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ABUSE ALLEGATIONS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT FUTURE OF MONTANA DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER

CHOOSES THEATER CHATLAIN THE WICKED PATH

THE DISTINCT GENIUS OF WIDOW WINS FILM NEWS BLACK DIRECTOR TERRY GILLIAM BIG IN TAEKWONDO

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NEWS

ABUSE ALLEGATIONS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT FUTURE OF MONTANA DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER

CHOOSES THEATER CHATLAIN THE WICKED PATH

THE DISTINCT GENIUS OF WIDOW WINS FILM NEWS BLACK DIRECTOR TERRY GILLIAM BIG IN TAEKWONDO

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cover by Kou Moua

News Voices/Letters Food, dark money and Election Day ....................................................4 The Week in Review Community’s sale, Facebook and a found body........................6 Briefs Bears, yurts and parking.....................................................................................6 Etc. What the heck is “rolling coal”?..............................................................................7 News Missoulian medals at international taekwondo tournaments.............................8 News Abuse allegations plague Montana Developmental Center ................................9 Opinion Keep an open mind about wildlife contraception .......................................10 Feature Does medical marijuana have the green light in Montana?.......................... 14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Salina Chatlain takes the wicked path .................................................................18 Music OverTime, Birds of Chicago and Ty Segall........................................................19 Books David Allan Cates talks Tom Connor’s Gift ......................................................20 Film Terry Gilliam’s fantastically real paradox ............................................................21 Film Where I Leave You leans on the black sheep ......................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Low-carb vs. low-fat.........................................................................24 Hangriest Hour Market on Front ...............................................................................26 8 Days a Week Feelin’ high on life .............................................................................27 Mountain High Ovando Gran Fondo.........................................................................33 Agenda Haz Waste Days ..............................................................................................34

Exclusives

Street Talk.....................................................................................................................4 In Other News ............................................................................................................12 Classifieds .................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess.................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle.....................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World ................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Sept. 16, near the corner of Higgins and Broadway.

Do you think Montana’s medical marijuana program is better or worse today than it was four years ago?

Follow-up: Washington and Colorado have legalized recreational marijuana use. Should Montana follow suit?

Sammy Rodriques: I did enjoy the medical scene back then, but it wasn’t really sanctioned. There were too many gray areas causing a free-for-all and people were abusing what should have been a good thing. Ultimately, it’s better now.

Practice makes perfect: It’s only a matter of time before we do. Economically, it’s obvious. But again, we have to do it right.

Devin Harbour: Worse. I thought it was assaulted and attacked by the feds. I think it’s a terrible system because you have to register with the state so you are on a list of people who are breaking the law. It’s legislated in a way to make it oppressive, and it’s designed to look good on paper but be impractical. Barely legal: Yes. The drug war should be abolished and drugs should be legalized.

Mel Ewing: I would say it’s better. I thought the original law was too loose and there were not enough restrictions where you could have marijuana dealt around elementary schools—to me that was a big eye opener. Can of worms: No. Again, I don’t think there are enough studies about what the negative effects are. We already have problems with drinking and driving and to add marijuana on top of that is only asking to compound the problem.

Justice Marxer: I think it’s better.

Things naturally progress and tend to get better. A lot of people are getting in less trouble with it. That may not be the medical aspect of it, but it could be part of it.

Stoned age: I think so. I don’t think it’s a dangerous drug. If you’ve met a stoned person they’re not all up in your grill. I think recreational use is fine.

Tim Fox: I knew a lot of people who were patients then and are patients now and it seems to be working all right for them. It seems people that could have been patients then and want to be now can’t . . . It’s harder to get a green card. Overall, it’s not as efficient.

Feeling green: I think we should. I think the revenue it would bring to the state could help fund education, transportation and the environment.

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Thank you for the Sept. 11 column from Jenny Mish, “Hungry for more.” She makes several good points, among them how local food aficionados can overestimate the percentage of their food budget they actually spend on local products.

I would like to emphasize her point that Missoula is rich with local food activism, but offer one small correction. Mish mentions that our region lacks a food hub, but we’ve actually had one since 2003, thanks to a group of regional farmers and big thinkers.

The USDA defines a food hub as “a centrally located facility with a business management structure facilitating the aggregation, storage, processing, distribution, and/or marketing of locally/regionally produced food products.”

The Western Montana Growers Co-op covers all these bases. This winter, the WMGC is moving to Missoula, thereby increasing its capacity to keep apace with the phenomenal growth in demand for its products.

The Growers Co-op is relocating to the Burns Street Center, a project of the NorthMissoula Community Development Corporation that also houses the Burns Street Bistro and the Missoula Community Food Co-op. Though the building itself is not a “food hub” by the definition above, it is, by design, a centralized location for these businesses. In addition to the Growers Co-op, the Bistro does an excellent job purchasing local produce and meats for their handcrafted menu items and the Food Co-op works hard to provide a large breadth of local food—at the same time it engages the “vast webs of relationships” Mish refers in order to make good choices of what to buy when local isn’t an option.

I would encourage anyone trying to increase the proportion of their grocery dollars going to local food to patronize these three businesses. Jenny Mish is right—it’s really hard. But there are those that are working to make it easier.

Lacy Roberts Missoula

Tax dark money “The power to tax is the power to destroy,” wrote U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 for the majority in McCulloch v. Maryland. One hundred ninetyfive years later that declaration is as important today as then. Particularly so with the current U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to prevent Congress from regulating political campaign spending. The court has established any attempt to regulate the flow of money is a violation of First Amendment free speech, and denied Congress the right to do so.

Taxation is another matter. The legisla-

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tive branch’s ability to tax is a power established by the people in the body of the constitution not an amendment to it, making it far more difficult to qualify legal objections for any taxation. Even when Congress cannot regulate the flow of political free speech money, Congress can tax that money any time it wants, and tax that money it should.

Want to end the flow of “dark money” as discussed in “Looking for light” (see Aug. 28), then tax it to destroy it.

Tax all monies flowing into politics at 1000 times the money spent. When all those who participate reveal themselves and or their donors, a tax credit equal to the money involved is granted by the IRS. Any organization and its donors, regardless of their tax

“Want to influence a campaign spending $10 million in anonymous mailers, get ready to write a check to the U.S. Treasury.” status, who do not comply don’t get the tax credit. Want to influence a campaign spending $10 million in anonymous mailers, get ready to write a check to the U.S. Treasury for $10 billion unless you publicly declare where every cent came from, and from whom. Trying to avoid the tax is evasion.

Congress has established no statue of limitations on felony criminal tax evasion.

The Montana State Legislature can get into the act by doing the above and specifically targeting out of state monies to be taxed at 1000 times. Not complying with the law will result in a felony warrant issued by the Montana Attorney General to pursue those charged, in any state they reside, to be extradited to Montana for tax evasion. If the cry of impeding interstate commerce is raised, so be it. Congress has the power to regulate that too. The judicial branch isn’t the boogey man in dealing with political spending, it’s the recipients of those monies in the executive and legislative branches on the federal and state levels who have yet to exercise their

constitutional powers to control it by taxing that money.

John Marshall Hot Springs

Vote for LR 126 There has been a lot of hyperbole in the press lately from people opposed to LR 126, the referendum that will appear on the ballot that moves the deadline for voter registration to 5 p.m. the Friday before Election Day. This change will merely ensure that all properly registered voters are able to cast a timely ballot on Election Day. Voting is a civic responsibility and we have a duty to ensure an orderly process that grants reasonable access to all voters. The current practice of allowing late registration has led to undue delays, voter confusion and election administration mishaps that disenfranchise voters.

In Missoula for at least part of the day, normally registered voters were forced to stand in line with same day voters leading to long delays in voting. Some people left without voting. The long lines and chaotic conditions that result in some polling places from same day registration have allowed some groups and candidates to hand out free food and drink to waiting voters, which comes very close to crossing the line prohibiting electioneering at the polls.

In Billings, voting by same day registrants continued past midnight—despite polls officially closing at 8 p.m. Because voters were still waiting in line, local election officials could not report election results to the public even though regular voters were done voting by 8:15 p.m. Tired election officials were forced to concentrate their efforts on the small percentage of potential voters who procrastinated until the last possible moment to register to vote instead of concentrating on the task of running a fair and transparent vote counting process. Security of the ballots came close to being compromised.

LR 126 is a moderate solution that makes a minor change in the registration process that is common sense. It simply asks the relatively small number of people who register to vote on Election Day (an average of 7500 of a total of nearly 500,000 voters in a presidential election) to show that the vote is important enough to them to make the effort to register by the previous Friday at 5 p.m. LR 126 is the best way to ensure every registered voter is able to exercise their civic rights, while also greatly improving the administration and integrity of our election process. Please vote yes.

Jeff Essmann President Montana Senate Billings

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, September 10 A 20-year-old homeless man reports to Missoula police that he was sexually assaulted in an alley on East Broadway. The victim describes his alleged assailant as being a white male between 40 and 60 years old.

Thursday, September 11 Missoula District Court Judge Ed McLean denies a second request to move Markus Kaarma’s trial for the murder of German exchange student Diren Dede out of Missoula. Defense attorneys argue media coverage of the shooting has biased the local jury pool.

Friday, September 12 The Montana Attorney General’s Office seeks public comment regarding the proposed sale of Missoula’s nonprofit Community Medical Center to the Billings Clinic and its for-profit partner, RegionalCare Hospitals of Brentwood, Tenn.

Saturday, September 13 Ravalli County officials locate the body of George Alex Baumann, 56, a Stevensville man who had been missing since he went on a woodcutting trip up Ambrose Creek in the Sapphire Mountains on Aug. 26.

Sunday, September 14 A day after he failed to return from a solo hike in Glacier National Park, authorities recover the body of 22-year-old Missoulian Beau Weiher. An initial investigation indicates Weiher died while attempting to BASE jump from Mount Siyeh.

Monday, September 15 A warrant is issued for the arrest of Joshua James Allen on 34 felony counts related to a barrage of threatening text and Facebook messages he sent Sept. 9 to a woman who had been granted an order of protection against him.

Tuesday, September 16 The Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office asks the public for information regarding a rash of vehicle thefts that occurred in Florence and Stevensville the day before. All five stolen vehicles were unlocked with the keys inside when they were taken.

Skye Folsom, head trainer at Title Boxing Club of Missoula, leg kicks Ryan Ware during Missoula Mayhem, held at Ogren Park on Sept. 12. Folsom scored a first-round knockout against Ware during the 12-bout mixed martial arts event.

Yurts

Gimme shelter Most days, the expansive industrial space that Shelter Designs occupies is alive with a small team of carpenters and craftsmen fabricating, packing and shipping the many components their customers need to build their own yurt. But on a recent Friday morning, the space is quiet and serene. Everyone except co-owner Hays Daniel is gone. They’re in Evaro, building something Daniel believes will be the first of its kind: a yurt that meets all residential building codes.

“It’s definitely a first for us,” Daniel says. “And as far as we can tell, no other company is doing something like this right now.”

For Daniel and his business partner, Vince Godby, residential yurts represent one way for their company to grow. After all, that’s why Shelter Designs is here in Missoula—to get bigger.

Daniel and Godby built their first yurt together in 1999, and they constructed more when they and some friends moved to the Yaak to live communally. Then, in 2008, they quit their jobs and started building yurts commercially, establishing Shelter Designs in rural Lincoln County. After five years of growth, Daniel says, “It got to the point, with the yurt business, of just kind of feeling

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like this thing had the potential to go somewhere, if we wanted it to go there. And part of that was kind of, maybe we should get out of the backwoods and get more involved in a more happening community like Missoula.”

Last August, they bought the former home of Western Sheet Metal, began cleaning the site and moved their business down from the Yaak. Since then, they’ve built more than 30 yurts and begun slowly transforming the complex of industrial spaces into a hub for sustainable and artisanal production. The first step in that process is the opening, this month, of True Food Missoula, a commercial kitchen and retail space located next door to Shelter Designs.

According to Jenny Mish, director of the Missoulabased Sustainable Business Council, consumer demand for sustainable practices helps bring companies like Shelter Designs to the Garden City.

“I think Missoula, certainly within Montana, has a culture that’s uniquely supportive of sustainable businesses and therefore attractive to those who are interested in starting businesses that have a sustainability component to their mission,” Mish says.

On Sept. 27, more than a year after they moved to Missoula, Shelter Designs will finally celebrate its official grand opening, along with True Food Missoula.

Ted McDermott

Parking

That’s my spot!

Hellgate High School sophomore Julia Martyak often bolts from school as soon as the lunch bell rings.

That way she has time to eat and return in time to find parking before her classmates come back.

“Sometimes I park in front of Rockin Rudy’s,” Martyak says, “because there are no spots.”

Martyak isn’t the only one venting about the University District parking crunch. Next week, Missoula City Council will attempt to address some of those complaints as it deliberates a request from 18 neighborhood residents to include the 300 block of Daly Street—located just two blocks from Hellgate—in the University of Montana residential on-street parking permit regulation program. The program makes weekday parking off-limits to non-University District residents.

“We feel their parking problems are urgent,” say University District council representatives Alex Taft and Emily Bentley in their proposal to include the stretch of Daly in the program.

Bentley says she initiated the referral after hearing from locals, some of them elderly, who complain that the district’s parking shortage too often forces them to leave their vehicles blocks from home.

[news] Council added two areas to the program last year: the southern half of the 1800 block of Mansfield Avenue and a portion of Maurice Avenue’s 1800 block. Missoula Parking Commission Director Anne Guest says this type of piecemeal approach is only moving the problem.

“The demand has put that area with Daly and Connell right in the crunch area,” Guest says.

If council approves the Daly proposal, Guest warns that parking will become even harder for Hellgate students and she wouldn’t be surprised if nearby Connell residents also request to be included in the program.

Guest recommends a more comprehensive study before additional changes are made.

“I’m not so much in favor of doing just one block at a time and then perhaps reacting to the consequence,” Guest says.

Bentley acknowledges the piecemeal approach won’t fix everyone’s concerns. What she’d like is to use the current debate to engage the community about how best to solve the district’s overall parking problems.

“We definitely need a broad public involvement process,” Bentley says, “because there’s a lot of competing interests.”

Council holds a public hearing on the Daly proposal Mon., Sept. 22.

Jessica Mayrer

one area to another, but lawmakers in Washington passed a measure in the mid-1990s prohibiting state wildlife officials from participating in augmentation efforts. Depending on the findings of an Environmental Impact Statement recently launched by the National Park Service, swaths like Bennett Meadows may prove the only way grizzlies in the North Cascades can grow beyond the estimated 20 animals there now.

“Let’s say the results of the [EIS] lead the agencies to decide no, they’re not going to pursue artificial population augmentation,” Wolfe says. “Then the only way the grizzly bears are going to get there is through natural movements, and [Bennett Meadows] is an opportunity to increase the habitat quality for grizzly bears west of the Selkirks and east of the North Cascades.”

Grizzlies

Nonprofit finds new ground A 2,400-acre tract of private land nestled in northeastern Washington’s Colville National Forest recently became the starting point for work in a new state for the Missoula-based Vital Ground Foundation.

Bennett Meadows, as the parcel is called, lies along the western fringe of the Selkirk Mountains Grizzly Bear Recovery Area, an ecosystem with an estimated bear population between 40 and 50. Vital Ground was a minor partner on the project, executive director Gary Wolfe says, awarding the Western Rivers Conservancy in Portland, Ore., a $25,000 grant to aid with the acquisition.

But the parcel could play an important role in grizzly recovery by allowing bears to travel more easily from the Selkirks to the more sparsely populated North Cascades.

“The area’s small streams, ponds and wetlands offer prime habitat for carnivores both large and small, making the property essential to these animals and their movement throughout the region,” Western Rivers wrote of the project in its spring newsletter.

Bennett Meadows falls solidly in the linkage zone category, areas that facilitate grizzly movement and expansion beyond their core recovery areas. Alternatives to natural expansion include relocation of bears from

The North Cascades factor into another new undertaking for Vital Ground. The nonprofit recently expanded its objectives to include support for education and outreach efforts in communities near grizzly habitat. It awarded a $5,000 grant this year backing “bear aware” initiatives in the Swan Valley, and is now reviewing a funding request from a Seattle group for community outreach in the North Cascades.

“We feel like this is a relatively inexpensive way to leverage the value of our habitat acquisition for the benefit of wildlife,” Wolfe says.

Alex Sakariassen

UM

Rally for reinvestment The hallway outside University of Montana President Royce Engstrom’s office shook with the thunderous chant of dozens of students Tuesday afternoon. “Reinvest, reinvest, reinvest!” they shouted, several waving signs with the same word emblazoned beneath a stenciled portrait of Engstrom himself. A woman crept up the

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stairs from Main Hall’s basement, stared at the crowd for a moment and retreated, covering her ears.

The march on Main Hall was the climax of an hourlong rally organized by members and allies of Reinvest Montana, a student-led movement launched earlier this year to pressure UM and the University of Montana Foundation to rid the institution’s investment portfolio of any ties to the fossil fuel industry. The Associated Students of the University of Montana this spring passed a resolution supporting fossil fuel divestment. But while the administration and the foundation have been open to a “true dialogue,” says Reinvest Montana spokesman Simon Dykstra, Engstrom has made it clear he does not support divestment at this time.

“There’s been respectful disagreement,” Dykstra says, “but it’s been very constructive.”

Tuesday’s rally featured several guest speakers including UM alumna and Women’s Voices for the Earth founder Bryony Schwan, economics professor and state Sen. Dick Barrett and Nobel Laureate Steve Running. Each touted the importance of the university redirecting its investments to the renewable energy sector. Schwan decried fossil fuels as “an antiquated, dirty system that we know is irrevocably changing the face of this planet and our very life-support system.”

Attendees were encouraged to tweet their divestment demands at UM with the hashtag “fossilfree.”

More than a dozen U.S. universities and colleges have committed to divestment over the past few years, including Stanford University and University of Dayton.

Scores of cities, churches and institutions worldwide have likewise latched onto the movement. In the past, similar movements have successfully pushed for divestment related to tobacco advertising and apartheid in South Africa.

Yet fossil fuel divestment has hit snags on other campuses in the nation. An 11-member panel at the University of California in Berkeley earlier this month rejected calls to divest fossil fuel holdings from its investment portfolio. Yale University President Peter Salovey announced a similar rejection of divestment demands at the onset of the fall semester.

“Every school has a different political atmosphere that they have to push up against,” Dykstra says. “University of Chicago? Absolutely stonewalled.”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. One of the newest weapons in the culture war between Birkenstock-wearing environmentalists and the anti-regulation, pro-freedom contingent is the exhaust pipe of a diesel truck.

From there, if you’ve properly disabled your vehicle’s pollution controls and correctly modified your engine, you can emit a thick, black cloud of exhaust and soot on command, in order to blind and harm your hybrid-driving, bicycle-riding, organic-vegetable-buying enemy. This form of assault is called “rolling coal,” and it’s all the rage. Stephen Colbert has made fun of it. Slate has dissected it. Vice has defended it.

Apparently, the practice is an act of rebellion against federal environmental regulations and those who seemingly support them.

If you want to see coal rolling for yourself, do a YouTube search for “Prius repellent”—or just stand around near the Clark Fork Market.

Cy Gilbert first witnessed it downtown, near the farmers market and after the Missoula marathon, and then he got a closer look, while riding his bike home from work.

“It happened twice,” Gilbert says, “with the same truck, in like a 10-block radius, and black enough that it wasn’t just somebody pulling away from a stop sign.”

