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LOCAL FOOD FAIR 2017

Join us Saturday, September 30, from 11:00 to 3:00 as we celebrate the region’s food producers and their vital contribution to our local economy and culture. We’ll treat you to tasty bites of local fare at stations all over the store and introduce you to the people who create them. Kelly Moore from Missoula County Extension will be here to share canning and food preservation tips. And Josh Farmer will be providing the live local music accompaniment. So come say hello to your neighbors and taste how special a Montana menu can be.

Saturday, September 30, 11:00am to 3:00pm

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News

Voices The readers write................................................................................................4 Street Talk What you can’t live without, and what you’re eager to leave behind ........4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Outgrowing house and home, Griz vs. reporters, and burning down the hunt.........6 Etc. Guess who’s stumping for single payer, a day late and a dollar short? ..................7 News In Bannack, Jaye Christensen sings a song of herself..............................................8 News Journalist Todd Wilkinson launches Mountain Journal..........................................9 Opinion Are we punishing the poor hard enough? ....................................................10 Opinion With ‘global warming,’ word choice matters................................................11 Feature How prepared are you for the end of the world as you know it?..................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Digging deep into Cory Fay’s Garden Variations................................................18 Music Andrea Harsell, Mac DeMarco, Shahs ...............................................................19 Art The cyclical landscape of B. Martinez.................................................................................20 Film Mother! only masquerades as feminism ..............................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 Brokeass Gourmet Jalapeno-honey chicken for Rosh Hashanah .................................23 Happiest Hour Cheers to the Hotshot .......................................................................27 8 Days a Week And then it was winter?.........................................................................28 Agenda Red Shoe Ball..................................................................................................37 Mountain High Looking skyward (if we can) at Blue Mountain Observatory ...........38

Exclusives

News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................39 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................40 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................42 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................45 This Modern World.....................................................................................................46

GENERAL MANAGER Andy Sutcliffe EDITOR Brad Tyer PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston BOOKKEEPER Ruth Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer, Susan Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERNS Parker Seibold, Margaret Grayson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Beau Wurster, Toni Leblanc, Declan Lawson ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER Tami Allen MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Declan Lawson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson

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STREET TALK

[voices]

by Derek Brouwer and Susan Shepard

Asked Monday afternoon at Caras Park This week, reporter Alex Sakariassen writes about a Bitterroot business that helps people plan how to get out of Dodge during an emergency. What’s the one thing you’d make space for in your bug-out bag? Follow-up: What would you be happiest to leave behind?

Mugging for a cause I thought maybe the coward Gianforte was using the pen name Dan Brooks and wrote this article himself (“Keep a promise?

Hasn’t Greg Gianforte suffered enough?”

Sept. 7). Can’t wait to buy a Gianforte mugshot T-shirt to support whoever runs against him.

Chuck Schulthies missoulanews.com

Half right?

Andrea Wodzinski: My first reaction is that I’d bring my dog. But she’s too big.

Besides that, my emergency inhaler. Bed of leaves: Maybe the mattress. We’re realizing while on vacation that our mattress is really uncomfortable compared to all the others we’ve been sleeping on.

Ben Sromalski: I guess I’d bring my phone charger. My phone’s got my music, my fantasy football. Word: Responsibilities of everyday life.

Charles Rainsdon: Water or a filtration system. You can survive a couple weeks without food if you need to. With water, after one day you’re pretty well done.

Power down: Cell phone. What would you really need it for? More weight, takes up more room.

Faith Wells: I would take a water filter so I could drink water and stay alive.

School’s out: I would be happy to leave behind all my junk that I carry around with me normally, like my school stuff.

Binders and everything.

GiGi Rushmer: My dog. I’d make him fit because I can’t live without him. He’s a poodle. His name’s Rambo. He’d save us.

Mo’ money, mo’ problems: My bills.

Let me guess, Dan Brooks … you’re a white male in this country who is freaking out because your power is slipping away.

Just like all the other white males in this country who continue to use violence and acts of terror to try to retain some sense of being in control. So glad your voice and those of the like are not accepted as gospel by a growing number of people. And my sympathies to those stupid enough to believe the BS you spew.

Marie Piccola missoulanews.com

Poor hypocrite This past week in Missoula a group of up to six young men around age 18, beat another young man up with a baseball bat and a hammer. Twenty staples in the kid’s head and his fingers broken.

These kids had some sort of legitimate beef that needed to be sorted out, but they chose violence.

I saw a bumper sticker last week that said “My congressman can beat up your congressman.” Supports violence.

A few weeks ago a young couple in Missoula murdered and dismembered and melted in acid another young couple like it was a scene out of a show that everyone watched together. Supports violence.

Our middle-aged congressman threw another human to the ground and punched him numerous times. He lied about it, then told a little more of the truth when it was clear there was an audio recording and multiple eyewitnesses. He lied to the court and to the judge and the public about his intentions toward reparation. This congressman is a Christianist, a member of a group of people who claim to be better than non-Christianists. But supports violence. A quite typical Christian role model. Hypocrite.

Poor guy.

Erin O’Doherty missoulanews.com

LOL OK I voted for Gianforte and will vote for him again in the next election. He is a good man and has done a lot for Montana and will continue to work hard to represent all of us. The news media is doing a lot of harm not only to themselves but to the

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people. The truth should always be the goal, and not ideologies at any cost.

Gloria Roark missoulanews.com

Troll model Picking on the poor downtrodden multi-millionaire thug again. He’s in Washington to drain the swamp by knowing no shame like his inspiration Donald Drumpfsterfire.

Jay Sinnott facebook.com/missoulaindependent

“Let me guess, Dan Brooks … you’re a white male in this country who is freaking out because your power is slipping away. Just like all the other white males in this country who continue to use violence and acts of terror to try to retain some sense of being in control.”

First and second...

Gianforte’s first impulse was to lie and lie some more. Unfortunately for him there were witnesses and also audio. Otherwise, this liar and zero-to-60 nutcase might have gotten away with it.

Michelle Nielsen facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Let ’em run wild You know, I feel like what they and all these yokels deserve is to let them have their head (“Breaking the rules: Zinke and Trump go to war on regulation,” Aug. 31).

I mean, we have regulations in the first place because people/companies/corporations cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.

Just let them run wild until the rivers can be lit on fire again. That’s really all that will stop them. Because people never learn.

Louise McMillin facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Esther Chessin Way One of my favorite true Missoulians ever (“Remembering Esther Chessin,” Sept. 8). She has been a positive force in this community for decades, and in my life since day one of meeting her, way back in 1992. We should rename one of our streets for this great woman. This exceptional human being should never leave our hearts and thoughts. Goodbye, Esther. We love you!

Andre Floyd missoulanews.com

Chopping block There hasn’t been one single lawsuit against a timber sale on the National Forest lands near the Lolo Peak Fire in at least 20 years (“Dear Sen. Daines: Natural variability isn’t the last word on climate science,” Sept. 7).

Also, the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Region (which includes all National Forests in Montana) has met 89 percent of its timber sale volume target over the past 15 years. That target is based on funding from Congress. It’s also worth noting that the timber volume target has increased 72 percent from 2002 to 2015.

Also, it must be pointed out that right now, the U.S. Forest Service is able to conduct an unlimited number of 3,000-acre timber sales, which would be categorically excluded from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), on 46.7 million acres nationwide and nearly 5 million acres of National Forest land here in Montana. In addition to having “fast-track” status by being categorically excluded from NEPA, these timber sales would have no citizen appeal/objection process.

Keep these facts in mind in the coming weeks and months and certainly folks like Daines, Gianforte and others in the GOP will be using wildfires as an excuse to dramatically increase public lands logging.

Some people may remember the infamous “Logging Without Laws” Salvage Rider of 1995, which followed the 1994 wildfire season. That 1995 Salvage Rider resulted in tens of thousands of acres of ancient, oldgrowth forests and previously unlogged National Forest lands being chopped down and sent to the timber mills.

Matthew Koehler missoulanews.com

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, September 6 UM announces four finalists vying to become the flagging flagship’s next president, including an education adviser to former Mexican President Vicente Fox, a provost at San Jose State University, a General Electric executive and the president of the University of Central Missouri.

Thursday, September 7 Sen. Jon Tester invites President Donald Trump to tour fire-ravaged Montana. So far the Donald hasn’t taken him up on the offer.

Friday, September 8 Democratic legislative leaders Jon Sesso and Jenny Eck pin blame for the latest round of state budget cuts on conservative lawmakers, claiming the cuts are a result of “years of Republican policies that have provided giveaways to corporations and the wealthy at the expense of Montana’s working families.”

Saturday, September 9 Missoula County sheriff’s deputies, responding to a call, find the body of a 65-year-old man in the Bitterroot River near Lolo. The sheriff’s office says the death does not appear to be suspicious.

Sunday, September 10

Boomtown chronicles

Outgrowing house and home Scads of new residential buildings are rising in Missoula, projects with hundreds of new apartments to welcome the city’s huddled masses for the right price. But with the county adding 2,150 residents yearly, even a full-fledged building boom may not be enough to keep Missoula’s housing supply proportionate to its population.

Some math: During the six years following the 2010 census, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Missoula County added 6,700 people.

At the countywide average of 2.2 people per residence, keeping up with those new arrivals would mean adding more than 3,000 homes and apartments to the Missoula area’s stock. But the Census Bureau, which also keeps tabs on housing counts, says the county added only 2,200 units in that time, leaving an 800-unit gap.

And that tightness of supply is part of what’s pushing up housing costs faster than local incomes.

Even with decreasing enrollment at the University of Montana, the vacancy rate in Missoula’s rental market declined to just under 3 percent last year, according to data compiled by local Realtors. A healthy vacancy rate, enough to keep rents stable, is closer to 5 percent.

Realtors’ data also indicate the city’s for-sale market is undersupplied as well, with too few homes available at price points below $425,000. As a result, the median sale price for a Missoula-area home climbed 6.8 percent last year, to a record high of $255,000.

As for local wages? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average pay rose by a modest 2.6 percent in 2016, to $39,500.

The city’s planning director, Mike Haynes, says Missoula’s construction flurry may be enough to bring renters and homebuyers some relief. He says he’s seeing an “encouraging” level of activity, enough that it “should address some of the imbalances there have been in the market.”

Last year, Haynes says, the city issued building permits for 775 houses, apartments and condos. At the 2.2 people-per-home ratio, that’s enough to provide housing for more than 1,500 Missoulians once construction wraps up.

And in the first eight months of this year, he adds, the city has issued another 570 permits.

“We are starting to get ahead of the curve—or at least we will when those units come online,” he says.

However, with census statisticians pegging Missoula proper at 1,500 new residents a year, residential construction inside the city appears to be just barely keeping pace. The story outside city limits may be

worse. Missoula County issued permits for roughly 150 units last year as population grew by 680.

“We just don’t have enough,” says Karen Hughes, the county’s assistant planning director. She adds that the county and city are working with Realtors and others to study the issue, trying to figure out what they can do to make sure Missoula gets the housing it needs.

“I think there’s a real common interest in doing some problem-solving,” she says. A report is due in the coming months.

Eric Dietrich

The sports beat

Griz vs. reporters Football season has arrived in Missoula, and with it a litany of enthusiastic Griz coverage from local news outlets. Reporters are writing not only about scores and highlights, but about an industry that’s deeply entwined with Missoula’s economy and consciousness.

But reporting sports comes with challenges, some of which, reporters say, are presented by the university’s athletic department. AJ Mazzolini covered Griz football at the Missoulian for two and a half years, and describes his relationship with UM’s sports information department as “tumultuous.”

Missoula DACA recipients speak to 75 supporters at a downtown protest after President Donald Trump decides to phase out the program shielding undocumented immigrants who arrived as children from deportation. The Montana Human Rights Network estimates there are about 200 “dreamers” in Montana.

Monday, September 11 Holding signs that say “Disability is not a choice, discrimination is” and “Our homes, not nursing homes,” nearly 200 people rally outside the state capitol to protest a second wave of proposed cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates and case management programs.

Tuesday, September 12 Grant Kier, who resigned as executive director of Five Valleys Land Trust last month, announces his bid for U.S. House at KettleHouse Amphitheater. He’s running as a Democrat.

She kind of just took it in stride. I don’t think she wanted to give it a lot of energy.

She didn’t want it to be the focus of her life.”

— Cindy Waltz, friend of former Bernice’s Bakery owner Esther Chessin, who died Sept. 5 of cancer

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[news] “Occasionally I may have pushed a little more than would’ve made them comfortable,� Mazzolini says. For its part, he says, the athletic department restricts access to players and makes it difficult to report certain stories.

All requests to speak to players and coaches go through the sports information department. For football, the contact is Eric Taber, assistant sports information director and a graduate of UM’s journalism school.

Reporters are allowed to conduct interviews at two 15minute weekly sessions before practices, and ask questions at a weekly press conference. Reporters can also request a player be available for an interview or at the press conference. Mazzolini says players were not always made available in response to such requests. Taber says players “accommodate virtually every request we get.�

Sometimes, this relationship can become fraught, like when J.R. Nelson, a star Griz cornerback, failed a drug test in 2016.

Mazzolini says that was a “a major news story.� The punishment for a failed test was sitting out half the next season. Mazzolini says Taber asked him to not report the story until the NCAA appeals process was finished, which Mazzolini says took another three months. Mazzolini and his editors decided to go ahead and publish the story without comment from the coach or player, and he says Taber wasn’t happy with that decision.

Taber confirms that he asked Mazzolini to hold the story out of concern for possible effects on the player’s future.

Kevin Van Valkenburg, a senior writer at ESPN and 2000 UM grad, spent a semester in 2015 as a visiting professor at the university’s journalism school and an adviser to the Montana Kaimin. He met with both Taber and UM Athletic Director Kent Haslam about what he saw as the department trying to “strong-arm�

Kaimin reporters. “I’ve covered a ton of major programs throughout the country,� Van Valkenburg says. “Almost all of them were more accommodating than the University of Montana.�

Taber says UM’s media policies are standard for large universities, and that while media access is restricted to certain times, it provides ample opportunity for beat reporters. “It’s not something that’s designed to be difficult,� he says. “We appreciate and enjoy all the coverage we get.�

Mazzolini disagrees, and says he grew frustrated with what felt like a constant battle for information. “Part of the reason that I ended up leaving was because of that dance [with the athletic department],� he says. “They really wanted me to be the bad guy.�

Mazzolini left the Missoulian in July and now attends graduate school at Belmont University in Nashville studying sports administration. Yes, he appreciates the irony. He says he wants to bring a newsman’s perspective to sports information, but he admits there’s also a simpler reason: “It’s easier to be on the inside.�

Margaret Grayson

Closures

Fires complicate elk season On Sept 2, during opening weekend of archery season, Hellgate Hunters and Anglers president Kit Fischer was camped out with hunting buddies near a block management area, eager to get a jump on some elk. As they milled about camp, Fischer recalls, a member of the Blackfoot Challenge wandered up bearing bad news: A closure had just been announced for the Ovando Mountain BMA effective the next morning. The Rice Ridge fire was too close.

Archery hunters throughout western Montana have been facing similar situations. Access to 20 block management areas in Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Region 2 has been closed or heavily restricted since mid-August due to fire danger or wildfire proximity. All Weyerhaeuser timber company lands were closed to the public starting Sept. 5. The Nature Conservancy closed its lands effective Aug. 29. “I think a lot of hunters that use block management are just holding tight until conditions improve,� says FWP conservation specialist Tyler Rennfield.

As frustrating as the closures may be for wouldbe early birds, Region 2 wildlife manager Mike Thompson says the agency has never relied heavily on early hunts to meet harvest numbers. That said, the rest of this season needs to go well. Last year’s mild fall and snowy winter had FWP “treading water� when it came to reducing elk numbers in

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unsustainable populations, Thompson says. Harvest totals just about broke even with herd growth. In one hunting district north of Butte, spring surveys indicated a population increase. “We have to do at least as good as last year, and ultimately better, if we’re going to make some progress,� Thompson says.

Wildfires could complicate hunting season in another way. A lot of Montana fires are burning on summer elk range, Thompson says, and he anticipates the ungulates will congregate on private agricultural land more than usual by the time general rifle season begins Oct. 21.

If that’s the case, hitting harvest quotas will hinge on the willingness of landowners to grant hunters access—and possibly on FWP opening shoulder seasons.

Still, Thompson sees a potential silver lining in the fires’ long-term effects on elk and hunters. If western Montana gets a good amount of moisture this fall and winter, Thompson says, freshly burned areas will become prime forage next year, scattering elk more widely across the landscape and easing elk congregation on low-lying ag lands.

