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cover by Kou Moua

Voices The readers write................................................................................................4 Street Talk Cops & coffee edition .................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Pulses under pressure, student census jitters, and coffee with coppers............6 Etc. A #tailgate tweetstorm...........................................................................................7 News Fire season is over. The need remains. ................................................................8 News UM gambles on scholarship gambit .....................................................................9 Opinion Turning prejudice into politics with Jeff Laszloffy ........................................10 Opinion Racism hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s everywhere. ...........................................11 Feature The long fall of Old King Coal........................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts On the joy of reading Stephen King’s forgotten fairytale ....................................18 Music Swamp Ritual, Alien Boy and Jon Langford ......................................................19 Books Melissa Kwasny unearths a multitude of souls.................................................20 Film Savoring dreariness in The Unknown Girl ..........................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................22 BrokeAss Gourmet Spicy wonton soup.....................................................................23 Happiest Hour The PSL (you know what we mean) ..................................................25 8 Days a Week They’re getting shorter, if not fewer ..................................................26 Agenda Bruised Baggers on skates..............................................................................35 Mountain High The Montana Book Fest’s nature-writing panel................................36

Exclusives

Street Talk......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................38 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................40 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................42 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................45 This Modern World.....................................................................................................46 GENERAL MANAGER Andy Sutcliffe EDITOR Brad Tyer PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston BOOKKEEPER Ruth Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson CALENDAR EDITOR Charley Macorn STAFF REPORTERS Alex Sakariassen, Derek Brouwer Susan Elizabeth Shepard COPY EDITOR Jule Banville EDITORIAL INTERN Margaret Grayson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Beau Wurster, Toni Leblanc, Declan Lawson ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER Tami Allen MARKETING & EVENTS COORDINATOR Ariel LaVenture CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Declan Lawson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Hunter Pauli, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Sarah Aswell, Migizi Pensoneau, April Youpee-Roll, MaryAnn Johanson Melissa Stephenson

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday afternoon along North Higgins Last week, the Indy attended the Missoula Police Department’s second “Coffee with a Cop” event.

If you could ask a local cop any question, what would it be?

What was your last interaction with law enforcement?

Bohni Majors: I would ask things more along the lines of what the homeless numbers are like now. I feel it was a lot more when I was here two years ago.

Speaking of coffee and cops: I’m a barista, and we had a kid in the shop that was causing a ruckus, so I had to call the police. Never been pulled over.

Keeping it that way.

Rebecca Sinichko: If they’ve worked in another area, I guess what is the biggest difference town to town, city to city.

Clean record: Fortunately, I might not be able to remember. Nope. Can’t remember the last time I talked to a cop.

Bum steer Having this asshat in her wheelhouse is not going to get her my vote (“Lisa Triepke campaign surrogate Wes Spiker goes off script,” Sept. 21). Not by a long shot.

Kelly Shank missoulanews.com

Lost in translation “No, no, oh God, no. I’m not getting paid.” Translation: “Yes, Yes, Oh God yes, I’m getting paid.”

Julie Madsen missoulanews.com

Speaking for the tribe The removal of Montana’s Confederate monument is nothing more than political opportunism (“The real history lesson behind Helena’s Confederate monument,” Sept. 21). For the tribe or anyone else to claim offense to this monument is total nonsense. It’s opportunism, victimology at its finest. And the City Council violated all consideration of, as they say today, transparency. What do you tell your kids about things you have to do under cover of darkness? They should be ashamed. Quit rewriting history, Montana!

Ed Kugler missoulanews.com

Commendations Elizabeth Denten: Has crime gone up since the college kids came back, or has it gone down? The witness: I was at the Badlander and a gentleman got punched in the face. The officer asked us about what we saw. The guy who punched him got arrested.

Bob and Marcy Kernez: How hard is it to stay neutral and just? Does crime pay by the board-foot? We had to call the police in regards to [Marcy] actually seeing someone steal lumber from the alley by our trailer and put it in their truck.

The city is to be commended. The perfect opportunity to erect a monument which recognizes racism and promotes equality.

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“Sometimes” After reading some of the comments in the Independent a week ago, I am prompted to write that Dan Brooks does not deserve the kind of negative threats that were printed. Brooks is my absolute favorite reporter in Missoula. His columns are always informative, sometimes humorous, and virtually always right on target.

Keep it up, Dan, the political scene needs your analysis.

