Russian Circles bring their instrumental metal to the Palace with Cloakroom. Doors at 9 PM. Shows at 10. $18/$15 advance. 18-plus.
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Tuesday nightlife Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Silver Park before trekking to Broadway Island. 5 PM. Free. The National Coalition Building Institute is now EmpowerMT. In celebration of this change, and
becoming a fully independent 501(c)(3), come to an open house from 5 PM–7 PM to learn more about their mission. NCBI Missoula, 1124 Cedar St. Free. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/ MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Shakespeare in the Park Montana presents The Comedy of Errors. Catch the
free performance at the UM Oval. Show starts at 6 PM. (See Spotlight.) The Crown Guitar Festival continues at Flathead Lake. Head to crownguitarfest.org for full lineup and tickets. Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Silver Park to greet the sun. 6–7 PM.
Mystery superstar James Lee Burke reads and signs copies of his new book The Jealous Kind at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. (See Books.) Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW,
245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Orson Welles provided the voice for which Transformer in 1986’s Transformers: The Movie? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.
Wednesday Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wednesday through the summer. Croquet, bocce and petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4–7 PM.
nightlife 50 cents from every beer, and 75 cents from every bock at the Missoula Brewing Co. goes to fund programs and services of the Montana Food Bank Network. 5 PM–8 PM. The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100. The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. Each month runners and walkers start and finish at a different brewery. This month’s spot is Northside Kettlehouse. 6 PM. Free. The Crown Guitar Festival continues at Flathead Lake. Head to crownguitarfest.org for full lineup and tickets. Earth Within Floral Design owner Melissa LaFontaine leads a hands on MUD workshop to teach about Get these dudes some oxygen! Needtobreathe play Ogren Park Wed., Aug. 31. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. ecologically principle flower production and floral design. River Road Neighbor- Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Sunraiser and Ratbath join the fun loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. hood Farm. 7 PM–8:30 PM. Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. at Zootown Brew. 7:30 PM–10:30 You needtosee Needtobreath at Trivia answer: Unicron. PM. $5. (See Music.) $10–$20. Ogren Park. Joined by Mat Kearney, Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or Portland’s Mo Troper power-pop is Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, John Mark McMillan and Welshy free pitchers by answering trivia ques- so good it’s going to make you with a different host each week. Arms, the doors open at 7 PM, show tions at Brains on Broadway Trivia forget September starts tomorrow. Half-price whiskey might help at 8. $36 at ticketmaster.com.
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Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free.
Thursday nightlife Head to the Sip ‘N Slide on the lawn next to Draught Works Brewery for a fun summer evening of conservation, games and beer. 5 PM–9 PM. Free. This month Climate Smart’s monthly meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing focuses on Renewable Energy. That’s why I used so much hairspray in the ‘80s. A bigger hole in the ozone layer means more solar power. Right? 5:15 PM. Free. The Crown Guitar Festival continues at Flathead Lake. Head to crown guitarfest.org for full lineup and tickets. After having a drink at Draught Works, they won’t stay that way for long. Forlorn Strangers play 6 PM– 8 PM. Free. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Pretty Lights is not a robot, but I see why you’d make that mistake. Check his electronica sound at Big Sky Brewing. Doors at 6 PM. Show at 7:30. $38/$33.50 advance. Grammy winners America play a seated show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8, $60/$45 advance at thewilma.com. Delta bluesman Parker Milsap brings his band for a night of roots rock at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 advance at tophatlounge.com I am incredibly regretful for calling Animal Control. I misread the promo email
Pretty Lights play Big Sky Brewing Thu., Sept. 1, at 7:30 PM. $38/$33.50 advance. and acted rashly. Catch Wild Coyote at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free. Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it. The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Feeling glum with school back in session? The Palace hosts a genre
spanning night of good times with Sam Waldorf, Zak James, Ratbath and Chloe Gendrow. 9 PM. $5. Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM. Show at 10. Free. Looking to escape your Thursday grind? Monk’s Bar hosts Escape with
DJs Web, Tayln Land and 3DHR. The fun kicks off at 10 PM. Free.
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snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
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Agenda FRIDAY AUGUST 26 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15– 12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. Folks with disabilities can get creative at Art Group, every second and fourth Friday of the month at Summit Independent from 2-4 PM. Call 728-1630.
MONDAY AUGUST 29 Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM. Great Scott! Missoula Brewing Co. is going bock to the future! 50 cents of every beer and 75 cents from every bock sold goes to help out New Directions Wellness Center. 5 PM–8 PM.
