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Voices/Letters Clean power and land grabs ...................................................................4 The Week in Review Traveling alpacas, bicycle lizards and Pet Fest..............................6 Briefs Fleece pollution, conservation rally and a new court standard...........................6 Etc. Goodbye forever, Total Fest......................................................................................7 News Birth options grow in Missoula .............................................................................8 News After a decline, UM logs first research jump in six years.......................................9 Opinion Gianforte’s crazy talk overshadows a solid plan ............................................10 Opinion Lessons from a yellow river ............................................................................11 Feature WTF: The Answers Issue ..................................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts The Misfortune Tellers fill Missoula’s rockabilly gap .............................................18 Music Hot Buttered Rum, Junior Brown and Kadavar..................................................19 Music Titus Andronicus make their capstone album....................................................20 Film Tour’s portrayal of Wallace rings true ...................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 Flash in the Pan Cháo-ing down ..................................................................................24 Hangriest Hour Pudding shots at Feruqi’s...................................................................26 8 Days a Week “Clear your mind of questions.” —Yoda...............................................27 Mountain High Rocky Mountaineers’ Glacier Classic..................................................33 Agenda The Pov’s community appreciation barbecue..................................................34

Exclusives

Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

[voices] by Kate Whittle and Erika Fredrickson

Asked Tuesday, Aug. 25 near the corner of Spruce and Madison. What was the first question you had about Missoula when you got here? Followup: What question do other people ask you about Missoula or western Montana? Jesse Sindler: The slant streets and Malfunction Junction. The lack of stop signs at some intersections. I just refer to them as the no-way stops. Little green men? When I try to explain Missoula to people I tell them it’s like SimCity as a mountain town. Weird things happen: an avalanche in the city limits or the valley will be filled with smoke or a small alien invasion. That kind of stuff.

Kenny Lindon: I haven’t really thought about it, to be honest. The big cat downtown at the parking garage. It’s a little strange. Just wanna have fun: Where are the fun places to go and what is there to see? I usually tell them the downtown area, or Out to Lunch at Caras Park.

Chris Knudson: Is it true that David Lynch lived in the Wilma Theatre? A million times, yes: They want to know if it’s really nice to live here and I say, “Yes, it’s amazing.” Sometimes it’s the River Runs Through It question: Are there really fly fishermen right there in town? And I say, “Yes, there are.”

Julie Cole: I like to explore the answers on my own, but I can’t really think of any questions that I had. Know-it-alls: I think people generally want to know if it’s a good place to be. So sometimes people will ask me if that’s true. But I feel like everyone is pretty well-informed already about Missoula. Karla Theilen: Every time my dad is visiting he asks me what the “L” on the hill is for. And I never really knew. It’s Loyola, for the school, right? Don’t judge the cover:: I think people have a misconceptions, like we ride our horses to the bar. This guy I worked with in Colorado was telling somebody, “Karla is from Montana and she has a pet grizzly bear and she can open beer bottles with her teeth.” Well, it is true. But just looking at me, would you know?

[4] Missoula Independent • August 27–September 3, 2015

Keys to clean power Montana is well positioned to create new jobs, make our homes and businesses more efficient and strengthen our outdoor economy by meeting the challenges of the recently announced Clean Power Plan. Although critics wasted no time in responding with talking points centered on messages of “can’t do it” hopelessness, the fact is that Montanans will reap the rewards of an economy powered by renewable energy. Kids will be healthier. The jobs that rely on Montana’s outdoors will be more secure. And consumers will save money. In fact, analysts say the new plan will save the average American family nearly $85 on their annual energy bills by the year 2030. It will save consumers $155 billion between 2020-2030. In Montana, we already have a successful track record of encouraging growth in developing renewable sources of energy and preparing for the future—without raising costs to consumers. We’ve done it before and we can do it again. Ten years ago, Montana lawmakers established a standard to encourage renewable energy construction. Since then, multiple studies have concluded the state’s transition to 15 percent clean renewable energy has not raised costs to consumers. The standard did, however, create more than 100 permanent jobs a year and thousands of construction jobs in just wind energy. Thanks to our standard, Montana has more jobs and is better prepared to meet the demands of the future. Nobody can deny the Clean Power Plan sets ambitious new standards for Montana. But it also provides the Treasure State two important factors to help us succeed and to ensure electricity remains abundant and cost effective: time and flexibility. Montana received an extended timeline to meet this new challenge. The state has 15 years and, fortunately, we are already on track. Montana’s power suppliers are already in the midst of a major change. Energy sources like wind, solar and natural gas are rapidly coming online to meet the demands of a new energy future. The cost of electricity from renewable sources has been declining for years, and will continue to go down. According to North Carolina State University, rooftop solar is already cheaper than grid electricity in 42 of America’s 50 largest cities. The installed price of distributed solar power has fallen by half in just the last six years and it continues to drop.

More importantly, Montana has flexibility to determine how it will prepare itself to meet the Clean Power Plan. Montanans have an important choice. We can embrace ingenuity and innovation, respond to market forces, save consumers money and do the right thing for future generations. Or we can turn our backs and struggle to keep up. Rhyno Stinchfield President GreenWorld Partners Billings

“We can embrace ingenuity and innovation, respond to market forces, save consumers money and do the right thing for future generations. Or we can turn ourbacks and struggle to keep up.”

The fed’s big land grab Recently, the U.S. Department of the Interior released its latest land use plan amendments for 11 western states. These plans were drafted with the intent of saving an already flourishing sage grouse population. In 2011, DOI Secretary Salazar invited 11 western governors to draft collaborative solutions to conserve sage grouse habitat in a manner in which the states can lead. Montana and the other states stepped up in true western fashion. After years of hard work and millions of dollars, the end of the process has come and the time to deliver on that promise by the secretary is now. To the surprise of the West and its governors, and in violation of federal law, the BLM land use plan amendments uni-

laterally rejected the efforts of the states. DOI unleashed a paradigm that removes more than 10 million acres of land from economic public access—a lifeline in the West—including almost 1 million acres in Montana. No longer can Montanans travel the public lands without far-reaching travel restrictions. No longer can new technologies be deployed on public lands to develop the next energy resource. No longer can those acres remain available to responsibly drive the Montana economy in ways it has for over 125 years. DOI has delivered one of the largest federal land grabs in the history of the U.S., in the shortest order and with the least deference to the leadership and residents of Montana who depend and recreate on these lands. It is noteworthy that seven of the bipartisan western governors filed formal protests including Gov. Bullock, whose protest to the BLM said, “The proposed plans fail to take proper and legally required cognizance of Montana’s interest.” It is without question these land use plans have charted a costly course to litigation. In the federal government’s rush to completion, the cost to the taxpayer will be enormous as they stand in a courtroom defending the indefensible. We now must turn to Congress to abate this legal collision course. There are multiple efforts in Congress at this moment, prohibition language in spending bills and stand-alone legislation. These efforts to keep public lands open and stave off costly litigation have champions in Montana’s own Sen. Steve Daines. They are on the leading edge of driving solutions to address the greatest threats to sage grouse—wildfire and invasive species. Sadly, their message and that of the governors were largely passed over for massive land use restrictions that do little to address either. It is important the efforts of Sen. Steve Daines and Gov. Bullock continue. The BLM’s outright rejection of the governors’ consistency review conclusively demonstrates that the federal government has no interest in listening to the voice of states. The result is the single greatest assault on multiple-use and access to federal public lands for recreation and economic growth from which Montana may never recover. Devon Coquillard Communications and Outreach Manager American Exploration & Mining Association Spokane, Wash.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Alex Sakariassen

Wednesday, August 19 A band of travelers disembarks from a taxi with a small, cream-colored alpaca in tow and strolls around downtown. Later in the week, the alpaca is spotted wearing a floral necklace.

Thursday, August 20 In other animal-related news, a man slowly bicycles around Higgins Avenue in the afternoon while carrying two lizards on his shoulders.

Friday, August 21 Forward Montana hosts the inaugural 25 Under 25 Celebration in Caras Park to recognize pioneering young Montanans. Honorees include Missoula artist Michael Workman, a Big Sky Documentary Film Festival coordinator, and K. Jesse Linton, who works at Garden City Harvest.

Saturday, August 22 The Silver Dollar Bar on Railroad Street marks its 80th anniversary with a parking lot party and live tunes. The Silver Dollar opened in 1935, just two years after the repeal of Prohibition.

Sunday, August 23 In yet more animal-related news, Pet Fest brings all manner of four-legged friends to the Adams Center for adoption clinics, informational booths and competitions like the Wacky Wiener Dog Dash.

Monday, August 24 Missoula City Council adopts an ordinance banning wild and exotic animal performances for public entertainment, with exceptions for educational purposes.

Tuesday, August 25 In non-animal-related news, Missoula city officials announce that since tax revenues turned out to be higher than expected, taxes will only increase this year by 4.7 percent, instead of 5.7 as originally projected.

The first handful of Neil Young ticket seekers hit the box office windows at the Adams Center at 10 a.m. Aug. 24. Elizabeth Smead, far left, camped out for tickets starting at midnight. “I was too keyed up to sleep,” she said just before the box office opened. “I’m shaking.” The Adams Center reports the show sold out in 50 minutes, though some tickets may still be released later.

Rivers

Fleece figures into pollution Fleece, the fluffy fabric made out of recycled bottles and beloved by Montanans, is generally ecofriendly. But scientists have found that synthetic garments slough off about 2,000 tiny plastic fibers with each washing, and Bozeman-based Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation wants to know where all those fibers end up. Last December, ASC conducted a preliminary study of the Gallatin River south of Bozeman and found microplastics at all five sites it sampled. A site downstream from Big Sky had disturbingly high concentrations, says ASC spokeswoman Emily Stifler Wolfe. “There’s so much we don’t know,” Wolfe says. “We’ve got to learn how plastics are going into the river so we can figure out some of the ways to get it out. Using less plastic is a start.” Previously, the main source of microplastics—frag-

ments ranging in size from the width of a pencil eraser to the diameter of a human hair—was thought to be microbeads manufactured for use in cosmetics or toothpaste and fragments that splintered off from larger plastic trash. But fleece fibers can slip through the filters of our washers and water-treatment plants, and unlike wool and cotton fibers that degrade, plastic endures for years. Marine biologists have reported finding plastic in far-flung waters for more than a decade, and since 2011, scientists and volunteers worldwide have helped ASC collect ocean water samples to learn how far microplastics have spread. The results show a marine menace. Scientists have found microplastics as far away as the coast of Greenland and the tip of Antarctica. “I think that our mapping shows that plastics are a global issue and really well distributed throughout the world,” says ASC scientist Abby Barrows. That’s bad news for small fish like herring that mistake microplastic for their plankton food source. Not

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only do plastics lack nutrition but they can also attract and absorb toxins such as the pesticide DDT from the surrounding environment. When bigger fish gorge on plastic-laden herring, the toxins become concentrated, making the fish dangerous to eat. Could trout face a similar threat? This spring, ASC started focusing on freshwater sources, and it appears the plastic plague isn’t limited to the oceans. During a March ski trip, ASC volunteer Kt Miller sampled a waterfall high in the Slovenian Alps and found microplastic where it shouldn’t exist. No one knows for sure how plastic particles invade remote headwaters, but being carried on the wind is a likely cause, Wolfe says. Since then adventurers have sampled in the Great Lakes and Sierra Mountains, and volunteers are sampling along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to learn if microplastic concentrations increase as they paddle downstream. ASC is accepting samples from any Montana stream. But spurred by its December findings, the non-

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Public lands

Benefits for business Standing in the grass at McCormick Park Aug. 24, Missoula Mayor John Engen joked about the similarities between himself and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. Both turned 50 this year, he told a crowd, and hopefully both have another 50 years of good work ahead. A banner nearby read â&#x20AC;&#x153;35 days, 9 hours, 00 minutes,â&#x20AC;? denoting the time Congress has left to reauthorize the LWCF before it expires Sept. 30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What this park represents in Missoula, Montana, is repeated all around the country,â&#x20AC;? Engen said in reference to McCormick Park, which has received support from the LWCF in the past. The LWCF has poured more than $237 million into Montana since 2005. Scores of large-scale conservation projects in western Montana have reaped the benefit of the LWCF over the years. But Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rally, organized by Business for Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoors and several other nonprofits, was also meant to highlight the importance of smaller LWCF-related spaces like McCormick Park, as well as the overall importance of public lands to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The point in being here is to say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just an outdoor recreation or conservation issue,â&#x20AC;? says Business for Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoors spokesperson Marne Haynes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very much a business issue as well that we protect and take care of the things that serve our outdoors.â&#x20AC;? Haynesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; organization began roughly three years ago as a small roundtable and has since grown to more than 100 local companies. Haynes says those members range from recreation-based businesses like the Trail Head to members of Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emerging tech and biomed industries. In a report released this year by a coalition of groups including the Montana League of Cities and Towns, 70 percent of state businesses cited access to public lands and quality recreation as a major factor for locating in Montana. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can get people in this state who will take a

pay cut to come here and live because of the outdoor opportunities that exist in this state,â&#x20AC;? says Sen. Jon Tester, who spoke at Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rally and attempted this June to raise the LWCF reauthorization level to roughly $400 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That allows us to compete.â&#x20AC;? James Stephens, co-CEO of Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blue Marble Biomaterials and a member of the Business for Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoors, says the access made possible by the LWCF is a vital part of the quality of life that draws new businesses and employees to the state. His family are all avid hikers, as are many of the employees at Blue Marble. He notes conservation of public lands is a major driver of economic growth in Montana. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If done properly and done with the right rules and whatever in place, it kind of fosters this ecosystem of businesses and personnel that not only take advantage of it but create economic opportunity from it without harming the environment,â&#x20AC;? Stephens says. Alex Sakariassen

Justice

Setting a new standard Over the past two weeks, the Montana Supreme Court has kicked two high-profile cases filed by the Montana Innocence Project back to lower courts. The rulings generate new momentum in the post-conviction relief petitions of Cody Marble and Robert Wilkes and set a new standard for the review of such petitions. The supreme court issued the first decision Aug. 14, ruling that District Judge Douglas Harkin had erred in his 2013 rejection of Marbleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s petition for a new trial. Marble, who was convicted in 2002 of raping another inmate at the Missoula County Detention Facility, has long maintained his innocence based on arguments that fellow inmates set him up. The alleged victim recanted his initial testimony in 2010â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the same year Marble and the Innocence Project filed Marbleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s petitionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only to go back to his original story later. The supreme court reversed Harkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rejection and remanded the case back to district court. Three days later, on Aug. 17, the supreme court overturned District Judge Ed McLeanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s April 2014 decision denying Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; appeal. Wilkes, the subject of a 2012 Indy feature story shortly after the Innocent Proj-

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ect took on his case, was convicted in 2009 of killing his three-month-old son Gabriel. During Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; initial trial, doctors who treated Gabriel attributed his death to â&#x20AC;&#x153;shaken baby syndrome.â&#x20AC;? Wilkes and the Innocence Project later presented evidence to support the case that Gabriel actually died from a rare liver disease. They also argued Wilkes had received ineffective assistance of counsel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The District Court inadequately addressed Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newly discovered evidence claim,â&#x20AC;? the supreme court wrote in its conclusion last week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This error was not harmless. The District Court erred when it denied Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IAC claim. It misapplied the law and misapprehended the effect of Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evidence.â&#x20AC;? Innocence Project attorney Larry Mansch says the decisions in both cases move away from a harsh legal standard set by the supreme court in a previous ruling in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case against Barry Beach. The standard set in Beachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and applied in the district court petitions by Marble and Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;required petitioners to establish actual innocence before receiving any relief. In the latest rulings, the supreme court has directed the petitions to be revisited in the light of whether newly discovered evidence would establish that a petitioner did not engage in the criminal conduct for which he or she was convicted. Mansch sees it as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;middle groundâ&#x20AC;? standard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now the question becomes what does that mean on a case-by-case basis,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What does it mean to establish that he or she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it?â&#x20AC;? However, the supreme court did not specifically order the district court to conduct a new hearing in Wilkesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; petition, only that it reconsider its previous decision in light of the new standard. Mansch says the Innocence Project looks forward to â&#x20AC;&#x153;new consideration of the facts of this case.â&#x20AC;? Alex Sakariassen

HAPPY HOUR SPECIAL

ETC. For a certain subset of the Missoula community, the middle of August has meant one thing for the last 14 years: Total Fest, an annual all-ages festival of rock, metal, punk, altcountry and all sorts of other unclassifiable genres. This past weekend, many festival goers partied harder knowing that this Total Fest, Aug. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22, was the very last one. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understandable why the organizers have decided to call it quits. Months of meetings, dozens of Google Doc spreadsheets and hundreds of contract negotiations go into one three-day frenzy of barbecues, parties and rock bands. And all that work is done by volunteers. Since 2001, Total Fest has been the place where out-of-town musicians and artists learned a little about what makes our quirky town tick. This year was no exception. The unofficial Total Fest hashtag became #circlepit, as propagated by local band Total Combined Weight, who threw out 100 free T-shirts reading â&#x20AC;&#x153;TCW #CirclePitâ&#x20AC;? to kick off their set. One group of friends dressed festively by wearing sarongs and leis and making a pineapple into a giant beer koozie. The annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;heavy metal parking lotâ&#x20AC;? tailgate party on the roof of Central Park took place as usual, though it briefly became a â&#x20AC;&#x153;heavy metal covered stairwayâ&#x20AC;? during a sudden rainstorm. Onlookers gaped as Doug Smith, of Volumen, managed to parallel park a Winnebago in front of the Badlander. While recovering from hangovers, a few bands braved the smoky weather to go floating on the Blackfoot. A few got a view of another side of Missoula (ahem) at happy hour at Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to capture all of the highlights, but certainly one major high point was the reunion bands. Oblio Joes reunited to play to a packed house at the ZACC on Thursday, followed by Sasshole, Volumen and Humpy at the Palace and Badlander on Saturday. It served as a reminder that the Missoula arts and music community is blessed with creative, fun-loving characters. For 14 years, Total Fest has been the annual gathering to dance, hang out with friends and celebrate part of what makes this place special.