L. Jack Lyon Missoula

Defending Engstrom Anita Vatshell: What’s their worst dread for a call? I’m sure it’s different for everyone. Party poopers: I think they broke up a house party once.

That’s probably not their biggest dread, I’m sure.

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While I agree with much of what you have written regarding the administration’s approach to lecturers and budget cuts, I think it would have been better to avoid the cheap and ill-informed shot at Dr. Engstrom (“Cutting teachers for dummies: How to maximize pain and minimize profit at UM,” Sept. 21). He is actually teaching two courses this semester, and will teach more next semester. The course in chemistry is 4 credits, has an enrollment of 50+ students,

and includes 3 additional contact hours per week in recitations (meaning that contact hours are equivalent to two 3-credit lecture courses). Dr. Engstrom is teaching this course for the first time and putting a great deal of effort into developing it such that it will give students a greater chance of success in introductory science courses and advanced courses in science. So he is helping UM to address real challenges.

Christopher Palmer missoulanews.com

Rebrand thyself With academics—the essence of any university—no longer its priority, perhaps the institution should rebrand itself as Administration and Sportsball of Montana.

Rebecca Schmitz facebook.com/missoulaindependent

“For the tribe or anyone else to claim offense to this monument is total nonsense. It’s opportunism, victimology at its finest. What do you tell your kids about things you have to do under cover of darkness? They should be ashamed.”

You listening, Engen?

I wonder if Montana has more institutions of higher education than the population of the state requires. What I see is the success of a football team that is kind of keeping academia afloat. How would the city of Missoula manage if it lost UM, which is on the brink of financial disaster.

Shouldn’t city fathers step in and lend a helping hand?

Jerry Hopkins facebook.com/missoulaindependent

LEAN in I’ve been saying exactly this for years.

Robert Stubblefield, for one example, is one of the hardest-working people on campus. I’ve heard professors complain when they are forced to teach two

courses per semester. It appears that LEAN principles should be implemented on campus to determine what is actually going on here. The university system in this state is inefficiently managed. The regents look down from their ivory towers and have no foothold in reality.

Janis Terwilliger Schmier facebook.com/missoulaindependent

The Zinke formula They build their houses made of cards, lies, alternative realities and the silliness will never stop with today’s career-, fame- and fortune-driven Republican politicians (“Zinke gets Interior staff into the ‘#sportsmen’ spirit,” Sept. 21). They use a similar formula for “success” as pop country. Play the fools for fools.

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Seeking judgment Missoula voters have an opportunity to elect a new municipal court judge this November. Brendan McQuillan will promote justice, create a culture of safety, and treat all who appear before him with dignity and respect in a court that processes more than 18,000 charges each year. He embraces bipartisan-supported criminal justice reform implemented by our Legislature. McQuillan’s Missoula roots, coupled with his experience as a prosecutor, defense attorney and legal director of the Montana Innocence Project, have instilled commitments to compassion, equity and restorative justice.

McQuillan will apply the law in a safe, equitable, and fiscally responsible manner which will benefit both individuals and our community. For example, he will work to interrupt the cycle of poverty that incarceration—at taxpayers’ expense—of people that cannot afford unpaid traffic fines perpetuates. Allowing these nonviolent offenders to complete community service to offset fines, rather than removing them from families and jobs during a jail sentence, is both humane and economically prudent. As mcquillanformissoula.com states, “The people of Missoula need a judge who will be tough on crime and gentle on people.”

Please join me Nov. 7 in voting for Brendan McQuillan for municipal court judge.

Karen Buley Missoula Correction: In the article “World War Which? An art historian brings the Great War back to Montana,” the Indy incorrectly characterized the anniversary tied to the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s new exhibit. Over There! Montanans in the Great War commemorates the 100th anniversary of the war’s end.

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, September 20 Missoula state Rep. Ellie Boldman-Hill Smith files a campaign finance complaint against mayoral candidate Lisa Triepke, claiming Triepke’s campaign failed to properly report expenditures.

Thursday, September 21 The University of Montana announces that 33 lecturers who were previously notified that their contracts would not be renewed in December will keep their jobs through spring semester, at least.

Friday, September 22 The state Commision on Practice recommends that Robert Myers, a Hamilton attorney who ran for District Court, be disbarred, saying Myers knowingly circulated “false and reckless statements” about his opponent.

Saturday, September 23 Eureka schools raise about $44,000 for people affected by the Caribou fire, which destroyed at least 10 homes. The schools hold an annual auction to raise money for extracurricular activities, but this year donated the money to fire victims.