Since its inception in 1995, Camp Mak-ADream has welcomed thousands of children affected by cancer to its beautiful Goldcreek campus, and now they're opening their doors to you. This Sunday, members of the community can grab a lunch and go on a tour of the campus to see the kind of work the camp does, and the lives it has positively impacted. The dream itself started back in 1991 when Harry and Sylvia Granader, both of whom flew Navy planes during World War II, donated startup money plus 87 acres of their ranch to begin construction on a new camp. Harry, born and raised in Detroit, owned several McDon-
ald's franchises. After meeting various families while helping in the construction of a Ronald McDonald House, the Granaders decided to donate the land from part of their Goldcreek Ranch and offer a place where sick kids can just be kids. Camp Mak-A-Dream itself is still a working ranch and continues to provide kids a wide variety of activities from archery and horseback riding to mini-golf and art classes. —Charley Macorn Camp Mak-A-Dream hosts an open house at 90 Church Rd. in Goldcreek, near Drummond, Sun., Aug 28, from 12 PM to 4. RSVP at campdream.org.
Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
TUESDAY AUGUST 30 Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at
ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. The National Coalition Building Institute is now EmpowerMT. In celebration of this change, and becoming a fully independent 501(c)(3), come to an open house from 5 PM–7 PM to learn more about their mission. NCBI Missoula, 1124 Cedar St. Free.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.Adults with mental illness can get friendly support at NAMI Connection, every Thursday at the NAMI office in St. Paul Church, 202 Brooks St., Room 210. 1:30-3 PM. Find the “NAMI” sign on the courtyard door. Email namimissoula@gmail.com for info. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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y father once told me the best way to tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly bear is a simple one: A black bear will chase you up a tree and eat you, while a grizzly will just knock the tree over and eat you. The most important lesson I learned from this bit of rustic wisdom is to never go anyplace where there are trees. But with society constantly straining against the borders of nature, humans and bears just keep meeting (even in places where there are no trees). Keep Bears Wild, part of Cabela's Fall Great Outdoor Days, teaches the skills you need to be safe around bears and understand the signs of bears around you.
If you're some sort of bear expert, there’s plenty of other activities. Fall Great Outdoor Days kicks off with a series of classes and events to make you the best outdoorsperson you can be. The day opens at 10 a.m. with a Q&A with Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks, followed by a live demonstration of food processing for wild game and a class taught by backcountry and caving experts. —Charley Macorn Cabela’s hosts Fall Great Outdoor Days, with activities Sat., Aug. 27, from 10 AM–4. Free. Stargazing Room. $6/$4 for kids 12 and under.
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FRIDAY AUGUST 26 The Indian National Finals Flathead River Rodeo features a day of rodeo action followed by live music. Food and drink vendors on hand to keep you fueled up. Polson Fairgrounds. The stars at night are deep and bright CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP up on Blue Mountain Observatory. University Astronomers will be on hand to guide viewers. Visit hs.umt.edu for times and to reserve free tickets. Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.
SATURDAY AUGUST 27 Surprisingly, a city where every third building has grizzly somewhere in its name is deep in bear country. Learn how to keep yourself safe by learning how to avoid and deter bears. Cabela’s. 2–3 PM as part of Fall Great Outdoor Days. (See Mountain High.)
Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Silver Park to greet the sun. 6–7 PM.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wednesday through the summer. Croquet, bocce and petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4–7 PM. The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.
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The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. Each month runners and walkers start and finish at a different brewery. This month’s spot is Northside Kettlehouse. 6 PM. Free.
Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Silver Park before trekking to Broadway Island. 5 PM. Free.
Earth Within Floral Design owner Melissa LaFontaine leads a hands on MUD workshop to teach about ecologically principle flower production and floral design. River Road Neighborhood Farm. 7 PM–8:30 PM. $10–$20.