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Special deliveries Birth options grow in Missoula by Kate Whittle

In the weeks since the opening of St. nonmedical personnel who provide emo- says. “Birthing options are always a good Patrick’s new Family Maternity Center, tional and physical support during preg- thing to make the community aware of.” hospital administrators have touted the nancy, delivery and postpartum recovery, The maternity ward at Community is state-of-the-art equipment and staff. whether for a home or hospital birth, says also in the process of becoming certified They’re also opening the doors of the Melinda Cline, a co-director with the Lotus as “Baby-Friendly,” according to Mary new $5 million facility to midwives and Project and a practicing doula. Windecker, vice president of planning and doulas who provide emotional and physCline says she was inspired to be- marketing. The UNICEF Baby-Friendly ical support to new mothers. come a doula after delivering her two chil- program includes allowing for cuddling “They’ve been very welcoming to us,” dren at The Birth Center, which is run by immediately after birth to facilitate bondsays Corie Keller, a member of local doula certified nurse-midwife Jeanne Hebl. The ing between new babies and moms. group Rising Aspen. “And they recognize the Birth Center differs from a hospital materCline has observed a difference in opersupport that we bring to birth and to post- nity ward in many ways, including a more ations at Community’s maternity ward since partum.” Keller attended an open house held by St. Patrick earlier this summer where midwives and doulas were invited to tour the maternity ward before it opened. The ward’s seven spacious units offer women the ability to labor, deliver and recover in rooms equipped with hot tubs and foldout beds for family. The space allows for friends, family and additional staff to join the process. Joyce Dombrouski, the chief acute services officer at St. Patrick, says their goal is to provide a positive experience for new parents. “Some moms choose doulas, some choose significant others, some choose their own moms, some choose all three,” she says. photo courtesy of St. Patrick Hospital Dombrouski says St. Patrick, which is a Providence Health & The new Family Maternity Center at St. Patrick Hospital includes suites where Services-owned facility, is also women can labor, deliver and recover in the same room as part of an effort to looking to the example of other make the birth experience less stressful. About 40 babies have been born since clinics that provide a “maternity its July 29 opening. bundle.” At the Providence Maternal Care Clinic in Portland, for example, “home-like” atmosphere and less-invasive she began attending births as a doula. “In patients receive coordinated care from a monitoring equipment. four years since I’ve been practicing, I’ve seen team including a nurse-midwife and an obIn 2009, Hebl made headlines for an in- tremendous changes,” Cline says. “The birth stetrician. Providence has noted better cident when Community Medical Center re- I attended in June was completely different birth outcomes as result, including a drop portedly barred her from the premises after in terms of staffing and monitoring four years in the rate of Caesarean sections and in- her sponsoring physician, Lynn Montgomery, ago ... This last birth they left mom and baby crease in patient satisfaction. Dombrouski passed away unexpectedly. Today, Hebl says alone for a full hour after delivery.” says St. Patrick plans to start talking to local the issue was “short-lived” and that she has It’s all part of a national movement physicians and midwives about initiating a since resumed transferring her emergency toward a more holistic, less stressful way similar program in 2016. cases to Community. to give birth, Cline says. “We want women Midwives generally cater to women “I think it’s great that [St. Patrick is] pre- to have the type of support they need and with uncomplicated pregnancies who plan senting a different option for women and deserve and want.” to have an unmedicated birth at home or their families, and a lot of people were very in a home-like environment. Doulas are impressed with the unit over there,” Hebl kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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[news]

Research resurgence After backsliding, UM logs first spending jump in six years by Derek Brouwer

In the biology department at the University of Montana, Frank Rosenzweig’s laboratory is working with NASA to understand key moments in the evolution of life. Meanwhile, researchers with the university’s Neural Injury Center are developing new tools to gauge the recovery of individuals with traumatic brain injuries. And, elsewhere on campus, ecologists are teaming up with the U.S.

maybe exceed them the following year,” says Scott Whittenburg, vice president for research and creative scholarship. University faculty spent $64.5 million on research last year, while Bozeman’s spending dipped slightly to $106.9 million. With several large grants just getting underway, Whittenburg says he’s confident last year’s tally is the beginning of renewed growth.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

UM has long been outspent by Montana State University on research, but officials say an increasingly successful initiative to win grants could soon put the two universities on par.

Army Corps of Engineers to tackle issues of environmental management as part of UM’s largest research grant ever. These endeavors are just a few of the big wins scored by the university of late as it strives to increase research activity. New figures released for last fiscal year show the first bump in UM’s research spending since 2009, and a record-breaking $83 million grant dollars awarded to university faculty. Research at UM has long been the little sibling to its Bozeman counterpart, at least in terms of size. For decades, Montana State University has spent more—it’s a $100-million yearly enterprise there—and translated more faculty work into patentable technologies. Meanwhile, UM has been weathering a backslide from its own more modest spending peak. Riding a recent wave of good news, officials at UM say that trend is over, and the school could soon rival Bozeman’s research. “I think we will be competitive next year and

The business of university research is about more than discovering new knowledge. It’s also a mark of prestige and a major way universities can affect the region’s economy. The Montana University System has made expanding research one of its goals. The effort is getting a boost now that the Montana Legislature for the first time earmarked $15 million towards research. UM so far has garnered $4 million of the pot for the brain injury work and another project to develop tools for monitoring water quality. The state is emphasizing academic research at a time when the funding climate is particularly difficult for individual faculty members, so the university is looking for opportunities to bring researchers together on collaborative projects. A social and behavioral sciences initiative is underway at UM, and Whittenburg says the university plans to turn its attention next to creating a humanities institute. To support research, the university has

also brought in resources to assist faculty in developing grant proposals, including a consultant hired last year to review them. The tools can encourage more faculty members to apply for funding, Whittenburg says, pointing out that the recent decline in research spending had been accompanied by a drop in grant proposals submitted. The statewide research initiative was pitched to legislators by Gov. Steve Bullock as an investment in Montana’s economy, and the proposals sought were those that could bring a return to taxpayers. Whittenburg agrees that connecting research with economic development is one of the university’s responsibilities. “We have to show that that investment in us is a positive impact on our region,” he says. But transferring university-born ideas into marketable technology is another area where UM is playing catch-up. The university had only 30 active intellectual property licenses in 2014, compared to 255 by MSU. There’s been a concerted effort to commercialize technology in Bozeman for two decades, while UM didn’t formalize its tech transfer office until 2009. Joe Fanguy, the office’s first full-time director, says the university’s recent effort to foster innovation and entrepreneurship has some parallels to the startup companies it helps create. “It’s a rallying effort in this tech transfer realm,” he says. UM is making some headway, having recently secured its hundredth patent. While Fanguy has tried to put commercialization at the top of faculty minds, he’s also spending time with local businesses and entrepreneurs so the university can better respond and serve them. He focuses on the number of “businesses touched” each year, rather than licensing and patenting. It’s how UM is working to forge its own path in the realm of innovation, without engineering or agriculture programs to lean on, he says. “You can pursue intellectual property or you can look at true business opportunities,” Fanguy says “What we’ve chosen to do is look at ... true business opportunity as opposed to a portfolio of technology.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • August 27–September 3, 2015 [9]

[opinion]

Kill the dinosaurs Greg Gianforte’s crazy talk overshadows a good plan by Dan Brooks

Last week, wealthy businessman and political activist Greg Gianforte announced plans to run for governor. You might remember him from a previous announcement, in February, when he told an audience at Montana Bible College that the Bible forbade retirement. “How old was Noah when he built the ark?” Gianforte asked, apparently rhetorically. “Six hundred. He wasn’t cashing Social Security checks. He wasn’t hanging out. He was working. So I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.” These comments are what classical political science calls “crazy.” They tended to overshadow Gianforte’s main message, which was support for the Bring Our Families Back initiative—a plan to encourage native Montanans who have left the state for high-paying jobs to return and telecommute. That’s kind of a shame, because I think Bring Our Families Back is a great idea. I telecommute myself. With the exception of the Indy, which pays me in jewels and fine fur, most of the people I write for are outside Montana. Thanks to the internet, I can live in this great state but work with alcoholic deadbeats across the country, all while enjoying an economy of scale. I almost never wear pants. So I am a great exponent of telecommuting, and I think more Montanans should try it. My problem with Gianforte as a candidate is that I cannot support his telecommuting plan without also supporting his belief that a 600-year-old man put two of each animal on a boat. That sounds made up to me. But the billionaire from Bozeman has forced me to buy Bring Our Families Back as a package deal with his [editorial content ahead] dumb, hateful religion. Gianforte’s faith has consistently guided his political activities. In 2006, “in response to God’s great goodness,” he and his wife founded the Gianforte Family Foundation, which directs money toward “improving education, lifting people out

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of poverty, protecting the unborn, and Christian outreach.” The foundation has given grants to the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, as well as to a group called the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, which raises awareness of “the adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.” That last one sounds fun and plenty gay, but the Family Research Council has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Policy Law Center. Their “research” includes a steady output of fake studies arguing gay men are more likely

“... I cannot support his telecommuting plan without also supporting his belief that a 600year-old man put two of each animal on a boat.” to molest children. Focus on the Family, the FRC’s parent organization, merely opposes same-sex marriage and supports the teaching of biblical creation narratives in public schools. One of the few entities Gianforte has supported that does not have “family” in its name is the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, which teaches that Earth is 6,000 years old and humans and dinosaurs lived together. Not peacefully, though—“Whenever dinosaurs and humans were forced to share an environment,” the museum’s Facebook page notes, “the natural course was for humans to kill the dinosaurs.”

These are not mainstream values. You can make “family” a euphemism for foaming churchspeak, but you cannot convince sensible voters that ignoring science and denying fair treatment to gay people will make Montana great again. These are bugs in the Gianforte platform, not features. Clearly, Gianforte’s faith has been a powerful force in his life. But he is an engineer, and he should know that not every part of a system is integral to its function. Maybe he sold his company to Oracle for $1.5 billion not because he was a faithful Christian, but because he was smart. Maybe his intense belief in an unpopular set of demonstrably untrue values is coincidental, not instrumental, to his success. I urge candidate Gianforte not to consider that possibility. After 50 years integrating dinosaurs into Biblical literalism, he should probably just leave with the girl he came in with. But he should start practicing his religion in secret and stop talking about it so the voters of Montana are not scared away from his potentially good ideas by his crazy, hurtful, patently ridiculous ones. This may surprise him, but a lot of people in this state do not list going to church among their favorite activities. What is for Gianforte a thrilling reconnection to his spiritual purpose is, for the rest of us, an intrusion by people whose ignorance is exceeded only by their certainty. “It isn’t in the Bible” makes a compelling argument for some, but for the rest of us, it is an excuse to snicker instead of listen. I would like to listen to candidate Gianforte. I’d like to hear how he can make Montana a better place to work, since it is now such a fine place to live and a bad place to draw a paycheck. This God thing I heard about already, from people older and wiser than him. He should run for governor instead of deacon. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and insulting your deeply-held beliefs at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

We know better Animas River spills a reminder of lessons still unlearned by Allen Best

The mustard-colored water flowing down the Animas River in southwestern Colorado is a painful reminder of the lengthy gestation time of environmental disasters. The ugly surge was unleashed in early August by an EPA contractor, which unwittingly breached a dike that allowed contaminated water from the Gold King Mine to flood into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River. Images from the polluted river as it flowed downstream through the town of Durango were appalling, and the story became a media sensation. But the disaster actually had its start almost 130 years ago. Located 7 miles north of Silverton at an elevation of 11,400 feet, the Gold King was among several big mines and mills clustered around a company town called Gladstone. The Gold King had a brief but productive life. The mine was staked in 1886, and the vein that made it a bonanza was discovered in 1896. By the time the mine was shuttered in 1922, it had produced $8 million in ore, more than a tenth of all production in San Juan County, according to The Rainbow Route, a railroad and mining history. A bonanza to owners, the mine was deadly to workers. Six people died when carbon dioxide was drawn into it by a fire at the nearby boardinghouse. Another five died in an avalanche, reports Scott Fetchenhier, a local historian and San Juan County commissioner. Mining can be hazardous to people living downstream, too. In the 1930s, farmers along Clear Creek, northwest of Denver, complained bitterly that gold mining upstream at Central City and Blackhawk was polluting their irrigation water and withering their crops. Eventually, state and federal laws were enacted to curb pollution from mines, but we’ve continued to cut corners in our enforcement. After a century of mining ended there in 1979, continuing pollution from the Eagle Mine, located a few miles from Vail, Colo., left people uncertain whether it was safe to

eat fish caught in the Eagle River. The mining company and Colorado regulators reached a settlement and decided to seal the mine. The experts assumed this would prevent its tainted water from flowing into the rivers, but the experts were wrong. By early 1990, the Eagle River looked like yellow Kool-Aid and the fish had vanished. Belatedly, the Environmental Protection Agency was called in, and $100 million and years of work later, the pollution was mostly cleaned up. “Mostly” because heavy

“The experts assumed this would prevent its tainted water from flowing into the rivers, but the experts were wrong.” metals must continue to be removed from that water before it gets into the river. In the 1990s, that effort cost $1 million a year. It’s a job that will have to be done in perpetuity. The continuing cost of the Eagle River cleanup is being borne privately by a corporate conglomerate. Not so the $155 million cleanup at Summitville, an open-pit mine in southern Colorado, where cyanide was used to extract gold from low-grade ore. After the mess became public, Galactic Resources filed for bankruptcy in 1992. Since 1995, the nonprofit Animas

River Stakeholders Group has been working to address these so-called legacy problems. But the group has been thwarted by the absence of supportive federal legislation. Independent groups just can’t afford to touch problems like the Gold King, because, if an accident happened, they would “own the damages,” as Ken Neubecker of the nonprofit American Rivers puts it. He says environmentalists also worry that Good Samaritan legislation would just make it easier for big mining corporations to skip out on their responsibilities —which is exactly what happened at Summitville. The larger lesson derived from the continuing pollution afflicting Silverton and Durango is that mining doesn’t belong in headwaters areas, says Matt Rice, director of the Colorado River Basin program for American Rivers. He cites the danger of a copper-mining proposal for the Smith River in Montana. “Eventually, inevitably, the [contaminated] water will make it back to the river, whether it’s by catastrophic accident or a natural event,” he warns. Still, let’s not blame the miners of 100 years ago. Some of us have friends whose parents and grandparents worked at the mines high in the mountains near Silverton and Vail. Their lives were hard, and we respect their memory. But today we know better. Of course, we also know better than to pollute the atmosphere with reckless abandon, creating a bigger, denser greenhouse around the planet. Yet we keep doing it because people complain that it would cost too much to change the way we live. But who isn’t wondering right now: What would have cost us more in the end, having to clean up mines in perpetuity or preventing them from polluting in the first place? Allen Best is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He lives in the Denver area where he produces an online magazine, mountaintownnews.net.

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these are the good old days.

[quirks]

Most of us have fallen victim at some point to poor judgement, rash decision-making or just good oldfashioned stupidity. And yet we derive endless entertainment from the lack of reasoned thinking occasionally displayed by others. Maybe it’s the reflection of our own mistakes that allow us to laugh, or maybe we’re just relieved to know we aren’t the only ones. Either way, here’s a cast of characters from years past that Roland Sweet felt worthy of the title “Mensa Reject of the Week.”

