OPINION
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WHITMAN MEETS THE UM TEAM INVESTIGATES PLAYGIRL FINDS THEATER MUSIC TEXAS NEWS FUTURE IN HOLOCENE CLIMATE ENGINEERING A HOME IN MONTANA
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OPINION
THE CITY OF MISSOULA APPEARS BADLY OVERMATCHED AGAINST CARLYLE GROUP
WHITMAN MEETS THE UM TEAM INVESTIGATES PLAYGIRL FINDS THEATER MUSIC TEXAS NEWS FUTURE IN HOLOCENE CLIMATE ENGINEERING A HOME IN MONTANA
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News Voices/Letters Pot and Election Day.............................................................................4 The Week in Review Miller Creek fire, Mountain Water and the Griz.........................6 Briefs Barley, bullying and Myanmar............................................................................6 Etc. Missoula’s connection to Ebola..............................................................................7 News UM researchers investigate ethics of climate engineering ..................................8 Opinion City appears badly overmatched against Carlyle Group ..............................10 Opinion Northwest coal-to-China port hits a major snag ..........................................11 Feature On Bigfoot’s trail........................................................................................... 14
Arts & Entertainment Arts The Texas Playgirl gets her thrills in Montana .....................................................20 Music Frankie Cosmos, The Maxies and Kytami .........................................................21 Theater Holocene takes Walt Whitman into the future...............................................22 Arts Patrick Cook’s big, bold life .................................................................................23 Film The Drop picks up where other great films left off.............................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................25 Munchies Keep it simple, stupid ................................................................................26 Happiest Hour Hidden Legend mead........................................................................28 8 Days a Week Harry and the Hendersons is underrated.........................................29 Mountain High National Public Lands Day................................................................37 Agenda Light Up the Night..........................................................................................38
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[voices]
STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, Sept. 23, on Higgins Avenue. Do you believe in Bigfoot? Follow-up: What is the biggest thing you’ve ever seen or found in the wild?
Dave Hartman: Sure, why not? There are all kinds of weird cross-bred mammals out there. Monkey Wrench Gang: I found some huge logging equipment up Miller Peak that was vandalized. It was burned and trashed with oil spilled all over it.
Tom Snyder: Yes. There are so many things unknown out there it wouldn't surprise me if there’s a Bigfoot-like creature out there. Whale of a story: I went scuba diving and was five feet away from a whale shark. It was the size of a school bus.
Brent Campbell: Sure. Because it’s an important part of our rural mythology in the Northern Rocky Mountains. I aspire to attend the Bigfoot Festival in Elliston. Bully moose: I had a bull moose walk me out of Rock Creek once. He kept getting within 20 feet of me and was pushing me down the river while I was fishing.
Phil Stempin: I prefer to call him Sasquatch. Backwoods bash: I found some big parties in the woods.
Damian Scott: Yes, I do. Because there are so many places that haven’t been searched thoroughly enough, and every hoax has a grain of truth to it. Hey bear: On the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, on top of White Top Mountain, there was a bear about 200 yards away from me.
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Red light I am a criminal defense lawyer and work regularly in federal court. I represented three defendants in the last rounds of federal indictments targeting the Montana medical marijuana industry. I am compelled to write to make sure your readers aren’t given the impression that the federal government has in any way, shape or form given a “Green light” to medical marijuana in Montana (see “Green light?” Sept 18). Participating in the Montana medical marijuana industry subjects you to the very real threat of federal prosecution and a long prison sentence. In my opinion nothing at all has changed since the last raids. Chris Lindsey’s warnings in Ted McDermott’s recent article should have been printed in bold. I recall that prior to the last federal raids there was a general “hope” in the medical marijuana industry that the feds would not prosecute state medical providers. Everyone was obviously wrong about that and a number of people are now guests of the government (in federal prison) because of that “hope.” With the exception of one technical dismissal, every single medical marijuana defendant in the last round of federal indictments was convicted. In federal court it does not matter at all—not one iota—that a state provider is in compliance with Montana’s medical marijuana laws. In fact, if a state provider is federally prosecuted, evidence of compliance with state law won’t be admissible at trial. This means a future federal jury would never hear about a state provider’s “careful records” and attempts to do things by the book state-side. Due to these evidentiary restrictions a state medicinal provider would be viewed by the federal jury simply as a drug dealer. Montana law will provide absolutely no defense in federal court and state providers indicted in the future will all be convicted and go to prison. While a sentencing judge may be somewhat sympathetic to a provider who truly cared about patients, that future judge’s hands will likely be tied by statutory mandatory minimum sentences. Until Congress changes things you are literally risking years of your life (maybe most of it depending how much marijuana you are involved with) participating in the Montana medical marijuana industry. I can’t understand how people didn’t get the message from the last round of indictments. As such I offer everyone some free legal advice: Do
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not dare the United States government, stay out of the medicinal marijuana world. Peter Lacny Missoula
Essmann is wrong In case anyone took seriously the concerns of Jeff Essmann of Billings regarding LR 126, I’d like to point out the misinformation in his letter (see “Vote for LR 126,” Sept 18). He says: “In Missoula for part of the day, normally registered voters ...” as opposed to those registered in an abnormal way, “were forced to stand in line with same day voters ...” Actually, to register late, up to Election Day, one had to go to either the courthouse or the fairgrounds, not to the regular polling places.
“I offer everyone some free legal advice: Do not dare the United States government, stay out of the medicinal marijuana world.”
As for “the long lines and chaotic conditions ...”—chaotic? Sorry, that’s a stretch. He continues that “some polling places...” (again only two potential polling places, not regular polling places) “have allowed some groups and candidates to hand out free food and drink to waiting voters...” Really? If this is true, which I doubt, I’d like to hear the details, which, Essman ominously intones, “comes very close to crossing the line prohibiting electioneering at the polls.”
Again, I’d love details on these “electioneering” incidents. Were they handing out coffee? Seems okay unless, was there Coffeemate and sugar? Kinda borderline, especially since they probably had to give out stir sticks, too. Still, it’s not like it was real half & half. What about doughnuts? I admit, it’s pretty easy to slip a bribe into a doughnut. I say we draw the line at doughnuts! Sen. Essman, what do you think? Would you sponsor my no-pastry bill? He goes on to paint a heart-rending picture of weary election officials up into the wee hours and so on. All because of those lazy losers who waited “until the last possible moment.” In other words, let’s disenfranchise all procrastinators! In case you haven’t guessed by now, I strongly oppose LR 126. I believe everyone who wants to vote should be able to vote— even procrastinators. Gwen McKenna Missoula
Another “No” vote Montana elections are something we should be proud of. We recognize the responsibility to ensure that all Montanans who want to participate in our democracy have the opportunity to do so. Pew Charitable Trust rated Montana’s elections system as 11th-best nationally based on our efficient elections. As one of the best elections systems in the world’s leading democracy we put an emphasis on guaranteeing honest, fair and accurate elections. Part of this well-run process is Election Day voter registration. Election Day registration was passed by a bipartisan majority in our state legislature. It allows working Montanans to register and vote in one trip on Election Day. This ensures that recently returned veterans, seniors, and the disabled— among others—are able to exercise their right to vote. Over 28,000 eligible Montanans have used same-day registration to cast their ballots. This November 4, our ballots will include legislative referendum LR 126. It seeks to get rid of Election Day voter registration. In attempting to fix a system that isn’t broken it places unfair hurdles in front of Montanans’ freedom to vote. I urge you to help protect our great democracy. Please join me and vote no on LR 126. Shibu Arens Missoula
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[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, September 17 A Missoula County sheriff’s deputy pulls over a speeding vehicle, finds the driver is three times above the legal limit for alcohol and arrests Randolph Louis Surges for his seventh DUI, which is a felony offense.
Thursday, September 18 Jeremy St. Goddard turns himself in to the Missoula County jail to face 12 charges related to his alleged harassment and sexual assault of nine women in Missoula between August 2013 and June of this year.
Friday, September 19 Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. announces its deal to purchase Mountain Water’s parent company, Park Water, from the Carlyle Group. Missoula Mayor John Engen says the city remains committed to acquiring the utility.
Saturday, September 20 Three-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State proves too much for the visiting Grizzlies, as the Bison beat the University of Montana 22-10. NDSU runs for 280 yards and tallies 24 first downs in the victory, while the Griz only muster 68 and nine, respectively.
Sunday, September 21 Fire erupts in Upper Miller Creek and quickly spreads as crews from Missoula Rural Fire and the Montana Department of Natural Resources work to contain it. Officials believe an overheated chainsaw muffler sparked the blaze.
Monday, September 22 Judge Deborah Kim Christopher reduces the punitive damages award Hyundai owes to the families of cousins Trevor and Tanner Olson, who were killed in a July 2011 crash while driving a Tiburon. The car manufacturer now must pay $73 million instead of $240 million.
Tuesday, September 23 A woman reports that her husband accidentally shot himself in the chest while cleaning a revolver at their home on Graves Creek Road. The 42-year-old victim is taken to a hospital, where he’s declared dead.
Missoula Maze creator Earl Ellingson finds his way through stacks of straw bales that he designed using a Lego toy set. This is the sixth year Ellingson has built the labyrinth in a pasture behind Mountain View Elementary School.
Myanmar
Help from Missoula On a recent weekday afternoon, Missoula resident Glenn Wood passes an envelope to Cho Cho Lwin containing $1,500 in crisp new bills. Lwin, who works for an international education foundation called the Studer Trust, is bound for her home country of Myanmar in a few days. Once there she’ll use the money Wood and his wife Kathi have spent months raising from local donors to pay for a new boat for the Pauk Par preschool atop Inle Lake. The boat already has a name: Friendship Missoula. “It’ll allow them to pick up, what, 15 additional students for this school,” Wood says, “and give them an education they probably wouldn’t get.” Local awareness of and support for the Studer Trust has increased noticeably, Lwin says, in the wake of an Indy feature story on the organization earlier this year. Students at Washington Middle School raised $1,000 to fund construction of two new toilets at one of the Studer Trust’s schools. The Woods met their boat fund goal mostly through small donations between $25 and $50. And on Oct. 3, Holy Spirit Episcopal Church is hosting a fundraising banquet to provide $4,500 in scholarship money for six young girls in Myanmar.
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“They come from very poor families,” Lwin says. “They live in the village, and I have known them for more than eight years. It will be good to support them because they are in grade 11, which is the crucial year for them, and the nationwide exam pass rate is 30 percent. Without extra tutor help, we are kind of worried that they won’t be able to make it.” Holy Spirit has secured Missoula chef Ray Risho to prepare a variety of appetizers, entrees and desserts typical of the ethnic subgroups in and around Myanmar. Director of Spiritual Formation Gretchen Strohmaier says the church has sold 77 tickets so far at $40 a piece. The money raised by Holy Spirit will cover not only the boarding school tuition for all six students but also the additional costs of school supplies and tutoring. That extra push may allow those girls to secure jobs after graduation or qualify for university-level education, Lwin says, helping lift them out of poverty. Unlike students in Burmese cities, students from small villages often face tougher odds in passing the government exams required to receive their diplomas. “We don’t want them to be in this position,” Lwin says. “We want them to have the equal access like the other students are getting.” Alex Sakariassen
Bullying
Former student files suit A former Big Sky High School student alleges Missoula County Public Schools administrators were negligent when they failed to protect her from a bully who “viciously assaulted” her on campus. According to a lawsuit filed Sept. 15 in Missoula’s Fourth Judicial District Court, a female student allegedly grabbed Taylor Honabach by the hair and slammed her head against a door jam before throwing the 5-foot-tall Honabach to the ground and punching her in the face and chest. Honabach was a junior when the incident occurred in May 2012. “Honabach suffered severe injuries, including whiplash, a fractured eye socket, and permanent loss of peripheral vision in her right eye,” the lawsuit claims. Missoula Police Department Sergeant Travis Welsh confirms that law enforcement received a report of aggravated assault stemming from a May 25, 2012, incident at 3100 South Avenue West, which is Big Sky High. “The case was eventually referred to youth court,” Welsh says. Though the lawsuit identifies the alleged perpetrator, the Independent isn’t releasing her name because she was under 18 at the time of the incident.
[news] Honabach’s suit maintains that Big Sky administrators were aware the alleged assailant had been in physical altercations previously and claims that Honabach’s family complained to Big Sky administrators prior to the assault that students, including the perpetrator, were bullying Taylor. “(The) assault was not the first time Ms. Honabach had been a victim of violence at Big Sky,” the suit alleges. Honabach transferred to another school for her senior year. She seeks a jury trial and damages. MCPS spokeswoman Hatton Littman declined to comment on the specifics of the lawsuit, saying the district has yet to be served with Honabach’s complaint. She did note that the district regularly reviews its anti-bullying policies and students found to have violated them face disciplinary action up to expulsion. “Missoula County Public Schools is committed to bullying prevention,” Littman says. “The district always follows through and investigates and remediates as necessary any issues that are reported by students, by parents, by faculty and by staff.” Jessica Mayrer
such long-term contracts and are likely to take the brunt of the shortage. “If you don’t have a malt contract, your pricing probably will go up,” Germershausen says. Jim Lueders, owner of Wildwood Brewing, doesn’t have a long-term contract. His brewery is young and growing fast, he says, which makes it difficult to “know what our needs are going to be.” As a result, Lueders says he and other small brewers are especially vulnerable, because the price they pay for malt will go up more quickly than it will for large breweries with locked-in prices.
Breweries
Taking a hit In mid-August, a bumper crop of barley was ripening across Montana and Idaho. Just as farmers were poised to harvest it, however, a wave of heavy and consistent rains came, soaking the ripe barley plants and causing their kernels to germinate. Brewers need their barley to soak and germinate—but they rely on a highly refined process called “malting” to do it. When Mother Nature jumped the gun, it ruined much of this year’s barley crop for use in beer. That’s bad for many barley farmers, who will now have to sell much of what they harvest at a lower price for use as animal feed. It’s also bad for many brewers, who will now have to pay a higher premium to get a share of the smaller supply of malted barley. “It’s just a very difficult time right now,” says Amy Germershausen, an account manager with Malteurop of North America, a global malt producer that owns and operates one of the nation’s largest malting facilities in Great Falls. Just how difficult of a time brewers will have depends in large part on whether or not they had signed a contract securing a supply of—and a price for—malt before the crop turned bad. Among those that did so are Big Sky Brewing. “We signed that contract around the first of the year, so our prices and supply were locked in long before this hit,” says Kevin Keeter, Big Sky’s purchasing manager. Many smaller local breweries, however, do not have
Meanwhile, Lueders says small breweries will be reluctant to pass the increased cost onto consumers, because “you can’t go over a certain [price] threshold without you being basically priced out of the market, unless everybody else is doing it.” That might be good for beer buyers in the short term, but it could harm the viability of craft brewers. “My prices on the wholesale or retail level won’t rise, probably, and I’ll be the one taking a hit on it,” Lueders says. Ted McDermott
Hunger
UM pursues SNAP Debby Florence is a single mother who uses Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, also called food stamps, to buy groceries. While spending long days at the University of Montana working toward a master’s degree in social work, Florence realized that no retailers on campus accept SNAP benefits.
BY THE NUMBERS Total number of students attending the University of Montana this semester, marking a 3.9-percent decline from the same time last year. Despite the overall drop, UM notes that freshman class enrollment is up 6.4 percent.
