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Voices/Letters Jill Stein, loud music and medical marijuana .........................................4 The Week in Review Plane crash, new classroom and LBCon ......................................6 Briefs Rattlesnake Market, Maclay Bridge and private prisons.......................................6 Etc. Ze plane! Ze plane!...................................................................................................7 News Montanans answer the call to protest in North Dakota ........................................8 News UM adopts a new slogan, looks for new strategic plan.........................................9 Opinion Engstrom, UM enter the age of customer service ..........................................10 Opinion The Malheur occupation continues in a new form........................................11 Feature The man helping the Park Service prepare for a hotter future .......................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Stephen Glueckert’s exhibits showcase 40 years of art .........................................18 Music Nato Coles and the Blue Diamond Band, Explosions in the Sky and Dogbreth .....19 Music The Dodgy Mountain Men blaze a new trail ......................................................20 Film Hands of Stone can’t carve out its own space ......................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Grilling with heat .........................................................................23 Happiest Hour Beer floats............................................................................................25 8 Days a Week Despite what the deniers say ...............................................................26 Agenda Socrates Cafe ....................................................................................................34 Mountain High Horseshoe Bonanza............................................................................35

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STREET TALK

by Tess Haas

Asked Monday afternoon at Big Dipper The National Park Service just celebrated its 100th anniversary.

When was the last time you visited Glacier, Yellowstone or another one of the parks? Followup: The National Park Service has hired a climate change expert to help revolutionize the way it manages the landscapes in its care. What changes, if any, have you noticed in the parks?

Amanda Sallay: Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park, last fall. Thirsty trails: I’ve seen everything be drier, especially the trails in the winter.

Audrey Jackson: We actually live near one, Kenai Fjords National Park.

Farewell: There is a glacier there called Exit Glacier, but locals call it Exiting Glacier now because it’s almost gone. There have also been changes in wilderness out in the bay—there were no salmon this year and hardly any seabirds. We’ll walk the beach and see starved birds everywhere.

Watson Sallay: Mount Rainier National Park, last winter. Warming up: Especially in Rainier now, you can see the glaciers receding.

Julie Thurman: Glacier, the week of July 27. Trending: You used to be able to see glaciers from the road when we were kids and now you can’t.

Karolina Fierro: The end of July, we went to Zion, Canyonlands and Bryce Canyon. Lack of info: That was our first time, so not really, but we didn’t see any signs talking about climate change or anything.

Bernie and Jill In Derek Brouwer’s story in the Aug. 11 Indy (see “Missoula for Jill”), he reports that Danielle Breck, a UM law student and staunch supporter of Bernie Sanders, is now volunteering in Jill Stein’s candidacy for the upcoming presidential election.

Bernie himself made a vigorous and eloquent statement on behalf of Hillary Clinton shortly after her acceptance of the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, based on their many years of shared public service. He emphasized that failure to vote for her would increase the risk of a Trump presidency.

I realize that most who’ve “felt the Bern” were not around when Hitler and Mussolini were in charge of their fascist dictatorships, but I find Trump’s style chillingly similar to those authoritarians. In addition, I’ve been a long-time advocate of the total abolishment of nuclear weapons, and I feel I must do what I can to keep Trump’s finger off the nuclear trigger.

I understand that soon Bernie will make clear his plan to continue the political movement he started and that it will include voting for Hillary, electing more progressive democrats and making sure that conservatives and the GOP generally stop their obstructive tactics.

Welcome aboard!

Mike Chessin Missoula

four blocks away, by the library. Whether in the middle of the streets nearby or on sidewalks, though, there’s widespread hearing loss happening at this festival. The sound system guys don’t appreciate this (I asked). They’ve no doubt lost hunks of their hearing long ago.

“I realize that most who’ve ‘felt the Bern’ were not around when Hitler and Mussolini were in charge of their fascist dictatorships, but I find Trump’s style chillingly similar to those authoritarians.”

Turn it down As a long-time music festivalgoer and lover of music of most kinds, I must pass along a comment and request to the River City Roots Festival promoters, the Missoula Downtown Association and sponsors. My wife and I went to hear Darrell Scott Friday evening. We could not stay, despite Darrell’s guitar virtuosity.

We were reminded why we’d stopped coming to recent River City Roots Festivals. The volume the sound system was set at was a nigh-painful level. It is permanently costing listeners within a blockand-a-half, I estimate, elements of their hearing—hearing losses they will never recover. It’s louder near the buildings on Main Street where there’s a canyon effect, and we could hear the music well a full

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I know this level of volume is currently popular at some music festivals.

Still, it’s dangerous to people’s health— something most festivalgoers won’t realize for several years, since hearing loss accrues gradually.

Audiologists and hearing aid sellers no doubt appreciate the business you’re helping to send them. Did you, however, notice the wide swathes of empty street between the craft booths and the stage, where listeners in other years have stood at the same hour? I wonder if many people, like ourselves now, stay away to save their hearing.

You’ve turned up the volume in recent years. Maybe it’s good for beer sales,

but you’re costing Missoulians and other attendees parts of their hearing. Please turn it down.

Eric Mendelson Missoula

Safe, happy place I’ve enjoyed smoking weed since my Griz days. I couldn’t take the college drinking hangovers with a full class load and a parttime job. I smoked. I graduated in four years.

Twenty years later I’ve returned to my beloved Montana after years in Pennsylvania, a non-medical marijuana state. My posh Pennsylvania birth center midwives commended me for trying organic marijuana for severe morning (read: all-day) sickness.

They told me they were so happy I told them, because they couldn’t recommend it for me even though they knew it would stop my rapid weight loss. They marked it in my chart and seven out of seven midwives told me as long as I’m getting it from a clean source it is perfectly safe. I could have a joint before meals. Ten years later, I moved back home with chronic pain from a ruptured disk and got my card.

I switched six times to find the provider that grew the strain that worked best for me. It was hard not to be able to comparison shop, so this process took eight months. Then I found Lionheart. The quality and the customer service was excellent. I jumped on the first job opportunity and became a budtender. Because of the legislative and judicial undoing of the 2004 vote by our citizens to make this a pioneer medical marijuana state, I’ll now be laid off (see “Etc.,” Aug. 25).

Every day at my job is a positive medical experience. Our members are your grandparents with cancer and your neighbors with shingles. People who have horrible seizures have none on cannabis. Zero. They don’t want to grow their own. They need our organic salves and edibles. They want to come see us in a safe, happy place. Vote YES on I-182 in November.

Erica Siate Helena Correction: Downtown Ambassador Laurie Johnson’s name appeared incorrectly in last week’s Answers Issue. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Amy Donovan

Wednesday, Aug. 24 Missoula County approves a final budget for fiscal year 2017, including a property tax hike of about 3.2 percent. Part of the increase is due to the $40 million Fort Missoula Regional Park bond coming due.

Thursday, Aug. 25 The Last Best Conference kicks off at the Wilma, with special guest Sen. Steve Daines making an appearance on the main stage.

The conference’s events include dance performances, yoga sessions and networking meet-ups at the Rhino, in addition to keynote speeches and workshops.

Friday, Aug. 26 A Yellowstone Park concession employee falls to her death in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River at 3:15 a.m. A park press release says Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar, 21, was “socializing” with coworkers before she tumbled off the canyon rim.

Saturday, Aug. 27 University of Montana President Royce Engstrom and his wife, Mary, join move-in crew volunteers helping students settle in the dorms. The Engstroms both don UM ballcaps for the occasion.

Sunday, Aug. 28 Darrell Ward, a 52-year-old Deer Lodge native and star of the History Channel show “Ice Road Truckers,” and copilot Mark Melotz are killed in a small plane crash near Clinton.

Monday, Aug. 29 UM announces a $5 million donation will be put toward a new 500-seat auditorium in the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education. It’s expected to be complete by December 2018.

Tuesday, Aug. 30 NCBI Missoula hosts a party to mark its transition to EmpowerMT, an independent 501(c)(3). The nonprofit works with schools, city governments and companies throughout the state to educate people on tolerance and justice.

Avery Corbin, 8, takes the stage as part of the Zootown Arts Community Center’s Girls Rock Camp Aug. 26 performance at the Top Hat.

Business

Rattlesnake Market’s new era In the late 1990s, if a family moved into the Rattlesnake neighborhood and needed to run out for pantry staples or a bite to eat, there was one place to go: Rattlesnake Gardens, a market, coffee shop, restaurant and greenhouse.

Karen Byrne remembers when she and her husband moved to the Lincolnwood area about 17 years ago, with two toddlers in tow, they beat the moving truck and didn’t have any kitchenware. She headed over to Rattlesnake Gardens and introduced herself to the owner, Craig McDonald.

“So we said, ‘Gosh, can we borrow some bowls and spoons?’ And he was a very gracious neighbor,” Byrne says. “That was our first really great impression of what was in Rattlesnake Gardens.”

Over the years, she and her husband thought about purchasing the market and carrying on the spirit of a

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friendly local gathering place. On April 11, they officially bought the business and renamed it Rattlesnake Market and Cafe. The first big change: accepting credit cards for the first time in the location’s history.

“So that’s part of getting into a new era,” Byrne says.

“It’s the funniest thing. People thank us for taking cards.”

Byrne aims to continue renovating the business while retaining a lot of the quirky, historic character of the building, which sits next to the frame of the now-unused greenhouse. The market’s offerings now rotate a wider selection of craft beers, wines and kombucha, while the restaurant menu includes new kale salads, homemade veggie burgers and wraps. But longtime favorites—such as the Monday night chicken parmigiana special—will still be available.

Byrne says she knew it would be a balancing act to update the establishment, which first opened in 1997, without unsettling regulars. But several staff, including the cook, have remained with the market and kept it feeling familiar.

“We like people to feel at home, we like people to feel comfortable and welcome,” Byrne says, “whether they’re from this neighborhood or outside.”

She’s pleased, for instance, that the market is serving as a meeting place for staff at Rattlesnake Elementary, which is undergoing major renovations. In the same spirit of neighborliness she encountered when she first moved in, she donated a batch of cookies to the school before class started.

“Just to kind of tell ’em, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about you guys,’” she says.

It was also important to her to support the Rattlesnake’s other prominent commercial enterprise, Ten Spoon Winery. She suggests that customers grab their dinner in to-go boxes before heading to a wine tasting.

Ten Spoon’s Andy Sponseller says Rattlesnake Gardens was one of the first stores to start carrying his wines, which he’s been making for 14 years now. He’s happy to continue recommending the market, even if the name and owners are different.

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Kate Whittle

Prisons

Approaching a crossroads Cynthia Wolken gets a lot of prison mail. As chair of the special Commission on Sentencing, the state senator from Missoula hears from inmates who have elaborate tales of injustice as well as those who take exception to specific issues, such as visitation rights.

Wolken says she reads and responds to every prisoner who writes in, but acknowledges it’s difficult to validate their concerns. However, one trend in the mail sticks out to her: The largest chunk is postmarked from Crossroads Correctional Center, the private, for-profit prison located in Shelby. The high volume comes despite the fact that Crossroads houses around 900 fewer inmates than the state-run prison in Deer Lodge.

“There seems to be some themes that are recurring about people’s experience [at Crossroads],” Wolken says.

The prison is operated by the Corrections Corporation of America, part of a for-profit prison system that has proliferated in recent decades but is being criticized for the conditions its inmates face. A turning point came in August, when the U.S. Department of Justice responded to a scathing inspector general report by saying it would phase out use of private facilities for federal detainees.

(CCA has disputed the findings of the report as having “significant flaws.”)

While the directive doesn’t apply to Crossroads, the Montana facility may soon face tough scrutiny from lawmakers. A performance audit is scheduled to be released in November, and its contract with the state expires in 2019.

“I don’t think I’m alone in saying many legislators intend to closely examine that contract,” says state Sen. Diane Sands of Missoula.

One worrisome data point emerged after Sands grilled a CCA representative this summer during a presentation about its vocational programs. Crossroads currently offers only four vocational programs, compared to 29 at the Montana State Prison, according to information later provided by the Department of Corrections.

Crossroads Warden Douglas Fender, in his presentation to lawmakers, noted the prison was also finalizing new certification programs in flagging and braille. Still,

Sands says the discrepancy points to issues of equity between taxpayer-funded facilities.

State lawmakers have been batting around approaches to Crossroads for several years, and complaints about the facility are nothing new. But a sweeping review of the criminal justice system currently underway, spearheaded by Wolken, could shape the direction the state takes in Shelby.

CCA representitives did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

The review is eyeing policy changes that could reduce rates of incarceration and recidivism that are currently maxing out prison capacities, despite a decreasing crime rate.

“If that happens, I think the need for a private prison is diminished enormously,” says John Ellingson, a staff attorney with ACLU Montana.

Wolken adds, however, that shortcomings at the prison could themselves contribute to the larger problem.

“The quality of a prison provider actually matters in terms of public safety,” she says.

Derek Brouwer

Maclay Bridge

Fight continues Defenders of the Maclay Bridge have fought for more than 20 years to stave off replacing the historic structure that crosses the Bitterroot River. Even as plans for a new bridge progress, members of the Maclay Bridge Alliance have ponied up their own money to hire an expert from Pennsylvania to hopefully provide one last lifeline.

“From the very beginning, more than 20 years ago, the statement has been made by the county that Maclay Bridge couldn’t be fixed,” says Fred Stewart, codirector of the bridge alliance. “So we thought, maybe let’s get an expert on repairing historic bridges.”

The expert, consultant Jai Kim of Bucknell University, has previously overseen successful rehabilitations of historic spans elsewhere in the country. Stewart says the alliance hopes Kim will suggest an affordable way to strengthen the aging bridge following his visit later this month. Kim will reveal his findings during two public meetings on Sept. 20. The alliance did not disclose how much it’s paying for the expert’s services.

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Republicans have spent a great deal of time in 2016 trying to get the phrase “plane-gate” off the ground. But the election season attacks on Gov. Steve Bullock’s use of the state aircraft have repeatedly failed to leave the tarmac. Now, thanks to some campaign theatrics, plane-gate is finally airborne.

Gubernatorial challenger Greg Gianforte stood outside the Montana Capitol Aug. 24 to announce what his aides referred to as a “major policy proposal.” Flanked by a poster board-size classified ad for a Beechcraft King Air plane— specifically the one owned by Montana for executive use since 1989—Gianforte accused Bullock of abusing taxpayer money by flying to campaign events instead of using the aircraft for official business. He concluded by calling on the governor to sell the state plane.

The salvo worked, in that it finally brought some media attention to the issue. It’s unclear, however, how a closer examination helps Gianforte’s campaign.

During his press conference, the Republican claimed selling the plane could save the state $2 million over the next two years, even though the latest state budget puts the cost of operation over that period of time at only $660,000. Gianforte also said he’d direct the proceeds from selling the plane to infrastructure funding and computer science programs. When asked, the governor’s office didn’t have an estimate for the plane’s worth but did reference a listing for the same model at $599,000— or about .004 percent of the infrastructure package blocked by Republicans last session.

History also doesn’t help Gianforte’s argument.

The state plane has been used as a political football for years, with lawmakers proposing chartered flights or the state motor pool as possible cost-saving replacements. The math didn’t check out and the votes never materialized, even when Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer was racking up frequent flyer miles in a way that makes Bullock’s usage look almost frugal. During his first term, Schweitzer logged 1,060 flight hours, compared to Bullock’s 690.4, according to the governor’s office.

Montana might be considered a small town with long roads, but the state plane is a relatively modest necessity. Regardless of who wins in November, the governor’s time is not best spent en route. That seems like something Gianforte, who has his own personal plane, would appreciate before trying to turn this prop plane of a controversy into an Airbus.

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Currently, the county is working through the twoyear design phase for a new $13 million South Avenue Bridge next to Maclay, which is slated to be dismantled after the new structure is finished.

Stewart acknowledges that he’s not sure how a rehabilitation would be paid for. But he’s optimistic that the money could be found somewhere.

“It seems to me if the county cared, they could find it,” he says.

Meanwhile, county engineer Erik Dickson says it’s too late to backtrack, because the county commissioners already voted three years ago to accept state and federal grants for a new bridge. Rehabilitating Maclay would require local funds.

“You’ll have to either increase taxes or create a special improvement district,” he says, with a touch of exasperation. “Or if we wanted to operate within the available bridge and road budget, that would delay any other project for five or six years to save enough money.”