FROM JAN. 6, 2011: German authorities reported that a 64-year-old man in Gumperda tried to seal off the entrance to his cellar with bricks but trapped himself inside. He didn’t realize his mistake until he’d finished the work, then waited a few days to see if anyone would rescue him before deciding to free himself by knocking down a wall. Neighbors who heard drilling noise called police, who were waiting for the man. A police official noted that instead of escaping through the wall he’d just built, the senior citizen demolished a neighbor’s wall. (Reuters) FROM JULY 26, 2012: Eiliya Maida decided the best way to remove cobwebs from the backyard of his home in Chico, Calif., was to use a propane blowtorch. He ended up igniting dry plants, which started an attic fire that caused $25,000 in damages, according to Fire Inspector Marie Fickert, and displaced the family, who has no insurance. (Chico Enterprise Record)

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FROM OCT. 25, 2012: Bank of America executive Jason Selch protested the firing of a colleague by bursting into a conference room and mooning his bosses. His subsequent firing cost him a contingent bonus package worth millions that would have vested only a few months later. Besides losing his job and the multimillion-dollar bonus, Selch lost his lawsuit arguing he couldn’t be fired “for cause” because the mooning didn’t interfere with his official duties. (CNBC) FROM NOV. 2, 2012: Authorities accused Dakoda Garren, 19, of stealing an antique coin collection, estimated to be worth $100,000, from a home in Woodland, Wash., and then spending some of the rare coins at face value to buy pizza and movie tickets. (Vancouver’s The Daily News) FROM NOV. 8, 2012: Police said a 14-year-old boy in Manchester, Conn., removed the brakes from his bicycle and rode off an hour after sunset without wearing a helmet. Moments later, he ran through a stop sign and crashed into a 2005 Chrysler 300. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. (The Hartford Courant)

FROM FEB. 14, 2013: Two 24-year-old men were badly injured after an oil storage tank exploded at a Texas facility while the victims were sitting on top of it smoking at 3 a.m. Van Zandt County Emergency Management Coordinator Chuck Allen said both victims were hospitalized, one on life support. The blaze destroyed three of the facility’s six oil storage tanks and damaged the other three. (Associated Press) FROM MAY 16, 2013: After losing $300 trying to win an Xbox Kinect at a carnival ball-toss game in Manchester, N.H., Henry Gribbohm, 30, went home, returned with his $2,300 life savings and lost that as well. “You just get caught up in the whole ‘I’ve got to win my money back,’” he explained after complaining to police. (Boston’s WBZ-TV) FROM NOV. 21, 2013: James Lee Taylor, 45, lit a cigarette while pumping gas at a station in Trinity, Texas, and ignited the gasoline fumes. The fire burned Taylor’s facial hair and eyebrows, melted his cigarette lighter, caught the gas pump on fire, caught one of his flip-flops on fire and charred the side of his Ford Mustang. After an employee doused the flames, police who arrived on the scene found that Taylor had outstanding warrants and lacked car insurance, so they towed his car and arrested him. Taylor told Police Sgt. Randy Wheeler that he had been smoking while he pumped gas all of his life, but this was the first time something like this happened to him. (Lufkin’s KTRE-TV) FROM JULY 10, 2014: Four men driving outside Sulphur, La., found an 11-foot-long alligator blocking the road. They removed their shirts, threw them on the gator’s head and approached from behind, intending to jump on it. Suddenly, according to Glen Bonin, “it spun around and grabbed my hand.” Bonin needed 80 stitches but kept his arm. “I’ve always been the kind of guy who learns the hard way,” he admitted, adding that he hopes “with therapy, I’ll be able to straighten out my ring finger and pinky a little bit.” Officials of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries stressed that anyone coming in contact with an alligator should call the LDWF, not try to handle it themselves. (Lake Charles’s KPLC-TV) FROM JAN. 8, 2015: Rescuers needed a stretcher to carry a tourist who hurt his ankle while climbing one of Scotland’s highest mountains in his flip-flops. One of the injured man’s companions was barefoot; the other was wearing sneakers. The three men explained they wanted to reach the top of Aonach Mor to experience snow for the first time. (BBC News) FROM JULY 9, 2015: Adam Hirtle, 30, told police in Colorado Springs, Colo., that he removed his boot and shot himself in the foot on purpose because he wanted to see how it felt. After satisfying his curiosity, he “placed his boot back on his foot and then intentionally shot himself in the foot” a second time, police said. (The Denver Post)

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he summer’s wildfire smoke has yet to clear the valley, but a whole new crop of college students has begun to settle in for the fall. They are pinning up their Bob Marley tapestries and buying maroon and silver gear. They are scouting out the best downtown watering holes, plotting weekend adventures and, if they are returning students, they are gathering old friends together for end-of-summer barbecues and potlucks. Yes, it’s that time of year when Missoula’s population gets a new injection of wide-eyed youth ready to make the town a home—at least for a while. And that means it’s time for the Indy’s annual Fresh Facts guide (the glossy covered thing in this week’s print issue), which offers some useful insight and quirky facts for everyone—even longtime residents—who’d like to understand what makes this place tick. It’s also the week for this, our Answers Issue. Last year, we came up with a list of questions people often ask about Missoula, covering everything from urban deer to coffee huts, slanted streets to glass recycling (or lack thereof ). This year, we explored some other WTF questions that have been on our minds and, presumably, yours. We did some digging and, with the help of local experts, tracked down the answers, including the story behind the town’s Hmong population, the origins of the Hip Strip’s name and the reason housing here is so ridiculously expensive. Even if you’ve lived here for decades, you might be surprised by what we found.

FROM HARRY POTTER TO CONCRETE CATS, THE INDY TACKLES YOUR MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS ABOUT MISSOULA by Independent staff

WHEN DID THE HIP STRIP BECOME THE HIP STRIP? Many first-time visitors to Missoula are greeted by the Hip Strip, a business district featuring shops, two theaters, restaurants, cafés and more, packed into the stretch of Higgins from Third to Blaine streets. It’s been called the Hip Strip longer than many people might realize—since the early 1980s, according to Bruce Micklus, owner of Rockin Rudy’s. “It’s worked out to be a beautiful name and a real identifier for that neighborhood,” Micklus says. He recalls the name was already in use when Rockin Rudy’s moved into a storefront at 523 S. Higgins in 1982. It’s still a mystery who coined the term, though—Micklus wasn’t sure how it came about. Nor was Bill Stoianoff, owner of Uncle Bill’s Sausages, which used to operate on Higgins Avenue in the 1970s. He did recall that the area used to be referred to as “The Block.”

“I was there until 1980 and then I moved downtown, and it was still known as ‘The Block,’” Stoianoff says. Shirley Juhl bought a building on the 500 block of Higgins and started the Gilded Lily restaurant in 1972, where she served a rotating menu of global dishes each night. Today, that building houses the Crystal Theatre and Silk Road, and Juhl and her family also own the Bridge Pizza restaurant across the street. “It just happened,” she says when asked about the Hip Strip name. She laughs. “We were the hippiest hip area of town.” Juhl says the Hip Strip has weathered some tough times and remained a vital, active neighborhood throughout the years. Many businesses left downtown for the mall in the 1980s, but the Hip Strip still catered to people who preferred an eclectic vibe. “It was just a culture at that point,” Juhl says. “We didn’t believe in the war, we wanted free medical care, we wanted alternative schools ... we were hippies.”

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The Hip Strip, which got its name sometime in the 1980s, recently commissioned the “Myrtle” mural as a tribute to the popular neighborhood.

However the name came about, the Hip Strip’s community spirit has become a defining part of Missoula’s character in the last few decades. Micklus recalls that sometime in the late 1980s, business owners formed the loose-knit Hip Strip Society. The group has met sporadically ever since to organize events like the Hip Strip Block Party and sponsor public art, like the “Myrtle” mural painted recently on the east wall of the Penwell building. Juhl says the businesses and names might change, but the drive and energy she found in the early 1970s is still prevalent today. “Life is good,” Juhl says. “We’re lucky to live in Missoula.”

WHY ARE THERE HUGE ROCKS ALL OVER THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA CAMPUS? Anyone who’s strolled around the Oval on the University of Montana campus has likely wondered where those giant boulders came from. In fact, you can find

many a large rock deposited randomly all over town. They’re called glacial erratics, and they’re the products not of some municipal landscaper run amok but of Missoula’s prehistoric past. “Normally, they’re deposited when the glacier recedes and then the boulders just ... drop out of them,” says UM associate professor of geosciences Julie Baldwin. “But in the case of Glacial Lake Missoula, the glaciers were actually damming up the Clark Fork at what’s basically the Montana/Idaho border. When those ice dams would periodically fail, you’d get these big floods, big bursts of floodwaters. They would carry the big broken up bits of ice, like icebergs floating in these floodwaters.” As those icebergs melted, Baldwin continues, rocks trapped inside would sink to the valley floor. Hence, the more specific term “ice-rafted boulders.” And because floodwaters from Glacial Lake Missoula moved west toward the Columbia River Gorge, the phenomenon extends throughout the Pacific Northwest. That’s

why some boulders in eastern Oregon and Washington are exotic to the surrounding geology, Baldwin says. They actually originated up here in the Rockies and were carried downstream by the turbulent waters of one of numerous megafloods. “The number people throw around is there were about 40 megafloods over a 2,000 year period between about 15,000 years ago and 13,000 years ago,” Baldwin says. “You’d get the dam formation, and then the catastrophic failure of it. That happened repeatedly, so there was a lot of material coming out.”

WHY DOES MISSOULA HAVE TWO SATURDAY FARMERS MARKETS? The short answer? Meat and poultry. The Missoula Farmers Market—located at the end of Higgins near the XXXXs— started in 1972, providing local farmers a popular weekend outlet for their produce. But as demand for a similar venue for locally raised meat products increased, some farmers and ranchers found them-

selves contending with market regulations prohibiting the sale of such items. When the Missoula City Council approved a resolution in May 2005 allowing the establishment of a second farmers market, the original market was already running at full vendor capacity anyway. In giving the resolution the green light, council agreed that a second market would “provide a second ‘anchor’ at the opposite end of North Higgins Street … and increase the amount of traffic going into downtown businesses between the two venues.” Shoppers wanted meat. Vendors needed more space. The broader commercial benefit seemed promising. And thus the Clark Fork River Market was born. Despite the movement of a few longtime Missoula Farmers Market vendors to the Clark Fork River Market, both were in a pretty good groove by 2009. An Indy article from June of that year quoted the Missoula Farmers Market’s then-market master Mel Parker saying the Clark Fork upstart proved the voraciousness of the Garden City’s hunger for local food. “They can take the overflow that we can’t handle,” Parker said at the time. Since then the Missoula Farmers Market has allowed the sale of meat and poultry products. Current market manager Evita Nagle feels there isn’t much difference between the two anymore. The Clark Fork River Market seems to have more hot food vendors, she says, and the Missoula Farmers Market still doesn’t permit the sale of crafts. But overall, both continue to draw sizable crowds on a weekly basis, offering Missoula shoppers an endless bounty of local food.

understand them today, where they’re there for the community.” When you start to dig into the origin of those numbers, however, the story begins to grow murky. Some historians believe the 3-7-77 was accompanied by a skull and crossbones on cards pinned to cabins or tents to basically send a message to crooks to get out of town while they could. A pamphlet produced by the highway patrol also posits that the numbers were perhaps meant to tell recipients that, if they ignored the warning, they’d find themselves spending a good deal of time in a hole 3 feet wide, 7 feet long and 77 inches deep. Regardless what

The Indy checked the show date archives on dead.net and, as far as we can tell, the Grateful Dead did not play a concert on March 7, 1977.

WHY IS MISSOULA COUNTY SHAPED SO ODDLY? Missoula County today looks more or less like a rectangle, except the Ninemile Valley juts out to the northwest and the lower half of the Seeley-Swan Valley sticks up from the northeast. The county line cuts off at Lake County just south of Arlee and at Ravalli County south of Lolo. On second thought, Missoula County doesn’t

Why? In short, politics and a little geography. The decisions came from the state legislature, which had several motivations to split counties. “As population grows in different areas, people want representation that’s closer to home,” says Matt Lautzenheiser, executive director of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. County seats were pathways to power, particularly for merchants and industrialists. “You could control the government by basically loading the county commission,” Maechling says. “The power was huge.” For rural communities, becoming a county seat was a means of preservation and an anchor for commerce, adds Mon-

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

WHY DOES THE MISSOULA HIGHWAY PATROL PUT 3-7-77 ON ITS BADGE AND CREST? Back in 1956, Col. Alex B. Stephenson of the Montana Highway Patrol adopted a new emblem for his officers’ uniforms. And on the bottom of that emblem, in bright yellow font, he included the numbers “3-7-77”. According to Lt. Larry Irwin, the addition was meant to honor Montana’s first true peace-keeping force, the Vigilantes, who banded together in the 1860s to crack down on thieves and murderers and used the 3-7-77 as a sort of code or calling card. “It’s on our shoulder patch as a tribute to Montana’s first citizen law enforcement,” Irwin says. “At about that time, the consensus is that the so-called law enforcement were more or less hired by gold companies or mines to keep order for their own purposes. They weren’t necessarily law enforcement officers the way we

The “3-7-77” code on the Montana Highway Patrol’s emblem has a murky backstory, but part of it had to do with the state’s Vigilantes, who banded together in the 1860s to crack down on thieves and murderers.

backstory you choose to believe, the 3-777 has become synonymous with the Vigilantes and the dawn of justice in Montana. So appealing is the mystique of these numbers that Big Sky Brewing opted years ago to brand them on the brewery’s bottle caps. Big Sky eventually incorporated the 3-7-77 into its logo, stamped on the forehead of a bison skull. Co-owner Neal Leathers says the adoption of the 3-7-77 fit with Big Sky’s overall strategy of marketing itself as a western brewery, in keeping with the name and the use of wildlife on its beer labels. “It always got a lot of people asking what the heck it is, because most people assume it must be a date,” Leathers says. “So we’d have Dead Heads calling up and saying, ‘I was at that show. It was the best [Grateful] Dead show ever!”

look like a rectangle at all. We have no idea what it looks like. It didn’t used to be this way. Some 150 years ago, Missoula County encompassed all of western Montana. It was first created as part of the Washington territory, then adopted by the Idaho territory for a brief moment. When the Montana territory was created in 1864, Missoula was one of nine original counties. “If you were born in Missoula in the original settlement of Hellgate, you could have been born in three different states in the same family,” says Phil Maechling, former Missoula historic preservation officer. Between 1893 and 1923, six new counties were carved into western Montana. First came Flathead and Ravalli, then Sanders and Mineral (and Lincoln from Flathead).

tana Historical Society senior archivist Rich Aarstad. The first decades of the 20th century were a period of great optimism in the state, and the proliferation of counties was a symptom of this. “But then, county-splitting was not a rational process,” writes Michael Malone, one of the authors of Montana—A History of Two Centuries. More than two dozen counties were formed in a stretch of 15 years, fueled by fast-talkers and sly politicians. In 1915, the legislature gave more or less free rein for residents to petition and create their own counties. The result was a sprawling and expensive system of 56 county governments, some with only a couple thousand residents. This gave rural areas more representation—and power—in state government. Lake County, formed in 1923 from Missoula and Flathead counties, marked

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the end of county-splitting in western Montana. Missoula has more or less had its strange, indescribable shape since.

WHY DO HOUSING PRICES SEEM SO GODDAMN HIGH?

photo by Alex Sakariassen

The Potterville streets in Missoula were named by a handful of Harry Potter fans working on the development’s creative team about eight years ago.

Because they are. By many measures, housing in Missoula is expensive, especially when compared to local incomes. Individuals elsewhere are generally expected to dedicate less than 30 percent of their income to housing, but the most recent figures from the Missoula Organization of Realtors indicate that at least one-third of local homeowners pay more. “The median income can’t afford the median home,” MOR President Michael Nugent says. The numbers are even worse for renters: Nearly 60 percent are above the threshold—nearly half spend over 35 percent of their income. A majority of city residents are renters. “My initial response is that we are not building enough entry-level housing,” Nugent says. Nugent sees the issue as a case of supply being unable to match high demand for lower-cost housing. The median sales price for a home is currently over $230,000, a number pushed up in part by high land costs and increasing building

costs. Building costs for a mid-range home nearly doubled between 1996 and 2006, and Nugent expects the costs will have risen again when MOR conducts its next comparison in 2016. Here’s a reality check: Nugent says a target price for entry-level homes in Missoula is around $190,000 to $220,000. This is the segment of the market that’s already in short supply. “I’d love to see something from $165,000 to $180,000,” he adds. To gauge the supply-demand balance, housing experts also look at the length of time it would take to clear out current inventory in an area, known as the absorption rate. A healthy market has an absorption rate of three to nine months. Many Missoula neighborhoods hover just shy of three months. On the rental side, Missoula’s vacancy rate is about half the national average. Lori Davidson of the Missoula Housing Authority says Missoula has long been plagued by high land and building costs as well as a deficit of land zoned for multifamily housing. She notes that while this year has seen a burst in construction, nearly all are planned to be rented at “market rates,” which may not do much to increase affordability. Moreover, federal programs to help control costs are eroding, and the state

doesn’t offer programs of its own, Davidson says. The Housing Authority supplies 176 units of public housing and 774 Section 8 vouchers. The waiting list for assistance is close to 1,800 households. Affordable housing has been discussed by the city for years, but local tools to promote low-income housing tend to be highly controversial. “I don’t see any quick and easy fix on the horizon for it,” Davidson says.

