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CLEAN-UP ON AISLE 7: EPA REPORT FINDS FORMER SMURFIT SITE IS A TOXIC SOUP

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TWO WRITERS ON WILDERNESS JAUNTS WITH KIDS, WITHOUT THE BEAR SPRAY

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MONTANA LOGGING AND BALLET, ADIOS

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UP FRONT

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TOM MACLAY IS REFUSED AGAIN

CLEAN-UP ON AISLE 7: EPA REPORT FINDS FORMER SMURFIT SITE IS A TOXIC SOUP

OPINION

TWO WRITERS ON WILDERNESS JAUNTS WITH KIDS, WITHOUT THE BEAR SPRAY

COMEDY

MONTANA LOGGING AND BALLET, ADIOS

[2] Missoula Independent • September 13 – September 20, 2012

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News Voices/Letters The Indy goes mainstream. ........................................................................4 The Week in Review Robbery, crash, more fire.................................................................6 Briefs Tom Maclay’s Bitterroot Resort nixed again.............................................................6 Etc. Wyoming takes the wolf limelight................................................................................7 Up Front New EPA report finds Smurfit site is a toxic soup...............................................8 Opinion Ditch the bear spray. You only live once anyway ...............................................10 Opinion Are we dangerous parents? What about that bear? ............................................11 Feature New novelist Emily Danforth captures Montana.................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Music P.D. Lear takes you to a VFW in Nashville ..............................................................18 Comedy Montana Logging and Ballet’s farewell tour ......................................................19 Music Mexicans with Guns, Flobots, Guns of Nevada, more ...........................................20 Books The Bird Saviors has some simile issues................................................................21 Film Another look at Heaven’s Gate.................................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................23 Flash in the Pan What to do with those tomatoes..........................................................24 Happiest Hour PBR at Orange Street Food Farm ...........................................................26 8 Days a Week Time to put the flip-flops away...............................................................27 Mountain High The Dirty Dash..........................................................................................3 Agenda Jeanette Rankin Peace Center party.....................................................................37

OFF IN THE WOODS DANIELLE OLIVER Friday, Sept. 14th 10pm No Cover SHANE CLOUSE Saturday, September 15th 10pm No Cover

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

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The Indy falls into the cauldron

STREET TALK Asked late Mon., Sept. 10, on the Hip Strip.

by Tara Shisler and Pumpernickel Stewart

What was the last book you read?

Follow-up: What was the best or worst book you ever read and why?

Marlo Cercifisso: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. It was a really funny and great. I had an assignment to read five books this summer. I read a graphic novel called Asteriospolop by David Mazzucchelli. Sucked in: One of my favorite authors is Haruki Murakami. He is a beautiful writer and he kinda immerses you right away and you feel connected to the characters right away, like you’ve known them for a long time.

Shane Anderson: Reservation Blues. Brief reading: Captain Underpants was probably the best. It is funny. Good classic giggle.

Eli Hunt: I am reading Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me by R. Kelly. Outlaw eyes: My favorite book that I have read was The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov because it is a really good story. It was initially on the banned books list, it was banned in Russia for a long time. Has a lot to do with Satanism and stuff, but a really good story.

Cerisse Allan: I read The Dark Tower by Steven King. Rockin out: The best book on the planet is John Mcphee’s Annals of the Former World. It’s about the geology of North America all the way across I-80.

Nathan Johnson and Phil (the dog): Intro to Social Work Practice. Double dog dare: Green Eggs and Ham. The rhymes threw me off a little bit.

Con-gratulations Independent! You’ve made it to the mainstream media. Your cover article “Dead center” (Sept. 6) about Sen. Max Baucus and health care reform takes you out of the alternative press and right into the cauldron of major media. What got you there? Your statement, “In pursuit of middle ground, centrist Democrats jettisoned proposals coming from more progressive members of their party, most notably a public health insurance option.” The fact that you would parrot a phrase better suited for Fox News in your “indy” paper tells us how far to the right political propaganda in this country has swung. What in any way, shape or form is “progressive” about a health care plan fully endorsed by every member of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives? These folks we elect have a low-premium, low-deductible, single-payer (the taxpayer) supported health care plan—a plan every Republican member of Congress, including Rep. Denny Rehberg, uses along with every Republican member of the Montana Legislature at the state level. Republicans don’t do “progressive” these days, or so they say, so obviously a low-premium, lowdeductible, single-payer plan they use daily couldn’t be “progressive” at all. Why don’t you and I and everyone else in this country have the same plan as the people we hire and pay to work for us have in the land of “With Liberty and Justice for All?” Simple, you beat a person down long enough and eventually you can convince them that everything going wrong with them is their fault, their problem. Then, even scraps from the proverbial biblical table seem like manna from heaven. And comparing what we, the citizens, get out of the Affordable Care Act compared to what the drug companies, insurance companies and our elected official get, “scraps” is the kindest word that can be applied here. Local schools and clinics feeling ever-so-grateful for getting something they should have had decades ago, and in every community, shows how far the citizenry has been brainwashed into thinking, “It’s huge.” How would we know any better when our former watchdogs (the media), are now the lap dogs of the political class in order to maintain “access” with that group?

Case in point: The simple question that never appeared: “Sen. Baucus, you have a low-premium, low-deductible, taxpayer-subsidized insurance plan. Why didn’t you and the Democrats fight endlessly for all Montanans to have the same?” What ever happened to speaking truth to power?

John Marshall Libertarian Candidate for Senate District 7 Hot Springs

Knots in that tale The article “A Yellowstone Tale” (see Aug. 23), examining the Nez Perce War of 1877, is deserving of further comment.

[4] Missoula Independent • September 13 – September 20, 2012

In discussing the conflict, the author states: 1. “U.S. General Oliver O. Howard…was nicknamed ‘The Christian General’ for his tendency to make policy decisions based on religious beliefs.” Howard did convert to evangelical Christianity during his service in the Seminole War of the 1850s, and was noted for his efforts to practice his faith in service of the oppressed. He was appointed head of the U.S. Freedman’s Bureau after the Civil War, and in that capacity sought to provide humanitarian relief and political integration to the freed slave population. He also founded the traditionally African American Howard Uni-

“The simple question that never appeared: ‘Sen. Baucus, you have a low-premium, lowdeductible, taxpayersubsidized insurance plan. Why didn’t you and the Democrats fight endlessly for all Montanans to have the same?’” versity of Washington, D.C. after the war. But any capable review of Howard’s command during the 1877 war indicates Howard took actions based on superior’s mandates, political constraints and military pragmatism.

2. “The tribe suffered a brutal massacre in Montana’s Big Hole Valley.” No serious scholar of the American West’s military history ranks the August 9-11, 1877 Battle of the Big Hole on par with the 1864 Sand Creek, Colo.

Massacre or the 1870 Baker Massacre in northern Montana. The term is usually reserved for unprovoked attacks against noncombatants, not for actions within the context of hostilities. Such niceties of course matter little to those that died in the battle’s inherent violence. But the site is today acknowledged as Big Hole National Battlefield—and there is no need to deny agency to the Nez Perce resistance, which inflicted 29 dead and 40 wounded upon the attacking infantry.

3. “The cavalry…augmented with whiskey-fueled volunteers…struck at dawn [at Big Hole].” U.S. units fighting in the 1877 War included the 2nd and 7th Cavalry Regiments as well as the 5th, 7th and 21st Infantry Regiments. Aside from a small scouting detachment and volunteers, the Big Hole force was almost entirely composed of the 7th Infantry, which included the garrison

In the Sept. 6 article “Labor’s champ,” we incorrectly stated that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stripped public sector workers’ right to bargain collectively for wage increases. We regret the error. of Fort Missoula. I cannot recall a single reputable source that indicates the Big Hole volunteers entered the battle in an alcoholic state. The Big Hole commander, Col. John Gibbon, was a battle-proven veteran of the Civil War. He would hardly have permitted such behavior during the silence-required night march prior to the battle.

4. “Chief Joseph surrendered to General Howard, who…promised that upon surrender that the 500 remaining Nez Perce would be taken back to their reservation in Lapwai, Idaho.” Howard allowed the surrender to be accepted by General Nelson Miles, whose command vastly outnumbered Howard’s at the final battle at Bear Paw in 1877. Sources are at best one-sided as to what was promised the Nez Perce at the surrender, but recent secondary sources give no indication of such a promise by Howard.

Hopefully the Independent will continue to publish articles of general interest about Montana history. And hopefully in doing so it will practice the same rigorous editorial sourcing and fact-checking evident in its investigative and political features.

Tate Jones Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History Missoula

My Obamobile Last month, on the interstate highway between Gold Creek and Drummond, transporting a fellow Montanan to Seattle to attend to her daughter’s dying, I changed a flat tire on my car. The new Michelin had a quarter-inch slit in its sidewall. I kidded with a passing trucker, friendly enough to stop, even after he said he’d not have taken the trouble had he seen the “Obama 2008” bumper sticker I got with the car, bought used two years ago. When we stopped to buy a replacement tire in Missoula, another customer kept staring over my shoulder at the bumper sticker, saying “You can’t be serious.” He aggressively stuck his face into mine as I walked past into the tire store. I’m not a bumper sticker kind of person, so maybe this happens all the time, but I don’t like it. I’ve resisted bullying in school, on the job and in the military. Bullying creates the atmospherics for a small clique to do any outrageous thing they please to or about someone, without being challenged by the cowed. Obama lost in Montana after fielding 80 paid staffers; there’s now one, and our folksy Gov. Brian Schweitzer tells us our president has no chance in his state. Obama stickers are hard to get; there are none at Montana’s state Democratic headquarters. Who says bullying doesn’t work? Yet I’m pushing back, with a double-stickered Obamobile.

John B. Driscoll Helena

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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Wednesday, September 5 At the 2012 Paralympics in London, Missoula cyclist Megan Fisher, a below-theleft-knee amputee, wins gold in the 16-kilometer C4 road race with a time of 26:04.39. She’d won a silver medal in another race days before.

Thursday, September 6 Firefighters fully contain the 83-acre Albert fire, which flared up Sept. 2 about a mile and a half west of the former Smurfit-Stone mill near Frenchtown. The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation continues to investigate how the fire ignited.

Friday, September 7 A clerk at Ole’s in East Missoula is shot during an attempted robbery. Two suspects are apprehended within hours. Christopher Lee Burch, 23, faces attempted deliberate homicide charges. James Hanna, 24, is charged for allegedly driving the getaway car.

Saturday, September 8 A Missoula woman dies from injuries sustained during a late-morning crash on U.S. Highway 93 near St. Ignatius. Law enforcement says a 21-year-old man drifted across the center line, causing the two vehicles to collide.

Sunday, September 9 Sunday Streets Missoula takes over the Northside/Westside. The first “neighborhood” event closes off 1.3 miles of streets from White Pine Park to the XXXXs, enabling cyclists and pedestrians to frolic unmolested by cars.

Monday, September 10 The Missoula City Council supports using tax increment bonds to pay for improvements to Silver Park at the Old Sawmill Site and the expense of extending Wyoming Street from North California Street to Cregg Lane.

Tuesday, September 11 Former University of Montana football player Beau Donaldson, 22, pleads guilty to raping a woman after a party in September 2010. Prosecutors recommend he serve 30 years in the state’s custody. Donaldson will be sentenced Nov.13.

One of Missoula's favorites, Signal Path, lights up Caras Park at Hempfest on Saturday. From left to right: Ryan Burnett, Cody Willie, Matt Schumacher, Damon Metzner.

Bitterroot Resort

Forest Service: still no The Lolo and Bitterroot national forests have denied Tom Maclay’s last-ditch appeal for a permit to build the proposed Bitterroot Resort on public land below Lolo Peak. The decision could mark the end of Maclay’s decade-long quest to build the four-season resort, and result in his losing to foreclosure the adjacent 3,000-acre ranch that’s been in his family since the late 1870s.

The U.S. Forest Service wrote on Sept. 6 that Maclay’s most recent proposal “is not consistent with all of the initial screening criteria.” That’s partly because the agency found Maclay’s plans for a gondola in the Carlton Ridge Research Natural Area, on the Lolo National Forest, to be incompatible with the area’s intended use, which is to provide “nonmanipulative research, observation and study of undisturbed ecosystems” for perpetuity. On the Bitterroot National Forest, the proposal’s ski lifts and runs didn’t jibe with the forest plan’s emphasis on “motorized and nonmotorized, semiprimitive recreation activities and elk security.”

That reasoning is consistent with the agency’s previous rejections of Maclay’s special-use permit applications, in 2004, 2005 and 2007.

The latest permit request, filed in April, came about two months after Maclay’s ranch was auctioned off on the Missoula County Courthouse steps. Maclay’s lender, MLIC Asset Holdings, part of the insurance giant MetLife, had foreclosed on the $19 million loan it gave him to begin developing the resort, a debt that had grown to more than $23 million with interest.

MLIC bid $22.5 million to essentially buy the loan back.

The auction started the clock, giving Maclay a year to find investors to bail him out and save the ranch.

This time Maclay asked for access to about 12,000 acres of public land, four times the acreage he’d sought in an earlier, scaled-down proposal that was also unsuccessful. In May, Tim Newhart, the Bitterroot Resort’s spokesman, acknowledged that the bold proposal arose from the “imminent need for the Bitterroot Resort to attract investment, given the time frame that Tom’s on.”

Maclay and Newhart didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Matthew Frank

Election 2012

The Fenwick papers A new third-party opponent to Sen. Jon Tester’s re-election bid emerged in the last few weeks. America Is Not Stupid Inc., listed as a conservative 501(c)(4) making independent expenditures in 2012, reported $20,831.88 for television ads directly opposing Tester over the past two weeks. The group’s primary complaint is with the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. But its rudimentary website also calls for smaller government, energy independence and tort reform.

Up until Friday, independent expenditures reported to the Federal Election Commission had strongly favored the Democrat over his Republican challenger, Rep. Denny Rehberg. But with another round of anti-Tester spending from the National Republican Senatorial Committee—$191,404.07 on ad buys and media production, filed late last week—the amount of disclosed money opposing Tester has hit $1.2 million. Total independent expenditures in Montana’s Senate race, as of Sept. 11, topped $5.3 million.

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[news] According to the Center for Responsive Politics, spending by both campaigns combined reached $8.7 million early this month.

The prevailing question in 2012 remains who is behind all this political messaging, specifically messaging conducted outside of the campaigns. A deeper look at FEC filings for America Is Not Stupid reveals the financier of its ad blitz to be the Fenwick Group, a Florida-based insurance, healthcare and technology consulting firm headed by Bob Portrie and Jay Handline. The duo also runs Moran Insurance and Financial Solutions out of the same office space.

Montana is the only state the group has spent money in so far this year.

In 2010, the New York Times linked the Fenwick Group to a string of ads sponsored by the Coalition to Protect Seniors. The ads, which featured a talking baby with a raspy voiceover, chastised President Barack Obama for his health insurance overhaul.

Alex Sakariassen

Welch says the mood between the groups was cordial, even pleasant. “(The Family Foundation) actually came out and generously offered chicken to protesters.”

The respect contrasts with the fierce emotion that sometimes surrounds gay rights debates, Laszloffy says. He points to the Aug. 15 shooting at a Christian lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. A 28-yearold gay-rights proponent toting 15 Chik-fil-A sand-

LGBT

Whose chicken is that?

On Sept. 8, two groups with wildly divergent ideas about whether gay couples should be granted the same rights as their heterosexual peers held a fastfood cook-off of sorts in downtown Billings.

“We actually raised about twice as much as we planned on raising,” says Montana Family Foundation president Jeff Laszloffy, who helped organize the fundraiser, which was first called “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day 2.0.”

The Family Foundation planned on trucking meals from Chick-fil-A into Montana to show support of the Georgia-based fast food chain. Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s very public remarks triggered a firestorm in July when he told radio host Ken Coleman that same sex marriage invites “God’s judgment.”

Despite the Family Foundation’s initial show of solidarity with Chick-fil-A, Laszloffy says the company “had quality concerns” about shipping the chicken from Idaho. So the Foundation hired a local caterer who served chicken nuggets, coleslaw and chocolate chip cookies.

“We were very pleased,” Laszloffy says.

About a mile from Appreciation Day, LGBT rights supporters made their own statement. They snacked on “Equality Chicken Pitas” near Manny’s Bar. “The whole point of it really was to support all families,” says the ACLU of Montana’s Liz Welch, who helped organize the event.

wiches in his backpack shot a guard at the Family Research Council. He reportedly said, “I don’t like your policies.”

“We have got to ratchet back emotion,” Laszloffy says.

Montana Human Rights Network gay rights activist Jamee Greer agrees that violence is never appropriate. However, he finds it ironic that Laszloffy, a man who has consistently branded gays as perverts, sinners and criminals, now wants to tone down the rhetoric. “He’s made his living off of demonizing, scapegoating and harassing LGBT community members,” Greer says.

As for who won the cook-off, Laszloffy wouldn’t disclose how much the Family Foundation made. The “Fairness for ALL Families” event reaped about $550.

Jessica Mayrer

Politics

Montana shows Charlotte Last week, Gov. Brian Schweitzer served his brand of folksiness to the nation. He took the stage

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Estimated homes threatened by the six-squaremile Sawtooth fire west of Hamilton early this week.

at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., to the tune of the Doobie Brothers’ “Long Train Running” and regaled his audience with phrases like “burr under my saddle,” “get ’er done” and the oftrepeated “that dog don’t hunt.”

Some Montanans might have rolled their eyes, but word is Dems from everywhere else ate it up.

Schweitzer laid the Mitt Romney critique on thick. The speech’s goal seemed two-fold: plug President Barack Obama and show that under a Schweitzer administration, Montana has done better than most.

Schweitzer was just one of several prominent Montana personalities to appear before the liberal masses in Charlotte. Many more were in attendance behind the scenes. State Rep. Ellie Hill, who traveled to the DNC from Missoula, says liberals were enamored of the Montana delegation. They expressed a lifelong appreciation for Sen. Max Baucus and were “dewy-eyed” over Sen. Jon Tester.

Schweitzer was “literally a rock star.”

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, a former teacher and the first Native American woman to win a statewide election, raised considerable applause while highlighting the steps the Obama administration has taken to improve educational opportunities and, as a result, the lives of tribal members nationwide. Obama visited the Crow Indian Reservation during his 2008 campaign, she reminded the DNC, and became an adopted member of the tribe.

Anaconda native and NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan addressed the issue of “what’s at stake for women in 2012.” Her speech on reproductive healthcare and women’s rights even included a few subtle digs at Rep. Todd Akin.

“Rape is rape,” she said, and when it comes to a woman’s decisions regarding her reproductive health, politicians shouldn’t be involved. “Especially if those politicians don’t know how a woman’s body works.”

“The ‘Montana mafia,’ as I heard other states collectively refer to us, was truly the toast of the convention,” Hill says.

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Montana’s been the center of attention wolf-wise this summer, what with the state’s proposal to allow wolf trapping. But last week, Wyoming took back the limelight. Our neighbor to the south that’s been a constant source of wolf-related woe is now prepping to end federal protections on the species.

The debates that have raged in Montana and Idaho over the past year are small potatoes compared to what’s going on in Wyoming. The state has proposed what equates to a shoot-on-sight hunt designed to cut the wolf population outside Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Indian Reservation by almost twothirds, from 270 to 100 animals. Apparently, 10 breeding pairs makes for a stable population in the country’s 10th largest state. That hunt could open as soon as next month.