All this raises an obvious question: Where do all the elk go when the forests are burning? Thompson laughs, then does his best to answer based on past info from radio-collared elk in burn areas. “You have this vision of animals just moving and migrating out in advance of the fire,� Thompson says. “But my experience has been that it’s more a matter of stepping aside and using the places that haven’t burned within the burn perimeter.�

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Before shipping off to China as U.S. ambassador in 2013, Max Baucus’s last major accomplishment of a nearly 40-year career in the U.S. Senate was shepherding health care reform, later known as Obamacare, to passage.

Granted, progressives aren’t apt to exalt Baucus’ health care legacy. To them, he’s the man responsible for keeping single-payer, i.e., government-run, health care off the table at a time when Democrats controlled the presidency and both chambers of Congress. “Let me get this straight,� one protester interrupted during an early Senate Finance Committee roundtable in 2009. “You’ve got 15 seats at the table and not one for single payer?� Baucus pounded his gavel and had the self-described “Baucus 8� arrested.

Eight years later, Baucus’s baby has survived an insurgent single-payer evangelist in Bernie Sanders and an onslaught by the zombie horde of “Repeal and Replace� conservatives in Congress.

But Baucus isn’t celebrating. “My personal view is we’ve got to start looking at single-payer,â€? Baucus said Sept. 7 at Montana State University, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. “I think we should have hearings‌. We’re getting there. It’s going to happen.â€?

Cue the collective spit take. “Hearings?!�

Someone page Baucus circa 2009 and have this guy arrested!

Did Baucus go to China and come back a commie? A slew of prominent Democrats, with the 2018 midterms in the party’s sights, have come out in support of single payer. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will co-sponsor Sanders’ “Medicarefor-all� bill in the Senate, and even Jon Tester now says single payer deserves a “solid look.�

Still, calls for a “solid look� and “hearings� are a far cry from endorsements. While pandering to the party base is a time-honored midterm strategy, Tester in particular faces a tough reelection campaign in 2018 in a state where “repeal and replace� tends to roll off the tongue.

This could be lip service as Democrats try to keep their progressive base at bay. Or it could signal that the moderates are finally coming around. Recall that, in 2009, then-president Barack Obama held a health care town hall in Belgrade.

He was introduced by Baucus, who listed some moderate reforms, and by then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who extolled the universal health care offered by Montana’s northern neighbor Canada.

The audience of 1,300 reportedly “roared in approval� for one of those speeches. You can bet Baucus remembers whose speech it was.

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Song of herself In Bannack, Jaye Christensen keeps the music alive

by Peregrine Frissell

Five days a week, Bannack State Park is a quiet place. Tourists talk and rattlesnakes rattle, but there aren’t many of either. Visitors are usually left to listen to the wind whistle through the narrow valley and the burble of nearby Grasshopper Creek.

On Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, however, the silence is broken by the sound of old-time piano music, singing and even yodeling ripping out of the old one-bedroom house of Dr. Robert H. Ryburn. Most visitors think the music is coming from a player piano until they see the frame of Jaye Christensen swaying with the melody just inside the door.

couldn’t remember how to type.”

So, at the age of 29, she went on disability. Soon after, a neighbor gifted her an old piano, and Christensen taught herself to play. Since then, she’s been making extra money playing in bars in Wisdom, Darby and Dr. Ryburn’s house in Bannack. She can’t read music, but she writes her own Montana-inspired lyrics. She takes requests and has her own list of favorites, like this one she played on a recent Wednesday afternoon for a visitor:

home in Grant when the whole thing came tumbling down on top of her. It was the day after Thanksgiving, and most of the town’s families were gone. She laid there and prayed until a man she says looked like Jesus pulled up in a pickup and dug her out of the woodpile. When she was free, he said, “Jaye, your ties to earth may be pretty weak, but your ties to heaven are darn strong.”

Since that day, she says, a figure resembling the man has arrived again and again,

I’m only human, I’m just a woman.

Help me believe in what I could be And all that I am.

Christensen carries herself with a welcoming demeanor and openness. She’s been gracing the same bench for 39 years, playing at the Bannack Days festival and off and on during the week for more than half her life. She specializes in music from the 1850s to 1950s, a period that saw the birth and death of Bannack, the state’s first territorial capital. Christensen knows the history of the house, and she mixes it with her own history when she talks to tourists.

Show me the stairway, I have to climb Lord for my sake, teach me to take One day at a time.

Christensen is transgender, a fact she readily shares with guests. Born and raised just 15 miles down the road in Grant, Christensen is a member of the Wisdom High School class of ’62. After high school she worked as a clerk for the Forest Service until a psychiatrist sent her to St. Patrick in Missoula and prescribed shock therapy to “cure” her condition. Her psychiatrist told her the treatments would make her “just like a normal guy.” They didn’t. The doctor later admitted he’d been wrong and the hospital forgave her bills, Christensen says, but her life since has never been the same.

“They did 11 brain shock treatments and I couldn’t remember a damn thing,” she says. “I couldn’t remember what the work was, or how to do anything. I

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photo by Peregrine Frissell

Grant resident Jaye Christensen plays piano at the Dr. Robert H. Ryburn house in Bannack.

One day at a time sweet Jesus That’s all I’m asking from you.

Just give me the strength To do every day what I have to do.

She says she’s grateful for her experience in Bannack, but admits that not everyone has taken kindly to her presence.

About 11 years ago, someone tossed a stick of dynamite down the well at her house in Grant. She hasn’t had running water since.

“I live in primitive conditions,” Christensen says. “Just like Bannack.”

Still, she’s never seriously considered leaving Montana. She loves it here, and moving on her meager income would be a herculean task. She says she wouldn’t trade the life she’s lived here for anything. “God put me here for a reason,” she says.

Several years ago, Christensen was trying to pull some firewood from a pile at her

offering encouragement and advice. One day he told her, “You are my father’s instrument of peace. Keep it going.”

Experiences like that have bolstered her spirituality, but she’s 79 now, and her health isn’t what it once was.

Yesterday’s gone sweet Jesus And tomorrow may never be mine.

Lord help me today, show me the way One day at a time.

“This will probably be my last summer playing out here,” Christensen says.

“People have treated me real well here in Bannack.”

Jaye Christensen can be heard playing in Bannack from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday through the end of September.

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Yellowstone online Reporter Todd Wilkinson launches a new nonprofit

by Alex Sakariassen

In May 2016, two years’ worth of work by photographers, illustrators and acclaimed Bozeman-based writer David Quammen culminated in an issue of National Geographic dedicated solely to Yellowstone National Park. The magazine featured stories about supervolcanoes, tourism, ranching, wildlife migration and hot springs-dwelling microbes. Yellowstone, America’s first national park, was an obvious candidate for such a thorough treatment. In one of his own contributions

lowstone park. That initial piece serves as a wilderness history primer for the uninitiated. It’s signaling that, as Wilkinson says, Mountain Journal’s goal is not to cater to an audience limited by the cultural and political boundaries of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

“Yellowstone suffers not from lack of public exposure but under-reporting,” Wilkinson writes. “Yellowstone and the wild region surrounding it deserves a strong, thoughtful voice that tries to make

Last month, veteran journalist Todd Wilkinson launched the nonprofit online news site Mountain Journal, aimed at filling what Wilkinson says is a void in comprehensive coverage of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

to that issue, journalist and author Todd Wilkinson posed perhaps the most tantalizing question: Are we loving Yellowstone to death?

The project gave Wilkinson more than a platform to delve into the social and environmental costs of Yellowstone’s evergrowing popularity. It underscored for him just how much the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem deserves dedicated and cohesive media coverage. Answering that need prompted him to launch the nonprofit website Mountain Journal in August.

Wilkinson is the site’s managing editor.

“Every major issue affecting the West is in play here,” Wilkinson told the Indy by email. “For an online publication, it makes for endless, engaging fodder.” Mountain Journal is barely a month old, and already its writers are tackling complex issues. One early story billed itself as the first part in an ongoing series about the political threats currently facing federally designated wilderness areas, eight of which border Yel-

sense of the growing threats to its character, and one that celebrates the reasons why it is magical in the eyes of so many.”

The choice to pursue that mission under a nonprofit banner was made in direct response to the challenges facing forprofit journalism, which Wilkinson describes as “withering.” Going the nonprofit route, he says, will allow Mountain Journal’s supporters to feel invested in “advancing the public good and the betterment of a region that has no parallel on earth.” The approach has worked for other online publications in the West. Wyomingbased Wyofile has done significant work and survived as a journalistic nonprofit for nearly 10 years, offering free, in-depth coverage of political, environmental, cultural and tribal issues. Even so, Wilkinson says Mountain Journal is a pioneer.

“Media has entered a new frontier,” he says. “Old media is in free-fall. We’re not trying to emulate anyone else, because quite frankly there is no other online media

platform out there covering a region like the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.”

The recent launch of Mountain Journal was made possible by an inaugural sponsorship from outdoor retail heavyweight Patagonia. Over the past year, the company has increasingly followed the lead of other recreation-centric retailers in lobbying to keep public lands public. In May, Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario vowed to lead the industry’s resistance to Trumpled rollbacks in public-land protections.

“We have to fight like hell to keep every inch of public land,” Marcario told Huffington Post in May. “I don’t have a lot of faith in politics and politicians right now.”

Patagonia launched a $700,000 digital ad buy in late August calling on Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke to maintain his stated support for public lands. Though Patagonia is a foundational sponsor of Mountain Journal, Wilkinson says the company’s political activity won’t influence the site’s approach to issues involving Zinke or public lands.

“Patagonia supports us, I think, because it believes in independent, watchdog-oriented, public-interest journalism,” Wilkinson says. “And it believes in the novelty of our fresh approach.”

In covering a region that spans three states, a national park and scores of cities and towns, Mountain Journal will compete with numerous established media outlets, and Wilkinson doesn’t duck that challenge. If Mountain Journal’s readers recognize the same need for public-interest journalism he sees, Wilkinson says he’s confident they’ll support the cause.

“We do not have the resources of a giant media empire,” he says. “Mountain Journal is a David entering an arena filled with Goliaths. It is headquartered in a state where a Congressional candidate once portrayed the media as an enemy and then body-slammed a reporter because he didn’t like being asked tough, important questions. We aren’t going to cower in the face of that kind of behavior.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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worry about complex issues like property taxes and the war on Christmas.

Meanwhile, the poor waste their days on stupid questions like, “Where will I sleep?” and “What is a source of water and food?” Such people have been getting a free ride for too long.

I say it’s time for the poor to pay their debts to society, just like the rest of us. The problem with this lawsuit is that it rewards DiFrancesco for breaking the rules.

What kind of 14-year-old has enough money to buy a can of beer but

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jobs they create.”

but was responsible enough to set things right. When he was 56 years old, he committed a crime almost as serious as underage drinking: He threw a reporter to the ground and punched him in the face. Unlike DiFrancesco, though, he had the foresight to make $315 million dollars first, so he had no problem paying his $300 fine and $85 court fee. That boy was Greg Gianforte, and he went on to become a member of Congress.

shouldn’t have gotten caught with that beer when you were 14.

The second principle is that if you have enough money, the first principle doesn’t apply. That’s where DiFrancesco went wrong. We are a merciful society, and we’re willing to forget people’s mistakes if they’re willing to pay for them.

Not being able to pay your debt is the one thing we never forgive.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and justice on a sliding scale at combatblog.net.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is in charge of the Forest Service as well as several agricultural and foodrelated research agencies, recently told its staffers to avoid using the term “climate change.” The business-as-usual term “weather extremes” was recommended instead.

While dropping the word “climate” may seem like a defeat for those of us who remain convinced that human influences are harming the global environment, this federal directive made in the spirit of changing the narrative might be good advice. Could it be that the term itself has failed us?

Suppose for a moment you are in a restaurant and someone yells, “Help, she’s having a heart attack!” Being a good person, you would no doubt spring into action, call 911, look for aspirin or a defibrillator, and so on.

Suppose that same person had instead yelled, “Help, she’s having a myocardial infarction!” You would probably react the same way, but wouldn’t you perhaps pause for just a second? Unless you’re a medical professional, wouldn’t you first have to engage in some type of internal translation? I would. The ailing woman might get better care at a hospital with such detailed wording, but the immediate danger she faces in the restaurant hides behind the wrong language.

Here’s the problem: Although most Americans today say that climate change is a real and serious issue, most probably don’t understand what the term climate means. The difference between climate and weather, the moving target of climate averages, and the intangibility of climate experience all make climate a problematic word to rally around. I know the northwest has a rainy climate, and because I experience getting wet frequently, I know in my bones that this is true. But alas, the word “climate” can become jargon.

Yes, the climate is changing, but it is an acute global environmental crisis— global warming—that is touching the realities of daily life for millions of people around the world.

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Houston just turned into a gigantic and growing lake. Furnace Creek, California, the hottest place on earth, posted its hottest July on record. Unprecedented peat fires burn in Greenland. Extreme weather events across the globe abound, and they are tied not just to generalized climate change but directly to heat. The term “global warming” comes with the baggage of 30 years of politics, but for now it is the best we have.

“Climate change has been the wrong phrase for the job because it is too scientific.

It has failed to provoke urgency and been easy to pooh-pooh.”

Both global warming and climate change have been used to describe what’s happening to the planet since the 1970s.

Conventionally, global warming refers specifically to the rise of average global temperatures, and climate change refers more broadly to shifts in prevailing environmental conditions, including the odd spot that is getting colder.

As the 1990s and 2000s saw popular culture build concern for global warming, the issue got entangled in bitter politics.

Because global warming was accused of sounding alarmist, some researchers hoped that the term climate change would sound more scientific.

But climate change has been the wrong phrase for the job because it is too scientific. It has failed to provoke urgency and been easy to pooh-pooh. (It’s probably not a coincidence that a Republican political strategist recommended using the term “climate change” because he said “it is less frightening than ‘global warming.’”)

“Change” is a neutral term that does not convey that humanity is the culprit behind what’s happening. After all, it is entirely correct that the climate is always changing—a frequent retort from climatechange deniers. Furthermore, many shifts caused by global warming are not climatic—think sea-level rise, ocean acidification and glacial melting. This further confuses the terminology.

Al Gore has recently taken to talking instead about the “climate crisis.” While I find this a laudable step, there is still a challenge with the word climate—we just can’t touch the climate. “Global weirding” and “global environmental change” both offer alternatives, but both have failed to catch on.

If I look south outside my window, I can see a small patch of dirty blue ice on a mountain in Denali National Park. Just eight years ago when I first came here, this patch was significantly larger and snowwhite all summer long. Now there is a tan bathtub ring around what used to be a glacier. This change is personal, precise and experiential.

Words matter. Words invoke, connote and direct attention as we move through the world. Discouraging use of the term climate change might just turn out to be a good thing, as long as we continue to talk about the subject: Let’s stick with global warming.

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WAIT, WHAT? – The People’s Liberation Army Daily, a Chinese state-run military newspaper, has declared on its WeChat account that fewer Chinese youth are passing fitness tests to join the army because they are too fat and masturbate too much, resulting in abnormally large testicular veins. The web article cited one town’s statistics, where 56.9 percent of candidates were rejected for failing to meet physical requirements. China’s military quickly beat down the article’s assertion, saying: “The quality of our recruits is guaranteed, and the headwaters of our military will flow long and strong.”

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT – Police in Osnabruck, Germany, stopped a vehicle on Aug. 19 and found an unusual trove of drugs inside: Plastic bags filled with about 5,000 ecstasy pills, with a street value of about $46,000—all in the shape of Donald Trump’s head. The orange tablets depicted Trump’s signature sweep of hair and his rosebud mouth. An unnamed 51year-old man and his son, 17, also had a large sum of cash and were taken into custody.

CULTURAL DIVERSITY – The Japanese funeral industry demonstrated its forward thinking on Aug. 23 when practitioners gathered for the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo. Among the displays was a humanoid robot named Pepper who can conduct a Buddhist funeral, complete with chanting and tapping a drum. Pepper is a collaboration between SoftBank and Nissei Eco Co., which wrote the chanting software. Michio Inamura, Nissei’s executive adviser, said the robot could step in when priests are not available.

Also at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, four undertakers competed on stage as funeral music played to see who could best display the ancient skills of ritually dressing the dead. The Shinto religion in Japan believes that the dead are impure just after death and that dressing the body purifies the spirit. The contestants dressed live human volunteers and were observed by three judges. Rino Terai, who won the contest, said, “I practiced every day to prepare for this competition.”

In Iran, the education department has banned people who are considered “ugly” from being teachers. The list of conditions and features that prevent one from being a teacher includes facial moles, acne, eczema, scars and crossed eyes. Also on the list of unsavory conditions are cancer, bladder stones or color-blindness, none of which can be observed by others.

FAN-ANTIC – Jeffrey Riegel, 56, of Port Republic, New Jersey, left ’em laughing with his obituary’s parting shot at the Philadelphia Eagles. In it, Riegel asked that eight Eagles players act as pallbearers, “so the Eagles can let me down one last time.” Riegel owned season tickets for 30 years, during which the Eagles never won a Super Bowl.