WHY DO THEY CALL THEM “HOOT OWL” RESTRICTIONS? As the summer heats up, Montana anglers are occasionally faced with state-imposed fishing restrictions. Dubbed “Hoot Owl” restrictions, these time-specific closures go into effect on designated rivers starting at 2 p.m. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim says to the best of his knowledge, Hoot Owl is actually an old logging industry term used to describe times when chainsaw use was prohibited. He directed the Indy to a recent burning ban advisory from the Pend Oreille County Sheriff ’s Office in Idaho that claims the logging lingo has developed into a modern policy banning use of chainsaws in the forest after 1 p.m. “Hoot Owl is a historic term used to notify woodcutters of elevated fire danger and limited the use of chainsaws to the morning hours when you can hear hoot owls,” the advisory reads. “The restriction is in place to reduce the risk of an accidental fire start by mechanical equipment during the hottest and driest part of the day.” That logic translates pretty well to river conditions, when peak heat during the day raises water temperatures and puts added stress on fish. Aasheim adds FWP likely adopted the term “Hoot Owl” to mirror language used by the U.S. Forest Service. As for why the state agency starts those restrictions at 2 p.m. versus 1 p.m., Aasheim wasn’t sure.

WHY IS THERE A GIANT CONCRETE PANTHER/LION THING ON MAIN STREET?

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

“Hoot Owl” is an old logging industry term that is also used by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in reference to fishing restrictions when water temperatures are too high.

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It’s actually an alley cat. The sculpture, titled “Cattin’ Around,” was created by Great Falls artist Mike Hollern in 1992 as part of a city-sponsored public art project. The cat is 7 feet high, 18 feet long and made with a metal skeleton covered in ferrocement. Its concave back is supposed to serve as a birdbath. Hollern told us that he decided to create the sprawling cat because, he says, “that’s what you do in Missoula. You cat around town.” He says he was pleasantly surprised to win the bid but also nervous. Working with ferrocement—a type of rein-

forced plaster—was a new thing for him back then. “The night before I had to make it I couldn’t sleep,” he says. Since the early 1990s, Hollern has gone on to make plenty of other public displays. He’s currently working on an art and landscape development on the west bank of the Missouri River in Great Falls. “Cattin’ Around” serves as the launch point for the artist’s interest in metalwelded sculpture—and it will probably continue to be a topic of conversation for Missoula’s local cats far into the future.

WHAT IS MISSOULA’S TALLEST BUILDING? The nine-story Millennium Building, erected in 2000 (of course), is the tallest building in downtown Missoula. But the tallest buildings in town still remain the University of Montana’s twin residential dorms, Jesse Hall and Aber Hall. Both 11-story halls were built in 1967 by Kalispell architectural firm Taylor, Thon, Schwartz and Kirkpatrick. A dedication pamphlet for Jesse Hall, located in UM’s Mansfield Library Special Collections section, promises that the hall “will be the forerunner of other high-rise dormitories that have already been sketched,” though nothing built over the next 48 years would rival their height. Aber Hall was named after William M. “Daddy” Aber, who was, according to UM’s website, considered the “most beloved professor.” Aber was a member of the university’s original five-person faculty. He taught Latin and was a self-appointed custodian of the campus grounds. Jesse Hall was named after Richard H. Jesse, a chemistry professor, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and “dean of men,” a now-antiquated position that has just become dean of students. Jesse and Aber Hall are made of brick and concrete, with an industrial air. Anecdotally, the architecture style is often criticized. One faculty member we talked to referred to them as “behemoths.” The historic registry calls the architectural style “International” and states that Aber Hall is a “non-contributing element within the historic district” and “does not make a positive contribution.”

Missoula Properties, says the idea originated about eight years ago when he and a creative team were coming up with street names for the newly developed neighborhood. Someone suggested a Harry Potter theme, and it seemed like the perfect fit. “So we had three or four different Harry Potter fans, all younger people, of course, and they submitted different names and we picked some of those names and used those,” he says. His team also checked to make sure there wasn’t any conflict with copyright laws. The Potterville streets drew national attention when people realized that the sign for Hermione Lane was misspelled to read “Hermoine.” The spelling was quickly fixed, but the error went viral on the Internet. Bangs says it was interesting to get a call from a Buzzfeed reporter. “You think, ‘These people don’t really have much to write about,’” he says, and laughs.

WHAT BROUGHT SUCH A LARGE HMONG POPULATION TO MISSOULA? Even with a substantial Native American population in the state, Missoula

doesn’t have the best reputation for being racially diverse. There are many reasons for that—racism and economic opportunity being two big ones. We talked about why Missoula is so white in last year’s Answers issue. But there’s one aspect we didn’t touch on: the relatively small but firmly rooted Hmong and Hmong-American population in Missoula. The ethnic group, which hails from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, first appeared in the Missoula Valley in the 1970s. Their culture has influenced art and agriculture, which is obvious if you spend any time at the farmers markets where many Hmong families sell produce and huckleberries, among other things. So what brought them here? Certainly the United States has been a melting pot for years, but there is a very specific reason why our Hmong neighbors settled in Missoula, and it’s a fascinating story. It begins with Jerry “Hog” Daniels, a Missoula smokejumper who was recruited for the CIA in the 1960s. While spending time in Southeast Asia, he supposedly befriended many locals. In the early and mid-1970s, as Communist forces began taking over, Daniels secretly evacuated

about 2,500 Hmong leaders and their families to Thailand. When he returned to Thailand in the 1980s to work for the Department of State, he began sending Hmong refugees to his hometown of Missoula. One refugee was famous General Vang Pao, whose farm in the Bitterroot became a foundation of the Hmong community in Montana. The whole story about Daniels was written up in a 2013 book called Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong and the CIA, written by Gayle L. Morrison. It’s an oral history that includes letters, newspaper articles, Department of State cables and quotes from family and friends. According to the book and other online sources, Daniels died mysteriously in 1982 in Thailand. Hmong and American friends showed up to pay tribute, but people still claim that nobody, including his family, ever saw his body—it was in a sealed casket. Many people, including his Hmong friends, claim that he’s still alive somewhere in Southeast Asia—there have even been sightings—living the rest of his years under a new identity. So, when’s the movie coming out? editor@missoulanews.com

WHY ARE SOME STREETS NAMED AFTER HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS? The Windsor Park neighborhood in the western part of Missoula is better known by another name: Potterville. Take a right off Expressway and follow Majestic Drive to find some curious street names, including Potter Park Loop and Diagon, Muggle and Hermione lanes. Collin Bangs, owner of Prudential

photo by Alex Sakariassen

Artist Mike Hollern created the concrete sculpture “Cattin’ Around” in 1992 as part of a city-sponsored art project.

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[arts]

Scarce cats The Misfortune Tellers fill the gap in Missoula’s hard-labeled rockabilly scene by Ednor Therriault

he vitality of Missoula’s music scene seems to ebb and flow like ocean tides, and currently we seem to be enjoying a surge. A quick look at the “Musicians” section of Craigslist bears this out. There are ads listing bands of almost every stripe: metal, bluegrass, industrial trip-hop, all-female classic rock, blues, country, pop, post-rock, psych-folk, hard rock and hardcore Christian. There’s even a New Orleans-style brass band looking for a trombone player. But where’s the rockabilly? There might be a few slick-haired, tatted-up hillbillies holed up somewhere, waiting to burst onto the scene, but for now, the ragged flag of rockabilly is being carried by The Misfortune Tellers. Composed mostly of players too young to have been around for the last major resurgence of the genre in 1983, the band released their first album this summer. Le Lava Lamp is 10 original songs, recorded in the home studio of Paul Nelson, guitarist and self-proclaimed “old guy” of the band. His sideburns, which angle down to a point along his jaw like the white stripe on Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Torino, are a clue to his musical allegiance. “I’ve heard a lot of people describe Russ Nasset or Cash for Junkers as rockabilly,” says Nelson, “but it’s not their whole thing.” There are, in fact, a handful of rootsy bands playing country or folk or honky tonk in the area that do incorporate elements of rockabilly in their sound. But as far as a hard-labeled rockabilly band, The Misfortune Tellers seem to be the sole purveyors. “My dad was a hard country player and he taught me how to play the guitar,” says Nelson. “There was a lot of rockabilly mixed in with hard country back in the day. I wanted to write songs with that danceable feel.” He adds that the imagery that goes along with the genre is a big draw for him. “Pin-ups, burlesque, hot rods, all that.” Le Lava Lamp mixes traditional rockabilly licks with the influence the four players bring to the band. While rockabilly is the bedrock of their style, songs like “Ask Me If I Care” and “Trip to Zip” have more in common with the psychobilly thrash of Reverend Horton Heat than with the punked-up twang of the Cramps or neo-traditionalism of the Stray Cats. “I’m a huge Rev fan,” Nelson says. “I like the cleanness of rockabilly, and I like the excitement of dirty guitar.” His rig is Exhibit A in this shotgun wedding of sounds—he plays a Gretsch hollowbody, which is iconic for its twangy growl, but runs it through a Marshall amp, known more for hard rock than for traditional rockabilly. While he’s still on board with the hard rockers Letters to Luci, after the release of their album Broken Glass and Pills, Nelson was ready for a change. He

photo by Amy Donovan

The Misfortune Tellers include, from left, Jesse Johnson, Malcom Morgan, Carson Neagle and Paul Nelson.

and drummer Mike Noel, with whom he’d played in earlier bands, started putting The Misfortune Tellers together a couple of years ago. “I’ve been thinking about it for a while now,” he says. “I’d been doing the rock thing, and I wanted to get into something where my heart was at. For me it was the point of doing what I wanted to do.” After recruiting Jesse Johnson to handle vocal duties, Nelson approached Carson Tor Neagle, bassist for local band Beyonce. “We crossed paths a year and a half ago. I said, ‘You want to play some upright bass in a rockabilly band?’ He say, ‘Hmm. Sounds interesting. Might be right up my alley.’” Noel played drums on the album, but moved to California before the band had the chance to play live.

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Nelson asked Luci’s Malcom Morgan to sit in on some rehearsals while they sought a permanent member, giving the dreadlocked drummer a copy of the CD. When Morgan showed up for the first rehearsal he’d learned Noel’s parts “to the beat,” says Nelson. “Malcom ate that up, the 180 variations on the train beat.” Nelson immediately invited Morgan to join up. With his lineup firmly in place, Nelson plans to play more live gigs, including this Friday’s show at Stage 112. A second album is in the works, and Johnson has already written several songs. “He comes from a punk background so his stuff is a little darker, a little edgier, but we’re able to keep the rockabilly feel to it,” says Nelson. “It’s been really cool for him to show up with something that’s old-

school punk and we’re able to make it sound really rockabilly.” With the current rockabilly void in Missoula, is Nelson concerned that The Misfortune Tellers might be inhabiting a lonely island? “We didn’t check demographics or do a study or anything, like what [genre] would leave us standing alone for the longest time,” he says. “I just wanted to do my own project. If there had been a hundred rockabilly bands in town I still would have done it.” The Misfortune Tellers play Stage 112 Fri., Aug. 28, at 10 PM along with The Skurfs and Night Blooming Jazzmen. No cover. etherriault@missoulanews.com

[music]

Americana cocktail Hot Buttered Rum’s latest goes down easy Any good mixed drink relies on the right combination of ingredients to go down smooth. For the San Francisco based “progressive bluegrass” band Hot Buttered Rum, the formula blends folk, rock, jazz, pop and other elements for a distinct take on roots music. For their fourth full-length studio release, the easygoing quintet sticks to the diverse components that have made them a staple of the club and festival scene for the past decade, more fitting as a summer soundtrack than a winter warmer. Hot Buttered Rum is a lighthearted affair, at its strongest when emphasizing the band’s exploration

beyond traditional bluegrass. The flute solo on “The Crest,” the lap steel flourishes on “Another City” and the pop-soul vocals on songs like “Blackberry Pie” and “Let the Love Come Through Me” give HBR’s sound a satisfying dose of originality. The laid-back country-rock shuffle and smooth harmonies of “The Love You Gave Away” sounds like the best song The Eagles never wrote. While the band’s powerful groove is generally enough of a diversion from their duller lyrics, some songs—like the soft rock fluff of “Genie’s Loose”—fall flat. Overall, though, HBR gets the recipe nearly perfect for a refreshing Americana cocktail. ( Jed Nussbaum)

Junior Brown, Volume Ten Junior Brown’s first studio album in 11 years is maddeningly short, but still tasty. “Hang Up and Drive,” while lyrically a little late to the party, has a nice lead break with some alternating staccato notes on both necks of his trademark guit-steel. “Apathy Waltz” starts out nicely, a languid, jazz-flavored number that showcases Brown’s rich baritone. “You don’t get happy or sad, you wouldn’t notice if I wore plaid,” had me hoping for a semi-twisted song of a lover’s anguish over his partner’s indifference. Alas, it turns into a lazy swipe at the overuse of communications technology. It’s low hanging fruit, and the old guitar

slinger seems a little out of the loop with tech specifics: “Your sci-fi-style picture phone Skypes a call.” “I’m Headed Back to Austin Tonight” gets Junior back on firmer ground with some good old Texas Swing. The album finishes strong with “Almost to Tulsa,” a finger-popping jump blues instrumental, which finally unleashes the smoking guit-steel fireworks that he’s known for. Volume Ten has a few weak spots, and at only six songs there’s no room for filler. It leaves me feeling like I’m at a massive seafood buffet armed with only a saucer and a toothpick. (Ednor Therriault)

Kadavar, Berlin Despite Friends in the Know urging me to “dig this band,” I initially wrote off Kadavar without listening to them. At first glance, their logo and name smacked of death metal to me, and I generally hate death metal. But with the buzz growing among my stoner/retro rock brothers and sisters, I finally relented and checked out their second release, 2013’s Abra Kadavar, and I was converted. If this is the first you’ve heard of these hirsute Germans, then the new release, Berlin, is a perfect place to start. Kadavar is the total package. Look, tone and swagger, the trio unabashedly channels the smoky

clubs and arenas of ’70s psychedelic hard rock. Pop them in a time machine and they could have been the opening act for Led Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall in 1970, and I think the longhairs of that era would have loved them. “Filthy Illusion” is an early highlight of this record for me, and not just for the title. Spin this one up and you’ll hear a lot of what you need to know about Kadavar. Active bass, busy drums and a straining, boxy guitar tone that only comes with volume, it’s a wailing party of a song that makes me wish this record had come out in June so I could have jammed it all summer. (Chris La Tray)

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Titus Andronicus’ new rock opera is so punk it doesn’t care if it’s trying too hard.