Environmental groups are again challenging the war on the wolf. Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity intend to collectively sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, alleging that delisting of wolves in Wyoming was premature. Defenders stated publicly this week that the state’s management proposals could both undermine wolf recovery in the region and “hinder the spread of wolves to other areas” where federal protections are still in effect.

We’ve defended the need for states to effectively manage wolves. And yes, that means hunting. But Wyoming’s blatant “if it’s a wolf, shoot it” approach is the worst we’ve seen yet. According to Wyoming Fish and Game, wolves are to be considered a predatory species, except in a small slice of forest where they’re classified as trophy game. Folks across roughly 85 percent of Wyoming will be free to shoot wolves without a hunting license, provided they report the kill within 10 days and surrender any radio tracking devices they might recover.

There were 653 wolves estimated in Montana in 2011, and more than 740 in Idaho. Wyoming’s population seems modest in comparison, certainly not high enough to justify such a large reduction.

You want to manage wolves? Fine. But let’s not be Elmer Fudd about it.

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Papermaking is a dirty industry. determine whether the mill site should be actly how much yet, but it’s going to take That’s not news. But it takes an on-the- added to the federal Superfund National a lot of resources to make that happen, ground analysis like the one the Environ- Priorities List, was released to county and and certainly if we can get federal Superfund involved [that will provide] a lot mental Protection Agency recently state officials this week.

The report’s findings generally don’t more resources than we could probably conducted at the shuttered former Smurfit-Stone mill, on the banks of the Clark come as a surprise, considering the bring at the state level. It seems to make Fork River northeast of Missoula, to grasp byproducts commonly left behind by sense to us.”

The Missoula County commissioners paper mills. But what troubles state Suthe extent of it.

The agency found that all Clark Fork perfund program director Denise Martin, agree. “We’ve had a successful cleanup” at surface water samples contained concen- for one, is that the concentrations of diox- the Milltown Superfund site, says Commistrations of arsenic that exceed aquatic ins and furans “were higher, perhaps, than sioner Jean Curtiss, “so we don’t see it as a big strike against us...The state has more life and human health standards. Those I would have expected to see.”

Dioxins and furans refer to a family of limited resources and they’re focused on samples also contained elevated levels of dissolved manganese. All sediment re- toxic substances that share a similar chem- some other projects right now.” And the lease samples taken from the river contained elevated concentrations of various dioxins and furans. One sediment release site also contained chromium and vanadium.

Samples taken from the 3,200acre site’s several sludge and wastewater storage ponds also contained dioxins and furans, along with organic compounds such as 4methylphenol, naphthalene and phenanthrene.

Elevated levels of antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, calcium, chromium, lead, manganese, nickel, potassium, silver and zinc were all Photo by Sarah Daisy Lindmark found in at least one surface soil sample.

The Smurfit-Stone plant in operation on the Clark Fork River In those sludge and soil samples, the concentrations of ical structure. They’re created during the situation at the mill site is urgent, she says: benzo(a)pyrene, arsenic and the multiple wood-fiber bleaching process. Dioxins are The levee system that separates the Clark dioxins and furans exceeded federal known human carcinogens. They are also Fork from the wastewater ponds, which benchmarks for Cancer Risk Screening known to affect hormone levels and cause lay in the river’s historic floodplain, is inConcentration as well as the Superfund a skin disease called chloracne. “In ani- adequate. “It seems like there’s a danger it Chemical Data Matrix, a measure for eval- mals,” the EPA has reported, “these effects could be compromised.”

A Superfund designation also prouating whether a site should be added to include changes in hormone systems, alterations in fetal development, reduced vides more leverage to make the polluter the federal Superfund priority list.

In shallow groundwater samples, the reproductive capacity and immunosup- pay. But who would actually pay is complicated. The Illinois-based Green InvestEPA also found toxins that exceeded fed- pression.”

While the EPA found that the mill ment Group, Inc. purchased the mill last eral standards. In shallow aquifer groundwater near one of the mill’s landfills, site’s contaminants have migrated to year. In doing so it absolved bankrupt chlorobenzene, ethylbenzene, o-xylene, groundwater and the sediments in the Smurfit-Stone (now owned by the paper m,p-xylene and isopropylbenzene were Clark Fork River, the detected concentra- manufacturer RockTenn) of all environtions “are not at levels that would neces- mental liability. GIGI also holds an envifound.

These chemicals (and perhaps more, sitate an emergency response action,” says ronmental liability insurance policy.

GIGI Vice President Mark Spizzo, in considering that the EPA’s investigation Rob Parker, a regional EPA site assessment an emailed statement, said the company didn’t include every wastewater pond) manager.

They may necessitate a federal Super- is reviewing the EPA report. “We have make up the toxic soup left behind by a been working cooperatively with the EPA half-century of papermaking at the fund designation, however.

Tom Livers, deputy director of the throughout their inspection,” he said, Frenchtown mill, which closed in early 2010. Every year, on average, the mill pro- Montana Department of Environmental “and will work in tandem with them to duced about 5.7 billion gallons of waste- Quality, says he and other state officials gain full understanding of the situation water, much of which was discharged into believe it’s prudent to designate the and to determine any further the Clark Fork, and some 20,000 tons of Frenchtown mill a federal Superfund actions...The health and safety of the citizens of Missoula County is our number site. sludge sent to the ponds.

“It’s a big site,” he says. “We know a one priority.”

The EPA’s long-awaited “Analytical Results Report,” based on field work con- portion of it is contaminated and going ducted last October and intended to help to require cleanup. We don’t know exmfrank@missoulanews.com

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missoulanews.com • September 13 – September 20, 2012 [9]

[opinion]

Why not take chances?

Wilderness is supposed to be a little dangerous

by Charles Finn

When I travel in grizzly bear country, I leave the bear spray at home. In fact, I’ve never even owned a canister of it. Never wanted to. My basic rationale is that I would rather be mauled to death by a bear than pepper-spray an animal that has a sense of smell thousands of times greater than my own. I can’t imagine the agony a bear goes through when it gets a snout full of capsaicin, and I don’t want to be the person responsible for such pain.

My second reason, which is actually the stronger of the two, is that I want to meet the wilderness on its own terms. I know this sounds naïve, and even worse, cavalier or arrogant. But it is also honest.

In nearly every way I can think of, we are obsessed with being safe. We have tried, in every conceivable way and place, from playgrounds to campgrounds—and all too often these amount to the same thing—to make the world tame, digestible, comfortable and ultimately bland and soulless.

And nowhere is it more evident than in our approach to wilderness, those few pockets of reservation-like habitat we’ve crowded our animal neighbors onto.

Call me old fashioned, but to my way of thinking, if a mountain lion or grizzly bear or even a stray branch from an old tree wants to take me out, well, hell, that’s part and parcel of the risk of traveling in the backcountry, trespassing across the animals’ land and home.

I’m of the school that believes that we should set aside huge swaths of country that human beings aren’t allowed to set foot on or even fly over. Let the animals that are still out there have at least a smidgeon of privacy and security. My sole argument for this is simple: It’s the right thing to do. But I know it won’t happen any time soon.

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In the meantime, wildlife and human visitors are bound to interact. That means each person’s responsibility when traveling in the backcountry is to know what he or she is doing, and that includes taking precautions to avoid running into a grizzly unexpectedly.

Viewing wildlife, especially the megafauna found out west, is often the

I would rather be mauled to death by a bear than pepper-spray an animal that has a sense of smell thousands of times greater than my own. highlight of any trip. It may be a remote chance, but I’m always hoping to see a bear, lion, elk, caribou or wolf. At the same time, I’m not trying to count coup with a camera or doing anything as foolish as cooking right next to my tent, sending out olfactory dinner invitations. A little common sense goes a long way on the trail, and in my experience you generally have to go out of your way to have a personal encounter with one of these wild

creatures. Ninety-nine times out of 100, they see or hear or smell us first and—intelligent creatures that they are—want nothing to do with us and our obnoxious and hideous ways.

I think part of what leads to our exaggerated ideas of safety is that people forget or maybe don’t even understand why they want to be in the wilderness in the first place.

It’s not supposed to be safe. It is supposed to be mysterious and at least slightly dangerous. Driving a car is the single most dangerous thing a person can do, and yet most of us drive nearly daily without a thought about the potential disasters. For those brave souls who get out of their Winnebagos and backpack into Glacier National Park or Yellowstone, the whole point is to be in the wilderness with all its beauty, sublimity, transcendence, hardships and dangers. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, a Buddhist monk, said, “When mountain climbing is made easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.”

Safety first, of course, and be prepared. But, really: There’s got to be a line here somewhere.

My sister has jokingly given me the faux-Indian name Eaten-By-Bears. I certainly hope this isn’t a prophecy, but if it is, then, well, fair is fair. At least I’ll know I died serving a purpose—helping to fatten a bear up for winter. After all, they were here first, and the odds of survival are decidedly not in their favor.

If anyone deserves to be peppersprayed, it’s us.

Charles Finn is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the editor of the High Desert Journal.

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Dangerous parents?

Bears won’t keep us from family time in the wild

by Alan Kesselheim

those weeks under the wide skies.

Or when we took Sawyer, at 3 months of age, and Eli at 2 years, down the Green and Colorado rivers. When we took on the Big Bend section of the Rio Grande with Marypat seven-months’ huge with Ruby and the boys at an uncontrollable 2 and 3 years of age, in one overburdened, 17-foot canoe. “What are you thinking?” people asked.

What we think is that this is what we do. This is the legacy we want to share

This is what we do.

This is the legacy we want to share with our children.

Are there risks?

Of course.

Might something go badly wrong?

Sure. with our children. Are there risks? Of course. Might something go badly wrong?

Sure. Would we feel terrible if it did? Yes. Should we stay home and play it safe?

Hell, no.

Because here’s the other thing. Playing it safe is a matter of perspective.

The safe environment that people tout brims with all kinds of dangers— more dangers, I submit, than we ever encounter in the wild. Routinely, we pile our

children into cars and drive around at lethal speeds. We litter our homes with toxic substances, spray our yards with pesticides, keep firearms, eat food full of chemicals, breathe polluted air, let our kids drive and put them in social contexts where bad things happen all the time.

We think little of these dangers because they are routine. Everyone does it.

Nobody questions it. We take precautions, just as we do on a wilderness expedition when we wear life vests and carry a first aid kit and practice our skills and calculate the itinerary.

Of course, there are moments. The polar bear along the shores of Hudson Bay comes to mind. The meadow full of bear and wolf tracks high in the Washakie Wilderness of Wyoming. The evening Sawyer fell from a tree along the Marias River in Montana, slashing open his neck on a stick; Ruby’s capsize against a rock in one of the canyons of the Rio Grande.

There have been a handful of incidents where I catch myself thinking, “That could have gone badly.”

It’s the same way frightening scenes play on the mental screen when the car starts skidding on the ice, or a toddler falls down the stairs, or I find out that I’ve been living next to a Superfund site for years and drinking the well water, or look at a food label full of incomprehensible ingredients, or send a teenager off on prom night.

At those commonplace, civilized junctions with risk, I find myself sometimes wishing I were still deep in the embrace of a wild place, feeling the pulse of Mother Earth, with my children close by and the exhilaration of adventure coursing through our bodies.

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It began even before the kids were born, more than 20 years ago. Marypat finally got pregnant after years of miscarriages. We were halfway through winter in a cabin hundreds of miles from the nearest pavement, halfway through a 14month canoe expedition, alone, vulnerable and perfectly content. The advice we got, from family, from friends, was to come home. Don’t risk the pregnancy, everyone said. It’s not worth it.

We questioned ourselves. Were the risks too high? The scenarios were endless and terrifying. Still teetering on the brink of pulling the plug, we decided we would paddle the 40 miles to the nearest town, from which we would leap into the final summer of travel across the wild tundra of northeastern Canada, and then make our decision.

Here’s the strange thing. Fifty strokes into that trial run, still in sight of our winter cabin and five months along in a pregnancy, we were both convinced that we could do it. More than that, we were both convinced that we should do it.

We were right. Some would say we were more lucky than right, and sure, luck is a player, but being pregnant in the Far North, traveling at our “pregnancy pace,” nurturing life through the wild exhilaration of vast, unpopulated space, was precisely the right thing for us to do.

Since then, there have been a number of similar moments, when friends and families and complete strangers weighed in to question our willingness to take our children into risky places. After we loaded up the canoe and took off down the Yellowstone River across Montana, for example, when Eli was 9 months old and Sawyer was a fetal bud ticking away inside Marypat, people said, “You’re crazy.” We went. We took the precautions we deemed necessary. We had a lovely, empowering time, and I’m convinced that Eli formed some essential qualities from

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Alan Kesselheim is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He lives in Bozeman, and his most recent book is Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water.

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[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN! – Louisiana State Police charged Joshua Adam Carter, 25, with trying to steal a car stopped at a traffic light in Shreveport, La., around 4:30 p.m. The unmarked vehicle turned out to be occupied by a state police detective and two members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force. According to the police report, Carter pulled on the driver’s door handle but then, “after realizing that the doors were locked and the vehicle was occupied by police officers, Carter fled the scene. The officers quickly gave chase and apprehended Carter without incident.” (New Orleans’s WVUE-TV) A man who robbed a bank in Shrewsbury, Pa., made off with more than $15,000 in cash, but a dye pack inserted with the money exploded, forcing the robber to drop the loot in the parking lot. Police who recovered the money also found a dye-stained loan statement with the name of Luis Rafael Cruz, 32. After a bank teller identified Cruz’s photo as that of the robber, investigators issued a warrant, and Cruz turned himself in. (Associated Press) SILVER LINING – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee used his syndicated radio program to put a positive spin on Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks about rape and pregnancy by pointing out that rapes, though “horrible tragedies,” have produced admirable human beings. “Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the American gospel singer, as was televangelist James Robison. (Los Angeles Times) LOOMING BOOMS – An advancing tidal wave of mental illness among aging baby boomers poses a challenge to U.S. health officials, according to the nonprofit Institute of Medicine. Its report estimates that between 5.6 million and 8 million older Americans have one or more mental health conditions or problems stemming from substance misuse or abuse. That number will increase, Dan G. Blazer of Duke University Medical Center warned, because the magnitude of the problem is so great that no single approach or isolated changes in a few federal agencies could address it. (United Press International) The nation’s Amish communities are expected to double over the next 40 years, according to a comprehensive survey by researchers at Ohio State University, which cites a combination of traditionally high birthrates and falling defection rates among adults. Their numbers are not only increasing, but also expanding geographically, “often locating in rural communities that have been declining, both economically and in terms of population size,” OSU professor of rural sociology Joseph Donnermeyer said. (The Washington Times) TECHNOLOGY TROUBLES – Nine out of 10 undergraduates taking part in a study by Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne reported experiencing “phantom vibration syndrome,” causing them to feel their cell phone vibrating when it wasn’t. On average, they felt the nonexistent buzzing about twice a month, although some said they felt it more often. This and a previous study indicated the most persistent phantom buzzing victims fall into two categories: extraverts, who check their phones a lot because keeping in touch with friends is a big part of their lives, and neurotics, who worry a lot about the status of their relationships. (Slate) Three different electronic sensing devices designed to alert parents who’ve left their babies in the car are unreliable, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In some instances, spilled liquids caused malfunctions, cell phone use interfered with device signals, devices turned off and on during travel, and an improperly positioned child caused seat pads to malfunction. “While these devices are very well intended,” NHTSA Administrator David L. Strickland said, “we don’t think they can be used as the only countermeasure to make sure that you don’t forget your child behind in a car.” (The Washington Post) DOOMSDAY PREPPERS – Spike television network announced it will award a fortified bunker in a secret location on its “Last Family on Earth” program, where survivalists compete to show how tough and resourceful they are. Programming executive Sharon Levy said polls reveal that many people believe some catastrophic event threatens civilization, and these are the kind of people who’ll star in the show. “We think it’s a very interesting segment of the population that is very prepared, is highly intelligent,” Levy said. “These are regular people.” Although Spike ordered only six episodes, to air this fall, Levy said there’s no reason that “Last Family on Earth” couldn’t last several seasons if it’s successful and the world doesn’t end sooner. (Associated Press) Citing increasing threats to civilization from nature and mankind, developer Larry Hall, 55, is converting abandoned missile silos below the Kansas prairie into luxury apartments where people can survive chaos in comfort after civilization crumbles. Protected by nine-foot-thick concrete walls that reach 174 feet underground, Hall’s complexes have giant underground water tanks, an indoor farm to raise fish and vegetables for as long as survivors need to stay inside, a swimming pool, a movie theater and a library. Complex life-support systems rely on power from stockpiled fossil fuels, as well as from sun and wind. An elaborate security system and hired staff will keep out marauding hordes. Units sell for $2 million a floor. Having studied the spread of doomsday culture, University of Kansas anthropology professor John Hoopes concluded from Hall’s enterprise, “Fear sells even better than sex.” (Britain’s Daily Mail) STANDING HIS GROUND – Kenneth Roop, 52, fatally shot a man selling frozen steaks and lobsters door to door who made him “more than a little nervous,” he told police in Cape Coral, Fla. Nick Rainey, 30, had just knocked on the door of Roop’s home when Roop pulled into the driveway. As Rainey walked toward him and got within four feet, Roop pulled out his 9mm Glock and shot Rainey in the shoulder. Rainey fell to the ground, screaming, “You shot me,” in what Roop described as an “antagonistic” manner, so he shot Rainey once more in the back of the head “for effect.” Roop told detectives Rainey should have respected his three “No Trespassing” signs. (Fort Myers News-Press) DOESN’T TAKE REJECTION SITTING DOWN – A woman at a bar in Boulder, Colo., accused Timothy Paez, 22, of urinating on her leg after she rejected his advances. According to the police report, the woman felt some sort of liquid hitting her leg and thought Paez was spilling beer on her, but when she turned around, she saw him with his penis exposed urinating on her leg. Witnesses corroborated the woman’s account. The bar’s staff escorted Paez outside and contacted a nearby police officer.

(Boulder’s Colorado Daily) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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he first thing that happens in Emily Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post is that Cameron, age 12, kisses a girl. The second: her parents die in a car wreck. Danforth’s new novel is a stunning tale of a girl growing up gay, in Miles City.

If there’s a tradition of western writing—and in Montana we’ve got a long list of practitioners spanning decades, including James Lee Burke, Jim Crumley, A.B. Guthrie, Judy Blunt and Mary Clearman Blew— here is its fresh face.

The landscape is Montana, the story is bittersweet.

Cameron’s good at fitting in, at hiding her feelings. She forges friendships with boys and together they sneak into the abandoned Holy Rosary Hospital with peppermint schnapps. She tucks stolen candy into the waistband of her shorts, roaming the neighborhood with her friend Irene, whom she eventually kisses. The shock of Cameron’s parents’ death is compounded by the guilt she harbors. She’s relieved that her parents can’t ever know she’s kissed a girl, but is their death punishment for her kiss? Soon Coley Taylor moves to town, a real cowgirl type with a boyfriend. Cameron’s infatuation with Coley leads to an intense relationship that seems hopeful until her ultra-religious Aunt Ruth decides Cameron’s gayness needs to be fixed. That turning point leads her to unexpected places, including back to Quake Lake, near Yellowstone National Park, where her parents were killed.

Like Cameron, Danforth grew up in Miles City. She got her MFA from the University of Montana’s creative writing program in 2006 and wrote The Miseducation of Cameron Post while getting a PhD in creative writing at the University of Nebraska. The book was published this February, and Danforth will be returning to Missoula for the first time in six years to attend the Humanities Montana Festival of the Book in early October. We spoke with her in anticipation of her visit. She’s a little bit like her character—funny and kind and full of energy. Still, her

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book is fiction, not memoir, which pays great dividends.