INEXPLICABLE – An Arkansas Highway Patrol officer spotted “an unusual sight” on Aug. 23 on I-30: a black Hummer with a casket strapped to the top of it. When the officer pulled over Kevin M. Cholousky, 39, of Van Buren, Arkansas, he took off and led police on a chase along I530, where his vehicle was eventually stopped by road spikes. Although the casket was empty, Cholousky was charged in Pulaski County with fictitious tags, reckless driving and fleeing.

LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES – Sonogram photos are notoriously difficult to decipher, but one couple in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, are sure theirs shows a man watching over their unborn daughter. “When they gave it to us ... Umm, to me, it’s Jesus. And it looks like Jesus,” said mom Alicia Zeek. She and father Zac Smith have two older children, both born with birth defects, and the image is putting them at ease about their third child. “Once ... we looked at the picture, I was like—look, babe, we have nothing to worry about,” Smith said.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Jocsan Feliciano Rosado, 22, was driving a stolen car on Monday, Aug. 21, when he stopped off at a Harbor Freight store in Kissimmee, Florida, to pick up a welder’s helmet for viewing the solar eclipse. As he dawdled next to the vehicle, looking up at the sun with his helmet on, members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Auto Theft Unit interrupted his reverie and arrested him.

Adam Darrough, 29, of Little Rock, Arkansas, tried to elude officers who had arrived at his girlfriend’s house to arrest him by climbing out a back window. But when that didn’t work, he hid in her attic. Meanwhile, Erinique Hill, 20, held police at bay outside her home. Things went south for Darrough when he fell through the attic floor, and Little Rock police officers arrested him for a number of felonies, including hindering arrest.

BRIGHT IDEAS – Tuffy Tuffington, 45, of San Francisco was walking his dogs, Bob and Chuck, when he came up with a way to respond non-violently to a right-wing rally at Crissy Field on Aug. 26. So he launched a Facebook page asking San Franciscans to bring dog poop to spread in the park in advance of the event. “It seemed like a little bit of civil disobedience where we didn’t have to engage with them face to face,” Tuffington said. Contributors to the project also planned to show up on Aug. 27 to “clean up the mess and hug each other.”

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n summer 2002, I paddled a canoe out of the mouth of McIntyre Creek and into the north bay of Robinson Lake. The sky had grown choked with stormclouds over the previous hour, and a headwind was kicking up two-foot breakers as far as I could see. It took nearly an hour to reach the nearest campsite, on a skinny point separating the north bay from the main lake.

By the time the Alumacraft’s bow hit shore, my shoulders felt like they’d been dislocated several times over.

This was my second time in Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. We were six days into a seven-day trip on an itinerary that was supposed to have us 10 miles farther along by the time we made camp. We did our best to pitch tents while the wind toppled a pine just a few yards away. Then we hunkered down around a fire built with wet matches as my dad walked us through what this

stormbound day meant for tomorrow: a 20-mile haul clear back to Moose Lake, starting at first light.

In the annals of extreme survival situations, it wasn’t much of a story. We had enough extra food for an unplanned-for third meal the next day, and if things had really gotten out of hand there was a satellite phone tucked safely in the pack of our veteran guide, Jim. The experience did, however, underscore a perennial Boy Scout lesson that I hadn’t fully appreciated until then: “Be Prepared.”

Those two words drive a lot of the little things we all do as independent Montanans. We keep jumper cables in the backs of our Subarus, toss an extra Clif Bar in our packs when we hit Blue Mountain, check to make sure our Uber app is updated before we go drinking downtown. Dead batteries and hunger pangs have taught us to expect the unexpected.

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There’s a line, though, that most of us don’t care to cross. It’s one thing to stock up on essentials ahead of a blizzard, but what about stashing a militarystyle backpack by the back door with enough dried food, medical supplies and handgun ammo to last weeks? That’s tinfoil hat territory, the kind of over-the-top survivalist prep reserved for those who have watched Red Dawn one too many times. I’m as big a fan of The Walking Dead as the next nerd, but the zombie apocalypse is pure fiction, no alien invasion is imminent, and I’m only about 60 percent sure we’re headed for a full government collapse. I need a bug-out bag full of waterproof matches and MREs like I need a hole in my right foot, right? At least that’s what the Southern Poverty Law Center would have me believe.

“Beyond a few legitimate reasons, doomsday prepping, for the most part, represents a dark worldview that com-

bines, to varying degrees, end-times apocalyptic views, an obsession with firearms (and other weaponry), conspiracy theories and too often an anti-government sentiment,” the nonprofit wrote in an Aug. 17 Hatewatch article titled “Doomsday Desperation.”

“When combined, these radical views become toxic and lead unsuspecting followers down a funnel of despair, which perpetuates fear, paranoia and extremism.”

Call me toxic, but paranoia and extremism aren’t what they used to be. They keep slapping us in the face. Facebook and mainstream media both have been lousy these past few weeks with images and stories of “apocalyptic” wildfires and hurricanes and the emergency evacuations they portend. Maybe a bit of preparation wouldn’t be entirely unwise. So last month I decided to set aside my nutjobprepper biases, do a little research and

find out just what the bug-out brigade could teach a run-of-the-mill Missoulian like me. Turns out I didn’t have to go far.

And what I found, I did not expect.

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et no more harm become.” The words are scrawled in black above the front door of a small shop off the Eastside Highway on the northern fringe of Corvallis. They’re partially obscured by a katana hanging from a black strap. The walls and shelves below house a trove of survivalist gear: water purifiers, tripleweave backpacks, medical trauma kits, tactical helmets, vests with slots for armor plating. A sign behind the counter advertises custom holsters, but the only guns here are plastic facsimiles for use in selfdefense courses. This is Bug Out Montana, a store named for a phrase that’s become synonymous with prepperdom. Bug out means to depart, especially in a hurry.

Harry Lee doesn’t look like he’s about to bug out. He puts off more of a young-dad vibe. Glasses, a polo shirt, two-day stubble. Even his at-the-ready stance—shoulders squared, feet shoulder-width apart—looks casual. Lee grew up on his family’s Washington dairy farm and, in a way, the shop that he and his wife, Annie, opened in 2014 started there. When Harry was about 13, a fire devastated the family home. He remembers losing nearly everything except a baseball card and a sleeping bag. As a result, he’s able to ignore non-essentials fairly easily. He fell into the survivalist game gradually, picking up useful skills while working as a firefighter and, later, with the department of corrections. His thinking really took a turn in 1997, ahead of his two-year Australian mission with the Church of Latter Day Saints, when he found himself contemplating this question: If things went bad, would he be the person looking for help, or the person looking for someone to help?

“It was a real 50/50,” he says of the answer he came up with. “And it gives you that real dead-heart feeling.”

The Lees may own a survivalist shop.

They may have a customized fire truck— their BOV, or bug-out vehicle—parked out front. They may occasionally run

their three kids through bug-out drills.

But they wouldn’t call themselves preppers. The word carries too much stigma.

They just consider themselves smart.

“We try to be prepared,” Annie says, her voice as frank and unassuming. “I tell people, maybe there’s not going to be an EMP [electromagnetic pulse], or there’s not going to be a nuclear attack, or this or that. But what if your electricity goes out and you have a well and you don’t have a pump? What happens when you’re responsible for—like us, we have three little ones at home?”

Answering those what-ifs is the mission Harry and Annie have staked out for themselves: to help others reach whatever level of preparedness suits them. Maybe that’s as easy as stashing a few freeze-dried meals, or maybe—as in my case—it leads you into Bug Out Montana’s back room, where the Lees host a variety of survival and self-defense workshops. If SHTF—a popular acronym, I’ve learned from numerous online survivalist forums, for “shit hits the fan”—I don’t want to be caught without my quilted two-ply.

Harry had put my mind right when we spoke on the phone before my visit, walking me through his “High Five to Stay Alive”: food and water, shelter, fire, medical supplies and defense. He ticks them off again as we tour the shop, pressing me for a scenario to build my bug-out bag around. Each bag should be built from the ground up to fit the owner and his or her needs. Some people want a recreational emergency bag.

Others want an emergency kit to keep in the car. I share the scenario that occurs to me every time I watch a George Romero flick with a buzz on: I’ve got to leave Missoula in a hurry and make the three-hour highway trek to my family’s place on the Rocky Mountain Front, where I’ve got three cans of soup tucked behind the pasta jar for just such an occasion.

Harry figures each hour by car means a day on foot, and he hashes out the rule of threes, a mnemonic device so common among survivalists that even TV celeb Bear Grylls uses it. Each human can survive roughly three minutes without air, three hours without heat, three

Top: Food is at the top of Harry Lee’s “High Five to Stay Alive,” and he recommends you plan on eating a lot. Even driving in a survival scenario, he says, “takes it out of you.”

Middle: Lee doesn’t come off as the conspiracy-peddling doomsday type. And he doesn’t see himself that way. His family is prepared for anything, but anything could just as easily be the next big snowstorm.

Bottom: The Lees opened their roadside shop north of Corvallis in 2014, and have since turned it into an all-you-could-need market for survival training and supplies. They also have a paintball course and sell lemonade and homemade honey.

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days without water and three weeks without food. Harry recommends six meals (preferably the lightweight, nonperishable calorie bonanzas marketed to backpackers), something to purify river water, and a short-term shelter like an emergency bivvy.

“The most important bit to a shelter is sustaining core temperature,” he says.

“That’s it. You don’t usually sleep in a situation like this. You’re freaking out, your body’s doing weird stuff. And on a side note, any time that you are involved in a serious survival scenario, the first thing that’s going to do numbers on you is your stomach. It’s going to be doing flips.

So lots of the pink stuff.”

I check to make sure he’s talking about Pepto Bismol. He is. We move on.

Probably the most robust supply line on Bug Out Montana’s shelves is medical. Many are basic treatments for minor cuts and abrasions—“boo-boo kits,” Harry calls them. Some are a little more advanced, like tourniquets and suture kits. Harry suggests avoiding these unless you already know how to use them. Unless you know how to stitch someone up, he says, you’ll just wind up waiting around for someone who does. Nothing should go in your bag if you aren’t comfortable with it or haven’t used it before.

And the more uses any single item has, the easier it is to keep your bag “light and tight.” Take Chapstick. It’ll keep your lips in good shape, Harry says, but it also works as a coagulant for minor wounds and can even double as a candle. Plus,

avoiding chapped lips is one of the many ways you can keep morale up—a consideration that Harry stresses.

“After a long day of hiking, if it’s cold weather, just sitting around a fire builds the self-esteem,” he says.

Lastly we get around to the issue of defense. Until now, Harry and I have been on the same page. But one of the key pieces of the prepper stigma is the predilection toward guns. Harry doesn’t care about guns right now. They’re part of his bug-out pack, but they don’t have to be part of mine. Defense could be as simple as a sharpened stick or a sock with a rock in it, he says.

Something simple to keep wild animals or menacing people at bay. Still, he adds, you’d be surprised how quickly people turn to firearms. It’s about power.

“Bad things happen and it’s power, power, power, because what does power do? Power enables people to sustain life,” he says. “So, going back to the animal kingdom, if you’re weak, you die. Powerful, you live.”

Then Harry throws me a curveball.

He conjures a scenario in which, on the drive back to Missoula, some catastrophe or another strikes, and either I or my photographer, Parker, end up bleeding out on the side of the road. The other of us flags down a car, but the driver—worried, perhaps, about his own family’s survival—is unwilling to help. Do we take the car by force, or doom a co-worker to death? My brain locks up. Harry notices.

“We are conveniently righteous, because look at the society we live in,” he

says. “We have that opportunity to be good people because we’ve been given a situation where we don’t need to make that decision.”

Later, I’ll think back on his hypothetical and wonder how I’d react if I were, say, fleeing a hurricane-beset Houston with a mortally wounded friend. It’s an unpleasant thought to linger on, and I find myself unable to stay with it for long.

Harry does this every day. In any given moment, he’s thinking about how things might go sideways, and how he’d get himself and his family through it alive. I could dismiss all that as paranoid, but can I honestly say I’ll never have to make such a choice? Harry says he’s just urging me to bear-up mentally. In other words, to be prepared.

What’s in my bug-out bag 1. 25-liter backpack 2. Headlamp 3. Water purification tablets 4. Freeze-dried meals x3 5. Full-tang knife 6. SAM splint 7. Emergency med kit including gauze, tape, combine dressings and painkillers 8. Gorilla tape 9. Toilet paper

10. Stretchable neck gaiter 11. Emergency whistle 12. Camp spork 13. Chapstick 14. Toothbrush and toothpaste 15. Fire-starter puck 16. Leather gloves

17. LED flashlight 18. Paracord 19. Anodized cooking pot with insulated sleeve 20. Book 21. Aluminum water bottle 22. SOL emergency bivvy 23. Waterproof match case with matches 24. Magnesium fire starter

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urvivalism has caught fire in some strange places lately. In January, the New Yorker published an article titled “Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich,” chronicling how prepperdom has taken root among the hedge-funders and tech gurus of Silicon Valley. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman underwent laser eye surgery to correct his nearsightedness because, when SHTF, “getting contacts or glasses is going to be a huge pain in the ass.”

Rich guys are stocking up on ammunition, buying remote cabins and keeping helicopters gassed-up and ready to fly.

Then there’s last month’s New York Times article about the jump in sales of doomsday supplies following President Trump’s bluster toward North Korea. The president of Utah-based retailer Emergency Essentials told the Times, “It just causes [customers] to rethink where they stand in the event of war, in the event of job loss, in the event of a natural disaster.” The piece went on to report that Google searches for “prepper” and “survivalism” began spiking as early as July.

Similar upticks have occurred in the past, usually in response to a Barack Obama election, but prepping was around long before the fear of a black president. The Cold War era saw a conflagration of backyard bunkers and classroom bomb drills as the nuclear arms race stoked the nation’s need for a boogeyman. My mom remembers her school stockpiling emergency rations, probably the same sort as those the University of Montana removed from a storage space at the top of Aber Hall last year.

The Y2K craze, that whole Mayan calendar thing—we’re never very far from a reason to buy Spam in bulk.

So with Harry’s advice in mind— along with a healthy dose of skepticism and a low-as-I-can-go budget—I start piecing together a bug-out bag to get me through whatever pinch comes down the pike. By poaching my own backcountry supplies and taking advantage of a clearance sale at Bob Ward’s, I fill a 25-liter Kelty backpack with dried food, water purification tablets, a fire starter and magnesium block, a headlamp, a basic first aid kit and a SAM splint. Oh, and a bit of that quilted two-ply. I get a few weird looks when I hit the counter at Ace with a bundle of paracord and a small cake of compressed kindling. But I admit to feeling a little better with the bag hanging by the door, even if fire season looks to be finally moving toward a close.

Harry’s lesson hadn’t stopped at the bag. After our stroll around the shop, he took me to the back room, where he conducts his workshops, and cleared the clutter from a whiteboard. First he asked me three questions—cribbed, he said, from his

“You will find that people who get into this sort of thing are searching for something. They’re searching for control, they’re searching for more self-esteem. Whatever it may be, they’re looking for an avenue, a conduit, to achieve this destination of theirs.” interrogation training at the department of corrections and designed to help him get to know fellow survivors. What’s something you’re really good at? What’s something you’re really bad at? And what do you find the most terrifying? My answers told him that 1) I’m good at fly fishing, 2) I tend to freeze up in emergency situations, and 3) spiders scare the living crap out of me. He liked answer 2, not because it inspired confidence, but because I was honest.

lish direction, time, quality of travel (are you on foot, in a car?) and quality of action (are you hungry, tired, giving it “100-and-crazy percent”?). This sets a game plan for survival, he said, that can be modified as circumstances demand.

Though the workshop was focused on bugging out, Harry elevated the diamond’s functionality, explaining that the destination can just as easily be a career objective or life goal.

ful situations. Realizing who you are and what you’re capable of places you at an advantage, Harry says, even in the relative mundanity of family life and the workplace. It’s all about survival.

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lot of the talk on SurvivalistBoards.com the past few weeks has revolved around current events. There are threads devoted to discussion of the takeaways from

The Lee family’s bug-out vehicle, a modified fire truck.

“People who are very insecure, they won’t say something as deep as that,” he said. “They’ll say something like, ‘You know, I’ve always been interested in mechanic work.’ OK, yeah. Give me the meat and potatoes stuff, not the shallow stuff.”

As his mutt Tango nosed my thigh, Harry talked me through another strategy he likes to employ. The Dynamic Diamond is a five-sided polygon with each side representing an element of the bugging-out process. The first element is a destination. Could be Missoula, could be a McDonald’s. Next you estab-

“You will find that people who get into this sort of thing are searching for something,” he said. “They’re searching for control, they’re searching for more self-esteem. Whatever it may be, they’re looking for an avenue, a conduit, to achieve this destination of theirs. And if they’re not told, ‘You’re looking for something, how are you going to get there?’ … then they’re just going to be floundering.”