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CRAZY CAD LADY I’m a Harvard-educated man in my late 30s. I’ve had many ugly arguments with girlfriends, probably because I am highly opinionated and won’t give in when I’m right. I’ve always dated smart, professional women around my age, but I’m now dating a 21-year-old girl, and I’m thinking this could be it. She doesn’t complain, bug me, or question or challenge me. It strikes me that having a partner who challenges you is overrated. Could this be a lifelong relationship? Can’t I just pursue intellectual discussions elsewhere? –Detoxing Why not take this to the next level and get an inflatable girlfriend? You wouldn’t need to feed her, and you could save big on travel if you’d just let the air out of her, fold her up, and stuff her in your carry-on. This actually might make some sense. After all, conflict is bad, right? Well, not exactly. It turns out that there’s good conflict and there’s bad conflict. Bad conflict involves the stuff of “ugly arguments” – sneering, mocking, and getting up on moral high ground...just so you can shoulder-check the other person off the edge. Good conflict, on the other hand, involves getting (and giving) healthy pushback – which means being what Nassim Taleb calls “antifragile.” In “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder,” risk researcher Taleb, a former derivatives trader, explains that antifragile is “the exact opposite of fragile” –but it goes beyond “resilience or robustness.” Antifragile describes the way living things are improved by stressors –becoming better, stronger, and more able to cope with difficult, unpredictable stuff that comes their way. Beyond how being challenged improves you as a person, marriage researcher John Gottman finds that the happiest, most stable relationships are those in which husbands accept “influence” from wives, making wives “far less likely” to go ugly in disagreements. This starts with what Gottman calls “deep friendship” –love between two equals with mutual respect, not one person who can’t believe his luck at finding another who, intellectually and emotionally, is basically a zygote with boobs. Of course, this woman’s silent partner thing may just be a feature of her being 21. Increasingly, 21 is the new, oh, 8 and a half. Kids are, as Taleb might say, raised “fragile” – helicopter-parented to encounter as few stressors as possible and then bubblewrapped off to college for more of the same. Universities, formerly centers of free speech and free inquiry, now have speech codes so nobody gets hurt feelz and have “trigger warnings” about course material, lest
someone suffer emotional trauma from something untoward in, say, Plato’s “Republic.” (Yes, college is now basically nursery school with beer.) Still, even these kids have to grow up sometime – which is to say, your girlfriend could begin to have opinions and get a little miffy that you have a heartfelt interest in, um, never, ever hearing them. Your welcoming opinions and influence from a partner –this woman or a more challenging (but still loving and good-natured) woman – starts with having humility, which those frail of ego tend to see as a sign of weakness. The truth is, it takes a strong person to admit that he may be wrong and maybe doesn’t know everything in the known universe (and any yet-to-be-discovered galaxies). Should this come to describe you, you might start to see the appeal of a woman with more to say than those “three little words” –“Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.”
HEIGHT CRIME My new boyfriend is sweet, successful, and handsome, and he rocks my world in bed. The problem? I’m 5’8”, and he’s 5’6”. I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’m just not that attracted to him when he’s standing up –Shallow Women like things that are tiny and cute, so it’s been kind of a trend to go around with a little dog poking out of your purse. Sadly, dressing your itsy-bitsy boyfriend in a sailor shirt and sunglasses and tossing him in your handbag has yet to catch on. Okay, 5’6” isn’t exactly itsy-bitsy – but it might as well be to you. Your preference for taller men – which biological anthropologist Boguslaw Pawlowski finds 89 percent of women have – didn’t come out of nowhere. Tallness in a man suggests an ability to protect a woman and is associated with social status and access to resources. It also suggests good genes, because ancestors who weren’t starving to death and riddled with parasites would have had the metabolic resources to put toward growing tall. People say looks shouldn’t matter – which doesn’t for a moment change the fact that they do. Clearly, shortness is a deal breaker for you. This doesn’t make you “shallow.” It makes you somebody who should stop dating short guys – ideally before you blurt out your true feelings in bed: “Grow, Bradley!...I mean, ‘Oh...Bradley!”