It’s a comical, sad and richly rendered coming-of-age tale that rejects sentimentalism and embraces the nuances of her characters. It has some of the same endless summer feeling of the film Stand By Me. Danforth captures the excitement and crushing blows bound up with firsts—first love, first heartbreak. She’s also captured something essential about the modern West. Her landscape is full of pine-scented winds, hay fields and the fairs and rodeos of eastern Montana, but she’s reframed it with other events: the 1990s Seattle grunge scene, a personal tale about the Quake Lake natural disaster and the tough reality of being gay in a place, at a time, where difference isn’t always understood.

Atop the ferris wheel The sharpest scene in The Miseducation of Cameron Post—when we know we’re rooted in Danforth’s Montana—comes early on, when the author describes the Custer County Fair. The kiss she shared with Irene has made their relationship awkward, but they still go to the fair together. Danforth uses deep detail to make the moment come alive. Cameron and Irene don’t just eat snow cones, they eat “graveyard snow cones,” a gray mixture of lime, orange, grape and cherry flavors. The lemonade stand buzzes with wasps. They eat pacos from the Crystal Pistol booth, “seasoned beef in a cocoon of hot fry bread, the orange grease squirting and burning the insides of our cheeks.”

Such regional particulars, she says, led to some editing confusion. “I can’t tell you how many rounds of copy edits we went through with the word ‘paco.’” Every time, she says, the fair scene would come back with the word “paco” replaced by “taco.” She laughs. “Even when I would say ‘This is correct, leave this,’ it would come back and the copy editor would have changed it to ‘taco,’ like I was a moron, right? Like I didn’t know what I was talking about. And finally I think I wrote something kind of snarky in the margins. The copy editor for the book was great, but it amused me. I hadn’t realized it was such a regional thing that it would be seen as a mistake.”

After eating pacos, the girls go on the Ferris wheel, and it’s acknowledged how strange

that is: kids that age deem the Ferris wheel boring.

But Irene and Cameron have other things on their minds. Here’s where we get even more of the flavor of the West. This isn’t a fair in just any old town. This feels like eastern Montana: “We were lifted up into the hot embrace of the everblackening Montana sky, the lights from the midway sluicing us in their fluorescent glow, a tinny kind of ragtime music plinking out from somewhere deep in the center of the wheel. Up on top we could see the whole of the fair: the tractor pull, the dance pavilion, cowboys in Wranglers leaning cowgirls built like sticks of gum up against pickups out in the parking lot. Up on top the air smelled less like grease and sugar, more like just-baled hay and the muddy waters of the Yellowstone as it lazed its way around the fairgrounds.”

Danforth says she didn’t think a lot about Western literature until arriving in Missoula for grad school. In some ways the literature of the West is difficult to pinpoint, unlike, say, the deeply established canon of the South in the works of writers such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. But when Danforth got to UM, she says, that changed.

“I remember getting there the first semester and it seemed like everyone—and I’m sure that’s not the case, but it really seemed like everyone—was talking about Rick Bass’s collection The Watch. And so I went and got it,” at the Book Exchange. “They had a whole Rick Bass section.

I got the stories and I marveled at them.”

There are amazing stories in The Watch, of men who drink and live too fast and love the wildness of the land.

Richard Ford, and Norman Maclean with A River Runs Through It, have created such tales of river and fire, of wild creatures and blue-collar lives.

The western landscape in The Miseducation of Cameron Post isn’t focused on just one landmark, but in all Danforth’s details we know exactly where we are. Even the images of big sky and mountains that are so recognizably “The West” that they feel beaten to death Danforth has repackaged in refreshing ways. The streams might be “aching with trout,” as she mentions in one scene, but there’s also a “so-blue-it-looked-fake mountain lake,” which seems to acknowledge the way one often feels about nature in the modern world.

Danforth, modestly and with a writer’s prerogative to not self-analyze, doesn’t feel comfortable saying how she thinks Cameron Post fits into Western literature, but she does have observations that she played with in the book, for instance, how locals like to say there are two seasons in Montana: winter and road construction. Or that if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes.

“I think everyone says that everywhere,” Danforth says. “But there is something about the amount of jobs that are tied to the land in Montana, or the remoteness of towns. The land is just present in a way that it’s not in other places that I’ve lived, and I feel like it shapes your experience living there. It sounds so dorky to say, but it really is different. And people who visit notice that. They do. It’s the quality of light and the way the light filters through the mountains in the downtown area of Missoula. It just colors your life.”

Praying away the gay

(an ex-gay) who wears a shirt that says: “Straight is great!”

The film is funny, the perfect tongue-in cheek farce that ends up being poignant and delightfully scathing in the way it portrays the absurdity of conversion therapy.

In Stark’s case, the reality seemed just as absurd as the fictional film. “The clients may not wear Abercrombie and Fitch or Calvin Klein brand clothing, undergarments or accessories,” was one of the rules at Love in Action.

“Obviously, Calvin Klein is inherently gay,” Danforth says, laughing. But the other thing that stuck with Danforth was Stark’s complicated reaction. “What was so compelling for me about Zach’s story is that he would sometimes, on his posts, refer to himself as gay and other times he wouldn’t,” she says.

He didn’t know how to stand up for who he was because he didn’t know who he was. He was having trouble reconciling his Christianity with his attractions. He didn’t want to disappoint his parents and he didn’t want to be sent away.

“That was interesting to me, to have it not be as blackand-white as I thought,” Danforth says. “Because of course [conversion therapy is] torturous and absurd and harm-

In the summer of 2005, Zack Stark made a startling post on his MySpace page, one that would also affect Danforth’s novel in big ways.

It was the summer between Danforth’s first and second years of graduate school at UM, and she’d gone home to Miles City to live with her parents. It felt strange, she recalls. She’d already left the nest, gone to undergraduate school and stopped coming home in the summers. She’d worked in New York and Connecticut. Miles City was in the past—except for the fact that she’d been writing about it lately.

“I think I did it for premature nostalgia for my youth,” she says, laughing. “But I did it too because I thought that I could mine that experience for this material that informed the book. And that’s when I heard the story of Zack Stark.”

At the time, Stark was a 16-year-old boy from Tennessee who had just come out to his parents. They cried and sent him to a live-in ex-gay program called “Love in Action,” sponsored by the organization Exodus International, in Memphis. He talked about it on his MySpace page. He also found his parents’ copy of Cameron and Irene don’t just eat snow cones, they the Exodus youth rules and posted snow cones,” a gray mixture of lime, orange, grape and them.

Danforth had the The lemonade stand buzzes with wasps. reaction that perhaps many of us do, which is, “This kind of thing still happens? In this day and age?” ful, but there’s this other side of the story. So I came back She’s seen But I’m a Cheerleader, a satire of “pray away the second year of school armed with that. I talked to peothe gay” programs. In that film, a teenage cheerleader is ple about how I know now this novel is going to feature just living her life normally until everyone else starts conversion therapy in some prominent way and I continpointing out their suspicions: She’s not into making out ued to do research that year.” with her boyfriend. Her locker is full of pictures of women Almost half of Cameron Post ends up taking place in sports bras. They tell her she’s a lesbian; she’s surat a “pray away the gay” camp. Unlike Stark, Cameron prised. And then she’s sent away to a camp run by a coach isn’t quite as conflicted about the camp—she’s not really buying into it even if she does have feelings of guilt.

Ridiculous things happen, including a scene where the campers have to write about all the things that made them gay, such as too many sports for girls. Yet the camp is full of complex characters. Probably the

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most interesting is Reverend Rick, an ex-gay who co-runs the program with his icy aunt. Rick is a jovial guy who plays guitar and seems to care about the kids. In one scene, he has a breakthrough with Cameron in which they end up singing along to a Christian mixtape featuring the gospel song “Oh Happy Day,” using a potato peeler for a pretend microphone, while making a Thanksgiving meal. It’s a sweet moment—the first time in several pages that Cameron seems happy, not happy about her situation, but happy in the moment.

“Everybody in the kitchen was clapping along with the choir on the tape and watching us. I took the potato peeler from Adam, gripped it in my best Mahalia impersonation, and closed my eyes, fuck it, belted like a pro.

We finished out the song like that, increasingly louder, recklessly, goofy as all get-out. My excuse was the marijuana, but Rick didn’t have one other than being Rick.”

The song ends, a sappy song comes on and the stern camp matron, Lydia, walks through the door. The moment is over. Danforth’s rendering is deft. Like Cameron, you enjoy the moment and then you feel like you’ve betrayed your convictions. This camp is bad for everyone.

But there was this nice time had in the kitchen, and you feel guilty for liking Rick.

The truth is, especially in the 1970s, there are truly horrifying conversion therapy stories involving obvious brainwashing and abuse. That’s a route Danforth could have easily taken to excite the sympathies of her readers but it’s also kind of the easy way out, like giving your character cancer as a way to evoke pity.

“I had people say to me, you know, why didn’t you have them doing shock treatment,” says Danforth. “Why don’t you have some nasty aversion therapy where they would force the kids to watch gay porn and then they would douse them with unpleasant scents or whatever.

And there are those horror stories, one can find those fairly readily. But those are the exceptions and I was much more interested...in not going there.”

Hello from the riot grrrls In the early 1990s, Nirvana’s Nevermind hit number one on the charts and a storm of riot grrrls took over the independent airwaves. For most rural Montana literature, this might seem irrelevant, except that if you were growing up as an “alternative” teenager during these times, this new music would have been the soundtrack to your life. Danforth recognizes this change in the western scenery. Cameron Post has a friend in Seattle who sends her mixtapes buzzing with the sounds of Bikini Kill and giving her a taste of a rising movement that embraced lesbianism. And in that way, the book gives us a glimpse of the parallel world outside Miles City in the 1990s.

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“I really think of this novel as a historical novel,” Danforth says. “People who write historical fiction set in the 1700s give me this baffling look. But the experience of being an adolescent in 1992 in Miles City, Montana is not at all the experience of being an adolescent in 2012 in Miles City, Montana.”

The riot grrl grunge keyhole isn’t just a superfluous detail to ground the novel in its time. It also serves as way to highlight just how isolated Cameron is.

“Cam has no access to the internet,” Danforth points out, “and for a girl who likes girls, trying to find a community—and the internet is certainly not a perfect way to do that, but it is a way to find teens who are talking about the same things you are—is not an option for her at that time. She’s so desperate just to find representation of queer culture that, yeah, those mixtapes become crucial.

And it’s not just queer culture, but any kind of culture that she is not immediately surrounded by.”

Cameron rents videotapes of movies that show how she thinks people act in the world. She looks for representations of women having relationships with other women. And because they’re videotapes, not Netflix streams, they make her more vulnerable. It’s “the idea of having to go and rent these things and then in a small town everybody knows what you rented,” Danforth says.

Return to the lake There’s a story about how raven brings light to the universe by stealing it. It’s one of thousands of aboriginal stories of the land, etiological tales of the way things came to be. Besides being historical fiction and a story of the West, The Miseducation of Cameron Post ends up being a story of the land. It starts out as a falsehood: Cameron is sure that the story of her parents’ death begins with the kiss she shared with Irene. Not only that, but her parents’ car accident happens near Quake Lake, which, we’re told, is where Cameron’s mother escaped death as a child when the 1959 earthquake occurred.

Cameron is certain of God’s hand in this irony: Her mother escaped only to suffer the consequences of the sins of her own daughter.

Quake Lake is a poignant place. The earthquake created a landslide whose 100-mile-per-hour force hit a campground and killed 28 people in the middle of the night. There’s a plaque commemorating the loss, but the eeriest part is the lake, which still has a highway running through it, plus houses, their tops peeking from the surface.

Danforth’s mother, who is alive and well, did barely escape the earthquake. “It really is my mother’s story,” she says, “not every detail of it, but they were in fact at Quake Lake the day that night happened.” Her mother always told her this story: If Danforth’s grandfather had put his fishing pole in the lake, they never would have left. But they got a tip that there was an all-you-can-eat

buffet in Virginia City and packed and departed. “I remember hearing this story and getting goosebumps,” says Danforth. “So before I’d ever been to Quake Lake, there was that story. It’s true for so many things that at any moment we can be a second away from an event. This ties to the landscape of the book: the natural disaster that changes everything. And those small misses.”

In Cameron Post, Quake Lake shows up several times and each time it gains new weight. “You introduce something and the reader doesn’t know what to expect,” Danforth explains, “and then you introduce it again and because of everything that happened in between, it takes on new meaning. And by the end, when it turns up again, it should work as a symphony. It’s an echo that changes and develops what the novel means.”

There’s no point in giving the story away, but it won’t ruin anything to say that Cameron ends up at Quake Lake to try and recast her story of guilt into one of reconciliation and rebirth amongst the debris of that place: “There wouldn’t be any adjusting to this lake on this night...I stepped in, one foot after another, and just kept walking, the lake floor rocky in some places, gooey and thick in others. It was like walking on coals, maybe, if the coals and ash grew thicker and thicker with each step...I concentrated on my candle flame, counted to three as I inhaled and again to three as I blew out. And again. And again. My blood pounded in my ears and something like an ice cream headache pulsed along my temples. If I wanted to make it to that skeleton forest, I was going to have to swim.”

Truth conforms to music A good Montana poet, Richard Hugo, once wrote: “When you start to write, you carry to the page one of two attitudes, though you may not be aware of it. One is that all music must conform to truth. The other, that all truth must conform to music. If you believe the first, you are making your job very difficult.”

The Miseducation of Cameron Post adheres to that advice. Danforth, though she shares some characteristics and experiences with Cameron, has written her to be a person who follows her own path. “Anybody who knew me in high school or even thereafter would tell you all the many, many, many ways that Cam and I are not at all alike,” she says. “One of the most obvious you can start with is, I’m not an orphan; you could start there with listing them and it would go for hundreds and hundreds of pages. But I think a lot of those details of sense of place and experiencing wonderment [are true]—I remember one of the things that was so delicious about growing up in Miles City when I did was the fair and those kinds of events and that kind of experience of culture. You know, it was a pretty great place to be a teenager.”

A few months ago, Danforth returned to Miles City for a reading. She wasn’t sure what to expect. She knew there had been a religious protest at the Miles City library during a presentation on Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. And here was her book, a young-adult novel about being gay in Miles City, and there’s drinking and sex and swearing in it. She’s heard that some people in Miles City disapproved; whether it was because of the gay aspect or that they felt these subjects were too racy for teens, she’s not sure. Yet she’s rendered all those scenes with grace and sweetness. And the way she treats Miles City, even as Cameron goes through rough times, is deeply affectionate.

“It was strange for me,” she says. “It’s this strange thing, like, you can’t go home again, and yet here I was

going home with this book and I’m reading at the library where I once got my library card cut in half because I had so many overdue fines. And who’s going to show up, and will they be angry?”

She needn’t have worried.

“In fact, it was wonderful,” she says. “It was also a much older crowd than I’d expected—I’d say half the crowd was 60 and older. And there were smart questions.

I don’t know that everyone in the audience loved the book or loved everything in it, but I think they were just happy for me and happy about the things in the book about Miles City that they can kind of respond to. It’s been overwhelmingly positive.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

They knew the knock was coming It was as perfect a summer night as the one before it. We watched the stars from our place in the barn loft. We blew stolen pink bubbles bigger than our heads. We kissed again.

Irene leaned toward me and I knew exactly what she was doing, and we didn’t even have to talk about it. Irene silently daring me to keep going every time I came up for air. I wanted to. The last time it had been just our mouths.

This time we remembered that we had hands, though neither of us were sure what to do with them. We came inside for the night, drunk on our day together, our secrets. We were still telling those secrets when we heard Irene’s parents in the kitchen, maybe ten minutes after the phone rang. Mrs. Klauson was crying, her husband saying something over and over in a calm, steady voice. I couldn’t quite catch it.

“Shhhh,” Irene told me, even though I wasn’t making noise beyond the rustle of the covers. “I can’t tell what’s going on.”

And then from the kitchen, Mrs. Klauson, her voice like I’d never heard it, like it was broken, like it wasn’t even hers. I couldn’t hear enough to make any sense. Something about taking her in the morning. Telling her then.

There were heavy footsteps in the hallway, Mr. Klauson’s boots. This time we both heard

him perfectly, his soft reply to his wife. “Her grandmother wants me to bring her home. It’s not up to us, honey.”

“It’s something really bad,” Irene said to me, her voice not even quite a whisper.

I didn’t know what to say back. I didn’t say anything.

We both knew the knock was coming. We heard the footsteps stop outside Irene’s door, but there was empty time between the end of those steps and the heavy rap of his knuckles: ghost-time. Mr. Klauson standing there, waiting, maybe holding his breath, just like me.

I think about him on the other side of that door all the time, even now. How I still had parents before that knock, and how I didn’t after. Mr. Klauson knew that too; how he had to lift his calloused hand and take them away from me at 11 p.m. one hot night at the end of June—summer vacation, root beer and stolen bubble gum, stolen kisses—the very good life for a 12-year-old, when I still had mostly everything figured out, and the stuff I didn’t know seemed like it would come easy enough if I could just wait for it, and anyway there’d always be Irene with me, waiting too.

—From the novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily Danforth

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[arts]

Resident reminiscent P.D. Lear and the ghosts of country past

by Brooks Johnson

P.D. Lear is the September musician in residence at the VFW.

eople always say, “Yeah, I like all music. Except country, of course,” as if to say “I’m going to believe what the radio calls country and ignore the legacy of some really great music.” That’s not the line you’re going to get from P.D. Lear.

Classics fuel this one-man-band’s inspiration machine. The local multi-instrumentalist and September VFW resident picks through the heart of roots and blues, giving the old a new home in his hands.

Through his microphone, handmade from an old Bell telephone, it sounds appropriately rustic.

“As I get older, new music just bores the shit out of me,” he says. “I kind of went backwards.”

Though he grew up on punk, his grandma’s old country and blues records echo with him the most these days. Driving back from Portland a few years ago, his CD player jammed and the rest is history.

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“I turned on the radio to this country station and it must have been a Hank Williams marathon,” he says.

“So for a hundred miles it was nothing but Hank. I hadn’t heard any of it in so long, so at first I was like, ‘Eh.’ Then all of a sudden I started singing along to all these songs. It really brought me back.”

Sitting in front of a bass drum and a tambourine on a hi-hat stand, Phil Lear’s fingers dance on a fret board tuned to open C. Out pours the low-voiced, high-speed blues growl that sounds more like a VFW in Nashville, not our very own Post 209. A fast set, intertwined with banjo, a slide—plus dents in every finished can of Olympia—leave you wondering how it looks so easy.

It helps that Lear’s been playing guitar since forever, so when I say dance, I mean his fingers are a choreographed choir of their own, putting out sounds that bands comprising three or more fail to make. He

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picked up the banjo a year and a half ago but again lays waste to beginner’s twang and plays it clean and clear.

Week one of his residency started with some technical glitches but Keith Moore, of Bird’s Mile Home, saved the day, offering his guitar in lieu of Lear’s Fender bender.

“I’ve got another one somewhere,” Lear says.

“That’s what you get for buying a shitty guitar.”

He didn’t set out to run his own show. He’s been playing solo just over a year now. He started out with a punk band called Lethal Device at age 15 in Livingston, where he went to high school. After time spent between Portland and Missoula, he settled here. He drummed in a few bands but the P.D. moniker didn’t set in until last year.