In other words, the survivalist mentality has some pretty broad applications, ones that don’t involve North Korean nukes or gale-force winds. Life has an irritating tendency to throw us into stress-

Houston’s submersion, how preppers should prepare for military action against North Korea, even some crass betting on what direction Hurricane Irma would take.

But the best thread is the one with the jokes.

You might be a prepper if… … “You know 15 ways to preserve meat, but can’t answer the question, ‘What’s for dinner, honey?’” … “Walmart calls to let me know the 5 gallon buckets are in stock again.” … “I named my survival knife.” …“Your will is written so cryptically that the attorney calls it a ‘Scavenger Hunt.’”

Turns out preppers have quite a sense of humor, even about themselves.

It’s disconcerting to find laughter, logic and relatability in a world so focused on danger and threat. Aren’t these the same folks who join ad hoc militias?

Doesn’t their sense of self hinge on some great calamity throwing society into utter chaos? Aren’t they desperate to act the role of Survivorman in their own apocalyptic cosplay?

Yes and no. The Pacific Northwest has been the nexus of a lot of doomsday chatter in recent years, thanks in no small part to the American Redoubt movement. The Washington Post wrote last year about this political migration to the rural enclaves of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, first proposed in 2011 by survivalist novelist James Wesley Rawles, shedding light on the fears, both real and arguably imagined, that drive people to leave urban centers and congregate in small, like-minded communities. One man interviewed by the Post insisted that he’s not paranoid, just prepared.

Harry’s seen the like before. A shop like his obviously draws them. And he can’t help but wonder, as they talk of earthquakes and foreign invasions, how they’ll process a world in which thousands if not millions of their fellow humans are suddenly dead.

“It really brings it home when you get people that come into the store [saying], ‘Boy, I sure hope the big one hits … I’ve got all my food supply ready to go,’” he says. “I’m like, you guys are in for a rude, rude awakening. Yeah, you might have lots of food, but guess what?

What’s going to happen is your house is probably going to get demoed in that earthquake and you’ll be stuck with you, yourself, and that guy you see in the mirror.”

I’m not that guy. The end of the world tickles my imagination, same as it does any lifelong consumer of Hollywood’s doomsday dreck, and that’s about it. But when the time to act is now, the time for planning is gone. And ultimately, that’s the lesson I carried out of Bug Out Montana. It’s a longer and more poetic version of that old motto that’s been clanging around my skull for 20 years.

I hope the preppers are wrong. If I’m ever forced to grab that bug-out bag in earnest, be it flood, fire or the Yellowstone caldera, I’ll know I’m already good and screwed. Because every time I play Harry’s what-if game in my head, the one with the stubborn driver and the friend bleeding out in the road, it’s not the bugout bag I turn to. It’s the pink stuff. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Unusual seeds Digging deep into Cory Fay’s new Garden Variations

by Erika Fredrickson

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he original idea in interviewing Cory Fay for the release of his new album was to have him answer questions while reenacting an old black and white image of Ernest Hemingway sitting in a steaming bathtub. Just for fun. But because Cory Fay is a pop star at heart, the occasion of his record release requires even a little more outrageousness. He is willing to strip down to almost naked and climb into an old clawfoot bathtub in a stranger’s backyard.

And he dons a bowler hat and maroon lipstick. He brings his own bottle of absinthe to drink, and snacks on cherry Jelly Bellys and Coca-Cola bottle gummies from a vintage candy bowl. He chews on the end of a cigar while cuddling an orange tabby cat.

Which gives you a pretty good idea of what his album is like. Garden Variations (Minor Bird Records) is full of circus-y accordion, melancholy piano and pretty guitar strumming. There are jazzy, angular breakdowns and Modest Mousestyle melodies. Sometimes Fay goes for an Elvis-like drawl, and other times, like on “Christmas Card 1988 Early Draft,” he restrains his voice in the quiet, haunting way of Bonnie Prince Billy.

It’s hard to quit with the comparisons. Fay’s music doesn’t feel derivative, but it is rich with familiar flourishes that pop in and out like a radio being tuned to new stations. The one influence that can’t be denied in Fay’s music is Tom Waits. Last time I interviewed Fay, a few years ago, it was for his band Holy Lands, for which he did a good portion of the songwriting. And Waits was a topic of conversation even then.

“He comes up with every interview I have ever done, and my friends are sick of me talking about him,” Fay says. “The other night I was showing some friends a first pressing of Frank’s Wild Years.

One of them was super excited about it and the other friends were like, ‘Can you not ambush us all with your Tom Waits shit?’”

His favorite Tom Waits album is Alice.

“It really combines a lot of the loungier, almost classical side of him

photo by Parker Seibold

Cory Fay grew up with very few boundaries when it came to playing music.

with the carnival barker surrealist shit,” Fay says. “It’s got maybe my favorite Tom Waits song on it, ‘I’m Still Here.’ It’s just this 90-second super-short piano ballad.

And it’s heartbreaking. And I love it.”

Garden Variations captures the manic Fay, but it has its own heartbreaking elements. It’s a concept album centered on two characters, Thomas and Sunshine, who are both sick. Sunshine is physically ill and Thomas is mentally ill, though undiagnosed.

“They both know they’re sick at the beginning of the album, and the rest of the album is about the process of them getting sicker and trying to cope with that,” Fay says.

Sunshine and Thomas are an amalgam of Fay’s grandparents, whom he watched struggle with both physical and mental illnesses. His grandfather on his dad’s side died last year, and his grandmother on his mom’s side died several years ago. Their partners had to be care-

givers, and the hardship of those roles shows up in various forms on Garden Variations, as in “You Don’t Have to Die,” when he sings, “Come down they’ve got me in room B23 / Have the boys been told? / I want to be more than the end of something. / (god) bless her let her go.”

Taken together, the album is almost unrecognizable as a familiar narrative though, with songs about witches and red moons and a possessed preacher.

“I try to write like I’m writing some fucking crazy childish version of [writer Denis Johnson’s] Jesus’ Son,” he says. “It doesn’t have to make sense.”

Fay grew up in Great Falls in a family that he describes as being wildly permissive when it came to the arts.

“My grandmother had an upright piano,” he says. “I would fuck around on it all the time because she never told me I couldn’t. I never got in trouble for making noise, but I still can’t play the piano.”

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His mom bought him his first guitar at Walmart. He took lessons for five years from two different teachers at the same time. His grandmother, Arlene Hooker Fay, whose portraits of Salish children are held in major collections across the Northwest, used to take him to powwows, where he developed an interest in drums and got his mom to drop $1,000 on a drum set for him in 5th grade, despite the fact they had very little money.

“Everyone was so cool about nurturing my artistic desires,” he says. “And that was because of people in my family like my grandmother. She dedicated her life to painting, and it was her main pursuit since she was a teenager. So everyone in the family had an understanding [that] if someone gets really into some artistic shit, you gotta help cultivate it.”

Fay moved to Missoula in 2008 to study music and computer science at

the University of Montana. But he says he eventually realized he wasn’t interested in being in an orchestra or symphony, so he pursued theater instead and dedicated himself to various rock bands—mostly lo-fi folk and garage rock groups, including the All Hail and Holy Lands.

Garden Variations features some of the artist friends he met along the way, including Nate Biehl, Josh Wagner, Christina Scruggs, Lauren Norby and Rob Traux, though none of them play on the record in any traditional sense. Fay asked them each to record something based on two prompts: the sound of something being unearthed and the sound of something being buried.

“Nate Biehl made something that sounded like he started turning on machines in a workshop somewhere,” Fay says. “I have no idea how he made any of it. I knew I could give them some vague idea and they would just kind of surprise me. They’re the kind of people who can be creative and as flippantly obtuse as possible.”

For the album release, Fay has gathered a group of musicians who will help rework the album for a live audience.

Garden Variations isn’t really the kind of album that translates well to stage. Fay played all the instruments on the record, but even having a band take over those parts won’t help recreate some of the weirder elements on the record. If anyone can do that, it’s a guy in a bowler hat drinking absinthe.

“The album is slow and soft in parts, and meant to be a listening experience with people that wanted to be introspective,” Fay says. “You can’t really sell that shit to a crowd. You can’t go to a DIY rock crowd and tell them, ‘The strength of this song is that the lyrics are super good, so just settle down and listen, everyone, or you’re not going to like it.’

No. We had to figure out how to make it fun on stage.”

Cory Fay plays the ZACC Sat., Sept. 16, at 7 PM along with Caroline Keys and Go Hibiki. All ages. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Music as medicine Andrea Harsell offers Something for the Pain The first time I heard Andrea Harsell play was 10 years ago on a late July evening around a campfire.

It was after a wedding, and the party was ramping up, but at the sound of Harsell belting out “Bobby McGee,” the buzzed crowd settled down as if under a spell, pulled in by what might as well have been an onstage performance in a concert hall.

Harsell has the kind of magnetism that comes from being a musician who has to play, no matter what.

In 2009 Harsell released Rock & Roll Love Child, a high-energy blues-rock collection that showcases her authoritative songwriting skills.

Something for the Pain, from her latest band, Andrea Harsell and Luna Roja, comes eight years later, and it is worth the wait. I don’t think there’s a weak

track on this record, but highlights include the boisterous BR549-flavored opener “Don’t Do It” and “Hearts Were Made to Mend,” which has a little bit of an Old 97’s feel (Harsell opened for the 97’s at the Top Hat recently).

Something for the Pain definitely contains some pain mixed in with all the swagger. Harsell’s strength is that she sings like a Bon Scott or a Joan Jett or a Janis Joplin, tending to the gritty elements of rock and roll, but she doesn’t just rely on stylistic sheen. Her songs have a kind of genuine live-in depth that can’t be faked. (Erika Fredrickson) Andrea Harsell and Luna Roja play the Top Hat for an album release show Fri., Sept. 15, at 10:15 PM. $5.

Mac DeMarco, This Old Dog I have a feeling that 95 percent of Mac DeMarco fans weren’t aware of the first time he played in Missoula, which was four years ago to a few lucky listeners in the back of the tiny VFW. Since then, the nicotine-stained millennial’s fanbase has blown up as he’s captured hearts and minds with a few masterpiece releases: the 2012 album 2 and 2014’s Salad Days. Fellow Canadian Neil Young wrote “my life’s an open book,” and DeMarco follows suit with his transparent lyrics about life and love. He also has an uncommon connection to fans, staging constant pre-concert meet-and-greets and publicizing his address at the end of his 2015 mini-LP, Another One, encouraging fans to stop by for a cup of coffee.

On his latest, This Old Dog, DeMarco delivers another glimpse into his diary. This fantastic, slow-burning, intimate album is dominated by acoustic guitars, synthesizers, retro drum machines and breezily minimal arrangements. It’s an easy listen, marked by a youthful, Jonathan Richman-goes-yacht-rock vibe. Topically, DeMarco isn’t trying to change the world. He’s just offering copious amounts of advice through his songs and reminding us that unconditional love is a damn good thing. The world is a better place with this scruffy young man playing in it. (Bryan Ramirez) Mac DeMarco plays the Wilma Fri., Sept.

15, at 8 PM. Sold out.

Shahs, Vineland Shahs are pretty much the top of the local music heap for me. They play without a milligram of irony and are defined by a distinctive voice—one that’s been steeping for the past 12 years, and which has put them squarely onto the list of bands I try to see live whenever I can.

This is also a band that doesn’t outstay its welcome. On their latest album, Vineland, they keep things short and sweet, delivering more two-minute and 30-second songs than a Scandinavian hardcore band.

Shahs is essentially synonymous with Tom Helgerson and whichever musicians he’s chosen to enlist in any particular iteration of the band. Early albums were pretty much solo affairs, with Helgerson doing vocal-based rhythmic loops, singing and

playing keyboards. Vineland features killer players like Nick Ryan (Skin Flowers), John Sporman (Tom Catmull’s Radio Static), violinist Jenny Fawcett, Jamie Rogers (Magpies, Tom Catmull’s Last Resort), Nathan Hoyme (Poor School) and Lukas Phelan (J. Sherri and Fantasy Suite).

The standout is “Cairn,” which has a rollicking Richard and Linda Thompson/Fairport Convention vibe. The rest of the album is equally strong, but less interested in pop hooks.

According to its Bandcamp page, Vineland is “a song cycle dedicated to the end of all things.” I hope that Shahs isn’t getting close to ending anytime soon. Note: Visit gofundme.com/shahs for the band’s crowdfunding effort to make a vinyl pressing of this great record. ( Josh Vanek)

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[art]

Cycling through The seasonal landscape of B. Martinez

by Chris La Tray

photo by Chris La Tray

B. Martinez works in reclaimed and recycled material.

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B. Martinez, aka Missoula artist Tabitha Beard, has got to be one of the hardest-working artists in town. She has an opening show somewhere most First Fridays of the year. For instance, in September she exhibited at Upcycle and in October she will have work up at Draught Works. She also maintains a booth all summer at the People’s Market. Beard is a full-time artist, which can be challenging when it comes to making ends meet.

“Art money doesn’t come in like other money comes in,” Beard says. “Sometimes the pay is a week out, sometimes it’s a month or two out. So I have an idea for how I do it [make a living], which seems to be working so far.”

Beard, who works in reclaimed and recycled materials, starts doing First Fridays in August, usually through December. “Then I’ll hopefully get into the two Made Fairs,” Beard says. “Those three days will wipe me out [of inventory] for December. Then I like to pick up First Fridays again after January, but January is when I start up my teaching months with the school district and the Sparks grant.”

The Sparks grant is part of a program, now in its third year, that was awarded to the Missoula school district via the Kennedy Arts Foundation. Missoula was one of 16 districts in the country—and the smallest—to receive the grant. As part of its overall arts program, the grant provides pay for artists from the community to come into schools to teach and integrate art into curriculum standards, ensuring equal access to significant arts programs to all students.

“I love it,” Beard says. “I get to collaborate with teachers and what their school’s specific needs are to combine what I do with the best parts of science, math, writing—everything. I like to teach that there’s a language to visual art. The world around

us is made of shapes. Shapes tell stories, shapes tell what we’re thinking or feeling. You can put those shapes together and create something.”

Beard holds creative writing and English literature degrees. She intended to be a writer, but storytelling through visual art became her calling.

“If you think about it historically, language— written language—its first forms were visual art,” Beard says. “So when I am thinking about an upcoming show, I often use that background to come up with a title and to tell a story.”

Beard’s materials come from frequent prospecting trips to Home ReSource, random alley finds, friends donating scraps from remodeling projects, or even random encounters on frequent driving trips she makes around the area.

“There’s a bunch of wood piled up along the fence line out on Roller Coaster Road that I’ve been eyeballing for a while,” Beard says. “If I see a live person out there on the right day I might stop and say, ‘Hey, can I poke around in some of this?’”

Mostly, Beard finds herself painting on pieces of reclaimed wood. She leans heavily on images of the outdoors: river scenes, bicycles and landmarks around the Missoula area abound. Now and then something entirely different will pop up—a more speculative image, for example—that surprises people most familiar with her work, and they suggest her work is changing. It’s an evolution Beard doesn’t necessarily see in herself.

“I feel like I’m still doing the same thing I’ve always done,” Beard says. “But I’m so deep in the process of making a mess and the materials that I don’t even notice.” arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Same old Mother! only masquerades as feminism

by MaryAnn Johanson

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Jennifer Lawrence stars in Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!

I cannot recall the last time a film made me as angry as Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! has. Maybe never. As Mother! unfurled over its two-hour runtime, I found myself clenching my jaw with everincreasing fury as Aronofsky’s head wended its way further and further up his own cinematic ass only to declare just how delicious his farts smell. This is a filmmaker for whom mysticism and trippiness have been essential components of his work since his feature debut with 1998’s Pi. But never before has he explored an uncomfortable ugliness with such repulsive pointlessness. Aronofsky is intent on presenting to us in faux metaphysical trappings a “truth” he seems to believe is secret and cryptic but is, in fact, utterly banal and inarguable.

Nothing here makes a damn lick of sense except as the literal sequence of events that plods across the screen. The “characters” are nothing more than cardboard stand-ups representing themselves. No one has a name, but the credits refer to Jennifer Lawrence’s character as “Mother,” even though she does not become a mother until halfway through the film. Mother has no existence outside the sprawling mansion in the middle of nowhere where she lives with her husband ( Javier Bardem). He does have an external existence: He is not “Father” but “Him.” He is able to leave the house—she never does—and he is a writer, a poet, someone with work that bears no connection to her, beyond how, of course, she serves as his muse, his “inspiration.” She literally does nothing but serve him: She is renovating the house, which burned down before they met. She wants to “make a paradise” for him. She has no other desire.