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“I don’t always have time to walk to Albertsons and back,” Florence says. “I have to leave, or I literally go hungry.” Suspecting that she wasn’t the only one struggling with food insecurity on campus, Florence last spring joined a handful of other students and UM staffers and asked the University Center Market to begin accepting food stamps. As part of her effort to persuade market managers of the program’s importance to low-income students such as herself, she polled UM employees and students, asking about their experiences with SNAP. Florence, who incorporated the study into a class project, found that of 100 people polled, 15 were using SNAP benefits. “It’s not even just students—it’s also staff,” she says. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 128,531 Montanans were in the SNAP program last year. A family of two must earn less than $1,293 monthly to qualify. There’s no comprehensive data to show how many college students struggle with food insecurity. An increasing body of anecdotal and numeric evidence, however, suggests that it is becoming a more pressing problem. A study conducted by Oregon State University researchers in 2011 found 59 percent of OSU students interviewed went hungry at some point the year prior. “It’s a real issue on campus,” Florence says. Data compiled by Florence encouraged UC Market managers to apply earlier this summer with the USDA to become SNAP-authorized retailers, says Eamon Fahey, a UC Market manager. But the store learned in August that, based on USDA guidelines, it didn’t qualify, Fahey says, “because we didn’t have enough meat product.” Market managers are now in the process of identifying appropriate options to beef up the store’s meat options. Fahey says they’re looking at everything “from canned tuna to deli meats” before again seeking SNAP authorization, which could happen as early as this week. If all goes as he hopes, the market could be accepting food stamps by the end of October. Jessica Mayrer
ETC. A few weeks ago Yahoo News published a report on Ebola evacuations from West Africa to the United States, noting that four facilities are specially equipped with biocontainment units built in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control. At least three patients were flown to a facility in Atlanta, where the CDC is located. Another went to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The other two facilities, which have not received a patient? The National Institutes of Health in Maryland and St. Patrick Hospital, right here in Missoula. Dr. George Risi is quick to quash any concerns about what our place on that short list could mean—and he’s one of the few people who can speak with confidence about the situation. The Missoula-based infectious disease specialist recently returned from a 20-day stint working in Sierra Leone, where he joined an intensive care nurse from St. Pat’s and three other physicians at a medical ward filled with an average of 90 Ebola patients each day. Risi speaks both candidly and calmly about the reality of the devastating outbreak, while also dispelling some of the hysteria inherent in media reports about the virus. For starters, it’s unlikely any patients will be flown to Missoula. The St. Pat’s facility was built to serve those working with infectious diseases at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton. And while the staff at St. Pat’s has been specially trained, Risi explains that any modern American hospital following standard infection control practices and isolation procedures could treat an Ebola patient. “The mortality rate is not 100 percent, not by any means,” he says, “even though it’s a horrible disease and the death can be quite gruesome, especially in the fairly primitive circumstances that we were working in.” Risi describes his time in Sierra Leone as daunting, but not without hope. In the morning, he’d put on a protective suit and meet with nurses to find out who had died overnight and who had been admitted. The doctors, who worked in a buddy system, then set to helping the sickest patients first. During breaks, he’d rehydrate, eat and wring out the sweat from his clothes and socks. “It was a very, very intense experience, as you can imagine,” he says, “with a lot of saves and a lot of heartbreak.” Risi estimates his team saved “well over 50 percent” of the patients they treated. It’s a good feeling, but he says it’s a small contribution within the bigger picture. “The situation, unfortunately, does not appear to be slowing down,” he says.
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Passing the buck UM researcher investigates ethics of climate engineering by Nate Hegyi
Wylie Carr’s house is in a state of disarray. Toys and clothes litter the floor. Food splats onto the carpet. His 2-year-old daughter, Lucy Carr, sits in the middle of all this chaos, her blue eyes wide. “Airplane, airplane!” she says and grasps a toy jetliner. “She’s been obsessed with airplanes,” Carr says and scoops her up. It’s no wonder—her father has traveled on planes a lot since she was born. He’s been to Kenya. To the Solomon Islands. To the northernmost point in Alaska.
was canceled, in part due to concerns over a lack of government oversight. That didn’t stop the push forward for more research. Retired engineers from Silicon Valley, including one who invented inkjet printing, are currently designing small nozzles to spray sea water into the air. A four-day international summit on climate engineering was held this summer in Berlin and included speakers from Harvard University, the University of Oxford and the Environmental Defense Fund. Over the past decade, government organizations, private
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
UM doctoral student Wylie Carr is part of a research team collecting public opinion on the controversial idea of climate engineering. His travels have taken him to Kenya, the Solomon Islands and the northernmost point in Alaska.
Carr is a doctoral student at the University of Montana. His research takes him to places where the oceans are rising, the deserts are drying or the ice is melting. Once there, he finds people working on climate change and shows them a short video. Afterwards, he interviews them. In the video, planes spread sulfite particles into the upper atmosphere, mimicking volcanoes and cooling the earth. Ships thicken up clouds by spraying salt water into the air. They are examples of climate engineering, also known as geoengineering, a controversial, futuristic way for humanity to artificially cool the planet. “When you hear about it for the first time, it’s easy to dismiss it out of hand and say, ‘This is crazy,’” Carr says. But it isn’t science fiction. In 2011, a group of British scientists planned a small, outdoor field test of climate engineering. It
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institutions and wealthy individuals, including Bill Gates, have poured millions of dollars into modeling and research. By the time Lucy is an adult, climate engineering could become a reality. “It would give us the ability to intentionally manipulate the global climate,” Carr says. “We need to talk about it because the scale is enormous and because it’s not like consumer products where you can just opt out.” For the past year and a half Carr’s traveled to vulnerable areas and gathered opinions on climate engineering. He’s currently analyzing the interviews and hopes to publish his findings next year. It’s the culmination of a UM project launched four years ago by professors Dane Scott, Laurie Yung and Christopher Preston exploring the ethics of climate engineering. “A technology as powerful as geoengi-
neering is going to affect real people across the globe in many, many different ways,” Preston says. “Rather than a bunch of ethicists and white western universities deciding the rights and wrongs of geoengineering, we wanted to have some information about what vulnerable populations, people actually affected by climate change, thought of geoengineering, ethically.” The professors needed a student who could interview subjects in vastly different regions about a controversial topic, and chose Carr. Carr says he grew up in a moderately conservative, Christian family in Columbus, Ohio. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he studied religion and drifted left. He traveled to Japan and spent a semester meditating in Buddhist monasteries. For his master’s thesis at UM he traveled to Dallas, Texas, and interviewed evangelists about climate change. He is a seeker. Insatiably curious. “He’s such a hard worker and kind of a perfectionist,” his wife, Austen Carr, says. They’ve been together since they were undergraduates. “The more he studies the more obviously concerned and convinced he gets. He reads a lot of stuff that’s frightening and depressing,” she says and pauses. “I know the situation is dire, I really do, but I cannot be worried and depressed on a daily basis.” When Lucy was born, Carr says it changed everything—the way he thought about himself, his wife and about the world. He’s not an advocate for climate engineering—the only way to stop climate change is to reduce carbon emissions, he says, and putting sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere could overcool the tropics, undercool the arctic and alter rain patterns in some places, according to models by the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project. The results could benefit some places and devastate others. “It terrifies me,” he says. But he believes the public needs to know about it and discuss it. There may be a time in the future when the risks of climate change outweigh the risks of climate engineering, according to Carr. “During my kid’s lifetime they’re going to be asking the question, ‘Do we do this or not?’” he says. He looks out the window to where Lucy and Austen play in the backyard under an overcast sky. “We’re not taking responsibility for the problem we’re creating,” he continues. “We’re passing the buck.” editor@missoulanews.com
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[opinion]
Underwater The city appears badly overmatched against Carlyle Group by Dan Brooks
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[10] Missoula Independent • September 25–October 2, 2014
Like many Missoulians, I was alarmed to learn that Canadians had purchased our water supply. Last week, in the midst of the city’s condemnation attempt, Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. of Ontario agreed to buy Mountain Water from the Carlyle Group. If the sale goes through, customers will receive bills with “sorry!” printed at the top and, as Canadian toxins accumulate in their bodies, slowly begin to enjoy Rush. More importantly, the city’s plan to purchase our water supply will hit another costly snag. Lucky for me that few will remember when I used this space to say Missoula should buy Mountain Water. I was wrong. I said the city should buy Mountain Water the way I sometimes blurt out “stop him!” while watching football: with little grasp of the difficulty involved. Missoula should own its water supply. The Carlyle Group should sell it at a fair price. And my aunt should have wheels, because then she’d be a wagon. Meanwhile, in the realm of the actual, our city and its attorneys seem badly overmatched. Earlier this month, the Missoulian reported that the city had already exceeded its estimate of $400,000 in legal and consultant fees for the condemnation and purchase process—months before the eminent domain case against Carlyle is even scheduled for trial. In some ways, that’s not Mayor John Engen’s fault. The Carlyle Group has proven a vigorous litigant, arguing in court that it was not the actual owner of Mountain Water and drawing the Montana Public Service Commission into the fight. A judge rejected both these strategies, but Carlyle Group accomplished its objective: a few months into this process, the city has already spent more money than it ever expected to. It’s conceivable that this new sale agreement won’t complicate the process, but it’s certain not to make things simpler. Just maybe, the multinational private
equity firm has better lawyers than we do. It certainly has more money: last year, Carlyle reported revenues of nearly $4.5 billion on $35 billion in assets. It probably doesn’t want to spend all of that to keep Mountain Water. But the city has gotten into a high-stakes game against an aggressive bluffer with many, many more chips. So far, our foray into this contest has cost about $5 for every resident of Missoula.
“In the contest between picturesque mountain towns and multinational corporations, sometimes the bad guys win.” Four hundred grand is a lot of money, but it is not yet a boondoggle. The city could walk away from its condemnation claim right now, or just pursue it with minimal resources and low expectation of success. That would hurt. But we might content ourselves to know that we took our chance and suffered no worse than injured pride and enriched lawyers. To continue our poker analogy, we already lost what we brought to the table. The only good play that remains is to not buy in again. But then how would we win? How can Mayor Engen defeat the evil Carlyle Group and its hideously courteous Canadian allies if he doesn’t come back to the table with a fresh stack of chips?
The answer is that we probably can’t. In the contest between picturesque mountain towns and multinational corporations, sometimes the bad guys win. It’s our water: the pipes are buried beneath our city, and we drink what comes out of them. But it’s not our court system or our economy. The future of Mountain Water is not a question of what’s right, but rather of what can be done. What Carlyle can do is throw money at the problem. Through the magic of litigation, it can dispute its ownership of the very asset it is trying to keep while simultaneously offering to sell it to someone else. Carlyle has the resources and expertise to turn Mountain Water into a money fight, and it will do so for the same reason that Russia welcomes invasion in late fall. What the city of Missoula can do is be honest with itself. It lost its gambling money, and now it can quit before it loses the rent, too. By accepting defeat, Engen can help himself and the people he leads. It’s not a bad decision he made six months ago; it’s a good decision he has the opportunity to make now. The game has changed. Our opponents have proven more skillful than we expected, and the money we need to keep playing is more than we ever thought we would spend. The average person would buy in again and redouble his pursuit. That’s why the average person is broke. I don’t like to depend on Canadians for water, and I certainly don’t like to admit that I was wrong. I can only imagine how Mayor Engen feels in this situation, with his larger and more circumspect audience. Fortunately for me and everyone else in this town, he is too smart to be led around by his pride. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and card games at combatblog.net, where he is periodically wrong. His column appears every other week in the Independent.
[opinion]
Treaty trumps all Northwest coal-to-China port hits a major snag by Paul VanDevelder
In 1832, when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall was pondering the fate of Baptist missionary Samuel Worcester, who’d been jailed by Georgia state militia for preaching the Christian gospel to Cherokee Indians, little did Marshall know that his ruling would one day reroute rivers, legalize hundreds of Indian casinos from coast to coast and derail a $242 million coal-to-China project on the Columbia River in the 21st century. Worcester had been jailed for challenging Georgia authorities with a question that went to the heart of the conflict between states and the federal government. He dared to ask: Are treaties with Indian tribes the “supreme law of the land?” If so, how could the governor of a state deny Worcester’s right to preach to the Indians? Justice Marshall, as they like to say in Indian Country, was a man with “long eyes.” Daniel Webster once quipped that Marshall’s brain could sever any legal knot it encountered, and the knot presented by Worcester v. Georgia had been vexing the chief justice for three decades. He, more clearly than anyone in early America, realized that the founders left a gaping hole in the U.S. Constitution when they neglected to address the role of sovereign Native American governments in the scheme of federalism. Worcester, at last, was the right case to patch that hole. If he could make the patch stick and give it some elasticity, this case would have profound implications in years to come for the rapidly evolving, semiUnited, States of America. Eventually, Marshall’s distant future became our present. This September, when the Oregon Department of State Lands denied a dock permit to Ambre Energy, an Australian company, Marshall’s federalism patch not only stretched in every direction, it held firm. Ambre had been hoping to build a new coal port near the town of Umatilla to export 8.8 million tons of coal annually to China. But its ambitious plans posed a clear and present threat to recovery efforts for endangered salmon in critical Columbia River habitat
protected by treaties with Columbia River tribes. Therein lay the reeds of contention. “Salmon tribes” in the Pacific Northwest were united in opposition to the deal, and that trumped all of Ambre Energy’s rhetoric about creating jobs and future profits. What John Marshall made inviolate in Worcester v. Georgia was this: In any contest between treaty rights and states’ rights, treaty rights must prevail. The Oregon Department of Lands did not cite Worcester v. Georgia in rejecting the coal-port proposal, but Marshall’s ghost was present in the room when the decision was
“The effort to ship coal out of Northwest ports was born out of hubris and miscalculation.”
announced. As Marshall told the Georgia governor who ordered Samuel Worcester’s arrest 182 years ago for preaching to the Indians, sovereign-to-sovereign negotiations are protected by Article VI, Clause 2, of the Constitution, as “the supreme law of the land.” Therefore, no state or corporate power has the legal authority to violate provisions of treaty agreements once the agreements have been ratified by the federal government. The effort to ship coal out of Northwest ports was born out of hubris and miscalculation. Company attorneys either ignored, or misjudged, the long shadow of Worcester. Preferring to go mano-a-mano with environ-
mental organizations, they suddenly found themselves face-to-face with treaty tribes. After reading more than 20,000 public comments and carefully analyzing technical documents, the Oregon Department of Lands announced that its decision to kill the project “at the Coyote Island Terminal ... is the right one.” And treaty rights played a pivotal role in the outcome of this contest. The state’s decision sent shock waves through the industry. Coal producers had launched their coal-to-China campaign with seven likely ports on the West Coast, and to paraphrase Mark Twain, the industry approached the deal “with the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces.” Now, the coal companies are down to two choices—the Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, north of Bellingham, Wash., and the Millennium Terminal at Longview, Wash.—and suddenly, 19th century energy solutions are faced with daunting legal and public relations challenges in the 21st. Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, summarized the emerging politics of coal: “You can’t privatize benefits (for the coal industry) and socialize the costs (pollution, climate change, and an extinct fishery).” The media summed up the decision as “Coal-to-China project gets nixed.” But a more accurate storyline might have read: “Treaty rights prevail, tribal sovereignty honored in coal port decision.” Of course, no one in the media mentioned John Marshall, or Worcester v. Georgia, or the long-standing sanctity of the trust relationships between Indian nations and the federal government. People seldom do. But Marshall was there in the shadows, a faint smile bracketing his piercing black eyes. Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). His book, Savages and Scoundrels ( Yale University Press), documents the role of treaties in the formation of the United States. He lives in Portland, Ore.