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[C2] Missoula Independent • August 25–September 1, 2016
Customer Care Associate An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a long term employee for a Customer Care Associate. The Customer Care Assoc. Is responsible for providing effective customer service for all internal and external customers by using excellent, in-depth knowledge of company products and programs as well as communicating effectively and professionally with all team members. Accurately processes orders according to established department policies and procedures, answers multi-line phones, communicates with customers regarding their orders and pricing, accurately prepares invoices and shipping documents. Partners with other departments to meet and exceed customer s service expectations. Must be proficient in data entry and Microsoft Office. Have strong administration and organizational skills. Attention to detail a necessity. $10.00$12.00/DOE.. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28110 El Cazador: cook and waitress wanted, experience preferred. Please drop off a resume. Entry Level Warehouse/Driver Position Looking for a person to do multiple things in a warehouse environment as well as driving and delivering water, and servicing water coolers as needed. Must be able to lift 50# repetitively, good organizational skills, and cleanliness are required. The ability to work positively with coworkers is essential, as well as the ability to stay on task when working independently. Ideal candidate will possess great customer service skills, have a valid DL with a clean driving record. This is a full-time position, hours are Monday thru Friday 8: 00am to 5: 00pm, weekends and Holi-
days off. Generous benefits and raise after successful completion of probationary period. Position starts at $10/hour. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28089 Garden City Plumbing & Heating. Inc. is now hiring: Customer Service Representative Duties include: answer multi-line phone system, data entry, happy calls, scheduling appointments for service techs, heavy multi-tasking, $12-15/hr DOE. Send resume to: marciekessler@gardencityplumbing.com LAUNDRY/HOUSEKEEPING WORKERS NEEDED! NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill positions for housekeeping/laundry at $8.35/hour, Full-time. Call Us at 543-6033 Legal Assistant Seeking a legal assistant that can work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment with attention to detail and the ability to multitask. Must possess strong interpersonal, administrative and organizational skills. Candidate should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10229180 NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search! Fill out an application and schedule an interview. Call Us at 543-6033 Nelson Personnel is in search for a professional, friendly individual to fill FULL-TIME a RECEPTIONIST/ADMIN ASST. position. $10-12/hr. Call Us at 543-6033 NELSON PERSONNEL is looking to fill PRODUCTION SUPPORT, JANITORIAL, & WAREHOUSE positions for a manufacturing company. $11/hr – Full-Time. Call Us at 543-6033 Order Assembler Assemble/stock magazine orders on an assembly line. Need to be reliable and willing to work. Experience not necessary. Wholesale magazine business which sells all types of reading materials including adult subject matter. This is a part time permanent position with morning shifts. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10227154 Outlaw Music Seeking parttime help for Retirement Sale Thursdays and Fridays through
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PROFESSIONAL Behavioral Support Specialist Conducts descriptive and systematic behavioral
assessments, including functional analyses and provides behavior analytic interpretations. May be filled by either a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or a Behavior Support Professional who designs and supervises behavior analytic interventions. Able to effectively develop and implement appropriate assessment and intervention methods for use in unfamiliar situations and for a range of cases. Teaches others to carry out ethical and effective behavior analytic interventions based on published research and designs and delivers instruction in behavior analysis. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10226160
SKILLED LABOR Carpenter Assistant Local Construction Company needs laborer/carpenter helper to help with variety of construction jobs. Duties will include demo, cleaning construction sites, framing and general carpentry for residential and commercial properties. Qualified candidate will have some carpentry experience, and own tool bag and basic hand tools. PPE will be provided. Wage $13-$14/hour DOE- Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27792 HOME RESOURCE IS HIRING! Home ReSource seeks experienced construction/ demolition laborer with Project Lead potential to join our DECON CREW. $15+DOE. For more information or to apply visit: www.homeresource.org. Carpenters Local construction company is seeking COMMERCIAL CARPENTERS. Qualified applicants must be able to pass drug screening test. Prefer metal framing and demo experience. Seeking applicants who are go-getters and selfstarters. Tool belts required. Forklift operators preferred. Will retest for forklift certification if needed. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10218963 Job Foreman Must have a working knowledge in landscaping, carpentry, snow removal and various other duties. Skilled at using carpentry tools, lawn mowers, cleaning and ability to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission. Vehicle maintenance and irrigation / sprinkler systems experience a plus. Must have a high school diploma or equivalent, a current driver’s li-
EMPLOYMENT cense and a clean driving record, no DUI’s. Employer conducts random drug testing. Work days and hours vary Monday Sunday; 20 to 30 hours per week. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10224693 Quality Transportation is hiring CDL-A Drivers. Locations in NV and CA. MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE. Call 775-635-2443 or www.qtinv.net for application. Tool Room Machinist An established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a full time, experienced Tool Room Machinist. Responsible for producing machined parts by programming, setting up and operating a CNC machine; maintaining quality and safety standards. Experience with G-code programming, Solid Works for CAD and CAM is preferred, other 3D solid modeling experience will be considered. Experience setting up manual and mill lathes. Knowledge of basic math, geometry and trigonometry. Ability to interpret drawings and specifications. Hours are M-TH 6am-3pm and F 6am-12noon. Wage $16$18/hour DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 27822 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546 Tschida Plumbing & Heating Looking for a MT state licensed Journeyman Plumber. Competitive wages, DOE. Full-Time in Missoula Area. Call 406-381-9139 for info.