But paradise is invaded as one of Him’s stalkerish fans, Man (Ed Harris), stops by for a visit, and won’t leave. Later, Man’s wife, Woman (Michelle

Pfeiffer), arrives and makes herself obnoxiously at home. Woman is also pretty much defined solely as a mother, to adult sons Oldest Son and Younger Brother (played by real-life brothers Domhnall and Brian Gleeson). If that “paradise” was a tip-off, the Cain-and-Abel dynamic between the adult sons cements it. Aronofsky is going to wallow in a tortured literalism not only about literary creation but capital-C Creation, but only from a narrow and abhorrently misogynistic perspective: Men create, and Create, and women suffer for men’s art, and for men’s religion. In Aronofsky’s eye here, there is no vision or imagination that comes from the mind of a woman. Mother exists for no purpose in this tale except so that abuse may be heaped upon her, and so that she may be venerated by Him for it. But that is also the purpose of Mother to Mother! The most generous interpretation of Aronofsky’s intent here is that he wants to condemn the reduction of women to dehumanized objects and brutalized symbols in both the overarching mythology of our culture and in the prosaic daily operations of Big Entertainment.

Aronofsky may even think he is sympathetic to Mother. The entire film is seen through her eyes, and intimate handheld cameras give us her sickened perspective on events that are menacing her. But it’s the same hatred for women masquerading as feminism that a slasher flick engages in when it sexualizes a girl’s final terror for the titillation of the audience. You don’t counter the awful crap that gets piled on women by our culture, High or Low, by piling on more. If Mother! really wanted to decry the way women are abused and men are deified, it wouldn’t merely slather an arty veneer on more of the same-old same-old.

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[film] trip to the movies to see this new Stephen King adaptation. Rated R. Stars Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher and Sophia Lillis. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK AMERICAN ASSASSIN A Cold War veteran teaches the murderous tricks of the trade to an angry young man with nothing to lose. I hope this is a sequel to American Hustle.

Rated R. Stars Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton and Taylor Kitsch. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the Missoula AMC 12.

LANDLINE Set in 1990s Manhattan, two sisters discover their father may be having an affair. There’s no way that’s going to mess them up. Rated R. Stars Jenny Slate, Abby Quinn and Edie Falco. Playing at the Roxy.

MOTHER! Tell your children not walk my way, tell your children not to hear my words. What they mean, what they say. Darren Aronofsky divisively explores the terrors of being a mother in a Darren Aronofsky film. Rated R. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12. (See Film) PATTI CAKE$ She’s a white girl from suburbia with a frame that’s ample, but once she rocks the mic she’ll wax chumps like candles. Rated R. Stars Danielle Macdonald, Bridgett Everett and McCaul Lombardi. Playing at the Roxy.

THE LAST DALAI LAMA Documentarian Mickey Lemie presents an intimate portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama and his exile in Tibet. Not Rated. Playing at the Roxy Sun., Sept. 17 at 7 PM. LOGAN LUCKY Trying to reverse a family curse, a group of siblings set out to rob a NASCAR race. Rated PG-13. Stars Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and hillbilly Daniel Craig. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

“Can you believe those stupid cops didn't already have this plate?” Dannielle Macdonald stars in Patti Cake$, opening at the Roxy

NOW PLAYING

Armie Hammer and Kerry Washington. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts. Playing at the Pharaohplex.

ALL SAINTS Based on a true story, a young pastor is instructed to close a struggling church. Instead he turns the land into a farm for refugees from Burma. Somehow no one is happy with the idea. Rated PG. Stars John Corbett, Cara Buono and Barry Corbin. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

CINEMA PARADISO (1988) A young man discovers the perfect escape from life in war-torn Sicily at his local movie house. I think a lot of us can relate. Rated R. Stars Salvatore Cascio and Philippe Noiret. Playing Wed., Sept. 28 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

GOOD TIME A man embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city’s underworld in an increasingly desperate attempt to get his brother out of jail before he’s killed.

That doesn’t sound like a good time at all! Rated R. Stars Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Barkhad Abdi. Playing at the Roxy.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) Help yourself forget the recent Dan Stevens CGI-buffalo remake by seeing the original Disney classic on the big screen. This one has 100 percent more Jerry Orbach. Rated G. Also stars the voice talents of Paige O’Hara, Richard White and Robby Benson. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

BOGGY CREEK MONSTER Whether you call him Sasquatch, Bigfoot or Skunk Ape, decades of sightings around the swamps and forests of the tiny town of Fouke, Arkansas suggest something is out there. Not Rated. Directed by Seth Breedlove. Playing Thu., Sept. 21 at 7:30 PM at the Roxy. A Q&A with the director follows the film.

CARS 3 Pixar’s deeply troubling and confusing world about talking automobiles returns in re-release to make sure the company has enough money for their good films. Rated G. Stars the voices of Owen Wilson,

THE DARK TOWER Stephen King’s magnum opus, made up of eight core books, dozens of tie-in novels and a long running comic book series, hits the big screen as a single 90-minute film. O Discordia! Rated PG-13. Stars Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey and Abbey Lee. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

DUNKIRK Director Christopher Nolan takes a break from blowing our minds with high-concept sci-fi to recreate one of the most harrowing and famous battles of World War II. Rated PG-13. Stars Harry Styles, Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THE GLASS CASTLE Is there anything better than going on a road trip with your free-spirited dad and artist mother? I mean, aside from going to a real school, learning social skills and not ending up a depressed wreck unable to connect with anyone? Rated PG-13. Stars Brie Larson,

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THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD When you’re one of the most deadly assassins in the world, who do you trust to watch your back before you turn state’s evidence against a murderous dictator? Ryan Reynolds, of course. Rated R. Also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

HOME AGAIN She’s a recently separated single mom, trying to live her own life. That’s why she lets three young handsome hunks move into her house to help with chores. That’s right, chores. What other reason could it be? Rated PG-13. Stars Reese Witherspoon, Nat Wolff and Michael Sheen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

IT There’s an evil clown caked with makeup and sporting unnaturally colored hair threatening everything we hold dear, so take your mind off politics with a

NOW IS THE TIME Healthcare reform in the United States continues to be a hot-button topic. What comes next, and who do we trust? Not Rated. Directed by Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg. Playing Mon., Sept. 18 at 7 PM at the Roxy.

ROOTED IN PEACE Filmmaker Greg Reitman uses his past experiences in war zones to educate people on how to stop the cycle of war and violence. Not Rated. Playing Thu., Sept. 21 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

UHF (1989) Why have we only given this guy one movie? “Weird Al” Yankovic takes over a local TV station. You can probably guess what happens next. Rated PG-13.

Also stars Stanley Brock, Kevin McCarthy and Michael Richards. Playing Sat., Sept. 16 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

WIND RIVER The best way to describe the mood of this murder mystery set on a Wyoming Indian Reservation is to just say the soundtrack is by Nick Cave. Rated R. Stars Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen and Tantoo Cardinal. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Check with local theaters for up-to-date showtimes to spare yourself any grief and/or profanity. Theater phone numbers: Missoula AMC 12 at 406-541-7469; The Roxy at 406-728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 406-961-3456.

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Jalapeño-honey chicken

by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

One of the things I love most about Jewish holidays is the emphasis on special and wonderful food (though, to be fair, we make pretty much everything about special and wonderful food). Golden, warm challah, tender brisket, moist, delicious kugel— we’re a people that likes to eat.

Next week (the evening of Wednesday, Sept.

20, to be exact) marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (and the first of the High Holy Days). A classic dish on the Rosh Hashanah table is roast chicken, which, for me usually means my Third Date Chicken, or my Best Ever Roast Chicken Legs, but this year I want to shake it up a bit. Or, more precisely, spice it up a bit.

Honey is a traditional food used on Rosh Hashanah, intended to symbolize the sweetness of a new year. So, by that logic, honey blended with garlic and ripe, just-spicy-enough jalapeño chiles and brushed onto juicy chicken legs, roasted until the meat is outrageously tender and the skin is sticky-sweet and crisp, should symbolize a downright incredible year to come.

This chicken is crazy-easy to make and it’s even easier to double or triple the recipe.The jalapeño cooks down with the garlic and honey into a sticky almost-jam, glazing the chicken legs with spicy, garlicky sweetness, and turning them a gorgeous dark brown.

Serve the chicken with a roasted vegetable or two, homemade challah, and maybe my friend Tori Avey’s Honey Apple Cake for dessert and you’re looking at a year (or, at the very least, a meal) that is simply unstoppable.

Serves 2 Ingredients 1 jalapeño, de-stemmed and chopped (remove the seeds if you are sensitive to heat) 1/4 cup honey 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 whole chicken legs (thighs and drumsticks) Directions Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil and set aside.

In a food processor, combine the jalapeño, honey, garlic and salt. Puree until mostly smooth (it’s OK if there are a few small chunks of jalapeño left).

Use paper towels to carefully dry all sides of the chicken.

Use a pastry brush or a spoon to slather 2/3 of the honey-jalapeño mixture all over the chicken pieces (reserve 1/3 for later).

Roast the chicken for 25 minutes, then brush or spoon on the remaining honey-jalapeño mixture and roast for another 14–17 minutes, until the chicken skin is golden-brown and crisp and the meat is cooked through.

Let the chicken legs rest for 5 minutes, then serve hot.

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

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Great Harvest • Le Petit Outre Missoula Fresh Market (W. Broadway & Reserve) Albertsons (S. Russell)

Tac a o Time (N. Reserve) • Ta aco Sano (Hip Strip) Tia’s Big Sky • Chipotle • Tac a o Johns (S. Reserve)

• COMMUTER BREAKFAST BLITZ with free coffee and treats at 10 locations!

• WALKING SCHOOL BUSES at Lowell, Franklin, Hawthorne, Russell, and Chief Charlo Elementary Schools offer a safe, healthy and fun commute for students!

• Tak a e the ONE LESS CAR DAY PLEDGE at MissoulaInMotion.com

Clyde Coffee • Break Espresso • Black Coffee Roasting Co. Lake Missoula Te ea Co. • Buttercup Market • Great Burn Brewing Draught Works Brewery • KettleHouse (North & Southside) Imagine Nation Brewing • Montana Distillery

Good Food Store • Nourishing Cultures Kombucha Bernice’s Bakery • Western Cider • Wheat Montana BIKEAPALOOZA • Meet at 2pm at Free Cycles (732 S. 1st St. W.) • 5 mile loop Missoula’s largest community bike ride is back! Join us for this family-friendly event.

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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in.

Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation.

Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 It’s a done deal! No foolin’. Bernice’s Bakery will be introducing a new owner June 1st!

Christine and Marco have spent the last 15 years stewarding the development and sustainability of one of Missoula’s iconic businesses. Congratulations to Marco and Christine! And, congratulations to the new owner Missy Kelleher. Come in and say hello or goodbye. Follow that up by a “hello” to Missy in June as you snag your favorite treat or a cup o’joe. Bernice’s Bakery Keepin’ Missoula Sweet. $-$$

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. $-$$

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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar and Grill has the best patio in town, relax and unwind with great food and a selection of Montana Brews on tap. Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour each day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials!

Thursday is Trivia Night from 7:30-9:30p and we have Live Music each Friday. Inside the Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 45 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner.

Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile!

No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others.

Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available.

Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

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

Cheers to the Hotshot

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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates.

Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

photo by Alex Sakariassen

What you’re drinking: Last week, Montgomery Distillery unveiled its latest specialty cocktail. And in honor of those brave souls fighting on the frontlines of our regrettably stillhere fire season, this one’s been dubbed the Hotshot. It’s got the bones of an Old Fashioned, but the muscle and sinew are pure Montgomery, which infuses the classic bourbon-based recipe with a few choice herbs. The resulting flavor makes you feel like you could pick up a Pulaski and run up a burning mountain. Or, you know, just order another one.

What’s in it: Tad Hilton has been mulling how to get marshmallow root, wild cherry bark and licorice root into a drink for a while now. As he whips up another Hotshot (they’ve been selling well since debuting Sept. 8), he talks a good game about the curative properties of those herbs for the respiratory system. Hilton cuts his herb-laden Demerara syrup with some of Montgomery’s house creole bitters and a healthy dose of

Sudden Wisdom rye whiskey. The whole thing is served over ice with an orange peel thrown in. It lives up to Hilton’s hype.

Why now: The goal of the Hotshot, Hilton says, is to “clear the skies” after that dreary layer of wildfire smoke blotted out Missoula’s view of Mount Sentinel. It may have worked better than expected—in the days after Montgomery released the cocktail, the smoke lifted, the sky turned blue again, and we were given an opportunity to enjoy the Hotshot not for what it does to ease the airways, but for how it tastes: licorice sweet, with a slight whiskey jolt.

Where to get it: You can snag a glass of Hilton’s creation at 129 W. Front St. The Hotshot goes for $9, and comes with the warmand-fuzzy bonus of benefitting the Lolo Peak Fire Fund through the 406 Family Aid Foundation. It’s also free for wildland firefighters.

—Alex Sakariassen

Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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FRI | 8 PM Mac DeMarco plays the Wilma Fri., Sept 15. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $24.

THU | 9/14 | 10:15 PM Parker Brown and the Bleeding Hearts play the Top Hat Thu., Sept. 14 at 10:15 PM. Free.

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SUN | 7:30 PM Piano soloist and Steinway artist Gilles Vonsattel plays at UM Music Recital Hall Sun., Sept. 17 at 7:30 PM. $30/ $10 students.

WED | 8:30 PM Turkuaz plays the Top Hat Wed., Sept. 20. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:30. $18/$16 advance.

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The Fall 2017 Brown Bag Lecture Series kicks off with The Future of Collaboration and Climate Change, presented by the U.S. State Department. UM Mansfield Center. 12 PM. Free.

nightlife Djebe Community Drum and Dance at Barn Movement Studio at 6 PM. $5 donation.

Punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to Greenough Park.

6 PM. $3.

That’s a fair point. Love is a Dog from Nebraska plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Are we allowed to make jokes about the Holocaust? The Last Laugh, a new documentary about that very question, screens at the UC Theater. Director Ferne Pearlstein and Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone will hold a Q&A following the film. 6 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Adrienne Dussault celebrates the work of the master of piano humor with her one-woman show A Tribute to Victor Borge at the UM Music Recital Hall.

7:30 PM. $11.

The jazzy stylings of Naomi Siegel, David Horgan and Beth Lo serenade the wine at Plonk Wine Bar from 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. The Country Boogie Boys get your boots scootin’ at the Sunrise Saloon at 8:30 PM. Free.

Billings-based soul rockers Parker Brown and the Bleeding Hearts play the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

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The Equus International Film Festival celebrates the majesty of horses in film and television at the Roxy Theater. Gallop to equssinternationalfilmfestival.com for a full schedule of films and events.

(See Spotlight) Support youth athletics by sipping on craft beer when Missoula Athletic Council host the Annual Maverick Brewfest at Caras Park. $20 for 8 beer samples and a glass.

nightlife Vault Comics previews its newest projects and hosts a signing featuring local talent. Tony Gregori, Tim Daniel and more sign comics at Muse Comics. 5 PM to 8 PM. Free.

Western Cider’s maiden voyage into the world of bottled cider features the live music of the Timber Rattlers. Bottle release from 12 PM to 10 PM, music at 6 PM. Free.

Thank you for these abs we are about to receive. The beefcakes and hunks from Magic Men Live return to the Adams Center for a night of shirtless dancing and gyrating. $25–$75. Head to MagicMenLive.com for tickets.

Sip on a good old fashioned while listening to the live music of Good Old Fashioned at The Montana Distillery. 6 PM. Free.

Enjoy made-in-Montana wine and the live music of John Floridis at Ten Spoon Winery. 6 PM. Free.

photo courtesy Keith Johnson

Origami Ghost plays the ZACC Below Fri., Sept. 15 at 8 PM. $7.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana hosts its premier fundraising event, The Red Shoe Ball. Wear a black tie and red shoes for a night of dancing, food and fundraising.

Hilton Garden Inn. 6 PM–11 PM. War Pony and The Pool Boys provide the tunes at a fundraiser to support those impacted by the Lolo Peak Fire. The Old Post.

6:30 PM. Free admission, but bring some cash for donations.

Canadian singer-songwriter and one-man-band Mac DeMarco

plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $24.

Psych-punk Seattle trendsetters Origami Ghost plays the ZACC Below with Charcoal Squids and Austin Graef & the Observers. 8 PM. $7.

Get funked up with your favorite house DJs at I’ll House You at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

NightLiner plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free.

My horses are all looking under the weather because Idle Ranch

Spotlight horse spread across the continent, becoming the iconic image of a free and open land.