missoulanews.com • September 25–October 2, 2014 [11]
[quirks]
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Bradley Hardison, 24, managed to elude authorities for nearly nine months before they nabbed him after a local paper published his photo for winning a doughnut-eating contest at a police anti-crime event in Elizabeth City, N.C. “I was pissed because it’s like throwing it in our face,” Camden County sheriff’s Lt. Max Robeson said after he read the article, which led investigators to Hardison. (Hampton Roads, Va.’s WTKR-TV) Seattle police arrested a 40-year-old suspect who showed what looked like a gun (but turned out to be a flashlight) at a restaurant and demanded cash from the register. Employees refused and told the robber to take the tip jar instead. He did, collecting about $15, and then demanded money from several customers. They declined. He tried to leave by kicking down a side door, only to bounce backward onto the floor when it wouldn’t open. He found another exit and tried to grab a woman’s car keys in the parking lot but fled after the victim took his photo with her cellphone. He tried to steal another car at a gas station, but the driver wouldn’t hand over his keys. He did offer the suspect a ride. Instead, the suspect used the tip money to buy a beverage at the gas station and was drinking it when police arrived and took him to the King County Jail. (Seattle Police Department)
INDOCTRINATION NATION - Chinese students applying to U.S. universities will be expected to learn the values of “freedom, justice and human dignity” while studying for their SAT entrance exam. The College Board’s amended syllabus for the test requires applicants to read passages from the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the writings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as “a way to develop valuable college and career readiness skills.” China’s official Xinhua News Agency declared the reforms amount to “ideology intrusion,” although SAT coach Kelly Yang wrote in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper, “If the new SAT succeeded, it will be the first time America is able to systematically shape the news, beliefs and ideologies of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students every year … through what the Chinese care about most — exams.” Beijing resident and Ohio State University student Tang Anran said the few months of preparation for the SAT wouldn’t brainwash applicants, explaining, “We learn knowledge for the exam, and after that, we forget it.” (The Washington Post) REAL REALITY - Police shot and killed a crew member of the television show “Cops” while trying to stop a robbery at a Wendy’s restaurant in Omaha, Neb. Police gunfire struck the suspect, Cortez Washington, 32, but he fled the restaurant and officers continued firing, killing the suspect and Bryce Dion, 38, described by his production company as “a long-term member of the ‘Cops’ team.” (Associated Press) DRINKING-CLASS HEROES - The National Institutes of Health is spending $3.2 million to get monkeys drunk so scientists can determine alcohol’s long-term effects on their bodies and $69,459 to study whether text messaging college students before they attend pre-football game tailgate parties will encourage them to drink less and “reduce harmful effects related to alcohol consumption.” Previous NIH research projects into the effects of alcohol involved spending $835,571 to develop a flight simulator to show pilots what flying drunk feels like and $154,000 to determine if excess drinking causes gamblers to lose more money. “We don’t need a study to tell Americans that gambling while drunk is a bad idea,” David Williams, president of the think-tank Taxpayers Protection Alliance, said, “as anyone who has ever sat next to a drunk guy at a blackjack table can attest.” (The Washington Times) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Sixth-grade teacher Michelle Ferguson-Montgomery was seriously wounded when the concealed firearm she was carrying accidentally discharged in the faculty bathroom of an elementary school in Taylorsville, Utah. Investigators said the bullet struck a toilet, causing it to explode and send bullet and toilet fragments into her lower leg. (Associated Press) Quick thinking by an 11-year-old boy in Harris County, Texas, saved the life of his 5-year-old brother who shot himself in the chin while the two were hunting near their home. The older boy drove the wounded child to a neighbor, who called for medical help. Sheriff’s investigators were unable to explain why the boys had access to a gun and a car. (Houston’s KHOU-TV)
PICKY EATERS - Indonesian police arrested Heather Mack, 19, after her mother was found bludgeoned to death in a Bali hotel room, along with her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21. When Mack complained about the meals, police bought them KFC fried chicken, prompting them to accuse police of racist stereotyping. Bali police said the allegation of racism surprised them, since few Indonesians can even afford a KFC meal, so they switched the two prisoners to food from McDonald’s. (USA Today) Burger King announced it’s dropping its lower-calorie fries, dubbed “Satisfries,” due to consumer indifference and confusion. The move comes less than a year after Satisfries were introduced. The fries, which use a different type of batter to prevent absorbing oil during preparation, cost more than Burger King’s regular fries. What’s more, a small order contains 270 calories, whereas small fries at McDonald’s have 230 calories because the order is smaller, although Burger King didn’t make that distinction clear to customers. (Associated Press)
NO REPRESENTATION, NO RESPECT - After Transportation Security Administration agents at several U.S. airports refused to accept driver’s licenses issued by the District of Columbia because it isn’t a state, a new smartphone app designed to ease ordering a pizza wouldn’t recognize Washington addresses, declaring, “DC is not a valid state.” The app’s founders, all New York City residents, notified users, “Instead of DC, put in VA and your correct zip code!!!” (The Washington Post) STOP THE MUSIC - Music publishers have started denying use of their music to the world famous Ohio State University Marching Band after the school fired band director Jonathan Waters. The firing resulted from an investigation that alleged he failed to eliminate the band’s “sexualized culture.” Mark Greenburg of Tresona Multimedia said publishers are distancing themselves from the university because they don’t want their music associated with the investigation’s unflattering assessment. Greenburg said the report could affect football halftime shows this season and potentially tarnish the reputation of the Best Damn Band in The Land inside the music industry. (Columbus’s WCMH-TV)
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ou’ve probably seen her before. Captured in grainy 16mm Kodachrome color film, she walks upstream along a sandbar on the opposite edge of a creek. It’s an easy gait, brisk yet casual. Her knees are bent; her elongated arms swing freely at her sides. In a moment suspended in time, she glances back. Large eyes. Flat nose. Well-muscled back, buttocks and thighs. A large pair of conspicuous breasts dangle from her chest like sandbags. She’s big—7 feet and 3 inches tall, some say, and 700 or more pounds. She’s almost entirely covered in dark brown hair.
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To skeptics, she’s just a hoax, an impostor in an ape suit. But to any Bigfoot investigator worth his salt, she’s “Patty.” This iconic footage, known as the Patterson-Gimlin film, is widely considered the gold standard by which every other piece of Bigfoot evidence is weighed. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who runs the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, likens the footage to the Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It’s the best and most controversial proof there is that large and elusive apelike hominoids roam the North American backwoods, and have since antiquity. For
Bigfoot believers, the comparison couldn’t be more apt. No one appreciates this more than Bob Gimlin, an 82-year-old horse handler from Yakima, Wash.—the surviving half of the film’s namesake. When we meet at a diner in Union Gap, he says he’s got “a little gift” for me out in his truck. After rummaging through his black Escalade pickup, he hands me a batteries-not-included “Sasqwatch” that he personally autographed the night before. “That’s a signed Bob Gimlin case right there!” he says, smiling. Gimlin’s a small, wiry old cowboy with an elfin grin tucked under a sparse
handlebar mustache. He rolls into Shari’s Cafe and Pies, his favorite local spot, in a cream-colored cowboy hat, mahogany leather boots and an Ellensburg blue agate stone on his left-hand ring finger. He orders peach ice tea and when I ask him how he is, he points to his left shoulder. He got bucked off a mule a few weeks back, and now his left arm is about as strong and useful as silly putty. The course of Gimlin’s life changed dramatically on Oct. 20, 1967: He and his old friend Roger Patterson spotted Patty (named after Roger’s wife) lumbering along Bluff Creek in Northern California. They’d come to California from Yakima
The iconic image of “Patty” was captured Oct. 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in Northern California. Gimlin’s neighbor claimed he wore an ape suit for the shot, but Bigfoot believers consider it the gold standard by which every other piece of evidence is weighed.
with two saddle horses, a pack horse and a rented Kodak K-100 hand-held camera after Patterson, a longtime Bigfoot enthusiast, caught wind of some giant footprints in the mountains 35 miles from the town of Willow Creek. Gimlin didn’t expect the ensuing hubbub, or that nearly half a century later, the film would still be a subject of intense study and debate in certain circles. Scientists from as far as Russia and London have examined the film and verified its authenticity. Yet his own neighbor down the street has gone on the record claiming that he was the man in the ape suit. For Bigfoot believers like Gimlin, the enigmatic ape is just another rare and endangered species that hasn’t officially been “discovered.” And while almost every corner of land on Earth has been explored, they’ll often point out that the mountain gorilla was considered a myth until one was shot and killed on an expedition through Central Africa’s Verunga Mountains in 1902. Even Jane Goodall has admitted her fascination with the humanoid cryptid, telling a public radio reporter 12 years ago, “I’m sure that they exist.” Forty-seven years since the PattersonGimlin film’s debut, the search for Sasquatch is as intense as ever. Jeff Meldrum, an anatomy and anthropology professor at Idaho State University—and one of the few academics publicly convinced by the body of Bigfoot evidence—is currently conducting his own DNA study of
supposed Sasquatch hair samples. He’s also involved with the Falcon Project, a $500,000 initiative to send an unmanned aircraft system, equipped with thermal imaging and high-definition video cameras, to search for Bigfoot above the treetops. The mission, he says, will likely launch within a year. But any “Bigfooter” will tell you that this relentless quest for the creature demands a heavy price. For years, Gimlin wouldn’t tell his story. The public scrutiny was too much; the ridicule was unbearable. His wife threatened to leave him many, many times. And he was bitter. Patterson cheated Gimlin out of the rights to the film, traveled around the country with it and made a whole bunch of money through movie ticket sales of BIGFOOT: America’s Abominable Snowman! Gimlin never saw a cent. Now, within the passionate Bigfooter community, Gimlin has become a celebrity in his own right. “I don’t hold no regrets now,” he says. “We’ve got the evidence now, the sightings. Thousands of people can’t be wrong when they say they’ve seen ’em.”
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he legend of Sasquatch dates back to Native American oral traditions. The name “Sasquatch,” in fact, is derived from
the Halkomelem Indian word sásq’ets. Even before 19th century newspaper reporters described sightings of “wild men” in the woods—Teddy Roosevelt once wrote about a bipedal “beast creature” who killed a trapper in the Bitterroot Mountains—Native people passed down their own stories of hairy giants wandering the wilderness. The Spokanes called Bigfoot s’cwene’y’ti (“Tall, hairy, smells like burnt hair”). The Wenatchi called them choanito (“night people”). The Sasquatch is skanicum— “stick Indian”—on Colville lands and ohmah—“boss of the woods”—among the Huppa in Northern California. To the Yakama, he’s qah-lin-me—one of his “hairy brothers.” He’s the yeti in the Himalaya, the yowie in Australia and the yeren in the Hubei province in China. Idaho State’s Meldrum hypothesizes that Bigfoot is a relative of the genus Gigantopithecus, a 10-foot-tall prehistoric ape that roamed modern-day China, Vietnam and India more than one million years ago. Ever since the release of the Patterson-Gimlin film, Bigfoot has catapulted into popular culture. His hulking visage has appeared in dozens of movies, television shows, documentaries, ad campaigns and even porny Kindle e-books. ( Virginia Wade’s Moan for Big foot has been downloaded more than 100,000 times on Amazon.) Coleman, the cryptozoologist, credits the 1972 Bigfoot horror docud-
rama The Legend of Boggy Creek with inspiring today’s generation of Bigfoot hunters. In 1987, John Lithgow starred alongside Sasquatch in the box office hit Harry and the Hendersons. In 2011, Animal Planet’s documentary series “Finding Bigfoot” aired. Its second season premiere drew 1.6 million viewers. Back at the diner, when I ask Gimlin who the top Bigfoot researcher in the northwest is, he says one name without
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missing a beat: “Mel Skahan is, as far as I’m concerned, the best there is.” A forestry technician for the Yakama Nation, Skahan’s 47 and stocky with a shaved head and, on his calf, a recently acquired tattoo of a Sasquatch peeking behind a pine tree. When we meet on the reservation on a hot Friday morning, he’s got his 12-year-old tag-along partner, Fayedawn, in tow and a jam-packed schedule planned for the day: a five-hour tour of his past Bigfoot encounters around the 1.2-million-acre Yakama reservation and a visit to his semi-regular radio show, “Beast Mode,” where he and two other Bigfoot enthusiasts talk Sasquatch lore and take questions from listeners. “They’re people just like us, humans just like us,” Skahan explains from behind the wheel of his Honda Pilot as we drive along Signal Peak Highway. “They just choose not to be part of this.” Skahan wasn’t always a believer. But then, in the winter of 1999, he saw his first set of tracks while out on the job, measuring timber plots of Douglas and grand firs near the Toppenish Creek drainage. The footprints were 22 inches in length, longer than his own snowshoes, and the strides at least 5 feet. The toe prints were as big as a deck of cards. He and one of his coworkers followed the tracks for three hours. They came upon a second and a third set of footprints: one was 18 inches long, the other between 8 and 9 inches. “It was mind-boggling,” he says. It made the tiny hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Nine years ago, he had his first—and last—sighting, again on the job, when he says he spotted a Bigfoot beyond a slash pile 170 feet away. It was large, black and glistening, running with its arms straight along its sides, faster than anything he’d ever seen before. He’s also heard Bigfoot vocalizations—screams, howls and growls. He’s had rocks thrown at him. He
says he once came close enough to smell their putrid body odor. We stop the car in the forest where Skahan had his sighting and he mimics a Bigfoot location call for me. “I need my water because this one hurts,” he says. He cups his hands around his mouth and makes three high-pitched calls. Whooop! Whooop! Whooooooop! We wait for a moment in silence when, suddenly, we hear a loud bellowing in the distance. Fayedawn stops pecking
things they’d seen, and he’d chase every report of a possible Bigfoot encounter on every corner of the reservation, hoping for a photograph or a video. He appeared on TV shows and national radio programs. He did talks at schools, museums and summer camps. He invested $25,000 of his own money into tracking equipment, like his thermal camera, and research expeditions. He auditioned for Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot.” Skahan spent so many weekends in the woods with
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on her cellphone, and the two of us exchange looks, mouths agape. Skahan smiles. “That’s a cow,” he whispers. And sure enough, five cattle emerge from the woods. There was a time five or six years ago when Skahan would get calls from his neighbors and coworkers, asking him to look into strange sounds they’d heard or
other big-name Bigfoot investigators, he grew distant from his kids. His wife eventually left him. Skahan remembered something a former reservation Sasquatch researcher had warned him about: “You’re not going to like where it’s going to take you.” He didn’t know what that meant at the time. “I was out being a rock star and just living the outdoor Sasquatch-research
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Mel Skahan, left, and Bob Gimlin greet each other outside Shari’s restaurant in Union Gap, Wash. After refusing to tell his story for years, Gimlin is now a celebrity within the passionate “Bigfooter” community.
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lifestyle. Then it dawned on me: What’s going to happen [to them]?” he says. If the rest of the world got their hands on his research, knew what he knew about Bigfoot, would they drive these creatures off the reservation, or worse, into extinction?
kahan invites me to go on an overnight Bigfoot expedition with him and some of his Bigfooter friends on the Olympic Peninsula the following weekend—as long as I promise not to reveal the location of the campsite in this story. Late Saturday afternoon, he texts me cryptic directions as I drive down a winding, twolane highway. They go something like this: Pass mile marker X and turn right at the next dirt road into the woods. Make a left at the tree with the “Y” painted on its trunk and go past a Z-colored ribbon tethered to a branch. The opening to the campground is a quarter mile away on the right. By the time I arrive, a dozen other people have already pitched their tents in the wooded area around a gravel lot and are reclining in lawn chairs beneath an open-sided tent, swapping stories over a Tupperware box of cookies. They’re mostly white, middle-aged outdoorsy types with kids—and day jobs. For that reason, they ask me not to include their full names. Among them, there are two engineers, one high school vice principal, an archaeologist, an IT analyst, a construction subcontractor and a Department of Natural Resources forest enforcer. About half are current or former members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, or BFRO, the self-described “only scientific research organization exploring the bigfoot/sasquatch mystery.” The group has gained some celebrity in recent years thanks to “Finding Bigfoot,” which stars BFRO founder Matt Moneymaker and his quirky team of field researchers, investigating sightings of the hairy cryptid (see sidebar). One of the campers, Scott Taylor, a Boeing engineer from Spanaway in a camouflage hat and “WATCH FOR SQUATCH” T-shirt, says the BFRO has collected more than 45,000 reports from people who either saw something, heard something or think they did. The BFRO’s online database includes reported sightings from every state but Hawaii, every Canadian province and a handful of Eastern Hemisphere nations. Washington is the undisputed hub of Bigfoot activity with 585 listings on the database. In his eight years as a volunteer investigator for the BFRO, Taylor says he’s personally looked into 136 of them. Many of the campers here say that like Skahan, their fascination with Bigfoot began with an otherwise inexplicable encounter. A woman named Laura tells me she had her first sighting in 2004, while she and her husband were caving at Mount Adams. She remembers walking all
Bigfoot’s existence, but in the age of Photoshop and digital editing, he admits that’s an almost impossible undertaking.
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Bigfoot investigator Paul Graves poses with an infrared camera and his collection of Sasquatch footprint casts.
alone down an abandoned forest road when she heard something scampering behind her. She turned around and there it was, in the distance, crossing the road. She says she realized it wasn’t human when she noticed its hands hanging all the way down to its knees. “It upset my whole worldview,” she says. “I tried to go to sleep that night and the world wasn’t the same place. I thought, ‘If this exists, then what else exists?’ My God.” She kept quiet about it for six years— she didn’t even tell her husband because she was worried he would have her “locked up”—until she couldn’t keep ignoring what she had seen any longer. That’s how she met Taylor, when she filed a report with the BFRO. They talked on the phone for an hour. “It was an incredible relief,” she says, “for him to say, ‘You’re not crazy.’”