Nearly two years ago, Titus Andronicus played what can only be called a generous gig at the VFW. In a promotional interview before that show, singer Patrick Stickles told the Missoulian that he was writing and recording a rock opera about manic depression. For anyone with personal experience of the subject, those are the two most frightening words in the English language: rock opera. But Titus Andronicus— a group that shares its name with not just a Shakespeare play but also a fictional band in a Thomas Pynchon novel—is not afraid of pretension. Almost two years after he threatened to do it, Stickles has released the 29-track, 90-minute triple LP The Most Lamentable Tragedy, and it is good. “Good” can mean different things by the contradictory standards of punk rock, and The Most Lamentable Tragedy violates plenty of them. It contains not one but two silent tracks, plus the single tone that is the opener. Like Fucked Up, Titus Andronicus’ construction of the genre does not demand minimalism, and that’s probably enough to alienate purists. But maximalism—of expression, of emotion, of noise and of ambition—is what has made their project interesting since the beginning. In retrospect, 2008’s The Airing of Grievances was conventional: eleven songs, most of them with anthem choruses, all of them about angst. Sure, one was titled “Upon Viewing Brueghel’s ‘Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,’” but that kind of literate posturing would come to feel restrained in context of the band’s later work. Perhaps the definitive Titus Andronicus release is 2010’s The Monitor, a concept album that uses the Civil War as a metaphor for Stickles’ move to Boston and subsequent breakup with his girlfriend. It’s as great as it sounds, a snarling animal dusted with references. Its first track, “A More Perfect Union,” begins with Okey Canfield Chenoweth reading a quote from Lincoln and progresses through Stickles’ declaration

that “tramps like us, baby we were born to die!”—the last word extending to a laryngitic scream. That admixture of high and low culture, art sensibility and lived experience, is what punk rock does best. The conceit that punk must be simple is itself a pretension. Rather than attack it, Stickles has consistently used that pretension to justify wild, almost comic ambition. The Most Lamentable Tragedy is the apotheosis of this strategy, an album so punk it doesn’t care if it’s trying too hard. Despite its sprawling structure, Most Lamentable is constructed around three-minute songs. They’re hooky and tight, and the guitar tone has continued the progression toward classic-rock cleanliness that began with 2012’s Local Business. Titus Andronicus keeps sounding more like The Clash, and Most Lamentable is their Sandinista!. The same diversity of expression informs both. The bridge midway through “More Perfect Union”— a nine-minute leviathan with nearly the same title as the aforementioned Monitor track—sounds like T. Rex covering Danzig. “Lookalike” has a scream-along chorus reminiscent of Titus Andronicus’ first album. And “(S)HE SAID / (S)HE SAID” touches on all the old themes—eating disorders, panicked screaming, narcissism—that have kept the band infuriating, even as it fascinates, all these years. The Most Lamentable Tragedy is a capstone album, distilling the essence of what makes Titus Andronicus so weird as it revisits the signal elements of their work. It is their Huckleberry Finn, or maybe their Berlin. In an interview with Grantland’s Steven Hyden, Stickles suggested that this might be the last Titus Andronicus album. It’s a threat he’s made before, but this time it feels earned. You can criticize what he’s done with The Most Lamentable Tragedy, but it would be hard to ask him to do more. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Infinite yes Tour’s portrayal of Foster Wallace rings true by Molly Laich

“Stop calling me Michael Cera.”

There’s a moment in David Foster Wallace’s 1997 interview with Charlie Rose that has always stuck with me. He’s talking about his history with depression and how that manifested after the fame and attention he received from his critically acclaimed, weighty novel Infinite Jest. In the interview, Wallace said something to the effect of, “I achieved everything I ever wanted and it didn’t make me happy.” That’s the reality of a chronically depressed person in a nutshell, and the insatiable loneliness he’s describing is in large part the subject of the film The End of the Tour. When I heard about Wallace’s suicide in 2008, I was about 200 pages deep into Infinite Jest and actively crushing on the author. In interviews I found him sexually attractive, vulnerable and eloquent. His death hit me with the dull pain of losing a friend before you’ve had the time to really get to know him. Fans of Wallace are fierce, sentimental and protective of his likeness and might be suspicious of a film that so audaciously attempts to know and introduce him to the rest of the world. I hope to reassure you that director James Ponsoldt’s adaptation of the memoir Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky is a spirited, faithful and devastating portrait of an author on the brink of fame. It doesn’t condescend or lie and it won’t disappoint. The film catalogs Rolling Stone journalist Lipsky while he accompanied Wallace on the final days of his 1996 book tour. It begins at the moment Lipsky learns of Wallace’s suicide, and then flashes back to their road trip 12 years earlier when they were both around 34 and just starting their careers. Jesse Eisenberg plays Lipsky with ambition and sincerity, portraying an author who seems fascinated, intimidated and probably was envious of his subject. Donald Margulies’ screenplay lingers primarily on the long, intricate conversations between Lipsky and Wallace, but not just that. It captures the awkwardness of two authors meeting for the first time,

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the cautious friendship that emerges and the natural rivalry inevitable between two straight men with overlapping talents. Wallace finds himself so humble and acutely self-aware that it circles back around to bravado and arrogance, and that cycle leaves him feeling suffocated and exhausted. He wants to sleep with women on his tour, for example, but he’s shy and it’s weird. When Lipsky challenges him on what he perceives as Wallace’s affected modesty, he’s making a good point, and the fight feels awkward and unresolved, same as life. I was skeptical of Jason Segel as Wallace at first, for admittedly shallow reasons: I think the real man is better looking than the actor, but that turned out not to matter. Segel embodies Wallace so thoroughly that his and Eisenberg’s scenes feel more than anything like a documentary with impossibly intimate access. For me, Wallace’s death hangs like a tapestry in the background of every scene, but I have to confess that I can’t speak objectively on the subject, because I lost my oldest friend to suicide around three weeks ago. My friend wasn’t an author, although he was eloquent and good at writing. In Segel’s voice, I recognized the muffled pain that depressed people work so hard to suppress. Like every other character in this cursed movie, my friend is also named David, and not to lay it on too thickly, but it’s true, I’m writing this review on what would have been my David’s 34th birthday. All of us are fighting internal battles the rest of the world can never understand. In my experience, movies help. The End of the Tour is an honest, intelligent picture about two smart men in a conversation we are lucky to overhear. The End of the Tour opens at the Roxy Fri., Aug. 28. arts@missoulanews.com

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the Syndicate. Stunts abound. Rated PG-13, showing at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

BEING EVEL Finally, an Evel Knievel movie that might help erase the memory of that George Hamilton piece of crap from 1971. Using tons of archival footage and interviews with Johnny Knoxville and others, Being Evel tells the story of the daredevil that launched a million driveway bike ramps. Screening at the Roxy.

PIXELS Adam Sandler’s id continues to spill onto the big screen with this latest vehicle, co-starring Kevin James. When aliens misread a message sent into space, they turn our classic arcade games against us in a CGI spectacle. Rated PG-13. At the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. RICKI AND THE FLASH With big names on both sides of the camera, this movie has to be good, right? Yeah, tell that to Aloha. Meryl Streep plays a veteran rocker who returns to her family to make up for lost time. Rated PG-13, playing at the Carmike 12.

THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel, here’s the tale of a 15-year-old discovering her sexuality in 1970s San Francisco, with sketchy guidance from her ineffectual mother, Kristen Wiig. Rated R, screening at Carmike 12.

SHAUN THE SHEEP Aardman Animations produced this spinoff from their Wallace and Gromit universe. When Shaun takes a day off and hits the Big City, he gets in trouble with the Man, aka the Farmer. Rated PG. Screening at the Carmike 12.

THE END OF THE TOUR This docudrama covers the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace. Oscar buzz is already humming around Jason Segal’s portrayal of the doomed Wallace. Rated R, screening at the Roxy. (See Film.) HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE What the hell-iarmus! The Roxy is bringing the entire Harry Potter series back to the big screen through Sept. and Oct. In 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the young lad learns he is a wizard, and begins his stint at Hogwarts. Rated PG, showing at the Roxy, Thu., Sept 3 and Sun., Sept. 6. LABYRINTH SING-A-LONG How many pop cults can one man spawn? David Bowie swaps his Ziggy Stardust shtick to star in this Muppet-laden fantasy alongside Jennifer Connelly. Come sing out to all the well-known anthems from Labyrinth. Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy Sat., Aug. 29, 7:30 PM. NO ESCAPE Lake Bell stars with Pierce Brosnan and Owen Wilson in this thriller about an American family trying to escape the danger surrounding a coup overseas. Oh, wait, there is no escape. Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

You want me to take my shirt off? I thought you’d never ask! We Are Your Friends opens Fri., Aug. 28 at the Carmike. WAR ROOM This movie from the faith-oriented Kendrick brothers portrays a seemingly perfect family that’s really on the verge of implosion. A wise old woman appears and gives them hope. Rated PG, screening at the Carmike 12. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Zac Efron’s abs, which look like something out of an anatomy textbook, make several appearances in this story of an aspiring DJ who yearns for a forbidden romance as he’s learning when to drop the bass. Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12.

NOW PLAYING AMERICAN ULTRA If you buy that wig, you’ll have no problem swallowing the rest. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stew-

art star in this stoner/spy comedy/thriller. Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaoplex. HITMAN: AGENT 47 He has to kill people. It’s in his blood! Literally! An assassin helps a woman track down her father, uncovering some disturbing details about her in the process. Rated R, showing at the Carmike 12. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. In the breezy, fun-filled early days of the Cold War, CIA spook Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin naturally join forces to battle a mysterious criminal organization not named Iran that is trying to obtain nuclear weapons. Guy Ritchie directs. Rated PG-13, screening at the Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION Sure, Tom Cruise hangs on the side of an airborne plane, but he’ll never top that tighty-whitey floor slide in Risky Business. Ethan and the IMF battle

SINISTER 2 A single mom who apparently did not see Sinister 1 moves with her young children into a big spooky house in the country where bad things have happened. What could go wrong? Rated R, screening at the Carmike 12. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Credited with nothing less than the invention of gangsta rap and West Coast hip-hop, N.W.A. lit a cultural fuse with songs like their feel-good hit of the summer, “F**k Tha Police.” Their story finally comes to the big screen. Rated R, showing at the Carmike 12. Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault. 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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Cháo-ing down by Ari LeVaux

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Nearly every Asian language includes a word for a certain rice-based gruel found virtually anywhere rice is grown. The dish often goes by congee, its Chinese name, and many rice cookers even have a “porridge” or congee setting. This humble bowl of steaming goodness can make for a delicious meal in its own right, but at the same time it is a blank slate that’s able to go in almost any culinary direction. It is also medicine, craved during times of sickness, hangover, or other malaise by those who have grown up with it. Like Mom’s chicken soup, congee is a warm, rejuvenating embrace. As a culinary attraction, it’s versatile, energizing and so consistently delicious that it’s basically foolproof. Today, carbohydrates are treated with suspicion, having been outed as stealth saboteurs to one’s Body Mass Index. But extended cooking makes the nutrients, including sugars, more accessible and easy to digest. And, paradoxically, even though it’s made mostly of rice, when you eat a lot of congee you nonetheless are not eating that much rice. As they simmer into starchy disembodiment, a handful of rice grains somehow grow into enough food for a family. It’s quite something to behold. Andrea Nguyen, cookbook author and authority on Vietnamese cuisine, has a recipe for Vietnamese cháo that makes a point of using less than a cup of rice to feed “Biblical proportions” of people. The recipe can be found in Nguyen’s cookbook, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors. In addition to that handful of rice, this recipe requires no more than ginger, scallion and water—or better yet, stock. Nguyen uses it as a base for several variations of cháo, including chicken, beef and fish. Andrea Nguyen’s cháo (paraphrased for space)

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Ingredients ¾ cup rice 1-inch cube of ginger, cut into slabs 3 green onions, just the white part, with roots and greens removed 2 ½ quarts chicken stock Procedure Put the rice in a 4-quart pot. Fill the pot with water and swash the rice around with your fingers. When the rice settles, pour off the water. Repeat twice.

FLASH IN THE PAN

Add the stock, ginger and green onion to the pot. Bring to a boil over high heat, then partially cover and reduce to a vigorous simmer for five minutes, during which time the rice “... should bounce in the bubbling water without the water boiling over the pan sides.” Stir, to ensure none of the rice has stuck to the bottom, and reduce to a gentle simmer, covered, for about an hour, “... or until the rice grains have bloomed and curled, releasing their starches to thicken the soup and turn it creamy white.” Remove the ginger. Eat the green onion. Add salt, if necessary. Now that you have your cháo, it is almost time to chow down. The general drill with serving the many variations of cháo is to arrange various uncooked proteins and other goodies in the bottom of a bowl. Meanwhile, some cháo simmers in a saucepan (with some added water, if necessary, to thin it). The hot gruel is ladled in, and the bowl is topped with herbs, like cilantro or chopped onion greens, and perhaps a sauce. The cháo needs to be hot enough, and the portion large enough, to properly cook the proteins, which could be marinated strips of meat or fish, a few raw, peeled shrimp or simply a raw chicken egg. Cháo can also be added to proteins that are being cooked, such as a sizzling pan of chicken. I recently sliced some high-end Italian meatballs into my cháo and let it simmer before serving it on a bowl of raw scallops, and I would eat that bowl again in a heartbeat. I’ve also added veggies, like slices of baby zucchini, to the cháo as it reheats. Lately, I’ve been adding chopped garlic scapes to the bottom of the bowl to let them cook with the proteins. Nguyen’s recipe for beef cháo calls for shredded ginger in the bowl bottom along with the beef, and I’ve taken to adding a pinch of shredded ginger to the top of nearly every bowl, the sharpness and heat being such a great match to the warm, dimly gingery porridge. And while shopping, I’ve taken to evaluating potential purchases in terms of what they might do for my cháo. Duck meat, organ meat, bacon, tofu...the list is endless. In the north of Vietnam, it’s common for people to slice Chinese donuts atop their cháo. Once you start putting donuts on things, that’s a clear indication that anything goes.

[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Welcome back students!! Happy Fall!! Fall is Bernice's time of year. The smell of fresh baked goods wafts around the Hip Strip as Bernice's prepares to serve a rockin' cup of joe, danishes, cookies, croissants, muffins, and a whole lot more. The crisp Missoula air is the perfect compliment to a slice of apple pie in the afternoon or a warm Tipus Chai around 6pm. Fall BBQ's are topped off with Bernice's Parkerhouse Rolls, Curried Chicken Salad and 8" Chocolate Chocolate cake for dessert. Stop by the UC, COT and Book Exchange to see what goodies Bernice's is showcasing this school year. A pesto croissant just before class is a great wake-me-up! Or swing by Bernice's and wake-up with our newly added espresso! xoxo bernice. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$

Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

Are holidays and gatherings spoiled because of someone's drinking? Al-Anon is for you!

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

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $

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. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 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. $

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$

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Pudding Shots HAPPIEST HOUR

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 $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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What it is: Feruqi’s is a local legend for its array of specialty shots and cocktails, particularly the Flaming Lamborghini, which co-owner Matt Wiles calls the “quintessential 21st birthday shot.” But Feruqi’s has another claim to fame, and it requires a spoon: pudding shots. How it tastes: The rich, creamy cups of pudding come in flavors including chocolate raspberry, vanilla amaretto and pistachio, with a slightly boozy kick. They don’t taste very strong, but eating a couple of them in a row will quickly induce a warm buzz. Why pudding shots, anyway? Wiles says they’re all homemade by his mom, Marlene, following a secret recipe. “We were doing Jello shots, and all these other bars were doing Jello shots, so one of my buddies was brainstorming with my mom and said, ‘You should do some pudding shots or something,’” Wiles says. That was a few years ago, and they’ve been a mainstay at the bar ever

since. “We do have a lot of regulars that lose their minds for pistachio flavor. I don’t know why that is.” Family business: Wiles notes that the space housing Feruqi’s has been owned by his family since his great-grandmother, Ruby Wong, opened the Golden Pheasant restaurant there in 1941. Wiles and his parents bought it from his grandparents and reopened it as Feruqi’s in 1997. He was 21 years old at the time and “thought opening a bar would be awesome,” he says. Where to find it: Find Feruqi’s at 318 N. Higgins Ave. Doors open at 4 p.m. daily. Pudding shots run $1.50 a pop. —Kate Whittle 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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Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Missoula Farmer’s Market N. Higgins by the XXX’s missoulafarmersmarket.com Find us on Facebook Seasonal, Homegrown and Homemade! Fresh local vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, eggs, honey, baked goods and coffee provided by over 100 vendors. Saturdays 8am-12:30pm. “Music at the Market” performers on Saturdays 9am-noon.

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh

meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$

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

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$

Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for nonsushi 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 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

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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THURSDAYAUG27 Blues rock trio Kenny James Miller Band tears it up at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM, free show. Get a handle on pastels at the two-day Pastel Workshop. Participants will learn about the medium, then make their own pastels which they can take home. E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. 10 AM–4 PM, $160. For more info, visit www.bobbe-almer.com

nightlife Downtown ToNight celebrates a whopping 15 years of food, music, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, every Thursday from 5:30-8:30 PM through mid-September. Aug. 27: Dead Winter Carpenters. Sept. 3: Red Elvises. Free to hang out. Jeff Carroll provides the sweet, sweet musical dressing that makes those bison sliders taste even better at Lolo Peak Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. Darcy Chenoweth’s creations, featuring ribcages and vertebral columns fused with various found objects, are currently on display at Radius Gallery. Radius owner Lisa Simon sits with Chenoweth for Ten Questions. 114 E. Main St., 6 PM, free. Yes, it’s Thursday, but Sweet Wednesday plays tonight. The acoustic duo plays at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. The taller the hat, the closer to God. Texas Swing legends Asleep at the Wheel play the Top Hat, Sun., Aug. 30, with Missoula’s Cash for Junkers warming up. $31/$28 advance at tophatlounge.com.