Since 2011, the Equus International Film Festival has celebrated the contributions made by the horse in film, while educating the public WHAT: Equus International Film Festival to improve the welfare of all equines through excellence in WHERE: The Roxy Theater movies, television and other WHEN: Thu., Sept 14 through Sun., Sept 17 media. The theme of this year's festival is the global impact of the MORE INFO: equusinternationalfilmfestival.com horse. Throughout the weekend, panels and field trips punctuate There were some proto-horses running around the film screenings. The films themthousands of years ago, but that species went ex- selves stretch across genres, but all tinct, leaving our continent completely horseless focus on our friend the horse. Standout panels inuntil the Spanish reintroduced them to the conti- clude a presentation by husband and wife jockeys nent in the early 16th century. From there the Braulio Baeza and Janice Blake about the behind-

Hands are playing the Union Club at 9:30 PM instead of doing their job. Free.

Andrea Harsell & Luna Roja celebrate the release of their new album Something For The Pain with a special show at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. $5. (See Music.)

Explore planets, nebulas and distant galaxies during Free Observation night at Blue Mountain Observatory. 10:30 PM. Visit hs.umt.edu/physics/blue_mountain_observatory to reserve your spots.

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From appearances in westerns alone, the horse has ingratiated itself into popular culture as a symbol of the freedom promised by the frontier.

Despite being the definitive image of the American West, the horse isn't native to North America.

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the-scenes world of race horses and a talk on horses in Native American Traditions.

—Charley Horse Macorn

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Saturday Industrial Workers of the World at Free Cycles. 7 PM–10 PM. Free, but bring some cash for donations.

The Clark Fork Market features farm-fresh produce, live music and delicious food every Saturday in the Riverside Parking Lot below the Higgins Avenue Bridge. 8 AM– 1 PM.

Cory Fay celebrates the release of his new album Garden Variations with a show at the ZACC featuring Caroline Keys and Go Hibiki. 7 PM. Free.

The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses and diverse delicacies.

Join the fun every Saturday through September. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM–12:30 PM.

Nancy Cooper and David Cody perform a night of Hispanic vocal music of the 1930s, telling the story of musical duo Anna Maude Van Hoose and Felipe Delgado.

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $12.

(See Spotlight)

Spontaneous Construction is back! Teams have seven hours to build beautiful, functional or just creative pieces. Home ReSource. All team slots are full, but come watch the construction at 9 AM. Free.

Join Soft Landing’s Eritrean families at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church for a traditional coffee ceremony. Learn a bit more about Eritrean culture while getting your coffee fix. 9 AM–11 AM. Admission is free with a suggested donation to benefit the participating families.

The University of Montana Grizzly Football team takes on Savannah State Tigers. Oh my! Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Head to gogriz.com for tickets and kickoff time.

Watch migrating birds on a beginning birding field trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge with Five Valleys Audubon. Meet at the refuge headquarters at 10 AM for this 2-hour field trip. Free.

Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM. The Equus International Film Festival celebrates the majesty of horses in film and television at the Roxy Theater. Gallop to equssinternationalfilmfestival.com for a full

It’s the dance, not the chip dip. Salsa 406 returns with Latin music and dancing at the Dark Horse every third Saturday of the month. 8:30 PM. Free.

Hellgate Roller Derby takes on the Rolling Hills Derby Dames from Pullman, WA. 7 PM. $10. Missoula County Fairgrounds schedule of films and events. (See Spotlight) Author Robert Madrygin reads from The Solace of Trees, his new book about a refugee from the Bosnian War trying to escape his past and the American War on Terror at Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM. (See Spotlight) Mismo Gymnastics celebrates National Gymnastics Day with free play time, free food and free admission. 1 PM–4 PM.

nightlife Hellgate Roller Derby takes on the Rolling Hills Derby Dames from Pullman, WA. 7 PM. $10. A pre-event bout featuring junior teams starts at 5:30 PM. Missoula County Fairgrounds.

Support Missoula Community Radio at Not Your Grandma’s Bingo at the Public House.

Win prize packages from local businesses while supporting KFGM a the Public House. 6 PM to 10 PM. Free.

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

Clara Baker plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Troublesome plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free.

North Carolina bluegrass band Nu-Blu plays the Daly Mansion. Grounds open at 5 PM for picnicking, with the show starting at 6 PM. $15. 12 and younger are free.

Twenty of Missoula’s premiere musical acts come together for a one-night benefit to aid Missoula’s musical godfather Michael Avery in his fight against cancer. Visit Logjampresents for a full list of bands and venues. $10.

Mermaid Book Club, Rooster Sauce and Charcoal Squids perform a benefit for the

Delgado for a traveling act where the duo performed music from Spain, Argentina and Mexico.

Sombra del País (Shadows of the Country) was hugely popular with audiences in the '30s, but like so many WHAT: Sombra del País (Shadows of the Country) entertainers and performers from the WHO: Nancy Cooper and David Cody pre-television era, Van Hoose and Delgado were mostly forgotten WHEN: Sat., Sept. 16 at 7:30 PM Now, nearly a century later, Van Hoose's great-niece Nancy Cooper, WHERE: UM Music Recital Hall resurrects the style, song and flair of HOW MUCH: $12/$8 students these classic concerts with a lecture and performance at the University of MonMORE INFO: umt.edu/music/concerts/fgas/ tana Music Recital Hall. Following a lecture about the life and influence of this musical duo performed Spanish-language Sombra del País, Cooper will be joined by tenor shows across the Southwestern United States from David Cody for an evening of music to bridge the 1924 through 1939. Van Hoose, a pianist of gap between the present and the past.

—Charley Macorn great talent, teamed with minor silent movie star

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Ironically you don’t have to pay anything to see a great band. Cash for Junkers play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Crush the proletariat with the live music of the Workers at Ten Spoon Winery. 6 PM. Free.

Spotlight The names Felipe Delgado and Anna Maude Van Hoose probably don't mean a lot to you, but

DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two for one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free.

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Robert Madrygin’s The Solace of Trees is fiction but it’s also a cautionary tale about what happens when countries like the United States become consumed by self-protection to the detriment of war victims. The author’s debut novel follows the story of a young boy of secular Muslim heritage who flees his home in Bosnia after his family is murdered.

He finds sanctuary in the U.S. and begins a new life, but after the events of 9/11, he’s faced with renewed trouble.

The Vermont-based author comes by this subject honestly, having spent his childhood in postwar Japan where is father was a military lawyer who defended the rights of Japanese POWs. The slippery slopes and gray areas of war—not

powerful. Ploughshares editor L.E. Randolph has called the book “devastating” and WHO: Author Robert Madrygin says, “If this book doesn’t dispel the myth of American WHAT: Reading of The Solace of Trees exceptionalism, nothing WHERE: Shakespeare & Co. will.” It’s the kind of story that pulls the curtain back on WHEN: Sat., Sept. 16, at 7 PM something happening right now, in this country and HOW MUCH: Free even here, in the sometimes on the battlefield but in the aftermath sheltered confines of our own little and on the sidelines—are what valley.

—Erika Fredrickson make this book’s subject matter so

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The 13th Annual Festival of Peace at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee starts with the annual Walk-AMile for Peace. 10 AM–7 PM. Visit ewambuddhagarden.org for a full schedule of events.

The Equus International Film Festival celebrates the majesty of horses in film and television at the Roxy Theater. Gallop to equssinternationalfilmfestival.co m for a full schedule of films and events. (See Spotlight) Urban Forestry Inventory Coordinator Karen Shelley leads a tree walk on the University of Montana campus. 12 PM. kmshelly@msn.com with questions. Free.

Walk & Roll Missoula celebrates sustainable travel with a block party in Downtown Missoula from the XXXXs to 5th Avenue on Higgins. 12 PM–4 PM. Free.

Stories and Stones annual tour takes you through one of Missoula’s oldest cemeteries for an

afternoon of historical reenactment.

Missoula Cemetery.

12:30 AM–3:30 PM. Free.

craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing.

5 PM–8 PM.

Hot patootie, bless my soul! The Rocky Horror Show Live holds an open audition for this year’s performance. Bring some sneakers, bring some heels and get ready to show them what you’ve got. Don’t dream it, be it. MASC Studios. 1 PM–4 PM.

Don’t let the name fool you, they’re actually very experienced. The Carla Green Trio plays Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Sentinel High School welcomes Congolese families for a theatrical production focusing on Congolese culture, music and dance.

A Q&A will follow the play.

Free, by donations accepted. 3 PM–5 PM. Violin, mandolin and guitar players of all levels are invited to a hands-on workshop with Night Blooming Jasmine at Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. $10–$20 donation.

Take your first steps to stardom at Open Mic Night at the Missoula Senior Center hosted by Michael Dean. Call 406-5465195 for more info. 6 PM–8 PM. $5.

The String Orchestra of the Rockies presents piano soloist and Steinway artist Gilles Vonsattel at UM Music Recital Hall at 7:30 PM. $30/$10 students.

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Lakebottom Sound presents a special concert at Shakespeare & Co. featuring Jessica Cantron, Don Clucas and Scot Ray. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $15.

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Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

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Monday Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.

Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.

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The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.

Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing.

Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity.

Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at BASE.

Twenty percent of food and drink sales at The Thomas Meagher Bar between 6 PM and 10 PM go to support Missoula Aging Services.

Learn how you can make the most of your Medicare options at the New to Medicare workshop offered by Missoula Aging Services.

6 PM–8 PM. $35.

Syria. Holy Spirit Church. 7 PM. Free.

Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno.

6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

Meet, greet and compete in Missoula’s Culture Quiz. Sponsored

by Standing Alongside America’s Muslims, you can test your knowledge about world culture and enjoy table games from Iraq and

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Badlander. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free. 21-plus.

Singer-songwriter Larry Hirshberg plays the Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

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

Caitlin Borgmann, executive director of the ACLU of Montana, delivers the 2017 Constitution Day Lecture, Transgender Equality and the Constitutional Right to Dignity at the Alexander Blewett School of Law. 7:30 PM. Free.

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

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Tuesday Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4.

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

Missoula Public Library parts the doors of history with a free screening of the Emmynominated documentary An Alien Place.

Learn about the experiences of foreign nationals detained at Fort Missoula during World War II. 12 PM. Free.

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. Missoula Art Museum hosts a closing reception for From Flower Cloth to Story Cloth: Hmong Textiles in the MAM Collection. 4 PM–6 PM. Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 728-7682 for more information.

They’re packed up in a 1970 VW surf bus, collecting dreams and aspirations on their journey across the country. Meet the OolaGuys at Fact & Fiction. 4 PM. Free.

nightlife Enjoy beer and wine from around the world every Tuesday at Wine Tasting at the Iron Griz. 5 PM–7 PM. $18.

Missoula Farmers’ Market’s Tuesday Evening Market runs every Tuesday through September. Enjoy fresh produce, baked goods, flowers and more at the north end of Higgins at the XXXXs. 5:30 PM–7 PM.

Missoula Art Museum hosts a closing reception for From Flower Cloth to Story Cloth: Hmong Textiles in the MAM Collection. 4 PM–6 PM. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages.

els welcome. $10/$35 for four classes.

Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill lev-

Learn the two-step at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

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trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Which Dodgers player was named Rookie of the Year on today’s date in 1947? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park. The beans are free, but BYO camp stove and water. 8 AM–9:15 AM. Head to therethere.space/coffeeclub for more info.

Open time allows visitors to explore the resources of the MakerSpace, learn how to use the equipment, or to work on a project of their choice. 10:00 AM6:00 PM Want to see where your cider comes from? Take a tour of a local orchard at Farmer Field Days. See how apples go from the tree to cider. 2 PM. Free, but RSVP at farmlinkmontana.org/ events/farmer-field-days NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.

nightlife Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room.

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week support the First Hunt Foundation. 5 PM–8 PM. A Pint & A Print is a monthly two hour class that offers students the opportunity to learn more about the various printmaking methods that can be facilitated in ZACC’s print shop, all while enjoying a cold brew. 6 PM–8 PM. $45.

Singer-songwriter Aran Buzzas returns to Great Burn Brewing for a night of homegrown folky tonk from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Acoustic Americana duo Britchy provide the tunes for an evening of bluegrass to benefit the operations of the Missoula Senior Center. 6 PM–8 PM. $5.

Join Watson Children’s Shelter for the 7th Annual Tennis Pro-Am Event at the Doubletree Hotel. A live auction of 32 local and international tennis greats gives you the chance to take on Robert Kendrick, Jesse Witten and more. 6 PM–9:30 PM. Pick up your phone and call your government representatives to support refugee resettlement.

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Wednesday Women Vote and the Montana Human Rights Network gather at the Montana Women Vote office at 725 W Alder St #21 from 6 PM–7 PM. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in.

Yes, even you with the tuba.

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

Editor David Stanley discusses The Glacier Park Reader, a new anthology recounting a comprehensive history of the park. Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Jakki Mohr, Regents Professor of Marketing and the Gallagher Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the University of Montana, discusses how companies use biomimicry to solve technical and engineering challenges and develop breakthrough innovations.

Montana Natural History Center. 7 PM. Free.

Panther Car plays the ZACC Thu., Sept. 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5

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Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill.

7 PM. Trivia answer: Jackie Robinson.

Wait, did I miss Septemberfest again this year? Celebrate Oktoberfest with beer, brats, a stein holding contest and the live music of Oktubafest at Missoula Brewing Co. 6 PM. Free.

Powerfunk powerhouse Turkuaz plays the Top Hat. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:30. $18/$16 advance.

Dave Manning plays Draught Works Brewery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy returns to the Roxy for an evening of hilarious comedy.

This month Missoula Comedian of the Year 2014 Duane Raider headlines. 7:30 PM. Free with concession purchase.

Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Country music maverick Chase Rice plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$30 advance.

Bozeman’s Panther Car plays the ZACC with Tiny Plastic Stars and Tormi. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Chuck Florence, Jim Driscoll and Pete Hand provide the jazzy soundtrack at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. All of my horses are dead from malnutrition and Idle Ranch Hands are playing the Top Hat. Typical. 10:15 PM. Free.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. If we skip right from fire season to winter I am going to write a strongly worded letter to the mayor.

Show your Press Box buddies just how brainy you are at Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 PM every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 prize to the best singer.

8:30–10:30 PM. No cover.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

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Agenda A little over two years ago, my sister-in-law was rushed from her home in Anaconda to Community Medical Center in Missoula due to complications with her pregnancy. Despite being just over six months pregnant, she was already showing signs that her twins were on their way.

In Missoula we sat with the doctor who explained that her small frame was having a hard time maintaining the two growing twins. Due to a variety of scary factors, she couldn't be more than 15 minutes away from Community Medical Center until the twins were born. In this incredibly stressful and trying time, Ronald McDonald House opened its doors to her. As I was the closest relative by at least two hours, I stayed with her in that house.

I met numerous families in the two months I stayed there with my sister-in-law. I saw families dealing with unimaginable struggles find comfort and a slice of normality at Ronald McDonald House. I can't imagine what would have happened if it wasn't there to support my family. And though everything worked out fine for my family, my niece and nephew were born healthy at full-term, we haven't forgotten that thousands of families across the country continue to use this charity every year. Payment is never expected, with donations mak-

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Medical anthropologist Dr. Craig Janes speaks about improving access to critical health services in remote regions using new generation satellite imagery, hydrology, climate change and community-based participation. Whew! I feel more brainy just reading that! Gallagher Business Building Room 123. 5 PM. Free.

The 13th Annual Festival of Peace at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee starts with the annual Walk-A-Mile for Peace. 10 AM–7 PM. Visit ewambuddhagarden.org for more.

Unity Church of Missoula commemorates the 24th annual Unity World Day of Prayer with an Interfaith Prayer Service at 7 PM.

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ing up the difference.

The Red Shoe Ball, the premier fundraising event for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana, gives you the opportunity to give back with a formal affair at Hilton Garden Inn. A silent auction, including such items as fly-fishing trips, season tickets for Griz basketball and Denver Broncos tickets, all contribute to the local Ronald McDonald Houses in western Montana.

—Charley Macorn The Red Shoe Ball at the Hilton Garden Inn kicks off on Fri., Sept 15 from 6 PM–11 PM. Tickets are $75 per person.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18 The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM–4 PM. Free for veterans.

Twenty percent of food and drink sales at The Thomas Meagher Bar between 6 PM and 10 PM go to support Missoula Aging Services.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana hosts its premier fundraising event, The Red Shoe Ball. Wear a black tie and red shoes for a night of dancing, food and fundraising.

Hilton Garden Inn. 6 PM–11 PM.

Learn how you can make the most of your Medicare options at the New to Medicare workshop offered by Missoula Aging Services. 6 PM– 8 PM. $35.

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Caregiver Support Group, for caregivers to an older adult or person with a disability, meets every third Tuesday of the month from 4–5 PM at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Call 728-7682 for more information.