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ere’s what I learn from these Bigfooters in the next 24 hours: Never hold a staring contest with a Sasquatch. Keep any white lights turned off and stowed away. They’re preternaturally strong, fast and clever. They have a penchant for chucking giant rocks at people when they’re feeling threatened. They can swim 100 yards without coming up for air. They prey on deer. They fish for salmon. They like peanut butter sandwiches. If you set out a snack for them on a picnic table or back porch, like a bag of apples or watermelon rind, they might leave you a gift in its place—a pile of stones or feathers or 10 dead field mice wrapped in leaves of grass. The females secrete a pleasant, cinnamony odor. The males, according to Taylor, reek of “dead dog, B.O., urine and garbage— mixed together and set on fire.” They mi-
grate with their food supply. Like cats, their eyes glow in the dark. They even have their own spoken language. Taylor fetches his laptop to show us some audio of the “Sierra Sounds,” alleged Bigfoot “chatter” recorded in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains in the 1970s. “They sound like Oriental samurai,” a woman in bright pink lipstick and track pants leans over and tells me. Taylor plays the recording. For the next 10 minutes, we listen to a series of low-pitched snorts, grunts, wails and rapid-fire gibberish. They’re also creatures of tremendous contradictions. Despite their enormous mass, they can weave through the tree line undetected. Despite their super-powered strength, they’re quickly scared off by bright lights. Despite their apparent interest in humans, it seems they’d rather not be found out. “They have a real aversion to video cameras,” one woman tells me. “I don’t know how,” she says. “As soon as you have a video camera on, they’re gone. It’s really interesting. How do they know that it’s there?” And despite countless eyewitness accounts, no Bigfoot body has ever been discovered. A Bigfoot has never been hit by a semi or shot by a hunter’s wayward bullet. There are no bones, no carrion, no fossil record, let alone any Bigfoot-sized scat. “It really comes down to a very simple principle. In science and in biology, if you want to name a new species, you have to have a ‘type specimen,’” says science historian Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, an organization dedicated to rooting out fringe and pseudoscientific beliefs. “Not footprints, not grainy videos and definitely not stories of things that go bump in the night. You have to have an actual body. That’s how it works. ... Without an actual specimen, it just doesn’t count.” This dilemma isn’t lost on Bigfoot researchers, and there’s debate on this point
among the community, separating the Sasquatch “hunters” from the “seekers.” The late Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor at Washington State University and the first academic to seriously study the Bigfoot question, advocated killing a specimen—an idea that doesn’t sit well with any of the Bigfooters I’ve met. In fact, in 1969, Skamania County, in Western Washington, became the first in the country to pass an ordinance prohibiting “any willful, wanton slaying of such creatures”— a felony punishable by five years in prison. The law was amended in 1984, making Skamania County an official “Sasquatch Refuge” and the crime of killing a Bigfoot a one-year, jail-time offense. (The law even forbids an accused Sasquatch killer from claiming insanity in his defense.) Taylor says the BFRO is looking for “irrefutable video or photographs” to prove
till, Bigfoot investigators argue that the evidence weighs heavily on their side. Paul Graves, an investigator in Wenatchee, certainly thinks so, and he’s eager to show me his findings when I visit his house on a Thursday afternoon. Graves is a concrete contractor, musician and investigator for a Bigfoot research group called the Olympic Project. (It’s funded in part by a Nevada multimillionaire named Wally Hersom, who outfitted members with more than 100 top-of-theline infrared game cameras.) Graves, who is 53, lanky, blond and pale with soft blue eyes, calls himself a “citizen scientist,” and he’s been collecting Bigfoot stories all over the region for the past 25 years. He’s amassed some 360 reports, which he’s handwritten and filed in composition notebooks and manila folders. His notes include observations like, “Saw Sasquatch near German Creek outside Longview Washington ... The one he saw had rounder head.” Graves learned how to interview people from his mother, a former Wenatchee World newspaper reporter. Whenever he’d go out to grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations, he’d go up to folks and ask, “Have you ever seen a Bigfoot or heard of one?” “I sometimes equate it to cancer research,” he says of his work. “You see, we’re working on a problem just like cancer; Bigfoot research. We put a lot into it, but we still don’t have the answer. Just because we don’t have the answer doesn’t mean that it’s not real.” His basement office is a shrine to both of his passions—Sasquatch and music. On one side of the room he’s got guitars and camping gear; on the other side, he has his
In 2011, Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot” debuted. Its second season premiere drew 1.6 million viewers.
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map by Joe Weston
own personal museum of Bigfoot memorabilia and artifacts: dozens of plaster casts, books, photographs, posters and knickknacks. He has two of the same autographed pictures of Bob Gimlin posing in his trademark cowboy hat against a Bluff Creek National Forest sign. He gives me one of his CDs, an eight-track album of original Sasquatch Songs. His acoustic guitar ballad “Bigfoot and Butterflies” includes lyrics like, “One’s so big, he’s the king of the hill./ The other’s so fragile, she’s the queen of the mill./ Together they’re like the keepers of the land./ Watching over everything with a soft hand.” In his fridge, he’s got what he says may be a tuft of Bigfoot fur. He pulls it out of an envelope lying next to a big box of Northwest ground beef. It’s a matted lump of straight brown hair, curiously squareshaped and reeking of fish food. In 2010, Graves captured what he says is one of his most compelling, “blow your mind” pieces of evidence. He was hired by “Finding Bigfoot” for an episode recreating the Patterson-Gimlin film. While he was hiking in the woods near the Bluff Creek drainage, he says he recorded a video, with a small contour camera on his back, showing a Bigfoot running at extraordinary speed between a set of trees. “They just glide, just like this,” he says, moving his hand back and forth. “Like a ghost, like a ninja. It’s moving so fast you can’t even see it hardly in the film. When you slow it down, oh my gosh, there it is.” We gather around his computer and he presses play. About four minutes in, a dark, unidentifiable blur shivers between the trees.
photo by Young Kwak
Graves believes this patch of fur may have come from a Bigfoot.
“Weird, huh?” he says. “That something could move that fast.”
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ow watch this,” says Dave, the archaeologist, handing me his night-vision monocular back at the Bigfooters’ campsite. “It’s infrared light. So if you look at it with your naked eye, you can’t see anything, right?” No, you can’t. But through the scope of his night vision, the world is green and
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radiant, surrounded on all sides by coniferous trees scraping the sky. It’s 10 until 10 and we’ve just set off from the trailhead and into the inky darkness. We’ve split off into two groups—Taylor leads mine—and we tromp along the hiking path, guided only by shadows, starlight and Taylor’s red-light headlamp, stopping briefly a few times to listen for rustling in the underbrush. About 40 minutes in, we reach the end of the trail. “Let’s stop the lights and stand here about 10 or 15 minutes,” Taylor says. Laura adjusts her “Super Ear” sound enhancer and Taylor sneaks off to take a whiz. I ask Skahan if he’ll do a howl.
“I’ll call in more cows!” he says. But he takes a deep breath anyway and Taylor radios the other group. Woahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Skahan’s got a reputation for being the best howler in the group (“I’m not even Obi-Wan to Mel’s Yoda,” one camper tells me), and it’s obvious why. His howl is a long, deep, sonorous baritone, his pitch perfectly steady. It echoes throughout the forest. Skahan howls again and we wait in total silence. Beyond the woods, you can hear the whooshing waves of the Pacific Ocean and the soft trickling of a nearby
culvert. A foghorn blows in the distance. A twig snaps. Six minutes go by. Nothing. “Well, I’m gonna call it,” Laura whispers. “They’re not much for knocking out here—are they, Scott?” “No, not really.” “How about rock clacking?” “Hmm,” he pauses. “No, not really that much either.” “Maybe they all went down to get some seafood.” Taylor chuckles. “Maybe they’re back terrorizing base camp.” We wait another three minutes before heading back down the trail to turn in for the night. And no, there’s no Bigfoot at base camp either. The guys get a crackling fire going and I stumble off to my tent. The next morning, there’s no Bigfoot activity to report, and the overwhelming consensus is that one weekend in the woods is far too short to expect anything. “They can’t stay in one place permanently,” Taylor explains. “They could be just up the road at West Twin or the Lyre River,” another says. “Especially if there’s salmon coming in.” “Can we come back in two weeks?” After breakfast, we say our goodbyes and I make the long, six-and-a-half-hour drive home. We didn’t find Bigfoot last night, but I think I stumbled on something else. And more than I ever would have imagined, I want to come back, too. editor@missoulanews.com
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[arts]
Fire in the belly The Texas Playgirl gets her entertainment thrills in Montana by Sarah Aswell
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
K
imberlee Carlson is baffled by LinkedIn. The social media website gives users a single line to describe your career—and one line isn’t nearly enough. “I think I settled on ‘writing professional,’” she says, “though that doesn’t quite describe what I do.” That’s an understatement. If LinkedIn gave Carlson the room, the list would look something like this: professional dancer, food stylist, former Playboy bunny, jazz musician, country singer, television producer, Feldenkrais movement therapist, cookbook author, salsa teacher, photographer and festival organizer. And that’s just an outline. The seemingly scattered collection of jobs she’s taken across the country mostly do fall under one theme, however: entertainment. And while a lot has changed in her life over the last four decades—most notably, moving from the entertainment hubs of Los Angeles and New York City to Missoula—her interest in entertaining others has never wavered. Carlson’s personality matches her résumé. The 56-year-old, with shocks of black and white hair falling around her face, seems to be in restless pur-
suit of new activities. As she doodles in a notebook, she speaks in tangents about her life of art, music, hustling and gigs. Her newest project is a genrebending album called She’ll Get You, which she’s releasing this week with local musician Louie Bond. The act, called Louie Bond and the Texas Playgirl, includes original tracks and standards that blend country, swing and jazz. Carlson’s interest in jazz came to her in a roundabout way. She moved from her home state of Texas to California at age 18 and took dancing gigs throughout the late-’70s and early-’80s, including with the freestyle dance group the L.A. Knockers. That experience led to a stint gigging in New York City and waitressing (complete with rabbit tail) at the Playboy Club, where she befriended a jazz musician and learned to sing songs from the jazz canon. Her developing talents got her a few onscreen roles—as a backup singer in a scene from Rodney Dangerfield’s Back to School and as a dancer in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. But not long after that she found herself in a very different role—as a producer and creative director for TBS’s
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“Dinner and a Movie” television series, where hosts screen a movie and cook a meal that relates to the movie (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle was paired with “baby-back ribs.”) “It was an off-the-wall comedy cooking show and we had a really fun run,” she says. “But after nine years, the show went through some transitions and I was given the choice to move to Atlanta and produce the show or to take a severance. I took the chance for some serious time off.” Part of the problem was that since she was devoting so much time to television production, she didn’t have time to do what she really loved: dabbling. On a whim, Carlson visited a friend in Montana and fell in love with the landscape. In 2004 she bought property in Stevensville and later moved to Missoula. Her projects became more personal and her stage more intimate. She started teaching salsa, singing locally and spending time in the garden. She also finally had time to work on her bachelor’s degree; she’s now a non-traditional dance student at the University of Montana.
Of course, her life is far from serene. On the contrary, it seems to be in constant motion. Besides Louie Bond and the Texas Playgirl, she fronts the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio and plays in Western Union, a Western swing band. She co-produces the Ruby Jewel Jamboree, a bluegrass concert series. Carlson says she appreciates the smaller community of artists that have just as much fun jamming in her backyard as on stage. “There was that old paradigm of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney: ‘My mom’s got a barn and I’ve got some costumes, let’s put on a show!’” she says. “I just love putting on shows. I have a fire in the belly for it. I love to create things. Everywhere I look, I see empty palettes. “I keep thinking that I’m going to settle down a little bit and my garden will get bigger,” she adds. “But then, honestly, I would probably want to do some sort of show about my garden.” Louie Bond and the Texas Playgirl play an album release show at the Top Hat Tue., Sept. 30, at 8 PM, with Western Union and special guests. arts@missoulanews.com
[music]
Tiny bombs Frankie Cosmos inflicts sweet darkness Frankie Cosmos’ lyrics serve as little paper cuts—tiny assaults that seem all the more damaging because they’re nestled in what sound like sweet acoustic bedroom recordings. In “Sleep Song,” she sings, “I’ll be here all night feelin’ totally fucked/ wondering what tomorrow will be like, and stayin’ up./ I guess I just make myself the victim, like you said.../ it all makes sense now, thanks so much.” Is “thanks so much” sarcasm or self-effacing defeat? It seems like both, and that ambivalence gives the album Frankie Cosmos its complexity. Frankie Cosmos is the singer-songwriter name for Greta Kline (daughter of actors Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline), and her newest album, Quick Songs, which includes “Sleep Song,” is as fleeting as the title implies. All tracks are under two minutes and three of them are under a minute. According to her Bandcamp page, the short tracks are a product of logistics because she and her friends challenged themselves to writing one song per day. But the short form has an interesting artistic effect, too. Kline is able to provide surprisingly complicated emotions in simple snapshots. In “Family with a Dog,” for instance, she wants a family with a dog and a “boyfriend full of love,” but halfway through she delves into an existential tangent, singing, “I see a lot more evil these days. I seem a lot more evil, too.”
Like Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, Frankie Cosmos’ songs are about the dark and uncomfortable corners of love. But they’re almost spookier in their brevity, like catching a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye. Kline is part of a tradition (a newish one, mind you, that may have started with riot grrrls) that’s somehow simultaneously feminist and also confessional—proving that even the coolest women end up subjecting themselves to degradations they shouldn’t. It’s honest and sometimes maddeningly short. It’s a sleepy little time bomb. (Erika Fredrickson) Frankie Cosmos plays Stage 112 Tue., Sept. 30, at 10 PM with Porches, FUULS and Wrinkles. $5/ $7 for ages 18 to 20.
The Maxies, Greenland Is Melting The scenic capital city of Nuuk, Greenland, is nestled around starkly beautiful fjords 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Nuuk is home to two museums, one taxi service and 16,000 people. A handful of those people somehow found guitars and fell in love with punk rock, and those people are in The Maxies, the self-proclaimed “best band in the world from Greenland.” The band’s home base is now in the considerably less icy Southern California, where it’s much easier to tour from. ( You might recall seeing The Maxies open for Reel Big Fish at the Wilma in January.) The band’s 2011 full length, Greenland is Melting, unleashes a
half-hour onslaught of bouncy pop punk and ska with chugging power chords, twinkly keyboards and snotty vocals about drinking and clubbing seals. Writing brief pop songs leaves plenty of time for partying, playing around with memorable album art and coming up with stage names like “Bi-Polar Bear Tom” and “Cli-Maxie.” Better catch The Maxies now while you can: The band’s Facebook warns, “If you don’t like us, then your taste is only in your mouth! We will be in U.S. and A. until we are deported.” (Kate Whittle) The Maxies play the ZACC Mon., Sept. 29, at 8 PM, along with Eat Strike and Confidence Man. All ages. Cover TBA.
Kytami Turns out the best way to throw a wrench into the occasional monotony of electronica music is not with a wrench at all, but with a violin. Canadian fiddler Kytami spreads an unexpected but more than welcome acoustic icing on otherwise ordinary beats. Her eponymous album from 2012 is filled with hiphop and bass and drum beats, and it tends to hold back in every aspect—with the exception of her cool violin solos that shift between Celtic-fusion and melodies that resemble a chase scene. Born Kyla LaBlanc and based in Victoria, B.C., Kytami was classically trained in the violin from age 3 before picking up fiddling and helping to found
the Celtic/Punjabi mashup Delhi 2 Dublin. It bears mentioning because without all that, who would have thought to mix classical music stylings and heavy hip-hop like on “Bass is High,” or let a fiddle lead the industrial-sounding “Mek’s Reel.” Kytami’s four-stringed skills might turn electronica traditionalists, or at least attract fans of good violin players. And her live videos on YouTube show a much more engaging onstage experience than most solo DJ shows I’ve seen. Innovation wins the day. (Brooks Johnson) Kytami, Jay Tablet and DJ Generic play Stage 112 Thu., Sept. 25 at 9 PM. $7, $5 in advance.
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[theater]
Postbellum song Holocene takes Walt Whitman into the future by Melissa Mylchreest
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Nick Pavelich, center, stars in Viscosity Theatre’s Holocene.
At one point in his epic poem, “Song of Myself,” from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman asks, “What do you think has become of the young and old men?/ And what do you think has become of the women and children?” In the context of the poem, the line is philosophical, gentle almost; where do we go when we depart this earth? What happens to our corporeal being, and what happens to our stories? But taken another way, it reads as postbellum, a dark musing on what becomes of the populace when a civilization comes undone. Whitman’s words and questions claim a prominent role in Hugh Bickley’s new play, Holocene. Characters read and quote from “Song of Myself,” and refer to Whitman as an iconic, god-like figure from out of the past. But make no mistake: This play has none of the bucolic, navel-gazing nature that so many often associate with Whitman. Instead, Bickley manages a true triumph by exploring both readings of the above question, the gentle and the depraved—often with laugh-out-loud humor. And it’s in this balance that Holocene’s genius shines. Set in a post-apocalyptic landscape, Holocene centers on the former school teacher Benny (played by Kurtis Hassinger), his wife Starla (Kate Scott), and a trio of young revolutionaries. Together they comprise a theater troupe determined to produce a play capable of bringing peace to a war-torn, walled-in land, plagued by battling clans, scarce crops and (of course) zombies. It spoils nothing to reveal that the play-within-a-play soon disintegrates, and the motley cast finds itself grappling with far larger and more compelling concerns. Chief among them are the bonds that bind a family together (in some cases, literally), the razor’s edge between madness and sanity, treason, love, the powers of words and names, and how to fashion a new world out of detritus and fear. If it sounds like a hackneyed or overused plot, think again. It bears fleeting resemblances to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and even to the well-loved Game of Thrones, but Holocene avoids comparisons by treading carefully and gracefully around clichés.