Despite the vocal opposition, Dickson thinks plenty of Target Range residents are just fine with a new bridge.

He points to the Maclay Bridge Common Sense Coalition as one example of support.

Coalition member and longtime Target Range resident Don Stevenson sees a number of reasons for a new bridge, including that the single-lane Maclay Bridge can easily exceed weight capacity.

He’s also skeptical about the alliance’s survey that purports to show a majority of respondents against the new structure.

“It was a very biased survey,” Stevenson says. “I filled it out. But of course, the questions were, ‘When did you quit kicking your mother?’—that type of very leading questions.”

A schematic for the new South Avenue Bridge is due in the next few months, followed by an environmental assessment starting in November. Dickson says final plans are expected in 2017, and work would start in 2020.

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Water right Montanans answer the call to protest in North Dakota

by Alex Sakariassen

Every morning began with a prayer, and construction site late last month. Tribal run away to join the 71-day siege at Wounded every night ended with one. In between, governments on the Flathead, Northern Knee in South Dakota, and working five years Dustin Monroe found himself surrounded Cheyenne and Fort Peck reservations have later in Topeka when hundreds of native aclast week by ornately decorated teepees, fire- passed resolutions supporting the cause, and tivists walked from California to Washington, side stories, flags from dozens of tribal nations officials on the Fort Belknap Indian Reserva- D.C., but being unable to join either moveand the sounds of numerous Native American tion were in the midst of planning their own ment. In a way, the recent trip to Standing languages being spoken out loud. Many of his visit to Standing Rock this week. Fort Belknap Rock—which Fyant conducted personally fellow protest camp denizens along the Mis- Vice President George Horse Capture Jr. says and not as a council member—was a way to souri River in North Dakota hailed from tribes the trip will most likely take place over a finally participate in a historic event.

“Honestly, I couldn’t sleep for a week,” weekend and ferry supplies like water and Monroe had only ever read about.

“It’s the closest thing that I’ll ever be able blankets to the Red Warrior and Sacred Stone Fyant says. “That’s all I could think about, and I kept reading about what was hapto share with how my ancestors pening on social media.” lived,” says Monroe, a Missoula resident and founder of the nonprofit NaAs with Monroe, Fyant found tive Generational Change. “There’s no the protest camps to be peaceful drugs, no alcohol, no violence, nothand full of constant prayer. Law ening like that ... We have different sociforcement reportedly heard rumors eties in there, we have elders, we have of activists carrying pipe bombs, but different pipe ceremonies, we pray.

Fyant says that was undoubtedly a There’s always something going on. misunderstanding stemming from There’s always new people coming in the many protesters carrying cerefrom all over the country.” monial pipes. Fyant adds she and a friend brought water from the Monroe is one of thousands Jocko River and from Flathead Lake, who have flocked to the Standing which they poured into the Cannon Rock Indian Reservation in recent Ball River near the DAPL site. weeks to protest the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL. If “This is the time we need to stand completed, the $3.7 billion project up to protect the lifeblood of our would transport up to 570,000 barMother Earth,” Fyant says. “Like I’ve rels of Bakken crude oil a day to rebeen telling a lot of people, it’s not a fineries in Illinois—along a route protest. We’re protecting the water.” photo courtesy of Dustin Monroe that passes underneath the Missouri Activity isn’t confined to Standing River and through land considered Tribal members march across the Veterans Me- Rock or the DAPL construction area, culturally significant among the morial Bridge in Bismarck last month. Missoula where work has been halted. Hunresident Dustin Monroe and other Montanans Standing Rock Sioux. Frustration have been among those nationwide to help dreds of people, including Monroe, over a perceived lack of tribal con- protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. marched along the Veterans Memorial sultation and fear of a potential Bridge in Bismarck on Aug. 23, one day pipeline spill prompted Tribal Chairman protest camps. In fact, the tribes on Fort before actresses Shailene Woodley and Susan Dave Archambault II to call on other tribal Belknap have already killed and butchered a Sarandon headlined a solidarity rally in Washnations to aid in the peaceful demonstra- bison in anticipation of the journey, Horse ington, D.C. As the Standing Rock Sioux tion in mid-August. The call has not gone Capture adds, and a “large handful” of indi- await a federal judge’s decision on a lawsuit viduals from the reservation are already in over the pipeline review process, messages unheeded in Montana. of support continue to roll in from sources “It hits home,” Monroe says. “If you look North Dakota.

“When a chief, when a chairman, a pres- as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio and the Bufat all the pipelines that run through Montana, and if the people of Montana really knew ident of a different reservation or nation calls falo Field Campaign. how many pipelines we have here, they’d us, we have that spiritual, moral obligation “This isn’t a native issue, this is an probably be doing a lot more ... Up in Brown- to go see what they need from us,” Horse everyone issue—everyone’s right to water,” ing, we had a line break up there [in 2011] Capture says.

Monroe says. “You know, water doesn’t Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal care what color you are. It’s just like the and it didn’t get checked for two weeks.”

Crow Tribal Chairman Darrin Old Coy- Councilor Shelly Fyant returned last Sunday right to breath.” ote and a delegation of Crow members ar- from a two-day stay at the protest’s overflow rived just in time to join a march on the DAPL camp. She recalls being 14 and wanting to asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Going there UM adopts new slogan, looks for revised strategic plan

by Derek Brouwer

Like a pitchman in a boardroom, Uni- mitted to the state) whether further cuts UM is still far from attaining some of the versity of Montana President Royce En- will need to be imposed. Regardless, the key goals in the original plan, including gstrom prefaced his Aug. 26 “State of the university will have plenty to deal with over those for graduation and retention rates.

University” remarks by debuting a new TV the coming months. While UM may have a Tessman says the council may look at tweakcommercial aimed at prospective students. new slogan, work is just getting underway ing certain metrics in response to input Over images of undergrads surfing Bren- to rewrite its strategic plan. gathered over the course of the fall.

The existing plan, dubbed “UM 2020: nan’s Wave and working in their professors’ The turn toward long-term planning labs, the 30-second spot featured a fresh slo- Building a University for the Global comes as campus remains anxious in the gan UM will use as it looks to reverse years Century,” was introduced just as Engstrom wake of last year’s budget cuts, with some of falling enrollment: “The University faculty and administrators saying acaof Montana: Let’s Go There!” demic programs are all that’s left to eliminate. Pressure is continuing to The ad’s tagline refers to the fronmount as a new group of faculty has tiers of human knowledge, but “it also emerged to call attention to the budget quite literally means ‘let’s go there,’ as “crisis” they’ve faced in recent years. in enrolling in the University of Montana,” Engstrom said, to laughs.

Tobin Miller Shearer, director of UM’s African American Studies proLast fall, the president used his gram and a history professor, says he annual address to describe the enand 14 other faculty are seeking to rollment situation in detail, waxing open “positive rhetorical space” for dion its causes and foreshadowing the alogue about UM’s future—including deep budget cuts that followed. This room for sober analysis and “faithful time, Engstrom was eager to turn a criticism.” corner. He acknowledged enrollment as UM’s “biggest challenge and our “We do no one any favors by prebiggest opportunity,” then pivoted to tending things aren’t in a crisis mode,” a list of steps he and his staff are takMiller Shearer says. “We need to be clear ing to address it. There was no menabout that or otherwise we won’t come tion of enrollment projections or to grips with the reality before us.” budget cuts.

The professors recently published UM built its 2017 budget assuman op-ed in the Missoulian outlining ing overall student headcount would their dwindling resources, from the loss remain flat—a level some on campus of teaching assistants to evaporating photo by Derek Brouwer warned would be difficult to meet. travel budgets, while also asserting their But as classes get underway, officials At his annual “State of the University” commitment to improving the univerfrom Main Hall to Residence Life address, University of Montana President sity. Miller Shearer himself is among the Royce Engstrom said campus is going back have refused to indicate whether the to the drawing board this year to create a faculty in several departments who are numbers are on track. forgoing desk phones this year due to new strategic plan. budget cuts.

“I can safely say we will not have a record enrollment, that is not in the cards became president in 2011. But “the landAnother outspoken group of faculty, this fall,” Engstrom said in a press confer- scape has changed and many new people led by professors Mehrdad Kia and Doug ence following his speech. “So beyond that, are part of our university,” Engstrom said Coffin, has been sharply critical of Enin his speech, requiring a revision of goals gstrom’s administration, but Miller Shearer I won’t go into more detail at this time.” says his group isn’t interested in creating The tight-lipped tone is a change from and strategies. last winter, when then-Provost Perry Brown The “revision” is more akin to a an “adversarial relationship” with Main predicted the reforms he oversaw in the ad- rewrite, with even the guiding theme up Hall. In fact, he adds, they sent their op-ed to Engstrom before the newspaper so the missions office would begin paying off in for change. fall 2016. Meanwhile in Bozeman, Montana “[Engstrom] has given us a mandate to president wouldn’t be caught off guard. EnState University President Waded Cruzado rethink the strategic plan, if that’s what the gstrom responded by signaling he was willrecently predicted another year of record campus and community call for,” says ing to meet with the group, which Miller enrollment there.

Brock Tessman, Davidson Honors College Shearer considers a positive sign.

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[opinion]

Business 101 Engstrom, UM enter the age of customer service

by Dan Brooks

The University of Montana’s new slogan is “Let’s Go There!” In addition to delighting fans of “30 Rock,” this exclamation is everything you want in a marketing tagline. It succinctly conveys the university’s message to the public: Please attend our school, and if you can, bring some friends.

“Let’s Go There!” models desirable behavior for Montana students who, increasingly, do not want to go to UM. Enrollment at the university has declined about 20 percent since 2011, which was coincidentally the year after President Royce Engstrom took office. A lot of factors may be keeping students away: a recovering economy, competition from Montana State, high-profile sexual assault scandals—you name it.

But in his “State of the University” address last week, Engstrom named very few.

He kept his remarks positive, focusing on UM’s record-high $87 million in research grants last year, along with faculty accomplishments and plans for new majors. It’s understandable that he didn’t want to spend an hour talking about the enrollment crisis. But it’s by far the most significant issue UM faces, and Engstrom’s address hardly went there at all.

He did mention the declining numbers, telling the audience that “enrollment is everybody’s job,” before touting new VP of enrollment and student affairs Tom Crady, whose job enrollment especially is.

But he didn’t dwell on the problem. Instead, he focused on the solution: more students. In a press conference after his speech, he said the university’s goals are to enroll half of Montana’s graduating seniors who stay in the state and increase its portion of out-of-state students 25 to 30 or 35 percent.

He is right. The university should definitely do that. Thank goodness we have the benefit of his leadership, or we might have spent months trying to address the problem of declining enrollment without getting anywhere.

Engstrom elaborated further than that, of course, but not much. What he did say evinced an alarming concept of why UM’s enrollment dropped in the first place. En-

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gstrom said the university needed to take a “customer service approach” to education. Students are customers and they want to get their money’s worth. If you think of the university as a business, the customer service angle makes sense.

It does at first, anyway. If you think of the university as a business for very long, though, this idea loses its appeal. UM is selling education. Perhaps, rather than offering better customer service, it should try to offer a better product. Yet education is the area Engstrom recently chose to cut.

“Perhaps, rather than offering better customer service, UM should try to offer a better product. Yet education is the area Engstrom recently chose to cut.”

The university cut about $12 million from its operating budget last year. The equivalent of 192 full-time positions were eliminated—five of them administrative and the other 187 academic. In this context, Engstrom’s focus on “customer service” seems like a commitment to everything but teaching.

At universities across the country, “customer service” has become a euphemism for student life: better buildings, better food, better support services, better sports, better everything except for instruction. It’s a popular approach—in part because it creates demand for administrators, and administrators are the

ones who decide policy. But it also drives the vicious cycle that has made college a worsening deal for students, raising their tuition without making their degrees any more valuable.

Students in Montana and everywhere else weigh the value of their baccalaureates against the cost of earning them. Better customer service won’t make a UM degree more appealing to employers. It might make the university more superficially enticing to prospective students, but it won’t improve the school’s reputation over the long term.

That reputation is in danger now. After cutting academics and concocting a plan that emphasizes customer service over actual education, UM risks becoming known as a bad school with a nice campus and a good football team. That’s a worst-case scenario, and it’s a long way off. But Engstrom’s remarks last week did not inspire confidence.

I’m all for positive thinking. At this challenging moment in its long history, the university should be looking for opportunities, not bemoaning five years of declining enrollment. But we should not pretend students are stupid.

UM is at risk of losing its position as the state’s flagship university because it is not offering a better education than its competitors. Cutting academic budgets and turning away from the school’s core mission—in the hope that vague businessspeak about “customer service” will trick students into paying the same price for a worse product—is not a viable strategy in the end.

The University of Montana isn’t selling customer service. It’s selling education. It needs to find ways to offer a better product, instead of trying to keep its students happier while teaching them less. They aren’t customers. They’re students. They know enough to distinguish what they’re actually paying for from the service that delivers it.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the continuing devaluation of his degree at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Left behind The Malheur occupation continues in a new form

by Steve Herman

Now that the focus has shifted to the upcoming trials of the outlaws who took over Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge offices last January, we might recall that the actual, physical occupation lasted for a total of 41 days. In many ways, however, it never ended, and there is every reason to conclude that the occupiers won.

The refuge’s headquarters are still closed, federal cops guard the area and no one answers the phone. At least six staff members have left, including the fisheries expert and the ecologist. They have not been replaced.

The refuge is drier now than I have ever seen it; the usually flooded ditches along Center Patrol Road are without waterfowl.

Only two ponds hold water and the birds that depend on it.

The Malheur Refuge website cautions prospective visitors: “Buildings and grounds are active work sites and are closed for safety reasons.” When I found a refuge employee in a pickup on the side of the road, I asked him what “active work site” meant. He smiled wryly and answered, “That answer would have to come from a higher pay grade.”

I first visited the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in 1966 and I started teaching in the vicinity in 1973. Virtually every Memorial Day weekend since then, I have gone birding on the headquarters grounds, along with other bird watchers from the Northwest birding community and beyond. I teach a summer ornithology class now on nearby Steens Mountain, and every August I tour the refuge with my students.

But this year, we were not allowed in. In fact, a federal truck stood by the blockaded entrance to keep us out. Yet nearly a hundred days had gone by since the last occupier left, and the site had been safely visited by U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe and even Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.

Both hosted the press on the “active work sites” and no problems were reported. Ashe said that the occupiers had done damage estimated at $6 million, and now the rumor is that this venerable and beautiful oasis—once a showplace visited regularly by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas—will undergo a fancy facelift.

That makes me fear that the old buildings, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps out of pink Dufurrena sandstone in the

“Sadly, the wildlife meant to find refuge in this place no longer seem to count for much.”

1930s, might be sacrificed to some Washington, D.C., architect’s vision of modernity. I doubt that the occupiers, slovenly though they reportedly were, could have done that much damage.

Meanwhile, all is not quiet on this Western front. Some or all of the 13 ranchers with grazing privileges on the refuge were going full-bore when my students and I drove north along the refuge on Aug. 12.

Thousands of acres of the Blitzen Valley part of the refuge had been mowed. Three huge double-flatbed trailered semis passed us going south, ready to welcome on board the valuable hay bales. Ranchers apparently

pay with “in kind services,” which in this case means that the hay is paid for by mowing, baling and hauling it off. Because the mowing is considered beneficial to wildlife, it is considered a “service” to the refuge and to wildlife, so little or no cash changes hands.

So ubiquitous was the haying activity I saw that it is hard to believe that it had only been going on for two days. Aug. 10 is the first day any haying efforts are allowed, in part because that is the date that most, but not all, young sandhill cranes are believed to be out of danger of being baled, along with the hay. A young crane, faced with an advancing piece of machinery, will crouch down instead of fleeing, and thus get macerated by a combine.

The first of the thousands of cattle that will graze there for the better part of nine months were visible, but I was concerned with some trespass livestock I had seen on Aug. 5, about a mile south of headquarters. I find trespassing cattle almost every year— there were cowpies last year right in front of refuge headquarters—but this year I was unable to report them, because nobody seems to be at work.

And so the occupation continues, even though most of the occupiers are safely tucked away in jail cells. The headquarters compound may be off-limits to human visitors, but the refuge is wide open for the grazing “treatments” that are allowed in order to “meet management objectives.” Sadly, the wildlife meant to find refuge in this place no longer seem to count for much.