Join Soft Landing’s Eritrean families at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church for a traditional coffee ceremony. Learn a bit more about Eritrean culture while getting your coffee fix. 9 AM–11 AM. Admission is free with a suggested donation to benefit the participating families.

Support Missoula Community Radio at Not Your Grandma’s Bingo at the Public House. Win prize packages from local businesses while supporting KFGM a the Public House. 6 PM to 10 PM. Free.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room.

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week support the First Hunt Foundation. 5 PM–8 PM.

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

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s I write this, the sky above Missoula is an unmistakable blue. I don’t know about you all, but I can’t help but keep looking upwards. (And squinting a lot. For a while there I forgot that the sun is, like, really bright.) The smoke is gone, for now, but nobody really knows what the week will bring—maybe a return to the haze or maybe even a little rain.

If, against all odds, the skies are clear on one of the next two Friday nights, there’s no better way to celebrate than by taking in the view at Blue Mountain Observatory. The last two public observing nights are taking place this month, and after a summer of earthly turmoil, you deserve to take a break and think about the bigger picture for a while.

Observing nights offer an opportunity to check out Blue Mountain’s main 16-inch telescope and some smaller scopes, but even a pair of your own

binoculars will work to start exploring the cosmos.

Volunteers will be around to point out constellations and explain what you’re seeing.

If you can’t make it to an observing night but still want to find time for some stargazing when the smoke permits, Blue Mountain Observatory’s website offers useful links, including a clear sky chart that will tell you the best days and times for seeing stars. (Unfortunately, the chart doesn’t account for smoke. Can’t have it all.)

—Margaret Grayson Public Observing Night starts at 8:45 PM on Friday, Sept. 15 and at 8:30 PM on Friday, Sept. 22, weather permitting. Free; advance registration is required. More information and cancellation notices at hs.umt.edu/ physics/Blue_Mountain_Observatory

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Watch migrating birds on a beginning birding field trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge with Five Valleys Audubon. Meet at the refuge headquarters at 10 AM for this 2-hour field trip. Free.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 Take a 40-mile ride through four Bitterrrot Valley Farms while enjoying food and drink from locally grown vegetables, fruits and livestocks with Bike Walk Bitterroot. The ride starts at 10 AM at the Western Agriculture Research Station in Corvallis.

$70. Space is limited, so RSVP at bikewalkbitterroot.org/forktofarm.

Walk & Roll Missoula celebrates sustainable travel with a block party in Downtown Missoula from the XXXXs to 5th Avenue on Higgins. 12 PM–4 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 The En Plein Air Coffee Club mixes coffee and biking every Wednesday at the Missoula Art Park.

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By Amy Alkon YAWN JUAN My friend and I are debating why it is that men don’t want you when you want them yet they’re all gung-ho when you aren’t interested. She believes that we just want what we can’t have. Could it be that simple?

—Pondering In looking for love, a number of people confuse “the chase” with something closer to criminal stalking. In their defense, these ideas don’t come out of nowhere. For example, consider how creepy the Cupid dude with the little bow and arrow actually is. Basically, he’s the chubby baby version of the maniac hunting people down with a crossbow.

The reality is, nobody pines for what’s easy to get or, worse, what’s chasing madly after them. It’s about value. Being easy to get or seeming desperate suggests one has what anthropologists call “low mate value.”

Social psychologist Robert Cialdini explains this with “the scarcity principle,” which describes how the less available something is the more valuable it seems and the more we want it. Being scarce doesn’t necessarily equate to being more valuable; however, because of how psychologically painful we find regret—feeling that we screwed up and thus missed out—scarcity kicks us into a motivational state, making us all hot for whatever’s in short supply.

This is the sales principle behind those chichi boutiques with just one item on a rack, as if they were a mini museum of the little black dress.There’s a good chance they have 20 more in the back. But putting out 20 sends a different message—like one of those shops with a big yellow sign, “Everything in the store, $15, including the dog.”

Still, the scarcity principle sometimes gets falsely accused of causing a burgeoning relationship to tank when other factors are actually to blame. Consider whether you’re choosing wisely—going for someone who’s ready to be in a relationship. Some people who think they’re ready may not be.

(Time—along with wanting to know instead of just wanting to believe—will tell.)

Others will admit that they aren’t ready. Believe them—or at least tread cautiously— and recognize the propensity many women have for Svengali-ette-alism: “I’ll be the one to change him!” (Kleenex has succeeded as a brand in no small part thanks to these women.)

With someone who is a real possibility, you’ll have your best shot by coming off appropriately interested instead of stalkerishly so. If you tend to go from zero to texting a guy 36 times in a row while sitting in your car with binoculars trained on his house, figure out proactive ways to avoid that and other crazypants stuff you do. (Perhaps, for

example, give your next-door neighbor custody of your phone and car keys upon coming home.) Sure, love is said to be “a journey,” but it shouldn’t be one that has something in common with being chased by feral hogs down a lonely country road.

THE THINGS WE DO FUR LOVE My sweet boyfriend always leaves his nose hair and beard trimmings in the sink. He claims he forgets to wipe up afterward and asks, “Is it that big of a deal?” Am I being petty, or is this disrespectful when you share a space with somebody?

—Annoyed Surely, your boyfriend eventually notices dropped bits of beard hair— about when the sink starts panting and pawing in response to “Here, boy!”

However, chances are he’s leaving you a furry sink not out of disrespect but because he goes into a behavioral coma. This comes out of how our brain conserves energy by creating stored strings of behavior. The first time you ride a bike or eat with a spoon, you have to put conscious thought into each step. But with time and practice, the sequence becomes automatic and unconscious. Eventually, when you get a bowl of oatmeal, you just eat; you don’t need to figure out how to load up the spoon and manage that “Bzzzz, here comes Mr. Airplane...” thing that transports the oatmeal to Mr. Tummy.

Research on habit change by psychologist Wendy Wood and her colleagues suggests that “disrupting” the usual physical sequence of a stored behavior can jolt a person out of autopilot, triggering their conscious mind to take over. You can disrupt your boyfriend’s beard-snipping routine simply by changing where the scissors get stored. Maybe put them in a kitchen cabinet for a while—and of course, clue him in and explain why.

Yes, this could actually work to get him to remember your “Yoo-hoo ... sinkiepoo!” However, what ultimately matters is how you treat each other. If your sink continues to have a five o’clock shadow, maybe decide to just laugh about your sweet daydreamy slob instead of going all toxic-ragey “I’ll show him!” and throwing out the beard clippings yourself—by dragging the sink to the curb.

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

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EMPLOYMENT 406-523-0494. You must have a valid driver’s license and proof of car insurance. This is an independent contractor business opportunity.

cessful probationary period as an LC Staffing employee to ensure a good fit for you and the business.

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HOME RESOURCE IS HIRING! Home ReSource seeks a Reuse Specialist to help reduce waste and build a vibrant and sustainable local economy at our retail store. To apply visit: homeresource.org.

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Laborer We are working with a water and mold removal company to recruit for technicians for the company’s expanding needs.

This Company is highly-skilled and readily-equipped to train you to identify, evaluate, and solve problems to manage and eliminate water and mold intrusion from residential and commercial buildings. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 40306 Looking for two women to help me clean an office building in Missoula on Thursday nights starting at 5:30pm and Friday mornings approximately 9:30 am - 11:30 am in various homes. Call Melody 240-4501.

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The Company has training programs that include apprenticeships, on-line technical development programs, and soft skills training to help YOU be successful in your career! Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #939760 Miller Planer Operator LC Staffing is partnering with Local Lumber Company in Seeley Lake to recruit for an entry-level wood worker to operate the mill planer! The Company is looking for career-minded candidates who strive to learn more and who want move up in the company. This is an opportunity for a permanent/long-term position following a successful probationary period as an LC Staffing employee to ensure a good fit for you and the business. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #39743

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HEALTH CAREERS Dental Assistant LC Staffing is partnering with a Missoula dentist with recruiting for a Dental Assistant to join a team that is committed to being a leader in the field of Pediatric Dentistry! The Company provides the highest possible level of care at all times, to all of the patients by providing dental care to children in a friendly and compassionate environment.This is an opportunity for a permanent position following a successful probationary period as an LC Staffing employee to ensure a good fit for you and the business. Full job listing online

Fair Trade Store Manager The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is looking for a creative person to make a difference in the world as Manager of their Fair Trade store, The Olive Branch. Approximately 25-35 hours per week. Schedule flexible with some weekends and holidays required. Retail and financial management experience, excellent organizational and people skills required.

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PUBLIC NOTICES tMissoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board Hearing The Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board will hold a public hearing on proposed changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 12:15 p.m. or soon thereafter. The Board meets in the second floor conference room at the Health Department at 301 West Alder in Missoula. The Air Board will consider proposed changes to Chapter 4 “Missoula County Air Stagnation and Emergency Episode Avoidance Plan.” The proposed rule changes clarify Rule 4.112, the wildfire smoke emergency episode avoidance plan in Chapter 4.The Air Board will take public comments at the hearing before making a decision. Written comments may be submitted on or before noon on September 20, 2017 by mailing them to Sarah Coefield-Air Comments, MCCHD, 301 W Alder St., Missoula, MT 59802; faxing them to (406) 258-4781 or emailing them to scoefield@missoulacounty.us .

For more information, a copy of the proposed rules or to sign up for the Interested Parties mailing list, visit www.missoula county.us/airquality or call 2584755 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-226 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WANDA V. SMALLEY AKA WANDA VIOLA SMALLEY, DECEASED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHERYL W. MILLER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of September, 2017. /s/ Cheryl W. Miller, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-19 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE AND INFORMATION TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, DECEASED. To the Garden City Rabbit Breeders Association: 1. The decedent, DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, died on December 14, 2016. 2.This notice is being published for persons who have or may have some interest in the

estate being administered. 3.

GEORGE MORSE AKA GEORGE W. MORSE whose address is: 5135 Mullan Rd. MIssoula, MT 59808 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate on January 26, 2017 without bond. 4. Papers and information relating to the estate are on file in the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, County of Missoula, at Missoula, Montana.5. This estate is being administered by the Personal Representative under the Uniform Probate Code of Montana without supervision by the Court. Recipients are entitled to information regarding administration from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any manner relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

DATED this 7th day of September, 2017. DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-17-220 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GARLAND JEFFREY THAYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as 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 MOLLY ERIN THAYER, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 29 day of August, 2017 /s/ Molly Erin Thayer, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-142 Dept. No. 2 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BETTY LOU SHUBERT, 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 LORI KOHLMAN, 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 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Lori Kohlman, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. SIGNED this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Lori Kohlman, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires September 24, 2019 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-17-586 Dept. No. 3 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION ANNE L. FOGELBURCHENAL, Plaintiff, vs.

CHARLES J. MANNING; the unknown heirs and devisees of Charles J. Manning; NANCY J. MANNING; the unknown heirs and devisees of Nancy J. Manning; and all other persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the real property described in the Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO all persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the real property described in the Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This is an action in which the title to, alleged interests in, or liens upon, real property are involved, affected, and brought into question. This action is brought for the specific purpose of quieting title in Plaintiff to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Block 28 of Park Addition, according to the official plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana, together with

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Recording reference: Book 23, Page 451. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 6th day of September, 2017. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Clerk of the District Court (SEAL) /s/ By: Molly A. Reynolds Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-17-151 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JANE S. RAGSDALE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Amy Ragsdale 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 Martha L. Goodloe,Attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 1603 Jackson St., 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 13th day of June, 2017. /s/ Amy Ragsdale, Personal Representative of the Estate of Jane S. Ragsdale /s/ Martha L. Goodloe, Attorney for Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-225 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BONNIE C. HENNES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jon V. Parker 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 W Spruce Street, 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 6th day of September, 2017. /s/ Jon V. Parker, Personal Representative for the Estate of Bonnie C. Hennes /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-97 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND A. MEYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19):Two animals are pictured prominently on Australia’s coat of arms: the kangaroo and the large flightless bird known as the emu. One of the reasons they were chosen is that both creatures rarely walk backward. They move forward or not at all. Australia’s founders wanted this to symbolize the nation’s pledge to never look back, to remain focused on advancing toward the future.The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make a similar commitment, Aries. Is there a new symbol you might adopt to inspire your intention?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is an animated sitcom that will soon begin its 29th consecutive year on TV. During its run, it has told over 600 stories.The creators of another animated sitcom, South Park, once did an episode entitled “Simpsons Already Did It,” which referenced their feelings that it was hard to come up with new tales because their rival had already used so many good ones. I bring this up, Taurus, because I suspect your life story will soon be spinning out novel plots that have never before been seen, not even on The Simpsons or South Park. You could and should be the Best Storyteller of the Month.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Love won’t exactly be free in the coming weeks, but there should be some good deals. And I’m not referring to risky black-market stuff obtained in back alleys, either.

I mean straightforward liaisons and intriguing intimacy at a reasonable cost. So if you’re comfortably mated, I suggest you invest in a campaign to bring more comedy and adventure into your collaborative efforts. If you’re single, wipe that love-starved look off your face and do some exuberant windowshopping. If you’re neither comfortably mated nor single, money may temporarily be able to buy you a bit more happiness.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The current state of your fate reminds me of the sweet confusion alluded to in Octavio Paz’s poem “Between Going and Staying”: “All is visible and elusive, all is near and can’t be touched.” For another clue to the raw truth of your life right now, I’ll quote the poet William Wordsworth. He spoke of “fleeting moods of shadowy exultation.” Is the aura described

by Paz and Wordsworth a problem that you should try to fix? Is it detrimental to your heroic quest? I don’t think so. Just the opposite, really: I hope you can hang out for a while in this pregnant mystery—between the yes and the no, between the dark and the light, between the dream and the reality. It will help you learn what you’ve been too restless to tune in to in the past.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The imminent future will be a favorable time for refurbished models and revived originals. They are likely to be more fun and interesting the second time around. I suspect that this will also be an auspicious phase for substitutes and alternatives. They may even turn out to be better than the so-called real things they replace. So be artful in formulating Plan B and Plan C, Leo. Switching over to backups may ultimately bring out more of the best in you and whisk you toward your ultimate goal in unexpected ways. before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you c oftakea book what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas. In general, it might be wise to

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Douglas G. Skjelset, 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 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss.

County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages

surmise the probable outcomes of games, adventures and experiments before you get totally involved.

Try this fun exercise: Imagine you are a psychic prophet as you evaluate the long-range prospects of any influences that are vying to play a role in your future.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology: I’m feeling lost, but am also feeling very close to finding my new direction. It hurts! It would be so helpful if I could just catch a glimpse of that new direction. I’d be able to better endure the pain and confusion if I could get a tangible sense of the future happiness that my pain and confusion are preparing me for. Can you offer me any free advice? -Lost Libra.” Dear Libra: The pain and confusion come from the dying of the old ways. They need to die a bit more before the new direction will reveal itself clearly. I predict that will happen soon— no later than October 1.

Will Astrology. Departing from tradition, I’m temporarily stepping aside so you can have the e Free freedom to write the exact horoscope you want. Normally, you might be in danger of falling victim

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Welcome to “Compose Your Own Oracle,” a special edition of

to presumptuous arrogance if you imagined you could wield complete control over how your destiny unfolds. But in the days ahead, that rule won’t be as unyielding, because cosmic forces will be giving you more slack than usual. Fate and karma, which frequently impel you to act according to patterns that were set in place long ago, are giving you at least a partial respite. To get the maximum benefit out of “Compose Your Own Oracle,” identify three plot developments you’d like to weave into a self-fulfilling prophecy for your immediate future. Then start weaving.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Almost two-thirds of us confess that if we are alone, we might sip milk directly from the carton rather than first pouring it into a glass. Fourteen percent of us have used milk as part of our sexual activities. One out of every five of us admit that we have “borrowed” someone else’s milk from the fridge at work. Most shockingly, four percent of us brag that we have blown milk out our noses on purpose. I expect that in the next two weeks, you Sagittarians will exceed all these norms. Not just because you’ll be in the mood to engage in mischievous experiments and playful adventures with milk, but because you’re likely to have a loosey-goosey relationship with almost everything.

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in support of political prisoners, or to volunteer at a soup kitchen, or to donate blood at a g funds blood bank. In fact, any charitable service you perform for people you don’t know will be excellent CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to raise

for your physical and mental health.You can also generate vivid blessings for yourself by being extra thoughtful, kind and generous toward people you care for.You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when unselfish acts will yield maximum selfish benefits.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his novel The Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) exposed the abominable hygiene and working conditions of the meat-packing industry.The uproar that followed led to corrective legislation by the U.S. Congress. Sinclair remained devoted to serving the public good throughout his career. He liked to say that the term “social justice” was inscribed on his heart. Drawing from his inspiration, Aquarius, I suggest you decide what your soul’s main motto is— and imagine that it is written on your heart. Now is a perfect time to clarify your life’s purpose, and intensify your commitment to it; to devote even more practical, tender zeal to fulfilling the reason you were born.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that “patch of bothersome weeds” growing right in the middle of your life? Is it really a patch of bothersome weeds? Or is it perhaps a plot of cultivated blooms that once pleased you but has now turned into a puzzling irrelevancy? Or how about this possibility: Is it a chunk of languishing beauty that might flourish and please you again if it were cared for better? Those are excellent questions for you to pose in the coming days, Pisces. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to decide on the future of this quizzical presence.