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Yes, this play is about a future world rife with knives and garbage, steampunk-esque clothing, barren women, malnourishment, a malevolent government and (I’ll say it again) zombies. But it’s also about so much more. It’s a play that uses language so skillfully and elegantly as to leave the audience spellbound long after the curtain call. It manages to maintain a poetic feel—an attentiveness to sound, a circularity of plot, a vividness of imagery—all the way through. It’s a play that begs to be seen more than once, if only for the opportunity to fully absorb the lines and the gorgeous, intricate interplay between them. Holocene is Bickley’s debut as a playwright (he’s better known as a local actor) and he has unquestionably hit a home run here. He, set designer Hannah Appell and director Sam Williamson did an excellent job utilizing the Palace—usually a space reserved for live music—to its best post-apocalyptic effect. The actors are top-notch, which is no surprise coming from a play produced by Missoula’s Viscosity Theatre. Sean Kirkpatrick plays the mentally disabled and prophetic Chicken Wing, a character he nails. Nick Pavelich delivers an equally stellar performance as Elliot Loveless, a role that ultimately challenges both actor and audience. It’s easy to see why Bickley chose to use Whitman’s writing as a touchstone; prescient, timeless, his words themselves contain multitudes. The characters learn from the words, and ultimately enact them as they embark into the future. “You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,” Whitman wrote in “Song of Myself.” “You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.” In the process, the characters’ world becomes astonishing and alive—and so does the play itself. Holocene continues at the Palace Thu., Sept. 25, and Sun., Sept. 28 through Fri., Oct. 3, at 7 PM nightly. $12. Visit viscositytheatre.org. arts@missoulanews.com
[arts]
Run, artist, run Following Patrick Cook’s big, bold life by Erika Fredrickson
of their writing environment, It was only three years their creative space. ago that Patrick Cook’s name started cropping up What art endeavors appeal everywhere. He helped live to you most? score a silent film at the PC: I think music is one 2012 Big Sky Documentary of my great loves—singing esFilm Festival, and a few pecially—and I’ve been realizmonths later his band, ing I spend less time with it Grandfatherglen, provided than other things because I’m music for Missoula Commuso attached to the idea of it. If nity Theatre’s production of it became something less than Godspell for which Cook the dream [of it] it would be also played the role of Jesus so much more disappointing Christ. When the Indy wrote than failing at something else. about the swell of MissoulaDoes that make sense at all? based Kickstarter camIt’s a silly fear, I guess. paigns, Cook’s name showed up as producer/creYou were home-schooled by ative consultant among local your mother. What lessons music video projects, album did she teach that have fed releases and films, including your ambitiousness? the James Welch-adapted photo courtesy of Mark Cluney Patrick Cook PC: I think what Mom Winter in the Blood. In the last year and a half, he’s been collaborating on a did to feed my ambitiousness was that she really listened. graphic novel, a feature film, children’s books and a If I had some high and lofty plan to invent something new literary journal, New Nowhere, which he created she didn’t squash it. She took it seriously and asked thoughtful questions and provided insight and reading with Missoula photographer Mark Cluney. Early this year, Cook learned that his mother was materials... My sister Danielle and I used to put on these diagnosed with an aggressive bone cancer. He decided plays and radio productions and Mom would always get to raise money and morale by running solo 600 miles the biggest kick out of them. She’s still the best audience (pushing a cart full of his belongings) from the North and I love going home just to try new joke material. It’s Dakota border to Missoula along Highway 200 in a like the comedy club where you never bomb. campaign called “Running Home.” Cook emailed us from the top of a jungle gym on the Hi-Line—the only What were you working on before this run? PC: I took a break from filmic endeavors and place he could get WiFi—to talk about his newest projects and the campaign, which he calls his biggest emo- took a musical contract in Fort Peck for five weeks this summer playing Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly tional challenge yet. Story. It was incredibly challenging/stretching/rewardWhat made you decide to run from the North ing and always such a joy to work in that theater community. Andy Meyers is the artistic director out there Dakota border to Missoula? Patrick Cook: I did the North Dakota border to and the man is a genius. Missoula because I wanted home to be the focus … and I wanted to tackle something really challenging How is your mom doing? PC: She’s doing pretty well. She always seems to physically that I was pretty afraid of. [I’m] trying to support my mother emotionally and financially be- be in good spirits, but that’s because she’s living life cause she’s responsible for my whole understanding in beast mode right now and I don’t think she’d let of “home.” And, really, my family is my home, they on if she was having a bad day. just happen to be mostly in Missoula. If they weren’t, I guess I’d just run wherever they were. I spoke with What do you think about while you are running? PC: I think about my feet and how they hurt, an older gentleman yesterday who said “You shoulda run the other way. The way you’re goin’ is all uphill,” about … how crazy this episode of Radiolab is or to which I responded with muffled sobs. Not really. how interesting Pete Holmes is. I pray. Simple prayers, usually. Just gratitude for the day and surBut that image seemed funnier to me. roundings ... Prayers for my mom and family. When Let’s talk about some of your artistic projects. Where the endorphins kick in I start to think more about story ideas. I disappear a little bit into daydream scedid the idea of New Nowhere come from. PC: New Nowhere came from a conversation with narios, most of which involve Jay-Z pulling alongside Mark Cluney a couple of years ago about wanting to me in a Shelby Mustang and chatting about my future make a lit mag with photography—a reading experience for a while. I jest, but that’d be cool, right?! Visit runninghome.org to donate or find upwhere you could see the eyes of the author and sort of get into their world a little bit. In this first issue there’s dates on Patrick Cook’s run. a beautiful full-page black-and-white portrait of each author and scattered throughout their pieces are images efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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[film]
On the money The Drop picks up where great films left off by Molly Laich
Alley-catting around.
Does anybody remember that scene in the 1973 movie Serpico when Al Pacino’s character comes across a box of puppies for sale on the streets of New York? They’re English sheep dogs peddled by a couple of girls selling them for $10 a piece like they’re Girl Scout cookies, and Serpico can’t wait to get his hands on one. The scene represents his coming up in the world; work is good on the force and he’s got money and time enough for a dog now. But more than that, it gives us a glimpse of Serpico’s capacity for tenderness. I’ll bet the filmmakers were concerned about getting the plot just right, and yet years later, the thing with the dog is the only scene I remember from that movie. I bring this up because it’s that same attention to nuance and character that makes this week’s film, The Drop, so special. The late great film critic Roger Ebert once said, “It’s not what it’s about, but how it’s about what it’s about.” The Drop is a prime example of that principle in action. The film stars Tom Hardy as Bob Saginowski. He tends bar with his cousin Marv ( James Gandolfini) at a dive in Brooklyn that also functions as a drop spot for dirty money. It’s business as usual until the bar gets robbed and some important people lose something like $5,000 in the sting. It seems like a paltry sum compared to the big stakes we’re used to seeing, but in fact it’s a matter of life and death. There’s a sickly desperation in play here. The characters are always standing out in the cold. They’ve got their hands in their pockets. This isn’t the Brooklyn your hipster cousin moved to; it’s that other side, with accents. Director Michaël R. Roskam’s earlier work includes a Belgian picture called Bullhead, nominated for best foreign film in 2011. Dennis Lehane wrote the screenplay adapted from his own short story, “Animal Rescue.” He also wrote similarly moody novelsturned-films like Shutter Island (2010) and Mystic River (2003). Hopefully we’ll see more from them in the future. There’s something fishy about this robbery; some facts are uncovered along the way while others
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remain mysterious. Detective Torres ( John Ortiz) comes around and seems off task with his questions, but maybe he’s right on the money? Meanwhile, Bob finds an abused pitbull puppy abandoned in a mysterious woman’s trashcan. Is his tenderness for the sick animal meant to illustrate a softer side, as in Serpico, or is it more complicated? The mysterious woman, Nadia (Noomi Rapace), is fearful and suspect of Bob, until a strange friendship develops between the two of them with Rocco the puppy at the center. Who knows if Nadia has any connection to the robbery, but in a neighborhood this entrenched, it seems likely. It’s heartbreaking to know in your bones that this is Gandolfini’s last performance, particularly because he brings so much to the table. It might sound like typecasting to put him in a New York crime drama, but he’s not Tony Soprano here. He’s on the bottom rung of a sad crime ladder and he wears the stress of that fact all over his face. All the performances are stellar, but the real shining light of the movie focuses squarely on English actor Hardy. You might remember Hardy as Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. Here, as the unassuming Brooklynraised bartender, he is likewise unrecognizable from any of his previous roles. He plays the character with an understated charm that I still can’t put my finger on. Hardy’s is the kind of performance you want to watch more than once in order to soak up all the complexities. It’s enough that he carries the picture when we think the story is one way, but just wait until it turns on its head. That’s the thing about The Drop—you don’t know which direction you should be looking in. Sitting in the theater, I got that special, coveted feeling around the halfway point when I realized I didn’t know what was going to happen. How often do the movies ever deliver on that feeling anymore? Go get it while it’s hot. The Drop continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] rector Benedict Andrews’ acclaimed rendition of the Tennessee Williams classic. Screening at the Roxy Tuesdays at 7 PM through Oct. 14.
OPENING THIS WEEK THE BOXTROLLS A young boy raised by cave-dwelling garbage collectors (parenting is getting so avante garde these days, amirite?) must save his buddies from an exterminator. Starring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris and Nick Frost. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.
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.
THE EQUALIZER A former CIA operative gets called out of retirement to rescue a young damsel and defeat “ultra-violent Russian gangsters,” as opposed to all the sweet and cuddly Russian gangsters out there. Starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas and Chloë Grace Moretz. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
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.
GOD HELP THE GIRL The dude from Belle and Sebastian directs a tale of romance and quirky hat-wearing musicians. Starring Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Sept. 26-28 at 7 and 9 PM.
THE TRIP TO ITALY Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat pasta and crack jokes as semi-fictional versions of themselves. Not rated. Wilma.
A MOST WANTED MAN A half-Chechen, half-Russian winds up at the center of an international intrigue. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Daniel Brühl. Rated R. Pharaohplex, Wilma.
Watts, Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum. Screening at the Top Hat Mon., Sept. 29 at 8 PM.
MY LITTLE PONY: RAINBOW ROCKS Canterlot High is hosting a battle of the bands, and the Rainbooms team up against the evil Dazzlings. Princess Twilight has to step in and kick some neon-colored behind. Not rated. Screening at Carmike 12 Sept. 27 and 28 at noon and Oct. 1 at 7 PM.
THE ZERO THEOREM Terry Gilliam’s latest feature finds computer nerd Qohen Leth getting distracted from lofty ideals with a sexay lady. Starring Christoph Waltz, Lucas Hedges and Mélanie Thierry. Screening at the Roxy Fri., Sept. 26-Sun., Sept. 28 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND Princess Nausicaä must help her people and battle giant poisonous bugs in the process. English version features the voices of Allison Lohman, Patrick Stewart and Uma Thurman. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 1 at 8 PM as part of a Hayao Miyazaki retrospective. TWELVE MONKEYS A convict goes back in time to 1996 to stop a devastating manmade virus from destroying humanity. Starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt. Screening Thu., Sept. 25 at the Roxy at 8 PM as part of the Terry Gilliam series. THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD Culture-jammers dress up as executives to expose corporate malfeasance and industry evildoers in a witty 2009 documentary. Spoiler alert: they did not fix the world. Starring Reggie
“Anybody wanna see our proof of Sasquatch?” God Help the Girl opens Friday at the Roxy.
NOW PLAYING AS ABOVE, SO BELOW Explorers venturing into catacombs underneath Paris find dark secrets, personal demons and probably a lot of baguette crumbs. Starring Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman and Edwin Hodge. Rated R. Carmike 12, Showboat.
Ashley Judd and Nathan Gamble. Rated PG. 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. (See Film.) 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 PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. 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.
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.
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.
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,
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Scully—I mean Gillian Anderson, ahem, plays Blanche and Ben Foster is Lone Stanley in di-
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 Gave Up ‘Downton’ For This” Stevens and David Harbour. Rated R. 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 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Keep it simple, stupid by SOUStown CHEF Among my group of friends, I’m usually the one tasked with covering the food. I bring the main dish for gatherings. I work the grill (and prep the spice rub hours before) for the barbecues, even when the gang’s not at my place. If we’re on a road trip, I’m the one who makes dinner reservations or scrounges through the Podunk corner market to scrape together something delicious. ( You’d be amazed at what one can do with Spam, but that’s a column for another day). This is fun for me, and I’ve never much bothered to question my role in the group dynamic. Only recently has it occurred to me that my responsibilities are partly due to the fact that my friends are utter idiots within a kitchen. We’re talking complete ignorance beyond grilled cheese sandwiches and unwrapping microwaveable burritos. I’m convinced the only times they eat anything halfway healthy is when I’ve been kindly invited over/enticed by the promise of booze. How they have managed to survive this long without the onset of multiple maladies is a mystery I’d prefer not to solve. Some things, like mayonnaise, are better left untouched. What makes my friends’ ignorance so maddening is that it’s not hard to make some pretty basic things that’ll impress your friends, taste delicious and, in some cases, qualify as health-conscious. We’re talking about dummy-proof snacks fit for football Sunday, family dinners or after-school snacks. In the interest of saving my friends from gout and/or diabetes and/or morbid obesity, and at the risk of sounding a bit like a Portland foodie with some of these more artisanal suggestions, here are my three favorites: Killer kale chips These are a slight variation of what every yuppie mom has been bragging about ever since you forgot her name at the last back-to-school meeting. The twist? A little extra kick. What you need: 12 large Tuscan kale leaves (rinsed, dried, cut lengthwise in half, with center ribs and stems removed), 1 tablespoon of olive oil, ½ teaspoon of smoked paprika, 1 teaspoon of garlic pow-
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der, ¾ teaspoon of chili powder, ½ teaspoon of onion powder and ¼ teaspoon of salt. How to make it: Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Toss kale with oil in large bowl. Sprinkle with spices. Arrange leaves in single layer on 2 large baking sheets. Bake until crisp, about 30 minutes for flat leaves and up to 33 minutes for wrinkled leaves. Transfer leaves to rack to cool. Carrot fries What’s up, doc? Carrot fries. Carrot fries are what’s up. Those two words—carrots and fries— sound as wrong together as “P!nk” and “folk” (or “kale” and “chips,” for that matter), but these are really good. What you need: 2 pounds large carrots (peeled), 6 tablespoons white rice flour (optional), 6 tablespoons canola oil, 2 teaspoons garam masala, 2 teaspoons salt. How to make it: Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Cut carrots into french-fry-like sticks, about 3 inches long. Toss carrots in large bowl with rice flour. Shake off excess flour and spread carrots in a single layer on baking sheets. Bake 7 minutes. While they’re cooking, combine oil, garam masala and salt in large bowl. Gently toss carrots with oil mixture. Return carrots to sheet pan and bake until lightly browned, about 1012 minutes. (Note: you can do this same recipe minus the flour, if you prefer. If so, coat the carrots in oil and cook for about 20 minutes, total.) Salami chips Enough with the veggies already, amirite? What you need: 15-20 thin slices of deli salami, ¼ cup of dijon mustard and 1 tablespoon of chopped thyme. How to make it: Heat oven to 375 degrees. Arrange the salami in a single layer on a baking sheet(s). Bake until crisp, about 12-15 minutes. While they’re cooking, mix the mustard and thyme in a small bowl. Serve as a dipping sauce for the salami chips.