Steve Herman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is an emeritus member of the faculty at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.

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VIRTUAL FANDOM – The phenomenal Japanese singer Hatsune Miku (100 million YouTube hits) is coming off of a sold-out, 10-city North American concert tour with high-energy audiences (blockslong lines to get in; raucous crowd participation; hefty souvenir sales), except that "she" isn't real.

Hatsune Miku is a projected hologram on stage singing and dancing (but her band is human), and her May show in Dallas, according to a Dallas Observer review, typically ignited frenzied fans who know the show's "every beat, outfit ... and glow stick color-change." Her voice, a synthesized "vocaloid," is crafted in pitch, timbre and timing to sound human. (The latest PlayStation brings Hatsune Miku into the home by virtual reality.)

THE FINER POINTS OF LAW – Make Up Your Mind, Feds: On Aug. 11, the federal government's Drug Enforcement Agency famously refused to soften the regulation of marijuana, leaving it (with heroin) as a harsh "Schedule I" drug because, citing Food and Drug Administration findings, it has "no medical use." However, as the Daily Caller pointed out, another federal agency -- Department of Health and Human Services -- obtained a U.S. patent in 2003 for marijuana-derived cannabinoids, which HHS pointed out have several medical uses (as an antioxidant and for limiting neurological damage following strokes).

PRIORITIES – “A dog has better protection than our kids,” lamented an Oregon prosecutor in May because, unlike the pet law, the “child abuse” law requires proof the victim experienced “substantial” pain – which a young child often lacks vocabulary to describe. (Simply showing welts and bruises is insufficient, the Court of Appeals has ruled.) That same Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in June that Thomas Wade, 44, was not guilty of a crime when in 2013 he unzipped his pants, reached inside, and at that point cursed the woman he had confronted in a public park. “Distasteful,” wrote the Court, but it was an exercise of Wade's free speech right.

TEXAS! – In August, Houston defense lawyer Jerry Guerinot announced his retirement from deathpenalty cases, leaving him with a perfect record (for that area of his practice): He lost every single time.

Twenty-one clients received the death penalty, and 10 have been executed (so far). He made no excuses, pointing out that “gang members, serial killers and sociopaths” were entitled to representation, too, and that he has taken more than 500 noncapital cases to trial (with, presumably, more success).

TOURISTS GONE WILD – Tourism officials in Iceland recently posted “hundreds” of signs at visitor attractions showing a squatting person in silhouette, with a small pile on the ground underneath – and the familiar diagonal line (indicating “don't”). Critics of the signs reluctantly admit Iceland's chronic shortage of public restrooms.

In a YouTube clip released in July, a Disney fan posted shot after shot of “rude” Chinese tourists at Shanghai Disneyland, coaxing their small children to urinate in public rather than in restrooms.

The Tourism Bureau of Japan's Hokkaido island recently rewrote its etiquette guide for visitors to underscore the inappropriateness of "belching or flatulence" in public.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – Suspicions Confirmed: A New York Times reporter, describing in June the rising prices of prescription pharmaceuticals, noted that a popular pain reliever (probably describing oxycodone) was available on the Paterson, New Jersey, black market for $25 a pill, while heroin was going for $2 a baggie. (2) The economic growth rate in Ireland for 2015 was revised – upward – in July. Growth of its gross domestic product was originally estimated at 7.8 percent, but subsequently – adding the paper value of several “inversions” (U.S. companies “moving” to Ireland to reduce U.S. taxes) – Ireland found that it was actually growing at 26.7 percent.

AWESOME! – (1) Investigators revealed in July that an off-duty Aurora, Colorado, sheriff's deputy had justifiably fired his gun to resist a parking lot mugging – and that, furthermore, one of the bullets from Deputy Jose Marquez's gun had gone straight into the barrel of one of the handguns pointed at him. The investigators called the shot “one in a billion.” (2) Matthew Lavin, 39, drew internet acclaim in July after he was gored through his left thigh while “running with the bulls” in the annual spectacle in Pamplona, Spain. Interviewed in his hospital bed by Madrid's The Local, he called it “the best time ever” and said he looked forward to another run next year.

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IRONIES – Gary Durham, 40, was shot to death during a heated road-rage incident in Plant City, Florida, on Aug. 10. Durham had served 10 years in prison after an aggressive road-rage episode in 2001 in which he pursued another driver and knocked him to the ground, causing the man to hit his head, fatally, on the pavement. (Included in Durham's 2002 sentence was an order to take anger management classes.)

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he first unmistakable sign of climate change Patrick Gonzalez ever saw in the field was in Senegal. It was a dead tree—Prosopis Africana or, as the locals call it, yir—normally a midsize tree with tiny bluish-green leaves and wood so dense that Wolof villagers use it to hold up the walls of their huts, passing the poles down through the generations. But this yir was nothing but a gray naked trunk, and Gonzalez knew that climate change had killed it.

Five years earlier, when he first came to Senegal as a Peace Corps forestry volunteer in 1988, village elders told him that many local trees were dying off—including yir, mango, cashew and jujube, whose berries are full of vitamin C. Their loss contributed to the people’s obvious malnutrition—toddlers with hair of a dull reddish hue instead of shiny black, tragically skinny adults. Women were forced to walk much farther to gather firewood.

Gonzalez helped them revive forgotten traditional methods and re-grow some of their native trees. But he was also determined to figure out what was causing so many trees to die. So he returned to Senegal in the early 1990s and walked to 135 villages to count and measure trees and interview village elders. He wore out

six pairs of tennis shoes walking nearly 1,200 miles—and earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley as a forest ecologist, and his stripes as a climate change scientist.

His data showed that, since 1945, one out of three tree species in Senegal had disappeared, and one out of every five big trees had died. Over 50 years, tropical woodlands had shifted 15 to 18 miles toward the equator, giving way to grasslands. “Only a substantial change in climate can cause that,” says Gonzalez.

The primary tree-killing factors were higher temperatures and lower rainfall, caused by global increases in greenhouse gases. He had unraveled the mystery of the dying trees of Senegal and documented one of the earliest cases of climate change altering the fundamental ecology of a region, causing a biome shift.

“So here we have our pollution causing climate change, causing drought, killing trees and hurting people’s livelihoods half a world away,” he says. “And it’s the thought of these people and the hardships of their lives that really drove me.”

A quarter-century later, Gonzalez is focusing his considerable passion for deciphering how climate change is altering the natural world on some of America’s most

cherished landscapes: the national parks.

It’s melting glaciers, hastening snowmelt, intensifying wildfires, warming streams and pushing animals and plants out of their usual locations. In coming decades, climate change will magnify these impacts.

To what degree depends on whether and how much people rein in greenhouse gas emissions.

As in Senegal, Gonzalez’s mission is twofold: He’s leading a massive effort to analyze and describe climate change impacts in every park and across the whole system, and with colleagues inside and outside the agency he’s pioneering ways to use that science to preserve the landscapes that first inspired Americans to create national parks. Climate data can help park supervisors make decisions about everything from how to manage wildfires and restore wetlands to how—and whether—to upgrade culverts or move roads.

This new thinking doesn’t come easy to a 100-year-old bureaucracy. But the National Park Service acknowledges that, due to climate change, it needs to revolutionize the way it manages the landscapes in its care.

The goal, Gonzalez says, is “to go from trying to re-create small pictures of a past to which we cannot return, to national parks that we manage for potential future conditions, so that they remain vibrant through this time of dramatic global change.”

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he magnitude of that challenge inspired National Park Service Chief Jonathan Jarvis, nearly six years ago, to create the job of principal climate change scientist. He hired Gonzalez, whom he calls a “brilliant” scientist with deep experience. A lead author of three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Gonzalez shares in the Nobel Peace Prize the group received in 2007.

But more importantly, says Jarvis, he’s got the heart of a field scientist.

“Patrick is a field guy,” Jarvis says. “He gets it, he understands. He has this sort of deep passion about the outdoors and about trees in particular.”

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Gonzalez, a trim 51-year-old with short salt-and-pepper hair, regularly walks 10 miles a day. He literally bounces up steep trails in Yosemite, stopping periodically to admire new spring growth on pines or sniff their bark, talking all the while. There’s a kind of quiet ferocity to the man, especially when it comes to climate change. An introvert by nature, he acquired the gift of gab from the Wolof villagers, who welcomed him when he showed up unannounced, wanting only his conversation. He owes to them his rare ability to communicate the truth about climate change.

a snowy morning, 29 years ago. This May, as he headed back there from his home in Berkeley, Calif., he was full of excitement.

He was about to introduce managers from several West Coast and Pacific island parks to his strategy for better managing forests in the face of the increasingly frequent fires that climate change brings.

But before reaching Yosemite, Gonzalez was jolted by a sight reminiscent of his experiences in Africa. He knew that California’s four-year drought had killed trees, but was unprepared for the profusion of rust-colored dead trees on a landscape he loves so deeply.

A wave of shock and sadness swept over him.

that climate change is heating up national parks on average three times faster than the rest of the country. Parks tend to be located at higher elevations and farther north, where temperature increases are greater. The increases vary significantly, park by park. But national parks serve as crucial safe havens: As lynx, wolverines and other high-elevation mammals are pushed into ever-smaller areas, their remaining habitats, often in parks, become increasingly important to their survival.

He’s also parsing the latest climate data and synthesizing studies to draw individual portraits of climate change in

The sea-level rise and storm surge data come from a major project by University of Colorado climate scientist Maria Caffrey, which examines all coastal and lakeside parks. Gonzalez, who oversees Caffrey, had her recalculate her data using a different measurement technique to make it more useful for park managers.

Despite the inordinate amount of work that caused her, Caffrey says she appreciates his high standards.

“Patrick really is the only person at the Park Service I can think of who will dive into the numbers and think about things I haven’t taken into account,” she says.

have moved much more slowly to incorporate that science into management.

Agency veterans say the pace is intentional and reflects past experience, when hasty management changes backfired.

For Gonzalez, though, the speed sometimes feels frustratingly slow. He remembers how, in just two years, he was able to devise ways to help remote villages in Senegal regrow the trees people needed for their health and livelihoods.

To protect young trees from livestock, he resurrected a traditional practice of surrounding them with hedges intertwined with thorny branches. One of Gonzalez’s

photo courtesy of Patrick Gonzalez photo courtesy of National Park Service

Patrick Gonzalez says steeper temperature rises in Yellowstone set the stage for “potentially astounding” increases in the frequency of fires. Already, researchers have found that snowpacks have plummeted, which could disrupt Yellowstone’s $60 million winter tourism industry.

He drives himself and his colleagues to combine the latest international climate data with contemporary field observations, as well as the national parks’ rich trove of historical research. That has given the National Park Service a major head start over other federal agencies, says Kathy Jacobs, who worked in the Obama White House for four years producing the 2014 National Climate Assessment. The other dozen agencies involved in that report “were more reluctant to use this information or didn’t know how to translate science in ways that are useful for decision-making,” says Jacobs, now a University of Arizona professor and director of its Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions.

Gonzalez serves all the parks, but Yosemite has been his personal favorite since he woke up in a tent in the valley on

“I was alarmed, actually,” he recalls.

“It’s preventable,” he says of the tree losses around the state. “Human climate change has caused a tenth to a quarter of the California drought.”

The Sierra Nevada’s dead trees are part of a West-wide die-off. Climate change caused tree deaths to double between 1955 and 2007, research shows. Scientists haven’t yet analyzed the role climate change played in the even larger die-offs of more recent years.

As in Senegal, that knowledge motivates Gonzalez to act. Now he and his colleagues are using careful, inventive science to prove that climate change is to blame, communicating that fact to the public and devising management changes that reflect the data. Gonzalez looks for overarching patterns. For instance, his analysis shows

each park, now and in the future. So far, he’s completed reports for 234 of the 412 national parks. They provide specific data tailored for each park about historic temperature increases and precipitation changes, as well as a range of projections.

For coastal parks, they also include historic data and projections for sea-level rise, erosion and storm surge. But the reports deliver much more intimate pictures than previously available, capturing the vulnerability of particular animals and plants, as well as impacts to glaciers and other natural wonders.

“The Park Service should be applauded for really drilling down and trying to understand how each unit will be affected,” says Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona.

Patrick Gonzalez, right, first recognized climate change while working in Senegal. As a Peace Corps volunteer, he innovated new ways to grow native trees in an environment that was becoming less hospitable to them.

So far, two parks have resisted Caffrey’s projections because they didn’t jibe with their own estimates. But Gonzalez stepped in, insisting they use her conclusions because she used more accurate, up-to-date science.

The Park Service sent a summary of Gonzalez’s Yosemite report to President Barack Obama’s speechwriters before his speech in Yosemite Valley in June. “The biggest challenge we’re going to face in protecting this place and places like it is climate change,” Obama said that day. “The idea that these places that sear themselves into your memory could be marred or lost to history—that’s to be taken seriously.”

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hile the Park Service has progressed light-years in terms of conducting climate change science, individual parks

proudest moments came when he returned to his Senegalese village this March: A happy farmer showed him 314 trees, jujube and others, planted with seeds that Gonzalez had given him.

But getting the Park Service to adopt such innovative ideas isn’t always successful. Several years ago, Gonzalez was part of an effort to incorporate climate science into an update of fire-management policy at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. That project fizzled. Last year, working with Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service officials, Gonzalez used climate change data to create a proposal to use Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars to buy private land adjacent to Redwood National Park and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and other protected lands in northern California. The

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What climate change is doing to the parks Climate change has already brought irreversible changes to the national parks—and more are imminent, without major reductions in pollution from cars, power plants and deforestation. Here’s a sampling.

Melting glaciers The elevation of Muir Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve has dropped in places by 2,100 feet since 1948. This is one of many glaciers in southeast Alaska that have shrunk astoundingly in recent decades, dramatically changing what visitors see and contributing to sea-level rise.

Scientists estimate that over the latter half of the 20th century, melting ice masses in Alaska and neighboring Canada have increased global sea level even more than the Greenland ice sheet has. Muir Glacier offers a great example of how the rich data from national parks has contributed to the global understanding of climate change.

It’s among 168,000 glaciers used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine that humancreated climate change is melting glaciers globally.

visited areas so they don’t fall on people or property. They also spray insecticide on thousands of tree trunks in non-wilderness areas. But 95 percent of the park is designated wilderness, and the beetles, which are native, have free rein there. The park has planted a small number of trees but leaves most areas for natural regeneration.

parcels were important safe havens for animals and plants, home to trees that store a lot of carbon or vulnerable due to climate change. But the proposal wasn’t selected for funding.

That makes him all the more pleased that managers at Yosemite, Grand Canyon and some other parks are now eager to integrate climate science into their decisions about when to treat landscapes with controlled fires and when to let natural fires burn.

Scientists project that, by 2085, climate change may double or triple the area that burns each year in Yosemite. It’s already al-

Gonzalez wants to help park managers adapt to this new reality. The prescription would vary: Forests projected to get wetter might need less fire, for example. This variability translates into tremendous amounts of data-crunching for Gonzalez, but he says, “The potential to help this special place and other places survive into the future really motivates me.”

Several factors make Gonzalez optimistic that Yosemite and other parks will embrace his new approach. The climate data, which were coarse several years ago, are now so detailed that Gonzalez can plot projected temperatures and precipitation

Looming die-offs of desert plants The exquisite desert plants of Arizona’s Saguaro National Park are adapted for dry conditions, but climate change may make their Sonoran Desert home too hot even for them. Scientists project major die-offs of saguaro, palo verde, ocotillo and creosote bush. And even if the planet’s people manage to modestly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, scientists project that 90 percent of Joshua Tree National Park could become too dry for Joshua trees by 2100.

Shifting biomes Since 1880, lodgepole and other pine trees have Shrinking wildlife moved uphill into what once habitat were subalpine meadows in In Mount Rainier, North Yosemite National Park. The Cascades and Olympic nathirsty trees have helped dry tional parks, scientists preup a wetland ecosystem imdict that climate change will portant for small mammals dramatically shrink habitats photo courtesy of USGS Photo like marmots as well as highfor high-elevation mamelevation frogs and salaman- Recording data on the terminus of the glaciers found in Glacier National Park is a critical commals.

As temperatures warm ders. Yosemite now is ponent of understanding the impacts of global and snowpack decreases, working on a restoration climate change on the park. hoary marmot, wolverine, project to restore the meadmountain goat, American pika, American marten, ows’ hydrological functioning. “You want them to snowshoe hare and Canada lynx will probably lose remain wetlands,” says Linda Mazzu, Yosemite’s remost of their current turf.