“My first show was in my basement with a band named High Lonesome,” he says. “Mostly just so they had somebody to open for them. Someone said, ‘That

was sick, you should keep doing that.’ So I did.”

Lear can rattle off blues and Americana artists like they’re his alphabet. But that’s not all he listens to. The Wu-Tang Clan definitely has a home on his playlist (an overlap with other country/blues musicians I’ve talked to, interestingly).

Of course, many Missoula musicians know P.D. from emceeing the VFW’s open mic night.

“There’s some great acts up there, I tell you what,” he says.

Wanting to believe him, I press on to find out who these hidden legends might be.

“I was being facetious,” he says.

P.D. Lear plays the VFW every Thursday this month at 10 PM nightly, with each night showcasing special guest bands. $2. arts@missoulanews.com

[comedy] Times Run 9/14- 9/20

Goodbye, satirists The Montana Logging and Ballet Co. takes a final bow

by Mack Perry

hat does a group that calls itself the Montana Logging and Ballet Company have to do with South African apartheid? In 1990, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmonde Tutu visited Helena and, when asked by a reporter why the normally South African-based activist would travel all the way to the capital of Montana, he simply replied, “It is the one with the Montana Logging and Ballet Company.”

A musical comedy troupe that combines rippedfrom-the-headlines commentary, catchy songs and hopeful yet self-deprecating humor, The Montana Log-

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the four met the archbishop at the first United Methodist Global Gathering in Louisville, Ky. in 1987.

Composing “Take the Barriers” in honor of the visiting activist, the troupe managed to get the archbishop to join them in Helena for a benefit concert where they raised close to $1 million for college scholarships.

The quartet originally met while attending Rocky Mountain College in 1967 and connected through a mutual love of theater and politics. Each member brought a different perspective and skill set to the troupe. Steve Garnaas-Holmes is a United Methodist pastor who has written and composed music for the

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ging and Ballet Co. paved the way for the cheeky satire of contemporary political satirists like “The Daily Show”’s Jon Stewart. And after 38 years, the nationally renowned comedy group with the goofy name is calling it quits.

Although they don’t log or perform ballet and they originally went through several name changes before settling on their moniker, the title of Montana Logging and Ballet Co. is somehow fitting. The troupe’s songs juxtapose a folky, old-school a capella sound with jokes based on events that are both current (when they were written anyway) and local. The group would often read about the events happening in the place they were about to perform and write songs and sketches to incorporate commentary about these events into their performances. Throwback music specific about the news of the day isn’t quite as bizarre as seeing a logger in a tutu, but it’s pretty close.

The subject matter of Montana Logging and Ballet Co.’s music and sketch comedy runs the gamut of broad to specific, as songs like “Another Road Begins”and “Before I Die” comment on the cyclical, repeating nature of both the political realm and human nature. “Take the Barriers Down” focuses squarely on racism and the apartheid in South Africa.

It was through “Take the Barriers Down” that the scrappy troupe of Billings natives managed to attract the attention of Archbishop Tutu. As the story goes,

United Methodist Book of Hymns. His brother Tim Holmes is a sculptor and filmmaker whose work has been collected by former president Jimmy Carter and Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. Bob FitzGerald doubled as both a troupe member and manager and Rusty Harper is cited as Montana Logging and Ballet Co’s ever important “idea man.” Their performances eventually became a monthly staple of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition.

So why close up shop after all these years? Alas, if there is one barrier this stalwart collective of musicians and comedians could not take down, it’s age. “When professional quarterbacks can’t get out of bed in the morning anymore, they know it’s time to retire,” notes FitzGerald. “That goes double for musicians.”

The Montana Logging and Ballet Company performs its iconic comedy, original music and satire as part of its farewell tour at UM’s Dennison Theatre Wed., Sept. 19, at 7:30 PM. The show benefits Family Promise of Missoula, a nonprofit interfaith network of Missoula congregations serving homeless families with children. $30 general admission/$40 reserved seating/$90 reserved stage-front seating, with tickets available through GrizTix and its Missoula outlets.

Nonperishable food items also will be collected at the show for the Missoula Food Bank. arts@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Latino dub Mexicans with Guns gets the party started Much like his moniker, Mexicans with Guns is a weighty affair on your speakers. The San Antonio-based Chicano electronic artist—who recently told an NPR blogger that his loaded name is meant to create dialog about issues like immigration and stereotypes—creates crosspollinating tunes perfect for beer-soaked dance-offs or pensive nights at home. His hybrid sound is refreshingly distinct and never bores.

Dancefloor smasher “Dame Lo”—which includes a wicked video on YouTube you should check out—pits Herculean dubstep-style bass lines and beats with bits of Latin percussion, a smooth melody and plenty of rugged attitude. It brings to mind an epic Wild West gunfight set in the future on some desolate planet starved of water.

On “Death and Rebirth,” things turn contemplative with a hauntingly gorgeous chord progression set to some seriously funky polyrhythms. It’s the perfect soundtrack to the Day of the Dead Parade.

You should also be glad to know Mexicans with Guns brings the goods in a live setting. His laptop set at the Palace in 2011 was a gloriously sweaty dance party.

He triggered glitched-out effects over an array of aggressively edgy dance beats, all while wearing a lucha libre mask. It was, quite simply, badass. (Ira Sather-Olson) Mexicans with Guns plays the Palace Fri., Sept. 14, at 9 PM with Nominus and Lecture. $10/$7 advance, with a $5 surcharge at the door for ages 18-20.

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Revolution is in the air these days, and Denver’s Flobots have plenty of songs to remind us of that. If the term “rap-rockers” brings to mind nauseating memories of Limp Bizkit, rest assured that this raprock outfit is a far cry from Fred Durst’s frattitude. The group delivers another call to arms for protesters and progressive thinkers on this record, delivering rapidfire lyrics over rumbling bass lines and swelling string arrangements. Cuts like “Gonna be Free” shine with anthemic choruses and slick arrangement, but other hooks come off as awkward elementary school chants instead. The monotone flows of both rappers makes it hard to differentiate between songs, though dulcet

vocal contributions from viola player Mackenzie Gault and guest appearances by the girls from Paper Bird lend distinction to tunes like “Sides.”

A similar lack of distinction runs throughout the album, unfortunately. While enjoyable, passionate and well-crafted, nothing here is particularly memorable, especially in relation to the ground the band has already covered. A finer point on whom the uprising is against and a deeper dose of groove would benefit this release, but it still doesn’t fall short of being a good teaser for their upcoming Missoula show. (Jed Nussbaum) Flobots play the Top Hat Fri., Sept. 14, at 9 PM. $15/$13 advance.

Guns of Nevada: Songs in the Key of Whiskey It’s Saturday afternoon, Mr. Pizza Guy just delivered a pie to your house and one of those low-budget “Trick My Chopper” shows is on the TV. Seattle’s Guns of Nevada is mos def the soundtrack to your broadcast day. You’re familiar with the musical sounds: shameless wah-wah pedal abuse, perhaps a talk box lending its voice and the 12-bar blues. Montage music. Heckdarn, maybe even throw in a Hammond B-3 or some tinkling ivories when the formula says it’s time for them. There is something to be said for creating tunes the audience can sing along to by their end. Liberal uses of lyrical and thematic cliches make that task a tick easier.

Guns’ subject matter is fine for day-drinking, with songs about partying, women (even girls that kiss each other, how ooh la-la!) and an outlaw life that seems to exist for a few weeks each summer when accountants mount their hogs and ride out to Sturgis. This brand of rock and roll doesn’t allow for much opportunity to re-shape the musical formula, so to be better than the rest bands must do so lyrically, like when Guns sing, “It’s hard to wave goodbye in handcuffs.” It’s hard not to raise a Bud Light to that. (Jason McMackin) Guns of Nevada play at the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday from 6 to 8 PM on Fri., Sep. 14 and at Monk’s Bar at 10 PM, with Sweet Rebel D.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Here If you attended a wedding in the last two years, you have probably heard Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ “Home.” It’s the kind of Americana sing-along that everyone likes, and it is about loving someone despite your authentic hobo lifestyle, which is why it was also in a phone commercial. That kind of popularity used to be death. Back when people sold $15 albums by putting one famous song on each of them, ES and the MZs would have signed a seven-record deal and sucked forever. Our newer, better music culture, however, left only the questions of whether they would ever release a sec-

ond album and if it would sound like the first.

Short answers: duh and yes. Here sounds much like Up From Below, in that it consists of simple melodies made to sound enormous through production—what Kurt Vile calls hyperballads. It is less like the soundtrack to a Sergio Leone movie and more like a choral society living in a bus—understandable after the success of “Home.” Mostly, it confirms suspicion: both that the original album was not a fluke, and that the band does not intend to do anything that groundbreaking again. (Dan Brooks)

[books]

Like a bird William Cobb’s tale flies despite heavy metaphors

by Molly Laich

William J. Cobb’s third novel, The Bird Saviors, is a to no effective end. 2) It foregoes the use of quotation pre-apocalyptic tome with interwoven plots set in rural marks, of which the result is often confusing and distractColorado. The United States has been devastated by bird ing. 3) It employs frequent, overt and sometimes incomflu, along with economic collapse, political unrest, moral prehensible use of metaphor and simile.

In the very first paragraph, Cobb gives us the senambiguity and weird weather. Apart from the flu and frequent dust storms, Cobb’s near future resembles very tence, “Outside the foggy window Smoke Larks flutter much our present day. They still have Walmart and “The liquid as living shadows to perch atop the woodshed.”

Deadliest Catch,” but then again, perhaps this is only the Not even a friendly comma after that introductory clause to help us thereafter? It gets better, but we’ve gotten off beginning.

Ruby is a 17-year-old unwed mother. Her father, on the wrong foot. Do we need to be told that the severed sometimes addressed as “Lord God,” has a peg leg from head skyjacks a man’s dreams “like a special wars in the Middle East, hates Muslims and practices a deformed version of Mormonism.

The novel follows Ruby as she attempts to escape the clutches of her father and find hope in a world that’s become increasingly cutthroat and senseless, a world where people shoot birds for fun.

Multiple characters and plot lines are threaded through the story. There’s the polygamist pawnshop owner who wants to take Ruby on as a third wife, the widowed ornithologist who counts birds and craves love, a man trying to pawn off a shrunken head, a woman who’d rather swallow a $20,000 engagement ring than give it back to the man who broke things off, the horse cop who loves her and on and on.

The desperation of these characters is palpable, and Cobb does a nice job of juggling so many dead birds in the air.

The central question of the book deals with hope and faith.

Where do they intersect? Are they the same thing? The following pasct & Fiction aviors at Fa S d ir B e sage, told from the horse cop’s pers from Th Cobb read e. spective, gets to the heart of the matter: Williamept. 16, at 2:30 PM. Fre S ., n Su What leads people to temptation? guest star?” Or that his eyes burn “like they’ve been soaked in Tabasco?” For those who come to a novel look“Israel James does not like motels. They ing for a story, endless comparisons to things that are just bring out the worst in people. The good take like the other thing start to tick in the brain. home a bar of soap or vial of shampoo, the polIt’s a shame, because there’s real storytelling here, ishing cloth for a shoeshine they will never use, filled with sharp, noir-ish dialogue. About the authenticity maybe the Gideon Bible in times of spiritual of the severed head up for grabs: “Hock shops value the doubt. The bad rip the blow dryer out of the wall, odd. It might fit right in. I mean, it’s a head all right. Even burn a hole in the carpet, then strangle a hooker if I doubt it’s Black Jack’s.” to death after failing to perform, leaving her body People have reoccurring dreams of pink snow. The beneath the bed or stuffed in the closet, covered smell of juniper wafts liberally, and “the night air is cold with a blanket, behind an ironing board. And the as glass vapor, the Milky Way a river of stars in the blackpeople who are torn between good and bad? ness above.” Whether or not these tropes will bother They hear the devil whispering, and they listen.” most readers may simply be a matter of taste. Even with its many foibles, The Bird Saviors manages to tell a story On a stylistic level, The Bird Saviors employs certain worth knowing. devices that other book reviewers don’t seem to be mentioning. 1) The novel is written entirely in present tense, arts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Out of purgatory Montana film finds an audience 33 years later

by Skylar Browning

No film in the history of cinema carries such a perverse and legendary stigma as Heaven’s Gate. The Western epic, filmed mostly in the Flathead Valley and released in 1980, features a star-studded cast including Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston and John Hurt, and a visionary writer/director, Michael Cimino, coming off the success of The Deer Hunter. On paper, it couldn’t miss. In reality, the film became the biggest bomb in Hollywood history, sinking an entire studio and inspiring both a book and documentary about its failure.

What went wrong with Heaven’s Gate is usually far more discussed than the film itself, and with good reason: The best action occurred off-camera. Cimino spared no expense and his quest for perfection approached certifiable. Originally budgeted at $7.5 million, the project ended up costing more than $40 million, an unheard-of sum at the time. In order to authentically tell the story of European settlers in the late 19th century actors attended “Camp Cimino,” where they learned everything from Yugoslavian dialect and the nuances of cock fighting to how to dance and roller skate. This preparation lasted six weeks before shooting commenced.

Things got even more painstaking once the cameras started to roll. Cimino personally “interviewed” more than 300 horses before approving them for filming, ignored shooting schedules and union rules in favor of specific lighting and demanded dozens of takes for each scene; he famously asked Kristofferson to snap a bullwhip in a particular way 52 different times.

The first cut of the film shown to studio executives came in more than five hours long. The final version still stretched nearly four. (A third version, released after Cimino pulled and re-edited the film after its disastrous premiere, clocked in at 149 minutes.) All told, Heaven’s Gate earned just $3 million at the box office. United Artists, started by actors like Charlie Chaplin and respected for its tradition of groundbreaking work, was sold and rebranded. Cimino’s career tanked; his only other noteworthy credit was directing Year of the Dragon. The whole fiasco became a cautionary tale, an absurd example of what happens when ego and the bottom line (and, allegedly, on-set cocaine use) are left unchecked. Failure has long been its only legacy.

Hollywood, however, loves a second chance, and Heaven’s Gate is getting one. Much like the work of Samuel Fuller, David Lynch and perhaps David Hasselhoff, Cimino’s lavish Western has found an audience in Europe. It took center stage at the recent Venice Film Festival, during which the director attended a screening of a digitally restored, newly edited—but mostly the same—version set for release by the Criterion Collec-

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tion. The film received a standing ovation.

“Time has been kind to Heaven’s Gate,” wrote Dennis Lim for The New York Times following the Venice screening. Lim went on to call it “a grand, eccentric yet elegiac rethinking of the myths of the West (and the western), with an uncommonly blunt take on class in America.” Lim’s re-review stands as a stunning turn after Vincent Canby, writing for the same newspaper in 1980, referred to it as “a four-hour walking tour of one’s own living room” and “an unqualified disaster.”

The film’s merits, in fact, haven’t changed much

over the years. Watching an old copy again last week, trying to revel in its recent revival, there seemed little need for revisionism. Vilmos Zsigmond’s cinematography still contains jaw-dropping wide shots of Montana’s landscape, epic battle sequences and fully recreated Old West cities. The precision and grandeur of certain scenes also remains mesmerizing, such as one in a roller skating rink built specifically for the film on the outskirts of Kalispell. But to say “time has been kind” to the film— to mention time at all—is cruel, since it still takes an eternity for Cimino to tell such a thin story. It’s wonderful and flawed, audacious and tedious.

If you’ve seen Heaven’s Gate once, there’s little need to see it again. But for the uninitiated, consider this re-release an opportune occasion. After all, Hollywood has rendered audiences numb to bloated productions that fall short of expectations—it happens nearly every week. And compared to more current examples, Heaven’s Gate is not a disaster, and the living room, so to speak, contains some stunning cinematic history.

The Criterion Collection’s restored version of Heaven’s Gate will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in November for $31.96. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK FINDING NEMO 3D This 3D “update” of the 2003 kids’ “classic” has “jokes” for all the “adults,” too. Plus stuff flying right at your face. Starring the voices of Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres. Rated G for Gouge. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY: QUEEN LIVE IN BUDAPEST ’86 The Magic Tour, Queen’s final tour with Freddie Mercury, catches the band and the 80,000 audience members in Budapest in a raucous mood. If only I’d been born 20 years sooner and in Hungary. Starring Freddie Mercury, undoubtedly. Unrated. Thu., Sept.

20, at 7:30 PM. Carmike 12.

THE LAST OUNCE OF COURAGE So a character named Tom Revere (Ring any lanterns?) dies in combat. His son Christian (ahem) and Tom’s wife move in with Tom’s dad, the mayor of a town that no longer celebrates Christmas. Perhaps the holiday is restored to its rightful place in the pantheon of great celebrations. Perhaps. Starring Marshall R. Teague and Jennifer O’Neill. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION Milla Jovovich continues to battle the Umbrella Corporation, but this time she has help from a resistance group. Also starring Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez. Rated R. Carmike 12: Big D and Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING 2016: OBAMA’S AMERICA Based on Dinesh D’Souza’s book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, this “documentary” pulls back the proverbial curtain and uses Obama’s own words to illustrate how he desires to make the United States pay for the sins of our fathers. Rated Fatuous. Or PG. Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

THE EXPENDABLES 2

In this wonderwall of fantasy that takes place in a sequestered piece of bayou country, a child lives in a crumbling world of pathetic fallacy, which she believes she must resuscitate in order to save her dying father. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

Who’s back for more? Dude, only the baddest mofos since Ronald Reagan and Captain Crunch. Only this time their luck isn’t so great. One of their own is murdered and the boys find themselves praying to Xena for a way out of enemy territory. Starring Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, Van Damme and more. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Entertainer.

THE BOURNE LEGACY Due to a scheduling conflict, Jason Bourne wasn’t available for this film. Starring Jeremy Renner. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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

CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER A hep divorcing couple try to remain pals even as each looks for new love in all the wrong places. Idea: What if their romance is rekindled by such a search?! Starring my fourth wife Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg. Rated R. Wilma.

THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY Bruce Willis is the kind of “business consultant” that tends to get shot at. Now his kid Henry Cavill has to save his family who just wanted a nice vacation in Spain. See, these Wall Street types don’t all have it so easy. Rated PG-13. Village 6.

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

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

HIT AND RUN A former getaway driver, Charlie Bronson, risks blowing his anonymity in the witness protection program to help his girlfriend. You guessed right: the feds and the bad guys are after him. Starring Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper and Tom Arnold. Rated R. Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

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

Carmike 12.

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

Rated PG. Village 6.

LAWLESS The law about to come down hard on these here bootleggers living it up in Depression-era Virginney. Starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce. Rated R. Carmike 12.

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

THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN A childless couple does what all childless couples do: bury a box of hopes and dreams in the backyard. Wouldn’t you know it, a child appears, and likely teaches the

world a thing or two about hopes and dreams. Starring Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton. Rated PG. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

THE POSSESSION Don’t be buying peoples’ used junk or you may end up with a possessed box like this gal does, plus the whole bee barfing thing seems awful. Starring Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12.

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

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES In this documentary, coo-coo and loaded billionaires set out to build the biggest house in the U.S. at 90,000 square feet. In the process they learn to live and to give each other what they need to survive together alive. Starring Virginia Nebab, David Siegel and Jaqueline Siegel.

Rated PG. Wilma.

THE WORDS Writer Bradley Cooper stumbles upon some words and calls them his own. Dennis Quaid and Oliva Wilde help show him that a little thing called attribution would’ve made this whole thing blow over, but nooo, someone wanted to be famous. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times please see our website, contact the theaters telephonically or via theater websites in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6– 541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan-883-5603.