He says the exhaust left a residue on his skin and a bad taste in his mouth.

“It wasn’t like, Oh, I’m so indignant that this could happen to me, and I’m a super self-righteous biker,” Gilbert says. “It was just, like, this is disgusting. And I’m sick of watching it happen to other people.”

So Gilbert decided he’d try to do something about it—or at least find out if something could be done. After calling both the Missoula Police Department’s non-emergency line and the director of the Missoula CityCounty Health Department’s Environmental Health Division and getting nowhere, Gilbert’s concern reached the inboxes of Missoula City Council members, where he was again discouraged from pursuing the matter. He’s not sure that anything can be done.

“It’s stupid, really,” he says. “And I guess you can’t make rules banning stupidity.”

Gilbert says the problem is how broadly— and wrongly—everyone is typecast. Bicyclists are environmentalists and truck drivers are callous polluters. Vehicles act not just as weapons but also as uniforms in this theater of the culture war. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to tell who the enemy is. Gilbert, for example, drives a truck when he’s not riding his bike.

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The Black Widow Missoulian medals at international taekwondo tournaments

by Ted McDermott

On Sept. 10, Amanda Rosbarsky flew a mistake,” Rosbarsky says. “And they take husband has been competing in since from Missoula to Seattle to Los Angeles to points away as you make mistakes. It’s hard childhood.

“We met when I was 19, and I very acAguascalientes, a small city in central Mexico, not to concentrate on that part of it, but if to compete in a pair of top-level international you do, it definitely lowers your perform- tively stayed away from taekwondo,” she says. taekwondo tournaments. She returned four ance, so you have to kind of be beyond that.” “It was his thing. I let it be his thing. I was a In addition to the inherent difficulty of dancer at the time, and that was my thing.” days later with two medals in hand: a gold When she did finally decide to give it a from the Mexican Open and a bronze from maintaining her composure under that kind the Pan American Championships. When of pressure, Rosbarsky faced additional try and signed up for a beginner’s class more Rosbarsky triumphantly entered the arrivals challenges during her first international com- than 10 years ago, her dance background was area of the Missoula International Airport, petitions. During the Pan American Champi- an impediment.

“In the beginning, for years, I used to some 25 students from the Missoula Taek- onships on Sept. 12, her competition time wondo Center, which she co-owns with her kept getting delayed. During the Mexican hear in taekwondo, ‘Oh, your kicks are so husband, were waiting to greet and congrat- Open, the next day, her time was moved sud- pretty, like a dancer.’ And inside I’d go, ‘I’m ulate her, along with her family. It was then that the true extent of what she’d accomplished abroad began to sink in.

“The more time I have to process it, the cooler I feel like it is for everybody around me,” Rosbarsky says.

“Mostly because it’s such a significant accomplishment, but it isn’t my sole focus in life.”

Rosbarsky’s focus is divided between running her business, teaching martial arts classes, raising two children and intensely training in the taekwondo discipline known as poomsae or, in translation from the original Korean, as “forms.” Unlike the more popular form of sparring taekwondo, poomsae does not involve combat. Instead, competitors perform “a set pattern of self-defense against imaginary attackers,” Rosbarsky says. Doing so well—with both exactitude and fluidphoto by Cathrine L. Walters ity—requires a combination of intense physical precision and elaborate imagAmanda Rosbarsky recently brought home gold and bronze medals from a pair of inative power. top-level international taekwondo tournaments, where she competed in poomsae, “It is far less aesthetically pleasing a non-combative discipline she describes as “a set pattern of self-defense against to watch somebody do move after imaginary attackers.” move than to watch somebody who is trying to make them look like a martial artist. projecting what they have going on in their denly up, with only seconds of warning.

“So, I went from one day of warming up Stop saying I look like a dancer.’” mind,” Rosbarsky says. “And it’s something When she discovered and began studythat actually speaks very well to the bulk of all day, for too long, to the next day going our students. The biggest bulk of our stu- first thing, with my body being cold,” she ing poomsae in 2011, her background in dents are young boys, and they really appre- says. “So it was a challenge, to say the least.” dance proved useful, helping her excel at the She says she was able to adapt because choreographic and performative aspects of ciate when I say, ‘You have to imagine that you’re Jackie Chan and you are fighting a bad she is used to training on the fly, whenever the practice. Over the past three years, she guy on this side and there’s a bad guy on this she can carve out small blocks of time from has risen rapidly through the U.S. ranks of side.’ They appreciate that very much. And I her busy schedule. Often, those blocks are poomsae. Earlier this year, she narrowly myself have a superhero that I channel. I only 30 minutes long. Recently, however, missed out on the top international compeguess she’s a superhero. One of my mental Rosbarsky’s regimen became somewhat tition, the World Taekwondo Poomsae Chammore established, as she now travels every pionships, after coming in third in qualifiers. techniques is to feel like the Black Widow.”

While channeling the powerful per- two weeks to train in California with Only the winner advanced. Over the next sona of a Marvel Comics spy, Rosbarsky Dowongyuleui, an elite taekwondo team she year, she’s aiming to build off her medal wins also had to maintain her poise and balance made in May. With access to regular, interna- in Aguascalientes and make the 2015 world before the scrutiny of a panel of five inter- tional-caliber competition and instruction, championships.

“Now I just feel like it’s time to get to national referees during each competition Rosbarsky, 37, says she has “finally started to work,” she says, “make use of everything I’ve put all of the pieces together.” in Aguascalientes.

Rosbarsky’s rise to becoming a top in- gained.”

“It’s a little bit of an intimidating situation, where you have five individuals watch- ternational has been slow. Initially, she was tmcdermott@missoulanews.com ing you and they’re watching for you to make reluctant even to try taekwondo, which her

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Problems persist Abuse allegations plague Montana Developmental Center

by Jessica Mayrer

Montana Department of Justice findings released this month detail widespread client abuse at the Montana Developmental Center, a state facility in Boulder charged with caring for cognitively impaired adults. The latest findings have disability rights advocates and state legislators considering more drastic changes at a center mired in scandal in recent years.

“If we have that level of abuse going on in a facility, there’s a problem,” says Bernadette Franks-Ongoy, executive director of Disability Rights Montana, which is empowered by law to investigate and remedy instances of abuse and neglect of developmentally disabled people. “There’s a very, very serious problem that residents in that facility are not safe.”

MDC houses and treats roughly 50 people with intellectual disabilities, commonly individuals with IQ scores below 70. Most MDC residents were committed to the facility after a civil court proceeding found them to be a threat to themselves or the community. A smaller number of residents were sentenced there as a result of criminal convictions.

The Montana Legislature considered closing the facility in 2013 after concerns about MDC client safety. Most notably, a law enforcement investigation made public in 2012 detailed the 2010 sexual assault of a resident by an MDC staffer and the center’s attempts to keep the assault from being made public.

MDC responded to the criticism by committing to make changes. Specifically, officials promised to improve training and redouble efforts to prepare MDC residents for independent living, as well as hire a new superintendent. The legislature then authorized the Montana Department of Justice to investigate future abuse allegations. Lawmakers also authorized Disability Rights Montana to receive any of the DOJ’s findings.

Under the new oversight, the DOJ says it began investigating 32 abuse claims made since January.

“Of the 32 reports DOJ has investigated, there have been 12 substantiated (10 substantiations of staff abuse and 2 substantiations of client-to-client abuse),” writes department spokesman John Barnes in an email to the Independent. “One investigation resulted in a finding of inconclusive.”

After learning of the claims from DOJ, Franks-Ongoy finds three cases especially troubling. The first involves a staffer who slapped a client in the face. In another instance, Franks-Ongoy says, two MDC employees pulled a client by the ankles down a hallway. The third alleges an MDC employee grabbed a client by the back of the neck and pushed them down to the floor.

“That’s the flavor of what we’re talking about,” Franks-Ongoy says.

Disability Rights Montana has asked MDC how it is penalizing staffers who used physical force and, Franks-Ongoy says, has yet to receive a response.

“Any staffer that’s ever physically abused a client should not be in client contact,” she says.

As of press time, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, which oversees MDC, had not responded to questions from the Independent about what sanctions the employees face.

As for whether criminal charges will be filed, the DOJ submitted its reports to Jeffer-

other infringement of client rights,” the lawsuit alleged.

Another former MDC staffer, Bruce Tweedy, testified during Pritchard-Sleath’s trial that MDC administrators told him that communications with Disability Rights Montana simply wouldn’t be tolerated. “Shortly before I was terminated,” Tweedy said in an affidavit submitted to the federal court, “(former MDC Superintendent Kathy) Zeeck told me that anyone who wrote to DRM was not going to stay at MDC.” Zeeck now works for DPHHS as a training information systems coordinator after being replaced by the center’s new superintendent, Gene Haire.

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Advocates for years have alleged the Montana Developmental Center in Boulder, which houses roughly 50 disabled clients, isn’t safe. New documents show 32 abuse claims since January.

son County law enforcement, who, because MDC falls under their jurisdiction, will decide whether to prosecute the staffers.

Jefferson County Sheriff Craig Doolittle says he, the county attorney and the Boulder Police Department are now reviewing the DOJ investigations prior to deciding whether to file charges. “We just got several of the reports,” Doolittle says.

The DOJ findings mark the second blow to the center within the past few weeks. On Aug. 29, a federal jury awarded former MDC staffer Elizabeth Pritchard-Sleath $244,239 after finding that she was wrongfully terminated.

Pritchard-Sleath alleged in court filings that she was fired in 2011 from her job as a psychology specialist in retaliation for communicating her concerns about civil rights violations at MDC to Disability Rights Montana. “(MDC and DPHHS) actively discouraged MDC employees from furnishing information to DRM concerning client abuse or

In light of the DOJ report and the jury verdict in the Pritchard-Sleath case, Sen. Mary Caferro, D-Helena, who introduced the 2013 bill proposing to shutter the center, is concerned that MDC is failing to live up to commitments it made to lawmakers.

“The question is, ‘Are things different now?’” Caferro asks. “What happened to all of the promises they made us?”

Though Caferro says she hasn’t yet itemized her legislative strategy for the 2015 legislative session, which convenes in January, she says the recent developments could impact the center’s future funding. MDC critics noted during the last session that the center costs roughly $15 million annually, and argued that funding would be better spent housing clients closer to home in their own communities.

“There are a number of legislators that have been looking at community services as a viable alternative,” Caferro says.

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Shooting blanks Keep an open mind about wildlife contraception

by Allen Rutberg

When my 12-year-old son encounters any phenomenon that doesn’t yet fit into his worldview, he’ll sometimes ask, “Dad, is that a ‘thing,’” meaning, is it something worth caring about?

This isn’t just my son’s problem, of course; at times we all face bewildering novelty. And if it’s a thing like a new technology that makes us confront our deeply rooted feelings about nature, we might find ourselves turning away from it.

I wonder if that’s why the idea of wildlife contraception has not—except as a curiosity—entered the public conversation.

Wildlife contraception isn’t new. Wildlife biologists were injecting deer with steroids to control fertility in the 1960s, but the steroids passed easily into the food chain and caused all sorts of side effects in wildlife. Now we use immunocontraceptives, protein-based vaccines that are reversible and cannot enter the food chain. They cause no harmful side effects in treated animals.

Several immunocontraceptive vaccines have been tested and proven effective in the field. Among the best-tested is PZP, which is produced by my colleagues at the Science and Conservation Center in Billings. Antibodies produced in response to PZP prevent pregnancy by blocking sperm from attaching to eggs. It is delivered to mares, does or other female animals by hand-injection or by darting, and a single treatment lasts one to three years. Boosters last even longer.

But here’s the puzzle: Why aren’t these vaccines used more? Fertility control entered the domain of wildlife management 20 years ago, when the National Park Service began employing PZP as its principal tool for managing the historic population of wild horses at Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland.

The Park Service has managed horses at Assateague with PZP ever since. Horse population targets have been met, revised downward, and met again. For 20 years!

If Assateague stood alone, it could be ignored. But it has lots of company. The use of PZP for population control has spread down the East Coast to three other wild

horse herds. It works in the West, helping to manage wild horses in seven Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service herd-management areas, seven wild horse sanctuaries and five Native American reservations.

Nor is fertility control limited to wild horses. Populations of suburban white-tailed deer on the East Coast have been stabilized or substantially reduced in three communities with the help of PZP. Reproduction in the bison herd on Santa Catalina Island,

“For many people, especially those in the conservation community, ‘wildlife contraception’ links two terms that bear non-overlapping sets of associations.”

Calif., was stopped cold—in two years—with PZP, ending the expensive process of controlling populations by shipping bison off the island.

Yet that is a small drop in the giant bucket of human-wildlife conflicts. The BLM, for example, treats an average of 500 mares a year in a free-roaming population that is now approaching 50,000. The BLM’s excuse boils down to, “It’s too hard.” (By comparison, should we consider it “easy” to spend $45,000 apiece to provide lifetime care for the 50,000 captive “excess” horses that the BLM now holds?)

So why hasn’t wildlife contraception become a “thing”? For some people, it has.

Those in the animal shelter and rescue community, for example, eagerly embrace wildlife contraception as but a short hop from the spaying and neutering of cats and dogs. Wildlife contraception is also a thing for those paid to control so-called nuisance wildlife, mostly in response to consumer demand for non-lethal solutions.

For many people, though, especially those in the conservation community, “wildlife contraception” links two terms that bear non-overlapping sets of associations.

Depending on your philosophy, wildlife runs free, protected and separate from the human community; or it is a natural resource to be conserved and sustainably used for human benefit. In contrast, contraception evokes technology, urbanism and modernism, distinct from and often destructive of wildlife and nature.

But wildlife contraception is a practical solution to the problems that often arise where people and wildlife intersect at messy physical and category boundaries.

Among the creatures that cross boundaries are bison, which regularly breach government-drawn lines while bearing a split cultural identity as both wildlife and livestock; wild horses, which, depending on your perspective, may be wildlife or livestock or nuisances or pets; and deer, whose cultural identity becomes clouded when they leave the hills of Colorado’s Front Range or western Pennsylvania and proliferate in Philadelphia parks, on the outskirts of Chicago, or in the city limits of Boulder or Helena.

Those messy boundaries are spreading.

So here’s my advice: Open a mental file, label it “wildlife contraception,” and start learning about it. You’ll soon discover just why it’s a very good idea.

Allen Rutberg is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in North Grafton, Mass.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Shantoria Valentine, 23, robbed a bank in Omaha, Neb., but while fleeing, she collapsed after only a few blocks, according to police. One witness noticed the suspect would “shuffle a little bit, run a little bit, walk a little bit, shuffle a little bit.” After she ran up a hill, “she was pretty well winded then,” another witness said. “She just laid down and put her hands out.” (Omaha’s WOWT-TV) Police charged Diondre Jones, 26, with Medicaid fraud after she identified herself as her dead sister when checking into a hospital in Slidell, La., while wearing a T-shirt that featured a memorial to her sister. (New Orleans’s WWL-TV)

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT - After Kelly John Lange, 34, was convicted of assault in Sioux Falls, S.D., a judge ordered him to attend anger management classes. He didn’t complete the course and was ordered to appear in court to explain why. While in a conference room with his public defender, Lange became angry and attacked her, causing minor injuries. He was arrested for assault. (The Smoking Gun) BOTTOM LINE - Japan kicked off Disaster Prevention Day by urging people to stockpile toilet paper. The promotion by the trade ministry and the Japan Household Paper Industry Association is part of the ministry’s “toilet paper supply continuity plan,” which was devised after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, but it’s also aimed at boosting toilet paper sales, which have flattened since shoppers hoarded consumer goods ahead of this year’s nationwide consumption tax increase. About 40 percent of the country’s toilet paper comes from earthquake-prone Shizuoka Prefecture, according to ministry officials, who urged households to have at least a month’s reserve supply. (Bloomberg News) Kimberly-Clark Corp. unveiled toilet paper rolls without the cardboard tube. The Wisconsin company said its Scott Naturals brand bathroom tissue will eliminate a large chunk of the 17 billion tubes thrown away each year and works with any toilet-paper dispenser. “And when you get to that last sheet, it just rolls off,” said Jared Mackrory, brand manager for Scott. (Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel)

FAMILY VALUES - Fifty-four percent of Christian men and 15 percent of Christian women admitted to viewing pornography at least once a month, according to a Barna Group survey. The definition of pornography was left up to the respondents. (The Washington Times)

IT AIN’T ROCKET SURGERY - Thirteen people were injured during a demonstration of the science of tornadoes at the Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum in Reno, Nev. A mixture of methyl alcohol and boric acid is used to create a whirling tornado effect for the daily exhibition, but this time there was a chemical flash, “similar to if someone threw gasoline on a fire,” city official Matthew Brown said. Amateur video shows flames falling off an experiment table onto the floor near a group of children watching the demonstration. (Associated Press) Human-caused earthquakes, a side effect of high-tech energy drilling, cause less shaking than natural ones and feel about 16 times weaker, according to a study by U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Susan Hough.

“It’s not that there’s no hazard,” Hough said of the artificial quakes induced by injections of wastewater deep underground during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, “it’s just that it’s a little better than you might think.” Hough theorized that the artificial quakes have less energy because the injected wastewater lubricates the fault. (Associated Press) Federal wildlife investigators are urging California officials to halt an application to build a state-of-the-art solar plant after concluding that a similar but smaller existing plant in the Mojave Desert is causing birds to ignite in mid-air at the rate of one every two minutes. The smaller plant, operated by Oakland-based BrightSource Energy, uses 300,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door, to reflect solar rays onto three, 40-story boiler towers, whose heated water produces steam to turn turbines to generate enough electricity for 140,000 homes. BrightSource has applied to build its new mirror field and a 75-story power tower near the CaliforniaArizona border and, according to senior vice president Joseph Desmond, is investigating ways to scare birds away to curb the incinerations. (Associated Press)

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - A 13-year-old boy who told police in Muskegon, Mich., that he was shot in the foot as a “random act of violence” later admitted he shot himself while checking to see whether the weapon was loaded. (The Muskegon Chronicle) Byron Bennett, an assistant professor of chemistry at Idaho State University, was lecturing to a classroom of about 20 students when a small caliber pistol he was carrying in his pocket discharged, shooting him in the foot. (Pocatello’s Idaho State Journal)

FIRST-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - After a video of a rant against President Obama by Richard Recine, a police officer at the Helmetta, N.J., Municipal Building, was made public, the borough council sought a ban on people taking photographs and videos inside public buildings without a permit. The proposed ordinance states that taking pictures could violate privacy rights of employees, cause a breach of government security or interfere with normal business operations. Steve Wronko, who made the video, said Recine ordered him to stop recording at the Municipal Building, but when Wronko insisted he has a constitutional right to take pictures inside the building, Recine declared, “Obama has decimated the friggin’ Constitution, so I don’t give a damn.

If he doesn’t follow the Constitution, I don’t have to.” (MyCentralJersey.com)

BAD BLESSINGS - Tennessee high school senior Kendra Turner, 17, was suspended for saying “bless you” after another student sneezed during a class. The phrase was listed on the chalkboard, along with several others that students aren’t supposed to say in class: “my bad, hang out, dumb, stupid, stuff and things like that,” Turner said, adding that she “was being courteous” when she uttered the banned phrase. Lynn Garner, assistant principal at Dyer County High School, said the teacher’s rule was “reasonable to avoid a distraction in the classroom” and blamed social media for blowing the incident out of proportion. (Dyersburg State Gazette) Leon Gardner, a physics professor at the College of Coastal Georgia, included a ban on the phrase “bless you” in his course syllabus as part of a list of disruptive behaviors, such as using a cellphone or arriving late for class. The syllabus threatened violators with a lower grade. After the syllabus went viral on social media, the college announced that the syllabus has been revised to remove the reference to “bless you.” (Inside Higher Ed)

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rian Chaszar stands in an antiseptically clean room full of flowering marijuana plants, each one soaking up high-sodium light beamed from industrial fixtures hanging above.