Small patches of mounsource manager. “When trees invade, it’s like a taintop habitat in national parks will become inbiome shift.” A biome is the community of plants creasingly important for the conservation of these and animals in a particular region, and this was one species, because other suitable homes for them are of 23 biome shifts worldwide documented by the Inlikely to be gone. tergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Other biome shifts are underway—boreal conifer forests moving into tundra and alpine biomes in the Kenai Snow and snowmobiles Mountains-Turnagain Arm Natural Heritage Area Across the West, snowpacks have plummeted beand in Noatak National Preserve. cause of human-caused climate change. That trend is likely to continue, disrupting Yellowstone’s $60 milVoracious beetles lion winter tourism industry, among other things, acClimate change is causing extensive bark beetle cording to a paper published this month in PLOS One outbreaks across the West, because winters have by Michael Tercek and Anne Rodman, the park’s actbeen too mild to kill the insects and trees are ing branch chief for physical science. By the end of stressed by drought. Rocky Mountain National Park this century, they predict that, during 70 percent of the has been hit especially hard, with 90 percent of the winter season, there won’t be enough snow for snowpark’s forested areas affected. Hundreds of thou- mobiles and snow coaches to drive into Yellowstone sands of lodgepole, ponderosa, Engelmann spruce from its west entrance. The agency might eventually and other evergreens have died. Park staff remove have to plow its roads for cars, they say, if it wants to standing dead trees at campsites and other heavily maintain high levels of year-round tourism.

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photo by Elizabeth Snogren

Yosemite Fire Chief Kelly Martin inspects a ponderosa pine in Yosemite Valley, burned in a prescribed fire. Gonzalez’s data helps her target prescribed burns and decide where to let natural fires burn.

tering the three main factors that determine how often and with what intensity wildfires burn: climate, ignitions and fuels.

Temperatures in Yosemite are increasing at a rate of 1.8 degrees Celsius (about 3 degrees Fahrenheit) per century, with the highest increases in the spring. That translates into longer fire seasons as the snow melts earlier. Lightning strikes that would have been snuffed out by snow now spark fires more frequently and at higher elevations.

With hotter temperatures, fire-resistant red fir forests are moving farther upslope and being replaced by more fire-prone trees, such as ponderosa pine. That all adds up to more frequent, more intense fires.

Other parks face even more daunting challenges. Steeper temperature rises in Yellowstone set the stage for “potentially astounding” increases in the frequency of fires, Gonzalez says; some scientists project that fires could become three to 10 times more common there by 2100.

In Joshua Tree, invasive plants have brought fire to a landscape that did not evolve with it. The double whammy of fire and hotter temperatures could push the gorgeous, goofy trees out of the park named for them.

for quarter-mile-square parcels of Yosemite.

That’s fine-grained enough to guide a fire chief ’s decisions about whether to set controlled fires or let natural fires burn. Key people are ready, too.

Fire Chief Kelly Martin can barely contain her enthusiasm when she bumps into Gonzalez at Yosemite’s visitor center in June. “I really appreciate your work,” she says. “I really want to know what I can do from my perspective.”

Later, she strides across a stretch of ponderosa forest that her crew had burned a few years before. The trees are widely spaced, with blackened trunks and green canopies. “These larger trees won’t be destroyed by fire because there is nothing now to let a fire into the canopy of these trees,” says Martin.

She wants to use low-intensity fires to clean out underbrush and small trees in large swaths of forests, thus preparing them to withstand hotter, drier conditions and wildfire. Gonzalez’s data will help her target prescribed burns and decide where to let natural fires burn.

Her one worry is politics. It’s hard to get support to set fires when so many people view fire as always harmful.

example. Unlike many climate scientists, he’s extremely optimistic that people will do the right thing to slow climate change.

Gonzalez imagines visitors learning about the parks’ vulnerability to climate change and deciding to make a difference by walking and taking public transit, not just in the park but when they get home, too.

When Gonzalez was wrapping up his time at Yosemite, a family waiting for the same shuttle bus approached him. They had listened to his speech a couple of days earlier, and wished all visitors to national parks could be so lucky.

“I would love it if we could just fill up the rooms every single day with the likes of Dr. Gonzalez, so he and people like him could say we need to change,” said the father, Franz Limonta. His 12year-old son, Ansel, named after the photographer, chimed in, saying the family could drive less.

Afterwards, they wrote Gonzalez to tell him that his lecture was the highlight of their vacation. They’re moving to San Diego and have already begun searching the internet for carpools, so Crystal Limonta, an ER nurse, can limit the greenhouse gas emissions from her new commute.

So when she learned that President Obama was coming to Yosemite, Martin hoped to light a controlled burn in the Mariposa Grove, the park’s largest collection of giant sequoias. Maybe Obama would watch it and use his bully pulpit to burnish fire’s image. “Think how powerful that would be,” she says. That particular burn didn’t happen, but Martin plans to keep working with Gonzalez to prepare Yosemite for the wildfires of the future.

T

he evidence of climate change that Gonzalez has seen from Senegal to Yellowstone inspires him to encourage people to jettison fossil fuel-dependent lifestyles. He hasn’t owned a car since he returned from Senegal and avoids using elevators, even in skyscrapers.

To get to Yosemite in June to give a lecture, Gonzalez took the Bay Area Rapid Transit from his home in Berkeley to an Amtrak train, and then rode a bus to the park.

“Every gram of carbon that I save is not going up in the atmosphere and melting that snow and shifting those trees or those mammals up higher,” he says. “It’s helping to avoid these impacts on the most special places, our national parks.”

Walking the walk also gives him moral authority when he asks people to follow his

photos courtesy of National Park Service

Lyell Glacier, in Yosemite National Park, has retreated about 70 percent since John Muir discovered it in 1871.

This story originally appeared in the Aug. 22 issue of High Country News.

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[arts]

Moving parts Stephen Glueckert’s exhibits showcase 40 years of art, work ethic and love for kinetics

by Erika Fredrickson

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Glueckert is a teacher at tephen Glueckert’s afheart, which is why he got fection for machinery his BFA in art but a master’s seems obvious in his in art education. His work art: He’s known for incorpoexemplifies learning: crank rating moving parts—springs, the lever on one of his wooden levers, strings and pieces and suddenly you’re repurposed wire hangers— engaged in his world. and other kinetic features.

“Having those moving His tactile, mobile designs parts does several things,” he trace back to his childhood says. “I discovered this in the working on Montana farms 1970s. First, it gives people and in laundromats. During permission to touch the artthe summers, he and his work and people enjoy that, eight brothers traveled to so they’re engaged. It also pofields near their home in sitions a person from the Great Falls to buck hay bales point of view where you want and help their father fix them to see your work.” equipment.

Glueckert says he has al“We’d get $10 a day,” ways made art with a story Glueckert says. “We would in mind, even if that story stay out all week at the farm isn’t clear to the viewer. The and they would pay us every landscapes are created from couple weeks, but they’d the places he stacked hay. feed us every day. We’d stay The renditions of the Misin a bunkhouse or wherever souri River come from memand we would work from 6 ories he has floating with his ’til 6 every day. My dad wife, artist Bev Glueckert. thought it was great, not havOther pieces come from ing us in town chasing girls.” pop culture and the news, When they were in but they almost never deal town, the brothers spent with too many ideas at once. their time at laundromats— “It’s like a spider web the National Laundry and Ideal Laundry—where they photo courtesy of Stephen Glueckert from one intersection to another and you’re stretching shook, washed and folded “Bison and Clothesline Near Ulm” is part of Stephen Glueckert’s Recent Works exhibit at 709 Gallery. from one thing to the next,” sheets by day and helped All Mixed Up will travel to the Yellow- he says. “It’s like a Kierkegaardian leap of their father repair the machines at night. show at three exhibits, each of which paired with the definition of “canoe,” “I don’t think there is anything he offer a different window into his work. though when you crank the lever it stone Art Museum in Billings and through faith. I think when I get into trouble is Idaho and Wyoming. Outside of Missoula, an when I have too much going on in it. I try couldn’t fix,” Glueckert says of his dad. For First Friday, the 709 Gallery inside sounds like honking.

“I like language,” Glueckert says. “In exhibit showing 20 of Glueckert’s drawings to limit the number of elements and “People always ask, ‘Who were your men- Montana Art and Framing displays 40 tors?’ and I really think my parents were new works by Glueckert, all of which he’s thinking about the landscapes I don’t will go up this month at Bozeman’s Emerson metaphors to no more than three that are amazing teachers. They might not have created since his retirement. (He’s been want to overcomplicate it. I want to keep Center for Arts and Culture. He also has a few rubbing up against each other.” pieces in Speaking Volumes: Transforming Of course, with three major exhibits been the most educated people in the busy: He also exhibited 20 entirely differ- the object and language simple.”

On the second Friday of the month, Hate, an exhibit where artists turned white and a lifetime of work on display, there’s world but they worked really hard and ent works earlier this year at Radius they had a conscience. They taught us to Gallery.) The 709 pieces show Montana Sept. 9, MAM will host an entirely differ- supremacy literature into art and which has no escaping complexity. By now, Glueckwork with our hands. I think sometimes landscapes and paintings of various ani- ent exhibit, All Mixed Up, which is a sur- been traveling around the country for seven ert’s web stretches far and wide, offering their conservatism overwhelmed us—we mals—hens, monkeys, snapdragons and vey of pieces carefully chosen by museum years. At one point, it showed in a space right more than enough ideas to ponder.

Stephen Glueckert’s Recent Works didn’t always understand it—but as far as bison—each accompanied by dictionary staff from 40 years worth of Glueckert’s across from the 1995 domestic terrorist reception at 709 Gallery takes place the nuts and bolts of life, they were pretty clippings strung on moveable wire. The work. It includes handmade games, films, bombing site in Oklahoma City.

“Sometimes people will call from a lit- Fri., Sept. 2, from 5 to 9 PM. All Mixed painting of a bird, for instance, features collages and interactive sculptures, and great teachers.”

Glueckert served as the Missoula Art the definitions for “four-score,” “four- the subject matter touches on social ills tle newspaper in a small town wanting to Up opens at MAM Fri., Sept. 9, with a Museum’s curator for 23 years until he some,” “fourteen” and on down to and human behaviors like the 1991 beat- get a comment about the exhibit,” he says. reception from 5 to 8 PM. retired in 2015, and he’s been making art “fowl.” It’s not all so straightforward, ing of Rodney King, Wall Street opulence “It’s cool that art is reaching out and touching people.” throughout his career. This month, he’ll however. The painting of a goose is and Christian televangelism. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[music]

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On “I’m a Shark” he yells dramatically, “What’s this song called? I can’t remember! Oh, wait a minute. It’s coming to me. It’s called …” And then he bursts into it. There are no embarrassing ramblings (Axl Rose, Mike Ness, take note) and just enough shout-outs to the venue and the crowd to energize the album.

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Explosions in the Sky, The Wilderness Instrumental post-rock quartet Explosions in the Sky exemplify the old expression talk less, say more. The Austin-based band have been making music together since 1999 with no vocalists. Instead, they let meticulously planned guitar, drum and keyboard soundscapes tell the stories of their albums.

In their most recent work, The Wilderness, Explosions in the Sky get even more abstract and emotional in their storytelling. Tracks like the aptly named “Losing the Light” feature minor chords and a long leadup that create a feeling of hopelessness. Other tracks, such as “Disintegration Anxiety” and “The Ecstatics,” are reminiscent of post-rock bands like Mogwai.

The Wilderness is the first non-soundtrack album the band has released in five years. Whereas their score for the 2013 film Prince Avalanche was an acoustic departure from their usual plugged-in style, The Wilderness is a return to ascending notes and electronic build-ups. At times, it feels like a detonation of some previously pent up energy.

The album was released in conjunction with Scenes from the Wilderness, a video composed of images taken during the band’s travels. The result is an immersive, moody experience for fans and new listeners alike. (Tess Haas) Explosions in the Sky play the Wilma Tue., Sept. 6. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32/$22 advance.

Dogbreth, Second Home Dogbreth’s new album on Asian Man Records shocked me with the discovery that label still exists. Asian Man was an indie stalwart of the ’90s, recording third-wave ska legends like Slapstick and Skankin’ Pickle as well as crossover pop-punk acts like Alkaline Trio. I therefore listened with trepidation. Dogbreth couldn’t sound like the bands I loved in 1997, because what could? Yet virtually anything different would seem disappointing.

The good news is A) this problem is pretty much unique to me and my middle-aged neuroses, and B) Dogbreth sounds warm and inviting. On Second Home, they seem to have mastered the venerable formula of upbeat melodic phrasing and downbeat lyrics,

evoking the kind of angst that spurs you forward instead of dragging you down. Little variations—more warm midrange and fewer shrill highs on the guitars, less frantic tempos—make their throwback sound both comforting and hearteningly new. “To make it sound right, we work so hard,” Cesar Ruiz sings on the opening track. “But you don’t even hear it anymore.” I felt like I was hearing it all again. Dogbreth probably doesn’t think of itself as a nostalgia act, but for a certain segment of aged punks, it is a time machine that goes home. (Dan Brooks) Dogbreth play the Palace Fri., Sept. 2, at 9 PM, along with Rooster Sauce and Wrinkles.

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[music]

Things unseen The Dodgy Mountain Men blaze a new trail on Changing Lanes

by Erika Fredrickson

The Dodgy Mountain Men’s sophomore album percolates with the concept of changes. It’s called Changing Lanes, for one thing, and a lot of the songs are about life-altering things: breakups and learning lessons and maturing. It’s also the local stompgrass group’s first album in four years, and while their 2012 debut, Stronger Than Death, was recorded in a living room covered in styrofoam, the latest effort was created at Missoula’s newest recording spot, Hi-Line Studios. While Stronger Than Death carried a kind of ramshackle appeal, Changing Lanes delivers a more confident and clear tone and a fuller rock sound.

“I think it went from a little more of a traditional feel—a little rootsier—and moved it more into psychedelic rock,” says guitarist/singer Eric Boss. “There are more impromptu jams instead of bluegrass fills. And then the heavy rock vibe is definitely new.”

Boss is a Dodgy Mountain Men original, along with Jed Nussbaum, who also sings and plays guitar, as well as mandolin. (Nussbaum is also an occasional contributor to the Indy.) But the rest of the lineup has changed over the last year and a half. In late 2013, the band’s percussionist Clyde Netzley IV left the band.

He’d been playing tablas and that hand drum sound gave them a much more old-timey flavor. Their new drummer, Christian Gutierez, started out with a stripped-down drum kit but after he showed up one day with a full set, the members decided they were ready for the heavier percussive backbone. The addition of Josh Clinger (of the Josh Clinger Trio) on bass and as a songwriter has given the band another voice and viewpoint. It’s no stretch to recognize both records as Dodgy Mountain Men releases, but the sum of these changes gives them a fresh sound. “Something for My Head” has the dusty Western undertones of something off a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. The full sound in songs like “Gone Gone Gone” evoke the bright but gritty feel of bands like Devil Make Three.

“A lot of people that have seen us in the last year or so that used to see us in the past have come up to me and said, ‘Man you guys are just such a different band,’” Nussbaum says. “But it doesn’t feel like a different band to me. It’s kind of like gaining weight or growing a beard—you don’t really notice it until one day you look in the mirror and you’re like, ‘Holy shit, that’s not the same person at all!’ And that’s kind of how the band has felt for me in the last year or two.”

The Dodgy Mountain Men had a brief dry spell after Netzley left, and even when they started playing again as a trio it was a slow start.

“The band was almost about to break up,” Boss says. “We’d gone from like this really nice direction to taking multiple steps back. It was like cold-starting an engine—it took us a minute to turn it back over and get moving again.”

photo courtesy of Seth Shults

The Dodgy Mountain Men feature, from left, Josh Clinger, Christian Gutierez, Jed Nussbaum and Eric Boss.

Last year, they hit their stride playing 70 shows, mostly outside of Missoula. At the Oak Harbor Fest on Whidbey Island, they were told they’d sold more merchandise than the headliner, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. (“I don’t know if that’s true,” Nussbaum says, “but it was more than we’d ever sold, that’s for sure.”) In California they played big blow-out parties in tiny towns and hit the side stage at Red Ants Pants Festival. Their brand of music isn’t always easy to pin down and that’s been a curse and a blessing.