Cop talk

Police are people, too If you wanted to commit a crime in Missoula, 8 a.m. last Thursday morning would have been a terrible time to try your luck downtown—but maybe a great one across town. At least 15 of Missoula’s finest were occupied at the city’s second “Coffee with a Cop” event, held this time in the lobby of the Florence Hotel, with coffee and muffins provided by Posh Chocolat. Citizens were welcome to meet their local officers, detectives and chief of police.

A sandwich sign on the sidewalk, chained to a cinder block, invited passersby. MPD Public Information Officer Travis Welsh acknowledged that the location and time would probably draw people who happened to be in the area already.

“We’d like to move it around, to the Southside, out near Reserve, into Midtown, to get other people out,” Welsh says.

The previous Coffee with a Cop had been at Break Espresso, where there was more of a mix of people, Welsh says. “You could watch people come in specially for it. It’s hard not to recognize a bunch of cops in a room.”

Most of the non-cops in attendance last Thursday were downtown stakeholders, including Linda Mc-

Carthy of the Downtown Missoula Partnership and David Bell of ALPS, which owns the Florence and donated the space.

No one used the event as an opportunity to air grievances or protest. “There’s no agenda, nobody’s making political points. We haven’t had anybody come in and express anger, yelling,” Welsh says. “Look around, people are nodding, smiling.” He gestured at a group of three people, all with badges and guns, who were indeed nodding and smiling. And happy to answer questions from anyone, including reporters.

Holly May Senger, a University of Montana junior who runs the sociology department’s Criminology Club, was one of the attending civilians.

“I think it should be more well-attended because I believe I am outnumbered by at least five to one here by law enforcement,” Senger says. She is interested in a career in law enforcement and appreciated the networking opportunity afforded by the event, as well as its outreach.

“I think Missoula, since it is a more liberal city, they tend to be not as friendly to cops. Or just a little less trusting of them. Events like this allow the general public to see them as people versus a badge and a uniform kind of thing,” Senger says.

“It’s a clouded mystery,” says Detective Arianna Adams about the public perception of her work. “Peo-

ple don’t know what we do day-to-day.”

Officer Jake Rosling says he appreciated the chance to explain things to the public that could put them at ease. “That gives them an understanding of, ‘Why did that cop follow me?’ A lot of people think it’s nefarious.”

Sometimes, he says, it’s just because they’re driving in the same direction.

Maybe there are people who find that information comforting, but even other cops don’t like seeing a police car in their rearview mirror. “I get nervous, too!”

Adams says.

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Speedy beans

Dinner with a pulse Eight hundred pounds of hummus are produced by the University of Montana kitchens every semester.

That’s a lot of cans of chickpeas to open, and a couple of years ago, Director of Sustainability Trevor Lowell started to wonder how he could streamline the process by using local, dried chickpeas.

UM Dining’s executive chef at the time told Lowell that one problem with the cheaper dried pulses—the edible seeds of legumes—was the time and labor required to cook them from scratch, a problem that could be solved with the right kind of appliance—namely an

Sunday, September 24 The Roxy Theater celebrates its 80th anniversary by lighting up its new art deco marquee and hosting a weekend of screenings and outdoor block party.

Monday, September 25 Five truckloads of hay from Eau Claire, Penn., are unloaded in Miles City. Eau Claire, population 300 or so, started a “PA for Montana” effort to donate hay and money to ranchers affected by wildfire.

Tuesday, September 26 Democrats criticize Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who claimed in a Monday speech that 30 percent of department employees were “not loyal to the flag” when he took the reins.

Petitioner’s hands are not just unclean, they are filthy with the ‘thousands and thousands of pages’ of records he should not possess.” — Jordan Johnson attorney Dave Paoli, in a brief asking a Helena district court judge to force Missoula author Jon Krakauer to surrender documents and reveal sources. Krakauer says he has no records, which is why he filed a public records request in the first place.

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[news] institutional kitchen-size pressure cooker. Home cooks have long used stovetop and electric pressure cookers to quickly cook dried beans, so of course there’s a supersized version for doing the same thing in quantity.

“We have this great Farm-to-College program.

We’re all about promoting agriculture in this state,” Lowell says. “If we had this equipment, we could convert these purchases from canned legumes to Montanagrown pulses.”