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cover for absences and other unscheduled needs. Schedule is fulltime. 3 years of nursing experience required, with two years of home care experience preferred. Solid working knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid regulations and Hospice Conditions of Participation strongly preferred. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10228244
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missoulanews.com • August 25–September 1, 2016 [C3]
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I hope you won't scream curses at the rain, demanding that it stop falling on you. Similarly, I suggest you refrain from punching walls that seem to be hemming you in, and I beg you not to spit into the wind when it's blowing in your face. Here's an oracle about how to avoid counterproductive behavior like that: The near future will bring you useful challenges and uncanny blessings if you're willing to consider the possibility that everything coming your way will in some sense be an opportunity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Oh how I wish you might receive the grace of being pampered and nurtured and entertained and prayed for. I'd love for you to assemble a throng of no-stringsattached caretakers who would devote themselves to stoking your healing and delight. Maybe they'd sing to you as they gave you a manicure and massaged your feet and paid your bills. Or perhaps they would cook you a gourmet meal and clean your house as they told you stories about how beautiful you are and all the great things you're going to do in the future. Is it possible to arrange something like that even on a modest scale, Taurus? You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when you most need this kind of doting attention – and when you have the greatest power to make it happen. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I invite you to dream about your true home . . . your sweet, energizing, love-strong home . . . the home where you can be high and deep, robust and tender, flexible and rigorous . . . the home where you are the person that you promised yourself you could be. To stimulate and enhance your brainstorms about your true home, experiment with the following activities: Feed your roots . . . do maintenance work on your power spot . . . cherish and foster your sources . . . and refine the magic that makes you feel free. Can you handle one more set of tasks designed to enhance your domestic bliss? Tend to your web of close allies . . . take care of what takes care of you . . . and adore the intimate connections that serve as your foundation.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): It'll be one of those rapid-fire, adjust-on-the-fly, think-on-your-feet, go-with-your-gut times for you – a head-spinning, endorphin-generating, eye-pleasing, intelligenceboosting phase when you will have opportunities to relinquish your attachments to status quos that don't serve you. Got all that, Cancerian? There'll be a lot of stimuli to absorb and integrate – and luckily for you, absorbing and integrating a lot of stimuli will be your specialty. I'm confident of your ability to get the most of upcoming encounters with cute provocations, pleasant agitation, and useful unpredictability. One more tip: Be vigilant and amused as you follow the ever-shifting sweet spot.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): At the risk of asking too much and pushing too hard, my Guerrilla Prayer Warriors have been begging God to send you some major financial mojo. These fierce supplicants have even gone so far as to suggest to the Supreme Being that maybe She could help you win the lottery or find a roll of big bills lying in the gutter or be granted a magic wish by an unexpected benefactor. “Whatever works!" is their mantra. Looking at the astrological omens, I'm not sure that the Prayer Warriors' extreme attempts will be effective. But the possibility that they will be is definitely greater than usual. To boost your odds, I suggest you get more organized and better educated about your money matters. Set a clear intention about the changes you'd like to put in motion during the next ten months.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Suggested experiments: 1. Take a vow that from now on you won't hide your beauty. 2. Strike a deal with your inner king or inner queen, guaranteeing that this regal part of gets regular free expression. 3. Converse with your Future Self about how the two of you might collaborate to fully unleash the refined potency of your emotional intelligence. 4. In meditations and dreams, ask your ancestors how you can more completely access and activate your dormant potentials.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are not forlorn, shivery, puzzled, or obsessive right now – unless being in such a state will mobilize you to instigate the overdue transformations you have been evading. If that's the case, I hope you are forlorn, shivery, puzzled, and obsessive. Feelings like those may be the perfect fuel – the high-octane motivation that will launch your personal renaissance. I don't often offer this counsel, Libra, so I advise you to take full advantage: Now is one of the rare times when your so-called negative emotions can catalyze redemption.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From what I can tell, your vigor is peaking. In recent weeks, you have been sturdy, hearty, stout, and substantial. I expect this surge of strength to intensify in the near future – even as it becomes more fluid and supple. In fact, I expect that your waxing power will teach you new secrets about how to wield your power intelligently. You may break your previous records for compassionate courage and sensitive toughness. Here's the best news of all: You're likely to be dynamic about bestowing practical love on the people and animal and things that are important to you.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The odds are higher than usual that you will be offered a boost or promotion in the coming weeks. This development is especially likely to occur in the job you're doing or the career plans you've been pursuing. It could also be a factor at work in your spiritual life. You may discover a new teacher or teaching that could lift you to the next phase of your inner quest. There's even a chance that you'll get an upgrade on both fronts. So it's probably a good time to check on whether you're harboring any obstacles to success. If you find that you are, DESTROY THOSE RANCID OLD MENTAL BLOCKS WITH A BOLT OF PSYCHIC LIGHTNING.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The cosmos seems to be warming up to your charms. The stinginess it displayed toward you for a while is giving way to a more generous approach. To take advantage of this welcome development, you should shed any fear-based beliefs you may have adopted during the recent shrinkage. For instance, it's possible you've begun to entertain the theory that the game of life is rigged against you, or that it is inherently hard to play. Get rid of those ideas. They're not true, and clinging to them would limit the game of life's power to bring you new invitations. Open yourself up wherever you have closed down.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are any of your allies acting like they've forgotten their true purpose? If so, you have the power to gently awaken them from their trances and help them re-focus. Is it possible you have become a bit too susceptible to the influences of people whose opinions shouldn't really matter that much to you? If so, now is a good time to correct that aberration. Are you aware of having fallen under the sway of trendy ideas or faddish emotions that are distorting your relationship with your primal sources? If so, you are hereby authorized to free yourself from their hold on you.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now would be a favorable time to reveal that you are in fact a gay socialist witch who believes good poetry provides a more reliable way to understand reality than the opinions of media pundits – unless, of course, you are not a gay socialist witch, etc., in which case you shouldn't say you are. But I do advise you to consider disclosing as much as possible of your true nature to anyone with whom you plan to be intimately linked in the future and who is missing important information about you. It's high time to experiment with being more completely yourself.