“We’re really straddling this strange line—we always have—where we can kind of sneak into bluegrass festivals or country festivals or play jam band hippie festivals,” Nussbaum says. “We can fill all these little niches with our sound. But there’s a flip side, which is sometimes people say, ‘I don’t really know if you’re the right fit for us. I don’t really understand what you do.’”

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Zandt to Blackalicious. They even played the tiredout fan favorite “Wagon Wheel” for a $50 fee once.

“You can’t say it’s not a good song,” Boss says.

“But that’s what happens when something gets played too much—people get an aversion to it.”

But Changing Lanes showcases originals—and the road they’ve taken to get where they are now.

The idea for the new album’s title comes from the cantering alt-country style tune “Division,” where Clinger sings, “Changing lanes and now I’m headed westbound/ my heart is feelin’ southbound/ nothing’s ever turned my frown/ until you.” But the sentiment about change is probably most prominent in the final track, “Death Take Me,” in which Nussbaum sings, “I’m a man of faith and I believe in things unseen/ and I believe the things we do see ain’t always what they seem./ But the one thing I know is if this road is my own/ I’m going to use my own two feet for walking.”

That’s a song Nussbaum wrote after a 15-week trek through South America. He says he and his girlfriend were robbed by cops, jumped by men with knives and she had her identity stolen by a cab driver.

But “Death Take Me” isn’t so much about that particular trip as the idea of experience itself.

“In the last couple of years I’ve made decisions I wasn’t necessarily proud of,” Nussbaum says. “I don’t really believe in living with no regrets. I think that’s a pompous thing to say, but I do think everything you do makes up the life you live. It’s more than just a sum of its parts. The song incorporates some of my fascination with mortality and the idea that experiences are really what make a man.”

The DodgyMountain Men play an album release show at the Top Hat Fri., Sept. 2, at 9:30 PM, along with Caroline Keys Music and the Lanesplitters. $5. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[film]

Boxer rebellion Hands of Stone can’t carve out its own space

by Scott Renshaw

“I’m da boss. I’m da boss. I’m da boss.”

You’ve got to hand it to Jonathan Jakubowicz, writer/director of Hands of Stone: It takes balls of stone to cast Robert DeNiro in a based-on-a-true-story boxing movie. It may be 36 years since DeNiro won an Oscar for playing Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, but that film remains the gold standard, not just for capturing the visceral, kinetic intensity of boxing, but for shaking up the predictable rhythms of the movie biography. And here’s a relatively inexperienced Venezuelan filmmaker, with his first American theatrical feature release, inviting comparison with a classic.

That kind of pugnacious spirit feels just about right for the story of Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durán (Edgar Ramírez). After opening up with Durán’s first American fight—and the introduction of Durán by his manager, Carlos Eleta (Ruben Blades), to successful but long-retired trainer Ray Arcel (DeNiro)—Jakubowicz circles back to Durán’s impoverished childhood with a single mother. His “origin story” becomes a familiar one of a tough street kid finding a way to survive and thrive through sports, but it’s given a specificity anchored in Durán’s intense antipathy toward Americans—the result of the swirling political unrest over control of the Panama Canal and the fact that Durán’s father was an American soldier who left his pregnant mother behind.

There’s a strong foundation in that background for the relationship between Durán and Arcel. Jakubowicz finds a few great moments in Durán’s corner between rounds—the best parts of Ramírez’s performance—as Arcel’s attempts to keep him focused collide with the fighter’s stubborn ferocity. It’s here that the director comes up with what could have distinguished the story from the bulk of boxing films: Arcel’s constant refrain to Durán emphasizes the fight that is won between the ears rather than between the ropes.

That becomes the central concept as the story reaches the two most famous fights of Durán’s career,

his welterweight title battles with Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond). Both fights are impacted, Jakubowicz suggests, by playing on the opponent’s pride, as well as the fact that Durán gained more than 30 pounds between the two 1980 fights.

The problem with Hands of Stone becomes the problem that plagues too many film biographies: a mountain of “then this happened, then this happened” detail.

Jakubowicz spends ample time on Durán’s courtship and relationship with his eventual wife, Felicidad (Ana de Armas), up to the inevitable moment when his successdriven excesses lead to a rift in their marriage. There’s a detour involving one of Durán’s childhood mentors and a scene in which Durán at last meets the father he had never known. And that’s saying nothing of the distracting amount of time the narrative spends on background events in Arcel’s life, including his run-ins with mobsters in the 1950s. Jakubowicz too rarely trusts that he can make a movie about the art of boxing rather than yet another cinematic Wikipedia entry.

Of course, there are actual physical fight sequences as well, and Jakubowicz never seems entirely comfortable with how he wants to approach them.

His camera swoops and swirls around the action, cutting to flash bulbs in a way that’s far too reminiscent of Raging Bull. His sound design is somewhat distinctive, with fighters in clinches so intense it seems they’re breaking one another’s bones. But he too rarely emphasizes the momentum of any given fight or shows how Arcel’s strategies play out in a round.

When the final bells ring, all we know is that two large men have beaten the crap out of each other. The 36 years since Raging Bull should have taught us that a fight needs to be about more than that.

Hands of Stone opens Fri., Sept. 2, at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] PETE’S DRAGON Disney relights its classic candle on the water about young boy’s imaginary friend that might not be as imaginary as everyone thinks. Rated PG. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley and Wes Bentley. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaolplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK HANDS OF STONE Robert De Niro returns to the boxing ring as the trainer of a hungry young fighter in this biopic of Roberto Durán. Rated R. Also stars Édgar Ramírez and Usher. Playing at the Carmike 12.

PONYO (GAKE NO UE NO PONYO) A tsunami is brewing, but what does it have to do with the fish-girl demanding ham? Rated G. Stars the voice talent of Tina Fey, Matt Damon and Liam Neeson. Playing Thu., Sept 1 at the Roxy. 8 PM.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS Congratulations! You survived World War I, got a cool job as a lighthouse keeper and now a mysterious baby has shown up! I hope she doesn’t ruin your life. Rated PG-13. Stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz. Playing at the Carmike 12.

SAUSAGE PARTY Learning food is meant to be eaten by humans, a hot dog decides to swear about it. A lot. Rated R. Starring Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and Michael Cera.

Playing at the Carmike 12.

MORGAN Maybe creating a super-powered teenaged girl in your laboratory isn’t the best way to win the Nobel Prize. Rated R. Stars Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy and Paul Giamatti. Playing at the Carmike 12.

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CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1 Counselors provide support, guidance and hope to despondent servicemen dealing with emotional, physical and financial troubles in this HBO documentary. Not Rated. Screening for free Wed., Sept 7 at the Roxy Theater.

JASON BOURNE Robert Lundum’s amnesiac super soldier is back, wresting control of the franchise away from Jeremy Renner. Starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander. Rated PG-13 Playing at Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

DON’T BREATHE Three down-on-their-luck burglars think they’ve hit the jackpot when they break into a blind veteran’s house, only to find themselves stuck in a death trap. Rated R. Stars Jane Levy, Stephen Lang and Dylan Minnette. Playing at the Pharaoplex and Carmike 12.

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Ancient vendettas and mysterious spirits send a young man on a quest to find an ancient suit of magical armor in a beautiful, stop-motion animated adventure. Rated PG. Stars the voice of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

BEN-HUR The director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter takes us back to the past for another take on the story of a Jewish slave who takes the fight to the Roman Empire. Rated PG-13. Stars Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman and Nazanin Boiadi. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.

DON’T THINK TWICE Is there any worse feeling than when your friend succeeds at something when you don’t? This improv troupe is about to find out. Rated R. Stars Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs and Mike Birbiglia.

Playing at the Roxy.

LOST IN TRANSLATION An aging actor befriends a college graduate in Tokyo and whispers something indecipherable into her ear. Rated R. Stars Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Anna Farris. Playing Sat., Sept 3 at the Roxy. 9 PM.

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Living off the grid is all good and well for this survivalist until he must take his children into society for the first time after his wife dies. Rated R. Stars Vigo Mortensen, Missi Pyle and Steve Zahn. Playing at the Roxy.

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS A 1940s socialite thinks everyone loves to hear her sing, even though she is hilariously awful at it. If only reality TV had been around. Rated PG-13.

Stars Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and Rebecca Ferguson. Playing at the Carmike 12.

MECHANIC: RESURRECTION Arthur Bishop thought he was out of the globe-trotting assassination game until his past pulls him back in. Now he has to kill three high-profile targets and make them all look like accidents. Rated R. Stars Jason Statham, Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones. Playing at the Carmike 12.

ANTS ON A SHRIMP One of the world’s best restaurants, the Copenhagen-based NOMA, and its renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo. Not Rated. Playing at the Roxy Thu., Sept. 1.

BAD MOMS Three overstressed moms decide the best way to unwind is to turn into party monsters. I wonder what the PTA will say. Starring Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn. Rated R. Playing at Carmike 12.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS The creator of the “Minions” series lets us in on what our pets do while we’re at work. If they’re anything like humans, I imagine they probably scroll through Facebook and think about writing a novel while worrying about student loan debt. Stars Louis C.K., Kevin Hart and Dana Carvey. Playing at the Carmike 12.

SUICIDE SQUAD DC Comics’ team of supervillians who dress like time-travelers from a 2003 Hot Topic go full Dirty Dozen when the Joker comes to town. Rated PG13. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto and Viola Davis.

Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharoplex.

WAR DOGS Not a sequel to 2011’s War Horse, two small business owners get in over their heads when they secure a government contract to arm America’s allies in Afghanistan. Rated R. Stars Miles Teller, Jonah Hill and Kevin Pollack. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaoplex.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area.

You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Grilling with heat

by Gabi Moskowitz Thanks to a particularly traumatizing petting zoo experience in the summer of 1989, I was predominantly vegetarian for almost 20 years. Then, a few years ago, it occurred to me that I wasn’t abstaining from meat for moral, ethical or spiritual reasons—I was mostly just being stubborn. So I started slowly reincorporating it, particularly when it comes to grilling during the summer.

This first recipe here is one of my favorite burgers because of the extra kick provided by the jalapenos.

Obviously, veggie, chicken or turkey would work just as well as beef. Regardless of your choice, you can serve with sweet potato fries.

The second recipe also includes jalapeños, and it’s simple, bold, smoky and sweet—basically everything I crave. I usually serve it alongside a barbecue or with tacos, but if you’re feeling particularly adventurous it’ll go with the burger just fine.

Jalapeño cheeseburgers with caramelized onions and avocado Ingredients: 1 lb. lean ground beef, preferably grass-fed 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 small onion, half finely chopped, half sliced 1 green jalapeño, seeded and chopped 4 hamburger buns, preferably whole-grain 4 slices pepper jack cheese 1 avocado, sliced 1 tablespoon olive oil Salt and pepper to taste (Recipe serves 4) Directions Prepare grill or grill pan over medium-high heat.

If using grill pan, drizzle lightly with olive oil.

Start by caramelizing the onions: heat olive oil over medium heat in a frying pan. Add onion slices and cook for 10-12 minutes or until soft.

BROKEASS GOURMET Combine beef, garlic, diced onion, jalapeño and liberal amounts of salt and pepper. Form into 4 patties. Cook to desired temperature.

Top each burger with a slice of pepper jack and, if cooking inside, place under a broiler or even in a toaster oven until just melted. If you’re grilling outside, just cover the burger and cheese with the grill cover for a minute or two until the cheese melts.

Toast or grill the buns and top each bun bottom with a cheeseburger, some caramelized onions and a few avocado slices. Serve hot.

Grilled corn with jalapeño-lime butter Ingredients 4 ears corn, shucked, cleaned and halved 3 tablespoon unsalted butter ½ jalapeño, finely diced pinch salt few sprigs cilantro, chopped juice and zest of half a lime 2 tablespoon cotija cheese (optional) (Recipe serves 4-6) Directions Heat a grill or grill pan over high heat. Grill corn pieces for 2 minutes on each side, or until light charring develops.

While corn grills, melt butter in a small sauce pan.

Add jalapeño, salt, lime, cilantro, lime juice and zest and remove from heat.

Drizzle butter mixture over grilled corn pieces.

Garnish with cotija.

BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editorin-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.

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Sushi Lunch Combo 12-piece sushi

with Miso soup

and green salad is just $8.00 before 3pm

406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com.

Delicious dining or carryout.

Chinese & Japanese menus.

Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ 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 Tipu's Chai around 6pm. Fall BBQs are topped off with Bernice's Parker House Rolls, Curried Chicken Salad and 8" Chocolate Chocolate Cake for dessert. Stop by the UC Market 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. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

SEPTEMBER

COFFEE SPECIAL

Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$

Guatemala Antigua Italian Roast

$10.95/lb.

Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

ALL DAY

MONDAY & THURSDAY SATURDAY NIGHT

SUSHI SPECIALS

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice

cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 • grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store!

Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking.

Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula’s only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our housemade Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am-3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service.

Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

Not available for To-Go orders

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu.

We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea.

Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage.

Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces!

Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $$$$

Beer floats

HAPPIEST HOUR

Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

photo by Alex Sakariassen

What you’re drinking: Gwin Du, with a twist. For the past three summers, Draught Works has dedicated every Sunday to a malty mix of Big Dipper’s vanilla ice cream and the brewery’s flagship Welsh-style oatmeal stout.

Co-owner Jeff Grant attributes the idea to inhouse interest in utilizing Draught Works’ root beer for floats. “I think we’ve all been to pubs and breweries that have done different float pairings,” Grant says, “so we thought we could offer the beer side as well.”

Why you’re drinking it: Draught Works has been on the forefront of food and beer pairings in western Montana over the last few years, hosting popular events like the Bacon N’ Beer Breakfast or its spring Beer and Cheese Pairing night. Grant feels it’s “always fun” to see how the complexities of a particular beer complement other foods, and the beer floats are a summertime extension of that flavor-mixing spirit. Unfortunately, Labor Day marks the end of Ice Cream Sunday season at Draught Works, but Grant was willing to share some tips on how to stretch it out should you miss that final beer float afternoon.

How to keep the summer going: If you want to stick with the Draught Works recipe, you’re lucky. As a flagship, Gwin Du Stout is available for growler fills year-round, and vanilla is a pretty common Big Dipper flavor on store shelves. For those feeling a little bolder, Grant advises that it’s the dark, malty beers with low bitterness that blend best with ice cream.

“Dark-roasted chocolate, coffee—all those types of flavors, just from a pairing standpoint—blend really well with that dairy-vanilla flavor,” he says.

In other words, once those heavier fall seasonals start showing up on taps, the possibilities will be endless.

Where to get it: Dip your spoon at Draught Works on Sept. 4 at 915 Toole Ave. Beer floats are $6, root beer floats are $4.

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

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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MON | 8PM | TOP HAT The Top Hat Lounge is ground zero when Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears team up with Blank Range for a blues and soul explosion Mon., Sept 5. $22/$18 advance.

SAT | 8PM | WILMA Andrew Bird, everyone's favorite noble beast, brings his violin to the Wilma Sat., Sept 3. Doors at 7 PM. Show at 8. $36–$46 at thewilma.com

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TUE | 8PM | WILMA Explosions in the Sky bring their progressive ambient soundscapes to the Wilma Tue., Sept 6.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32/$22 advance at thewilma.com.

SAT | 6:30PM | BIG SKY Gov't Mule, featuring Southern rock guitar master Warren Haynes, make a stop in Missoula with Blackberry Smoke. Big Sky Brewing. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6:30. $33 at ticketweb.com.

WED | 9PM | TOP HAT Improv rockers The John Kadlecik Band swing into the Top Hat for a one-of-a-kind musical experience Wed., Sept 7. Doors at 8:30 PM. Show at 9. $16/$14 advance.

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Thursday nightlife Head to the Sip ‘N Slide on the lawn next to Draught Works Brewery for a fun summer evening of games and beer celebrating the conservation of Back Country Hunters & Anglers. 5 PM–9 PM. The Forlorn Strangers plat inside the brewery from 6-8 PM. Free.

This month Climate Smart’s meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing focuses on Renewable Energy.

That’s why I used so much hairspray in the ‘80s. A bigger hole in the ozone layer means more solar power. Right? 5:15 PM. Free.

Pretty Lights is not a robot, but I see why you’d make that mistake. Check his electronica sound at Big Sky Brewing. Doors at 6 PM. Show at 7:30. $38/$33.50 advance.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night.

Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer.

200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Grammy winners America play a seated show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Sold out.

Delta bluesman Parker Millsap brings his band for a night of roots rock at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 advance at tophatlounge.com I am incredibly regretful for calling Animal Control. I misread the promo email and acted rashly.

With that being said, catch Wild Coyote at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.

Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it. The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus.

Feeling glum with school back in session? The Palace hosts a genre-spanning night of good times with Sam Waldorf, Zak James, Ratbath and Chloe Gendrow. 9 PM. $5.

Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club.

Sign up by 9:30 PM. Show at 10.

Free.

Looking to escape your Thursday grind? Monk’s Bar hosts Escape with DJs Web, Tayln Land and 3DHR. The fun kicks off at 10 PM. Free.

Friday Stevensville celebrates the first friday of each month with music, food and art. For more info visit mainstreetstevensville.com.

Get your Griz on during WelcomeFeast. Food, live music and campus life information kicks off the semester in style on the UM Oval. Free.

Laramie Dean’s comedy Brontë to the Future! takes the famous literary sisters on a journey through the greatest struggle of all: being a teenager. The Masquer Theatre.

7:30 PM. $11.

The Country Boogie Boys boogie on down to the Eagles for a night of boot-scooting and good times. 8 PM–1 AM. Free.

I would ask if someone could paint

Seattle’s Dogbreth provides the machine-gun soundtrack for a night of rock at the Palace. Joined by Rooster Sauce and Wrinkles, the show lights off at 9 PM. Free.

I don’t know about you, but wrapping up my workweek by watching some poor cricket getting devoured by a large Chilean tarantula is somehow very satisfying. Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.

They awaken! Wartime Blues is back with Hermina Jean and Genghis Fawn for the kind of experimental americana that makes you want to do something. VFW. 9 PM. Free.

nightlife I have been saying this for years and nobody believed me. Whose laughing now, huh? Kate Davis signs copies of her new book Birds Are People Too at Fact & Fiction. 5:30 PM. If Bryan Jan provides the tunes at Missoula Brewing Co, you’re sure to have a good time. Have a drink and have a listen from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

George Carlton plays the patio of Ten Spoon Vineyard from 6 to 8pm. $8–$10.

Drop Culture is back for another First Friday installment, bringing all sorts of high-energy dance music to the Badlander. This month’s DJ line-up includes residents Mark Myriad & MAD. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10.

Free. 21-plus.

photo courtesy of Terry Cyr

Laramie Dean's comedy Brontë to the Future! takes the famous literary sisters on a journey through the greatest struggle of all: being a teenager. Fri., Sept 2. The Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11.

Set yourself up for success by catching Mudslide Charley at the Union Club. It must be tough for them being the second coolest thing in Missoula named Charley. 8 PM. Free.

Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove, but that probably isn’t very healthy.

Rooster, Cómo Se Va and Tayln Lang provide the music while artists paint album covers on live models. 9 PM. 21-plus.

Also the name of the group my grandfather bought his first home from, Dodgy Mountain Men celebrate the release of their new album at the Top Hat with Caroline Keys & the Lanesplitters. Doors at 9:30 PM, shows at 10. $5 (See Music.)

So it’s come to this. Stage 112 hosts the Battle of the Bands Winner’s Showcase featuring Tiny Plastic Stars, Kickboxer and Far Away Places. 10 PM. 18-plus. Free.

First Friday Acclaimed wildlife photographer Don Jones has traveled from the Arctic to the Everglades to capture nature at its most beautiful. Now he’s bringing his work to the Montana Natural History Center. 120 Hickory. 4:30 PM–6:30 PM. Free.

Space. In the alley at 118 W Pine.

5 PM–9 PM.

A series of 40 small interactive works take on Montana’s landscape in Stephen Glueckert’s Recent Works. A special preview is held from 5 PM–9 PM at Gallery 709.

709 Ronan. (See Art.) Bathing Beauties Beads hosts artist Susan Dodson and her stunning beadwork. 501 S. Higgins.

5 PM–8 PM.

Melvin Cooper sets out to explore the conceptual forest around him and experiment with mottled and dappled light. Grab your shades and come to E3 Convergence Gallery. 229 W. Main. 5–9 PM. B . M a r t i N e z ’s G a r d e n Party is a collection of From Adelaide Every’s Nothing , But Trash mixed media pieces inspired by garden parties across space and time. Meet the 4 Ravens Gallery doubles down with artist and enjoy a beverage at Upcy- two great shows for one great First Fricled. 517 S Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. day. Darrell and Lael Gray’s Animal Planet in Metal and Oil features sculpNavigate your way to the Dram Shop to celebrate the night skies of ture and oil paintings while The North Montana with photography from Meets the South showcases the phoTodd Taylor while enjoying a nice tography of Rosella Mosteller. 248 N. Higgins. 5 PM–8 PM. cold beer. 229 E Front. 5 PM. Chrissy Scolaro’s sculptures need to be seen to be believed. Check them out at Fix, Float Flop at Frontier-

Bernice’s Bakery 190 S. Third. 5 PM–7 PM.

The movement in Chantel Enger’s paintings aren’t made just by brush, but by gravity itself. Feel the force at

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A.D. Seibel’s show My Summer of Lamps, Horror Films and Dic Pics uses reclaimed material to make functional, not so functional and hilarious lighting objects that tell the story of his 2016 summer break.

Western Montana Community Center. 5 PM–8 PM. 127 N Higgins.

While I’m more of a fan of the grittier Bon Jovi, there’s still merit here.

Good Medicine celebrates their grand opening with art from Kristina and Larry Cyr, food and live music.

206 S 3rd St West. 5 PM–9 PM. Clyde Coffee welcomes Ladypajama and her biggest piece of art yet, as the artist ties together various media and paper. 610 S Higgins.

6PM–8 PM.

Artist Adelaide Gale Every keeps mining the garbage heap to create one-of-a-kind art pieces, all illuminated by various light sources.

Betty’s Divine. 5 PM–9 PM. Free.

At 16, Emma Wicker is the youngest artist to present her work at Sushi Hana. Meet the artist and enjoy her paintings. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

The Radius Gallery hosts their second annual juried exhibition. 100 pieces of art from 60 different artists all responded to the theme “The Changing Moment.” 114 E. Main.

5 PM–8 PM. Urban Rootz Salon hosts artists Larkin Matoon and Randy Zielinski.

3101 S Russell. 6 PM–9 PM. Zootown Brew present the photography of Jessica Crowley, depicting what life is like with Down syndrome. Modesta and Fruiting Nobodies provides the soundtrack. 121 W Broadway. 6 PM–8 PM. Real Good Art Space invites you to swing by to have some organic veggies, live music and the opportunity to throw rotten tomatoes at performers. 1205 Defoe St #1.

7 PM–10 PM.

Saturday You’ll be bright-eyed and bushytailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwild missoula.org.

Missoula’s Farmers Market offers produce, flowers, plants and more. Several food and drink vendors are on hand to provide shopping sustenance and there’s usually live music.

Every Saturday through October, 8 AM–12:30 PM. Located at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins Ave. Missoula’s Clark Fork Market features vendors offering local produce and meats as well as locally made products, hot coffee and prepared foods. Music starts at 10:30 under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM every Saturday through October.

Quit being so greedy. We all live here too, you know. Jan Richter signs copies of My Own Private Montana at Fact & Fiction. 10:30 AM–12 PM. Yoga and Beer: the two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8.

All money goes to Free Cycles.

Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free.

PM, show at 6:30. $33 gen. admission at ticketweb.com.

Are you ready for some football? The University of Montana kicks off the 2016 season against The Red Flash

Puppets: sometimes iconic, sometimes terrifying, always entertaining.

The Roxy Theater hosts Friday and Buddy Hangs for Super Duper Video, a psychedelic puppet show that features live and recorded pup-

The Country Boogie Boys boogie on down to the Eagles for a night of boot-scooting and good times. 8 PM–1 AM. Free.

Need a slice of locally sourced nonGMO musical pie? Have a big wedge of The Skurfs, Partygoers, Cain & Fable and Velvet Handlebars at the VFW. 8 PM. $6 18-20/ $3 21-plus.

Could you beat a mountain lion in the long jump? I mean, I probably could, but only because I’ve been juicing pretty hard. The Montana Natural History Center presents Animal Olympics, a free children’s program, where your kiddos can see where they stack up against the animal kingdom. 2 PM–3 PM. Free.

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.

nightlife Andre Floyd puts a wrap on a beautiful evening at the Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Blackberry Smoke support Gov't Mule at Big Sky Brewing Sat., Sept 3. Doors at 5 PM, show at 6:30. $33 at ticketweb.com

With a name like that, you’re almost guaranteed to have a good time.

Way Cool Music plays Ten Spoon Vineyard. Tasting Room is open from 4 PM–9 PM. Music at 6. $8–$10.

from St. Francis University. 7 PM.

Gov’t Mule, featuring Southern rock guitar master Warren Haynes, make a stop in Missoula with Blackberry Smoke. Big Sky Brewing. Doors at 5

Andrew Bird, everyone’s favorite noble beast, brings his violin to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM. Show at 8. $36–$46 at thewilma.com

petry, music and prizes. The show kicks off at 8 PM. This event is for adults. $15. (See Spotlight.)

If you like your rock and roll shaken and not stirred, then steal yourself

Do you think they’d be mad if I started Missoula 615? Flip on over to the Sunrise Saloon where Nashville 406 keeps the feet stomping and hands clapping. 9:30 PM. Free.

The honeymoon might be over but the party is just starting. Newlyweds, Dan Quaalude and DJ Johnny Burnaway turn up the jams at the Palace.

Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free.

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Sunday The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

4Missoula hosts Horseshoe Bonanza at Fort Missoula. This family- friendly event lets you compete in the most ancient of pastimes, horseshoes, while raising money to provide kids in need with skateboards. 12 PM–4

PM. Register your team at 4missoula.com. (See Mountain High.)

Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.

Ich liege Bier! Vancouver, BC, based German band S-Bahn returns to the 23rd annual Germanfest at Caras Park. The fun, music and beer runs from 2 PM to 6 PM. Free.

nightlife Faster than a ray of light, Luna Blue brings her good time jams to Draught Works Brewery. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Celebrate your Sunday Funday with Newtflix, a curated film screening and drunken banter session hosted

by Newton Wise, the first Sunday of the month at the VFW. 6 PM. No cover, plus drinks are half-off all day.

What goes together better than beer and laughter? Check out Sunday Funnies Comedy Showcase.

First Sunday of every month at Great Burn Brewing, 6:30 PM. Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406273-2297 to sign up. No cover.

Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $5 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs keepin’ it classy.

Music starts at 8 PM. Free.

Booooooo! Laney Jones and the Spirits haunt up a good time at The Real Lounge along with Lil Red and the Big Bad Wolves. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. 18-plus. $7.

If my skeleton ever escapes my body, I hope it can find a peaceful place to retire. Where My Bones Rest Easy are joined by Grenades and Mido Skip at Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, shows at 10. $5.

Ich liege Bier! Vancouver, BC, based German band S-Bahn returns to the 23rd annual Germanfest at Caras Park. The fun, music and beer runs from 2 PM to 6 PM on Sun., Sept. 4. Free.

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Monday Hey ladies, if you’re stuck in the Zoo for the holiday weekend, come dance like no one’s watching at The Women’s Club Health and Fitness Center! Free and open to all women 14-plus, under 16 must be accompanied by a guardian. 9 AM-10:30 AM. Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues.

Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veterans forpeace.org to learn more.

nightlife Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

The Top Hat Lounge is ground zero when Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears team up with Blank Range for a blues and soul explosion. $22/$18 advance.

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. No cover.

Tuesday Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly class at Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays noon–1 PM. $35 for four classes or $10 drop-in. Visit redwillow learning.org.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public.

Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization.

12–8 PM. The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1–2:30PM.

Ear Candy Music knows how much you love Wilco. They know you love Wilco so much they’re hosting a vinyl listening party to celebrate their new album. 6 PM– 8 PM. Poet Khaty Xiong reads excerpts from Poor Anima her first full-length book of poetry at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner.

Call 381-1392 for more info.

Also the word I used for fireworks for an embarrassingly long time, Explosions in the Sky bring their blend of folk-rock and progressive ambient soundscapes to the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32/$22 advance at thewilma.com. (See Music.)

nightlife Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Silver Park. 5 PM. Free.

More events online: missoulanews.com

Enjoy yoga outdoors with Missoula Parks and Rec. Skilled instructors teach yoga basics to all ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Bonner Park to greet the sun. 5 PM–7 PM.

Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What was the first TV program to show a toilet? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook .com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM– 1 A M . To s i g n u p , e m a i l michael.avery@live.com.

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Thursday Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

Missoula, land of fresh produce, provides yet another weekly market for all your organic needs. The Grizzly Green Market runs from 10 AM to 2 PM every Thursday in the mall outside the Mansfield Library on campus.

With school back in session, the University Center hosts an ice cream social to welcome new and old LGBTQI+ friends and allies to campus. The Oval. 4 PM–6 PM.

nightlife Missoula celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first county-wide Open Space Bond at Silver Park. Learn of the countless landowners and partners who have helped conserve more than 29,000 acres across the country. 5 PM–8 PM.

Master jazz saxophonist Victor Goines performs original music with Emma Dayhuff, Gregory Artry and David Morgenroth. Wed., Sept 7. UM Music Recital Hall. 7 PM. $10-$25.

Is your toddler a budding Nikola Tesla in pull-ups? Find out at Science Sprouts: Early Childhood Program at SpectrUM Discovery Area, 218 E. Front St., from 11 AM to noon. Kids 2-5 participate in playful science experiments and crafts.

Free with paid museum admission.

Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.

12–1 PM. Email info@patrick marsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.

Lil’ Bugs Early Childhood Program is a chance for bug lovers and their parents to learn about insects. Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium. First and third Wednesday of every month, 12:15–1:15 PM. Visit missoulabutterflyhouse.org.

Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wednesday through the summer. Croquet, bocce and petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4–7 PM.

nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.

You want to keep our rivers clean, healthy and whole? Come assay

the Clark Fork Coalition’s Fall Volunteer Orientation and learn about what opportunities you have to make Montana a little bit brighter.

5:30–7 PM. Free.

The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted

by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.

This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.

Local singer/songwriter Aran Buzzas returns to Great Burn Brewing!

Homegrown Montana folky-tonk from 6 to 8 PM. Free.

Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets on the First Wednesday of every month from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

I see how it is. When Nancy Seiler drinks wine and paints butterflies, she’s an artist, but when I do it I’m no longer welcome at the lepidopterarium. Maybe you can have better luck. Montana Natural History Center. 7 PM–9 PM. $25.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: “Leave it to Beaver.”

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, at 7 PM. (See Agenda.)

Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class in dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. every Thursday from 6– 7 PM. $5 donation.

If you love electric folk, bluegrass and country music, then you’re probably already a member of the Gallatin Grass Project. If you’re not, come see what the big deal is about at Draught Works Brewery.

6 PM–8 PM. Free.

The Palace welcomes SSDD, Spirit Award, Rooster Sauce, Mattress and VTO to the first night of Plus One Music Fest. Doors at 7 PM. $25 per night or $40 for a 3-day pass. plusonefest.com for more info. 18-plus.

Catch Iska Dhaaf, CHARMS, Magpies and Biddadat at the Badlander for the first night of Plus One Music Fest. Doors at 7 PM. $25 or $40 for a 3-day pass. plusonefest.com for more info. 18-plus.

It would be like playing baseball at a place called Babe Ruth Field, right? Poets Gary Lundy and Mackenzie Cole read from their new books at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM–8 PM. Free.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night.

Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer.

200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it.

The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus.

Hone your performance skills at Broadway Bar’s open mic night, with singing and prizes at 9 PM. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.

Funkadelic Olympian rockers DBST are riding a wave of pure sexual energy to the Top Hat. You owe it to yourself to attend. 10 PM. Free.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@ missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event.

Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801.

Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com.

When there's lightning, you know it always brings me down because it's free and I see that it's me who's lost and never found.

Master jazz saxophonist and member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Victor Goines performs original music with Emma Dayhuff, Gregory Artry and Missoula’s own David Morgenroth. UM Music Recital Hall. 7 PM. $10-$25.

Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week.

Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.

Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

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Funkadelic Olympian rockers DBST ride a wave of pure sexual energy to the Top Hat Lounge. You owe it to yourself to attend.

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

Tater is an 8-month-old male Boxer. He is a happy and energetic young pup with a baby face that will melt anyone's heart.

Tater still definitely has a great deal of puppy behavior that he has yet to learn is not appropriate, including being mouthy and jumping up on people. He'd make someone a great dog if they're willing to put in the time and commitment to train him.

MAYNARD•Maynard is a 1 1/2-year-old male Pit Bull mix. Maynard has been through some unfortunate experiences, which makes him rather slow to warm up to new people. He was brought in by a good samaritan who watched him run from people who were throwing rocks at him. He has come around to being a very sweet, loving, and gently playful boy with the shelter staff. pushy dogs.

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

SIF• Sif is a 1-year-old female brown Tabby.

She was originally adopted at a tiny kitten that we affectionately nicknamed "Squawk Box" due to her very loud meow. Sif was abandoned by her former owner when they moved out of their apartment. She has maintained her spunk and spirit in the past year, and is convinced she is part lion with her mighty roar.

RAY• Ray is a 4-month-old male orange Tabby. He is a bit timid and will shy away from people most of the time. He does like to be held close and cuddled for security. Ray needs a home that will help him build some confidence and trust in people so he knows he doesn't have to be afraid anymore. Ray would likely do well in a home with another cat to help show him the ropes.

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

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543

Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.

YARROW• Yarrow is a 2-year-old male short-haired cat. This handsome black cat was named after the wildflower because of his gorgeous yellow eyes. He is a very enduring cat who loves snuggling and begs for attention. He would make a wonderful addition to a home.

Yarrow is currently at Petsmart, where you can meet and fall in love with this little house panther.

RUTHIE• Ruthie is a 13-year-old Border Collie mix. She is a sweet older girl who loves getting belly rubs. Ruthie is hoping for a retirement home without young children. She'd love a quiet home that she doesn't have to share. Ruthie would rather have all the love and affection to herself. This older gal has lots of love to give.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 DILLON• Dillon is a 6-year-old Lab mix. He is a big, friendly guy who loves to make people happy. Dillon loves hikes and toys. He is very social, responsive, and playful. He has been waiting for a full month at our shelter, looking for a mature, active family who has time to hike him and train him. He would love to attend the Humane Society's Basic Manners class to learn looseleash walking and other useful skills.

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PENELOPE• This sweet, gentle and loving 4-year-old would love to be your binge-watching buddy. Penelope is a lovely lap cat, who needs to be the only cat in the house. She’s lived in a home with older children and is ready to find that purrrfect family. If this tuxedo lady sounds like your new feline friend come and meet her at the shelter 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula!

AVA•Tall, regal, and such a clever girl, Ava enjoys meeting new people and other pups. This young Alaskan Malamute/Husky mix would love a family who would exercise both her mind and body; she would love to learn some tricks! Ava was recently spayed and is ready to head home when you are. Come visit Ava at the shelter 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula. Hours are Tuesday-Friday 1-6 p.m. and Saturday noon-5 p.m.

DOBBIE• Dobbie is a big, handsome man who has plenty of opinions and enjoys being showered with attention. This regal 6-year-old guy would love to have space to explore and a family who appreciates his independent nature.

Dobbie is neutered and ready to go home today!

To learn more about Dobbie visit our website www.myhswm.org

OAKLEY•Oakley is a young, active American Pit Bull/Terrier cross. He is looking for a family who can meet his exercise needs. He loves swimming and hiking, and enjoys car rides to his next adventure! He is playful with canine friends but needs a cat-free home. Oakley is the perfect candidate for one of our training classes where he can learn some new skills and bond with his family.

MAGGIE MAE• Looking for a cat that's equal parts frisky and laid back? Then Maggie Mae is your girl! Maggie Mae is a sweet young cat whose owner unfortunately passed away recently.

She is a friendly girl who prefers her human companions over the feline variety. This little princess would love to be the apple of your eye. Come visit her at the Humane Society of Western Montana 5930 Highway 93 South in Missoula!

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1

a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.

Painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints can interfere with everyday tasks, but those living with arthritis can find support at Summit Independent.

The Arthritis Support Group holds meetings every first Thursday of the month, from noon-1 PM.

The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1-2:30PM.

This month Climate Smart’s meet up at Imagine Nation Brewing focuses on Renewable Energy. That’s why I used so much hairspray in the ‘80s. A bigger hole in the ozone layer means more solar power.

Right? 5:15 PM. Free.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2

The Socratic Method puts two people on opposing sides to an argument or idea. They argue about the other's stance or beliefs by asking questions, causing both to think critically about not only where they stand on their subject, but also why they feel this way. This cooperative system of arguments is one of the best descriptions for marriage I have ever heard.

As such, let's use an example of the Socratic Method to decide what to have for dinner tonight.

Pat: Do you like pizza?

Riley: No, I don't like pizza here. Do you want to do Chinese?

Pat: I don't know if I'm feeling that. Plus, I know you like pizza.

Riley: My favorite pizza is in New York.

Only New York has real pizza.

Pat: But they didn't invent it. What makes their pizza better?

Riley: The slices are foldable.

Pat: You can get foldable slices here.

Riley: It's not the same. The water they use makes the pizza taste better.

Pat: How about Chinese food?

Riley: I don't think this is how the Socratic Method works.

Pat: You're the one who wanted to try new things!

—Charley Macorn The Socrates Cafe meets at the Missoula Public Library the first Wednesday of the month at 7 PM where you can use the Socratic Method to discuss the great questions of life with other local philosophers.

The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7 Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.

You want to keep our rivers clean, healthy and whole? Come assay the Clark Fork Coalition’s Fall Volunteer Orientation and learn about what opportunities you have to make Montana a little bit brighter. 5:30–7 PM. Free.

The girl’s youth group ARIELS meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.

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. (See Agenda.)

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

With school back in session, the University Center hosts an ice cream social to welcome new and old LGBTQI+ friends and allies to campus. The Oval. 4 PM–6 PM.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means theMontana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to

Unity of Missoula hosts an interfaith service in recognition of the World Day of Prayer. 546 South Ave West. 7 PM.

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

For tickets, visit the MSO Hub in downtown Missoula, call 543-3300 or go to

MissoulaOsprey.com.

Friday, September 2

Tuesday, September 6

Wednesday, September 7

Thursday, September 8

vs. Helena Brewers

vs. Great Falls Voyagers

vs. Great Falls Voyagers

vs. Great Falls Voyagers

BIKE TO THE BALLPARK

SALUTE TO VETERANS & WING WEDNESDAY Chicken wing specials at every home game.

FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT FREE team photos of the 2016 Missoula Osprey

GAME SHOW NIGHT

for ALL FANS that attend the regular season finale! Team photos are numbered & fans will have a chance to win over 100 fantastic prizes including autographed memorabilia, gift certificates from sponsors & much more!

It’s the

FINAL FIREWORKS

EXTRAVAGANZA of the 2016 season!

Low-level Fireworks Spectacular following the game. Also, Pitch Night thanks to FOX TV. The first 500 people through the gates will receive a voucher good for a FREE hot dog or hamburger, chips & soda!

Gates 5; Game time 6:35

2-for-1 tickets for anyone who bikes to the game!

The Osprey promo staff recreates your favorite game shows of the past.

KIDS EAT FREE NIGHT With the purchase of a full-priced child’s ticket at the MSO Hub or stadium, each child will receive a voucher good for a FREE Hot Dog, bag of chips & regular soda.* *Not valid online

Sponsored by PacificSource Health Plans & Trail 103.3

Sponsored by Jack FM

Sponsored by Westside Lanes & Mountain FM

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

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aseball Hall-of-Famer Frank Robinson is one of the most venerated players to ever take the field. He is also widely thought of as the originator of the famous idiom, “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” But exactly how close counts?

In the game of horseshoes, an individual throws a curved piece of metal at stake in the ground, about 40 feet away. If you can ring your shoe around the stake, you score three points. If it lands within 6 inches, however, you can still score a single point. The M67, the standard fragmentation grenade used by the U.S. military for almost 50 years, is effective within 588 inches of its detonation point. This means close counts hundreds of times more in grenades than horseshoes.

And while that is very effective, there are by far more opportunities to throw horseshoes than an M67. 4Missoula, a nonprofit that donates skateboards and safety equipment to at-risk and low income youth, invites you to try your hand at the pitch.

Horseshoe Bonanza at Fort Missoula let’s you test your pitching arm against other horseshoe enthusiasts in three different divisions, eat some delicious free barbecue and raise money to give children in need free skateboards.

—Charley Macorn 4Missoula hosts Horseshoe Bonanza at Fort Missoula Sun., Sept 4 from 12 PM to 4 PM. Register your teams at 4missoula.com.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 Head to the Sip ‘N Slide on the lawn next to Draught Works Brewery for a fun summer evening of conservation, games and beer celebrating the conservation of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

5 PM–9 PM. Free.

ages and abilities every Tuesday evening at a local park. This week, head to Bonner Park to greet the sun. 5 PM–7 PM. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM.

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The stars at night are deep and bright CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP up on Blue Mountain Observatory. University Astronomers will be on hand to guide viewers. Visit hs.umt.edu for times and free tickets.

Head to Missoula Winery for lawn game madness every Wednesday through the summer. Croquet, bocce and petanque (that’s French for bocce) from 4–7 PM.

Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.

The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Every Wednesday at 6 PM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Silver Park. 5 PM. Free.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 Missoula celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first county-wide Open Space Bond at Silver Park.

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By Amy Alkon CASUAL CORONER I dress like a tomboy: jeans, T-shirts, hoodies, and work boots. My boyfriend of a year wants me to wear skirts and dresses more often. Nothing trashy. Just not my usual tomboy wear.

This weekend, I wore a sundress to brunch. It made him so happy, and he kept telling me how beautiful I looked. I did feel a little uncomfortable because I'm not used to dressing like that. Some women in my circle are like, “He should accept you as you are. Don't change for a man.” Am I giving up some important source of power?

–Redressed Your boyfriend's asking you to sometimes wear a dress for him, not hold out your wrist so he can chain you to the pipe in the basement with the six other sister wives.

There are women out there who still see dressing to please a man as some sort of Stockholm syndrome thing – participating in your own (flouncy, spaghettistrapped) subjugation. So, it's possible that those advising you “Don't change for a man!” are just trying to help you be a modern and empowered woman. Of course, one could argue that actually being a modern and empowered woman means you don't have to dress like you're hoping to get a call to clean out a sewer line.

Maybe those in your advice coven really do believe they're acting in your best interest. Maybe. Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Jean Twenge report that it's widely believed that men drive the “cultural suppression of female sexuality” – which could include shaming women for how they dress. However, in reviewing the research, they make a persuasive case that it's primarily women (often without awareness of their motives) who work to “stifle each other's sexuality.”

This is right in keeping with research on female competition. While men fight openly – “Bring it! I will ruin you!” – women take a sneakier approach. As female competition researcher Tracy Vaillancourt explains it, women fight for their interests using “indirect aggression,” like gossip, mean looks, disparaging remarks, and other underhanded tactics to “reduce the mate value of a rival.” Underhanded tactics? You know – like suggesting you're selling out womankind if you wear a skirt or winged eyeliner.

In other words, your best interest and these other women's may diverge – though they may not consciously intend to hurt you. As for whether you should throw on a dress from time to time, consider that if you love somebody, you do sweet things for them. Sometimes, this requires a bit of a

stretch on your part -- like from the teen boys' section of the department store to that rack in the women's department. A person's clothes say a lot about them, and a man will be happier if his girlfriend's don't scream, "My hobby is crushing beer cans against my forehead."

THE TRUTH ABOUT CATFISH AND DOGS I'm a 39-year-old woman dating for the first time since the '90s. I'm doing the online thing, and none of these guys look like their photos! It's incredible. When we meet, they always say, “You look just like your pictures.” Isn't that the point?

–Frustrated Guy, in online dating profile: “I'm 55!”

Guy's neck, when you meet for coffee: “I was a war hero. In the Peloponnesian War.” Unfortunately, Mr. Peloponnesian Pants On Fire has plenty of company on dating sites. In fact, about a third of the photos people post aren't true to life, according to research by psychologist Jeffrey T. Hancock. Sometimes, that's due to Photoshop; sometimes, the photo is lessthan-current; and sometimes, along the lines of “every picture tells a story,” the story is “This is how I'd look if I were someone else entirely.”

That last kind of lie – posting photos of somebody else – is less common than other photographic deceptions, because, as Hancock notes, people have to balance looking good enough to meet with not making somebody stomp angrily away once they do. The same goes for the other lies people tell. Hancock also finds that 81 percent of people on dating sites are lying about their height, weight, and age – but often just a little.

So, where you go wrong is in your expectations – expecting online daters to be truthful. As with eBay, a big benefit of dating sites is quantity – instant access to countless prospects. But there's also a big tradeoff: quality. Going forward, assume everyone on a dating site is lying. Meet prospective partners as soon as possible and as casually as possible. If you're throwing back a $4 latte, as opposed to waiting for the waitress to bring the entree, it's a little easier to make a quick exit from the guy decades older than his picture: “Wow, will you look at the time?! I didn't realize 20 years had passed since we set up our date.”

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EMPLOYMENT Accounting Clerk Enterprising Company seeking a Temporary Accounting Clerk to assist the Payroll Manager with a variety of projects highly focused on detailed data entry. This position will also assist in applying daily cash receipts, create and maintain Excel spreadsheets. This position will tentatively be a 2-3 month assignment, M-F, 8: 00-5: 00. Must have the ability to work well with others under pressure, resolve practical problems, and be proficient in Microsoft applications, specifically Excel. Education and experience: BA degree in accounting or related degree. $12.00. See full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #28091 El Cazador: cook and waitress wanted, experience preferred.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Truth decay is in its early stages. If you take action soon, you can prevent a full-scale decomposition. But be forewarned: Things could get messy, especially if you intervene with the relentless candor and clarity that will be required for medicinal purification. So what do you think? Are you up for the struggle? I understand if you're not. I'll forgive you if you simply flee. But if you decide to work your cagey magic, here are some tips. 1. Compile your evidence with rigor. 2. As much as is humanly possible, put aside rancor. Root your efforts in compassionate objectivity. 3. Even as you dig around in the unsightly facts, cherish the beautiful truths you'd like to replace them with.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you willing to lose at least some of your inhibitions? Are you curious to find out what it feels like to cavort like a wise wild child? If you want to fully cooperate with life's plans, you will need to consider those courses of action. I am hoping that you'll accept the dare, of course. I suspect you will thrive as you explore the pleasures of playful audacity and whimsical courage and effervescent experiments. So be blithe, Taurus! Be exuberant! Be open to the hypothesis that opening to jaunty and jovial possibilities is the single most intelligent thing you can do right now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What's the current status of your relationship with your feet? Have you been cultivating and cherishing your connection with the earth below you? The reason I ask, Gemini, is that right now it's especially important for you to enjoy intimacy with gravity, roots, and foundations. Whatever leads you down and deeper will be a source of good fortune. Feeling grounded will provide you with an aptitude for practical magic. Consider the possibilities of going barefoot, getting a foot massage, or buying a new shoes that are both beautiful and comfortable.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A woman in the final stages of giving birth may experience acute discomfort. But once her infant spills out into the world, her distress can transform into bliss. I don't foresee quite so dramatic a shift for you, Cancerian. But the transition you undergo could have similar elements: from uncertainty to grace; from agitation to relief; from constriction to spaciousness. To take maximum advantage of this blessing, don't hold onto the state you're leaving behind – or the feelings it aroused in you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of my dreams last night, a Leo sensualist I know advised me to take smart pills and eat an entire chocolate cheesecake before writing my next Leo horoscope. In another dream, my Leo friend Erica suggested that I compose your horoscope while attending an orgy where all the participants were brilliant physicists, musicians, and poets. In a third dream, my old teacher Rudolf (also a Leo) said I should create the Leo horoscope as I sunbathed on a beach in Maui while being massaged by two sexy geniuses. Here's how I interpret my dreams: In the coming days, you can literally increase your intelligence by indulging in luxurious comforts and sensory delights.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Play a joke on your nervous anxiety. Leap off the ground or whirl in a circle five times as you shout, "I am made of love!" Learn the words and melody to a new song that lifts your mood whenever you sing it. Visualize yourself going on an adventure that will amplify your courage and surprise your heart. Make a bold promise to yourself, and acquire an evocative object that will symbolize your intention to fulfill that promise. Ask yourself a soul-shaking question you haven't been wise enough to investigate before now. Go to a wide-open space, spread your arms out in a greeting to the sky, and pray for a vision of your next big goal.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Illuminati do not want you to receive the prophecy I have prepared for you. Nor do the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God, or the nagging little voice in the back of your head.