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by Ari LeVaux When tomatoes rain, they pour. For a moment each year they are plentiful, growing soft in bowls on countertops. Whether they come from your own patch or the labors of others, now is the time to carpe tomatum. My two favorite ways of channeling this red flood are making salsa and ketchup. Both processes are simple, require few special tools and lend themselves to putting away large quantities of tomatoes.

And both end products are orders of magnitude better than their store-bought counterparts.

My ketchup process loosely follows the recipe in Stocking Up, by Carol Stoner. The salsa process I apprenticed from a used-car salesman who became my friend by selling me a car—a rare human being indeed.

With these two recipes in my pocket, there’s no such thing as being swamped with tomatoes, or out of catsup or salsa. Those states of being no longer exist.

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In addition to its traditional uses atop burgers and fries, there are also recipes—like barbecue sauce and meatloaf—in which ketchup acts as an ingredient rather than a condiment. Moreover, I find that strategically applied ketchup can help a surprising amount of ethnic and otherwise non-ketchupy dishes as well.

Ketchup’s rich concentration of clove-scented tomato umami is mandatory in my Indian saag paneer or New Mexico green chile stew. If I don’t have fresh tomatoes, I’ll use ketchup in dishes like Ligurian fish soup, or lamb stew, among others. A modest stash of ketchup is a truly crucial component in a wellrounded pantry.

Aside from the usual canning gear, the only special equipment required for ketchup making is a sieve/food mill/baby-food maker/puree filter-type thing, for making soft food into fiber-free puree. My version is basically a conical mortar with holes in it, through which I mash stuff with a wooden pestle; I got it for $10 at a pawn shop in Missoula.

This recipe’s proportions are based on five quarts of chopped tomatoes, or about 30 medium-size fruits.

Liquefy the chopped tomatoes in a blender, along with two large chopped onions. Simmer this tomato/onion puree for about half an hour in a thickbottomed pot, then push it through the food mill.

Return the filtered puree to the pot and simmer slowly, stirring often. In a different pot, heat three cups of vinegar. (I like to use vinegar from a jar of pickled peppers, for extra complexity and mojo.) Simmer with a stick of cinnamon, two teaspoons of cloves contained in a tea ball, and a head of minced garlic.

After 30 minutes, kill the heat under the vinegar.

When the tomato-and-onion mixture has almost but not quite reached the consistency of ketchup, remove the cinnamon stick and cloves and pour the vinegar mixture into the puree. Add a teaspoon of paprika, a heavy teaspoon of salt, and a dash, more or less, of cayenne pepper.

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The vinegar will dilute the ketchup slightly. Stir it together and continue to simmer until it’s thick, but not quite as thick as ketchup. Ladle the red slurry into clean, sterile pint jars. Screw on lids and process for 10 minutes in a water bath.

Salsa My salsa recipe involves a few more ingredients than ketchup, and it’s generally a bigger production. But all those extra ingredients happen to be in season now, too.

And if you love salsa, it’s worth it. Even if you end up paying for your raw materials, by the time you’ve turned them into salsa you will defend those jars with your life.

Tomatoes and chile peppers comprise the bulk of canning salsa. (Fresh salsa recipes, on the other hand, tend to go lighter on the chile.) Onions, garlic and carrots round out the recipe. The ratio of tomato to chile pepper should be about one-to-one by uncut volume, or three-to-one by weight. So, for a 40-pound box of tomatoes, you’ll want 13 to 15 pounds of peppers, as well as 10 large onions, three pounds of carrots and six heads of garlic.

High-acid, juicy canning tomatoes are ideal; look for big, red, and round normal-looking varieties. No roma-style paste tomatoes or funky heirlooms. As for the peppers, include as many shapes, colors, sizes and flavors as you can. This diversity is what gives particular salsas their individual character. I use whatever I can get my hands on, which is most often jalapeños, bells, Anaheims, wax, peppers from the jar of pickled peppers in my fridge, and red pods pulled from the half-depleted ristra hanging on the kitchen wall.

Salsa lovers with low heat tolerance can assemble a diverse collection of mild, sweet and flavorful pepper varieties, and still get the complexity of a good salsa without blowing your head off. If you’re in the hot camp, use gloves and remember to remove them before using the restroom.

The food processor load is the main unit of this recipe, as in: five loads tomatoes, five loads peppers, two loads onions, one load carrots, half a load garlic.

Pour these loads of processed veggies into a big, thickbottomed pot.

Keep adding ingredients at those proportions until the pot is almost full. Then mix the contents, turn on the heat, and gently bring the salsa to a boil, stirring and scraping frequently to prevent scalding.

While heating, season with salt and pepper, tasting frequently with corn chips, and treating the capsaicin assault on your senses with very, very cold beer.

When the mix hits a boil, let it roll for 30 seconds, and turn off the heat. Ladle the salsa into hot sterilized jars, and screw on sterilized lids. The hot-packed jars will seal as they cool.

So there you have them, the tools with which you will never again fear a pile of tomatoes, never again run out of ketchup or salsa. The tomatoes will be with you, and not against you.

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

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

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Picnic? Bernice’s is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice’s: made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. Xoxo Bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty.

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas.

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

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The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St 9262038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious!

Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-9pm MondaySaturday. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts.

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Pabst Blue Ribbon HAPPIEST HOUR Why we’re here: We just learned that the Orange Street Food Farm sells more Pabst Blue Ribbon than nearly any other grocery store or supermarket in the country.

“We’re number three in retail sales,” says Food Farm assistant store manager Tommy Hendrix.

Aiming to understand the root of the Food Farm’s success, we wandered down its beer aisle to check out the selection. Nearly a whole refrigerator is stuffed with Pabst’s trademark white cans with blue labels. The selection of tall boys, cases and bottles is impressive.

But as we gazed into that cooler, we thought, “Why aren’t we number one?”

Hendrix says that North Carolina and Utah stores beat us.

“By how much?” we asked.

Hendrix says Pabst won’t release that information.

That seemed weird. So we called Zip Beverage, which supplies Pabst to the Food Farm.

Zip’s Doug Davis said the Food Farm has now actually beat out North Carolina, meaning it’s “number two in the country.” But an unnamed Salt Lake City store still has us beat. Davis would-

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n’t say by how much. An email from the Indy to Pabst corporate headquarters went unanswered.

It doesn’t seem fair that we don’t know what our competition looks like. But that doesn’t dim our love for the beer. Actually, it’s only sparked our competitive spirit. We’re off to the Food Farm to stock up for a full weekend of Happiest Hours.

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

Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, MondayFriday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates.

Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft.

Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas.

Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open MonSat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

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

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

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Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9.

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week.

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

September 13-September 20, 2012

Synergy Sessions smashes the remote and stays on the local DJ, dancing and live painting channel at the Palace. 9 PM. Free.

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

PD Lear is bringing the party to Week Two of his VFW residency, with Tales from a Ghost Town and Deadnecks, not to mention it’s Jennifer and Manny’s 10th anniversary party and all are invited. Don’t know ‘em? Well come meet ‘em and enjoy the music, Brenda. 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. $2. (See Music.)

Brazilian DJs Dirtyloud gots the beats for your feets and the drums for shaking them bums when they do work at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $15/$12 advance.

FRIDAYSEPT.14 Lady Pajama shows off her works, and she ain’t gonna let no baby-makin’ operation stop her from getting it done. Well, maybe a little bit. See her stuff at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.

Hey ladies, the YWCA program GUTS (Girls Using Their Strengths) is looking for volunteers to work with girls 9-18 years of age. Today is the deadline so fill out an app asap at ywcaofmissoula.org.

On a boat. The Head and The Heart performs at the Wilma Theatre Wed., Sept. 19, at 8 PM, with Blitzen Trapper and Brian John Appleby.

Sold out.

THURSDAYSEPT.13 The Peace and Justice Film Series screens the Oliver Stone film, South of Border, which follows Stone on a five-country road trip to explore social and political movements in Central and South America.

Discussion to follow. UC Theater, University Center. 7 PM. Free.

nightlife Andrea Harsell sells sea shells by the... no wait, she plays folk for free at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton from 6 to 8:30 PM. Free.

Younger Shoulder, Richard Album and the Lifestyles and Needlecraft carve themselves into the woodwork with some fun pop rocks at Zoo City Apparel. 8 PM. $5 suggested.

Miss Nelson is Missing and it’s going to be harder to find her than Carmen Sandiego and Waldo combined when the children’s play goes on stage for three nights at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts at 7 PM. Call the box office at 728-7529 for tickets.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kind of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Learn to keep it level at the Whitewater Rescue and River Safety Class at Alberton Gorge with Montana River Guides. The threeday 20-hour course teaches accident prevention, aggressive swimming and shore rescue skills. $295. Call Mike at 214-0245.

The Blackfoot River Rendezvous doesn’t require buckskins or flintlock weaponry.

Heck, you can probably even buy food with money rather than trading beaver for it. This all-day, all-night two-day fun fest has bands galore including G.R.I.T., Broken Valley Roadshow, Dodgy Mountain Men, Larry Hirshberg and more, more, more. Load up Old Number Seven and head to Kind Swine BBQ, 22878 Hwy. 200 E.

As well as compost, we carry Topdress, Clay Buster, our Outdoor Mix, and our Potting Mix. Please call for more info.

406-721-1423 1125 Clark Fork Lane (right behind the Super Wal-Mart) Dropping Off / Tipping Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (seven days a week, excluding holidays) Picking Up / Purchasing Hours are 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Wednesday & Saturday only)

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who’s the boss For the snarky set, it’s easy to mock the world of tribute bands and the tribute fans. That is, until the snarky set has had enough to drink and happens to find themselves at, say, a Hells Belles (AC/DC) or Appetite for Destruction (G ‘n’ R) show.

Headbanging ensues, horns are held high and memories of high school keg parties are as fresh as the day you stole the Appetite cassette from so-and-so’s red Ford pickup at the Strawberry Festival Hall. A devil’s advocate might say that the musicians giving tribute often perform better than the original artists. Makes sense. I’ve heard bands play the crud out of Metallica’s Master of Puppets; Metallica hasn’t done that in 15 years, at least. Undoubtedly, there are Bob Dylan tributeers out there who have a pretty low bar to reach these days. However, it’s one thing to cover a band’s tune and quite another to mimic the band: the look, the patter, the winks and nods to legendary past performances. That’s what Thunder Road does. The shoes they’ve chosen to fill are The Boss’s, and they fill them with New Jersey-born Josh Tanner performing as Bruce Springsteen. The San Diego-based group began playing because Springsteen and the E Street Band haven’t performed in their part of the world in nearly 30 years. Thunder Road includes 1977 UM School of Law grad John Farmer on lead guitar. Apparently he has remedied the WHO: Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen tribute band WHAT: Pre-Homecoming concert WHERE: The Dennison Theatre on the University of Montana campus WHEN: Fri., Sept. 14, at 8 PM HOW MUCH: $20, tickets available at Griztix outlets

dangerous lack of “Tenth Avenue Freezeout” covers for the legions of diehards in San Diego. Although the band focuses on the oldies and goodies, they cover some newer material as well. After watching a few YouTube clips of the Thunder in action, one can see that Tanner has the moves down. He shakes his

Annual Peace Party

“Building Peace” Sunday September 16, 2012 4:30 pm to 8pm in Caras Park Featuring...

• Gourmet meal by our favorite caterer Homestead Organics • Bread and build-your-own cupcakes by Bernice’s Bakery • Live Auction with special guest auctioneers Bob Wire and Mayor John Engen • Silent Auction • Live music by Gladys Friday and Rhanda Johnson

Thanks to our sponsors:

hips like Bruce. He holds his Tele neck in the air like Bruce, and most importantly, he sounds like Bruce.

The likelihood of The Boss playing Missoula in the next 30 years is slim, may as well check out the next best thing.

—Jason McMackin

Tickets Members $20 each or 2 for $35 Family $45 Living Lightly $15

Nonmembers $25 each or 2 for $40 Family $50 Living Lightly $20 Table for 10 $200 Raffle Tickets $5 each or 3 for $10

www.jrpc.org • 406-543-3955

Enjoy an organic beer and some Up N’ Smoke bbq while you’re bullsquawkin’ with your homeslices at Wildwood Brewing Co., 4018 Hwy. 93 N. 4-8 PM. Rock Against Racism beats the bejeezuz out of the Rock For Racism event (plus we don’t have to listen to Screwdriver) and it features a bunch of good-egg bands such as Comatose Smile, Jercs, Danielle Oliver, House of Quist, Boys and Airstream Safari. Proceeds benefit the YWCA Missoula Racial Justice Initiative. Caras Park. 4–10 PM. Free.

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nightlife Better than a free haircut, Jay Barber plays the country and the western tunes for you and yours up at Eckstrom’s Restaurant, 81 Rock Creek Road., Clinton. 5–9 PM. Free.

Test drive your million dollar Tshirt idea at the ZACC’s Free Silkscreen Night. Staffers conduct demos and guide you step-by-step in the art of being awesome. 235 N. First St. 5:30–8:30 PM. All ages.

Free. zootownarts.org.

Sweet Rebel D and Guns of Nevada make the childrens happy with tunes for dancing and spinning

at the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday. C’mon single parents, let’s go get a look at that new gym teacher.

6–8 PM. Free.

The Writers’ Fall Opus is chock full of fine food and beverages, as well as whisperings, the vapors and intrigue. It raises funds for the UM Creative Writing Program, undergrad scholarships, visiting writers and UM’s literary magazines, with a silent auction led by Mayor Engen and food by Two Sisters.

Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 6:30–10 PM. $35/$60 per couple. Must be 21 plus. RSVP to karin.schalm@mso.umt.edu.

[calendar] Miss Nelson is Missing and it’s going to be harder to find her than Carmen Sandiego and Waldo combined when the children’s play goes on stage for three nights at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts at 7 PM. Call the box office at 728-7529 for tickets.

Show Spokanistan what’s up and voice your support for our Hellgate Rollergirls when they take on the much-maligned, thoroughly debased Spokane Spokannibals at the Adams Center. 7 PM. $12/Kids 10 and under are free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole Ave. 7– 8:30 PM. $40.

Prep for that company holiday party and learn some ballroom dancing at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier, or just shake off the rust. Trust me, the gal from accounting is yours if you can dip her.

7:30–8:30 PM beginner swing lessons, 8:30–10:30 PM dancing. $5 each, $10 for both.

Thunder Road is three things: the name of a Bruce Springsteen jam, an actual road in Sioux Falls, SoDak and the name of a Boss and E Street tribute band. The latter will perform the former at the Dennison Theatre as part of the UM Homecoming kick-off party. 7 PM. $20.

(See Spotlight.)

Get your kicks with them Soul City Cowboys at Cowboy Troy’s in Victor. That’s two more cowboys than I’ve seen all week. 8 PM. Free.

The Wild Coyote Band howls at the moon and shoots out the lights at the Eagles, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

The Blue Mountain Observatory is open for public viewings where you can bring a date, point to the sky and say things such as “ad astra per aspera.” Fact: These types of statements lead to necking. 9 PM. Free.

Call 243-5179 before heading up.

Boosh, here comes the doom, the Blessiddoom that is. The metaleers are joined by Vengeance and M7-9 at the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent. 9 PM. Free.

Muzikata ain’t karate but that doesn’t mean they don’t kick butt.

Check ‘em at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Jet City’s KnowMads rap the rhymescape so right, along with bro-hams Language Arts and Chev and local openers. Badlander. 9 PM. $12/$10 advance at Piece of Mind. $5 surcharge for ages 18-20.

Bass for your face and beats for your feets are what San Antonio’s Mexicans with Guns is all about, with Nominus and Lecture. Palace.

9 PM. $10/$7 advance at Ear Candy. $5 surcharge for ages 1820. (See Music.)

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

Call 728-8799.

Get buggled and besmirched by heavy hitters Throne of Lies, Swamp Ritual, Consequence and Shramana when they make it rain fire in the VFW, 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. $4.

Sweet Rebel D and Guns of Nevada get their rock and roll swagger on when they play Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman. 10 PM. Cost TBA. The Flobots bust them rhymes when they’re not busy shapeshifting into blow driers. Top Hat. 10 PM. $15/$13 advance. (See Music.)

Get lost with Off in the Woods when they play Sean Kelly’s, with Danielle Oliver, but watch out for crooked ladies with a supple meat fetish. 10 PM. Free.

SATURDAYSEPT.15 The Summer Sun Garden and Brew Beer Making Class at the Union Club has one amazing attribute that I know about: It’s free!

3–5 PM. The Blackfoot River Rendezvous doesn’t require buckskins or flintlock weaponry. Heck, you can probably even buy food with money rather than trading beaver for it. This all-day, all-night two-day fun fest has bands galore including G.R.I.T., Broken Valley Roadshow, Dodgy Mountain Men, Larry Hirshberg and more, more, more. Load up Old Number Seven and head to Kind Swine BBQ, 22878 Hwy. 200 E. Search Blackfoot River Rendezvous on Facebook for a full list of ticket prices and artists.

More events online: missoulanews.com Western Montana’s farmers markets are chock full of the beautiful people, fresh-baked yummies and gorgeous veggies. In Missoula, at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville, on Main Street; and in Hamilton, at South Third and Bedford Streets. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes down between 8 AM and 1 PM.

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[calendar] Wonder Twin powers activate: Form of a birdwatcher, shape of binoculars. Perfect, now it’s time to hit up the Bird Migration Celebration at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, beginning with a free breakfast at 9 AM. Beginners and kids welcome. Meet at the KMart parking lot on Brooks Avenue to carpool at 8:15 AM. Visit birdmigrationcelebration.org.

Anyone looking to trap wolves this winter must take the mandatory wolf trapping certification class.

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek. 9–4 PM. Register online at fwp.mt.gov.

Plein air enthusiasts get stoked cuz it’s time for World Wide Paint Out in Polson, sponsored by the Sandpiper Gallery and the International Plein Air Painters. Check in at Riverside Park at 9 AM, return at 4 PM and show your stuff. Visit sandpipergallery.com.

goods and wares, all while suspended high above the beautiful Blackfoot River. Park across from Town Pump mega-station. 10 AM– 2 PM. Free.

Fertilize them growing brains with words at the Missoula Writing Collaborative’s China in Missoula Writing Session for kids 8-14. Missoula Public Library, downstairs conference room. 10–Noon. Free. Visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

The new MUD Tool Library and Truck Share hosts a grand opening with a day-long event that includes some cider press action, food, music and a ribbon cutting (duh). So bring your apples and your jugs, ah-hem, on down to their new locale, 1527 Wyoming St. 10 AM–4 PM for cider pressing, 5 PM for ribbon cutting. Free.

The Milltown Bridge Market serves up fresh greens, baked

Living Art of Montana hosts a workshop for anyone facing illness

or loss called Simple Writing: Collecting, with Lori Mitchell. 725 W. Alder, Ste. 17. 10:30–12:30 PM. Free. Visit livingartofmontana.org.

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

Hope the fires have chilled a bit and head down the ‘Root for the Wildwood Brewing Grand Opening.

Organic beer, food and tunes by the likes of John Floridis, et al. 4018 Hwy. 93 (North of Stevi). Noon–8 PM. Free.

Your University of Montana Grizzlies take on the Liberty, uh, don’t say bells, but I bet it’s something awesome like the Liberty Supersnakes at WaGriz stadium. 1:30 PM. Tickets available at Griztix outlets.