The plants are two to three weeks from completing their eight-month grow cycle.

When done, Chaszar will harvest their huge, sticky buds, then weigh and trim them before they’re delivered, sold and consumed by his patients.

“At least 95 percent of the people that I tell this is what I do, they say, ‘Oh, really?

That’s legal? You can do that?’” Chaszar says.

“I learned nobody knows that this is actually fully legal and there’s an ongoing program, except for the people that are in it.”

Chaszar is right that there is, in fact, an ongoing medical marijuana program in Montana and many people don’t seem to know about it. He says he does his best to follow the program’s rules and regulations. He doesn’t possess more than four mature plants or more than 12 seedlings per patient. He doesn’t keep more than one ounce of useable product per patient.

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program has been steadily increasing over the past year. Enrollment has climbed, with more than 60 new providers and nearly 2,000 new patients added to the registry since last June. Storefront dispensaries, including at least three in Missoula, have also started to open up again.

Those businesses that have recently emerged, like Chaszar’s, point to the success of recreational marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington and to a 2013 U.S. Department of Justice memo that seemed to indicate the federal government has deprioritized prosecution of marijuana offenses. In general, they note a nationwide trend toward liberalization of marijuana laws to help justify their self-assurance that everything will be fine.

For all of that renewed hope, some observers wonder if we haven’t merely hit a reset button and cycled back to the same position as five years ago, when optimists and opportunists first built Montana’s medical marijuana industry. Many of them learned the hard way that their success was fleeting and their legal security nonexistent.

He maintains careful records of all his sales. He provides the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services with information about where he grows, and he contacts law enforcement for clarification when he’s unsure about how exactly to follow the state program’s regulations.

But no matter how closely he complies with the state program, Chaszar’s participation in it isn’t “fully legal.” It can’t be. Chaszar’s business is a clear violation of federal law. At any point, he could be raided and arrested and charged with a long list of felonies. It’s a strange and scary position—working with medical marijuana in a state that says he can, in a country that says he can’t—but Chaszar says he’s not deterred.

“It’s a level of risk I’m willing to live with,” he says. “It doesn’t always feel good, but I live with it.”

Chaszar’s not the only one willing to live with the risk. As of this August, he was one of 355 providers and one of 8,956 patients enrolled in Montana’s medical marijuana program. Those numbers are less than a third of what they were in 2011, when the industry was at its peak before a wave of federal crackdowns and criminal prosecutions demonstrated the true danger of running this type of business. But even so, patient, provider and doctor participation in the state

Chaszar remains resolute. He believes this time it’s different, and he’s a part of something new.

“Just watching the rest of the country move forward and hearing the feds change, that made me believe I was in a somewhat safer position, as long as I followed the law to a T,” he says. “And also, the best place in any business is to get in in the beginning, when it’s just growing, and I sensed this coming to Missoula, which we now see. And I wanted to be there in the beginning, to start shaping it in the way that I thought was best for the industry ...”

hatever he’s doing—making coffee, explaining the hypocrisy inherent in U.S. drug law, describing the advantage of using glycerin over grain alcohol to make marijuana tincture—Chaszar does it with a kind of casual deliberation. He comes across as being unhurried but decisive, methodical but imaginative. He is as knowledgeable about the status quo as he is interested in innovation.

If he sounds more like a graduate student than some stoner, it’s not by accident. Chaszar holds a master’s degree in plant physiology. He has also spent time traveling the world, first with the Air Force and later while working with nongovern-

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mental organizations to combat HIV and AIDS in Africa. Most recently, he managed part of a climate change research project, a job that required constant travel within the U.S., while also running Deep Roots Medicinals, his marijuana growing and delivery business.

Chaszar brings a combination of his military precision and educational background to growing medical marijuana. He painstakingly designed and maintains every aspect of his grow operation in order to maximize the medicinal quality and the output of his products. In the room where the plants flower, he built a system of fans and ducts to push air, which the plants deplete of carbon, out of the room. He installed a filter to remove the odor of the air moving outside, and a muffler to dampen the sound of the fans. He set the lights to go on and off in 12-hour cycles in order to reproduce the climatic conditions of the equatorial areas where marijuana is a native plant. He makes soil

According to a mounting body of evidence, marijuana has a number of important medicinal qualities. The Drug Enforcement Agency, however, continues to list marijuana as a schedule I drug, defined as “drugs, substances, or chemicals … with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.”

In 2004, 62 percent of Montana voters passed an initiative that split the difference between these starkly opposed stances. Initiative 164 allowed for “the limited use of marijuana, under medical supervision, by patients with debilitating medical conditions to alleviate the symptoms of their conditions.” It acknowledged the DEA’s opinion that marijuana has a “potential for abuse” as well as scientific claims for the plant’s power to provide relief to those suffering from “debilitating” conditions.

medical marijuana and no grower would have had any financial incentive to provide the drug. In response, medical marijuana activists tried to prevent the law from taking effect the only way they could: by filing a lawsuit. The strategy worked—sort of.

The case went to Helena District Court Judge James Reynolds, who granted a temporary restraining order that prevented those provisions of SB 423 that effectively cut off patient access to medical marijuana. He enjoined—that is, prohibited by issuing an injunction—SB 423’s ban on payments to providers, its threepatient maximum for providers, its allowance for warrantless searches of grow operations, its prohibition on provider advertising and its mandatory audit of doctors who recommended marijuana to more than 25 patients. Though Reynolds’ ruling was appealed and struck down, he reinstated the same restraining order last year. It will remain in place until litigation

payment. For more than a year, he’s been trying to lease a storefront to house a dispensary for Deep Roots. He thinks it will bring more legitimacy and visibility to his operation, and increase his patient count, which is currently stalled at around 25.

“I want [my business] to be real,” he says, “so I want to have a clean, professional space that people can walk into and I can say, ‘Yes, here’s my medicine and, yes, I’m selling it to you and, yes, this is a legal transaction.’”

He says he has approached dozens of landlords, provided them with business plans and made his case. Each time, he’s been turned away. Property owners, Chaszar says, are afraid to rent to him. He says they’re wary of decreasing property values due to the negative perception surrounding dispensaries; of the feds raiding and confiscating property, as they did in 2011; and of being left without a tenant if the state law suddenly changes again. According to Chaszar, his difficulty finding a lease is symptomatic of how the “big gray

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Chris Lindsey helped start Montana Cannabis, a Helena-based medical marijuana business that federal agents raided and shutdown in 2011. Lindsey warns that current medical marijuana providers are as vulnerable now as he was then.

for the plants, and he mixes compost teas to fertilize his soil. And he grows his plants in ways that allow him to carefully navigate the state’s often inconsistent or illogical regulations.

For example, state law limits how many plants providers can grow per patient to four, no matter how much consumable marijuana each plant produces.

That means growers have an incentive to grow a small number of large plants, instead of a large number of small plants.

This is the opposite of how marijuana has historically been cultivated, free of government oversight. The result, according to Chaszar, has been a “rethinking and restrategizing [of] the whole grow process.”

“So a whole new science started about, Okay, how can we get the most yield off one plant?” he says. “Which is interesting, how law influences science.”

The clash between law and science over what marijuana can and should do is central to Chaszar’s dilemma as a grower.

Though it started off small, Montana’s limited medical marijuana program had notoriously become something else by 2011. Marijuana providers proliferated, storefront dispensaries opened throughout the state and advertising promoting their easily accessible products sprouted up in newspapers and on billboards. As the program became increasingly prominent and enrollment numbers surged, critics argued that marijuana had become available to people with less than “debilitating medical conditions.” Before lawmakers could agree on how to reform the law, federal law enforcement agents raided a number of prominent medical marijuana businesses across the state.

Soon after the crackdown, the state legislature passed a strict medical marijuana reform bill, Senate Bill 423. Though it wasn’t an outright ban on medical marijuana, SB 423 placed such tight restrictions on the program that no doctor would have been willing to recommend

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Brian Chaszar owns Deep Roots Medicinals, a marijuana growing and delivery business that’s part of a resurgence in the state’s medical marijuana program over the past year. Chaszar says he’s aware of the risk he’s taking but is “willing to live with it.”

over SB 423 concludes, perhaps as soon as next spring.

In the meantime, however, the injunction has provided the tenuous legal space in which Brian Chaszar and others are still able to operate. At least for now. “[T]he state could change their minds tomorrow,” Chaszar says. “Judge Reynolds, a single person, could say, ‘You know what, I don’t like this. It’s done.’ And then my whole business is done.”

espite the uncertainty, Chaszar quit his research position just this month in order to focus more heavily on Deep Roots. He plans to open a café called Nectar, where he hopes one day to dispense marijuana, if his landlord will ever allow it, along with coffee, tea and chocolate.

In the meantime, Chaszar sells marijuana the old-fashioned way, by meeting people in parking lots, in homes—wherever he can—to exchange his product for

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marijuana. He was the co-owner of a shop, Medical Edibles, that was operating when the raids occurred on March 14, 2011.

“It was very scary,” Eggers says. “Very scary.”

Though he avoided prosecution, his business was doomed after the raids. Patients fled the state program and the passage of SB 423 dramatically limited his ability to operate as a provider. Eggers had to “cut down a bunch of plants” and “get rid of a whole bunch of medicine,” but he decided to start over and stick with it.

This time, he initially went into it alone, without a storefront. Over time, he gradually built up his patient count, started a new crop of marijuana and personally made deliveries five days a week.

All the while, he says he was waiting for something to change, for the medical marijuana program to emerge from its hazy legal status and become somehow more stable, predictable and permanent. Earlier this year, after “waiting three years for

area and big unknown in the law makes it really challenging to do business here.”

One of the locations Chaszar approached is now home to a different dispensary. Rich Eggers opened Montana Preferred Provider on July 1 in a strip mall near the Orange Street exit from Interstate 90. The business doesn’t advertise it’s a place to purchase marijuana. There’s no pot leaf on the sign, no mention of cannabis in the name.

“We’re trying to take a more legitimate, professional route,” Eggers says, sitting at a desk with nothing on it, in an office that’s barely furnished. “We have a lot of patients that come in because we’re discreet and we’re not right in your face about it.

We’re legitimately here to take care of patients.”

Eggers knows the importance of emphasizing the legitimacy of medical

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something to happen in a legislative session or a new bill to come forth,” Eggers “decided it was time to take the risk and give it a shot.”

Like Chaszar, Eggers says it was difficult to find a space for Montana Preferred Provider. He says it took between 25 and 30 inquiries before he was able to find a property owner willing to lease to a marijuana business. When he did, he had to wait for the landlord to check the law and okay the idea with the strip mall’s other tenants. Though it took time and effort, Eggers says it was well worth the wait.

“We do get a lot of business from patients who thought the law was done, who were patients before [SB] 423 and had no idea that it was even still happening come in and be like, ‘You’re allowed to do this?

I thought this was illegal,’” he says. “I’m like, ‘It’s still legal,’ and they get their card again and sign back up.”

Montana Preferred Provider currently serves 63 patients. While Eggers says what happened in 2011 is “always in the back of my mind,” he sees the growth of his patient count as a sign of public confidence returning to the program. And he thinks his ongoing participation can help make it better.

If he and other providers can demonstrate their ability to work discreetly and faithfully within the confines of the state law, Eggers believes lawmakers could be convinced to stabilize the state program and loosen some of the tight restrictions of SB 423.

“I think if we have that professional manner and we show them that we’re professional, that it will help,” Eggers says. “Absolutely.”

Chaszar agrees. He argues that you can’t separate the medical, economic, regulatory and medicinal aspects of marijuana.

“Regulation is good but overregulation reduces access,” Chaszar says. “It’s a game of numbers. I have to have enough patients to be able to support all the equipment and all the time and energy that goes into it. … Like it or not, we live in a free market economy and that’s where things do best.”

Without the ability to operate unencumbered of stifling restrictions and regulatory uncertainty, he says his ability to provide for patients in need is severely compromised.

“It’s about business,” he says, “and that business is about caring for people.”

hen Amber Boyce was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last October, her neurologist prescribed various pharmaceuticals designed to slow the progress of the incurable and often debilitating disease. Boyce, though, didn’t like what the medications did to her.

“I felt demoralized and terrible and like I wanted to …” Boyce trails off. “I was, like, making plans for who’s gonna have my dogs. Not, you know—but I was so hopeless and helpless when I was on the drugs.”

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Boyce works as a bookkeeper at Boyce Lumber, her family’s business. She says she was so run down that she started missing work and could barely function in her normal life. When she complained to her neurologist, he suggested she take Adderall.

“I was like, ‘No, I don’t need any pharmaceutical speed. I don’t want any pharmaceutical speed,’” Boyce says.

In search of an alternative, she went online and found testimonials from others

records and was then subject to a thorough and professional exam. The doctor, who was one of only 207 physicians currently associated with the program, filled out and signed a DPHHS form recommending she be issued a green card.

When she got it, the doctor told Boyce to use the marijuana “like a medicine,” every night, for sleep.

“I was going to try to grow my own [marijuana], but that’s easier said than

marijuana. The doctor River City Whole Health employs to make these recommendations, however, flies in from South Carolina to see patients, since Llovet has been unable to find a local physician willing to recommend a drug listed as a schedule I substance by the DEA. Llovet, like many health professionals, believes this classification is misguided.

Not only does marijuana have important medicinal value, she says, but it also provides a vital alternative to addictive pharmaceuticals. In particular, she says it helps people with gut problems, seizure disorders and crushing injuries.

“Those people have long-term intractable pain,” Llovet says. “And now, because of the current climate in pain management, it is very difficult for anyone to get opiate pain relief, because no one wants to take the risk of prescribing it and because it’s dangerous. These are people who are going to rob the pharmacy. So that’s scary, and we don’t want to create these addicts. People don’t really become physically addicted to marijuana. They become maybe psychologically addicted, for sure, but not physically addicted.”

For Chaszar, providing the kind of relief Llovet describes is an important motivator to provide marijuana. He points to patients like Boyce, who says the tincture she takes allows her to “relax and actually get some rest, so that I can function,” as evidence of why he’s willing to navigate the legal uncertainties of what he does.

“I believe in cannabis,” Chaszar says, “but also I really believe that the current system is unjust and I want to be a part of changing that. Obviously, I don’t want to be a martyr, but I started at a time when I felt it was relatively safe.”

haszar’s stance sounds eerily familiar to Chris Lindsey. After all, it was his own stance, back in 2009, when he was first becoming involved in Montana’s then burgeoning medical marijuana industry.

Like Chaszar, Lindsey heard statements from the Obama administration about de-prioritizing marijuana prosecution and took them as a signal that he was safe from federal prosecution. Like Chaszar, he saw the ambiguity inherent in the state’s medical marijuana program and wanted to change it. Like Chaszar, he saw the financial incentive and wanted a piece.

Like Chaszar, he believed strongly in the medicinal value of the plant and believed he had a moral imperative to provide access for the sick. So, like Chaszar, he decided to get involved in the business of growing and selling marijuana, both as a means for making profit and as a mechanism for change.

Lindsey worked as a criminal defense attorney in Helena at the time and was suffering from Crohn’s disease, a condition of the gastrointestinal tract that some believe can be alleviated through marijuana use. Though his interest in the issue began with his difficulty finding a doctor who would formally recommend him for enrollment in the state’s medical marijuana program, he became involved in a broader

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Former Montana Cannabis co-owner Chris Williams, right, discusses marijuana policy with Republican state Sen. Ed Butcher in 2009. Though two of his co-owners, Chris Lindsey and Tom Daubert, avoided jail time after the business was raided, Williams was given a five-year sentence, which he’s serving now.

about the power of marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of MS. She thought it was worth a try, and her friends were eager to help.

“Everybody’s like, ‘Here, have some weed,’” Boyce says. She says she tried it casually, but smoking only made her feel worse. If medical marijuana was going to help, she figured she needed a proper recommendation. “I was like, ‘Let’s just make this legit,’” she says.

Earlier this year, Boyce decided to enter the Montana Marijuana Program, though she wasn’t sure it would be the legitimate medical solution she was seeking.

She remembered when, between 2009 and 2011, medical marijuana dispensaries were seemingly everywhere and seemingly anyone could get a green card, no matter the true nature of their medical need.

So Boyce was surprised when she made a doctor’s appointment and was told to bring in her extensive medical

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done, because there’s an actual science to it,” Boyce says. “So, then, that’s where Brian comes in.”

Chaszar made Boyce a marijuana tincture, a powerful liquid concentration that distills the herb down to its cannabinoids.

Cannabinoids are the chemical compounds in marijuana, including THC, that are believed to help treat the symptoms of a wide range of conditions, including neurological disorders like MS. The science of growing medical marijuana is largely about altering and enhancing the content of certain cannabinoids in order achieve certain effects. Cannabinol and cannabidiol are among the cannabinoids with the most proven medical efficacy.

Deni Llovet, a family nurse practitioner, is the founder and co-owner of River City Whole Health, one of the few Missoula clinics where patients can get a doctor to recommend the use of medical

effort in 2009 to press the state legislature to create a clearer and stronger regulatory framework for the program.

“After beating our head against the wall in that [2009] session,” Lindsey says, “we came out of it and said, ‘You know, what really needs to happen is, there need to be a couple of businesses that are highly competent, that look like any other business. That pay taxes, do payroll, report income, get an accountant, do the things that any business would do, and get this out of the sort of quasi underground frame of mind that a lot of this stuff is right now.’”

Though Lindsey was well aware of federal drug laws, he was confident that his stature within the legal community combined with President Obama’s expressed unwillingness to get involved in state marijuana laws and the existence of a state program would keep him safe from prosecution.

“We were in a good position to do this,” he says. “I knew all the local prosecuting attorneys in my county. I had a good relationship with law enforcement.

They knew who I was. Tom [Daubert] was one of the folks involved in bringing the original law to be. We had other people who knew about cultivation and sort of the mechanics of growing and selling marijuana. We all said, ‘We’re in a good position.’ So we formed this company.”

Lindsey joined with Richard Flor, Chris Williams and Daubert to establish Montana Cannabis, a Helena-based business that grew and sold marijuana. The owners tried to be open about what they were doing, talking to the news media, keeping detailed records, reporting their activities to the state and filing taxes. The strategy backfired.

On March 14, 2011, agents from the DEA, FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided 10 medical marijuana businesses across the state, including Montana Cannabis.

When it happened, Lindsey was no longer involved in the business. He’d returned to private law practice in early 2010, due to conflicts with his co-owners, and he assumed his lack of ongoing involvement meant he’d be safe from prosecution. He was wrong. He got a call from an agent with the DEA, asking him to come in for a talk. As a lawyer, Lindsey knew that meant he was going to be charged, along with his former partners, for a litany of felonies.

“I thought I was gonna go to prison for life,” Lindsey says. “Really, at that point, it was like, fuck, it’s over. What can I do? There’s no denying that we did this.

I mean, all the DEA ever really had to do was buy the Sunday edition of the Helena Independent-Record, because it was all in there. There I am: ‘Here are the plants, people.’”

Eventually, prosecutors gave him a choice: “[E]ither go to prison for the next 87 years, mandatory minimum, and we’ll charge your wife, because she was helping in the office—or testify,” Lindsey says.