[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Welcome Back Students!! Happy Fall!! Fall is Bernice's time of year. The smell of fresh baked goods waft around the Hip Strip as Bernice's prepares to serve a rockin' cup of joe, danishes, cookies, croissants, muffins, and a whole lot more. The crisp Missoula air is the perfect complement to a slice of apple pie in the afternoon or a warm Tipus Chai around 6 pm. Fall BBQ's are topped off with Bernice's Parkerhouse Rolls, Curried Chicken Salad and an 8" Chocolate Chocolate cake for dessert. Stop by the UC, COT and Book Exchange to see what goodies Bernice's is showcasing this school year. A spinach croissant just before class is a great wake-me-up! xoxo bernice. $$$ 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 9/25 Big Brains Trivia 8-10 pm. Friday 9/26 Live Music with Steve Kalling 6-9 pm. Monday 9/29 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 9/30 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-
fees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT' SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.
SUSHI TUESDAYS 5pm to close • Reservations accepted.
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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! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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Hidden Legend mead HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: Mead is about as simple as it gets when it comes to alcoholic drinks—it’s water and honey fermented with yeast. But Hidden Legend Winery in Victor bottles variations on that recipe, adding huckleberries, apple or peach, mulling it in spices or using dark and light honeys to produce a spectrum of flavors.
Elizabeth I were all fans—and it’s Eric the Red’s glowing warrior mug that has made it on the Hidden Legend label.
History of Hidden Legend: When Schultz was in eighth grade, he did a science experiment involving fermentation, which piqued his interest. Years later, when he and Lisa moved to Montana, they dephoto by Cathrine L. Walters cided to make wine, but were How it tastes: Mead is a disappointed in the quality of little like wine blended with honey, so if you’re the kind of person who grapes available. In 1989, a neighbor brought can only stomach a stout beer, it might not them a bucket of crystallized honey—and the be up your alley. But unlike some meads, rest is history. Hidden Legend’s are prepared on the lessWhere to find it: 1345 Highway 93 in saccharine side, which means you won’t get Victor, located in the Sheafman Plaza across a sugar hangover after the first few sips. from Pioneer Log Homes. The tap room is Legend of mead: Ken Schultz, who open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m owns Hidden Legend with his wife, Lisa, has to 6 p.m. Go to hiddenlegendwinery.com for a favorite story about the origins of mead. “A distribution info. —Erika Fredrickson long, long time ago, before the invention of writing and polyester, a lucky human stumHappiest Hour celebrates western Monbled upon the contents of a beehive. The beehive had been left out in the rain, and the tana watering holes. To recommend a bar, honey inside had fermented. Behold; mead!” bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, Apparently, King Tut, Eric the Red and Queen email editor@missoulanews.com.
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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String theory. Old Crow Medicine Show plays the Adams Center Tue, Sept. 30. Doors at 6:30, show at 7:30 PM. $22-$35, advance tickets at GrizTix.com and Griz Tix outlets. All ages.
THURSDAYSEPT25 Be-leaf me when I say the Get Lost For Good food drive is a chance to run through the Missoula Maze for free, when you donate some nonperishable food to the Missoula Food Bank. 1010 Clements, 10 AM-8 PM.
The annual UC Homecoming Art Fair displays all sorts of handy wares, pretty trinkets and cute knickknacks in the University Center atrium, Sept. 25-27 throughout the day. Free to browse.
issues and addictions, with music and food at Caras Park. 3-9 PM. Mayor John Engen reads a proclamation at 4:30 PM. Free.
The Speak Up Speak Out celebration honors folks overcoming mental health
The Soup and Spud Fest! presents an evening of soup ‘n taters at the Fort Mis-
nightlife
soula Native Plant Garden, 5-7 PM. $5. Proceeds benefit the Montana Natural History Center’s efforts to maintain the garden. Visit montananaturalist.org. Start Thursday with a sizzle when Mary Place and Blue Moon host a smoky jazz Happy Hour at the Union
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ron squared Once upon a time in the year 1960, a Minnesota kid recently transplanted to New York landed one of his first gigs at a nursing home. The kid turned out to be Bob Dylan. The helpful New Yorker who found him a venue was Ron Gluck. When you start to look through old folkie music history, Gluck keeps popping up, like Where’s Waldo. Gluck shared the stage with Pete Seeger, played in a group called The Harvesters and performed at a White House concert for President Lyndon B. Johnphoto courtesy of Ron Jalopy
WHO: Ron Meissner and Ron Gluck WHERE: Crystal Theatre WHEN: Sat., Sept. 27 HOW MUCH: $8 at the door
son. Gluck stepped off the stage to work as a physical therapist for most of his career, but as it explains in his bio, he “never put the ‘66 Martin d35 down.” Ron Gluck one day met Ron Meissner, a Missoula-based guitarist who comes from a more swing and jazz tradition. (Meissner pops up most often lately in the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio.) The pair
NFL at the Lucky Strike Come cheer for your favorite teams • Food & drink specials
Ron ‘n Ron typically play together when Meissner’s in New York, since the elder Gluck doesn’t travel often. Missoula gets a chance to witness the magic Saturday when the Rons play folk and blues at the Crystal. It’s safe to say everyone will be on a first-name basis by the end of the show.
Club, with tunes from 5:30-8 PM. No cover.
Books. Proceeds benefit women’s health services in Ravalli County.
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
Let the Acousticals’ bluegrass tunes pick your brain at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover. Turning the Wheel Missoula brings the Tapestry Class, a creative and improvisational dance class with tools for stress relief, to Headwaters Dance Com-
Learn to Bowl in 4 weeks for FREE! • Fall leagues still open to adults, seniors and youths.
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gets together to jam and release music together, sometimes as “Ron Pics on Ron.” The 2003 album Wanderin’ is a swinging, bluesy treat, with originals and a couple standards. The guitar work is astute, but not so technical that the musical layman can’t kick back and enjoy the mellow tunes.
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pany studio, 1042 Monroe St. Meets Thursdays from 6:30-8 PM through Nov. 20. $10 per class, or $110 for entire series. Advance registration required by emailing lulu@turningthewheel.org or calling 544-7561. The original Hugh Bickley play Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25, Sept.
[calendar] 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12-$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets. (See Theater.) 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. 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. If Romeo ain’t got Julie yet, seal the deal when Dark Horse Country Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9 PM. No cover. 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. Blame Canada when violinist extraordinaire Kytami blows minds at Stage 112, along with Jay Tablet and the one and only DJ Generic, who “trains himself both physically by smoking a pack a day and intellectually by reading 50 Shades of Gray wearing a DJ costume in order to go hard.� That is a specific hobby, right there. 9 PM. $5$7. 18-plus. (See Music.) Local hip-hop enthusiast Linkletter puts on a CD release party at the Palace, and y’all are invited to come get down. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher. 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.) 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. 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.
FRIDAYSEPT26 UM marks American Indian Heritage Day all day with events at the Payne Family Center, starting with sunrise ceremony at 7 AM, crafts fair from 10 AM-1 PM and traditional games on the Oval at 12:30 PM. Visit umt.edu/events for more.
The UM School of Journalism, producer of highly esteemed reporters and goofy calendar editors alike, celebrates 100 years of educatin’ with an open house and assorted other activities for alumni at the Don Anderson Hall. Fingers crossed they got a bouncy house like we suggested. Check out jour.utm.edu. The annual UC Homecoming Art Fair displays all sorts of handy wares, pretty trinkets and cute knickknacks in the University Center atrium, Sept. 25-27 throughout the day. Free to browse. 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 10:15-10:45 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. As part of Banned Books Week, the Missoula Public Library hosts a special screening of the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. 3 PM. Free.
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. The Joan Zen Band provides tunes for the Marcus Daly Specialty Clinic fundraiser at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, with raffle tickets and tunes in the evening. Visit bitterrootbrewing.com. Kick back with Threepio and Artoo when El 3-OH! 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. We promise it won’t be corny when Corrie Williamson reads
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from Sweet Husk, her new collection of poetry on Perugia Press. Shakespeare and Co, 103 S. Third St. 7 PM. Andrea Harsell sings for her supper while you munch on yours at the outdoor terrace at The Keep, 201 Ben Hogan Drive. 7-10 PM. No cover. Helena’s Judy Fjell and Missoula’s Beth Youngblood bring heartfelt tunes to the Crystal Theater, along with Tami Pallingston. Reception at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $12, tickets available at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave.
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Wear your sunglasses at night when synthy DJ Com Truise (great name, dude) lights up the Palace with LED boards and tunes like it was nineteen-eighty-five, along with Survive. 9 PM. $12/$10 in advance at Ticketfly; check out Seafarer Entertainmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page for linkage. Have a whirlwind evening when Band in Motion plays the Union Club, starting about 9:30 PM. No cover. Jameson and the Sordid Seeds plant some reggae-rock lovinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the Top Hat, along with 20 Grand. 10 PM. No cover.
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[calendar] Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulainmotion.com/bwbw for a complete listing. 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. Prime people-watching is available for the Missoula People’s Market, which features all kindsa arts and crafts and tasty treats on the street at E. Pine and Higgins. Saturday mornings through September. The annual UC Homecoming Art Fair displays all sorts of handy wares, pretty trinkets and cute knickknacks in the University Center atrium, Sept. 25-27 throughout the day. Free to browse. Pack up the kiddos and spike your Thermos, cuz the UM Homecoming Parade marches on down Higgins Avenue once again, This time is themed “Mon-
tana Is Griz Territory” in honor of the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory. Starts about 10 AM at the XXXXs. Thompson Falls author Steve Thomas signs his new inspirational Christian novel, Heaven’s Bootcamp, at the Garden of Read’n, 2621 Brooks T. 10 AM-2 PM. The youngest crop of literary Missoulians will be pleased when Linda Giammona-Eggers and Laura Timblo sign Goodnight Missoula at Fact and Fiction: UC Bookstore. 10:30 AM-noon. Celebrate a whole buncha new Missoula happenings when Shelter Designs Yurts and Riversong Gourmet celebrate a grand opening with food, live tunes and complimentary Great Burn Brewery beer. 101 N. Johnston St., next to the bike path. 15 PM. Free. It’s a very ursine matchup when the Montana Grizzlies go head-to-head with Northern Colorado’s Bears at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. 1:30 PM kickoff. Check out gogriz.com. UM Mandarin Chinese teacher Hua Jin demonstrates the wonders of the 21-stringed Chinese zither, also called a zheng, with a
performance at China Woods, 716 N. Dickens St. 3 PM. Free.
nightlife Drink amongst family when the Frederico Brothers play country, folk and pop at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Basses Covered will get the evening revelry all squared away 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.
blues and swing, backed by bassist Pete Hand and percussionist Ed Stalling. Crystal Theater, 7:30 PM. $8.
Get up, shut up and let Joan Zen Band do all the talkin’ while you do all the carousing at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.
Drunk Dad, Portland purveyors of “sludgy hardcore freejazz noise rock,” ain’t the kinda outfit you’ll wanna take home to Mama, but for a Saturday night, they’ll do just fine. Playing Stage 112 along with Olympia rock outfit Naomi Punk, Shramana, Holy Lands and Arrows to the Sun. Whew! Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $10/$7 in advance at Stage112.com.
Just nod if you can hear me when Pinky and the Floyd busts out the axes in tribute to Roger Waters ‘n co. Top Hat. 10 PM. $10. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com. It’s Saturday nite, guess that makes it all right when Lige Newton, Jesse the Ocelot and Boston McDonald team up to groove at the VFW. 10 PM. No cover.
The Broadway and Bubbly Dinner Encore features wining, dining and stars aligning at the Sapphire Lutheran Homes in Hamilton. 7 PM. $40. Tickets at the Hamilton Players Box Office or visit hamiltonplayers.com.
Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. Half-off bsolut drinks until midnight. No cover.
Get hot to trot with the Missoula Tango’s dance, on the fourth Saturday of every month at Red Bird. 7:30 to 10 PM. No cover, with impromptu lessons for beginners. Learn more at tangomissoula.com.
It’s not Thursday, but celebrate #tbt when the Dead Hipster DJs take over the Absolutely dance party. 9 PM. 2-fer-1 Absolut drinkies til midnight; vague but fun memories to last a lifetime. No cover.
Does this make you proud to be a Montanan, or what: the Roadkill Butchering Workshop led by Masala’s Theo Smith will show you how to take advantage of the recently passed state law and cut up that street meat (or game). MUD Central, 1517 Wyoming St. 1-4 PM. $20/$10 for MUD members. Visit mudproject.org.
There’s plenty of Ron to go around when New York’s Ron teams up with Missoula guitarist Ron Meissner for a magical, Ronfilled revue of old folk songs,
Make like a hipster R2D2 when downtempo electronica dealio Little People plays the Palace. 9 PM. $12/$10 in advance. 18-plus.
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erans from WWII to present conflicts. Crystal Theater, 2 PM. $15. Proceeds benefit XSports 4 Vets.
works. Badlander. 6 PM. No cover. Sept. 28 features Rikka Wommack and Kevin Canty.
The original Hugh Bickley play Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25,
at the Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., featuring $1 domestic drafts and wells. Free.
Inner Harmony Yoga marks the equinox with 108 Sun Salutes, a practice of patience and stamina where, you guessed it, participants do 108 sun salutes in recognition of this auspicious number. 214 E. Main St. Suite B, 10 AM-noonish. Donations appreciated. Tea and fruit provided afterward. (And you don’t have to do all 108.) The Target Range Farmers Market gets into the swing of the season with several local produce vendors, out at 4095 South Ave. W. 10 AM-2 PM, Sundays through Sept. 28. As a wise man once said: Da Bears. May the most beer-bratloving fans win when the Top Hat shows the Packers vs. Bears game, with a special bloody mary bar and Green Bay-style fixins. Game starts at 11 AM. No cover. Be welcomed into the folds with the Five Valley Accordion Association’s dance at the Rustic Hut from 1-5 PM. $4/$3 members. Call 240-9617 for info. Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every second and fourth Sunday of the month at the Eagles Lodge on Second Street in Hamilton. $4/$3 for members. Call 2409617 for info. Stevensville marks its Founders Day with a reenactment of the Jesuit missionaries visiting Salish Indians and establishing Fort Owen in 1841. St. Mary’s Mission at 2 PM, with antique auction and barbecue to follow. Call 777-5734 to learn more. Soprano Katie Martin leads the Voices of Vets performance, which combines live music with filmed interviews of local vet-
Buttoned up. Little People plays the Palace Fri., Sept. 26. 9 PM. $12/$10 in advance. 18-plus.
nightlife Bob Wills is still the king of Western swing, but our very own Western Union is looking to commit some regicide and make some fine old Western swing tunes for you all to dance by at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 6 PM. $5. It’s like storytime when you were a kid, except with bourbon at the Second Wind Reading Series, where professors, students and guests from the UM Creative Writing Program read selected
The North Missoula Community Development Corporation and Missoula Community Food Co-op invite all you Westsiders to a community dinner, featuring an Indian feast and non-alcoholic beverages, made with PEAS farm produce, at 1500 Burns St. 6-8 PM. Free. Washington band Tomten says if it ain’t baroque-pop, don’t fix it. See for yourself when they play Stage 112, along with local folks Jesse the Ocelot and Lige Newton. Doors at 7 PM, show at 9. $5-$7.
Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12-$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets. Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs, plus a selection of local coffees and tees for your apéritifs. Music starts at 8 PM. Free. Mark the Sabbath with some Black Sabbath or whatever else twangs your heartstrings at the Sunday Funday evening karaoke
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[calendar] Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulainmotion.com/bwbw for a complete listing.
nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages. The original Hugh Bickley play
Greenland roustabouts The Maxies show up to rawk the ZACC, along with Confidence Man and newbies Eat Strike. 8 PM. All ages. Cover TBA. (See Music.) 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: Which country designated Bigfoot an endangered species in 1965? Find answer in tomorrow’s
Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulain motion.com/bwbw for a full listing.
serve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.
Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elkcamp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.
Poet and professor Joanna Klink presents her way with words at the Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series at the Turner Hall. 6 PM. Free.
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.
Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.
Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12-$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets. Up-and-coming students and guest composers are featured at the annual Mountain Computer Music Festival at the UM Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. Old Crow Medicine Show is ready to rock some mamas at the Adams Center on the UM campus. Doors at 6:30, show at 7:30 PM. $22-$35, advance tickets at GrizTix.com and Griz Tix outlets. All ages. Yee haw, it’s the Louie Bond & the Texas Playgirl CD release party, with Western Union and guests providing dancing tunes late into the night at the Top Hat. 8 PM. No cover. Find that creative outlet ye seek at the Open Mic Night at Stage 112, starting about 9 PM. Call Mike at 207-7097 after 4 PM on Monday to sign yourself up. Everyone’s a superstar when New York’s Frankie Cosmos brings the indie pop to town, along with Porches and local orbiters FUULS and Wrinkles. Stage 112. $5/$7 for ages 18-20. No jerks, as the kids say. (Trivia answer: the Soviet Union.) Band in Motion puts some juice in the gas tank at the Badlander, with tunes starting around 10 PM. No cover.