“Why I’m gonna get me a peregrine falcon,” the kid from My Side of the Mountain said. Well, kid, if you ain’t got one yet, head to the Birds and Brews Social at Bayern Brewing, 1502 Montana, and join Kate Davis from Raptors of the Rockies as she shows off hers, and a golden eagle, too, all while celebrating the bird migration. 4:30– 6:30 PM. Bird talk at 5 PM.

nightlife Get back to your roots at the Sustainable Living Systems Annual Root Food Dinner. The grill’s gonna be cooking up Lifeline burgers and drinks are provided, just bring a veggie dish to share. Tunes?

Games? Fun? All likely. Victor Community Garden. 5 PM. Free.

Better than a free haircut, Jay Barber plays the country and the western tunes for you and yours up at Eckstrom’s Restaurant, 81 Rock Creek Road., Clinton. 5–9 PM. Free.

Russ and Sam Nasset get the point and stick you with it when they perform at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free.

Join the Zootown Solidarity Network for an artists’ bazaar at the Union Hall, upstairs from the Union Club, and get started on that Christmas shopping (Yes, I went there). 6–10 PM. Free.

Miss Nelson is Missing and it’s going to be harder to find her than Carmen Sandiego and Waldo combined when the children’s play goes on stage for three nights at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts at 7 PM. Call the box office at 728-7529 for tickets.

The legendary Doug Peacock (The purported inspiration for George Hayduke of The Monkey

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Wrench Gang) reads and speaks at the Grizzly Claw Trading Co. in downtown Seeley Lake. 7 PM. Free.

A Weekend with Andy Smetanka for a mere $25? Word that bird. It kicks off with a screening of some new, old and unseen work today at 6 PM, and continues Sunday with a silhouette filmmaking workshop from 10 AM to 4 PM. ZACC, 235 N. First St. $25/$10 for each additional child under 15. Visit zootownarts.org.

Soul City Cowboys gots the tunes to get you dancing with all the pretty pretties, at the Idle Spur in Dayton, 312 A St. 8 PM. Free.

Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo brings the kind beats and gnar-gnar kind-grind bro, brah, bree during a dance party featuring every style of rumpshaking tuneage. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Tom Catmull and the Clerics buries the competition with loin-inspiring slide guitar at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Earache Records’ The Browning eat glass and spit sand when they rawk the Palace with electronic tuneage mixed with metal and hardcore mayhem. Locals Walking Corpse Syndrome and Undun open. 9 PM. $8.

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

Call 728-8799.

The horn blows and ye shall suffer its wrath when groove rockers Tidal Horn blister the Top Hat stage, with The Boxcutters and Douglasses. 10 PM. $5.

Go on and get you some of that country lovin’ with tunesmith and urban farmer extraordinaire Shane Clouse when he does what he do down at that most rural of beer joints, Sean Kelly’s. 10 PM. Free.

SUNDAYSEPT.16 Hear the words of creative writing MFAers and their profs during the Second Wind Reading Series with Jordan Rossen & Ed Skoog.

Top Hat. 5 PM. Free.

The Carousel Sunday Market & Festival is the finest Sunday stroll in town. Take a spin on the carousel and sniff up local veggies, crafts and all sort of yummikins. Every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM at the New Park parking lot near A Carousel for Missoula. Visit carrousel.com/acfm/ carousel-sunday-market-and-events.

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Investors. The Dodgy Mountain Men are just one of the myriad of acts performing at the Blackfoot River Rendezvous at Kind Swine BBQ, 22878 Hwy. 200 E., from Fri., Sept. 14 to Sun., Sept. 16. Search Blackfoot River Rendezvous on Facebook for a full list of ticket prices and artists.

The UM Homecoming Kick-Off Celebration begs the question: How long have they been gone?

Whatevs, the UM marching band, spirit squad and the odoriferic Monte are gonna be partying at the Southgate Mall Clockcourt from 1– 2:30 PM. Free.

Join up or listen up at the Acoustic Music Jam Session in Hamilton at the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. All levels of players and all brands of acoustic instruments welcomed for an afternoon of bluegrass, old-timey country, folk and cowboy tunes. Call John at 381-2483.

William Cobb reads from his book The Bird Saviors, there will be no knife play nor attempts on Batman’s life at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins.

2:30 PM. Free.

Ahoy peaceniks! The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center 26th Annual Peace Party goes down at Caras Park with build-your-own-sandwiches and cupcakes by Homestead Organics and Bernice’s Bakery. Silent auction, of course. 4:30–8 PM. Visit jrpc.org. (See Agenda.)

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

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

Visit fivevalleysdanceclub.com.

Kristi Newman is better than cold pizza on a hot morning, see fer yourself at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole. 5–7 PM. Free.

The Carousel’s Celebration Dinner has some of that barbecued

yardbird for you all served up real nice at the Carousel Plaza. 6 PM. $20/$10 for 12 and under. Tickets available at the gift shop, 5498382.

Get into some culture you darn gooses. It’s super-easy; all you need to do is check out the String Orchestra of the Rockies: A Night at the Met, featuring Edward Parks, baritone soloist. Music Recital Hall.

7:30 PM. $20/$10 students.

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

MONDAYSEPT.17 Ever wonder why you can buy smokes but not unpasteurized milk at the store? Farmageddon tries to answer that and other questions. It screens at the Missoula Public Library, in the large meeting room. 6:45 PM. Free.

The Rough Cut Science Seminar Series shows off the brainiacs of Montana’s scientific community, with presentations on current research each week at 4 PM in the University Center Theater. Visit montanaioe.org/ rough-cut-series for the schedule.

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

Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

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

Cash for Junkers’ tunes keeps the digestion a-bubbling along at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins.

7–10 PM. Free.

Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

Come by and do your funk-a-doo.

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

Here pretty kittycat kitty, it’s time for Random Music for Random Kitties: School Back in Sess. Session, a night of electronic tunes by DJs Nic Jaymes, Z-Mulsion and the Milkcrate Mechanic. Palace. 9 PM. Free, with $5 pitchers of PBR on tap.

DJ Mermaid hosts the Le Kickball Afterparty for all you ball handling badasses. PBR and Fireball™ specials, cuz that’s how you like it.

Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

TUESDAYSEPT.18 The documentary Hot Coffee explores just how unfunny lawsuits and, well, hot coffee are. Learn who profited from one of the most famous burns in history. UM Law School, Rm. 201. 7 PM. Free.

Deliver some of your life-giving blood to those in need and treat yourself to a cookie afterward at the American Red Cross, 2401 N. Re-

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[calendar] serve, Ste. 6. Call 800REDCROSS to make an appointment.

nightlife The Arlee Community Development Corporation hosts its annual meeting at the Salish Senior Center on Bitterroot Jim Road in Arlee. Dinner is served and a 50/50 raffle goes down as well. Open to the public. 6 PM. The Pickin’ Circle at the Top Hat would prefer stringed instruments over nostrils, but who’s to judge? 6–9 PM. Free.

The Roxy Theater’s China in Missoula film program kicks off with Panda Makers, a film about pandas making sweet love to one another, I think. Also Hope in a Changing Climate plays. 718 S. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAYSEPT.19 Tales from the Wild with Dr. George Schaller is an adventure-fest based on Schaller’s book Tibet Wild specially designed for kids and teachers, but hey, we’re all kids, right? There are going to be stories of Chinese mountain gorillas and jaguars.

Too rad. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins. $3 student or teacher.

The Arlee Community Development Corporation’s Jocko Valley Farmers’ Market helps you fill up on your neighbors’ niblets.

Music by Rennie Frank. Uptown Arlee at the Hangin’ Art Gallery. 4–7 PM.

take Matthew Marsolek’s West African Hand Drumming Class. Level one and level tow courses offered. 515 W. Front St. Five-week course is $55 or $13 for single classes. Go to drumbrothers.com for a complete schedule.

The Montana Logging and Ballet Company brings their long-time musical and satirical stylings to the Dennison Theatre for a final performance after a long, long history as the state’s wags-in-chief. 7:30 PM. $90 for stagefront reserved seating/$40 reserved/$30 general admission. Tickets available at Griztix outlets. (See Arts.)

The Head and The Heart unzip the power pop/pop punk/power pop/punk power/pop pop trousers for evening of looking good,

Unity Dance and Drum’s African Dance Class at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., requests newbies and vets of all ages to join up or drop in anytime for an evening of live music and dancing.

7–8:30 PM. $10 per class or $35 for four.

For more info., call 549-7933 or email tarn.ream@umontana.edu.

You can steal his gear but he’ll still steal your heart, Tom Catmull performs delights for you and Aunt Billie at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free.

Artini: Redux and the opening reception for Terry Karson’s Common is gonna be an artastic hoot, with an art talk by Karson at 7 PM and a chance to create your own outfit out of recycled materials for the Artini fashion show. MAM, 335 N. Pattee. 5–9 PM. Free.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kind of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

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

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

Get a look at the sounds of them leafy electronical greens at the Bocks Elder Sessions, a night of drum ‘n’ bass and other bassheavy electronic music styles with local TBA DJs. Palace. 9 PM. Free.

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

The Kongos and Corporate Defiance kick the can down the road then burn it down with a flamethrower at the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 9 PM. Free.

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

Check out up-and-comers at the Badlander’s Live and Local Night, with artists making more music for earhole num-nums. 9 PM. Free.

Not to be confused with the lovable orphan scamp of the same name, Grayson Capps is joined by the Lost Minstrels on the Top Hat stage for an evening of New Orleans swamp jamming, with Justin Lantrip. 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 PM. Free-will offering.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: In the song “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen, what is the name of of the girl who Bruce urges to run away with him?

(See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Reptilian Shapeshifters from Oakland may just take the form of one of those weird-o rubber snakes when they play with Monks on Fire, Lukasaurus and Burrough’s Cats at the VFW, 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $5.

James McMurtry and The Gourds are reelin’ in the years and showing the young’uns that the old road dogs can still out smoke, out party and out pick all you up and comers. Wilma Theatre. 8 PM. $25.

Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.

Charlotte Kasl reads and signs her book If the Buddha Had Kids at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Something tells me the Buddha’s kids would be the noisiest ones in the whole restaurant. 7 PM. Free.

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

Free.

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

THURSDAYSEPT.20

nightlife Learn of jökulhlaups and other fantastic Scandanavian geologic terms at the Montana Natural History Center’s Glacial Lake Missoula Field Trip on Mt. Jumbo. 5 PM. $4 suggested donation. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Learn how to hippify your yard and turn it into the kind of fertile garden that even a Glenn Beck fanatic could love at the 1000 New Gardens meeting in the UC Food Court on the UM campus. 5:30–6:15 PM. Free.

(Pub trivia answer: Mary) Bang the drum and bang it right once you

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sounding sweet and taking stock of all the things you wish you had done. With Brian John Appleby and Blitzen Trapper. Wilma Theatre. 8 PM. $24/$22 adv.

The only electronic tunes fully endorsed by legendary voiceman Shadoe Stevens go down at the Palace during Shadow Palace, a night of electronic music with locals Puz.Z, Web, Theta and asyn9. 9 PM. Free.

Get a taste of new-fangled blues when Three-Eared Dog busts some picks and splits some drumsticks when they do it well at the Top Hat, with Shakewell. 10 PM. Cost TBA.

PD Lear is a one-man band playing the third week of his month-long VFW Residency, with TBA openers. 245 W. Main. 10 PM. $2.

Big ups to my homeboy and j-school all-star Brooks Johnson for filling in last week and for following most of my instructions and for generally doing a darn fine job. Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Sept. 14 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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ome of the greatest days of our lives were spent running around playgrounds during recess. Obstacles could include steel monkey bars, enormous tractor tires, mud puddles, gravel and sawdust. Of course, there was often as much crying as there was laughter. The same can be said for the Dirty Dash. The Dash is the adult version of recess. Obstacles such as mud pits, filthy pipes, cargo nets and slip ‘n’ slides are out to bust your precious coccyx. The course runs about three miles, with waves of racers leaving every few minutes throughout the morning and early afternoon. All that hard work is rewarded with delicious beer and food from on-site vendors, but the monetary rewards go to

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CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), a group of trained adults who advocate for children in the judicial system. An amazing 35 percent of the race proceeds benefit CASA. Last year CASA held the Mad Mudder up at Marshall Mountain with much success; however, with the help of the national Dirty Dash organization this year’s event is sure to be nastier than ever.

—Jason McMackin The Dirty Dash takes place at the Equestrian Park, 3500 North Ave. W., on Sat., Sept. 15, from 9 AM to 2 PM. $50. Visit thedirtydash.com/ races/missoula.

Photo by Joe Weston

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16

Learn to keep it level at the Whitewater Rescue and River Safety Class at Alberton Gorge with Montana River Guides. The three-day 20-hour course teaches accident prevention, aggressive swimming and shore rescue skills. $295. Call Mike at 214-0245.

The Hammer Nutrition Two Bear Marathon & Half Marathon up in Whitefish sounds like a hoot, and by hoot I mean a meat grinder that takes you from paved roads to mountain single track and from well-hydrated sanity to knee-shaking desiccation.

Did I mention the downhill stretches? Because there are plenty. Unleash your inner bear at twobearmarathon.org.

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

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing.

935 Toole Ave. 7–8:30 PM. $40.

The Blue Mountain Observatory is open for public viewings where you can bring a date, point to the sky and say things such as “ad astra per aspera.” Fact: These types of statements lead to necking. 9 PM. Free. Call 243-5179 before heading up.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15 Wonder Twin powers activate: Form of a birdwatcher, shape of binoculars. Perfect, now it’s time to hit up the Bird Migration Celebration at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, beginning with a free breakfast at 9 AM. Beginners and kids welcome. Meet at the K-Mart parking lot on Brooks Avenue to carpool at 8:15 AM. Visit birdmigrationcelebration.org.

Anyone looking to trap wolves this winter must take the mandatory wolf trapping certification class.

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek.

9–4 PM. Register online at fwp.mt.gov.

“Why I’m gonna get me a peregrine falcon,” the kid from My Side of the Mountain said. Well, kid, if you ain’t got one yet, head to the Birds and Brews Social at Bayern Brewing, 1502 Montana, and join Kate Davis from Raptors of the Rockies as she shows off hers, and a golden eagle, too, all while celebrating the bird migration. 4:30–6:30 PM. Bird talk at 5 PM. The legendary Doug Peacock (The purported inspiration for George Hayduke of The Monkey Wrench Gang) reads and speaks at the Grizzly Claw Trading Co. in downtown Seeley Lake. 7 PM. Free.

Anyone looking to trap wolves this winter must take the mandatory Wolf Trapping Certification Class.

Bitterroot River Inn, 139 Bitterroot Plaza. 9–4 PM. Register online at fwp.mt.gov.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety stuff, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing. 935 Toole. Noon– 1:30 PM. $40.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 Get your stoke on a bit early with Poor Boyz Ski Films at the Wilma. 6:30 PM doors & autograph poster signing, 7:30 PM film. $15/$13 adv. Tickets available online at ticketriver.com and at Backcountry Freeskier, 1422 S. Higgins Ave.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Anyone looking to trap wolves this winter must take the mandatory wolf trapping certification class.

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek.

3–10 PM. Register online at fwp.mt.gov.

Learn of jökulhlaups and other fantastic Scandanavian geologic terms at the Montana Natural History Center’s Glacial Lake Missoula Field Trip on Mt. Jumbo. 5 PM. $4 suggested donation. Visit montananaturalist.org.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning and such for yonder childrens.

The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Montana Senator Jeannette Rankin was a flat-out badass. A quick rundown: tireless suffragette, first woman in the U.S. Congress, only Congressional member to vote against entry into World War II. Those who considered her peace-loving ways a weakness were bound to learn otherwise. To quote the lady, “If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.” Here, here.

Although the folks down at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center might not be nasty, they are carrying on the traditions of their namesake. The center’s mission is: “Informing and empowering citizens for democracy and peace.” The group holds regular workshops such as the Intercultural Dialogue Group and regular protests, such as the Women in Black, who mourn victims of violence each Friday on the Higgins Bridge. The center is not passive; they actively engage the community and welcome all into the fold.

This Sunday the Peace Center hosts its annual Peace Party fundraiser. The event includes

build-your-own-gourmet sandwiches and cupcakes, as well as an auction of international dinners with special guest auctioneers Mayor John Engen and “Missoula sensation, Bob Wire.” There is also a raffle with a myriad of peaceful prizes. Music is handled by Polson’s Gladys Friday and the jazz quartet Rhanda Johnson and Easy Living.

With both major political parties seemingly embracing war, now is a particularly interesting time in our history. What would Rankin have thought of our world of wars?

Probably the same thing she thought in her time: “Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.”

—Jason McMackin The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center 26th Annual Peace Party takes place at Caras Park on Sun., Sept. 16 from 4:30 to 8 PM. $20/$35 couple/$45 families, $5 more for more for non-members. Visit jrpc.org.

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17

The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30 to 6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment.

Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The Peace and Justice Film Series screens the Oliver Stone film, South of Border, which follows Stone on a five-country road trip to explore social and political movements in Central and South America.

Discussion to follow. UC Theater, University Center. 7 PM. Free.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14 Hey ladies, the YWCA program GUTS (Girls Using Their Strengths) is looking for volunteers to work with girls 9-18 years of age. Today is the deadline so fill out an app asap at ywcaofmissoula.org.

Rock Against Racism beats the bejeezuz out of the Rock For Racism event (plus we don’t have to listen to Screwdriver) and it features a bunch of good-egg bands such as Comatose Smile, Jercs, Danielle Oliver, House of Quist, Boys and Airstream Safari. Proceeds benefit the YWCA Missoula Racial Justice Initiative.

Caras Park. 4–10 PM. Free.

Green Drinks in Bigfork outta have you making time for some face-time to talk about the environment and whatever else is on your mind at the Swan River Inn, 360 Grand Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15 Join the Zootown Solidarity Network for an Artists’ Bazaar at the Union Hall, upstairs from the Union Club, and get started on that Christmas shopping (Yes, I went there). 6–10 PM. Free.

Ever wonder why you can buy smokes but not unpasteurized milk at the store? Farmageddon tries to answer that and other questions. It screens at the Missoula Public Library, Large Meeting Room.

6:45 PM. Free.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 If you’re grieving the loss of a pet, take comfort at the Pet Bereavement Group, which meets the third Tue. of each month at 21st Century Homeopathy, 813 First St. in Hamilton, at 6:30 PM. Call 370-0699.

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

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome.

1-3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

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

The Arlee Community Development Corporation hosts its annual meeting at the Salish Senior Center on Bitterroot Jim Road in Arlee. Dinner is served and a 50/50 raffle goes down as well. Open to the public. 6 PM. YWCA Support Groups for women take place every Tue. from 6:30 to 8 PM. An American Indianled talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-6691.

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

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TAZ Taz, a three-year-old medley composed mostly of Great Dane, with grace notes of Pitbull and Mastiff, is a big, sleek dog raised by three kids and their mom, but he couldn't go when they moved across the country.

He was a sweet protector of his family, and now that energy goes into protecting his kennel, but not so sweetly. He'll bark harshly at visitors, but when introduced them outside his "territory," he'll always make friends. Then those people are still accepted by him when he's back in his kennel. When Taz visits the shelter office, he sits quietly by the workers' chairs (although he prefers laps), licks chins when petted, ignores wandering cats, and is happily interested in everyone walking into the lobby.