Lindsey and Daubert both pleaded guilty and testified, and both got off with only five years of probation, in large part due

to the discretion of a sympathetic judge.

Their partners, however, went to prison on five-year sentences. Flor died in custody in 2012. Williams is still serving time.

Though Lindsey is still involved with the issue as a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project, he’s now a convicted felon who can’t practice as an attorney, who’s on probation and who barely avoided spending the rest of his life in prison. He says he sees now how naïve he was back then.

“You’ll find that these guys are like, ‘I believe in what I’m doing. I work with sick people. If they’re going to put me in jail, fine.’ Yeah, they’re not going to put you in jail for six months,” Lindsey says.

“You’re going to go to jail for the rest of your fucking life, because to get to this point, you will have stacked up so many

makes you look bad, and without any protections in place, everybody’s vulnerable.”

Those most vulnerable, Lindsey says, are those who think they’re behaving the best.

“What the federal government does is, it only has so many resources and there’s a very specific strategy that it uses,” he says. “And that is to go after the biggest impact it can. So if you’re the Boy Scout and there have been all these great articles written about how careful you are, you’re actually very vulnerable, because that shows that not even you are immune from prosecution. ‘If we can take this guy out, all you people go too.’”

According to Lindsey, “The only real answer is, write a letter to your congressman to change federal law, get in touch with your state representative and encour-

Though his bill never even made it out of committee, McCarthy says he’s going to renew his effort during the 2015 session. And he’s optimistic the outcome will be different this time. For one thing, he says, society in general is becoming ever more comfortable with marijuana.

For another, the current state of the program, which is decidedly tame and contained compared to 2011, is convincing evidence that the state can run a medical marijuana program that isn’t merely a means of legitimizing recreational use.

And finally, McCarthy says he has found support for a new marijuana reform bill from “people on both sides of the aisle,” though he’s reluctant to be too specific about who’s joining the effort.

“We just don’t want to spook the deer,” McCarthy says. “We could actually

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Chaszar, who has master’s degree in plant physiology, painstakingly designed every aspect of his grow operation in order to comply with state law and maximize the medicinal quality and output of his products.

mandatory minimum charges that they will put every single one of them on you and then say, ‘Are you ready for a life sentence, bro? Because that’s what you’re gonna do if you hold onto this this-is-amedicine argument.’”

Asked how he’d feel if he were a provider now, Lindsey is blunt.

“I’d go to sleep puckered every night,” he says. “There aren’t any indications the federal government is going to be aggressive in Montana, but understand that the law has never changed and it’s always policy decision on the part of the U.S. attorney and the DEA as to what they’re going to do.

“The problem that providers have is that they are at the mercy of what the [larger community] does,” he continues.

“You can fly straight and have a real rigid system and careful checks, but if the guy down the street has just gotten a skywriter saying, ‘Sell pot to your children. Call me at 1-800 for the lowest bag in town,’ that

age them to pass a regulatory system with substance, and move to Michigan or move to any other state that has a better deal than what we have right now.”

elly McCarthy spent 23 years “in and around the U.S. military,” including stints with the National Security Agency, the CIA and Air Force intelligence, where his work included drug interdiction. Now he owns a consulting firm in Billings, serves as a Democratic state representative and is leading the legislative effort to reform the state’s medical marijuana program.

During the last session of the state legislature, McCarthy sought to introduce a bill that would make permanent the changes Judge Reynolds has made to the Montana Marijuana Act through his injunction.

“All I was trying to do,” McCarthy says, “was codify how the law currently operates.”

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get this done, as long as we don’t turn this into a circus and get too much of a groundswell working against us.”

According to Lindsey, a better state law would help untangle—if by no means eliminate—the dangerous contradictions between state and federal marijuana law.

The more “clear and unambiguous” state law is, he says, the less likely federal agencies will feel an imperative to become involved.

In the meantime, patients and providers will continue to operate in a system rife with uncertainties and contradictions. Chaszar acknowledges that it’s a strange and sometimes scary place to be.

“But right now I spend more time believing that I’m safe,” he says.

“And right now that’s all we can go on is belief ...” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Witch craft Salina Chatlain takes the wicked path

by Erika Fredrickson

Montana Rep’s Salina Chatlain often plays the villain, and as the starring witch in the company’s newest production, Broomstick, she finds herself in her most challenging role yet.

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s an actor, Salina Chatlain comes off more Jennifer Jason Leigh than Molly Ringwald, more like the subdued Mireille Enos in “The Killing” than bubbly leading lady Julia Roberts. She has a way of putting on a poker face, then shifting to a wry smile that’s both charming and sinister. She’s creepy in some roles, hard-boiled in others, and when she does show raw emotion on stage, it almost always feels earned. Over the years, that underplayed demeanor has gotten Chatlain, 37, cast in darker roles. In Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms, she depicted an ominous government agent. In Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes, she played a woman thinly veiling anxiety and violence.

Even as a burgeoning young thespian growing up in Red Lodge, Chatlain drifted toward those menacing characters. “By my calculations, in my entire high school career, I played exactly one character who did not murder someone in the course of the play,” she says. “That was Penny Sycamore in You Can’t Take It With You.” The other roles? As Mrs. Bergen in Dark of the Moon, Chatlain threw an illegitimate baby into the fire; as Thump in Cagebirds, she strangled a mental patient; and as the doctor in A Mixed Bag, she killed an old lady with a chainsaw.

“I’m a brunette, I have the pale skin going on and my voice is at a lower register,” Chatlain says. “I tend to choose monologues for auditions where I get to yell or be intense. So it’s not completely the director’s fault. If that’s what you bring to them— ‘I’m scary!’—then that’s probably where they’re going to go with it.”

It’s no surprise, then, that Chatlain’s latest project is playing a witch in Montana Rep’s new production, Broomstick. The one-woman show, by John Biguenet, introduces Chatlain stirring a cauldron and making apple pie in her rickety little cabin. She speaks at the audience, addressing an invisible visitor, who we learn was a child she took in and cared for many years before. The witch chides the visitor for being ungrateful, coaxes the former child to come sit down for a while. Chatlain jumps between hot anger and even-tempered understanding. She’s the unreliable narrator, and as she weaves together tales—including of lost love and childhood memories of a lynching—the question of whether she’s a good witch or bad witch is always up for debate.

Chris Colfer, author of the 2013 children’s story The Wishing Spell, is quoted as saying, “A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told yet.” Chatlain subscribes to that idea. She’s an actor who loves the gray areas surrounding misunderstood anti-heroes.

Broomstick has an entirely different tone to it than the popular book-turned-musical, Wicked, about the witches in The Wizard of Oz, but the intent—to shine some sympathetic light on a demonized character— is comparable. Wickedness in both cases comes from a vindictive reaction to a cruel world. Then again, sometimes villains are just villains, indulging in the gleeful act of vengeance—and Chatlain isn’t above that idea, either.

“The only difference between the witch and me,” she says, laughing, “is that I don’t have magic powers.

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If I was able to give you warts because you were mean to me, I would totally do that.”

Chatlain has lived in Missoula since 1996, though she spent a few years in other places, including a year at a conservatory in the Netherlands, the Utrecht School for the Arts. She had finished her bachelor’s in theater at the University of Montana and taken the opportunity to go to the movement- and mime-based conservatory.

While there, she acted in a version of Prometheus that was improvised each night in front of an audience. It was a little bit like being in hell, she says.

“I don’t know if that just makes me old-school or super American,” she says. “Give me a script and a director and a character to play. And when it was all over, I was like, ‘I’ll never do that again’—but it was immeasurably good for me. I have such a large fragile ego and I spent months feeling completely stupid until I didn’t care anymore, so I have this huge gratitude because it’s really hard to embarrass me now.”

Chatlain has never pursued a master’s degree— she doesn’t really need to. For the past eight years that she’s worked for UM’s in-residence theater company, Montana Repertory Theatre, and as assistant to artistic director Greg Johnson, she’s had plenty of opportunities to appear in shows. She’s in the unusual position of being employed in the PARTV Center, the hub of theater at the university. Just being there and, she concedes, “willing to do almost any play anyone asks me to do,” plus being able to play slightly older roles, all gives her plenty of stage time. It’s also allowed her to expand beyond portraying villains. For instance, she

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was a grieving mother in Montana Rep’s 2009 production of Rabbit Hole, and her restrained performance gave the character’s sorrow a finely tuned poignancy.

She was a journalist in Shaun Gant’s crime noir The Keepers and a deaf waitress in Boomtown. She can do broad humor. She can even play innocent if she has to.

“I have all these friends in New York and LA who are always saying, ‘You’re in another show? What the hell?’” she says. “Once you move out into the world you have to start knowing your limitations—what type [of character] you are. But if I can stay here and do the whole spectrum—I would much rather do that.”

With so much experience under her belt, Broomstick has been an opportunity to prove her mettle.

The 70-minute show is written in iambic pentameter, which makes the script easier to memorize, Chatlain says. It’s her most challenging role yet. It combines the dramatic flair she learned in the Netherlands with her natural talent for nuance, packaged into one wellcrafted villain. For Chatlain, it’s the perfect mix.

“I like to play any character—even the ingenue is fun in her own way,” she says. “But I will always feel comfortable playing the villain.”

Montana Rep’s Broomstick continues at the Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center Thu., Sept.

18–Sat., Sept. 20, at 7:30 PM and Sun., Sept. 21, at 6:30 PM. The Sept. 20 matinee at 2 PM is performed by UM senior Erin Agner. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 children under 12. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Found soul OverTime calls out haters on Blue Collar On his new album, Blue Collar, Missoula-based rapper OverTime indulges in the kind of inspirational sayings framed on business office walls, uttering clichés like “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” What keeps this album from drowning in earnestness is that OverTime has excellent delivery and he offsets trite moments with blue-collar honesty and compelling musical composition.

Several songs begin with what sound like orchestral soundtracks from adventure blockbusters or the kind of requiems you might hear in OverTime a cathedral scene from a Dan Brown-adapted film. OverTime seamlessly transitions into his dramatic lines, calling out haters— “these rappers lacking in passion and overly saturated”—and vowing to keep in mind “who the fuck’s bringin’ me up and who’s bringin’ me down.”

He’s also picked a solid ensemble of featured guest emcees to accompany him including Spice 1, Dice, Rbiz and Conceit, who give the album texture with their distinct vocals. Besides the cheesy, pickup linefilled “Champagne Room,” the album doesn’t have many weak tracks. “Uh Oh” and “Premonition” stand out as extra stellar for being so dynamic and catchy.

Clearly Blue Collar is part therapy; OverTime acknowledges as much in the first track, “Locked Inside the Lab,” saying, “I consolidated all my anger and I wrote it up, I swear it’s therapeutic sharin’ what’s been buildin’ up.” Boiled down, almost every song is

about being true to yourself in a cold-hearted world.

(Even the party anthem, “Whiskey in the Bottle,” doesn’t kid itself: OverTime raps about the party, but also the hangover.) But for every pop-psychology line, he offers dozens of original observations about trying to be successful and still waking up “to the same dirty walls that I saw last night.” Mainstream rap is notorious for bragging glamorous living, so when OverTime raps on “Lost Soul,” “I ain’t never had no money, I ain’t never had no cars, I ain’t never had a road I could walk on that would ever really lead to the stars,” it’s obvious that underneath the life-affirmative mantras, he’s actually being real—and that’s refreshing. (Erika Fredrickson) OverTime performs an album release show at Monk’s Bar Wed., Sept. 24, at 9 PM with Wildcard, Adlib and others. $10 advance. 18-plus.

Birds of Chicago You can’t rightly call Birds of Chicago an Americana band, since half the vocal prowess of the progressive folk act comes from Montreal. The Canadian chanteuse, Allison Russell, has a voice soulful and fleeting as yellow leaves suspended on a branch. Chicago’s JT Nero comes across warm but worn like one too many long nights. And the band backs them both with a breeziness that seems to emulate the season of hot days and cold nights, a perfect soundtrack for autumn.

The band puts a pop polish on the usual guitarpiano-banjo folk sound, and seals it with a sentimental tone missing from many of its contemporaries, which ends up not being a bad thing. And rather than

go through the motions of the acoustic bandwagon, Birds of Chicago adds a welcome layer of soul to its studio and live recordings. The transcontinental trio also successfully shows off its worldly side: Russell sings in French on the upbeat “Sans Souci” and Nero mixes heartfelt with humor on “Old Calcutta” with the catchy “Na na na na na na Namaste.” “Flying Dreams” does the best job of tying together the band’s sound and the two singers’ voices, which are as distinct and complementary as cinnamon and cloves. (Brooks Johnson) Birds of Chicago plays the Top Hat Tue., Sept.

23, at 9 PM. $12/$8 advance.

Ty Segall, Manipulator It’s been almost a year since Ty Segall’s last release, which is a long time for him. Presumably, the California singer-songwriter spent that time strengthening his foot in preparation for the inordinate amount of ass he would kick on Manipulator. Track for track, Segall’s new LP counts as his best work, and it is certainly among the most invigorating rock albums of 2014.

Like his previous recordings, Manipulator draws on recognizable sounds from the ’60s and ’70s, but the overall effect is strikingly contemporary. The opening tracks are anchored in drum patterns more commonly associated with hip-hop, imparting a

bouncy energy that prepares the listener for the riffheavy, Bowie-esque boogie that follows.

The third element in this pastiche—the one that brings it all together—is Segall’s masterful falsetto. He has been known to deploy this technique with irony, but on “Feel” he is Robert Plant serious. It’s a risk that pays off ecstatically, as if the Melvins were suddenly fronted by an avenging angel. As Segall develops, he seems more disciplined in his invention; his new tricks are subtler and surer. He retains the old energy, though, channeled in a torrent rather than an explosion. (Dan Brooks)

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[books]

Dear heart David Allan Cates talks Tom Connor’s Gift

by Azita Osanloo

In his new novel, Tom Connor’s Gift, Missoula author David Allan Cates writes the story of a widow who has fled her job and Wisconsin home to hole up in a Montana cabin. Six months before the novel’s opening, the much beloved husband of 49-year-old Janine dies after a prolonged struggle with cancer.

Now in Montana, she seeks understanding from an unexpected source: a cache of letters written by an old boyfriend, Tom Connor. The letters, which span nearly three decades, are set in relief against the backdrop of Janine’s life.

Tom’s letters become a touchstone for the life she lived, ultimately becoming the pathway by which her grief—palpable, wise and ecstatic in Cates’ precise and lyrical prose—might begin to dissipate. She doesn’t quite know why, but she has to read Tom’s letters before she can move on. “[E]ven as I grieve my husband’s life,” Janine admits early in the novel, “what I’ve brought are the letters that Tommy sent me.”

Cates, the author of four previous novels and the recent recipient of the 2013 Independent Book Publisher’s Books Award, chatted with the Indy about loss, protagonists and bear metaphors.

This novel is a journey through grief, loss and the remembrances of things past. What did you draw from for this novel?

David Allan Cates: It had been a year since my last novel [Freeman Walker] came out and I thought it was time to work on another novel, so I went to a friend’s cabin in the Sun River Canyon. At the time, life was uncertain. My wife had left her job; our three daughters were grown. Both my parents were suffering from Alzheimer’s and were in rapid decline. Finally, I had this friend who had recently committed suicide. He had written me a lot of letters in the 1980s. He traveled and had a very colorful way of living in the world and writing about it. It wasn’t until after he died that I realized how much he’d given me.

I took his letters to this cabin and felt a sense of shame. We had lost touch. I realized in re-reading his letters how much I’d stolen from his prose.

So, it was his loss that incited the novel?

DC: There was the loss of him, the rediscovery of what he’d given me; the sense that I’d been in grief for a long time over the loss of my parents—all of that, along with my wonderful marriage and our kids. I was middle-aged and brimming with life. I felt the

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most important thing I had to do with this life was to feel it, in all its intensity.

We get a lot of things in that first chapter, including a bear at the door. Literally. It reminded me of the old writing exercise that talks about the metaphor of the bear at the door. Soon after introducing the bear at the door, you give us a chapter titled “the bear is not a metaphor—or a grizzly, I don’t think.” But, c’mon, isn’t the bear really a metaphor?

DC: The bear is literal. That’s what so many publishers forget. I had a publisher tell me he couldn’t take the book because “after Faulkner, no one else can write about bears.” Well, that’s not true if your novel takes place in a cabin in Montana. There might be a real bear.

The protagonist, Janine, is a woman. And in Freeman Walker, the protagonist was a biracial freed slave. Why do you take on protagonists so different from yourself?

DC: We tend to think of novelists writing from photo by Cathrine L. Walters their own experience. I personally think the collaboration between author and personal experience is a false one. The artist’s job is to push into experiences he or she hasn’t lived. And I really believe in the imagination as a vehicle to arrive at something true. Shakespeare didn’t share the murderous rage of Othello, but certainly he felt jealousy.

When Tom sets off for Guatemala he plans on being a writer, but nearly 20 years later he writes to Janine that he’s going to stop writing. He’s going to do something “real.” This was one of the most poignant parts of the novel. Did it come from your own understanding of the writing life?

DC: I have gone through periods where I quit writing. Not taken a break, but quit … Essentially I had the same sense as Tom had: When you’re a writer, your work is invisible. It sits in a giant bubble on your shoulder. Everyone has an artistic blooming that we can’t really control. I’ve been lucky because I’ve had a slow growth. Writing for 35 years has allowed me to write this book and in this way I was lucky because I feel my work has gotten better. I couldn’t have written this novel at any other time in my life. That’s a blessing.

David Allan Cates reads from Tom Connor’s Gift at Shakespeare & Co. Tue., Sept. 23, at 7 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

Pretzel brain Terry Gilliam’s fantastically real paradox

by Josh Wagner

Extreme facial.

Having been raised in a family that to this day fast-forwards through sex scenes when we watch movies together, it seems strange that, at the tender age of 9, I was allowed to see a film as twisted as Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits. Perhaps because the main character was a child, or because my father loved John Cleese, this one slipped through the cracks.

Then it gave me nightmares.

Best known as the creator of the animations in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Gilliam has directed 12 feature films, including last year’s Zero Theorem, and at nearly 75 years old, he’s working on another.

Among his signature cinematic techniques are the distortion of proportion and perspective, and the way in which he dimly lights his grotesquely detailed sets.

He draws inspiration from fairy tales, ancient mythology, history and science fiction, and his best work blends these into a concoction that often induces a condition I like to call “pretzel brain.” But Gilliam is more than just a clever mind-tripper. His films possess emotional intensity and pure joyful storytelling, and perhaps more importantly, a measure of modern realism that gives depth to his phantasms.

The nightmares I got from watching Time Bandits weren’t caused by the giant floating head of its angry God, or David Warner’s severe display of evil, or the ogre, minotaur or skull-headed reapers. What chilled me so much at the time was how at the end of the film, after the evil in the microwave incinerates young protagonist Kevin’s parents into two steaming piles of ash, the fireman played by Sean Connery winks at him and drives away, leaving the boy both homeless and orphaned in the middle of a horrible English suburb. Roll credits. Thanks, Terry.