Cooking pulses from scratch accomplishes several sustainability objectives at once: It increases the amount of local product used, makes it easier to experiment with more plant-based dishes, and saves energy by forgoing the heating and canning processes.

Along with Anastasia Orkwiszewski, UM’s dining garden manager, Lowell wrote a grant proposal for funds distributed by the Montana Pulse Advisory Committee. Much of Montana’s pulse production—which has tripled over the last seven years—is exported. Lowell emphasized how networking with other institutions could raise the domestic profile of Montana agriculture, and they got the grant in April 2016, in the amount of $45,800.

That kind of money buys quite the Electrolux appliance, featuring a touchscreen that allows for programming in multiple cooking cycles and a chassis that rotates fully off the floor for ease of cleaning.

It wasn’t a simple plug and play installation, though, and has taken several maintenance visits and two or three tries to get it working.

“For the first year the machine wasn’t really working the way it was supposed to,” says Executive Sous Chef Tony Martinez. “It’s like having a toy for a year and not being able to play with it. Now that we’ve got it figured out, we’re starting to pick up speed and experiment with more things.”

Now Martinez and Lowell are working toward their ultimate objective, which is to phase out pre-cooked legumes completely and cook every lentil, bean and pea on campus from scratch.

Martinez can’t resist extolling the additional virtues of the appliance as a braiser, cutting pot roast from a two-day operation to one that can be completed in hours. It can even be used for scrambling an incredibly large quantity of eggs.

Or for blending an incredibly large amount of hummus. The first time they tested it out with chick-

peas, they cooked 20 pounds in about 35 minutes.

“Once it’s done, you don’t have to take it out,” Martinez says. “You can just put the big burr mixer in there, add your lemon and your spices, and just mix it right there.”

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

UM’s prez search

Exec a finalist, again The business executive vying to become the next University of Montana president was a finalist last year for a UM deanship, the Indy has learned.

The information, which Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian heard secondhand and shared with members of the presidential search committee, was not mentioned as part of Seth Bodnar’s public introduction and wasn’t discussed during his interviews, according to the commissioner’s spokesperson. But it helps shed light on how an unconventional candidate became a finalist for UM’s top job.

Bodnar, currently a senior executive at GE Transportation, confirmed in an email that he applied for the open deanship at UM’s School of Business Administration in 2016. He said he eventually withdrew from consideration because GE began acquiring two outside companies and he “didn’t feel it was appropriate for me as a leader to leave my position at the time.” He did not respond to a followup question about when he withdrew.

Bodnar lists two 2016 business acquisitions on his public C.V., which correspond to news reports of GE deals with ShipXpress in September and Iders, Inc. in December. UM announced Chris Shook as the new SoBA dean on May 26.

Highlights from Bodnar’s resume include a Rhodes Scholarship in 2001, commanding infantry and Green Berets overseas and rising through the ranks of GE’s locomotive business. He has garnered the most public intrigue of UM’s four presidential finalists, fielding questions from a full theater and overflow room during his Sept. 22 campus forum.

BY THE NUMBERS Hours a “pop-up park” will be installed in East Missoula on Oct. 7 to illustrate the benefits of walkable infrastructure. The demonstration is funded by a $10,000 AARP grant.

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Some have questioned his qualifications to lead a flagship university, since he lacks a doctoral degree and counts a two-year stint as assistant professor at West Point as his only higher-education work experience.

“On paper, he’s just not university material,” says UM professor Mehrdad Kia, who expressed dissatisfaction with all four finalists in a recent letter to the editor signed by 25 administration critics.

But the impression Bodnar made as a dean candidate may have helped him in his application for president. Presidential search committee member and professor Diana Six says a fellow member, whom she did not identify, spoke highly of Bodnar during one of the group’s meetings, explaining that he was a “top contender” for the dean job, but that the university was unable to negotiate a deal.

“The fact that this person on the committee had seen his performance during that interview and had been really impressed kind of made us decide [that] maybe we should give him a shot,” she says.

Finalists in the SoBA dean search were not announced publicly, and Roberta Evans, who chaired the search, was out of town and did not respond to an email. Commissioner’s office spokesperson Kevin McRae declined to provide details about Bodnar’s dean application, but an individual who spoke to the Indy on the condition of anonymity claims to have attended a meeting with Bodnar during the candidate’s visit as a finalist.

Christian mentioned Bodnar’s previous candidacy to the search committee “only as a piece of trivia,” McRae says, “because we don’t ask candidates what jobs they’ve applied for.”