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Join the party. Cody Beebe and Crooks play Stage 112 Fri., Sept. 26. 7 PM. $12/$10 in advance.
Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25, Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12-$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets. Nathan Eyre demonstrates his skills with geetar and octave mandolin at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover. Shimmy and swivel right on to Belly Dance with Aniysa at the Wellness Center, 500 W. Broadway. Meets Mondays from 7:158:45 PM until Nov. 24. $36 for four weeks, or $10 per class. Email ann@aniysa.com for more info.
nightlife. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning tunes Strum some post-trivia victory chords at the Singer-Songwriter Showcase, every Monday evening at the Badlander after trivia gets done around 10:30 or 11. No cover.
TUESDAYSEPT30 Native folks be crackin’ jokes at Rez Dogs & A Lady, a standup comedy performance with Adrianne Chalepah, Ernest “Ernie” Tsosie, Pax Harvey and James Junes at the University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.
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Historian Christopher Kelly reads from his new work, America Invades, about all the countries ‘Merica has ever sent its military to. Answer: many. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 4 PM. Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40. Students must have doctor’s okay.
nightlife It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the corner of Third and Re-
Produce all the irreverent Tshirts you can think of after the Beginning Screen Printing Class at the ZACC, featuring the fundamentals of paper and fabric printing. Meets Tuesdays from 6-8 PM through September. $115/$105 for members, includes materials. Visit zootownarts.org/Screenprinting.Class. Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writer’s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday. The original Hugh Bickley play Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25,
If you don’t know Facebook from a book in the face, check out Facebook, I’m A Beginner: the introductory course for folks who don’t have an account or just signed up for one. Missoula Public Library, 12:30 PM. Registration required, so call 721-BOOK. Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials. 7:30-10:30 PM. No cover. The Reflective Morning Movement invites one and all to get a contemplative start to the morning. Things begin with a few minutes of silent meditation followed by music and movement at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., at 7 AM on Wednesday mornings. $5 suggested donation. Contact Jody for more info at 529-5849.
[calendar] Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulainmotion.com/bwbw for a complete listing. Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow. Wednesdays, 7:308:15 AM. Previous experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/$8 drop-in. Take a lunchtime break and kick back with tunes provided by Chris Bianco at the Noon Concert in the University Center. Free. UM Confucius Institute Executive Director Suhan Chen will be on the ball with “Youth Engagement Through Sports: Engaging Ethnic Minorities in China and the U.S.,” part of the lecture series at the Mansfield Center Conference Room. 12:10-1 PM.
nightlife Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. First Wednesday of the month from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.
THURSDAYOCT02 Knock back some IPAs to get in a literary mood for the Big Read Kickoff Reception, with a proclamation from the mayor, speechifying from assorted other dignitaries, appetizers, music and free copies of this year’s book, The Things They Carried. Old Post, 6 PM. Free. Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulain motion.com/bwbw for full listing. If you’re living with arthritis or other similar chronic conditions, the Regaining Mobility Through Gentle Movement will use mostly chair-based, yoga-inspired gentle exercises to promote range of motion and joint health. Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from 11 AMnoon through Nov. 6. $50 for sixweek series/$10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 for info.
nightlife Bellingham’s Br’er Rabbit hops in with folksy musical
tales to the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Three’s company when Kimberlee Carlson Trio sets the scene at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover. The Minnesota Vikes take on the Packers, so commune with local Cheeseheads or team up with your Helga buddies when the Top Hat shows the game at 6:25 PM. No cover. The inaugural Light Up the Night gathers folks for an evening of poetry and music in support of anyone who’s been affected by interpersonal violence. Meet at the amphitheater at the base of the M trail and bring flashlights, glow sticks or anything else that lights up without an open flame (no fire hazards, yo). 6:30 PM. Contact the Women’s Resource Center at umt.wrc@ gmail.com if you’d like to perform. Turning the Wheel Missoula brings the Tapestry Class, a creative and improvisational dance class with tools for stress relief, to Headwaters Dance Company studio, 1042 Monroe St. Meets Thursdays from 6:30-8 PM through Nov. 20. $10 per class, or $110 for entire series. Advance
Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night, featuring a rotating lineup of local jazz enthusiasts. 7 PM. Free, all ages. The original Hugh Bickley play Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25, Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12-$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets. (See Theater.) Texan acoustic singer fella Bradley Sherrer plucks heartstrings at Stage 112, starting at 9 PM. $5. Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Find this week’s lineup and info at facebook.com/ milkcrateproductions. I’ll bring the peanut butter, y’all bring that sweet jaaaaam to the open Jam Nite at the Dark Horse, starting at 9 PM. Top acts of the night win prizes, too. No cover. DJ LRock is in the house to stack some wax at the Sunrise Saloon, from 9:30 PM to close. No cover.
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EDM aficionado Mitis is all about da bass, all about da bass (no treble) at the Palace. Cry Wolf and Bear Grillz get thangs started. 9:30 PM. $12/$10 in advance. Tickets at seafarerentertainment.com and Rockin Rudy’s. Do them dirty deeds dirt cheap when the Badlander hosts the TNT dance party,
Ducks in a row. Br’er Rabbit plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton Thu, Oct. 2, 68:30 PM. No cover.
If Romeo ain’t got Julie yet, seal the deal when Dark Horse Country Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9 PM. No cover. Reverby Seattle shoegaze outfit Vibragun massages brainwaves at Stage 112, along with the undoubtedly lovely Uglyhead. 9 PM. $5-$7. Hark, Spencetober arrives at the VFW, with comedian Kyle “The Hotdog” Kulseth, Purple Thunderstorms of Emotion, Joey RC and the Long Hairs and Spencer himself providing entertainment. Doors at 9, show at 10 PM. $5. Proceeds benefit the food bank. 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.)
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Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown StandUp Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free.
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. Mike Bader Band plays bluesy tunes with some cajun and reggae garnish at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.
I want to believe. 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 Bandmann Bridge has made the news lately for events involving boneheads jumping off it, but what do you know about the bridge’s namesake? Daniel Bandmann was a gentleman farmer and famous actor who brought Shakespearean plays to the frontier in the late 1800s. He’s credited with being one of the first thespians to foster Missoula’s reputation for being an artsy community, and he also publicly advocated for good causes like labor rights. Bandmann had a wee bit of trouble keeping his personal life in order, though, shuffling through at least three wives. When he wed California actress Mary Therese Kelly, his longtime companion Louise Beaudet sued him, claiming she was under the impression that they were married. The crafty Bandmann also charged a toll for people to use the old railroad trestle bridge on his prop-
erty, which was the main connection between Bonner and East Missoula. Nowadays, you can learn about Bandmann’s exploits and help restore some of the land he would have been familiar with when Milltown State Park hosts a volunteer day on Saturday. There will be barb-wire-fence removal and land restoration work, but hopefully, no ghosts of angry wives. —Kate Whittle Milltown State Park hosts a volunteer work day and interpretive presentation about Daniel Bandmann Sat., Sept. 27, as part of National Public Lands Day. 11 AM-2 PM. Bring practical clothes, leather work gloves and water. Contact Michael Kustudia for more info at 542-5533.
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She needs wide open spaces (Dixie Chicks not included) at National Public Lands Day, wherein federal agencies offer fee-free entry and host volunteering events. Visit publiclandsday.org.
Cross-country ski trails get put to use at the Disco Dash 20K and Fun Run, which climbs around the Discovery Ski Area starting at 10 AM. Proceeds benefit the Echo Lake Trails Association. Visit racemontana.com/Register/?event=29263.
Here’s a bit of a lark for your Saturday amusement: the Montana Hell Ride, starting at Red Barn Bicycles in Hamilton, with 145 miles and 10,600 feet of climbing, where “finishing will be an accomplishment in itself.” Jolly good. There’s free beer and camping afterward. Visit thecyclinghouse.com/montana-hell-ride. Propel with teen spirit at the Homecoming Hustle, which starts at the corner of Higgins and Broadway at 9:55 AM, just before the homecoming parade. The route cruises toward campus, laps around Washington Grizzly Stadium and finishes up with a tailgate party, beer ‘n burgers. Proceeds benefit the Grizzly Track and Field Team. Visit GoGriz.com to register. 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. The Jacket Blackout Run is an evening junket starting and ending at the Stevensville High School football field at 5 PM, with glow sticks, sparklers and marshmallow roasting afterward. Call Jody for info at 274-8454.
As part of Bike Walk Bus Week, the 35-mile Frenchtown Just for Fun ride with MOBI starts at Wheat Montana on Reserve at 11 AM, riding out Big Flat and Mullan Roads to find snacks in Frenchtown. Visit missoulabike.org.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29 The All-Abilities Group Ride celebrates folks who travel by all manner of wheeled motorin’. Meet up at McCormick Park at 5 PM for a cruise along the city trails system. Free bikes and hand cycles available, contact Molly to reserve one at 243-4016.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 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. 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. Cultivating goes through December. calendar@missoulanews.com
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A couple high-profile events featuring NFL players and domestic violence have made the news lately, as you likely know unless you live under a rock. But it bears repeating that domestic violence isn’t rare or exceptional: one in three women and one in four men experience some kind of physical violence by an intimate partner, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Abuse can take less obvious forms, too, like stalking, harassment, damaging property or controlling a victim’s access to money. To illuminate the issue, the Women’s Resource Center and newly formed UM Advocates for NonViolence are teaming up for the Light Up the Night rally. It meets Oct. 2 at the trailhead beneath the M for poetry readings, speeches and music. If you’d like to join in, just show up with a flashlight, glow stick or anything else that lights up—just no candles or lighters, since that poses a fire hazard and Mount Sentinel is dry as unbuttered toast right about now. Bring a warm jacket and sturdy shoes, because
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after the poetry, the rally will hike up to light up the M and spread the message for the town to see. —Kate Whittle The inaugural Light Up the Night gathers for an evening of poetry and music in support of anyone who’s been affected by interpersonal violence. Meet at the amphitheater at the base of the M trail Thu., Oct. 2, at 6:30 PM. Contact the Women’s Resource Center at umt.wrc@gmail.com to perform.
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[38] Missoula Independent • September 25–October 2, 2014
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You don’t have to be a time lord 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.
Good eggs are called to the American Red Cross blood drive. 2401 N. Reserve St., Ste. 6. Sept. 26 from 10 AM-2 PM, Sept. 29 from 2-6 PM. Call 1-800REDCROSS to schedule an appointment and learn more.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26 Good eggs are called to the American Red Cross blood drive. 2401 N. Reserve St., Ste. 6. Sept. 26 from 10 AM-2 PM, Sept. 29 from 2-6 PM. Call 1-800-REDCROSS to schedule an appointment and learn more. The Dreamscape Consciousness Retreat with Aurora Hill offers workshops to “gain access to the messages and guidance within your Dreams (Day and Night!) and learn the power of DreamScape Journeys” at Wildlife Adventures Guest Ranch, 1765 Pleasant View Dr. in Victor. Sept. 26-28. $235 for weekend, includes lodging and meals. Call 239-5596 for info.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Roberta Swartz chats about inner and outer health as part of the Pathways to Wellness: Exploring Holistic Options one-day workshop at Selway Commons, 1720 N. First St. in Hamilton. 9 AM-3 PM. $10, includes lunch. Registration starts at 9 AM. Call Pat for more info at 360-5568. 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. Missoula folk take part in the global 100,000 Poets For Change with open mic poetry at the Missoula Public Library, 11 AM-1 PM, followed by poetry on KBGA 89.9 FM with DJ RainDrops. Learn more about the movement’s call for sustainability and social progress at 100TPC.org.
Folks on their own journey of recovery lead the “Peer to Peer” Education for Recovery classes, which meet weekly starting today to help people live with and recover from major mental illness. NAMI Missoula. Class size is limited, so call 880-1013 for information and registration.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 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. Divorced and Shared Parenting: Part I teaches methods for coping, how to improve communication and do what’s best for the kids. Families First, 227 1/2 W. Front St. 6-9 PM. Call 721-7690 to register; co-parents are asked not to take the class at the same time.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1 Naturopath Christine White “simplifies the thyroid” with a presentation at Montana Compounding Pharmacy and Wellness Center, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 6:30 PM. $15/$10 in advance. Call 541-8444 to RSVP. Habitat for Humanity is opening up applications for folks interested in building a home in partnership with the nonprofit. Meets at the conference room in City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview, Oct. 1 at 7 PM and Oct. 5 at 2 PM. Call 5498210 to learn more. Child care will not be available at either meeting, as a heads up.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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WHOA IS ME Last year, after I split up with my girlfriend, the law firm I worked for went belly up. I haven't been on a date all year. Friends try to set me up, and I keep giving excuses for why I can't go, but the truth is, I've totally lost my nerve. I'd like to change that. Money isn't the issue. I work here and there and still have severance pay left. But despite interviewing heavily, I have yet to land a full-time gig and feel kind of like a failure, and I don't want to discuss that on dates. —Romantic Stage Fright You lost your girlfriend and were thinking, "At least I have my job." Then you lost your job and were thinking, "At least I have my confidence." Whatever happens, don't say, "At least I have my penis." After a series of big setbacks, it's understandable that you'd feel most comfortable hiding under the bed. Unfortunately, you won't get a whole lot of dates there unless you have a tiny tea set and are sexually attracted to mice. You likewise are unlikely to find your lost nerve under there, perhaps hiding out from creditors. But, like many people, where you go wrong is in thinking that you need to find your nerve to take action. You don't. You just need to decide that being afraid to do something isn't a good enough reason to avoid doing it. Of course, you'll do better on dates if you don't arrive feeling like a cow patty in nice shoes. The good news is, you can give yourself a boost pretty easily—without standing in an open field during a storm and hoping to get struck by a bolt of confidence. A growing body of research finds that "walking the walk" (in your case, just making the body movements of the large and in charge) is actually transformative. For example, social psychologist Dana Carney had both men and women pose for just two minutes like fat-cat executives—feet on desk, hands behind head. These simple acts raised their testosterone (the dominance hormone) and made them more willing to take risks (a sign of confidence), and they reported feeling more, well, "Wolf of Wall Street" than "Chihuahua of Skid Row." In other words, when you have a date, you need to get to the place early and do a little bathroom-stall yoga. Ridiculous as it seems, a little powerbroker-cise should help you feel and act like your
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PROFESSIONAL Accounts Receivable Employee(s) Seeking three full time accounts receivable candidate Monday through Friday 8-5pm. This position is doing accounts receivable postings only. The position requires experience. Looking for two candidates who are very organized and who can communicate well. Additionally, we have a temporary position in the same department for 3-4 weeks. Wage is $11/hr. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10078838 ACT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT I An addictionsservice organization seeks an ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT for the ACT program. This employee performs and oversees complicated programmatic responsibilities, organizes the recurring work of the program, shares in all receptionist related
work and client services, and performs and oversees administrative program functions. The assistant will monitor program participant compliance on a daily basis, complete intake orientation, set fees, assign classes and obtain releases. Other duties include preparing quarterly quality reports, requesting court referral and working with court on cases. The employer prefers 3+ years of previous office experience. Applicants must be able to lift up to 50 lbs, have a school diploma, have solid computer skills, including DOS, and organizational and clerical skills. A valid driver’s license is required. Schedule is Mon, Wed, Thurs: 10 am-6 pm, Tues: 11 am-7 pm, Fri: 8 am-4 pm. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10078865 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS: • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 9am-5pm M-F Drafting Technician Seeking a full time, temp to hire, drafting technician ASAP. Seeking someone to utilize CAD to complete drawings from red lines provided by engineers, planners, and surveyors. Some of the duties: Create exhibits from web based GIS maps, scanned maps, or other software, set up construction drawings, utilize AutoCAD Map to manipulate GIS based maps, and prepare PDF’s and drawing files to be sent to clients per engineers, planners, and surveyors requests. Wage is $15/hr or D.O.E. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10078847 Mental Health Counselor Blue Mountain Clinic is seeking a Mental Health Counselor! Must be LCPC or LCSW licensed in the state of Montana. Hours are flexible. Salary DOE. Must be pro-choice, and dedi-
Advertising Account Executive The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our advertising sales team. Customer service experience and strong organizational skills are required. Sales experience is preferred, but we’re happy to train someone who brings a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm. We offer a competitive comp and benefits package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment. Send resume and salary history to: LFoland@Missoulanews.com or Lynne Foland, P.O. Box 8275 Missoula, MT 59807
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Operations Manager The Missoula office of the National Wildlife Federation is seeking a FT Operations Manager. This position provides operational support to the Northern Rockies, Prairies, and Pacific Region and is responsible for managing NWF activities conducted at the center. Areas of responsibility include oversight of center operations and internal communications, budget and fiscal management, fundraising and grants support, and assisting program staff. To learn more and apply, please visit us at www.nwf.org. NWF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): It's no secret. The wealthy one percent of the population has been getting progressively wealthier. Meanwhile, the poor are becoming steadily poorer. I'm worried there is a metaphorically similar trend in your life. Am I right? If so, please do all you can to reverse it. Borrow energy from the rich and abundant parts of your life so as to lift up the neglected and underendowed parts. Here's one example of how you could proceed: For a while, be less concerned with people who think you're a star, and give more attention to those who accept and love your shadow side. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job," says Bill Gates, the world's second-richest man, "because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." That's good counsel for you right now, Taurus. You'd be wise to get in touch with your inner lazy bum. Let the slacker within you uncover the least stressful way to accomplish your difficult task. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there is no need for you to suffer and strain as you deal with your dilemma. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you don't identify and express your conscious desires, your unconscious desires will dominate your life. I will say that again in different language, because it's crucial you understand the principle. You've got to be very clear about what you really want, and install a shining vision of what you really want at the core of your everyday life. If you don't do that, you will end up being controlled by your habits and old programming. So be imperious, Gemini. Define your dearest, strongest longing, and be ruthlessly devoted to it. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was an influential French photographer, a pioneer of photojournalism who helped transform photography into an art form. In 1986 he was invited to Palermo, Sicily to accept a prize for his work. The hotel he stayed in seemed oddly familiar to him, although he didn't understand why. It was only later he discovered that the hotel had been the place at which his mother and father stayed on their honeymoon. It was where he was conceived. I foresee a comparable development on the horizon for you, Cancerian: a return to origins, perhaps inadvertent; an evocative encounter with your roots; a reunification with an influence that helped make you who you are today.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With expert execution, musician Ben Lee can play 15 notes per second on his violin. Superstar eater Pete Czerwinski needs just 34 seconds to devour a 12-inch pizza. When Jerry Miculek is holding his rifle, he can get off eight crack shots at four targets in a little more than one second. While upside-down, Aichi Ono is capable of doing 135 perfect head spins in a minute. I don't expect you to be quite so lightning fast and utterly flawless as these people in the coming weeks, Leo, but I do think you will be unusually quick and skillful. For the foreseeable future, speed and efficiency are your specialties.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "I am a seed about to break," wrote Sylvia Plath in her poem "Three Women." That's how I see you right now, Libra. You are teeming with the buoyant energy that throbs when a seed is ready to sprout. You have been biding your time, gathering the nourishment you need, waiting for the right circumstances to burst open with your new flavor. And now that nervous, hopeful, ecstatic moment is about to arrive. Be brave!