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[C4] Missoula Independent • August 25–September 1, 2016
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-16-125 Dept. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Eugene T. Corntassel, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Rodney D. Corntassel, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Dirk A. Williams, Crowley Fleck PLLP, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 5th day of July, 2016. /s/ Rodney D. Corntassel Personal Representative of the Estate of Eugene T. Corntassel, Deceased MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP16-126 Dept. No.: 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Charles Atley Medsker, 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 LYNDSEY RENEE MEDSKER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas D. Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 9 day of July, 2016. /s/ Lyndsey Renee Medsker, Personal Representative Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No.: DV-16607 Dept. No.: 3 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name
Change of Jeanne A. Bowes-Dietz, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Jeanne A. BowesDietz to Jeanne Ann Bowes. The hearing will be on 09/29/2016 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 7/22/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Casie Jenks, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Descahamps, III Cause No. DP-16-131 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: THOMAS W. WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Patrick T. White, has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patrick T. White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 7 day of July, 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 7th day of July, 2016. /s/ Patrick T. White, Personal Representative
MNAXLP persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to George B. Herlihy, return receipt requested, c/o Rhoades & Siefert, PLLC, 430 North Ryman, Second Floor, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 13th day of May, 2016. /s/ George B. Herlihy, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/07/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201008860 Book 859 Page 747, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Alicia R Rooney was
Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as designated nominee for First Security Bank of Missoula, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and First American Title Company of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: All of the portion of the South 24 feet of Lot 4, and all of that portion of Lots 5,6 and 7, Block 72, Knowles Addition No. 2, that lies West of a straight line extending diagonally from the Northeast corner of Lot 1 of said Block to the Southwest corner of Lot 7 of said Block 72, all according to the official recorded plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County,
Montana recording reference Book 94 Micro Records at Page 208 By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201609766 B: 962 P:1194, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Branch Banking and Trust Company. 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 02/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 5, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $108,969.91. This amount
includes the outstanding principal balance of $103,288.10, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 17, 2016 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 equiva-
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lents (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
PUBLIC NOTICES www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Rooney, Alicia (TS# 7 8 8 3 . 2 0 2 4 5 ) 1002.287699-File No. 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 Successor Trustee will, on December 16, 2016 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 Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Ann Garfinkle and Janet Garfinkle, as joint tenants and to the survivor of said named joint tenants (not as tenants in common), as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Lenders First Choice as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Ameriquest Mortgage Company, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated April 27, 2005 and was recorded on June 10, 2005 as Instrument No. Instrument 200514083 book 754 page 388, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 120 Coloma Way, Bonner, MT 59823 and being more fully described as follows: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTH
ONE-HALF OF THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 21, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 13 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 219. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities Inc., AssetBacked Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $6,833.52 beginning August 1, 2015 through August 12, 2016; plus interest due of $17,077.64; plus escrow payment of $4,970.96; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. 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, to wit: $245,637.08 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.50000 percent per annum beginning July 1, 2015; plus interest of $17,784.75; plus late charges of $1,545.04; plus escrow advance of $4,100.53; plus property inspection of $253.50; plus title search of $2,216.25; plus foreclosure fee and expense of $787.00; plus other costs projected
MNAXLP and incurred of $748.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: July 2nd, 2016 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 14, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 26 OF BELLEVUE ADDITION NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED
PLAT THEREOF. ROXANNE L BASSETTE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title as Trustee to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation, its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 2 2003, and recorded on July 14, 2003 as Book 711 Page 798 under Document No. 200325219. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ditech Financial 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 $742.98, beginning February 1, 2015, 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 October 27, 2015 is $50,815.76 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% totaling $835.33, late charges in the amount of $88.25, escrow advances of $3,677.58, plus accruing interest, 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
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JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s “What happens...”