Taz would protect yourds and accept other children as long as they didn't get in his face. He likes other dogs if they aren't aggressive, enjoys car rides, isn't fond of water or snow, but will sit like a gentleman at the dinner table.

ous why he's named Gordo; this is one hefty cat! He's on a diet, but he'd truly benefit from a more active lifestyle than we can provide.

His personality, however, needs no improvement at all.

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 DRAKE•This

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5-year-old Beagle cross thinks everyone is his friend! He gets along great with dogs and kids of all ages. Drake is very well-mannered but still has plenty of spunk. Like all good Beagles, he loves to follow his nose to new adventures!

CURLY•Adorable Curly is a 4-5 year-old Chihuahua mix. He gets along well with other dogs, cats and kids. Curly has been through a lot recently but it doesn't phase him. He walks very politely on a leash and loves to play outdoors.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula AniMeals 721-4710 OXFORD•This three-year-old is not only smart, but as handsome as they come. If there’s one thing he knows, it is love. He would love to teach you what he knows. Will you be A Nice Little Bead Store In A Nice Little Town his student?

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BRIDE AND ZOOM I’m in love, and I just said yes to marrying the man of my dreams. We’ve only known each other for two months, but we’re in the Peace Corps. You really see the core of a person when conditions are not so comfy. We’re planning on traveling home to get married on our next monthly break. (We get two days off.) Afterward, we’ll have a big celebration back here with all our local friends. My best friend’s begging me to slow down, but my parents married two weeks after meeting, and that worked out. Marrying now feels very romantic and like the most right thing I’ve ever wanted to do. What’s wrong with saying yes to romance?

—Excited It’s easy to find a lot in common with a guy when you’re both living thousands of miles from home: “Wow—you live in a mud hut?! I live in a mud hut! You have a hole for a toilet? I have a hole for a toilet!”

This could very well be the voluntourism version of two 14-year-olds deciding they’re the second coming of Romeo and Juliet because they like EXACTLY THE SAME MUSIC AND MOVIES! Eventually, the 14-year-olds hit their 20s. (Life in one’s 20s, like life back home, includes a few more complexities.) A mutual obsession with geeksta rap suddenly matters lots less when one turns militant vegan while the other has problems with hunting, but only because she prefers her meat already killed, skinned, and cooked, and delivered to her with a side of asparagus on fine china.

You say you’re in love, but it’s the part of love that can’t be trusted—the infatuation stage. (Say hi to your hormones, because you’re their bitch.) Anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher and her colleagues found that infatuation correlates with a surge in the neurotransmitter dopamine, and Fisher told Psychology Today that infatuation shares elements of a cocaine high—“sleeplessness, loss of a sense of time, absolute focus on love to the detriment of all around you.” In other words, getting married now is like signing a binding lifetime contract while on an extended coke bender.

It doesn’t help that the human brain is like a grabby toddler, prone to go for immediate rewards without weighing the consequences. Later, it comes back around and does the adult job of justifying all of its unwise choices. For you, even the absurdity of marrying somebody you barely know becomes a justification: “I’m not an idiot; in fact, I’m bright! So marrying somebody I

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just met isn’t idiotic; it’s romantic!” You also turn your parents’ marital impulsivity into precedent. Guess what: They were dumb—and lucky. They turned out to be compatible, as you two may—or may not— two years from now, once you’re back in the land where chicken is something sold in shrink-wrap, not something that hops across your head at night.

Waiting to get married doesn’t preclude you from throwing a party. Use those two days back home to invite your friends to celebrate with you, to witness you experiencing the joys so many of us take for granted—hot showers, doing laundry in a washing machine, and encountering enormous bugs, but only the kind that come with a three-year/36,000-mile warranty.

GONE WITH THE SCHWINN I’m a 31-year-old guy, a part-time model, newly single, and scared to talk to women. Yesterday, I saw a beautiful woman checking me out at Whole Foods. I didn’t know what to do, so I unlocked my bike and rode off.

This happens maybe three times a week.

—Getting Ridiculous The roof of Whole Foods will not open up while you’re shopping, and a beautiful woman will not fall into your cart and say, “Oh, wow—I’ve been waiting for a man like you to take me home and smear me with cruelty-free peanut butter.” Sadly, this means you’ll need to approach a woman, open your lips, and make words come out about something she’s wearing, doing, or carrying: “Kelp steaks! They’re even better than the tofu T-bone!” The way to get comfortable doing this is by actually doing this.

For two weeks in a row, give yourself a weekly quota: You have to make moves on 21 women you’d be interested in dating—three per day—even if it takes going out expressly to find women to hit on. If you fall short one day, make it up the next.

Come up with a punishment, like giving $50 to charity, should you fail to meet your weekly number. Every woman you talk to isn’t going to go out with you, but you’ll certainly get more dates than you do with your current strategy: “A beautiful woman is looking at me! Quick, unlock the bike and speed away!”

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never be able to actually gaze upon your own face. You may of course see a reasonable likeness of it in mirrors, photos, and videos. But the real thing will always be forever visible to everyone else, but not you. I think that’s an apt symbol for how hard it is to get a totally objective view of your own soul. No matter how sincere you may be in your efforts to see yourself clearly, there will always be fuzziness, misapprehensions, and ignorance. Having said that, though, I want you to know that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to see yourself better than ever before.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ve got four related pieces of advice for you, Taurus: 1. The most reliable way for you to beat the system is to build your own more interesting system. 2. The most likely way to beat your competitors is not to fight them, but rather to ignore them and compete only against yourself. 3. To escape the numbing effects of an outworn tradition, you could create a fresh tradition that makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning. 4. If you have a problem that is not only impossible to solve but also boring, find yourself a fascinating new problem that will render the old problem irrelevant.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Doctor of Love: My heart is itchy. I’m totally serious. I’m not talking about some phantom tingle on the skin of my chest. What I mean is that the prickling sensation originates in the throbbing organ inside of me. Is this even possible? Have you heard of such a crazy thing? Could it be some astrological phenomenon? What should I do? —Itchy-Hearted Gemini.” Dear Gemini: I suspect that it’s not just you, but many Geminis, who are experiencing symptoms like yours. From what I can tell, you have a lot of trapped feelings in your heart that need to be identified, liberated, and dealt with.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you make a conscious decision to combine plaids with stripes or checks with floral patterns or reddish-purples with greenish-oranges, I will wholeheartedly approve. If, on the other hand, you absent-mindedly create combinations like that, doing so because you’re oblivious or lazy, I will soundly disapprove. The same holds true about any hodgepodge or hybrid or mishmash you generate, Cancerian: It’ll receive cosmic blessings if you do it with flair and purpose, but not if it’s the result of being inattentive and careless.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Arthur Turner, a Virgo reader from Austin, is upset with my recent horoscopes. In his email, he wrote the following: “You’re making me mad with your predictions of non-stop positivity, Brezsny. I need more dirt and grit and muck. I’ve got to have some misery and decay to motivate me. So just please shut up with your excess projections of good times. They’re bringing me down.” Here’s my response to him and to any other Virgo who feels like him: I’m afraid you’re scheduled to endure even more encounters with cosmic benevolence in the coming week. If these blessings feel oppressive, try to change your attitude about them.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The humorous science journal Annals of Improbable Research published a paper entitled “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth.” Signed by 198 Ph.D. physicists, it came to this conclusion: “So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.” If possible, Libra, I suggest you summon a comparable amount of high-powered expertise for your own purposes. But please make sure that those purposes are weightier than the question of peanut butter’s role on our planet’s movements. Round up the best help you can, yes; call on all the favors you’re owed and be aggressive in seeking out brilliant support; but only for a truly important cause.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): September 16 is the first day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. So begins ten days of repentance. Whether or not you’re Jewish, Scorpio, you are entering an astrological phase when taking stock of yourself would be a brilliant move. That’s why I invite you to try the following self-inventory, borrowed from the Jewish organization Chadeish Yameinu. 1. What would you like to leave behind from the past 12 months? 2. What has prevented you from living up to your highest standards and being your very best self? 3. What would you love to bring with you into the next 12 months? 4. Who served as a teacher for you in the past year? 5. Were you a teacher for anyone? 6. Is there anyone you need to forgive? 7. How will you go about forgiving?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If I’m accurately interpreting the astrological omens, the coming months will be a soulful feast in which every day will bring you a shimmering revelation about the nature of your soul’s code and how best to activate it. Reasons for grateful amazement will flow so freely that you may come to feel that miracles are routine and naturally-occurring phenomena. And get this: In your dreams, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty will get married, win the lottery, and devote their fortune to fostering your spiritual education until you are irrevocably enlightened. (I confess there’s a slight chance I’m misinterpreting the signs, and everything I described will be true for only a week or so, not months.)

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A reader named Marissa begged me to insert a secret message into the Capricorn horoscope. She wanted me to influence Jergen, a guy she has a crush on, to open up his eyes and see how great she is. I told her I wouldn’t do it. Why? For one thing, I never try to manipulate people into doing things that aren’t in alignment with their own desires. For another, I faithfully report on my understanding of the tides of fate, and refuse to just make stuff up. I urge you to have that kind of integrity, Capricorn. I suspect you may soon be invited or coaxed to engage in what amounts to some tainted behavior. Don’t do it. Make an extra effort to be incorruptible.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The far away, the very far, the farthest, I have found only in my own blood,” said poet Antonio Porchia. Let’s make that thought your keynote, Aquarius. Your assignment will be to search for what’s most exotic and unknown, but only in the privacy of your own heart, not out in the great wide world. For now at least, the inner realm is the location of the laboratory where the most useful experiments will unfold. Borrowing from novelist Carole Maso, I leave you with this: “Make love to the remoteness in yourself.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It would be an excellent time for you to elope, even if you do so with the person to whom you’re already mated. You might also consider the possibility of wearing a wedding dress everywhere you wander, even if there is no marriage ceremony in your immediate future, and even if you’re a man. And if neither of those ideas appeals to you, please at least do something that will symbolize your intention to focus on intimacy with an intensified sense of purpose. Fling rice at yourself. Seek out someone who’ll give you lessons in how to listen like an empathetic genius. Compose and recite vows in which you pledge to become an utterly irresistible and reliable ally.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Should we boycott the writing of Edgar Allan Poe because he married his 13-year-old cousin when he was 26? Should anti-drug crusaders stop using their iPhones when they find out that Steve Jobs said that “doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life”? Should we stop praising the work that Martin Luther King Jr. did to advance civil rights because he engaged in extramarital affairs? Those are the kinds of questions I suspect you’ll have to deal with in the coming days, Leo. I encourage you to avoid having knee-jerk reactions.

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DATED this 30th day of August, 2012. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Election Administrator MISSOULA COUNTY FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS The Office of Planning and Grants has received the following applications for Floodplain Development Permits: 1. County Floodplain Permit Application #13-05.

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MISSOULA COUNTY Notice of Close of Regular Voter Registration and Option for Late Registration Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Federal General Election to be held on November 6, 2012, will close at 5:00 p.m., on October 9, 2012. *NOTE: If you miss this regular registration deadline, you may still register for the election by showing up at the county fairground’s election center up to and including on Election Day. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, you can complete and submit a voter registration card, but you will need to return to the local election center on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot. All active and inactive electors of Missoula County are entitled to vote at said election. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator. If you have moved, please have your registration transferred to your present address.

DATED this 30th day of August, 2012. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Election Administrator MISSOULA COUNTY Notice of Close of Regular Voter Registration and Option for Late Registration Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Seeley Lake Resort Area Tax Election to be held on November 6, 2012 will close

at 5:00 p.m., on October 9, 2012. *NOTE: If you miss this regular registration deadline, you may still register for the election by showing up at the county fairground’s election center up to and including on Election Day. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, you can complete and submit a voter registration card, but you will need to return to the local election center on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot. All active and inactive**electors of the Seeley Lake Resort Area District are entitled to vote at said election. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator. If you have moved, please have your registration transferred to your present address.

DATED this 30th day of August, 2012. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Election Administrator MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE PIERCE FLOORING & DESIGN CENTER, a Montana Corporation, Plaintiff Against WILLIAM R. NOONEY and ANNA M. WALTER NOONEY, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.,(MERS), TREASURE STATE BANK, PAULETTE E. NOONEY, BIG SKY LAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, MOUNTAIN WEST BANK, N.A., and DOE DEFENDANTS 1-10, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 4th day of October A.D., 2012, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, 200 W. Broadway, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: Lot X7 of MARK ADDITION TO BIG SKY ESTATES, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 13th day of September A.D., 2012. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By /s/ John R. Hinckley, III, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-141 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EDWARD DANIEL BRITT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 THOMAS C. BRITT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 27th day of August, 2012 /s/ Thomas C. Britt, Personal Representative. REELY LAW FIRM P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representative. By: /s/ Shane N. Reely Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-12-148 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID ALLEN COOK, SR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 LINDA JANE COOK, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of September, 2012 /s/ Linda Jane Cook, Personal Representative. REELY LAW FIRM P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representative. By: /s/ Shane N. Reely Esq.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-147 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETSY LOU ROYLE, 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 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 Mark Douglas Royle, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 22nd day of August , 2012, in San Jose, California /s/ Mark Douglas Royle, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-149 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUCINA S. BOYLE, 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 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 Katherine L. Starke, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 29th day of August , 2012, in Polson, Montana /s/ Katherine L. Starke, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 ED McLEAN Probate Case No. DP-11-214 LETTERS In the Matter of the Estate of CATHERINE ORETTA HAY, Deceased. The Will of the above-named decedent, having been admitted to probate, and Ron Hay having been appointed as Personal Representative of said Will and estate by order in the above proceeding dated the 25th day of November, 2011, Letters of appointment as such personal Representative are hereby issued as provided by law. WITNESS the Clerk of Court above named and the seal of the Court affixed this day, November 25, 2011. State of Montana)):ss County of Missoula /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of Court By: /s/ Andrew Jenks, Deputy Clerk. I, Ron Hay, hereby accept the duties of Personal Representative of the Will and estate of Catherine O. Hay, deceased, and do solemnly swear or affirm that I will perform, according to law, the duties of Personal Representative for the Will and estate of Catherine O. Hay, deceased. /s/ Ron Hay. (SEAL) State of Montana)):ss County of Missoula) SIGNED AND SWORN (OR AFFIRMED) to before me on November 25, 2011 by Ronald Hay. /s/ Andrew Jenks Deputy Clerk Residing at Missoula MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-139 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF FORREST REE FORBES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lynn F. Forbes has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lynn F. Forbes, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Christopher W. Froines, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 5th day of September, 2012. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of September, 2012 /s/ Lynn F. Forbes, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-142. Honorable Robert L. Deschamps III, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARIAN H. BEATY, 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 Robert B. Beaty, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 29th day of August, 2012. /s/ Robert B. Beaty, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-146 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE: THE ESTATE OF HOWARD B. HANGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Charlotte M. Hanger 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 their 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 West 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 31st day of August, 2012. /s/ Charlotte M. Hanger, Personal Representative of the Estate of Howard B. Hanger /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-12-144 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JIMMIE L. JETTE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have 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 William James Jette, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of August, 2012. /s/ William James Jette, Personal Representative 4467 Tripp Lane, Stevensville, MT 59870 WORDEN THANE, PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-12-854 SUMMONS Markus Chapman KATHLEEN A. HUFF, Plaintiff v. MARKUS CHAPMAN and SNOWY MOUNTAIN HOLDINGS, INC., Defendants. TO: MARKUS CHAPMAN c/o Snowy Mountain Holdings, Inc. 2505 S. Russell St., Ste. 200, Missoula, MT 59801. A lawsuit has been filed against you.

Within 21 days after service of this summons on you, you must serve on the Plaintiff an answer to the attached Complaint or a motion under Rule 12 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure. Do not include the day you were served in your calculation of time. The answer or motion must be served on the Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s attorney, if Plaintiff is represented by an attorney, whose name and address are listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

You must file your answer or motion with the court. Date July 26, 2012 (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: Nicole Borchers MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-12-136 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GERTRUDE H. MOE, a/k/a GERTRUDE H. AXEL MOE, Deceased. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned was appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Nancy K. Moe, the personal representative, return receipt requested, at Dye & Moe, P.L.L.P., PO Box 9198, 216 West Main, Suite 200, Missoula, Montana 59807-9198, or filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct. Dated: August 30, 2012 /s/ Nancy K. Moe, Personal Representative. Personal Representative’s Attorneys: Dye & Moe, P.L.L.P. P.O. Box 9198 Missoula, Montana 59807-9198 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE Trust Indenture: Dated May 28, 2010 Grantor: Buddy V. Rich 2101 Strand Avenue Missoula, Montana 59801 Original Trustee: Stewart Title of Missoula 320 West Broadway, Suite A Missoula, Montana 59802 Beneficiary: Kathleen Farrell 12255 Flora Drive Missoula, Montana 59804 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana

59807-8957 Date and Place of Recordation: June 16, 2010 in Book 861, Page 518, Records of Missoula County, Montana The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 18th day of December, 2012, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Lot 2 of KATHLEEN ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Subject to easements of record; subject to a first lien Deed of Trust in favor of Montana First Credit Union recorded on June 8, 2010 at Book 860 of Micro, Page 1327, records of Missoula County, Montana. Together with improvements and appurtenances. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due on June 1, 2012 the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) provided for in the Montana Trust Indenture, Note and Agreement dated May 28, 2010; together with interest thereon at Five Percent (5%) per annum from June 1, 2012 until payment is made; together with all attorney’s fees and costs. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture is One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), plus interest thereon at the rate of Five Percent (5%), per annum until payment in full, at the rate of Thirteen and 70/100ths Dollars ($13.70) per day; together with the release of the Beneficiary from any obligation under the Deed of Trust in favor of Montana First Credit Union; plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 6th day of August, 2012. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807-8957 STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 6th day of August, 2012, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. (NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/31/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201114918 B: 882 P: 745, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James D. Heggen and Mignon P. Heggen husband and wife, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South 60 feet of the North 120 feet of Lot 1, Block “B” of Glenwood Park, Missoula County, Montana, more definitely described as follows: Commencing at a point on the East line of Lot 1 in Block lettered “B” of Glenwood Park, 60 feet South from the Northeast corner thereof; thence West parallel to the North line of said Lot 1, 146.8 feet, more or less, to the West line of said Lot 1; thence South along the West line of said Lot 1, 60 feet; thence East parallel to the North line of said Lot 1, 146.8 feet, more or less to the East line of said Lot 1; thence North along the East line of said Lot 1, 60 feet to the Place of Beginning, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference is in Book 763 Micro Records, Page 32.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 23, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $216,551.86. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $210,968.43, 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 Broad-

way, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on December 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.101963) 1002.224553-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 2, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in and being a portion of the NE1/4 of Section 32, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, and being more particularly described as Tract U-l of Certificate of Survey No. 4395. Parcel II: TOGETHER WITH an easement for roadway and utility purposes over and across the existing road traversing the N1/2N1/2 of said Section 32, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, Missoula County, Montana Raymond L. Cheff, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 29, 2007 and recorded on July 05, 2007 as Document No. 200717135, BK 800, Page 1340. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association as grantor trustee of the Protium Master Grantor Trust. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,027.79, beginning November 1, 2009, 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 July 13, 2012 is $273,375.27 principal, interest at the rate of 7.9% now totaling $60,100.79, late charges in the amount of $2,587.39, and other fees and expenses advanced of $10,345.91, plus accruing interest at the rate of $59.17 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not