Gilliam’s devilish imagination is beyond dispute, but it is this way in which he combines brutal realism with bombastic flights of fancy that makes him one of the best storytellers in the business. He’s never afraid to get in there and show the rough side

of humanity, a contrast that makes his enduring optimism both deserved and particularly thrilling. A lot of people see Brazil as depressing, but for me the movie is hopeful because Gilliam has committed to the bleak rules of its world, and yet he gives the main character, Sam Lowery, the happiest possible ending under the circumstances. Among his best work is Twelve Monkeys, which I’ve argued for years is the only perfect time travel movie; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, whose Möbius strip structure has influenced nearly all of my own narrative writing; and The Fisher King, perhaps his most palatable and uplifting film, the interplay between the real and the fantastic effortlessly harmonized. Like Lowery, the persistent hero of all of Gilliam’s stories symbolizes a tiny, relentless grin mired in a cyclone of misery. Do what you will, universe, you can’t stop us from smiling.

Most of the best filmmakers gain notoriety because they are storytellers with a peculiar but eerily familiar view of the world—like they are showing us something about reality that should be obvious, but which we’ve forgotten. The Paradox of Gilliam is that the more fantastic his films and the more impossible the narrative, the closer they resemble the way it actually feels to be alive. Few films accurately portray the emotions of childhood like Time Bandits, fewer still the anxiety and paranoia of middle age like Brazil. In fact, these movies can be interpreted as representing three stages of life in a trilogy capped off

by The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. And if that’s what old age feels like, bring it on.

The Roxy screens Terry Gilliam’s Brazil Thu., Sept. 18, at 8 PM, followed by 12 Monkeys Thu., Sept. 25, at 8 PM and The Zero Theorem Fri., Sept. 26–Sun., Sept. 28, at 7:15 and 9:15 PM nightly. Visit theroxytheater.org for more info. arts@missoulanews.com

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Driver’s seat Where I Leave You leans on the black sheep

by Scott Renshaw

“What do you mean you forgot your marijuana pipe?”

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UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Upcoming shows include: “String Bling”

Saturday, November 15, 2014, at 7:30 pm

“Death and the Maiden” Sunday, February 22, 2015, at 7:30 pm

“Barroco!”

Sunday, May 10, 2015, at 3:00 pm

TICKETS: $23 Adult • $20 Senior • $10 Student/Child Tickets are available from griztix.com, Worden's Market, MSO Hub, The Source, Southgate Mall, and the Adams Center Box Office: (888)-MONTANA For further information: Visit SORMT.ORG or call 493-2990

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A modest proposal, before diving into the rest of the muddled, sporadically appealing This Is Where I Leave You: Adam Driver should read all the lines, in all the movies. Just all of them.

There are many ways to know when you’re in the presence of a true scene-stealing wizard. Usually it happens when a minor character appears in a story, and you can’t help but wish that you were watching a movie just about that character instead. This Is Where I Leave You is structured mostly as an ensemble piece, with approximately a dozen characters getting significant story points, yet there was scarcely a moment during its 103 minutes when I wasn’t hoping it would turn to Driver, just to see what kind of crazy-ass spin he would put on every possible snippet of dialogue.

Unfortunately, it’s focused most on Judd Altman ( Jason Bateman), a simple guy whose marriage is falling apart just as he receives the call that his father has passed away. So off he heads to the family home in upstate New York for the funeral, and to learn from his mother, Hillary ( Jane Fonda), that dad had one last request: the entire family should sit shiva for the full traditional seven days. That means an often-contentious week for Judd stuck in the same house with Mom, his older brother Paul (Corey Stoll), his sister Wendy (Tina Fey) and perpetual screw-up youngest brother Phillip (Driver).

Adapting his own novel, screenwriter Jonathan Tropper packs an entire soap-opera season’s worth of sub-plots into this grieving gathering. Wendy has two kids with a workaholic jerk—we know he’s a workaholic jerk because he’s always on his cellphone and yelling at his kids and whatnot—while still pining for her college sweetheart (Timothy Olyphant). Paul and his wife, Alice (Kathryn Hahn), are unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant—and Alice is Judd’s ex-girlfriend, for reasons that will make farcical sense later. Phillip springs it on the family that he’s engaged to the older woman (Connie Britton) who used to be his therapist.

And then there’s all of Judd’s drama with his estranged wife (Abigail Spencer) and the hometown girl (Rose Byrne) who still seems to carry a torch for him.

That’s an awful lot of character baggage for one movie to try to carry, usually allowing approximately three scenes for any given arc to be introduced, complicated and resolved. And in case that doesn’t make it hard enough to find resonant material, Tropper and director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) have to squeeze in several attempts at big comedic set pieces that strain harder for wackiness every time the volume gets raised. Were you not laughing hard enough when the toddler hurls his poop-filled potty around the room? Just wait until the baby monitor catches Paul and Alice in an upstairs bedroom trying to conceive, or when various Altman siblings start wrestling one another in a living room or front yard. August: Osage County starts to feel like a quiet, restrained portrait of familial dysfunction by comparison.

Yet somehow—if only by sheer will power of the talented actors—This Is Where I Leave You still sometimes finds honest moments in complex family relationships. Bateman and Fey share lovely scenes that capture the closer connection between them than the other Altman kids, while Paul’s frustrations with the much younger Phillip capture a dynamic between them that’s more paternal than fraternal.

And then there’s Driver—best known from HBO’s Girls, or the “Uh-oh!” back-up singer from Inside Llewyn Davis—who’s turning into one of the most oddly magnetic screen presences in years. His gangly physicality is singular enough, but it’s hard to imagine someone who can take something as simple as answering the phone with a “Heeeeyyyyy” and turn it into a complete story about his character, or inspire crazy bursts of laughter with a line like “Touché, pussycat.” It’s a completely distinctive spin on the black-sheep son, and provides a much-needed focus to the seriocomic chaos of This Is Where I Leave You: Whatever’s happening at any given moment, Driver might be just around the corner.

This is Where I Leave You opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., Sept. 19. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Scully—I mean Gillian Anderson, ahem, plays Blanche and Ben Foster is Lone Stanley in director Benedict Andrews’ acclaimed rendition of the Tennessee Williams classic.

Screening at the Roxy Tuesdays at 7 PM through Oct. 14.

OPENING THIS WEEK BRAZIL An average joe in a futuristic bureaucracy has his life turned upside down when he accidentally gets labeled as a terrorist. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist and Robert De Niro. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Thu., Sept. 18 at 8 PM as part of its Terry Gilliam series. (See Film.)

THE NOVEMBER MAN A former CIA operative is lured out of retirement for a personal mission involving leggy women, scheming Russians and backstabbing protégés. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey and Olga Kurylenko. Rated R. Pharaohplex.

THE DROP Tom Hardy plays a bartender Brooklynite who gets caught up in a robbery gone bad; James Gandolfini appears in his last film role.

Also starring Noomi Rapace. Rated R. Carmike 12.

THE ONE I LOVE A couple trying to repair their marriage on a weekend getaway discovers a weird “Twilight Zone” dilemma. Starring Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson. Rated R. Wilma.

KING FOR TWO DAYS A two-night concert celebrates drummer Dave King with music from his bands like The Bad Plus, Happy Apple and Buffalo Collision. Screening at the Top Hat Mon., Sept.

22 at 8 PM. THE MAZE RUNNER Young boys with erased memories try to escape a dystopian labyrinth. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Will Poulter.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA Helen McCrory stars as the rejected wife and mother who gets gnarly revenge. Screening at the Roxy Tue., Sept. 23, at 7:30 PM. Tickets at mtlive.org.

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU A squabbling family reconvenes to sit shiva for their deceased father, forcing them to deal with frayed relationships and lost loves. Starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda. Rated R. Carmike 12. (See Film.)

Ruff life. The Drop opens Friday at the Carmike 12.

Gave Up ‘Downton’ For This” Stevens and David Harbour. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING 50 TO 1 New Mexico cowboys take their unlikely racehorse all the way to the Kentucky Derby, in an adaptation of the true story of Mine That Bird.

(Also: 50 to 1 is the ratio of horse-racing movies to actual horse-racing arenas in the country, I’m willing to bet.) Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane and William Devane. Rated PG-13. Pharaohplex.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Basically, imagine Andy from “Parks and Rec” as a space pilot goofball leading a team of misfits. Totally excellent. Starring Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY The owner of a prissy French restaurant clashes with an upstart ethnic family eatery.

Starring Helen Mirren, Om Puri and Manish Dayal. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE TRIP TO ITALY Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat pasta and crack jokes as semi-fictional versions of themselves. Not rated. Wilma.

BOYHOOD Watch a kid literally grow up in Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making epic. Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Rated R. Wilma.

IF I STAY After a car accident puts a young girl into a coma, she has an out-of-body experience where she has to make the biggest decision of her life. (Dude, the same thing totally happened to me after I ate too many Red Vines one time.)

Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos and Jamie Blackley. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES Withhold your surprise in learning that Liam Neeson portrays a man with a special set of skills, skills he’s earned over a long career, and he must use them to find out who killed a drug kingpin’s wife. Also starring Dan “I

DOLPHIN TALE 2 The fight to save the injured dolphin Winter isn’t over, after her surrogate mother dolphin Panama passes away. Starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Nathan Gamble. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

LET’S BE COPS Count how many felonies these dudes commit as they pose as police officers and fumble with weapons. Starring Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., and Rob Riggle. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Because nothing is sacred, now the turtles are getting the CGI-and-explosions Michael Bay treatment. Starring Megan Fox, Will Arnett and William Fichtner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Low-carb vs. low-fat

by Ari LeVaux If you haven’t played around with some kind of low-carbohydrate diet by now, you’ve probably heard about it from someone who has. And many of them probably say the same thing: It’s so easy to lose weight this way. Such anecdotal reports found support in a study published this September in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study found that people on a so-called “lowcarb” diet lost an average of eight pounds more over a 12-month period than participants put on a socalled “low-fat” diet.

While the study has received widespread praise, even from skeptics of low-carb dieting, there is one glaring issue, according to Yoni Freedhoff, a professor at the University of Ottawa, author of The Diet Fix and family doctor. In a recent post on his Weighty Matters blog, Freedhoff writes, “It’s plainly not a low-carb diet study as the lowcarb folks, though they were certainly prescribed a low-carb diet, never adhered to one, where even during their diets’ honeymoon phase they were consuming over 25% of their total daily calories from carbs, a percentage that rose to 34% by year’s end—both far higher than a true low-carb diet would require.”

The low-fat group, meanwhile, “...weren’t even prescribed a low-fat diet, as a diet with 30% of calories coming from fat by definition isn’t low-fat,” he writes.

Nonetheless, members of the so-called low-carb group were clearly getting fewer of their calories from carbohydrates than fat, and vice verse. So on the face of it, the evidence appears to suggest that if members of the low-carb group had stuck to their diet better, the evidence in favor of that approach would have been even more convincing.

Freedhoff agrees, he told me via email. But this matter of following the diet, he wrote, is precisely the rub.

“The difficulty with low-carb diets isn’t in their ability to help with weight loss, but rather the difficulty practitioners have in enjoying them enough to stick with them,” he wrote. “Simply put, most people aren’t willing to live forevermore with low-carb diets and consequently their temporary low-carb dieting efforts only lead to temporary weight loss results.”

As Freedhoff points out in his post, a low-carb diet tends to reduce one’s overall caloric intake. This is partly because more fat is consumed on a low-carb diet, and fat is satiating, which means it will curb your appetite. Many carbohydrates, on the other hand, can stimulate appetite. Freedhoff told me that low-carbers will tend to eat more protein as well, which also curbs hunger. The added protein might be related to why, in the study, members of the low-carb group gained

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FLASH IN THE PAN

muscle mass even as they lost weight, while members of the low-fat group lost more muscle mass than fat.

The “low-carb” group also saw improvements in various metabolic markers in their blood, including inflammatory markers, triglycerides and HDL. These findings, Freedhoff noted, are consistent with the results of other low-carb diet studies.

Aside from the issue of whether people can stick to a low-carb diet, the entire “low-carb” concept can be interpreted in different ways. Taken to its literal extreme, it can mean avoiding fruits, vegetables and other whole foods that contain starch, sugar and other forms of carbohydrates. Extreme practitioners of the zero carb idea include followers of the infamous Atkins diet, and many don’t even eat fruit, which can have a lot of sugar.

Some low-carbers draw the line at processed carbohydrates, making a distinction between carbohydrates from whole plants and from processed foods.

They embrace produce with open mouths, despite many vegetables having not only starch but sugar.

But processed foods like flour or juice are shunned by many, if not most, low-carbers. Such foods are processed by means that remove fiber and break carbohydrate chains into smaller pieces, making them more sugar-like.

While Freedhoff sees many benefits of a low-carb diet, he doesn’t think it’s for everyone. In fact, he doesn’t think any diet is for everyone.

“One person’s best diet is undoubtedly another person’s worst, and that folks who are stuck dogmatically promoting only one ‘best’ diet can be safely ignored,” he writes.

Everyone has different genes and different lifestyles, with different metabolism, activity levels and life histories. These differences determine what kind of carbohydrate load they need, and can handle. And there are quality of life issues as well, Freedhoff pointed out.

“If a person doesn’t like the life they’re living while they’re losing weight, even if they lose a whole bunch, they’re not likely to keep living that way, “ he writes.

“Food, of course, isn’t simply a fuel source. It provides us with comfort, it serves us in celebration, and it is the world’s oldest social network. If a person’s dietary regime takes those roles of food away from a person, the likelihood of them sticking with it is very low.”

So, everything in moderation, including fad diets.

With that being said, if you haven’t played around with your dietary carbohydrates, it might be worth your while. And while limiting one’s intake of processed carbs may be a good idea, it doesn’t mean you should always say “no” to a good slice of pizza.

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Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Welcome Back Students!! Happy Fall!!

Fall is Bernice's time of year. The smell of fresh baked goods waft around the Hip Strip as Bernice's prepares to serve a rockin' cup of joe, danishes, cookies, croissants, muffins, and a whole lot more. The crisp Missoula air is the perfect complement to a slice of apple pie in the afternoon or a warm Tipus Chai around 6 pm. Fall BBQ's are topped off with Bernice's Parkerhouse Rolls, Curried Chicken Salad and an 8" Chocolate Chocolate cake for dessert. Stop by the UC, COT and Book Exchange to see what goodies Bernice's is showcasing this school year. A spinach croissant just before class is a great wake-meup! xoxo bernice. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns: Thursday 9/18 Big Brains Trivia 8-10 pm. Friday 9/19 Live Music with Blue Moon 6-9 pm. Monday 9/22 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 9/23 Burger + Beer $8.

Wednesday 9/24 $2 Wells & $2 PBR Tall Boys. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh cof-

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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. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious!

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Market on Front HANGRIEST HOUR The backstory: Ben Sokoloski launched a rather atypical Kickstarter campaign early last year, seeking funding not for a specific product but for a concept. After several years living in Denver, he clued into the increasing demand for local and regional products, and set his sights on a grocery store/deli for downtown Missoula that could meet that demand. Market on Front reached its $25,000 pledge goal and then some, officially opening below the new downtown parking garage in fall 2013.

The menu: In addition to a host of regional grocery items, Market on Front boasts a back-of-the-store deli with a constantly rotating list of hot and cold sandwiches. There’s a chicken caesar wrap complete with homemade croutons, a roast beef sandwich with toasted walnuts and a salami-and-soppressata affair dubbed The Broadway Market.

What’s popular: Over the past year, the Hot Hippie has become a mainstay at the market—a generous helping of artichokes, basil, fresh mozzarella, spinach and grilled zucchini on focaccia. Patrons are also big fans of the Fruity Bird, a kind of gourmet take on a club sandwich built around smoked turkey and Daily’s bacon, with a slathering of date/fig

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preserve providing an unexpectedly sweet counterbalance. True to deli style, there are no plates here. Just sturdy paper wrapping and a strip of tape.

Beyond the sandwich: Market on Front has a lot more to offer than BLTs and garden wraps. On a recent weekend afternoon, the Indy was strongly encouraged to try the soup of the day: a pleasantly spicy pumpkin coconut curry. The salads range from steak and mixed greens with blue cheese crumbles to beets and gorgonzola with a shallot vinaigrette. And the market’s sweet potato egg salad will completely rewrite everything you thought you knew about egg salad.

Where to find it: Market on Front is located at 201 East Front St. below the parking garage.

—Alex Sakariassen

Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close.

Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am2am. $-$$ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

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. Reserve327-0731 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 South Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh

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meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN' music.

What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time.

We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers! Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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THURSDAYSEPT18 The Class M Planets present “acoustic mayhem from Portland, Oregon” at the Palace, along with Fredrick Krueger and the Sweet Dreamers and Marshall Granger. 9 PM. No cover.

Bee sure to catch the latest buzz at the 37th annual Western Apicultural Society Conference and second International Conference on Hive and Honeybee Monitoring, held simultaneously at the University Center, Sept.

17-20. Expert Eric Mussen delivers the keynote address Thursday. Visit ucanr.edu/sites/was2/ for registration and more info.

Spice up your life when the Flamenco Montana Festival brings four days of classes with Maestro Teo Morca, guitarist Carlos Lomas and singer Vicente Griego to the Missoula Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St., starting at 9 AM each day. Visit flamencomt.com for registration and performance info.

nightlife Sample the localest munchables around at the Kyra Jean Williams Fall Feastival, presented by the UM Farm to College Program. 5-7:30 PM on the UM Oval. $10.75 cash/$7.53 with Bear Bucks/$3.25 with meal plan.

Start Thursday with a sizzle when Mary Place and Blue Moon host a smoky jazz Happy Hour at the Union Club, with tunes from 5:30-8 PM. No cover.

Andrea Harsell plays her bluegrassy rock tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover.

Caught in the act. Dave Rawlings Machine, featuring Gillian Welch, John Paul Jones, Willie Watson and Paul Kowert, plays the Wilma Mon, Sept. 22. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$29.50 in advance at Rockin Rudy's and ticketfly.com.

A buncha ornery dames are taking over the Wilma for Katie Goodman’s Broad Comedy musical satire and sketch comedy, featuring such memorable tunes as “I Didn’t F*ck It Up” and “Glenn Beck is Batsh*t Crazy.” Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $30. Proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood of Montana. Check out ppaction.org for tickets.

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[calendar] Voting Rights Project Director Emeritus Laughlin McDonald chats about the changes he’s seen since the ‘70s in “Native American Voting Rights in Montana,” at the UM School of Law, room 101. 7 PM. Free.

The Northern Plains Resource Council powers up with Making Solar Accessible to All, a presentation on the future of renewable power in Montana for communities and individuals alike.

UC room 333. 7-8:30 PM. Bust out a little geetar at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. Zebulon Kosted billows black metal into the VFW for Zebtember, along with ambient techno DJ ExHouse and beardy tunes by Johnson ‘n Saylor. 9 PM. Free.

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2 for dudes, no cover for women. (Hey, gotta make up for that wage gap somehow.)

Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails get all strung out with “Montana-grass” tunes at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Do them dirty deeds dirt cheap when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. Cheap well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover; plus the new special is, hold on to your hats, free drinks for women from 9-11 PM.

FRIDAYSEPT19 The circle shall be unbroken when A Carousel of Missoula hosts its 19th annual celebration dinner and silent auction, featuring Headwaters Dance Co. entertainment and a full bar. Caras Park, 6 PM. $20/$10 for kids. Stop by the Carousel gift shop for tickets or call 549-8382.

Bee sure to catch the latest buzz at the 37th annual Western Apicultural Society Conference and

Teo Morca, guitarist Carlos Lomas and singer Vicente Griego to the Missoula Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St., starting at 9 AM each day. Visit flamencomt.com for registration and performance info.