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The English verb "cicurate" is defined as "to tame or domesticate" or "to make mild or innocuous." But it once had an additional sense: "to reclaim from wildness." It was derived from the Latin word cicurare, which meant "to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness." For your purposes, Scorpio, we will make cicurate your theme, but concentrate on these definitions: "to reclaim from wildness, to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness." In the coming weeks, you will be exploring rough, luxuriant areas of unknown territory. You will be wrangling with primitive, sometimes turbulent energy. I urge you to extract the raw vitality you find there, and harness it to serve your daily rhythm and your long-term goals. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence," said psychologist Carl Jung. Extrapolating from that idea, we can hypothesize that the more willing and able you are to be influenced, the greater your influence might be. Let's make this your key theme in the coming weeks. It will be an excellent time to increase your clout, wield more authority, and claim more of a say in the creation of your shared environments. For best results, you should open your mind, be very receptive, and listen well.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Congratulations, Capricorn. Your current dilemmas are more useful and interesting than any that you have had for a long time. If you can even partially solve them, the changes you set in motion will improve your entire life, not just the circumstances they immediately affect. Of the several dividends you may reap, one of my favorites is this: You could liberate yourself from a messed-up kind of beauty and become available for a more soothing and delightful kind. Here's another potential benefit: You may transform yourself in ways that will help you attract more useful and interesting dilemmas in the future.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Alan Moore is the British author who wrote the graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta. He is now nearing completion of Jerusalem, a novel he has been working on for six years. It will be more than a million words long, almost double the size of Tolstoy's War and Peace, and 200,000 words bigger than the Bible. "Any editor worth their salt would tell me to cut two-thirds of this book," Moore told the New Statesman, "but that’s not going to happen." Referring to the author of Moby Dick, Moore adds, "I doubt that Herman Melville had an editor. If he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring stuff about whaling: 'Cut to the chase, Herman.'" Let's make Moore and Melville your role models in the coming week, Aquarius. You have permission to sprawl, ramble, and expand. Do NOT cut to the chase.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For a long time, an Illinois writer named ArLynn Leiber Presser didn't go out much. She had 325 friends on Facebook and was content to get her social needs met in the virtual realm. But then she embarked on a year-long project in which she sought face-to-face meetings with all of her online buddies. The experiment yielded sometimes complicated but mostly interesting results. It took her to 51 cities around the world. I suggest we make her your inspirational role model for the coming weeks, Pisces. In at least one way, it's time for you to move out of your imagination and into the real world. You're primed to turn fantasies into actions, dreams into practical pursuits. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As the makeup artist for the film Dallas Buyers Club, Robin Mathews had a daunting task. During the 23 days of shooting, she had to constantly transform lead actors Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto so that they appeared either deathly ill or relatively healthy. Sometimes she had to switch them back and forth five times a day. She was so skillful in accomplishing this feat that she won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Her budget? A meager $250. The film was a shoestring indie production. I'm naming her your inspirational role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. I believe that you, too, can create magic without a wealth of resources.
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In the 4th Judicial District Court of Missoula County, State of Montana Cause No.: DP-14188 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 DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-14-978 Dept. No. 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Kaydin Christofer Bristle, Samantha Ziesemer, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Kaydin Christofer Bristle to Kaydin Christofer Ziesemer. The hearing will be on 10/30/2014 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 09/15/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Casie Kragh, Deputy Clerk of Court 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 abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication
of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to 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 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. 1 Probate No. DP-14-154 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEVIN W. LEONARDI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Western Montana Chapter, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State o Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 11th day of September, 2014. WESTERN MONTANA CHAPTER, Personal Representative By: /s/ Melissa Stiegler, Its: Executive Director WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy 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 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 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
MNAXLP Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee and 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 abovenamed 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 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 above-named 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, Montana, 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 ) : s s 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 TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 17, 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 B3
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PUBLIC NOTICES of Windsor Park, Phase VII, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat. Tricia G Bowman & Cory D Bowman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 18, 2007 recorded July 18, 2007 in Book 801 Page 1192 under Document No 200718343. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). 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 $931.48, beginning February 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 3, 2014 is $158,678.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50% now totaling $5,213.58, late charges in the amount of $186.28, escrow advances of $797.16 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,218.28, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.26 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
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entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 14, 2014 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 14 day of July todays date July, 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. Shannon Gavin Notry Public Binham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus V Bowman 42008.919 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 17, 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 8 of Prospect Phase 1A, A platted subdivision in the city of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in book 16 of plats at page 70. R Craig Flint and Tristin S. Flint, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 5, 2006 and recorded on December 11, 2006 in Book 788, Page 889 under Document no . 200631620. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. success by merger to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. 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 $1,095.20, beginning February 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied
MNAXLP on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 20, 2014 is $261,825.04 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% now totaling $1,655.67, late charges in the amount of $175.68, escrow advances of $1,235.38, and other fees and expenses advanced of $61.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $9.68 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 14, 2014 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 14 day of JulyVar|32|2|0|todays date||0|,
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 sub-
scribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Citimortgage V.Flint 42090.125
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APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $575, LEASE INCENTIVES. Downtown, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1024 Stephens Ave. #10. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coinops, cat? $675. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #11 1bd/1.5 ba, near U, coin-ops, pet? … $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1502 Ernest Ave. #6 1bd/1ba, central location, w/d hook-ups, storage … $575. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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431 Daly: 1 Bedroom, By the U, Nice condition, Storage, Laundry, Parking, $625. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 5496106
3907 Buckley Pl. 2bd/1ba, w/d hook-ups, single garage … $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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2 bedroom, 1 bath $650, clean and well-maintained, coin op laundry, off street parking & storage. H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 7287333
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, $800, newer townhouse style condo, newer appliances, w/d in unit, carport S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333
1518 W. Central Ave 4 bed/1 bath, double garage, pet? $1325. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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2236 E. Foothills. 2 Bedroom, Private deck with views, Hook-ups, Open layout, Southhills, $640. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106 2306 Hillview Ct. #3 2bd/1ba, w/d hook-ups, shared yard, storage … $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3020 Garfield. 2 Bedroom, New carpet, Gas fireplace, Hook-ups, Dishwasher, Carport, Storage, Central $750. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 5496106
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2116 West Kent. Charming 2 story, 3 bed, 1.5 bath home with single garage. $172,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816 annierealtor@gmail.com 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
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3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.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
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 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style home, south of Florence on 5 acres, fenced and cross fenced for horses. Attached dbl car garage, 44 x 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122; shop with office, small tack room and barn. 435 Ernest Dr, Stevi. $310,000. MLS# 20146167. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.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 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 716 South 6th West. 3 bed, 2 bath with wood floors, arched doorways, fireplace & fenced
yard with deck. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apartment on 5 view acres. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com AMAZING FLATHEAD LAKE VIEWS and cabin 2 bd/2.5 bath! 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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. 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) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you find your way home. David Loewenwarter. Prudential
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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 4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $175,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com
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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.
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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 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 2405227 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
to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom units for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.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
DUPLEXES
Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next
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
2200 Garland #45 $108,000 2 bed, 1 bath, Clearview Village Condominiums Low maintenance, close to trail system with views of the city, affordable alternative to renting.
6 TIPS
FOR BUYING MORE FOR LESS 512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com
MLS# 20146082
912 Defoe $179,000 3 bed, 2 bath, vaulted ceilings. Large garage/shop. Located on Missoula’s historic Northside.
MLS# 20144748 316 Tyler Way $212,500 4 bed, 2 bath home in terrific Lolo Neighborhood. Large fenced backyard. Home has a new roof and updated bathrooms. Qualifies for RD financing.
Lolo
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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 240-5227 porticorealestate.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 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. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321 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 ‘
rant, 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 @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
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, 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 1229 Iron Cap, Stevensville. 4 bed, 3 bath ranchette on 15.33 fenced acres. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
COMMERCIAL
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Bonner area home close to Blackfoot River & public lands. $324,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
101 Church Street, Stevensville. Currently Mission Bistro Restau-
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $236,000. Prudential MT. For more info call Mindy Palmer
REAL ESTATE
619 and 633 Phillips $165,000 each Northside history and amazing gardens. 619 is a one bedroom home with a double lot, chicken coop, straw bale building and gardens that are simply breathtaking! 633 has a 1+ bedroom home with several outbuildings, greenhouse, native gardens, and oh so much more! Call KD 240-5227
4700 Nicole Court $419,500 Custom 6+ bed, 4+ bath home in Linda Vista. Full finished lower level, 5,000 sq.ft., 3+ car garage. Missoula Valley & Snowbowl views!
Homes 4700 Nicole Court .........................Custom Home, Prime ’Hood .........................................$419,500 1779-81 W Sussex..........................Duplex In Great Neighborhood..................................$187,500 1520 S 6th W .................................Charm, Great Colors, Sweet! ......................................$185,000 1700 Arthur...................................University mid-century modern style ..........................$599,000 619 Phillips ...................................Northside Home On 2 Lots ........................................$165,000 633 Phillips ...................................Greenhouse and More! ..............................................$165,000 2116 W Kent..................................Charming Inside and Out...........................................$174,000 816 Kern........................................Home W/Downstairs Apartment..................................$214.000 1722 Defoe ....................................Westside 2 Bed & Bonus ............................................$170,000 2607 View Dr. ................................One Level Living PLUS ...............................................$238,500 733 Marshall..................................2 Bed/1 Bath Slant St Charmer ...................................$225,000
Homes With Land
Townhomes/Condos
406 Aspen View Rd. Polaris Amazing Home and Area ...$345,000 2348 River Road 2.23 Acres in Town.................$535,000 17430 Six Mile Stunning Setting, 12.51 Ac. Sweet Home! ...... ................................................................................$250,000
1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Unit On One Level .......$150,000 1400 Burns 2 Bedroom Units For .....................$119,000 Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views! ...........$162,000 Uptown Flats #210 Modern 1 Bed ..................$149,000
Land
Commercial:
@ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lolo area home home. $229,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4318 Leonard Ln. Stevensville, 235K, Immaculate 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1516 SF home, on 3.27 acres, fenced, views or mountains and bird refuge, Irr. pastures for 2 horses. 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 Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.
For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Stevensville area home on 3.2 acres. $529,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 5 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000. Prudential MT. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or www.mindypalmer.com
THE UPTOWN FLATS Come check out the condos at The Uptown Flats. 1 bed 1 bath plus high-end amenities. Starting at $149,900 2014 Best Real Estate Agent
Anne Jablonski Broker
PORTICO REAL ESTATE
Easy Access to the highway and the river. 17430 Six-Mile, $250,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12 acre with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com
FINANCIAL We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587
East Missoula Building Lot With Trees ...................$55,000 2309 Grant Commercial Building & Land .......$155,000
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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$100 HIRING BONUS EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 31, 2014
(TO BE PAID AFTER 30 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT)
YOU WILL MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT …..by assisting severely developmentally/intellectually disabled adults live meaningful and healthy lives in our group home settings throughout Missoula. You’ll experience challenging and rewarding work at the same time. NEW PROGRESSIVE WAGE SCALE IN JULY: Start at $9.35/hr. with no experience, or $9.75/hr. with proven experience. Then, watch your wage grow after that! We provide extensive paid training to help you be successful in your work with our clients. We have a variety of shifts available for evenings and graveyards. We also offer relief staffing positions that offer more flexibility with your busy schedule. All positions that are 30+ hours per week offer full benefits and generous paid time off.
HS diploma or GED, background check, drug screen, ability to obtain valid MT Driver’s License. Apply at 1005 Marshall St., Missoula, or complete on-line application at www.mdscmt.org and click on Find a Job.
The University of Montana’s Homecoming is a festive week for alumni, friends, students and community members. Alumni return to campus to take part in the traditional Homecoming festivities, including the Hello Walk painting, Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony, Yell Night Pep Rally, All-Alumni Social and Dance, Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game. The Yell Night Pep Rally begins at 8 p.m. on Friday. The public is invited to join the Montana Grizzlies football team, marching band, cheerleaders and Monte to celebrate Homecoming Week with a bonfire, fireworks and the lighting of the M. For a complete Homecoming event schedule, visit: www.grizalum.org/events/Homecoming
Msla Co Pub Schools is recruiting for the following positions: Full-time Bookkeeper, Sign Language Interpreter, Robotics Program Advisor, Lead Sanitation, Para-Educators, Kitchen Helpers, and Noon Duty Aides. MCPS is also looking for Sub Noon Duty Aides, Sub Custodians, and Sub Kitchen Helpers. Visit www.mcpsmt.org and click on “Employment” for job descriptions, requirements, and the application process. EEOC missoulanews.com • September 25–October 2, 2014
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with Bike Walk Bus Week!
ASUM Office of Transportation presents
Walk & Roll Week! A weeklong celebration of active and sustainable transportation at the University of Montana, in conjunction with Missoula’s Bike Walk Bus Week - 927 - 10/4. Use healthy commuting options and get a chance to win great prizes!
For one week, we focus all our attention on getting around Missoula in the most healthy and fun way possible. Celebrate healthy transportation with us and give it a try. Bike Walk Bus Week is about making a difference - in your own life - and in the quality of our community. Activities run Saturday, 9/27 Saturday, 10/4. Check out the week’s schedule and a listing of daily activities at missoulainmotion.com
Voices of Vets Concert to Recognize Missoula-Area Veterans • Sunday, 9/28, 2:00pm • Crystal Theater Featuring: filmed interviews of local veterans, WWII to present. Music on WWII and 9/11 with Katie Martin, Soprano • Naomi Sumitani, Piano Melody Chang, Violin • Tickets on ticketriver.com (search for Voices of Vets) Proceeds to benefit the nonprofit X Sports 4 Vets