So why am I going ahead and divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love you. My loyalty is to you, not those shadowy powers. Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to evade, ignore, undermine, or rebel against controlling influences that aren't in alignment with your soul's goals.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The dictionary says that the verb "to schmooze" means to chat with people in order to promote oneself or make a social connection that may prove to be advantageous.

But that definition puts a selfish spin on an activity that can, at least sometimes, be carried out with artful integrity. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to perform this noble version of schmoozing.

If you are offering a product or service that is beautiful or useful or both, I hope you will boost its presence and influence with the power of your good listening skills and smart conversations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you are attuned with the cosmic rhythms in the coming weeks, you will be a source of teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your creative vigor. You'll stimulate team spirit with your savvy appeals to group solidarity. If anyone can revive droopy procrastinators and demonstrate the catalytic power of gratitude, it'll be you. Have you heard enough good news, Sagittarius, or can you absorb more? I expect that you'll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace contrived versions of togetherness. And every blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you can really use.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnerability: the mineral kryptonite. When he's near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. I think we all have our own versions of kryptonite, even if they're metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I come into the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry, and off-pitch singing. How about you, Capricorn? What's your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, I'm happy to let you know that you are currently less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual. Why? Well, you have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have in your repertoire some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It's quite possible you will receive seductive proposals in the coming weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. I won't be surprised if you receive requests to share your talents, offer your advice, or bestow your largesse. You're a hot prospect, my dear. You're an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking. How should you respond? My advice is to be flattered and gratified, but also discerning. Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn't mean it's good for you.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to become a master of intimacy? Can you imagine yourself handling the challenges of togetherness with the skill of a great artist and the wisdom of a love genius? If that prospect appeals to you, now would be a favorable time to up your game.

Here's a hot tip on how to porceed: You must cultivate two seemingly contradictory skills. The first is the capacity to identify and nurture the best qualities in your beloved friend. The second is the ability to thrive on the fact that healthy relationships require you to periodically wrestle with each other's ignorance and immaturity.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP16-160 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHRISTINE M. FOGERTY, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CYNTHIA J. BRAUN, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 19th day of August, 2016. /s/ Cynthia J. Braun, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DP16-126 Dept. No.: 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Charles Atley Medsker, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must

either be mailed to LYNDSEY RENEE MEDSKER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas D. Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 9 day of July, 2016. /s/ Lyndsey Renee Medsker, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-16-150 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL L. STOIANOFF, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Mary L. Dolberg, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22 day of August, 2016 /s/ Mary L. Dolberg, Personal Representative DATED this 24 day of August, 2016. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Jason C. Harby MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-16-139 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RONALD C. COGBURN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representa-

MNAXLP tive of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Howard Scott Seaton, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., at 310 W. Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 24 day of August, 2016. /s/ Howard Scott Seaton c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 W. Spruce St. Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-16-157 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ROBERT B. EKBLAD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jack Meyer has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W. Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 22 day of August, 2016. /s/ Jack Meyer,

Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP16-129 Dept No.:3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALAN HOWES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to George B. Herlihy, return receipt requested, c/o Rhoades & Siefert, PLLC, 430 North Ryman, Second Floor, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 13th day of May, 2016. /s/ George B. Herlihy, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/07/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201008860 Book 859 Page 747, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Alicia R Rooney was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as designated nominee for First Security Bank of Missoula, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and First American Title Company of Montana was Trustee. First

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[C6] Missoula Independent • September 1–September 8, 2016

American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: All of the portion of the South 24 feet of Lot 4, and all of that portion of Lots 5,6 and 7, Block 72, Knowles Addition No. 2, that lies West of a straight line extending diagonally from the Northeast corner of Lot 1 of said Block to the Southwest corner of Lot 7 of said Block 72, all according to the official recorded plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana recording reference Book 94 Micro Records at Page 208 By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201609766 B: 962 P:1194, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Branch Banking and Trust Company. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/16 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 5, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $108,969.91. This amount includes the out-

standing principal balance of $103,288.10, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 17, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary

defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. Rooney, Alicia (TS# 7883.20245) 1002.287699-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on December 29, 2016 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Gary J. Simecek, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Trustee, to se-

PUBLIC NOTICES cure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation, Beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated February 16, 2005 and was recorded on February 22, 2005 as Instrument No. 200504139, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 522 E Pine Street, Missoula, MT 59802 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 16 OF BLOCK H, OF MCWHIRK ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for GMACM Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-

AF1. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $4,696.94 beginning March 1, 2015 through September 1, 2016; plus interest due of $8,981.98; plus escrow payment of $5,643.17; less suspense balance of $140.31; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if appli-

MNAXLP cable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $101,982.79 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.00000 percent per annum beginning February 1, 2015; plus interest of $9,586.31; plus late charges of $190.00; plus escrow advance of $5,379.70; plus property inspection fee of $198.75; plus title search of $463.25; plus foreclosure expense of $529.00; plus other costs of $1,489.14; less suspense credit of $140.31; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed

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the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: August 22, 2016 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 14, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 26 OF BELLEVUE ADDITION NO. 4, A

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 2108/Machelle Frank/$597/washer&dryer 2214/Angeline Washee/$417/chest 4488/Michelle Massengale/$418/chair

SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Sept 21, 2016 @ 5:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder.

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PUBLIC NOTICES PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ROXANNE L BASSETTE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title as Trustee to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation, its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 2 2003, and recorded on July 14, 2003 as Book 711 Page 798 under Document No. 200325219. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ditech Financial LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $742.98, beginning February 1, 2015, and

each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 27, 2015 is $50,815.76 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% totaling $835.33, late charges in the amount of $88.25, escrow advances of $3,677.58, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

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

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

MNAXLP 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, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 3 day of June, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said

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County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2016 Ditech vs BASSETTE 100516-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 7, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 18A OF SUPPLEMENT TO PARKSIDE ADDITION, BLOCK 145, LOTS 15A AND 18A, AN AMENDED PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF DAREK J NALLE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Stearns Lending Inc., its successors and/or assigns, as Beneficiary by Deed of Trust dated on January 28, 2013, and recorded on January 31, 2013 as Book 907 Page 1123 under Document No. 201302157. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Stearns Lending, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,217.76, beginning October 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this ob-

PUBLIC NOTICES ligation as of June 1, 2016 is $266,840.61 principal, interest at the rate of 3.25000% totaling $14,890.09, late charges in the amount of $529.26, escrow advances of $11,803.37, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,883.55, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against 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 or-

ders, 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

MNAXLP public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION O BTA I N E D WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 24, 2016 /s/ Dalia Marintz Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 24 day of May, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Loancare vs NALLE 101420-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 7, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200

West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 14 of MALONEY RANCH, PHASE VI, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. DAWN WAHL, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on April 23, 2007, and recorded on April 27, 2007 as Book 796, Page 95 under Document No. 200710053. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”).

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,655.99, beginning December 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would

have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 12, 2016 is $379,751.96 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25000% totaling $8,556.09, late charges in the amount of $266.77, escrow advances of $2,823.88, and other fees and expenses advanced of $112.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the benefi-

ciary, 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 post-

poned 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 O BTA I N E D WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 23, 2016 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 23 day of May, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus vs WAHL 101270-1

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1bed/1bath, close to UM, coinops, off-street parking $725.

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060a 237 ½ E. Front St. “D”. Studio/1bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops $625. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 2610 O’Shaughnessy. Studio/1 bath, DW, W/D, single garage, North Reserve area $650. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 303 E. Spruce St. #3. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops, cat? $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 4180 Duncan Drive.

1 bed/1bath, Rattlesnake, all utilities paid, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 Garden City Property Management. Voted Best Property Management Company in Missoula for the past 9 years. 406-5496106 www.gcpm-mt.com

REAL ESTATE MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $460/month.

406-273-6034

DUPLEXES 1269 S. 1st St. West “A”. 2 bed/1 bath, W/D, DW, central location, all utilities included. $1100. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1424 Toole Ave. “B” 2 bed/1 bath, upstairs unit, fenced yard, close to shopping $625. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

ROOMMATES

paid. NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 Garden City Property Management. Voted Best Property Management Company in Missoula for the past 9 years. 406-5496106 www.gcpm-mt.com

ALL ROOMMATES.COM.

1535 Liberty Lane. Centrally located professional office space in energy-efficient building on the river. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

No Initial Application Fee Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing Since 1971

210 South 3rd West. Lease space available by the Hip Strip near Bernice’s Bakery.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannon hilliard5@gmail.com

Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

3 bed, 1.5 bath, $1295, S 6th W, DW, W/D hookups, garage, bed w/shower/sink, bed w/sink, fenced yard, off-street parking.

PET UPON APPROVAL, S/G

2205 South Avenue West 542-2060• grizzlypm.com

GardenCity Property Management 422 Madison • 549-6106 For available rentals: www.gcpm-mt.com

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FIDELITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7

251- 4707 Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $795/month Visit our website at

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2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Northside home. $290,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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

10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with deck, studio & sauna. $275,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

235 McLeod. 5 bed, 2.5 bath University District home with study, fireplace & large fenced backyard. $514,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $195,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Bdr, 4 Bath Wye area home 2.3 acres. $458,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

$259,900 • MLS # 20157047

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HOUSES

2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Northside home. $180,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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

1201 South 6th Street, Missoula Modern Condo Unit #204

Grizzly Property Management, Inc.

205 ½ W. Kent. Studio/1 bath, shared W/D, all utilities paid $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

HOMES FOR SALE 1001 Medicine Man Cluster.

Stunning custom-built 3 bed, 3.5 bath with 3 car garage. $1,150,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

COMMERCIAL

1706 Scott St. “B”. 1 bed/1 bath, all utilities included, shared fenced yard, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

Studio, 1 bath, $495, Near Orange Street Food Farm, one room w/kitchenette, coin-op laundry, and off-street parking.

ALL UTILITIES PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333

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2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Unit, 1,496 sq ft. The Factory Condos Complex is possibly the ''Greenest'' Building in Missoula. High Efficiency Lighting and Energy Efficient Gas Boiler with H2O Baseboard Heat. Unit consists of 2 levels with 10 Foot Ceilings on Main Floor and 9 Foot Ceilings on the upper floor. Bamboo Floors throughout the Main Floor Highlight the Open Kitchen which has Butcher-Block Counter Tops. Fresh Interior, Brand New Appliances with Natural Gas Range. Living Area has a New Gas Fireplace Master Bath with Tiled Floors and Counter Tops.

Tylor Trenary Finalist

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Main Street Realty (406) 544-3310 tylor@mainstreetmissoula.com

REAL ESTATE

5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath University District home. $625,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 839 Rollins. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with single attached garage in Slant Street neighborhood.

$290,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com Centrally Located 1815 Hollis. This home is in great shape and the minute you walk in, it’s love at first sight! 2 bed 1 bath. $236,500 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707.

Visit our website at fidelityproperty.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981.

More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience.

JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com Sweet Bungalow 120 Strand Ave. This little bungalow is about as sweet as they come!

1 bed 1 bath $230,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Trail Street 2144 Trail Street.

2144 Trail Street- PRICE REDUCED! This 3 bed 2 bath wellloved home is ready to move into! $265,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Located next to Burns Street Bistro, this is a beautiful space to call home. With over 1200 sq ft this home lets you spread out and relax. $158,000 KD 240-5227 or Sarah 3703995 porticorealestate.com Charlo Street Townhomes #1.

Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage.

$289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com The Uptown Flats #105. Ground floor condo offers extra large south-facing patio. 1 bed, 1 bath. $161,900 Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816 annierealtor@gmail.com The Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@gmail.com The Uptown Flats #303. 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

Affordable Living 1308 Greenwood Court. Awesome opportunity to own a sweet home in a forested mobile home park! $27,500 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 156 ACRES, EASY ACCESS. $199,900. Bordered by USFS lands. Prime hunting. 15 minutes to Superior MT.Southern exposure, good mix of trees and meadows. Power nearby. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-8801956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES

18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900.

BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4033 Matthew Street. 2 bed, 1 bath mobile home in Westview Park with deck & mountain views. $36,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

20 acres Granite County $44,900. Wild Horse Road: Gated access, prime hunting area. Timber, views, usable terrain. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 •

newhomes@montana.com www.marktwite.com

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2598 WHISKEY JACK, HAMILTON MT. $89,500.

20+ acres South of Hamilton.

Bordered by USFS lands. Gated community access. Sweet seller terms available with 20% down.

Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 320 ACRES, GRANITE COUNTY. $172,000. Located about an hour east of Missoula.

Bordered by BLM and State

lands. Good grazing area. Prime hunting area. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy.

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 40 ACRES- 2 CREEKSSELLER TERMS. $69,900. 2 perennial streams. Gated legal

Homes

1815 Hollis St. The Minute You Walk In, It's Love at First Sight! 2 Bed 1 bath.................................................$236,500 120 Strand Ave. This Little Bungalow is About as Sweet as They Come! .............................................................$230,000 2144 Trail Street Right on the BikeTrail! ..............................................................................................................$265,000 4033 Matthew Street Ready For You to Move Right In Price Reduced: Sellers Motivated ....................................$36,000

Homes With Land 9400 Mormon Creek Rd. True Montana Paradise!...............................................................................................$399,000 205 E Street, Hot Springs Super Insulated & Well Built on 2 Acres...................................................................$139,000

Townhomes/Condos

The Uptown Flats #301 Large 1 Bed + Bonus Room ........................................................................................$210,000 The Uptown Flats #105 First Floor Unit With Extra Large Exterior Patio...........................................................$161,900 Uptown Flats #303 Third Floor South Facing 1 Bed 1 Bath ...............................................................................$159,710 Burns St. Commons #10 Affordability, Quality and Beauty-That Sums it Up ...................................................$130,000 Burns St. Commons #16 Income Qualification Has Been Waived for This Home............................................$158,000

Land

NHN Roundup, 20.07 Acres Currently Ag Land, Dev. Potential ..........................................................................$999,000 NHN Roundup, 20 Acres With Development Potential.....................................................................................$1,250,000 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens...................................................................$145,000

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1815 Hollis The minute you walk in, it's love at first sight! Ideal floor plan, with hardwood floors in the living room and bedrooms! $236,500

9400 Mormon Creek Rd. True Montana Paradise! $399,000

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5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $525,000.

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access. Seller terms w/20% down. Easy year around potential. Off the grid. Great southern exposure. Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406-880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #5. Development opportunity. 20.07 acres. $999,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com NHN Roundup Tract #7. Great Development opportunity. $1,250,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

sites. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. $795,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Martin’s Clean All. Successful power washing business includes truck & equipment. $80,000. Pat McCormick, Properties. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

OUT OF TOWN

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317

4 BEDROOM HOME ON 12+ACRES. $349,900.

Bring the Horses! Well kept home, 45x60 shop. All irrigated land. Less than an hour to Missoula. 2 story home. Incredible views and plenty of solitude.

Twite Realty • Mark Twite • 406880-1956 • NewHomes@Montana.com • www.marktwite.com

EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MON-

Hot Springs 215 Spring Street, Hot Springs. Located in a beautiful mountain valley, Hot Springs is home to a magical place called Towanda Gardens. $145,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL

NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $800,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

122 Ranch Creek Road. 3294 sq.ft. home on 37+ acres in Rock Creek. Bordered by Lolo National Forest on 3 sides. $1,400,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317

NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water.

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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 2.9 acres. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-753-1317

South Frontage East, Alberton.

37 acres with multiple building

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $315,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call

Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns,

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

11250 FRED LN, $215,000

Business for Sale • $80,000 Established business with excellent client base.

New owner should be mechanically inclined and ready to work! Call Pat for more details.

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

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

Properties2000.com

This home sits on 5+ acres with lots of southern exposure, greenhouses & well for irrigation. 1700+ sq.ft. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, big formal dining room, spacious master bath with soak tub, detached double garage, additional metal building (big enough for an RV) and more.

Matt Rosbarsky 360-9023 512 E. Broadway