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Graphic novels aren’t often considered proper “literature,” but they can be powerful, complex and meaningful as any strictly prose novel out there. In recognition of that, this year’s national Banned Books Week spotlights graphic novels. Graphic novels are often on the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books: topping this year’s list is Dav Pilkey’s The Adventures of Captain Underpants. It’s a goofy children’s book where class clowns battle such evil characters as the Naughty Cafeteria Ladies and Professor Poopypants—but more bothersome to many would-be censors is that the kids in Captain WHO: MUSE Comics’ Jason Brenner WHAT: “A Brief History of Comics and Graphic Literature”

WHEN: Wed, Sept. 24, from 6-8 PM HOW MUCH: Free

Underpants frequently outwit authority figures.

Many libraries take Banned Books Week as a time to honor freethinking and the spread of information. As part of Missoula Public Library’s celebration this week, Jason Brenner of local comic store MUSE presents “A Brief History of Comics and Graphic Literature” on Sept. 24.

There’s a lot to cover when talking about the history of comics: Telling stories through illustrations is also one of the oldest means of relaying information, all the way back to Egyptian hieroglyphs. Comic books as we might think of them today only came

Come on, crazy diamonds, to Shine 2014: Cosmic Fair, an art, craft, funky costume and musical shindig out at Lolo Hot Springs. Kicks off at

about when advances in printing and paper technology made mass production of media possible. For decades, mainstream American comics were governed by the Comics Code Authority, which was formed in the 1950s because authorities felt that gory or sexual content promoted juvenile deviancy.

Some publishers adhered to the Comics Code as recently as 2011.

You might associate comics with cookie-cutter Batman and Wolverine stories, but the medium reaches much further than that. Perusing the shelves of modern-day graphic literature reveals novels with some hefty themes. One of my favorite authors is Brian K. Vaughn, writer of the dystopian Y: The Last Man series and political thriller Ex Machina.

WHERE: Missoula Public Library

second International Conference on Hive and Honeybee Monitoring, held simultaneously at the University Center, Sept. 17-20. Expert Eric Mussen delivers the keynote address Thursday. For info: ucanr.edu/sites/was2.

Arrr, scurvy dogs, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day. Be ye not forgettin’ to use talklikeapirate.com/translator.html to annoy the devil out of all your crew.

If you want to check out a controversial piece of groundbreaking graphic lit, Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical 2006 novel Fun Home details her childhood when she realized she was gay and her father was, too. Just this year, a Republican-led committee in the South Carolina state legislature cut the funding for the College of Charleston’s summer reading program to punish the school for assigning students to read Fun Home. Ideas that challenge the status quo, whether it’s Captain Underpants or coming out of the closet, are threatening to small minds.

noon and dancing goes through the night. 18-plus. $40-$100. Visit shineitergalactic.com or Rockin Rudy’s for more information and tickets.

Unload all those pesky pesticides, poisons, antifreeze, old motor oil, fluorescent tubes, oilbased paints and rechargeable batteries at the annual Haz Waste Days.

Drop off at the Scott Street City

—Kate Whittle Shops, intersection of Scott and Turner, on Sept. 19 from 10 AM-5:30 PM and Sept. 20 from 9 AM4 PM. Some items only accepted for a fee; visit co.missoula.mt.us/wq/ hhw/HazWasteDays/HHWDays.htm to learn more. (See Agenda.)

Spice up your life when the Flamenco Montana Festival brings four days of classes with Maestro

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Syncopation-loving tots can express their creativity at the Rhythm Tykes class series at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. Fridays through fall, with basic instruction in instruments and themes for each month including campfire songs, finger plays and Halloween. Ages 1-4 meet from 10:1510:45 AM, ages 205 from 11-11:30 AM. $50 for four classes. Visit tangledtones.com.

You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library from noon-2 PM Fridays.

Owl be seeing ya at the inaugural Hootenanny, a kids’ festival with movies, yoga, dance, puppets, ninjas (!) and classic and contemporary films. Performers include the Whizpops!, Sandman The Rappin’ Cowboy and Bat Honey puppeteers.

Roxy, Sept. 19 from 4-8 PM, Sept. 20 from 10 AM-8 PM and Sept. 21 from 10:30 AM-7:30 PM. Festival passes are $25 per child, $50 for a family of 2-4. Visit theroxytheater.org for full schedule and tickets.

nightlife It’ll be a cheesy evening at Zootown Improv sketch comedy and improv evening at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. W. Doors at 6:30 PM for improv at 7, followed by main show from 7:30-9, and another dose of raw improv from 9:15-10:30. Beer, wine and Tarantino’s pizza available. $12/$22 for two if purchased online.

Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM, with a rotating group of live, local musicians. No cover.

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[calendar] The atmosphere will be stellar at Blue Moon’s jazz CD release party at Brooks and Browns, which begins at 6 PM and includes a $5 Blue Moon signature martini special. No cover.

Larry Hirshberg plays his “decidedly different” tunes for your aural engagement at Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4, music from 6-8:30 PM. Biga antipasto available, or BYO snax. No cover.

Foster a highly literary mood at the UM Creative Writing Program’s Writers’ Fall Opus, which includes dinner, good booze, silent and live auctions at the Florence Building’s Governor’s Room, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 6:30-10 PM. View auction items such as jewels, signed first editions and fine art at cas.umt.edu/creativewriting. $40/$75 per couple. Proceeds benefit student scholarships, literary journals and visiting writers.

RSVP at 243-5267.

Warm up with Poet Carol Frost and her new collection, Entwined.

Reading at Shakespeare and Co at 7 PM. Weather permitting, Tom Catmull croons sweet nothings at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive. 7-10 PM. No cover.

Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture. Plus, Civitella Espresso Bar opens up to serve tasty treats and drinks. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Free.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 6-10 PM. $3.

Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Make as many wishes as you like when stargazing at the Blue Mountain Observatory’s public night, where families and kids are welcome to chat with astronomers and learn how to look through telescopes. Starts about an hour after sunset, so bring a warm jacket and a flashlight for the walk from the parking lot. Due to congestion, advance registration is required at eventbrite.com/e/blue-mountainobservatory-open-house-tickets12579809549.

Band in Motion promises a blur of activity at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Walter Salas-Humara, who you may remember from The Silos, brings his trio with Bob Packwood and Mark Dixon to the Crystal Theatre. 8 PM. $15/$12 in advance. Check out waltersalashumara.com/news-shows.

Nashville 406 does the bootscoot-boogie at the Sunrise Saloon, starting about 9 PM. No cover.

Make yourself at home at I’ll House You, a dance party with DJ MAD, Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Hotpantz. 9 PM. $4 Stoli ‘n energy drink special til midnight. No cover.

Dubstep ambassador Joe Nice negotiates with grooves at the Palace, along with locals Deadline, Digerati and Hornz Cru. $5. 9 PM. Get monkeys for nothing and chimps for free when Cash For Junkers plays the Union Club, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

Jonathan Warren and the Billygoats don’t gruff, just scruff with “psychobilly folkgrass” at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. Free.

Velvet Handlebars and Matt Strachan are the tangy and sweet ingredients of the Hard Arnold Palmers, playing the VFW at 10 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYSEPT20 Bring thy best MacGuyvering skills to Spontaneous Construction, the annual team contest that uses leftover building materials to make whatever weird contraption you can dream up. Or just come grab a beer and watch the goofiness.

Home Resource, 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 100. Launches at 8 AM. Visit homeresource.org to learn how to sign up.

Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7-11 PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Get hot coffee, baked treats, fresh produce and bump into all the friendly acquaintances you can handle at the Missoula Farmers Market, now running for 42 years. 8 AM-1 PM.

and teens this year, with other titles available for younger folk. Free books available at the WOW Bus at the Clark Fork River Market, 9 AM-1 PM or so.

Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.

The Community Grape Harvest at Ten Spoon seeks wine-y volunteers to bring scissors and help pick and smush grapes, Saturday and Sunday from 9 AM-5 PM. Lunch and beverages included. 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703 to learn more.

Spice up your life when the Flamenco Montana Festival brings four days of classes with Maestro Teo Morca, guitarist Carlos Lomas and singer Vicente Griego to the Missoula Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St., starting at 9 AM. Visit flamencomt.com for registration and performance info.

The Missoula Art Museum hosts an open house viewing for the 3D rendering and site plan for the anticipated Art Park. 10 AM-noon. Free.

Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Philatelists make their mark at the Glacier Stamp Club Annual Show, where you can buy, sell, trade or just peruse the wide world of stamps. Museum at Central School in Kalispell.

Sept. 20 from 10 AM-4 PM, Sept. 21 from 10 AM-3 PM. Free.

Cut loose at the Go Wild! wilderness act anniversary celebration at the Flathead County Fairgrounds, with music, food, prizes, games and free cake! Woo! 10 AM-3 PM. Visit bmwf.org/events.

Unload all those pesky pesticides, poisons, antifreeze, old motor oil, fluorescent tubes, oil-based paints and rechargeable batteries at the annual Haz Waste Days. Drop off at the Scott Street City Shops, intersection of Scott and Turner, on Sept. 19 from 10 AM5:30 PM and Sept. 20 from 9 AM-4 PM. Some items only accepted for a fee; visit co.missoula.mt.us/wq/hhw/ HazWasteDays/HHWDays.htm to learn more. (See Agenda.)

Grab your bike and cruise on down to the Montana Clean Energy Fair, an all-day affair with free workshops on stuff like renewable energy, electric vehicles and financial incentives, plus a car show, food, drinks, kids’ activities, model solar car races and, crucially, a bouncy castle. 9 AM4 PM. Caras Park. Learn more at montanarenewables.org.

Early rising produce-seekers, occasional walk-of-shamers and waffle sandwich lovers rejoice, the Clark Fork Market is back in action under the Higgins Bridge. Saturdays through October from 8 AM-1 PM. iPhone, schmiphone: The Missoula Public Library distributes free books as part of this year’s The Big Read, and they come with preloaded content, endless battery life and completely wireless functionality.

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is the featured book for adults

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[calendar] Owl be seeing ya at the inaugural Hootenanny, a kids’ festival with movies, yoga, dance, puppets, ninjas (!) and classic and contemporary films. Performers include the Whizpops!, Sandman The Rappin’ Cowboy and Bat Honey puppeteers.

Roxy, Sept. 19 from 4-8 PM, Sept. 20 from 10 AM-8 PM and Sept. 21 from 10:30 AM-7:30 PM. Festival passes are $25 per child, $50 for a family of 2-4. Visit theroxytheater.org for full schedule and tickets.

The 12th annual Perennial Exchange invites gardener-type folks to bring autumn divided perennials, labelled and free of pests, or whatever gardening-related tools you’ve got, to trade with others for their goodies. Sam’s Spade Garden Tools and Wares, 109 N Fourth St. in Hamilton. 11 AM-12:30 PM. Free.

Little ones can get them excitations at Kid’s Vibrations, an educational, expressive musical class at E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St.

Tweety birds and student tweets shall ring together at the Wilderness Act celebration hosted by the Forest Service, with winners of the student

11-11:45 AM. Sept. 20 features The Salamanders and nine-year-old piano whiz Oscar Hunt.

wilderness short writing challenge reciting their works, plus music by Jack Gladstone. Silver Park, near Osprey Stadium. 11 AM-4 PM, reading begin at 2:30. Free. “Wow, this is totally sweet,� you’ll likely remark at the Missoula Honey Harvest Festival, where it’s free to bee you and me from 11 AM-6 PM on the UM Oval.

nightlife Have a totally sweet time at the Harvest Potluck Dinner and Pollinator Workshop, with a potluck dinner at 5 PM and talk from a botanist and a beekeeper around

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6:30 out at Corvallis Grange. Bring food and a few bucks to donate. Email jill@sustainablelivingsystems.org to learn more.

Dig in and get ‘nessy when Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails play the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Hitch up your trousers and get after it when Britchy plays tunes at Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4, music from 6-8:30 PM. Biga antipasto available, or BYO snax. No cover.

Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM. Half-off Absolut drinks until midnight. No cover.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are here to tell you that it takes two, and so the Night of Rock Duos presents Caddy, Wrecks Goliath and Vera doubling your trouble at Stage 112. 9 PM. $3/$5 for ages 18-20.

Light my Fireball when Zeppo Montana plays tunes to dance by at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

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Hold on to your 80s nostalgia hats, Generation Xers, ‘cuz the New Wave Time Trippers present old-school classics, while the original music video for each song streams behind ‘em at the same time.

Also, they play “today’s dance favorites.� Dan Dubuque starts things off at the dinner show. Top Hat. 9:30 PM. $5.

Spokane’s Odyssey blasts into the Palace, along with local heavy hitters Shramana, Arctodus and “alchemical sound and theatre� dealio Dragon Parfait. (Whipped cream not included.) 9:30 PM. $5.

Our associate arts editor proves who’s the fastest beer-chugger in the West when ShoDown plays tunes at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover.

SUNDAYSEPT21 Charleston right on in to the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Roaring Twenties Peace Party, with Hellgate Jazz tunes, Homestead Organics-catered dinner, beer ‘n wine, plus bidding on international dinners.

Caras Park, 4:30-8 PM. $30/$45 couple, or $55 per family. $5 discount for JRPC members. Tickets at the Center at 519 S. Higgins or mkt.com/jeannette-rankinpeace-center.

The Community Grape Harvest at Ten Spoon seeks wine-y volunteers to bring scissors and help pick and smush grapes, Saturday and Sunday from 9 AM-5 PM. Lunch and beverages included. 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703 to learn more.

Spice up your life when the Flamenco Montana Festival brings four days of classes with Maestro Teo Morca, guitarist Carlos Lomas and singer Vicente Griego to the Missoula Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St., starting at 9 AM each day. Visit flamencomt.com for registration and info.

Philatelists make their mark at the Glacier Stamp Club Annual Show, where you can buy, sell, trade or just peruse the wide world of stamps. Museum at Central School in Kalispell.

Sept. 20 from 10 AM-4 PM, Sept. 21 from 10 AM-3 PM. Free.

Owl be seeing ya at the inaugural Hootenanny, a kids’ festival with movies, yoga, dance, puppets, ninjas (!) and classic and contemporary films. Performers include the Whizpops!, Sandman The Rappin’ Cowboy and Bat Honey puppeteers.

Roxy, Sept. 19 from 4-8 PM, Sept. 20 from 10 AM-8 PM and Sept. 21 from 10:30 AM-7:30 PM. Festival passes are $25 per child, $50 for a family of 2-4. Visit theroxytheater.org for full schedule and tickets.

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[calendar] Take a break from your Sunday Streets walkabout to pop your head into Fact and Fiction for signings with Michael Orford, author of How Ice Cream Saved Missoula, from noon-2 PM, or Josh Wagner and Theo Ellsworth presenting Mystery Mark from 2-4 PM.

with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander.

9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: What year did the La Guardia Report find that marijuana doesn’t lead to addiction or induce violence? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Hit the road, Jack, for the fall edition of Sunday Streets, wherein a portion of streets downtown are closed off to motorized traffic to allow general frolicking and cycling.

Noon-4 PM. Visit sundaystreetsmissoula.org.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning tunes and a special menu.

322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM-1:30 AM. Just ask a server for the SIN menu.

No cover.

Smell like teen spirit at the Homecoming Week Kickoff Celebration, a pep rally with UM’s drum line and Monte, natch, at Southgate Mall. 1-3 PM. Free, plus there’s a raffle and door prizes.

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nightlife Order a stiff one from the bar and catch your breath at the Second Wind Reading Series with professors, students and guests from the UM Creative Writing Program. Badlander. 6 PM. No cover. Sept. 21 features Connor Willett and Bill Allard.

Man bites dog. Wand plays the Real Lounge Wed., Sept. 24, along with Pennsylvania outfit Mumblr, Neighbors and MASS FM. 10 PM. $6/$8 for ages 18-20.

Explore kinetic energy and stillness at the Authentic Movement group class at the Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St., on the first and third Sundays of the month from 6:30-9 PM, through December. $40.

Pre-registration required by calling Hillary at 541-2662.

Mark the Sabbath with some Black Sabbath or whatever else twangs your heartstrings at the Sunday Funday evening karaoke at the Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., featuring $1 domestic drafts and wells.

Free.

Cello-brate good times, come on, when Amit Peled performs as part of the String Orchestra of the Rockies concert series at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $23/$20 seniors/$10 for students and kids. Tickets at sormt.org.

Missouri rawkers Nature Boys play the VFW, along with the hirsute gentlemen of Total Combined Weight and Wrecks Goliath. 9 PM. 18-plus.

Free, but pitch a couple bucks for the touring bands. Also, since it’s Sunday, drinks are half-off until 10 PM.

Oi, mate, Maori reggae dudes Katchafire are gonna light up the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $22/$18 in advance at tophatlounge.com. 18-plus.

Say this one three times fast: Eugene-based jam outfit Blue Lotus, along with Sista Otis, brings “intergalactic rock” to Stage 112. 9 PM. Cover TBA.

Jump in the moshpit with NPR’s Bob Boilen when Wooden Indian Burial Ground does their psychedelic ‘do at Stage 112, along with BOYS, Holy Lands and FUULS. 10 PM. $5.

MONDAYSEPT22 As part of Banned Books Week, local graphic artists including Dirk Lee, Josh Wagner, Anthony Gregori and Tim Daniel do some rabble-rousing at Missoula Public Library. Or they amiably chat about creating art. Could go either way, really. 7-9 PM. Free.

John Paul Jones, Willie Watson and Paul Kowert, plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$29.50 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Accept no substitutes when “The” Tom Catmull plays tunes at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building. 710 PM. No cover.

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Shimmy and swivel right on to Belly Dance with Aniysa at the Wellness Center, 500 W. Broadway.

Meets Mondays from 7:15-8:45 PM until Nov. 24. $36 for four weeks, or $10 per class. Email ann@aniysa.com for more info.

Rev up when Dave Rawlings Machine, featuring Gillian Welch,

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially

Dangit, you slept in on Saturday again, but have no fear, the Missoula Farmers Market sets up on Tuesday evenings at the XXXXs to provide flowers, baked goods and all the servings of fruit and veg you layabouts need. 5:30-7 PM. EBT, WIC and senior vouchers accepted. Final day is Sept. 23.

nightlife This evening’s edition of Cheers for Charity at Draught Works invites y’all to raise a pint to Celebrating Teamwork, in support of adults with severe developmental disabilities. 5-8 PM. Tunes from the Harms Bros band.

Yes we CAN at the Climate Action Now student group meetings, every Tuesday night at the UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth St. 6 PM. Visit umt.edu/umflat.

Award-winning Montucky novelist David Allan Cates reads from his latest, Tom Connor’s Gift, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. (See Books.)

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Roots duo Birds of Chicago comes to roost at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $12/$8 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

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SoCal’s The Higgs smash musical particles together for a bluesy rock show at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

Dust off the Stetson and head on into town when Texan fella Kyle Park plays Stage 112. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $10-$12. Mosey over to stage112.com.

Portland outfit The Cry never met a Cheap Trick album they didn’t like, so check out the hot stuff at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover. (Trivia answer: 1944. The report also determined that “juvenile delinquency is not associated with the practice of smoking marijuana.”)

WEDNESDAYSEPT24 Effervescent Indy contributor Josh Wagner and illustrator Theo Ellsworth present their graphic novel collaboration, Mystery Mark, about an anxious man’s spiritual transformation.

Reading at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. 7 PM. Culture and regional studies expert Owen Sirrs presents “The China-India Border Dispute: What’s at Stake,” at the Mansfield Center Conference Room, fourth floor of Mansfield Library. 12:10-1 PM. Free.

nightlife Bam! Pow! MUSE Comics dude Jason Brenner presents “A Brief History of Comics and Graphic Literature” as part of Banned Books Week 2014, which is emphasizing graphic lit this year. Missoula Public Library, 68 PM. Refreshments included. (See Spotlight.)