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SERVICES

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-17-197 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: WALTON MIDKIFF, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MICHAEL MIDKIFF, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 1st day of September, 2017. /s/ Michael Midkiff, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ David H. Bjornson, Attorneys for MICHAEL MIDKIFF, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-100 Dept. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE

MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MAXWELL A. UPPER, 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WENDY A. MANTHEY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,

On September 26th at 12:30 p.m. an auction will be held at Hellgate Canyon Storage, 730 Clyde St., Missoula, MT to sell the items of a 10x15 unit rented by John Vandermeulen due to non-payment of rent..

c/o Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, P.C., at P.O. Box 1645, Great Falls, Montana 59403, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22 day of July, 2017. /s/ Wendy A. Manthey, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

EAGLE SELF STORAGE EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 63, 87, 159, 442, 481, 683, & 744.

Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday September 25, 2017. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday September 28, 2017 4:00 P.M. Buyers 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.

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 Koda is a 1-year-old female Heeler mix. Her immediate response to people is soft and timid. However, this young girl has a great deal of energy and a very active mind. She would love an active owner. An avid runner or hiker would help Koda meet her energy needs. She also is a dog that would love a job to work her brain and body. Koda really enjoys playing fetch and would make a great agility or fly ball dog.

JAZZY• Jazzy is a 1 1/2-year-old female Brown Tabby. This sweet little girl didn't have the best start in life. She was very ill, and it took a fair amount of work to get her healthy again.

This left her with delicate sinuses and poor vision. However, Jazzy has no idea she has any health issues. She plays like a kitten, loves kids, cats, and dogs. Her favorite toys are shiny. We think because she can see them easier.

GARCON•Garçon is a 13-year-old male Jack Russell Terrier. He is a very happy and welltrained old chap. He came to us when his previous owner's health issues became too advanced to also care for a senior dog. Garçon does not particularly like other dogs or cats, but he loves people of all ages. He is looking for a retirement home that can help him live out the remainder of his life in comfort.

TIMMY• Timmy is a 4-year-old male Black and White Tuxedo cat. He is missing a front leg, which means he needs to be an inside only cat.

Timmy starts out shy in new environments. It takes him a while to aclimate to a new home, but once he has settled in, Timmy is a very affectionate cat.Timmy is a little plus-sized and could use a diet and exercise routine to help keep any extra weight off of his off-centered joints.

KODA•

DEMPSEY• Dempsey is a 3-year-old male Lab mix. He is a very quiet and sweet boy. He loves playing with other dogs and getting human attention. Dempsey enjoys playing with plush toys, has no idea how to play fetch, will perform a few basic commands when treats are readily available, and gets distracted easily when there are other dogs to play with. He has great leash manners and make a great family dog.

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BEANS• Beans is a 2-year-old male gray and white long haired cat. His favorite hobby is to play in a sink full of water and clean himself.

Beans enjoys time with dogs and cats. However, he does not tolerate "boss cats" very well. This dear boy is an inside only cat and would make a great family pet. Come meet him!

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 ALEXANDER• Alexander- This brave, cuddly little nugget enjoys playing rough and rowdy with his dog friends. Alexander is a sweet, one-year-old pup that will launch himself into your lap whenever you're not paying him enough attention! This confident little fella is looking for an active, mature home; will it be with you? Call 406.549.3934 to learn more!

AUTUMN• Autumn- This big, beautiful girl is a quiet, calm indoor companion. Autumn is a clever ticked tabby senior cat-citizen who enjoys being an office assistant with breaks for pets and canned food snacks. Autumn loves the symphony and enjoys listening to light jazz with her person (no joke). She is part of our Senior for Senior program. Call 406.549.3934 to learn more!

CHEVY• Chevy- This friendly goofball is itching for adventure. Chevy is a handsome fella that would love to run for miles and miles next to your bike or go for long hikes in the mountains.

There is nothing Chevy can't do! Take Chevy for a ride and he will be your best bud and a loyal companion. Visit myhswm.org for more information about Chevy!

DALE• Dale- A true gentleman! This black and white prince loves to survey his kingdom from up high! He’s a sweet guy that enjoys other cats and is good with kids! Despite his 9-year-old age, he is still active and playful. Could this regal man be the perfect fit for your castle? Stop by Tues-Fri from 1-6 or Sat-Sun from 12-5!

BOOMER• Boomer- Boomer is the perfect Montana adventure pup! He loves to be outside and would be a perfect partner for long hikes, runs, fishing, and more! This young boy is super friendly and loves to be around people. If you are looking for a companion to explore with, Boomer is the buddy for you! Stop by to see this sweet boy during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6 and Sat-Sun from noon-5pm!

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CAPTAIN• Captain- Captain, my captain, you big handsome man! This brave 7-year-old black cat loves going outside and playing with dogs. This guy would prefer a family who doesn't need a lap cat or snuggler. Captain loves attention but he's more into the petting type rather than the carrying around. Looking for an adventure buddy and a handsome man to keep you company? Visit Captain today! missoulanews.com • September 14–September 21, 2017 [43]

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PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 5, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 in Block 1 of Ben Hughes Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Lisa Jones and Sheldon Jones, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for PHH Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 17, 2010, and recorded on November 22, 2010 as Book 869 Page 775 as Document No. 201022882.The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION. 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 beginning January 1, 2016, 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 31, 2017 is $116,695.72 principal, interest totaling $8,746.21 late charges in the amount of $64.90, escrow advances of $3,444.20, and other fees and expenses advanced of $147.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made

strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 22, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert

Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 22nd day of August, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, 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/Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 PHH vs JONES 102329-2 Public Notice Farwest Rock Products, PO Box 991, Frenchtown, MT 59834,Telephone 406728-8500 has applied for a new opencut permit #2968. The site name is the North Pit located in Section 6&7, Township 14N Range 20W in Missoula County.

The entire sit is 53.1 acres, but only 18.1 acres will be bonded at this time. Over the next 13 years approximately 2,000,000 cubic yards of aggregate material will be utilized from this pit. A

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crushing operation will exist on the site and will operate year round and work 7 days a week from 6am to 8pm.The gravel pit is accessed approximately four miles west of the Wye, on the Frenchtown Frontage RD, 12758 Farwest Drive. A copy of the proposed operation can be viewed at http://SearchOpencutPermits.mt.gov by entering “North Pit” into the “Site Name” box and clicking “submit”. If additional information or map regarding the proposed operation is needed, please contact Farwest Rock Products. Any requests for public meeting concerning this proposed activity

should be directed to the DEQ Opencut Mining program, PO Box 200901, Helena, MT 596020901; Fax: 406-444-4988; email: DEQOpencut@mt.gov. Requests for public meeting will be accepted until October 16, 2017.

Sealed bids for construction of new 30’ x 42’ storage shed addition for Missoula Trap & Skeet Club. Plans and specifications available at missoulatrapandskeetclub.com.

Pre-bid walk thru on 8/30/17@ 2pm, 8890 Hwy 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808. Plans to be received by 5pm 9/25/17, send to

MT&SC, PO Box 16152, Missoula, MT 59808.

STATE OF MONTANA )):ss COUNTY OF MISSOULA ) LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Public Auction at 8:00 am on Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 1300 Defoe St, Missoula, MT 59802.

Plum Property Management, LLC will be auctioning to the highest bidder, abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: #01 and #05. Bidding starts at $250 as to each unit. Units contain miscellaneous household contents. Unit may be viewed by appointment only. Contact Plum

Property Management for appointment (406) 541-7586. Unit may be redeemed by owner before sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted as payment. Winning bidder must remove contents of unit from unit no later than 5:00 pm on the date of the sale.

Montana 4th Judicial District Court Missoula County In the Matter of the Name Change of Claire Payne, Petitioner Cause No.: DV-17-793 Dept. No.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE This is notice that Petitioner has asked the

RENTALS APARTMENTS

downtown $950. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, newly remodeled,W/D, A/C,

2 bed, 1 bath, N. Russell, $750, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking. HEAT paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

bed/2.5 bath, newly remodeled, central location, DW, W/D, POA $1250. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

1863 S. 5th St. E. 3 bed/2.5 bath, brand new, energy efficient, central location. $1500 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

211 S. 4th Street East #1. 3 bed/1 bath, close to U, W/D hookups $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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Lg 2B/1Ba $995 Remodeled New paint, hardwood floors, kitchen cabinets, stainless appliances, Corian, energy windows. Covered patio, lg yd, space w/d, 2 parking 1 covered, storage, South Hills.

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212 S. 5th Street East #1. 2 bed/1 bath, near University, close to downtown, W/D hookups $800.

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11270 Napton Way 2C. 3 bed/1 bath, HEAT PAID, central Lolo location, lots of interior updates. $925. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

MOBILE HOMES

345 W. Central “C”. 2 bed/1 bath in triplex, central location, W/D, close to parks. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

FIDELITY

Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $495/month. 406-273-6034

509 S. 5th St. E. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, two blocks to University, sunroom, coin-ops, HEAT PAID $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

DUPLEXES

HOUSES

1706 Scott Street “B”.1 bed/1 bath, Northside, all utilities paid, shared yard $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1831 S. 9th Street West “B”. 3

1525 S. 10th Street West. 3 bed/1 bath, central location, W/D hookups, DW, single garage, POA $1250. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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251-4707 Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $825/month Visit our website at

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Grizzly Property Management "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

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1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Upper Rattlesnake home on 3.6 acres on Ray Creek. $500,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath South 39th St home, $245,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Franklin to The Fort home. $225,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, East Missoula home. $235,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

5136 MALLORY LANE Like new custom home in Lolo. 3 BED/2 BATH. Attractive home with upgrades throughout. Dramatic vaulted ceiling in great room, spacious kitchen, alder trim, granite, exposed beam. Open floor plan.

Newer flooring/fixtures. Energy efficient. Landscaped yard with privacy fence. $289,000 OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1-4 REALTORS WELCOME Or call 3962939 for Appt

322 Central, Hot Springs $69,000

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3625 Kingsbury. Pleasant View 3 bed, 3 bath on corner lot with 2 car garage. $284,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Grant Creek home on 5.7 acres. $415,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 425 S 5th St West-This is an amazing stunning historic gem.

The beautiful Victorian was built in 1890 and has absolute charm of yesteryear. $625,000 KD 2405227 PorticoRealEstate.com 529 Blaine. Price reduced to $275,000. It’s a gem and ready to move into with tons of charm and amazing location in the heart of the Slant Streets and so close to everything near town! KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com 6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court.

Many new upgrades. $795,000.

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

"Outsider Knowledge"--I think you'll see the appeal. t500 Clear Creek Trl, Anaconda MT Log home, 20 ac,1 bed w loft & bsmt (1866 sq ft), 1 bath, offgrid solar & wind w/ propane back-up generator. Year around access, $229,900. Call 405-2587328

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Lolo Townhome. $189,900. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2025 Mullan Heights #306. 2 bed, 2.5 bath facing the Clark Fork River. $249,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

Sweet little home in downtown Hot Springs on a corner lot. Home has a detached garage, a cozy front porch and a sleeping loft! This is a one bedroom house with a loft. Wood floors are throughout with a large country kitchen and nice sized living room. This is an affordable home, possible weekend getaway?

MLS #21709387 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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665 E Kent. Wow, university area charmer on a double lot for $320,000! 3 bedroom, 1 bath, in great condition and ready to move into! KD 240-5227 PorticoReal Estate.com 6869 Deadman Gulch. Private 4 bed, 3 bath on 2.71 acres with deck & 3 car garage. $890,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 7122 Brooke Lynn. Brand new 5 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan, gas fireplace, deck & timber frame accents. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 816 West Hallmark. 3 bed, 2 bath with covered deck, UG sprinklers & double garage. $275,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 901 Defoe. Updated 3 bed, 1 bath with new flooring & deck, Near Northside pedestrian bridge. $219,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink

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1 Leave out 5 Manufacture skillfully 10 "Dear" columnist 14 Austrian physicist Ernst 15 Vietnam's capital 16 Like leafless trees 17 Burn-soothing plant 18 Beermaking phase 19 BBQ side dish 20 Puts the past behind with fond memories 23 Dorm floor supervisors, for short 24 Driveway goo 25 Brownish eye color 28 Curve in the water?

34 Annoyed persistently 35 Certain collars or jackets 36 Dict. spelling designation 37 "Who is John ___?" ("Atlas Shrugged" opener) 38 Rattles off 39 Say nay 40 Jackie O's husband 41 It's propelled by a paddle 42 Europe's "The ___ Countdown" 43 It's usually used to cross your heart 45 Bohemian 46 Chicago hub, on luggage tags 47 Green Day drummer ___ Cool 48 Hightail it 56 Shiraz, for one

57 Egger-on 58 "Garfield" beagle 59 Musical Redding 60 Make amends (for) 61 "Livin' La Vida ___" (#1 hit of 1999) 62 Brightness measure 63 "Siddhartha" author Hermann 64 Ran away

DOWN 1 "The Wire" character Little 2 Bamako's country 3 Computer program symbol 4 Epithet for Alexander, Peter, or Gonzo 5 Mass confusion 6 Barilla rival 7 Have ___ to pick 8 Times New Roman, e.g.

9 Uses an Allen wrench, maybe 10 Suck up 11 Shagger's collectible 12 Country singer Paisley 13 Archery bow wood 21 Caramel addition, in some ice cream flavors 22 Corn purchases 25 "Horrible" Viking of the comics 26 Arcade console pioneer 27 1983 Woody Allen mockumentary 28 Isabella II, por ejemplo 29 "Let's do this!"

30 Cast ballots

31 Decathlon tenth 32 Moms' moms, affectionately 33 In a boring way 38 "Well, ain't that just something!"

39 Ice Age canid that shows up on "Game of Thrones" 41 PC key below Shift 42 Subway rider's payment 44 "I kid you not!"

47 Number of bears or pigs 48 Multiple award-winner Moreno 49 Dram or gram, e.g.

50 McKinnon of "The Magic School Bus" reboot 51 Love, personified 52 Bills picturing Hamilton 53 Megacelebrity 54 Delightful 55 Drained down to 0% 56 "Impressive!"

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REAL ESTATE

Uptown Flats #301. 814 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne @movemontana.com Uptown Flats #303. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com Uptown Flats #308. 612 sf one bedroom facing residential neighborhood. $159,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

DUPLEXES 1779-81 W Sussex. Centrally located duplex close to shopping and parks and schools! Great investment opportunity. One 2 bedroom, 1 bath, one 3 bedroom 1 bath. Live in one and rent the other or rent both! $192,500 KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com

LAND FOR SALE 13221 Old Freight. Approximately 11 acres near St. Ignatius with incredible Mission Mountain

views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2.1 acre waterfront lot in Alberton. $179,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com For Sale by Owner: 11.75 Acres at Calf Creek Trailhead, bordering State of MT property. Located on NE corner of Hamilton Heights Rd & Gray Fox Ln, in Corvallis.

New, unused, septic on site. Electric service installed. Includes 2 barns and other out buildings. For

5576 CIRCLE DR, FLORENCE $225,000 Charming, well-maintained 3 bed. 1.5 bath with large fenced backyard on 1 acre. Beautiful views of the Bitterroots & Sapphires. One level living with sunken dining room and office.

Mature trees, raspberry patch, covered back porch, lilacs in front and back. Double garage. Great neighborhood 20 minutes from Missoula. MLS #21707610

addt’l details contact: Bryan Mosley @ bmosley1385@ gmail.com or call 617-901-3850 for pricing.

100% Financing VA Loans.

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Kirk Johnson Senior Loan Officer 406-240-3585

2316 Craftsman Place Tastefully Appointed 3 Bed 2 Bath Double Garage 2014 Remodel MLS #21711125

$275,000

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2161 South 10th Street • $269,900

Call Matt Rosbarsky at 390-9023 for more information.

NHN Raymond. Beautiful .43 acre lot in quiet Rattlesnake neighborhood. $245,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group.

239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre

Large 4+ bed, 3 bath across from Franklin Park with Rattlesnake views. New furnace & water heater. Lots of shade trees. ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon

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OUT OF TOWN

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 1.6 acres. $700,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $390,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $378,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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Must have Montana ID and medical records. Please Call 406-249-1304 for a FREE consultation or alternativewellness.nwmt@gmail.com

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