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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 26, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 26th day of June, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Feb 18, 2014 State Bridge V Cheff 42023.002 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 2, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 15C OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Stephen W. Trippe and Brenda A. Trippe, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 2, 2001 and recorded on August 13, 2001 at 04:30pm o’clock on Book 666 and Page 669 as Document No. 200119722. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, Successor in Interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, (formerly known as First Union National Bank) as Trustee, for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2001-4. 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 $858.41, beginning June 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 22, 2012 is $94,259.37 principal, interest at the rate of 9.25000% now totaling $10,697.65, escrow advances of $2,192.19, suspense balance of $-39.69 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,058.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.89 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up

to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 25, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25th day of June, 2012, 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 Chase V Trippe 41916.733 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 5, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock AM. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 3 OF MART ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF MICHAEL ANNE LEPOLE, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Home123 Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated January 13, 2006 and Recorded January 18, 2006 in Book 767, Page 1149, under Document No. 200601319. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for J. P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2006-NC1, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-NC1 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 $1,213.28, beginning August 1, 2009, 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 18, 2012 is $164,744.47 principal, interest at the rate of 7.65% now totaling $36,330.02, late charges in the amount of $181.98, escrow advances of $13,202.89, and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,167.82, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.53 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 28, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Black-

foot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 28th day of June, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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: 6/4/2016 Chase/lepole 41954.440 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 5, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main door of the First American Title Company located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 in Block 5 of MOUNTAIN SHADOWS ADDITION NO. 1, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Joseph McDonald, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to New Century Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 3, 2004 and Recorded December 8, 2004 in Bk 744, Pg 980, as Document No. 200434161. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee MASTR Asset Backed Securities Trust 2005- HE1, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005-HE1. 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 $3,159.61, beginning October 1, 2009, 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 1, 2012 is $469,820.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5000% now totaling $81,519.19, late charges in the amount of $631.92, escrow advances of $23,766.38, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,485.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $83.67 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 28, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 28th day of June, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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 Chase/mcdonald 41954.584 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 20-OF STREAM SIDE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Mitch A. Rider, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated November 14, 2008 and recorded on November 19, 2008 in Book 829, Page 828 under document No. 200825841. The beneficial interest is currently held by SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.. 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 $2,442.80, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 24, 2012 is $324,858.65 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0000% now totaling $23,968.30, late charges in the amount of $1,509.75, escrow advances of $4,410.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1752.85, plus accruing interest at the rate of $53.40 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 9, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 9th day of July, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Suntrust V Rider 41531.609 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock AM. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL 36 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 64, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH,

PUBLIC NOTICES RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE; BOOK 764 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 254 BOOK 429 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 2389 Thomas Donnelly and Olivia D Donnelly and Judith M Donnelly, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 13, 2007 and recorded March 21, 2007 in Book 793, Page 1355 under Document NO 200706540. The beneficial interest is currently held by M&T BANK. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,301.79, beginning September 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of July 7, 2012 is $416,928.04 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $25,773.74, late charges in the amount of $575.45, and other fees and expenses advanced of $98.74, plus accruing interest at the rate of $75.68 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

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

added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 5, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 5th day of July, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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: 6/4/2016 M & T V Donelly 41902.160 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 29, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: Tract 71A of Certificate of Survey No. 4951, a tract of land located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 9, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana Kenneth J. Ault, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registation Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on February 27, 2007 and recorded on March 5, 2007 on Book-792 and Page 1342 as Document No. 200705067. The beneficial interest is currently held by Citibank, NA as trustee for PHHMC 2007-2.

SUMMARY NOTICE OF SALE

CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 2012A PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $5,655,000 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the City Council (the “Council”) of the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana (the “City”), will receive bids at 10:0 a.m., Mountain Time, on Monday, September 24, 2012, for its General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2012A (the “Bonds”). The bids will be opened and tabulated by the City Treasurer and presented by the City Clerk to the Council at its regular meeting at 7:00 p.m., Mountain Time, on the same day, in its Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, Montana, at which time the Council will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the Bonds in the total amount of not to exceed $5,655,000 for the purpose of providing money necessary to refund the Refunded Bonds and to pay the costs of issuance of the Bonds.

The Bonds shall be in integral multiples of $5,000 for each maturity and shall mature on July 1 in each of the years and in the principal amounts, set forth in the following schedule: The Bonds shall be dated October 15, 2012, shall bear interest from their date or the most date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, whichever is later, payable commencing on July 1, 2013, and semiannually thereafter on January 1 and July 1 of each year to the date of maturity or prior redemption, whichever occurs first. Interest shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

The Bonds maturing in the years 2013 through 2020, inclusive, are not subject to redemption prior to their stated dates of maturity. The City has reserved the right to redeem and call the Bonds maturing on or after July 1, 2020, prior to their stated dates of maturity, in whole at any time, or in part on any interest payment date (maturities to be selected by the City and randomly within a maturity in such manner as the Registrar shall determine), on or after July 1, 2021, at the price of par plus accrued interest to the date of redemption. Upon the payment of the redemption price of Bonds being redeemed, each check or other transfer of money issued for such purpose shall bear the CUSIP number, if any, identifying, by issue and maturity, the Bonds being redeemed with the proceeds of such check or other transfer.

The Bonds will not be sold for less than 97 percent of the par amount of the Bonds, plus accrued interest on the principal amount of the Bonds to the date of delivery, and all bidders shall state the lowest rate or rates of interest at which they will purchase the Bonds at the purchase price specified for the Bonds. No interest rate in any maturity shall exceed 5.5 percent.

Each bid must be unconditional and the successful bidder shall, within three hours of the award of the Bonds, make a good faith deposit in the amount of $113,100.00 by federal wire or by a certified or bank cashier’s check payable to the City in immediately available funds in an amount set forth in the Official Notice of Sale, which amount shall be two percent of the principal amount of the Bonds.

The Good Faith Deposit of the successful bidder will, immediately upon the receipt by the City, become the property of the City, and will be credited to the purchase price of the Bonds at the time of delivery of the Bonds. No interest will be paid by the City on a bidder’s Good Faith Deposit. If the purchase price is not paid in full upon tender of the Bonds, the successful bidder shall have no right to the Bonds or to the recovery of the Good Faith Deposit, or to any allowance or credit by reason of the Good Faith Deposit, unless it appears the Bonds would not be validly issued if delivered to the Purchaser in the form and manner proposed.

However, in the event of such nonpayment, the City reserves any and all rights granted by law to recover the agreed purchase price of the Bonds, and, in addition, any damages suffered by the City.

Bids will be evaluated on the basis of the terms and conditions contained in the Official Notice of Sale. Separate bids for each offering must be submitted on the official bid form, which is contained in the Official Statement.

The City will furnish to the Purchaser(s) and have printed on the Bonds the bond counsel opinion of Koegen Edwards LLP, of Spokane, Washington.

The complete Official Notice of Sale, of which this is a summary, will be published in the Preliminary Official Statement for the Bonds, which may be obtained through Springsted Incorporated at www.springsted.com. Additional information may also be obtained from the City’s Financial Advisor, Springsted Incorporated, 380 Jackson Street, Suite 300, St. Paul, MN 55101 (651) 223-3046 (fax) and (651) 223-3000 (phone).

All bids must be addressed to the Council and delivered to the City Treasurer.

CITY OF MISSOULA Missoula County, Montana /s/ John Engen John Engen, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ Martha L. Rehbein Martha L. Rehbein, City Clerk

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $4,076.95, beginning January 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 18, 2012 is $634,088.81 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00000% now totaling $23965.06, late charges in the amount of $1630.48, escrow advances of $1507.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $64.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $104.23 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 20, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 20th day of June, 2012, 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/

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 94, 95, 148, 160, 195, 228, 267. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers.

These units may be viewed starting September 17th by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to September 20th, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Phh V Ault 41392.857 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 29, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 10 IN BLOCK 14 OF HIGH PARK NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Carlos E Casas Jr. and Sheri L Casas, as Grantor(s), 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 Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 11, 2006 and Recorded on December 14, 2006 under Document # 200631999, in Bk-788, Pg-1268. The beneficial interest is currently held by Fannie Mae (“Federal National Mortgage Association”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,040.08, beginning December 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of June 29, 2012 is $202,297.08 principal, interest at the rate of 3.75% now totaling $5,007.20, late charges in the amount of$156.08, escrow advances of $4,411.05, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,714.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.78 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by Russell Lockner for a side yard setback variance to expand an attached garage at 13 Brookside in the Brookside PUD. SEE MAP S. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the 258-3869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.

"Two-Card Studs"–pretty pathetic poker pairs.

by Matt Jones

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1 Words before "friends" or "careful out there" 7 "___ Carter" (Lil Wayne album series) 10 "Don't let your boss catch you watching this" acronym 14 Common baseball situation 15 Hua ___ (Thai beach resort) 16 Glow 17 Categorize 18 Summer hrs. in South Carolina 19 Air quality problem 20 A pair of cards reduced to a fine powder?

23 Six, to Italians 24 Make ___ of (write down) 25 Sphere in a scepter 28 A pair of cards, a few hours from now?

33 Tic-tac-toe line 34 Chinese restaurant general 35 "Video Games" singer ___ Del Rey 36 GI's stint peeling potatoes, for example 39 Hauled in 41 Idle who performed in the 2012 Olympic closing ceremonies 42 ___ in "Oscar" 45 Wall St. worker 46 Pair of cards with unreasonable aspirations?

51 Lucy of "Elementary" 52 Singer Guthrie and street skater Eisenberg 53 "Weetzie Bat" author Francesca ___ Block 55 Pair of cards that are...a pair of cards?

60 Tara in the tabloids 62 "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Vardalos 63 Like many modern-day pirates 64 Start the pot 65 "Srsly?!?!"

66 Assent to the captain Last week’s solution

67 "Naked Maja" painter 68 Prop for a ball 69 Malaria-carrying fly

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1 A bunch 2 Follows 3 Boston Red Sox song covered by the Dropkick Murphys 4 Chimney sweep's grime 5 ___ Khalifa (world's tallest building) 6 "I'd Rather Go Blind" singer ___ James 7 Popular wedding website, or what's tied at a wedding 8 Grotesque 9 Like some security software 10 Poet Ogden ___ 11 Redundant count 12 Round 'do 13 Move like a happy hound's tail 21 Half-___ (coffee mix) 22 Toothpaste variety 26 Actress Russo 27 Singer Paisley 29 Certify, with "for" 30 Abbr. on a business card 31 Reply to a liar 32 Excuse 36 Totally awesome 37 Toyota hybrids, jokingly 38 Lack of cohesiveness 40 Boat with two elephants 43 Ever 44 Room for carry-ons 47 Item held by Karl Lagerfeld 48 That, in Tijuana 49 It includes the Braves and Phillies 50 Old sitcom character Dobie ___ 54 Engulfed in flames 56 Mental concoction 57 "The City ___ War" (Cobra Starship song) 58 They may get moved to the attic 59 Captain Hook's mate 60 Disreputable newspaper 61 "Achtung Baby" co-producer Brian

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PUBLIC NOTICES of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 22, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 22nd day of June, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title

Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Seterus V Casas 42008.104 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 12/14/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DONALD R. FOREMAN AND MARKAY FOREMAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/27/2007 and recorded 07/03/2007, in document No. 200717008 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 800 at Page Number 1213 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 31 OF STILLWATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. SEE TITLE A.P.N: 2092-24-102-31-0000 Property Address: 3687 RODEO ROAD, MISSOULA, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the

obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $206,036.93 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 05/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120068610 FEI NO. 1006.164734

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Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 12/14/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DONALD R COX, AND DONALD ALLEN COX AND IRMA L. COX as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 10/12/2006 and recorded 10/17/2006, in document No. 200626887 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 785 at Page Number 501 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 17 OF ROSELAND ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3720 MOUNT AVE, MISSOULA, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions

therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $207,657.59 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 05/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 07/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0068609 FEI NO. 1006.164733 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 12/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power

to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CATHY JO KAHNLE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/02/2010 and recorded 08/06/2010, in document No. 201014998 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 863 at Page Number 1289 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 3 OF WASHOE ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEROF. Property Address: 808 MECATE LANE, BONNER, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By rea-

son of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $315,171.72 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.875% per annum from 05/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 08/06/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0069661 FEI NO. 1006.165117 The Regular Board Meeting of the Missoula Housing Authority will be held at 5:30pm on Wednesday, Sept 19th, 2012 at Missoula Housing Authority Headquarters: 1235 34th Street, Missoula Montana 59801

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 114 Bentley Park Loop. 3 bed, 2 bath 2 story home in central location. Open, airy floor plan. $183,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 11689 Stollen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $329,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2 Bdr, 1 Bath North Missoula home. $189,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2640 Tanbark. 5 bed, 4 bath, basement, 2 decks, 2 car garage. Near Ranch Club Golf Course. Views! $375,000. Ann Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 . annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. Prudential Montana.

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345 Brooks. 4 bed, 1.5 bath with basement and large 3 car garage near UM. $229,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $295,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $258,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula, 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 4412 23rd Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage on 9600 sq.ft. lot. Lots of room! $185,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $179,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 521 Daly. 3 bed, 2 bath in U District. Single garage, basement, studio, enclosed front porch. $369,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 541-547 South 2nd West. Wonderful 4-plex in great neighborhood. Suitable for condo conversion. Newer rubber membrane roof. $275,000. MLS #20120840 Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

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REAL ESTATE 605 Parkview. 4 bed, 2 bath with basement, 2 car garage and great Missoula views. $180,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 6785 Prairie Schooner. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1/2 acre at end of quiet cul-de-sac. $229,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 8821 Haven Heights Road. 5 bed, 4 bath with basement & 3 car garage on 5 end-of-road acres. $549,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 9585 Glacier Lily Drive. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with basement & 2 car garage with large fenced yard. $184,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns, 2405227 porticorealestate.com

Prudential Missoula Properties.

5 4 4 - 7 5 0 7 . www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for homebuyer education? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

5 4 4 - 7 5 0 7 . www.rochelleglasgow.com PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm. 2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $279,000. MLS #20120012.

9869 Lee’s Lane, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com River View 1401 Cedar St #2: This 2 bed, 1.5 bath townhome has a view of the river, is close to downtown and the walking and bike trails. Income qualified buyers only and owner occupied. $127,000. Call KD for details.

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2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues.

Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 2238 Hillside. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage on quiet culde-sac. $40 HOA fees. $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage.

Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage on corner lot with

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1545 Cooley #H. 2 bed, 1 bath Northside condo with garage & deck. $127,000. $150 HOA fees. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

Energy-Efficient Sweet Bungalow in Slant Street ‘hood with double lot and raised beds ready to plant! 835 Rollins. $179,500.

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1725A Park Place. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1 car garage. Fenced, landscaped backyard. No HOA fees. $146,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail,com

702A Charlo. Newly remodeled 3 bed, 1.5 bath on corner lot with single garage. Fenced yard with deck. $144,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7 2 8 - 8 2 7 0 . glasgow@montana.com 835 Rollins. 1 bed, 1 bath energy-efficient bungalow with basement near downtown.

Fenced yard & many upgrades. $179,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with

heated floors and so much more.

1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. $250,000.

240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900. Great downtown living! Call Anne 546-5816 for s h o w i n g . www.movemontana.com

downtown Missoula in the center of it all. This is sweet sweet.

Come take a look today. $185,000.

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MANUFACTURED HOMES

Very nice 1 bed, 1 bath end unit condo on upper level. $65,000.

Income restriction less than $33,000. Judy 239-9880

15436 French Valley Lane, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath mobile on rented lot. $48,900.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

Wilma Condo 1 bedroom condo in the beautiful historic Wilma building, in the heart of

15436 French Valley Lane, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath mo-

Robin Rice 240-6503

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1641 Stoddard $650,000 To-be-built 6-plex. Demolition and lot cleanup. landscape & water, concrete walls and asphalt parking, permits, architect fees, water and sewer hook up, and building completed turn key.

115305 Spring Hill $595,000 Great hunter's get-away.

5 acres bordered by Forest Service land.

19488 Highway 200 East $399,900 A must-see property.

Plenty of room for your toys and entertaining with the Blackfoot River right across the street

23645 Mullan $169,900 Beautiful 14 acre parcel west of Huson.

Modular on foundation allowed

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

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

NHN Kemp. Corner building lot.

Mobiles allowed. $60,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

1407 Phillips, Missoula $265,000 MLS# 20125361 3 bed, 2 bath condo with single car garage.

Designed by MMW architects, this condo features concrete & bamboo floors, radiant heat, deck, and low maintenance yard.

1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell MAJOR PRICE REDUCTION!

www.1136howell.com MLS #20125053

Two story 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 bed, 1 bath basement apartment & 2 bed, 1 bath garage apartment Corner lot, great front porch & lots of trees

4126 England Blvd, Missoula $229,900 MLS# 20125026 4 bed, 2 bath, double garage, u/g sprinklers, a/c, fenced yard. Most popular floor plan in subdivision!

702A Charlo • $144,000

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2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $219,900. Prudential Montana.

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

$380,000

Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks.

Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university. Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $259,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 5465816 for details. www.movemontana.com

Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 2405227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE

700 Tie Chute Lane, Florence $259,900 MLS# 20125274 2 bed, 1 bath log home on 10 treed acres on the west side of Florence.

This is a must see!

Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $375,000. Call Anne for details.

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Historic Preservation Award-Winning Marshall House Beautiful professional building with great design for offices or home and awesome exposure for business.

436 S 3rd W. $395,000 2405227 porticorealestate.com

bile on rented lot. $48,900.

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RICE TEAM

Slant Street Condo 525A Cleveland. Upgraded and beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Slant Streets: $164,900 porticorealestate.com 240-5227

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

Mount Jumbo views. $289,900.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

Newly remodeled with new flooring and paint. Corner lot with fenced yard, private backyard with shade tree & deck.

No HOA fees.

NHN Cooper, Missoula $45,000 MLS#'s: 20124810 & 20124811 3,900 sq. ft. lot zoned for single family or a duplex! Build your own home or an investment property! Priced to sell!

www.702Acharlo.com • MLS #20122655 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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REAL ESTATE Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

OUT OF TOWN

VACATION

11674 Highway 200 East. Residential or commercial property on the Blackfoot River. $469,999. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

Cabin on Georgetown Lake Separate guesthouse/ boathouse and dock. Beautiful views from cabin/deck. USFS lease land borders NFS. Great to boat,fish,hunt,hike or 4whl.

Kit/bath. 129,000 529-6499

1623 Wild Turkey Lane, Stevensville. Over 200 acre private ranch with creek surrounded by conservation easement land. $998,500. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville.

Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic.

Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $65,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres. Close to the river and Forest Service land. $185,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1978 Waters Edge, Bonner. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.3 Blackfoot River acres. $499,999. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Stevensville log home on 1.2 acres. $139,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2110 Petty Creek, Alberton.

Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car

garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 2351 Highway 83 West, Seeley Lake. 2 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 2.4 lakefront acres. $599,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 28 Rock Creek Road, Clinton. 4 bed, 3 bath on 70 private acres with indoor pool & waterfall. $849,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6.3 acres. Large shop. $339,000. Prudential Montana.

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3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Ravalli home on 2.65 Acres. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

5471 Wildlife Way, Florence. 4 bed, 3 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 1 acres. Trex decks & mountain views. $300,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres. $399,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 406 Main Street, Superior. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided on 1/3 acre. Basement & 3 car garage with mechanic’s pit. $150,000.

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9010 Scharf, Clinton. 2 bed, 1 bath with 3 car garage & heated shop on over 9 private acres. $225,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/- acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house? Here it is! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227