Bring your best chops and you could win $50 at the New Moon Jam, where solo acts and bands alike can sign up to play at the Dark Horse on Wednesdays, starting at 8:30 PM. Call 493-0057 to sign up. If you’re just rooting for your buddy, there’s no cover charge, plus pizza and drink specials.

This Legend, AKA two of the dudes from Yellowcard, AKA Calapatra’s emo teenage years coming back to haunt her, AKA so sue her for being a millennial—where was I? This Legend plays the unofficial Dropkick Murphys after-party at the Palace.

Doors at 9 PM. $8, or $5 with a Dropkick ticket stub.

Montucky rapper OverTime clocks in for a tour kickoff show at Monk’s Bar, featuring guests including Wildcard, Adlib, Illest Uminati, Flex Gang, Frodie, Big Tim and J. Dub. 9 PM. $10. 18-plus.

Drag City Records’ Wand waves its magic in the Real Lounge, along with Pennsylvania outfit Mumblr, Neighbors and local partiers Mass FM, celebrating their tour kickoff. Under Stage 112, entrance ‘round the corner on Front. 10 PM. $6/$8 for ages 18-20.

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Your inner Picasso might burst forth at Art on Tap, a sociable painting class with materials provided ‘n booze sipping at the Roxy Theater.

6:30-9 PM. $34. Visit artontapmissoula.com to learn more and sign up.

The Soup and Spud Fest! presents an evening of soup ‘n taters at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden, 5-7 PM. $5. Proceeds benefit the Montana Natural History Center’s efforts to maintain the garden.

Our deputy calendar editor promises to wear a “Kiss Me, I’m Sh*tfaced” T-shirt at the Dropkicks Murphys concert at the Adams Cen-

Pratik Patel of the African Wildlife Trust chats about elephant poaching

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and conservation at UM at 12:40 PM and at the Roxy Theater at 6:30 PM. The annual UC Homecoming Art Fair displays all sorts of handy wares and knick-knacks in the University Center atrium, Sept. 25-27 throughout the day. Free to browse.

nightlife Start Thursday with a sizzle when Mary Place and Blue Moon host a smoky jazz Happy Hour at the Union Club, with tunes from 5:30-8 PM. No cover.

John Mayer would have his socks rocked off by A Bitterroot Wonderland, an evening of good, cocktails, flamingo croquet, life-sized chess, dancing and kid’s crafts at the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Highway in Hamilton. 5:30-8 PM. $30/free for kids 12 and under. Tickets at Chapter One Books. Proceeds benefit women’s health services in Ravalli County.

Indiana-based pianist Krista Detor croons her way into your heart at the Crystal, along with John Floridis.

7:30 PM. $15/$12 in advance plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s and brownpaper tickets.com/event/850890.

All hail the glow cloud when the blackened Zebulon Kosted presents its new full-length, Oro Y Plata, plus Wormwood and special super-secret guests at the VFW. 9 PM. No cover.

Missoula outfit Greenstar got a present “baked at 420 degrees” just for you, so go unwrap that groove at the Top Hat. Jordan Lane lights things up at 10 PM. No cover.

Shipping up to Boston. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online.

Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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he refined aura of a classical concert might seem a little at odds with the sweat and dirt of a long-distance bike ride: but perhaps it’s this dichotomy that makes the Ovando Gran Fondo such a remarkable event. The 55-mile supported ride for mountain and cross bikes cruises Sept. 20 through scenic country on dirt roads and private lands that are otherwise not open to the public.

Proceeds from the Fondo serve as the biggest fundraiser for the Missoula Symphony Orchestra Association, which supports the local symphony’s concerts throughout the year. Highly trained musical expertise and instruments do not come cheap, as you might expect, but the relentless enthusiasm of the local cycling community has come to MSO’s aid. The Ovando Gran Fondo

filled its 250 rider slots months ago, but there’s plenty of other ways to contribute this year, like sponsoring a rider or volunteering to orchestrate (ha!) the event. If you want to really be on the ball for next spring, the event website links to a custom 10-week training plan that’s specific to the Missoula area. Here’s to an adventurous year—and more to come.

—Kate Whittle The third annual Ovando Gran Fondo is a 55-mile supported ride Sat., Sept. 20, to benefit the Missoula Symphony Orchestra Association. 8 AM. This year is sold out, but you can join the waiting list or help volunteer at missoulasymphony.org.

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Headlamps advised for the Goats in the Dark run up in Helena, featuring 3.2 jolly miles starting at the Tubbs Trailhead at 9 PM. Part of the South Hills Annual Trail Series, AKA S.H.A.T.S. Today is national Run@Work Day, which encourages workplace staff to get together and go for a run or walk at noon. Visit runwildmissoula.org if you’d like tips on organizing a group run. Indy calendar staff will be cheering you on from our seats at a new thing we’re calling “Beer at Lunch” day.

The smokin’ feature-length ski film, Almost Ablaze, makes its Missoula premiere at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM for 8 PM showtime, after-party to follow at the Top Hat.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20 The Pacific Northwest Adult and Teen Challenge hosts the annual 5K Race/Walk for Freedom, with pancake breakfast after the race and awards for top finishers. Check-in starts at 8 AM, race at 9. Visit teenchallengepnw.com. Dogs on leashes welcome.

Whoever said “these colors don’t run” never watched The Color Run, wherein runners get colored powder chucked on ‘em, starting on the UM Campus at 8:30 AM with waves every few minutes. $35/$30 each in a four-person team. Proceeds help benefit the UM Campus Recreation YOuth Camp.

Visit umt.edu/events to learn more.

The 70-mile Lolo to Woodside trip with Missoulians on Bicycles meets at the Lolo Conoco for 10 AM departure taking the bike path to Hamilton and back, with stops for lunch and booze tasting at Hidden Legends along the way. Cruise over to missoulabike.org.

Owl have the migratest weekend yet at the Five Valleys Audubon Beginning Birder Walk at Metcalf Refuge. Meet at the

refuge headquarters at 10 AM for a two-hour trip. Call Terry to learn more at 214-1194.

The kid’s climbing program at Currents Aquatics includes basic instruction in belaying, knots and more in indoor and outdoor practice spaces. Meets on Saturdays in September from 10 AM-3 PM. climbing indoors and outdoors around the greater Missoula area. $100/$80 with city card, all transportation and gear included. Call 552-6271.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21 Everything’s going to the dogs at the Humane Society of Western Montana’s Canine Classic, a pet-friendly 2-, 5or 13-mile hike or run on the trail system of the private grounds at Paws Up Resort, 40060 Paws Up Road in Greenough. Collect pledges to participate, or pay the flat fee of $65. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit animal shelter. Visit myhswm.org.

The Missoulians on Bicycles set off in search of chocolate milk and corn dogs to fend off hunger pangs at the 38mile Clinton to Starvation Creek ride, which starts at 11 AM at the Eastgate parking lot and takes frontage roads.

Escape the clutches of the living dead or volunteer to get zombie-fied yourself at the Tread of the Undead Zombie 5K in Missoula. 12:30 PM. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Bring gently used garments and find new-to-you duds for the little ones at the Community Kids Clothing Swap, for ages 0-5 and maternity. Missoula Public Library, 2-4 PM. Free.

Flex your head after the low-cost helmet sale, with $8-$24 helmets for all bicycle, ski, skate and equestrian adventures, plus $5 bike lights. Garden City Medical Building, 601 W. Spruce, Ste. G. Noon-4 PM. Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

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versity of Montana research scientist who opened her trunk to reveal a case of dead laboratory mice, each preserved in a little jar of formaldehyde. I cannot, unfortunately, remember what we did with them. I do recall, however, that Haz Waste Days doesn’t accept latex paint, electronics or CFL lightbulbs; but the city has a handy site that says where you can take things like that throughout the year.

If sorting through recyclables and chemicals sounds like a lot of hassle, just remember that Haz Waste Days serves a vital function: keeping toxic chemicals out of our landfill and, thereby, out of our soils and drinking water.

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The 22nd annual Celebrating Women gathering brings soaking, singing, drumming, dancing and more to the Boulder Hot Springs, Sept. 19-21, featuring keynote speaker and performer Rowan Storm. Call Shaun for info at 580-0562.

The Lake County Democrats get together for a picnic with guest of honor Lt. Gov. Angela McLean at Boettcher Park in Polson at 5:30 PM. Roast ham and turkey provided, BYOB and side dish.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20 Habitat for Humanity of Missoula hosts a donation drive to help stock its future nonprofit home improvement store. Drop off new or gently used household goods and building materials at 3655 Highway 200 East from 10 AM-4 PM on Saturdays in September. Call 549-8210 with any questions.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 The Adult Suicide and Sudden Loss Support Group meets for eight weeks to explore self-care, healthy grieving, family concerns and more. Tamarack Grief Resource Center. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 PM. $150, scholarships available. Register at 541-8472 or visit tamarackgriefresourcecenter.org.

Dan Fox Family Care Program Offices host Foster And Adoptive Parent Education Sessions, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9 PM through Oct. 23, with discussions on placement, family systems, child safety and discipline. 515 South Reserve Street, Ste. 5. Free. Visit danfoxfamilies.org.

The Birth Center of Missoula hosts a screening of The Milky Way, a documentary about infant formula marketing and reclaiming breastfeeding. Crystal Theater. Doors at 6 PM, show at 6:30.

Lend a hand at the weekly volunteer workday at the new Freedom Gardens, a community garden space on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. 6-8 PM. Bring gloves, sunscreen and a water bottle. Visit missoulacultures.blogspot.com or call 284-1780 to learn more.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25 You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. 7 PM. RSVP required at info@missoulatimebank.org. Check out missoulatimebank.org.

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And unfortunately, in this case, after your roommate said something, probably the only thing he could do to avoid looking like her puppetboy was to stubbornly avoid shaving that combover he's been rocking on his face.

Let some time pass, and then tell him yourself, in a way that doesn't come off like criticism. Pet his beard, and say you think he looks good that way but you love his skin and feeling his face is sexy. What he'll hear: He'll spend more time in bed with his chick if he spends more time in the bathroom with his Schick.

POURING HIM A SCOLD ONE I recently texted a girl I used to date about a year ago. I was going to be in her town, so I wrote something to the effect of "Hey, cutie … will be in your neighborhood Saturday. Want to get together for a drink?" I didn't realize she had a new boyfriend, whom she was with when I texted. He saw the text and flipped out, as did she, calling me and accusing me of almost breaking up her relationship. I apologized, but she kept going on about it and made me feel really guilty. In retrospect, I'd like to know what I did that was so wrong.

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The fact that her current boyfriend went all apey over your friendly drinks invitation isn't reason to treat you like you waited till Game 7 of the World Series and sexted her on the Jumbotron.

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Perhaps just view this incident as a cautionary tale—a reminder that your next girlfriend should have not only the capacity for reason but an interest in using her brain as more than a sort of highway rest area for her hair.

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Please send cover letter and resume to Blue Mountain Clinic, ATTN: Annie Hansen at 610 N California Missoula, MT 59802 via snail mail, or e-mail annie@bluemountainclinic.org Will start around the end of October, beginning of November.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): These horoscopes I write for you aren't primarily meant to predict the future. They are more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I'm doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that in mind, I'll pose three pertinent questions. 1. What experiments might stir up more intimacy in the relationships you want to deepen? 2. What could you change about yourself to attract more of the love and care you want? 3. Is there anything you can do to diminish the sting of bad memories about past romantic encounters, thereby freeing you to love with more abandon?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The old Latin motto Gradu diverso, via una can be translated as either "Continuing on the same road, but with a different stride" or "Going the same way, but changing your pace." I think this is excellent advice for you, Taurus. By my reckoning, you are on the correct path. You are headed in the right direction. But you need to shift your approach a bit— not a lot, just a little. You've got to make some minor adjustments in the way you flow.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For years, Donna and George Lewis used a 33-pound, ovalshaped rock as a doorstop in their Tennessee home. Later they moved it to their garden.

Then one day George analyzed it with his metal detector and realized it had unusual properties. He took it to scientists who informed him it was a rare and valuable four-and-a-half-billion-year-old meteorite. With this as our subtext, Gemini, I'm asking you if there might be some aspect of your life that is more precious than you imagine. Now is a favorable time to find out, and make appropriate adjustments in your behavior.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I've got a radical proposal, Cancerian. It might offend you. You may think I'm so far off the mark that you will stop reading my horoscopes. But I'm willing to take that risk, and I'm prepared to admit that I could be wrong. But I don't think I am wrong.

So here's what I have to say: There is a sense in which the source of your wound is potentially also the source of the "medicine" that will heal the wound. What hurt you could fix you. But you must be careful not to interpret this masochistically. You can't afford to be too literal. I'm not saying that the source of your pain is trustworthy or has good intentions. Be cagey as you learn how to get the cure you need.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I rarely waste my time trying to convert the "skeptics" who attack astrology with a hostile zeal that belies their supposed scientific objectivity. They're often as dogmatic and closed-minded as any fundamentalist religious nut. When I'm in a tricky mood, though, I might tell them about the "Crawford Perspectives," a highly-rated Wall Street investment publication that relies extensively on astrological analysis. Or I might quote the wealthy financier J. P. Morgan, who testified that "Millionaires don't use astrology; billionaires do." That brings us to my main point, Virgo: The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to put in motion plans to get richer quicker. Take advantage!

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Libra-born Mohandas Gandhi was 19, he moved to London from his native India to study law. Soon he got caught up in the effort to become an English gentleman. He took elocution lessons and learned to dance. He bought fine clothes and a gold watch-chain. Each morning he stood before a giant mirror and fussed with his hair and necktie until they were perfect. In retrospect, this phase of his life seems irrelevant. Years later he was a barefoot rebel leader using nonviolent civil disobedience to help end the British rule of India, often wearing a loincloth and shawl made of fabric he wove himself. With this as your inspiration, Libra, identify aspects of your current life that contribute little to the soul you must eventually become.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This might be controversial, but I suspect that for now your emphasis shouldn't be on sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Instead, your specialties should be hard-earned intimacy, altered states that are solely the result of deep introspection, and music that arouses reverence and other sacred emotions. You are entering a phase when crafty power is less important than vigorous receptivity; when success is not nearly as interesting as meaningfulness; when what you already understand is less valuable than what you can imagine and create.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are entering a phase when you will reap rich rewards by nurturing the health of your favorite posse, ensemble, or organization. How is the group's collective mental health? Are there any festering rifts? Any apathetic attitudes or weakening resolves? I choose you to be the leader who builds solidarity and cultivates consensus. I ask you to think creatively about how to make sure everyone's individual goals synergize with the greater good. Are you familiar with the Arabic word taarradhin? It means a compromise that allows everyone to win—a reconciliation in which no one loses face.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The good news is that America has more trees than it did a hundred years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated old-growth forests have paid off. The bad news is that the new forests have a far less diverse selection of tree species than the originals. The fresh batches are often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so wonderful. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favor established quality over novel quantity.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If Pope Francis isn't traveling, he comes out to meet the public in St. Peter's Square every Wednesday. During one such event last January, he took a few moments to bestow tender attention on a talking parrot that belonged to a male stripper.

I foresee a comparable anomaly happening for you in the coming days. A part of you that is wild or outré will be blessed by contact with what's holy or sublime. Or maybe a beastly aspect of your nature that doesn't normally get much respect will receive a divine favor.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized," said mythologist Joseph Campbell. "It is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes dangerous to the position you're trying to hold." Do you agree, Pisces? I hope so, because you will soon be entering the Get Better Acquainted with Your Devil Phase of your astrological cycle, to be immediately followed by the Transform Your Devil into a God Phase.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study with a conclusion we might expect to see in a tabloid newspaper or satirical website. It reported that there is a correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes. Those countries whose citizens eat more chocolate have also produced an inordinate number of Nobel laureates. So does this mean that chocolate makes you smarter, as some other studies have also suggested?

Maybe, the report concluded. Since it is especially important for you to be at the height of your mental powers in the coming weeks, Leo, why not experiment with this possibility?

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In the 4th Judicial District Court of Missoula County, State of Montana Cause No.: DP-14-188 Dept. No.: 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Dean Michael Skrivseth, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Janice C. Stensland, PO Box 2173, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of September, 2014. /s/ Janice C. Stensland, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14183 Dept. No. 1 Judge Ed McLean NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Kenneth V. Nyquist, 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John K. Nyquist, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 26th day of August, 2014. /s/ John K. Nyquist, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-184 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS STUART MOLES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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 B. Diane Crews and Margaret E. Kemper, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. DATED this 15th day of August, 2014. /s/ B. Diane Crews, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Margaret E. Kemper, CoPersonal Representative /s/ Nancy Gibson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-185 Dept. No. 1 Honorable Ed McLean Presiding.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JEANIE K. FERGUSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative

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

Claims must either be mailed to Herbert F. Ferguson, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 26th day of August, 2014. /s/ Herbert F. Ferguson, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /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 26th day of August, 2014. /s/ Herbert F. Ferguson, Applicant Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of August, 2014. /s/ Suzanne Geer, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires 10-02- 2016 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-186 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JULIA T. WHITE, 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 Ian Sayer White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 28th day of August, 2014. /s/ Ian Sayer White, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Cause No. DP-14-192 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: WILLIAM H. RAOUL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karen Dale Raoul 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 Karen Dale Raoul, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of September, 2014.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of

montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • September 18–September 25, 2014

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JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s “Follow the Directions”--it’s all about where.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 Norse god of mischief 5 Pick up and go 9 Birth-related 14 "Sounds like a plan!"

15 Neighborhood 16 Figure skater Berezhnaya 17 Hidden video game item 19 The first of Weird Al's 2014 parodies 20 Dull 21 "The Fatal Gift" author Waugh 23 Is down with 24 "Rendezvous With ___" (Arthur C. Clarke novel) 26 Dignify 28 Modern composer known for 4'33" of quiet 32 Where Noah's Ark landed 35 1860s presidential nickname 36 Become notable, like a hashtag 38 Pirate's spoils 39 History, with "the" 41 Peak performance?

43 Suddenly lose it 44 Love, in Dijon 46 Patrick of "Almost Famous" 48 Provoked feeling 49 Not so nice feeling 51 One of the Arquettes 53 Word before pillow or rug 55 Geographical septet, supposedly 56 "Hush your mouth" 58 Gazillions 60 Guitarist's position that also includes D# and F# 64 2000s teen drama whose opening theme was "California" 66 Meme caption with Captain Picard and a Singer machine 68 Mr. Jeter 69 Peace Prize winner Wiesel 70 "Dark Angel" star Jessica 71 Vehicles with no-wheel drive 72 Almost there 73 Filly color Last week’s solution

DOWN

1 "In ___ of flowers..."

2 Mideast monarchy 3 Band whose frontman claims that rock is dead 4 Summer office worker 5 Run-D.M.C. song that asks "Why ya buggin'?"

6 Valuable rock 7 "Luka" singer Suzanne 8 USPS symbol 9 Food label unit 10 ___ mode 11 Company that owns Dirt Devil and Hoover appliances 12 "(You're) Having My Baby" songwriter 13 Chips with a "Do Us a Flavor" contest 18 Not just close 22 Metric system prefix 25 The ___ Aquarius 27 Thailand neighbor 28 Country split into prefectures 29 Time's Person of the Year for 2008 and 2012 30 Response after searching all over the house for the dog, perhaps 31 Become, eventually 33 2600 console maker 34 Aggressive and impatient 37 "Ballet Rehearsal" artist Edgar 40 Bum 42 Brew with fewer calories 45 Tries again with pool balls 47 Actress Lords or Bingham 50 It bought CompuServe 52 1987 Beatty/Hoffman flop 54 All of New Hampshire's congressional delegation, at the moment 56 Norms: abbr.