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[calendar] plays as part of the 2015 Summer Concert Series, along with special guests. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $40. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, knittingfactory.com and the Big Sky taproom. Margaret Grundstein reads from her new book, Naked in the Woods: My Unexpected Years In a Hippie Commune. Shakespeare & Co., 7 PM. Clothing required. Live those “American Idol” fantasies at karaoke with Cheree at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W., with drink specials and the chance to win $50 big ones. 8:3010:30 PM. No cover. Stick around for the prize drawing to be eligible to win. Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, drink specials aplenty and attractive local singles in your area. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. No cover. Small town girls, city boys and anyone else can share the night on and on and on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore, at the Badlander on Thursdays, with opening guests SharkWe3k. No cover, plus $1 wells from 9 PM to midnight. The weekend is so close, you can smell it from here. Limber up with some fine country music from Clear Grain at the Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, no cover.

FRIDAYAUG28 Rock me like a wagon wheel at the annual River City Roots Fest, featuring a fun run, festival, art show and, of course, live tunes a blazin’ from the stages downtown, Fri., Aug. 28-Sat., Aug. 29. This year features special guests from Roots Fests past, like Lil’ Smokies, Dead Winter Carpenters, Goose Creek Symphony and Reverend Slanky. Visit rivercityrootsfestival.com. The folks at UM understand that starting your freshman year can be a mite disorienting. Hence, Orientation! Available for freshmen and transfer students who did not attend summer orientation. Call 406-243-6266 or email orientation@mso.umt.edu.

nightlife Russ Nasset provides the perfect soundtrack for P-burgin’ at the Philipsburg Brewing Co., 101 W. Broadway, Philipsburg, 5 PM. Missoula Queer Fest brings the first openly gay country band, Lavender Country, to the ZACC for a day-long celebration (see Spotlight). Also Parae, Unicorn Domination, Eat Strike, Teens From Alberton and more. ZACC, 235 N. First W., 3 PM–midnight. Tickets at missoulaqueerfest.wordpress.com.

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I swear, my father Geppetto performed my vasectomy himself. Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents Cyrano de Bergerac Tue., Sept. 1, 6 PM. UM Oval. It’s free, so get thee hence.

Summer might be petering out, but you can keep the big beat going at the Drum Brothers End-ofSummer Rhythm Gathering. Enjoy hand-drumming classes, drum-making, African dance and more in an amazing setting along the Blackfoot River near Lincoln. $262 and up. For registration and info, call 5318109 or email Matthew@ drumbrothers.com. Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes. No cover. If Missoula has a spirit animal, it might just be Andrea Harsell. Catch her acoustic rock and folk at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Dr., 7–10 PM. Free. Band In Motion keeps your moving parts moving at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover. Would the Tallest DJ in America play the nation’s heaviest beats? Not sure what device you’d use to quantify that. Why don’t you find out your-

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self when Aaron Traylor rocks out at Monk’s, 225 Ryman, 9:30 PM, no cover. Paydirt reclaims the stage at the Sunrise Saloon to play some rockin’ country music. 9 PM, no cover. It’s a blues explosion with Zeppo MT, and these boys can blow. Union Club, 9:30 PM, no cover. You’ll be a little less hasty with the banjo jokes after seeing The Lowest Pair. The banjo duo opens up for Missoula’s own Lil’ Smokies at a Roots Fest after-party at the Top Hat, $10. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Animal masks may or may not be appropriate when Bearcubbin, Dragon Parfait, Eat Strike and Pale People rumble at the Real Lounge, 112 Front St. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free, 18 and over. Summer might be petering out, but you can keep the big beat going at the Drum Brothers End-of-Summer Rhythm Gathering. Enjoy handdrumming classes, drum-making, African dance and more in an amazing setting along the Blackfoot River near Lincoln 8-28–8/30. $262

and up. For registration and info, call 406-531-8109 or email Matthew@ drumbrothers.com.

SATURDAYAUG29 Raise high your Goblet of Rock to the stomp and shred of Universal Choke Sign, Helldorado, Mahamawaldi and Blessiddoom at the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent. 9 PM, $7. Missoula rockabilly cats The Misfortune Tellers get into a musical drag race with mountain surf-rockers The Skurfs, as Night Blooming Jazzmen wave them off the line with a colorful scarf (see Arts). Stage 112, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free, 18 and over. Mingle among the sweet abundance at the Missoula farmers markets and People’s Market, with produce, arts, crafts, baked goods, hot breakfasts and strong coffee at the XXXXs, Pine Street and riverside parking lot east of Caras Park. Things get running about 8 AM and last til 1 PM.

Skylar Browning (the Indy’s indefatigable editor) and Jeremy Watterson read from and sign their new book, Montana Baseball History. Fact & Fiction, 11:30 AM–1 PM.

nightlife If you hear some howlin’ coming from the Northside, do not be alarmed. It’s just Wolf and the Moons at Draught Works Brewing. 6–8 PM, free. Folkgrass and country is the stock in trade of the multi-instrument duo Britchy. Check ‘em out at Blacksmith Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. He’s the standard-bearer for traditional, original honky tonk, and Aran Buzzas wants you to salute his flag at Lolo Peak Brewing. 6–8 PM, no cover. Do some rubberneckin’ to the hill country blues of Black Mountain Moan at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free. It’ll be hard to put baby in a corner at the Missoula Outdoor Cinema. Showing at dusk is tonight’s classic, Dirty Dancing, rated PG-13.

[calendar] Headstart School, corner of Worden and Phillips. Donations appreciated; popcorn available. Check out missoulaoutdoorcinema.org. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. Russ Nasset and the Revelators fit the Union Club like a leather jacket fit Marlon Brando. Well, a young Marlon Brando. Music starts at 9:30 PM, no cover. Paydirt reclaims the stage at the Sunrise Saloon t45.o play some rockin’ country music. 9 PM, no cover. Euforquestra is one big rhythm machine. Luckily, you don’t have to spell their name to dance the night away at the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5. Celebrate DAR’s new record and video release, with the help of Danimal James Miller, Wormwood, Tonsofun and Mitaswel at the Real Lounge. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Free show, 18 and over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! And it ain’t over now. Roots Fest, that is, ‘cause the after-party with Letter B and Sista Otis rages on at Monk’s, 10:30 PM, all ages.

SUNDAYAUG30 Jenn Adams and Jean Mann are in the business of creating original music. And business is good. Enjoy some fine acoustic folk at this intimate show at Cafe 406 inside Rooted Music, 100 Skeels. Ave., Hamilton. $10 at the door. Some of the world’s top guitarists from Lee Ritenour to David Grissom will converge on the Flathead Lake Lodge in Bigfork for the Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop and Festival Aug. 30–Sept. 6. For info and schedules, visit crownguitarfest.org. If you worship at Our Lady of the Bouncing Boo-tay, Dance Church has a spot for you on Sunday mornings. Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you dance like nobody is watching. Downtown Dance Collective, 10 AM, $5. Missoula Community Theatre holds an open audition for the musical Sweeney Todd–the Demon Barber of Fleet Street at MCT Center for Performing Arts, 12:30–4:30 PM. No tonsorial experience necessary. For info, visit MCTinc.org. Among Mick Jagger’s nasty habits is taking tea at 3. Don’t make

that mistake at the Summertime High Tea at Clay Studio of Missoula. Enjoy tasty treats, scrumptious teas, and take home a handmade cup and plate. Music by Triple Sec. 1106 Hawthorne, 4–7 PM, $55 at theclaystudioofmissoula.org.

nightlife Enjoy the deck, but the tunes will be inside when Band In Motion plays at Draught Works Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. As long as Austin legends Asleep at the Wheel are alert and at the stick, the music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys will never die. Cash for Junkers opens. Top Hat Lounge, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $31/$28 adv. 18 and over show. Tickets available at tophatlounge.com.

TUESDAYSEPT01 Larry Hirshberg plays original acoustic music that demands— and rewards—your attention. Lolo Peak Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. Hey, even Errol Morris has to deal with deadlines now and again. Today is the deadline for submissions to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. For more info, visit bigskyfilmfest.org.

Trail 103.3 Book Club starts today, with The Tiger: a True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Valliant. Copies available for checkout at the Missoula Public Library. Healing Stone, four decades of stone therapy by Vietnam vet David Lewis, is on display through Sept. at the Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins. 10 AM–6 PM. Reception Fri., Sept. 4, 5–8 PM. Each handprinted page of the book Terrain: Plateau Native Art & Poetry will be displayed in MAM’s Lynda M. Frost Gallery. The book fea-

tures poetry and woodcuts from the Plateau peoples of the Columbia Basin. Missoula Art Museum, 10 AM– 5 PM, free. St. Ignatius artist Judith Colvin displays her series of lights and vessels constructed from wool and exotic fibers in Felt Illuminated through Sept. at 4 Ravens Gallery, 10 AM–6 PM. Reception Fri., Sept. 4, 5–8 PM.

nightlife Follow your nose to the UM Oval for Shakespeare in the Parks’ rendi-

Nato Coles and the Blue Diamond Band roll into town to rock and roll all night, along with guests such as Bird’s Mile Home, The Chinchees and With Iowa In Between. It all goes down at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. Cover TBA. Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep. The Wild Chickens reunite to play their special brand of ‘90s bar party rock sprinkled with a healthy dose of Black Sabbath. The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent, 9 PM, no cover

MONDAYAUG31 The disgustingly talented Caroline Keys is joined by a number of similarly gifted singer-songwriters for some top-shelf music at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–10 PM, free.

nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages. Sit by my side and let the world slip when Shakespeare in the Parks visits the UM Oval to perform The Taming of the Shrew. This time it’s set in the Wild West, pilgrim. Bring a LOW CHAIR, and you know what you can do with that umbrella, mister. 6 PM. Free. If music were food, this would be the Golden Corral. So This Is Suffering, Regions, Triumph Over Shipwreck and Arctodus take their turns onstage at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over. Visit ticketfly.com.

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Maw, I think you’re suffering from delusions of banjer. The Lowest Pair shares the bill with Missoula’s Lil’ Smokies at a Roots Fest after-party at the Top Hat, Fri., Aug. 28. Doors at 9:30, show at 10. $10 cover.

tion of Edmond Rostand’s classic play, Cyrano de Bergerac. Please bring a LOW chair. 6 PM. Free. You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: Who was the only female mayor of Missoula? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Singer-Songwriter Showcase every Tuesday at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Email michael.avery@live.com ahead of time to sign up.

WEDNESDAYSEPT02 Colorado troubadour Gregory Alan Isakov brings his lyrical masterpieces to the Top Hat, sharing the bill with Laurie Shook of the Shook Twins. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $24/$20 adv., 18 and over show. Tickets available at tophatlounge.com

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Raise a pint to intrepid brewers when at the Community UNite to benefit the Pink Boots Society, which supports women in the brewing industry. Just hang out from 5-8 PM at the

Northside KettleHouse Taproom; proceeds from every pint sold benefit the society. Great Burn Brewing’s Charity Pint Night generates 50 cents from each pint for a deserving Missoula charity or nonprofit. This week it’s Montana Legal Services. Have a glass at 2230 McDonald (behind Jaker’s), 5–8 PM. Russell Perri helps ease the pain of your workaday world with some humpday tunes at Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM, free. Anyone is welcome to join the free Acoustic Bluegrass picking circle every Wednesday evening, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Association at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W, Suite F. 6-9 PM. Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop? Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, man, when the Top Hat hosts a local band every Wednesday for Jazz Night. 7 PM, no cover, all ages. (Trivia answer: Juliet Gregory, 1947–49) Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Show ‘em your chops at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 8:30-10:30 PM. Impress ‘em

[calendar] enough and you could get paid $50 as a showcased performer. Text 396-5934 to sign up early. You can tell who the karaoke ringers are— they don’t need no stinkin’ monitor. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover.

THURSDAYSEPT03 Australian bands used to have succinct names like AC/DC and INXS. Now here’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, with Chicago/LA outfit Mile High Club at the Real Lounge, 112 Front St. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $8/$5 adv. 18 and over. If u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb. Nowadays matchbook covers are not the best resource when you’re looking for work. The Student Em-

ployment Fair will offer opportunities for students. University Center Ballroom, 9 AM–3 PM. For more info, call 243-2022. Artist Garrett Bryant’s I Can Do Anything I Want Without Fearing the Consequences features large pieces of steel penetrated by brute force, and explorations of male privilege and and feminism. Opening reception at the University Center Art Gallery, 4-6 PM.

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country pride Barriers continue to fall like rainbow dominoes along the lines of hetero strongholds in sports and entertainment, with the NBA’s Jason Collins, the NFL’s Michael Sams and pro wrestler “Money” Matt Cage coming out publicly in recent months. Pop and rock music are rife enough with gay and LGBT performers that it’s become almost mundane. But in the arena of county music, aside from k.d. Lang, Chely Wright and a few random D-listers, there’s been a clench-jawed silence. Aren’t there any gay artists in the upper echelons of Nashvegas? Simple statistics would suggest that there must be. But country’s conservative-leaning fan base, being largely Southern, lightly educated or hailing from flyover red states, won’t buy the music of an artist over the age of 40, let alone one who’s openly gay.

Patrick Haggerty

the Gay Liberation Front. After the album’s release, the band performed at several The state of country music hasn’t LGBT and other pride events throughout changed much since the first gay-themed Washington, and after they disbanded in album in history, Lavender Country, by the 1976, Haggerty ran twice for political office. He’s worked for gay and civil rights for decades, but now the increasing WHAT: Missoula Queer Fest acceptance of the LGBTQIA commuWHO: Lavender Country, Parae, Unicorn nity and Lavender Country’s attenDomination and more dant rediscovery have put him back on the national map. WHEN: 6 PM–midnight “The pool of people who are WHERE: Zootown Arts Community Center, ready to hear Lavender Country has 235 N. 1st St. W. skyrocketed exponentially in the last 10 years,” he told Pitchfork.com. “It’s HOW MUCH: $10 fabulous I’ve lived long enough to see this shift.” Haggerty brings LavenMORE INFO: facebook.com/mslaqrfst der Country to Missoula for a performance at Queer Fest Friday night, band of the same name, was released. where he’ll share the stage with Parae, We’re not talking about the G.W. Bush ‘90s, Teens From Alberton, Eat Strike and more. or even the cultural hardline Reagan ‘80s. We’re talking 1973. The leader and creative Tickets are available at Ear Candy. force, singer and guitarist Patrick Haggerty, was an activist with the Seattle chapter of

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[calendar] Club. Smoky blues for the happy hour crowd, 5:30 PM, no cover. Letter B is the second letter, so presumably they try harder. Witness their musical efforts at Draught Works Brewing, 6–8 PM, free. Live those “American Idol” fantasies at karaoke with Cheree at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W., with drink specials and the chance to win $50 big ones. 8:30-10:30 PM. No cover. Stick around for the prize drawing to be eligible to win. Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, drink specials aplenty and attractive local singles in your area. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. No cover. Once you see Junior Brown burn down the stage with his fiery guit-steel, you’ll be a convert. The hardcore country legend comes to the Top Hat to promote his first release in seven years (see Noise). Show at 9 PM. Tickets $25$28 at the Top Hat or ticketfly.com. Mr. Calendar Guy wants to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Pro tip: include a hi-res photo and you’ll probably see it in print. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com. .

Are we in the right place for the mannequin auditions? Nato Coles and the Blue Diamond Band play the VFW with Bird’s Mile Home, the Chinchees and With Iowa In Between. Sun., Aug. 30, 9 PM. Cover TBA.

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he last Rocky Mountaineers hiking trip this side of Labor Day is going to be a doozy. The Glacier Classic will headquarter in the Apgar campground near the foot of Lake McDonald, and eight hikes are scheduled over the three-day weekend. Current weather reports are giving a promising outlook for the weekend, and with any luck the smoke will thin out. But no matter what the weather, there will be hikes to fit most levels of skill. For those wanting to do a little carbo-loading for the weekend, a tentative plan is in place to meet at the Northern Lights Saloon in Polebridge Thursday evening for pizza and beer, then it’s on to Bowman Lake to set up camp. Sunday’s hike will be determined by a vote of the group.

Glacier is, of course, a popular national park with the bears, so all participants need to carry bear spray in a quickly accessible place. Like not at the bottom of your pack. —Ednor Therriault The Glacier Classic, hosted by the Rocky Mountaineers, runs Fri., Aug. 26–Sun., Aug. 28. Two sites have been reserved at Apgar campground on the south end of Lake McDonald. Camping fee will work out to $10– $15 per person, entry to park not incluced. For more info, contact Forest Dean at 2407612 or mtnear1@gmail.com.

photo by Joe Weston

FRIDAY AUGUST 28 Volunteers will join the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation (SBFC) to clear and repair the High Lake Trail in scenic Blodgett Canyon. 8 AM. For info, email volunteer@selwaybitterroot.org Eyeball the heavens from the Star Gazing Room at the UM’s Public Planetarium Show. Payne Family Native American Center, Room 13. 6:30 PM, $6 for adults, $4 for children.