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ACROSS 1 Fruit on some slot machines 5 Stewart who did an August 2016 stint in Vegas 8 Start of many sequel titles 13 Vegas money 14 Arrange in a cabinet 15 Military academy freshman 16 Basses and altos, in choral music 18 Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood" 19 1985 New Order song covered by Iron and Wine 21 Paradise paradigm 22 "What ___ the odds?" 23 Lose traction at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway 26 Painter Gerard ___ Borch 28 "Casino ___" (National Geographic documentary) 32 Maxwell Anderson's "High ___" 33 Ocular superpower that can cut metal 37 Lofty poem 38 In a perfect world? 39 Old card game, or U.K. bathroom 40 Train or automobile, but not plane 42 Philips who has played Vegas 43 Retail furniture giant (which has a location in Vegas) 44 Silent assent to the dealer, e.g. 45 Casino aid, for short 46 ___-pitch softball 48 "___ Flux" (1990s MTV series) 51 "Power of Love/Love Power" R&B singer 58 With good speed 59 The "a" in "Shake" (but not "Shack") 61 Back biter? 62 "The Grapes of Wrath" migrant 63 Grey who wrote about the Old West 64 Video game bad guy 65 Give, to Burns Last week’s solution
66 James who sang the ballad "At Last"
DOWN 1 "___ Joey" (Frank Sinatra film) 2 Organic compound 3 "It's ___-way street!" 4 Gunned the motor 5 Poisonous protein in castor beans 6 Kennedy couturier Cassini 7 Bandleader at the Tropicana Club, on TV 8 Serving of asparagus 9 Most of you have already heard it 10 GOP luminary Gingrich 11 New York theater award 12 Marshy area of England, with "the" 14 Low roll in craps 17 Ref. which added "starter marriage" and "starchitect" in 2016 20 In early metamorphosis 23 Russian vodka brand, for short 24 Maker of Advantix cameras 25 Actress Cara of "Fame" 26 Lukewarm 27 Drache of the Poker Hall of Fame 29 Alvin of the American Dance Theater 30 Luxor or Excalibur offerings 31 Condescending type 33 Stock symbol for Southwest Airlines (based on their logo) 34 "Lend Me ___" (Broadway play about an opera company) 35 "From ___ down to Brighton I must have played them all" ("Pinball Wizard") 36 Finish for opal or saturn 41 Recorder attached to a windshield 45 You might hit it if you're tired 47 Distrustful 48 Professional poker player ___ Duke 49 Scoring advantage 50 Hot Topic founder ___ Madden 51 Like some excuses 52 Second word of "The Raven" 53 Story of your trip, perhaps 54 Recurring YouTube journal 55 Vegas-frequenting electro-house musician Steve, or golfer Isao 56 Acronym on some LVMPD jackets 57 Launched into cyberspace 60 "Glee" actress ___ Michele
PUBLIC NOTICES 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 includes 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 INF O R M A T I O N OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 3, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of
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Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 3 day of June, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2016 Ditech vs BASSETTE 100516-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 6, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF LOLO PEAK VISTA NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF NATHAN ADAM DECOUTEAU, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Security Bank of Missoula, Division of Glacier Bank , as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on February 14, 2014, and recorded on February 18, 2014 as Book 925 Page 478 under Document No. 201401955. The beneficial interest is currently held by SunTrust Mortgage, 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
MNAXLP make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,181.47, beginning October 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 31, 2016 is $183,715.32 principal, interest at the rate of 3.75000% totaling $5,159.13, late charges in the amount of $105.03, escrow advances of $2,070.77, and other fees and expenses advanced of $49.00, plus accruing interest, 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 20, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 20 day of May, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 SunTrust Mortgage Inc vs DECOUTEAU 101368 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 7, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 18A OF SUPPLEMENT TO PARKSIDE
ADDITION, BLOCK 145, LOTS 15A AND 18A, AN AMENDED PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF DAREK J NALLE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Stearns Lending Inc., its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary by Deed of Trust dated on January 28, 2013, and recorded on January 31, 2013 as Book 907 Page 1123 under Document No. 201302157. The beneficial interest is currently held by Stearns Lending, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,217.76, beginning October 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 1, 2016 is $266,840.61 principal, interest at the rate of 3.25000% totaling $14,890.09, late charges in the amount of $529.26, escrow advances of $11,803.37, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,883.55, plus accruing interest, 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
PUBLIC NOTICES 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 24, 2016 /s/ Dalia Marintz Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 24 day of May, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared
MNAXLP Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Loancare vs NALLE 101420-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 7, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 14 of MALONEY RANCH, PHASE VI, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. DAWN WAHL, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys-
tems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on April 23, 2007, and recorded on April 27, 2007 as Book 796, Page 95 under Document No. 200710053. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”). 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 $1,655.99, beginning December 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 12, 2016 is $379,751.96 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25000% totaling $8,556.09, late charges in the amount of $266.77, escrow advances of