57 "Falling Up" poet Silverstein 59 Story 61 Capital home to the Vikingskiphuset museum 62 Country artist McEntire 63 Edwards of the Carolina Panthers 65 UK reference 67 Sorento automaker

PUBLIC NOTICES perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 4th day of September, 2014. /s/ Karen Dale Raoul, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 4 Judge: Karen S. Townsend Cause No.: DP-14-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of ROBERT ALLAN PHELPS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Frances Ellen McWilliams, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Robert Terrazas, P.C., P.O. Box 9077, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED this 25th day of August 2014. /s/ Frances Ellen McWilliams, Personal Representative TERRAZAS LAW OFFICES, 1923 S. HIggins Ave., P.O. Box 9077, Missoula, MT 59807 /s/ Robert Terrazas, P.C. Attorney for Personal Representative Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, from 4 – 6 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public. For further information, contact Kellie Battaglia, Homeword Operations and Program Director, at 406532-4663 x12. If you have comments, please mail them to: Homeword, 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 116A, Missoula, MT, 59808 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated February 24, 2009 Grantors: Michael Koster and Sara Koster, Husband and Wife 10613 Coulter Pine Street Lolo, MT 59847 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation P. O. Box 549 Missoula, MT 59806 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee and limited agent for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation and its successors and assigns P. O. Box 2026 Flint, MI 485012026 Current Beneficiary: U. S. Bank National Association 4801 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 Successor Trustee: Kristina K. McMullin Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded February 26, 2009 under Document No. 200904264, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 10th day of December, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana, KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set

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forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantors, and all of their successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: LOT 99 OF PONDEROSA HEIGHTS, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantors, and all of their successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Note in the amount of Two Thousand Two Hundred Six and 80/100 Dollars ($2,206.80) for the months of August, 2013 through August 8, 2014; together with interest which continues to accrue at the rate of 4.875 percent (4.875%) per annum; together with late fees and other charges in the amount of Five Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty and 90/100 Dollars ($5,780.90). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the principal balance of Three Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand Three Hundred Forty-One and 41/100 Dollars ($387,341.41), plus interest thereon at the rate of 4.875% from and after the months of August, 2013 through August 8, 2014, in the amount of Twenty Thousand Eight Hundred Eighteen and 55/100 Dollars ($20,818.55), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate as provided in the Note, plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 14th day of July, 2014. /s/ Kristina K. McMullin, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA):ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before

MNAXLP me on the 14th day of July, 2014,

by KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, Successor Trustee. /s/ Joan D. Edmunds, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Frenchtown, Montana My Commission Expires: September 01, 2016 (9.18.14/9.25.14/10.2.14) NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated May 27, 2011 Grantor: Richard D. Morgan, a married man 2304 Leo Avenue Missoula, MT 59808 Original Trustee: Charles Peterson 38 Second Avenue E Dickinson, ND 58601 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee and limited agent for U.S. Bank N. A. and its successors and assigns P. O. Box 2026 Flint, MI 48501-2026 Current Beneficiary: U. S. Bank National Association 4801 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 Successor Trustee: Kristina K. McMullin Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded June 7, 2011 under Document No. 201109356, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 10th day of December, 2014, at the hour of 10:15 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana, KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the abovenamed Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Lots 3 and 18 in Block 2 of WEST MISSOULA, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Mon-

tana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Note in the amount of Five Hundred Thirty and 07/100 Dollars ($530.07) for the months of August, 2012 through July 15, 2014; together with interest which continues to accrue at the rate of 5.25 percent (5.25%) per annum; together with late fees and other charges in the amount of Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Four and 40/100 Dollars ($7,974.40). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the principal balance of Ninety-Four Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-One and 40/100 Dollars ($94,521.40), plus interest thereon at the rate of 5.25% from and after the months of July, 2012 to July 15, 2014, in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred One and 53/100 Dollars ($9,701.53), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate as provided in the Note, plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.

DATED this 22nd day of July, 2014. /s/ Kristina K. McMullin, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA ):ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 22nd day of July, 2014, by KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, Successor Trustee. /s/ Joan D. Edmunds, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Frenchtown, Montana My Commission Expires: September 01, 2016 (9.18.14/9.25.14/10.2.14) NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/26/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200424963 Bk: 738 Pg: 1618, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Ann Kristine Gunderson was Grantor, Montana Mortgage

Company, a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14 in Block 2 of El Mar Estates Phase IV, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200427208 Bk: 740 Pg: 444, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 17, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $148,425.55. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $117,694.59, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 24, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee,

PUBLIC NOTICES may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.110042) 1002.268295-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 3, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 in Block 49 of Sunrise addition #2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. APN #: 0519206 Charles G. Eskro and Melissa M. Eskro, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 6, 2010 and recorded August 6, 2010 in Book 863 page 1392 under document no. 201015101.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Matrix Financial Services 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 due in the amount of $1,202.39, beginning September 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 31, 2014 is $225,640.72 principal, interest at the rate of 4.5% now totaling $10,142.21, escrow advances of $1,603.63, and other fees and expenses advanced of $50.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.82 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such

amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 30, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 30 day of June, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Flagstar V. Eskro 42076.030 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 27, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse

MNAXLP located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 of MICKELSON ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Brian D Chernish and Holly J Chernish, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 1, 2005 and recorded February 7, 2005 under Document No. 200503067 in Book 747 Page 1115. The beneficial interest is currently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-13CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-13CB. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,555.74, beginning February 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 15, 2014 is $243,349.93 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5% now totaling $30,921.41, and other fees and expenses advanced of $11,090.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.69 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

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

lowing the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June, 20, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 20 day of June, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Resurgnt V. Chernish 41875.085 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana tax code Annotated, notice is hereby given: Entech, Inc., 16 E. Granite, Butte, MT 59701 Johnson Brothers Contracting Inc., 3757 N Reserve St., Missoula, MT 59808 Jill Gerdrum, Axilon Law Group, PLLC, 257 W Front, Suite B, Missoula, MT 59802 Entech, Inc., PO Box 66, Frenchtown, MT 59834 First Security Bank, 3220 Great Northern Way, Missoula, MT 59804 Western Transport, LLC, PO Box 671, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801 Johnson Brothers Contracting, PO Box 66, Frenchtown, MT 59834 Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest.

The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: PLAT G&A PARCEL 002, TR2 COS 3834 LESS COS 3912 IN NW4 & S2 PLAT G 27-14-20 30.92 AC & IN NE4 NE4 PLAT A’ 34-14-20 3AC. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31, 2011 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale on July 16, 2011. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16, 2011, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to G. Halley,

whose address is PO Box 842, Milltown, MT 59851, and a tax deed will be issued to him unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including Penalties, Interest and Costs is: Tax $30,272.43 Penalty $605.47 Interest $5,333.87 Costs $511.40 Total $36,723.17 7. The date that the redemption period expires in 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to G Halley, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax

deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 406-258-4847 Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are un-

known: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this first day of September, 2014. G Halley

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Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 9/22/2014 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 9/25/2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 102, 105, 318, 459, 521 and 603. 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 22, 2014. 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 25, 2014 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.

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10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $300,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 11864 O’Keefe Creek. 5 bed, 3 bath on 20 fenced acres with tack shed, hay barn & horse stalls. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

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1297 Big Flat. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Montana Craftsman on 7+ acres with fenced pasture & pond. $489,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 137 Tower. 3 bed, 2 bath on .397 acres near river trail. $219,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

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2264 Grape Arbor Court. 6 bed, 3 bath in Target Range. $660,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 2304 River Road. Remodeled, energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath on

large lot. Patio, deck & blocks to Milwaukee trail system. $210,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 2515 Klondike Court. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style in Grant Creek with 2 car garage. $365,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5448700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 2970 Sandalwood Court. 4 bed, 2 bath in Big Flat neighborhood with Clark Fork River access. $582,500.

Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate.

532-9229 tory@montana.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call

2615 A O'Shaughnesy St. Missoula $238,500

3 bed/ 2.5 bath corner unit townhouse.

Private, fully landscaped backyard.

Main floor master & utilities.

PERFECT PICKS Silcox Place Lot 35, Thompson Falls • $78,000 Mission Bay, Polson • $69,750 2070 Cooper #614 • $219,000 2200 Garland #30 • $112,500

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1633 South 4th West. 1920’s style 4 bed, 2 bath on new foundation & roof, fenced yard, patio & covered front porch. $299,900. Pat McCormick.

240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

"Let us tend your den"

1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

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1290 Lena Lane. 3 bed, 3 bath with 3 car garage near fishing access in Target Range. $249,900.

Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com

2116 West Kent. Charming 2 story, 3 bed, 1.5 bath home with single garage. Low-maintenance front yard & garden in back. $174,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com

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1020 Stoddard. 2 bed, 1 bath Craftsman on the Northside.

Hardwood floors & deck. $200,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential MIssoula 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

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Finalist

1944 South 8th West. Remodeled 2 bed, 1 bath with deck on 2 lots. $149,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana.

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

356 GOLD CT. FLORENCE. $299,900

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Beautiful 5+ Bed, 3.5 bath.

Home bordered by subdivision park and 5 acre field.

Happy to work with agents.

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Call Darin 531-8502

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 ADELE• Adele is a female adult Siamese mix. Adele is unique for many reasons. She has gorgeous coloring, is cross-eyed, and is polydactyl which means she has extra toes. She is true to the siamese character: She is very sweet and loving but once she decides that she is done letting you pet her, she makes it very obvious.

CONSTANCE•Constance is a 6-year-old gray female cat. We have been trying to find a home for her for a very long time.

She is declawed so she does need to be an indoor-only cat. She doesn't like change but has adjusted better the longer she has been at the shelter. Constance would do best in a home with no children as she enjoys the quiet life.

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LEA•Lea is a 7-year-old orange and white female cat. She is one of the sweetest cats at our shelter. Lea loves to get attention and will rub up against you when South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 asking for it. Lea doesn't have any teeth 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) so she does need wet food. She is sweet, adorable, and will catch your eye when 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) you walk into the cat room. Please come Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) and see Lea.

RAMSEY•Ramsey is a male Pit Bull around 11 months old. He has the energy of a puppy so he needs an active family.

Ramsey could use some training as he likes to jump up on his visitors to say hello. He does get along with most other dogs. Ramsey's greatest feature is his smile. You can't help but feel happier yourself when you are around Ramsey.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

HONDO•Hondo is a male Pit Bull. He was abandoned by his owner with another female pit. He came to the shelter with one of the worst ear infections that we have seen in a long time. Now he is healthy, happy and ready to get out of the shelter.

He is good with other dogs and loves to talk.

You won't go wrong with Hondo. He is a boy with lots of love to give.

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BAM BAM• Bam Bam is a 1 1/2-yearold female Malamute mix. She is a little scared of strangers at first, but once she relaxes she is very loving. Typical with her breed, she is a talker. When outside, she will howl until she gets the attention she is desiring. Bam Bam's owner lost her home and wasn't able to keep her. Are you the new family that she has been waiting for?

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 JILL• Jill is 1 1/2 years old and very smart. This Border collie mix would love to continue learning with her new family at a Basic Manners Class at the Humane Society of Western Montana. Contact an adoption specialist at (406) 549-3934 to learn more about Jill and our training services.

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CLYDE• Clyde can be a little shy when he first meets you, but he is very friendly and loves to snuggle up in your lap once he gets to know you. This 6-year-old boy loves chicken treats and a quiet place to relax. If you would like to meet Clyde, come to The Humane Society of Western Montana today!

face that only a mother could love but we know that someone will find his adorable underbite and little ears endearing. King is a confident 4-year-old Terrier mix who was transferred to the Humane Society of Western Montana from an overcrowded shelter. Will you be his new best friend?

BABY GIRL•Baby Girl is a happy, 10year-old Blue Heeler mix. She loves to go hiking, playing tug-o-war, swimming, and playing fetch. She would love to be adopted and attend the Humane Society’s Canine Classic at Paws Up this Sunday.

Visit our website (myhswm.org) for more information about Baby Girl and the 2014 Canine Classic at Paws Up.

RINGO• Ringo is a sweet, chatty boy who is looking for a loving home. He enjoys lots of attention and loves to share his purr with everyone. He has fun with toys and gets along well with dogs. Ringo is eligible for our $16 cAARP (for cats with real purrs-ibilities) adoption fee.

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handsome boy was originally found as a stray and is now looking for a home of his own. Bernard is very outgoing and confident, and he loves to look out the window. If you are looking for a snuggly orange companion, stop by Petco today! You can meet Bernard and other adoptable cats at the new Petco at the South Crossing shopping center.

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

fireplace & fenced yard with deck. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653

3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

720 Ben Hogan Drive. 5 bed, 4 bath on 4 Farviews acres with Pattee Canyon views. $750,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

3411 Paxson. 4 bed, 2 bath recently remodeled with fenced yard & double garage. $275,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com

720 West Sussex. 5 bed, 2 bath ranch style home with many upgrades. $247,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

3748 Brandon. 5 bed, 3 bath with 2 car garage in Linda Vista. $359,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

AMAZING FLATHEAD LAKE VIEWS and cabin 2 bd/2.5 bath!

80’ Flathead Lake gently sloping beach, new dock & hydraulic lift station. House has hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, huge entertaining patio & mesmerizing lake & Wild Horse Island views.

Priced @ $595,000/MLS#328773. Call Trudy at 406-360-5860 for more info.

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lower Miller Creek home on 1 acre. $230,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4114 Melrose. 3 bed, 2 bath Pleasant View home with fenced yard, patio & double garage. $245,000.

Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 4415 Shepard Lane, East Missoula.

3 bed, 3 bath on 1 acre near Canyon River Golf Course & ShaRon river access. $330,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 4700 Nicole Court. 6 bed, 4 bath high-end Linda Vista home with 3 car garage and Missoula views. $419,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 5614 Gharrett. 4 bed, 3 bath with deck, Bitterroot views & 2 car garage.

Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 5619 Prospect. 5 bed, 4 bath wellmaintained Grant Creek home with 3 car garage. $404,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 6 Greenbriar. 3 bed, 3 bath in Upper Rattlesnake with hot tub, fireplace & double garage. $310,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 6200 St. Thomas. 5 bed, 4 bath on 1+ acre in Miller Creek neighborhood. $359,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 655 Woodworth. 3 bed, 3 bath 1940’s bungalow two blocks to UM. $355,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com 716 South 6th West. 3 bed, 2 bath with wood floors, arched doorways,

Anne Jablonski, Realtor with Portico Real Estate, recently obtained her Montana State Broker license. Anne has 12 years of experience helping clients buy and sell real estate in Missoula and surrounding areas. You can find her at www.MoveMontana.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you find your way home. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWEN WARTER.COM. 406-241-3321 I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com. Visit my website at www.on93.com Let me help save you time and energy. I know about Missoula and have lived here 30+ years. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER .COM. 406-241-3321 More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate.

(406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@ prumt.com• JayGetzMissoula.com Slant Street Charmer 733 Marshall $225,000. Slant Street charmer with lots of light, a wonderful yard with raised beds, and an awesome shop all in a convenient location and ready to move in to. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance.

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Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe. 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard. A home with character! $189,000. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

CONDOS 1400 Burns Street #15. $150,000. A rare, spacious 3 bedroom unit in the awesome Burns Street Commons! This upstairs corner unit is all on one level with a secure private entrance and a balcony. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 1420D Stoddard. 2 bed, 1.5 bath Westside condo with front porch, fenced yard & garage. $158,900.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $180,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $175,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@ lambrosera.com 5530 Creekstone #2. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Grant Creek Village near park, trail & creek. $139,500. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Clark Fork River Condo 1401 Cedar Street #16. $122,500.

Charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhouse set on the Clark Fork River. What an amazing home! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uniquely Missoula! 619 Phillips and 633 Phillips. $165,000 each. The former MUD demonstration site on the Northside. Many outbuildings on each and so many possibilities. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom units for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

DUPLEXES Central Missoula Duplex 1779 & 1781 W Sussex. $187,500. Centrally located duplex. Close to shopping, busses, bike path, and easy access to Russell, Brooks and South. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

MANUFACTURED 2406 McIntosh Loop. 3 bed, 2 bath Redman 28x56 in Orchard Promenade Community. $104,900. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

544-8700 chrishonzel@ lambrosera.com

LAND 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 20 Acres/West Texas. $15,900 $0 Down ONLY $119/mo. No Qualifying-Owner Financing. Money Back Guarantee. Beautiful Mountain View.

877-284-2072 www.texaslandbuys.com 910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius.

Over 40 acres with 2 creeks near Mission Mountains. $199,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406-241-3321

OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com

1229 Iron Cap, Stevensville. 4 bed, 3 bath ranchette on 15 fenced acres.

Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 12336 Frenchtown Frontage Road.

3 bed, 3 bath on 4+ acres with front porch, deck & UG sprinklers.

NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com University Neighborhood lot Rare university neighborhood building lot on Maurice Avenue.

New utility connections. Maximum potential building footprint taking into account set backs is 44 1/2’wide by 55’ deep. Mt Sentinel view. walk to university. Seller is a premier missoula builder and would be happy to discuss a custom job but you are not required to use him. Jack Wade, Lambros Real Estate ERA 406-240-3089

COMMERCIAL 101 Church Street, Stevensville. Currently Mission Bistro Restaurant, but zoned for commercial or residential. $255,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home.

Commercial or Residential. $185,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis. 1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula.

Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 532-9296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius.

11 acre Mission Mountain building site. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Missoula Properties 728-8270

4700 NICOLE COURT Custom high-end home in prime neighborhood on premium downhill view lot. 6+ bedrooms, 4+1/2 bath 3+ garage.

$419,500 2116 WEST KENT Charming 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1200 sq.ft. of living space, all appliances & single garage.

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4114 Melrose • $245,000 • Pleasant View home with 3 beds, 2 baths • 900 sq.ft downstairs & 500 sq.ft. upstairs • Large 6500 sq.ft. lot with patio & fenced backyard • A/C & underground sprinklers • 2 car garage

$345,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

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

15080 Big Horn, Huson. Montana Dream Home near Clark Fork River.

4 bed, 3 bath on over 6 acres. $550,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com

4158 Petty Creek. 3 bed, 4 bath log-sided home on 40 acres with 1400’ of Petty Creek frontage. $495,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

2039 Nighthawk Trail, Victor. 3 bed, 2 bath on 20 acres near Fred Burr Trailhead off Bear Creek Road. $675,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229. tory@montana.com

5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Stevensville area home on 3.2 acres. $529,000.

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

210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $465,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

5 Bdr, 5 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000.

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

3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Bonner area home close to Blackfoot River & public lands. $324,000. Prudential Mon-

7725 Moe Road, Lolo. Octagon House on 9.7 acres. 5 bed, 3 bath, private office, 3300 sf, views, dead-end road and a great backyard! $519,000 Celia Grohmann Banana Belt Realty 406-550-1014 celiamontana@gmail.com The people to call for properties around Philipsburg, Georgetown Lake, Rock Creek & More! Pintlar

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9755 Horseback Ridge $395,000

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker

Missoula Valley, Clark Fork River & Mission Mountain Views! 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with large windows, wraparound deck, mother-in-law apt. & 2 car garage.

Real Estate With Real Experience

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

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