SATURDAY AUGUST 29 Just put one foot in front of the other and join a group of intrepid hikers for an overnight journey on the Stateline Trail via Heart Lake. To volunteer for the Great Burn Study Group, email drew.lefebvre @gmail.com or call 207-450-4969. The River City Roots Run will get your little heart pumping with a 4-mile fun run that starts at E. Alder Street, winds through Greenough Park, and ends up at the Riverfront Trail near Caras Park. Cash prizes for top six male and female finishers. $30, register at www.rivercityrootsfestival.com. SUP enthusiasts can work that water to a fine froth at the River City SUP Cup. Racers can choose the 1-mile or 5-mile events, which go from the Higgins bridge to the Madison Street bridge and back. $50 per race, register at www.rivercityroots festival.com.

Join local climate activists in a community bike ride for Flood the System, an international effort to juice the movement for climate justice. Wear a blue shirt. Free Cycles Missoula, 732 S. 1st St. W., 1–2:30 PM. When I say Montana, you say Grizzlies! UM’s football season opens at home against North Dakota State at Washington Grizzly Stadium, kickoff at 1:30 PM. For tickets, visit griztix.com.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 The Montana Dirt Girls kick into gear with group cycling trips and hiking in the Missoula area, meeting up at 6 PM every Tuesday at various locations. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com to sign up for the mailing list and find out more.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMEBER 2 Ladies, if life is driving you up the wall, this is for you. The climbing wall in the UM’s Fitness and Rec Center is open every Wed. night to women only, for climbing and individual coaching from female instructors. All skill levels welcome. 9–11 PM, $5 includes gear and instruction. www.umt.edu.

THURSDAY SEPTEMEBER 3 Why not start out the new school year by taking in Jurassic World at the UM’s Outdoor Movie series? UM Oval, 9:30 PM, free.

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It’s been eight months since the Poverello Center opened the doors to its new facility on W. Broadway. The difference between the new building and the old location they outgrew on Ryman St. downtown is plain. “It's clear now when you walk in the door that this is a place for people to start anew,” says Executive Director Eran Fowler Pehan. Chronic homelessness is an issue Missoula has faced for decades, and the Pov has been right there, providing food, shelter and hope for people with nowhere else to turn. The new building’s increased capacity and updated features have already made a big difference in the Pov’s efforts. “Now that we are able to meet our most basic mission of feeding and sheltering our neighbors living in poverty, we’re moving on to bigger goals and are currently working on several vocational training collaborations to help people get back to work,” says Pehan. “For many that is the first step on the road to a better life.”

photo courtesy of the Pverello Center

She credits the compassion and generosity shown by the community for the Pov’s continuing success. “We’re still in awe of the community support we received during our relocation and the support we receive every day—from our new neighborhood, friends, and nonprofit partners.” —Ednor Therriault The Pov will be hosting a Community Appreciation Barbecue at the new location at 1110 W. Broadway, Thu., Aug. 27, 11 AM–1 PM. The event is free, and all are welcome.

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The Hellgate Rollergirls will be showing off their bruises as well as their grocery bagging skills when they sack your stuff at Orange Street Food Farm, 10 AM–2 PM. Funds raised will benefit the nonprofit Roller Girls club.

Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

The 11th annual Festival of Peace and the 5th annual Walk-A-Mile for Peace feature plenty of food, music, dancing and guest speakers. The Josh Farmer Band, Jenn Adams, Ben Evans, Tahj Kjelland and Joan Zen provide the tunes. Ewam Garden of One Thousand Buddhas, 34574 White Coyote Road, Arlee, 10 AM–6 PM. Check out ewambuddhagarden.org for more info. Join local climate activists in a community bike ride for Flood the System, an international effort to juice the movement for climate justice. Wear a blue shirt. Free Cycles Missoula, 732 S. 1st St. W., 1–2:30 PM. Hot Springs will be enveloped in the divine aroma of a Cuban Style Pig Roast, at a fundraiser for Hot Springs’ own community FM radio station. Lots more food and music will be available. Symes Hotel, Hot Springs, 2 PM “until it’s gone.”

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 Draught Works Brewing’s Cheers for Charity night supports a local charity or nonprofit. Every Tuesday the Northside brew pub donates 50 cents of each pint sold between 5 PM and closing time.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMEBER 2 The Centers for Disease Control’s National Diabetes Prevention Program offers this evidencebased lifestyle change program for preventing Type 2 diabetes. Open to UM employees and their partners/spouses at the Campus Fitness and Recreation Center Fitness Conference Room, 5–7 PM, free. Information: Kayli Julius, 406-329-5781, kayli.julius@providence.org.

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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A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WHIFF My new boyfriend travels a lot for work. Before he left on this trip, he gave me his weird onesie lounging garment. It's this disturbing "As Seen On TV" thing called a Forever Lazy. It's like a fleece blanket, but with legs, a hood and a … umm … back flap for easy bathroom access. I was hesitant about taking it, but he said, "Take it! It's so comfy! It's the bomb!" Of course, I don't wear this weird thing, but it smells just like him. I've found myself cuddling up with it and sniffing it. Like, a lot. And it's not just about missing him; it's about the smell. I feel like a serial killer! What is wrong with me?! —I'm Weird Welcome to the decline of civilization playing out in a single garment. If a grown man who wears one of these things says something like "Let me slip into something more comfortable," you've got to think, "What, the womb?" What seems weird to me is your sexual attraction to a man who wears a giant romper. What doesn't seem weird is your sniffing Mr. Baby's onesie. This suggests that you two might be a pretty good match, at least genetically—which isn't to say your genes and his have lots in common. Studies by Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind and others have found that women seem to prefer the body odor of men whose genes are dissimilar to theirs. Which sounds so hot: "Hey, baby, I love how genetically dissimilar you smell in the morning." It's a set of immune system genes that matter. They're called the major histocompatibility complex, or MHC. "Histocompatibility" is a mouthful, yes, but it's really just the Greek word for tissue—"histo"—bumming a ride on "compatibility." MHC molecules are basically immune system security guards that sound the alarm on incompatible stuff in our bodies—icky infectious microorganisms that don't belong in our "tissue" (really, our cells). If you and a genetically similar man have kids, your combined MHC genes will only be able to recognize a very similar, limited set of trespassers. But with a genetically dissimilar man, the immune systems of any kids you have will have a much larger force of security guards, able to recognize a much broader group of icky invaders. Regarding your onesie sniffing, the most interesting, relevant finding on MHC is by experimental psychologist Christine Garver-Apgar and evolutionary psychologist Steven Gangestad. Instead of just testing in-

dividuals as previous studies did, they tested couples. They found that as the proportion of MHC genes that couples shared increased, women were less turned on by their partner, cheated with more men, and were more attracted to men other than their partner, especially during their most fertile time of the month. In other words, it's a very good thing that you're into how this guy smells—so much so that you can overlook the fact that he's a grown man who wears a onesie made from some fabric cousin of the airline blanket. Here's to your living fleecily ever after with your new man. But should this not work out, remember that smell is important, and look for a man who also smells good to you—maybe even one who isn't afraid of hard work, like the agonizing chore of pulling on both sweatpants and a sweatshirt.

FIFTY SHADES OF NAY I'm an in-shape, intelligent, funny 35-year-old guy with a good job. I went on a date with a beautiful woman. We had a terrific time—wonderful conversation over a nice dinner. When I asked her out again, she said she thinks I am a "super-nice guy" but she just wasn't feeling the "chemistry." Well, it was only one date. Can chemistry grow? I'd like to see her again. I'm convinced I could sweep her off her feet if given the chance. —Ambitious You didn't get the job. Picketing the office isn't going to change that. Not feeling the "chemistry" is polite code for "I'm not physically attracted to you" (or, in really dire cases, "I'd chew through rope to avoid having sex with you"). Unfortunately, there's no sweeping a woman off her lack of chemistry with you, though you might sweep a lesser woman off her integrity by inviting her out for a slew of free dinners. Over time, you might even charm the woman into loving you—kind of like she loves her grandma. But keep in mind that biological anthropologist Helen Fisher and other researchers find that physical attraction comes out of a person's look, smell, and manner. In other words, persisting when a woman lets you know she isn't attracted to you is ultimately a big ol' losing proposition. (You can try harder, but you can't, say, try taller.)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The comedian puppets known as the Muppets have made eight movies. In The Great Muppet Caper, the muppets Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one is a green frog and the other a brown bear. At one point in the story, we see a photo of their father, who has the coloring and eyes of Kermit, but a bear-like face. I bring up their unexpected relationship, Cancerian, because I suspect that a similar anomaly might be coming your way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch your ideas about what influences you might want to connect with.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with the current astrological omens, I recommend the following activities: Sing a love song at least once a day. Seek a message from an ancestor in a reverie or dream. Revisit your three favorite childhood memories. Give a gift or blessing to the wildest part of you. Swim naked in a river, stream, or lake. Change something about your home to make it more sacred and mysterious. Obtain a symbolic object or work of art that stimulates your courage to be true to yourself. Find relaxation and renewal in the deep darkness. Ruminate in unbridled detail about how you will someday fulfill a daring fantasy.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You'd probably prefer to stay in the romantic, carefree state of mind. But from what I can tell, you're ripe for a new phase of your long-term cycle. Your freestyle rambles and jaunty adventures should now make way for careful introspection and thoughtful adjustments. Instead of restless star-gazing, I suggest patient earth-gazing. Despite how it may initially appear, it's not a comedown. In fact, I see it as an unusual reward that will satisfy you in unexpected ways.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): English author Barbara Cartland published her first novel at age 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she had written more than 700 other books. Some sources say she sold 750 million copies, while others put the estimate at two billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I foresee a Barbara Cartland-type period for you in the coming months, Leo. Between now and your birthday in 2016, I expect you to be as fruitful in your own field as you have ever been. And here's the weird thing: One of the secrets of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to chill out. "Relaxed intensity" will be your calming battle cry.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble," said psychologist Carl Jung. "They can never be solved, but only outgrown." I subscribe to that model of dealing with dilemmas, and I hope you will consider it, too—especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don't guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but I'm confident you can render them at least 60 percent less pressing, less imposing, and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration. There were nonstop feasts and games and religious ceremonies. Communitybuilding was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge, and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal Makahiki last for four months, but could you at least manage three weeks? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, fortune cookies for dogs, and breath mints that resemble vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent visitors to the museum are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors to avoid in their own companies' future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius. Take an inventory of the wrong turns you've made in the past. Use what you learn to create a revised master plan.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behavior pattern. But I am happy to report that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to make a heroic effort? Here's a good way to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it," confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe your experience, too? If so, events in the coming months will help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last ten years, you will have the power to liberate yourself through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather than through stress and force.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Most people love in order to lose themselves," wrote Hermann Hesse in his novel Demian. But there are a few, he implied, who actually find themselves through love. In the coming months, Pisces, you are more likely to be one of those rare ones. In fact, I don't think it will even be possible for you to use love as a crutch. You won't allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That's good news, right? Here's the caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires—some of which may be hidden from you right now. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

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Cassie R. Dellwo, #11880 MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM 38 2nd Ave East Dickinson, ND 58601 701-227-1841 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-138 NOTICE OF HEARING IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MADELYN S. DILWORTH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cassie R. Dellwo has filed an APPLICATION OR PETITION FOR FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF LIMITED SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR of the Estate of Madelyn S. Dilworth which may be examined in the office of the Clerk of this Court. Hearing has been set at the Courtroom of this Court in Missoula County, Missoula, Montana, on the 23rd day of September, 2015 at 1:30 o’clock p.m., at which time and place all interested persons may appear and object. Applicant, Cassie R. Dellwo, will appear at said hearing via telephone conference call. DATED this 7th day of August, 2015. /s/ Cassie R. Dellwo, #11880 Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm 38 2nd Ave East Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2015-2094 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION PROFESSIONAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, Plaintiff, v. BRIANNA PAYNE et al., Defendant. TO: Brianna Payne 104 Camelot Court #3 Missoula MT 59801 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, MIssoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 3rd day of August, 2015. By: /s/ Karen A. Orzech IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2015-2243 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION CORSO APARTMENT HOMES, Plaintiff, v. BRIAN AZURE et al., Defendant. TO: Brian Azure, 1690 Milwaukee Way #305, Missoula MT 59801 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, MIssoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 11th day of August, 2015. By: /s/ Karen A. Orzech

MNAXLP IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2015-2364 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION THE DWELLING PLACE, INC., Plaintiff, v. KAREN THOMPSON et al., Defendant. TO: Karen Thompson, 6336 Buena Vista Loop, Missoula MT 59808 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, MIssoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 24th day of August, 2015. By: /s/ Karen A. Orzech IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2015-2118 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION SANDY MITCHELL, Plaintiff, v. SOCORO BARELA et al., Defendant. TO: Socoro Barela, 131 West Alder, Missoula MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, MIssoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 12th day of August, 2015. By: /s/ Marie A. Andersen MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-15-789 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Troy James Moreno, Autumn-Star Vaile, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Troy James Moreno to Troy James Vaile. The hearing will be on 9/15/2015 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: August 6, 2015 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Matt Tanna Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-15-688 Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Brian Graham Donovan, Brian Donovan, Petitioner This is notice hat Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Brian Graham Donovan to Peter O’meira. The hearing will be on

09/30/2015 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in MIssoula County. Date: July 23, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Molli Zook, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Cause No. DG-15-71 ORDER SETTING HEARING IN RE THE GUARDIANSHIP OF KANDICE SMITH, A Minor. The petition of Alan Smith and Adria Kassion for co-guardianship of the minor child having come before the court: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that Wednesday, the 30th day of September, 2015, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. at the courtroom of said court at the county courthouse in Missoula County, Montana, be, and the same is hereby, appointed the time and place for the hearing of said petition, and any interested person may appear and contest the said guardianship, and may object to the appointment of petitioners as co-guardian. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the petitioners give notice of said hearing in the manner prescribed by Mont. Code Ann. §72-1-301 to all persons entitled to notice pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. §72-5-225. DATED this 5th day of August, 2015. /s/ Leslie Halligan, DISTRICT COURT JUDGE MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Cause No. DG-15-70 ORDER SETTING HEARING IN RE THE GUARDIANSHIP OF TYLER SMITH, A Minor. The petition of Alan Smith and Adria Kassion for co-guardianship of the minor child having come before the court: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that Wednesday, the 30th day of September, 2015, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. at the courtroom of said court at the county courthouse in Missoula County, Montana, be, and the same is hereby, appointed the time and place for the hearing of said petition, and any interested person may appear and contest the said guardianship, and may object to the appointment of petitioners as co-guardian. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that the petitioners give notice of said hearing in the manner prescribed by Mont. Code Ann. §72-1-301 to all persons entitled to notice pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. §72-5-225. DATED this 5th day of August, 2015. /s/ Leslie Halligan, DISTRICT COURT JUDGE MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-152 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL C. WONG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to David G. Shors and Crystal W. Shors, the co-personal representatives, return receipt requested, at 203 N. Ewing Street, Helena, MT 59601, or filed with

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PUBLIC NOTICES the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: August 4, 2015. /s/ David G. Shors Co-Personal Representative /s/ Crystal W. Shors Co-Personal Representative

tled Court. DATED this 3rd day of August, 2015. /s/ Victor Bruce Anderson WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Patrick Dougherty

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-15-163 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MAVIS M. LORENZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to David L. Devine, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 17th day of August, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ David L. Devine BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for David L. Devine, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-15-165 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF LAWRENCE LEE FLACHMEYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lucey Barney 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 certtified mail to, return receipt requested, to Lucey Barney, Personal Representative, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of August, 2015. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney 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 18th day of August, 2015 /s/ Lucey Barney, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-15-157 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD LEE SCHMITZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WANDA FREYHOLTZ, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of August, 2015. /s/ Wanda Freyholtz c/o Worden Thane P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Probate No. DP-15-159 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM ARTHUR ANDERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Victor Bruce Anderson, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-enti-

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-134 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE MEYER, 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 RODNEY D.G. MEYER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 59807-7937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 12th day of August, 2015. /s/ Rodney D.G. Meyer, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-162 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHANDRA L. BEAVERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 NICOLE D. MACARTHUR, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 201, Parker, Idaho 83438 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 6th day of August, 2015. /s/ Nichole D. MacArthur, PO Box 201, Parker, ID 83438

MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/14/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200533743 BK 766 Pg 391, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which James K. Harbison and Susan E. Harbison, as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The E1/2 of Lot 25, all of Lot 26 and 27 and the W1/2 of Lot 28 in Block 61 of Supplement to Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 522 of Micro Records at Page 733. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/31/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $219,307.98. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $193,022.70, 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 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the fore-

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closure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. HARBISON, JAMES K. and SUSAN E. (TS# 7023.111330) 1002.276205-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/29/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201008075 Bk. 858 Micro Page 1361, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Cinna Mary Boyle,. was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC. its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot B35 of CANYON CREEK VILLAGE PHASE 11, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201320171 Bk. 858 Micro Page 1361, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 26, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $129,310.39. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $119,050.21, 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 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person hav-

ing an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Boyle, Cinna Mary (TS# 7037.106357) 1002.278326-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 13, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 in Block 8 of the corrected Plat of Hillview Heights No. 3 and 4, a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof Greg Ternes, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 9, 2007 and recorded July 19, 2007 in Book 801, Page 1287 under Document No. 200718438. The beneficial interest is currently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-23CB MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200723CB. 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 $1,092.04, beginning September 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 12, 2015 is $183,922.58 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% totaling $36,432.25, late charges in the amount of $491.40, escrow advances of $10,267.46 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,073.92, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.90 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be

added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 4, 2015 /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 4th day of June, 2015, 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 Select V Ternes 42085.095 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 16, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3272, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MON-

TANA Rick D. Lloyd, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 30, 2006 and recorded July 6, 2006 in Book 778, Page 536 under Document No. 200616476. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association, as Trustee, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-8 Trust. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,179.32, beginning December 1, 2010, 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, 2015 is $243,927.52 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% totaling $55,899.80, late charges in the amount of $353.82, escrow advances of $17,725.05, and other fees and expenses advanced of $8,376.64, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.41 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred

PUBLIC NOTICES and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 3, 2015 /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 3 day of June, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/201 Chase Vs. Lloyd 41916.681 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 16, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2A-1 of Mccauley Acres, Lots 2A-1 & 2B-1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana according to the official plat thereof, as recorded in Book 25 of Plats at page 39. Cheryl Baker and Tim McGill, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 23, 2005 and Recorded August 29, 2005 in Book 759, Page 149 under Document No. 200522542. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS, Inc., CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust 200524, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-24. 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 $4,732.25, beginning May 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 24, 2014 is $694,730.80 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00% totaling $37,027.52, suspense balance of $-236.61 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,977.88, plus accruing interest at the rate

of $112.09 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 5, 2015 /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 5 day of June, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Shellpoint V Baker 42111.001 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 19, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse

MNAXLP located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 17 OF COUNTRY CREST NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. James B. Keller and Margaret Keller, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CTC Real Estate Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 22, 2003 and recorded March 5, 2003 in Book 700, Page 1174 under Document No. 200307579. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage 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 $1,103.08, beginning February 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 12, 2015 is $104,080.63 principal, interest at the rate of 5.750% totaling $8,658.60, late charges in the amount of $49.56, escrow advances of $2,258.02, and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,095.55, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.62 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, 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: June 12, 2015 /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 12 day of June 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Nationstar V Keller 42086.189 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 23, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 of Canyon RiverPhase 1, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Webster R. Callaway and Dorthea Callaway, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Placer Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 13, 2009 and recorded October 19, 2009 in Book 849, Page 509 under Document No 200925261. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank N.A.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by vacating the property beginning February 13, 2015. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 19, 2015 is $474,530.25 principal, interest at the rate of 5.56% totaling $182,937.57, and other fees and expenses advanced of $31,031.24, plus accruing interest at the rate of $102.05 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to

the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 17, 2015 /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 17 day of June, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Financial Freedom V Callaway 41742.531 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 9, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 38 OF EAST MISSOULA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David O. Larson, as

Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 8, 2008 and recorded April 9, 2008 in Book 816, on Page 1000 under Document No. 200807824. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $854.63, beginning January 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 June 5, 2015 is $200,789.64 principal, interest at the rate of 4.0% totaling $4,103.82, late charges in the amount of $256.38, escrow advances of $3,288.66, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,505.81, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.00 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed

by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 3, 2015 /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 3 day of June, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 BAC Vs. Larson 42048.354 YOU, JEFFREY WILLIAMS, RESPONDENT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the Fourth Judicial District Court in Missoula County Montana, a copy of which can be obtained from Petitioner’s attorney, Martin J. Elison, PO Box 5496, Missoula, MT 59806 and to file your answer and serve a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the last publication of this Summons. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. Pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. §40-4-121(3), the Petitioner and Respondent are hereby restrained from transferring or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal without either the consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. This does not prevent either party from using any property to pay reasonable attorney fees in order to retain counsel in the proceeding. VIOLATION OF THIS ORDER IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE UNDER MCA §45-5626

Sentinel Storage will auction to the highest bidder storage units owing delinquent storage rent on Sunday, 8/30/15 at 9:00 a.m. at 1140 East Broadway in Missoula. Units for sale include a 10x20 (Unit 7) and 4x8 (Unit 4.) Buyers bid for entire contents of each unit. Only cash or money order accepted for payment. Units may be removed from sale if delinquent rent is paid prior to auction date. ALL SALES FINAL.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 SAMPSON•

Sampson is a 2-year-old male American Pit Bull Terrier. He is not only our longest-term shelter resident, but Sampson is also a star! This beautiful boy won 3rd place in PetFest's photo contest! He will also be featured in an upcoming Animal Control commercial. He needs a home with no other animals so he won't have to share the limelight.

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BUBBA LOU•Bubba Lou is a 10-year-old female Jack Russell Terrier mix. This older gal was brought to the shelter when her owner went into assisted living. She is a sweet girl who is really looking for a retirement home where she can spend the rest of her days lounging in a sunny window. Bubba Lou does not get along with large dogs, but is fine with small mellow dogs. Come visit her at PetFest this Saturday! MURPHY•Murph is a 9-month-old male German Shepherd/Husky mix. He is a spry and playful young man with lots of energy. He would love a family that would give him lots of play time and hikes. Although he has not had much by way of training thus far, Murphy is a very intelligent dog. Murphy needs an owner that will enjoy exercising his big brain with lots of training before he learns bad habits.

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd 3510 S Reserve

2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri)

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CORAL•Coral is a 3-year-old female Lynx Point Ragdoll. She is a beautiful girl with a sweet demeanor. She loves to curl up in cat beds, laps, and arms. Coral is a very mellow cat and would prefer a mellow home where she can shower you with her beauty from the windowsill. Come meet Coral at PetFest this Saturday and fall in love with a true gem!

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QUINTON•Quinton is a 4-year-old black cat. He is quite a gentleman and loves attention. He gives and wants affection in equal amounts. You will never feel snubbed by this sweet boy. Quinton is always ready to give and get love. Because of his svelte black coat, Quinton's adoption also comes with a $13 gift certificate to Black Cat Bake Shop! PB• PB is a 3-year-old long-haired Dilute Tortie. She is a very quiet cat who prefers to curl up in little cozy spots. PB is not a very social cat and would love a home that lets her express her shy side in peace. She does not actively seek attention, but really loves receiving affection and enjoys being cuddled. PB came to the shelter as a mother with kittens.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 PACHYDERM PUPS• Join us at Pet Fest

on Saturday, August 22nd for a day of pet celebrations and adoptions. This adorable group of tiny pups named after gentle giants will just be available for adoption. Come down to meet Celeste and her brothers, Babar, Horton, Manny and Hathi. We'll be at the Adams Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. See you there!

3600 Brooks Street, Missoula missoulafcu.org (406) 523-3300

SWEET TOOTH PUPS• As sweet as the ice cream flavors they were named after, these siblings are sure to give you a tooth ache. These pups, 4 boys and 2 girls, will be 8 weeks old just in time for Pet Fest at the Adams Center on this Saturday (the 22nd). Adoptions include a microchip, carrier and scratching board (for cats), leash (for dogs), collar w/ ID tag and a bag of Science Diet food.

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

OTIS•Meet Otis! This soon-to-be-snaggletoothfree (thanks to Animal Blessings Pet Clinic) sweetheart is ready for some belly rubs, treats, and adventures in the great outdoors. Otis was hit by a car in another life and is adorable crooked tooth needs to be extracted. We are so positive he will look just as handsome, we're taking him to Pet Fest on Saturday 8/22 if he is not adopted sooner.

SVEN• Sven is a sweet boy waiting for life to start. He cannot wait to face his future with a lucky human by his side. He loves loves his food and would make an excellent indoor/outdoor mouser or barn cat. Don't count this lovable boy out for a house cat though! Sven loves toys, es- Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store pecially wands with feathers, lasers and toy mice. www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 South Russell • North Reserve Come meet this enthusiastic fellow today!

HOLLY & BINGO•After years in a loving home, Bingo and his sister, Holly, experienced great upheaval when their human parent fell on hard times. They've recently been transferred from Missoula County Animal Control to the Humane Society shelter, and are hoping their next step will be into a new home -- together. Stop by the humane society to meet this lab-tastic pair!

CALVIN• Meet Calvin! This bashful boy came to us as a stray and is looking for his forever home. He enjoys cheek and ear rubs and will purr his thanks. Calvin is searching for a patient, quiet home where he can come out of his shell and be the confident cat we know he is. Come meet Calvin today!

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1024 Stephens Ave. #1 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric in$460/month. cluded. 406-273-6034

1315 E. Broadway #2. 1 bed/1 bath, near University, coin-ops, pet? $625 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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1918 Scott St. “D”. 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, coin-ops, storage. $725 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 303 E. Spruce St. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops on site $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 442 Washington St. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops on site, cat? $725 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 NEW COMPLEX!! Near Southgate Mall, Studio, 1-2 bedrooms, $575bath, bed/2 3 $1,175/month, wood flooring, A/C, DW, new appliances, walk in closets, coin-op laundry, storage & off-street parking. W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 NOW LEASING! Mullan Reserve Apartments Rugged yet refined. Secluded yet convenient. Luxurious yet sustainable. Call for a free tour. 543-0060. 4000 Mullan Road. mullanreserveapartments.com

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1630 Defoe St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, lower Westside unit, offstreet parking, additional storage, S/D hook-ups. $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3915 Buckley Place. 2 bed/1 bath, W/D hookups, single garage. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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524 S. 5th St. E. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, 2 blocks to U, W/D, all utilities included. $1000 Grizzly Property Management 5422060

All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program.

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

2012 36th St. 4 bed/2 bath, single garage, some recent updates. $1700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 House hunting downtown? Stop by the Missoula Farmer’s Market. N. Higgins by the XXX’s. Sat. 8am-12:30pm. Tuesday 5:30-7:00. missoulafarmersmarket.com. Find us on Facebook. Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321

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HOMES FOR SALE 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 2398350. shannon@prudential missoula.com 13705 Harper’s Bridge. 3 bed, 1.5 bath cabin on 4.99 acres near Clark Fork River. $349,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2233 West Kent. Low-maintenance 2 bed, 1 bath with unfinished basement & patio. $149,900, Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 286 Speedway. 3 bed, 3.5 bath with spa, full finished basement & 2 car garage. $249,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 3839 Duncan Drive. Prairie style 3 bed, 2.5 bath in Upper Rattlesnake. $725,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, South Hills home. $205,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 407 Nora. Recently updated Westside/Downtown living. Close to Draught Works. $275,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com 515 Cooley. Northside 2 bed, 1 bath with double garage across from park & community gardens. $264,500. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 5442 Prospect Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath in Grant Creek with lower level, deck & double garage. Next to open space. $369,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@ prudentialmissoula.com 619 North Curtis. 4 bed, 3 bath energy-efficient home with gas fireplace & large fenced yard. $229,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 863 Discovery. 2 bed, 1 bath in East Missoula with lower level & double garage. $189,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@ montana.com 909 Rodgers. At $152,000 this three bedroom, one bath house on the Northside is going to make someone a very nice home! Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

Affordable Homes 863 Discovery Way, East Missoula $189,500 PRICE REDUCED!!!!!!

9250 Sharptail, East Missoula. 3 bed, 2 bath with walk-out basement. Huge yard & mountain views. $199,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $340,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

Lower Rattlesnake. 1149 Harrison St. $475,000. 4 bd 2 ba, Mt. Jumbo trail across the street, short walk to downtown. 1922 Craftsman Home in excellent condition. Huge modern kitchen, formal dining, family rooms and office. forsalebyowner.com #24037586. Buyer’s agents welcome. Call 406-5493506 to schedule a showing.

East Base of Mount Jumbo 970 Discovery. Awesome 3 bedroom East Missoula home in a great ‘hood with gorgeous views! $190,000 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

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Northside 3 bed, 2 bath near community gardens & park. Lots of low-maintenance upgrades. $254,500. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential MIssoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

If you’ve been thinking of selling your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM

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REAL ESTATE tor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 2004 Silver Tip Clusters. 4 bed, 4 bath in gated Circle H Ranch. Backed by conservation easement land. $675,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor @gmail.com

bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath corner unit on top floor with deck & community room. $155,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

LAND FOR SALE 18 acre building lot with incredible views. Lolo, Sleeman Creek. $150,000. BHHS Montana

Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 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 LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Missoula Lot 310 Sussex. Residential Lot in a very desirable neighborhood, close to the University, downtown, bike trails and more! 6,000 square foot, ready to build. $137,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

natius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

zoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

3338 Hollis Street $320,000

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

A lovingly cared for rancher in the desirable Lewis and Clark neighborhood. 4 bed, 2 bath, functional floor plan, sunken living room, formal dining room, spacious kitchen, main floor laundry and mudroom off garage, large private backyard. Easy access to schools, shopping and downtown.

NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $149,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, un-

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OUT OF TOWN 15520 Mill Creek, Frenchtown. High-end 5 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. Basketball court & gym. Fantastic views. $675,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2 4 0 - 7 6 5 3 pat@properties2000.com

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Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Commons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $160,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1

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REAL ESTATE

2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Stevensville home. $159,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville Home. $209,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $367,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit

www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Alberton area home on 20 acres on Petty Creek. $465,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

5 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $449,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Homes 407 Nora Recently Updated Westside/Downtown Living. Close to Draught Works..........................................$275,000 631 Pattee Creek Dr Spacious 3 Bed, 3 Bath. Full Finished Basement ..........................................................$340,000 970 Discovery Bright & Well-Designed ........................................................................................................$190,000 715 Gary Target Range Mid-Century Home ..................................................................................................$269,000 2004 Silver Tips Cluster Rustic Meets Romantic.........................................................................................$675,000 5565 Brady Lane Sweet Lolo Home ............................................................................................................$170,000 909 Rodgers Awesome Northside Home......................................................................................................$149,900 408 Daly University Area Living ...................................................................................................................$580,000 407 Nora Close to Draught Works................................................................................................................$275,000 856 Duck Bridge Lane Awesome Tiny Farm................................................................................................$275,000 360 Stone Sweet Newer Home ....................................................................................................................$362,500

Homes With Land 581 Fescue Slope Florence Amazing Mtn. Views On 6.12 Acres ....................................................................$289,000

Townhomes/Condos 1401 Cedar Street #1 Near the River Trail!.................................................................................................$134,000 Burns Street Commons Next to Food Co-op & Bistro! ................................................................................$160,000 Uptown Flats #306 Top Floor 1 Bed Unit!..................................................................................................$155,000 Uptown Flats #303 Modern Amenities.......................................................................................................$159,710 Uptown Flats #210 Efficient 1 Bed ............................................................................................................$149,000

Land Old Indian Trail 4.77 Acres. South Facing Slope of Hillside at Base of Grant Creek .........................................$90,000 Old Indian Trail 15 Acres. Views of Lolo Peak & Missoula Valley ..................................................................$148,000 Old Indian Trail 19.77 Acres Buy Both Above For Less ................................................................................$230,000 40 Acres Prime Unzoned Land Near 44 Ranc ................................................................................................................$3M 310 W Sussex 6000 s.f. Lot Ready to Build in Awesome Location ..................................................................$137,500 NHN Stone .7 Acres with Fruit Trees ..............................................................................................................$83,900 NHN Stone 8.5 Acres off 3rd St..................................................................................................................$479,9000

Commercial: 9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres ..............................................................................................$375,000

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Lolo Acre 5565 Brady Lane, Lolo. An acre with a view, large shop/garage; beautiful setting. $170,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

36453 BERTHOUD ROAD $190,000 Unique opportunity on 20 acres in Potomac with large oversize insulated shop/garage. Home is under construction with finished living area in lower level.

$385,000 9755 Horseback Ridge 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with Tremendous Views & 2 car garage.

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