$2,823.88, and other fees and expenses advanced of $112.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by
Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days
by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 23, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 23 day of May, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus vs WAHL 101270-1
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HOMES FOR SALE 1001 Medicine Man Cluster. Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $1,150,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 406-2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com
2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Northside home. $180,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Northside home. $290,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with deck, studio & sauna. $275,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
235 McLeod. 5 bed, 2.5 bath University District home with study, fireplace & large fenced backyard. $514,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@ properties2000.com
2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $195,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4 Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $458,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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Centrally Located 1815 Hollis. This home is in great shape and the minute you walk in, it’s love at first sight! 2 bed 1 bath. $236,500 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981. More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana
Sweet Bungalow 120 Strand Ave. This little bungalow is about as sweet as they come! 1 bed 1 bath $230,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Trail Street 2144 Trail Street. 2144 Trail Street- PRICE REDUCED! This 3 bed 2 bath wellloved home is ready to move into! $265,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com
Charlo Street Townhomes #1. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com The Uptown Flats #105. Ground floor condo offers extra large south-facing patio. 1 bed, 1 bath. $161,900 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816 annierealtor@gmail.com The Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com The Uptown Flats #303. 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com
LAND FOR SALE 156 ACRES, EASY ACCESS. $199,900. Bordered by USFS lands. Prime hunting. 15 minutes to Superior MT. Southern exposure, good mix of trees and meadows. Power nearby. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@ Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 20 acres Granite County $44,900. Wild Horse
Road: Gated access, prime hunting area. Timber, views, usable terrain. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • newhomes@ montana.com • www.marktwite.com
NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com
2598 WHISKEY JACK, HAMILTON MT. $89,500. 20+ acres South of Hamilton. Bordered by USFS lands. Gated community access. Sweet seller terms available with 20% down. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@ Montana.com • www.marktwite.com
NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tu n g s t e n h o l d i n g s . c o m . (406)293-3714
3.52ac $259/month Boulder, MT- 2.12ac $391/month Absarokee, MT21.3ac $203/month Red Lodge, MTMore properties online. Justin Joyner Steel Horse RE www.ownerfinancemt.com 406-539-1420 320 ACRES, GRANITE COUNTY. $172,000. Located about an hour east of Missoula. Bordered by BLM and State lands. Good grazing area. Prime hunting area. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy. Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 40 ACRES- 2 CREEKSSELLER TERMS. $69,900. 2 perennial streams. Gated legal access. Seller terms w/20% down. Easy year around potential. Off the grid. Great southern exposure. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #5. Development opportunity. 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@ gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #7. Great Development opportunity. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com
South Frontage East, Alberton. 37 acres with multiple building sites. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
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4033 Matthew Street. 2 bed, 1 bath mobile home in Westview Park with deck & mountain views. $36,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $315,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call
Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 BEDROOM HOME ON 12+ACRES. $349,900. Bring the Horses! Well kept home, 45x60 shop. All irrigated
2700 Lyon Creek Rd, Missoula True Montana Property! $498,000 • MLS # 21603335 Easy town access, remote setting. 3 bed, 2 bath, 3,040 sq.ft. custom log home nestled in a beautifully maintained forest with privacy and hunting right out of the back yard. 17 private wooded acres. Endless recreational opportunities. Clark Fork river only miles away. Completely remodeled in 2011/2012.
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Affordable Living 1308 Greenwood Court. Awesome opportunity to own a sweet home in a forested mobile home park! $27,500 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. $795,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Martin’s Clean All. Successful power washing business includes truck & equipment. $80,000. Pat McCormick, Properties. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com
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OUT OF TOWN 122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 2.9 acres. $200,000.
Central Missoula location with 10 offices, in-space conference room, server room and cubical area. Lots of open space with outside decking and use of large community conference room and break area. Designated parking as well as off-street parking for employees and clients. Energy efficient building with low utility costs. See LA regarding lease terms. For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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