Derek Brouwer

ETC. @GrizBuzzKill406: Hey @SenatorTester maybe you can introduce a bill about this: RT @reesephillips11: Tailgating at halftime might need to be addressed after tonight… @SenatorTester: Shucks, I’m busy typing up a sternly worded letter to @SecShulkin. @GovernorBullock, you free? #GrizGate @reesephillips11 @GovernorBullock: Overbooked with these budget cuts. @AGTimFox got your public intoxication statutes handy? #GrizGate @AGTimFox: @GovernorBullock Busy picking up my #Speedo at the dry cleaners. I bet @SteveDaines can introduce something though. @SteveDaines: @AGTimFox @SenatorTester @GovernorBullock This year I introduced a Constitutional Amendment to ban the burning of the American flag - it is the symbol of American freedom & heroism @SteveDaines: Sorry. Thought you were talking about something else. @SecretaryZinke knows what I mean. #istand @SecretaryZinke: @SteveDaines 30 percent of #GrizGate fans not loyal to the game. Dealing with similar issue at my office #istand #ShotgunShowdown @SecretaryZinke: I bet @AGTimFox could fit into my wetsuit. Plenty dry from yesterday. @us_navyseals @GrizFanDrinking: @SteveDaines @MaxBaucus @SenatorTester @GovernorBullock @AGTimFox @us_navyseals Many would donate much to charity to see all of you at the next tailgate being beermaids! #grizmontanalager @SecretaryZinke: @GrizFanDrinking @SteveDaines @MaxBaucus @SenatorTester @GovernorBullock @AGTimFox @us_navyseals *beermen @Gianforte: Hi @GrizBuzzKill406. Happy to tackle this issue. @Bencjacobs: @gianforte Dude, too soon.

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A hot hand Fire season’s over. The need remains.

by Alex Sakariassen

In the three months since the first lightning strikes of wildfire season, the Montana chapter of the American Red Cross has been busy. The organization opened 18 emergency shelters to house evacuees from various fires—six during Labor Day weekend alone—and, according to regional communications director Matt Ochsner, provided 188 overnight stays at those facilities. Red Cross volunteers distributed 662 food and hygiene kits, served more than 1,000 meals and helped 32 people process paperwork and connect to recovery resources. Overall, Ochsner says, Montanans donated $70,000 toward those efforts—roughly 10 percent of the chapter’s fiscal-year budget for disaster response.

“Montanans have been incredibly generous,” he says. “And there’s money coming in all the time still.”

Despite more than a week of rain and snow, that money is still needed. Nearly 1.3 million acres of federal, state, tribal and private land have gone up in flames since early July. Two firefighters were killed. A fastmoving blaze west of Eureka destroyed 10 homes in the state’s oldest Amish community. Two homes burned down in the Lolo Peak fire south of Missoula. Glacier National Park’s iconic Sperry Chalet was gutted. Citizens have lost outbuildings and livestock. The state spent more than $53 million fighting the fires, draining its fire fund and then some.

For many Montanans, watercooler talk has now shifted to other topics. Even the Red Cross has begun switching gears, deploying 20 volunteers from Montana and Idaho last week to assist with hurricane relief in Texas and Florida. But Montanans still have ample opportunity to help those for whom this summer isn’t just a smokechoked memory.

The Red Cross continues to solicit donations as it moves into what Ochsner calls the “recovery” phase; over the coming weeks, as the extent of property damage comes into more definitive view, the organization will begin addressing those needs.

To ensure your money goes specifically to fellow Montanans, Ochsner adds, just write

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“Montana wildfires” in your donation check’s memo line.

Similar collections are being taken up by numerous local nonprofits. The Garfield County Relief Fund, for example, was set up by the Central Montana Foundation to help those affected by the 270,723-acre Lodgepole Complex fires.

The United Way of Missoula County has opened two separate relief funds for victims of the Lolo Peak and Liberty/Rice Ridge fires. The 406 Family Aid Foundation continues to collect money for Lolo Peak evacuees. And the Helena-based Montana Community Foundation created its own Montana Wildfire Relief Fund in response to the “unprecedented

Meanwhile, citizen attempts to raise fire-relief funds have populated the crowdsourcing website GoFundMe since August, with mixed success. One campaign, dedicated to raising money for people who lost homes or livestock to the Caribou fire near Eureka has collected more than $13,000 in pledges, and was featured by GoFundMe in a mid-September roundup of wildfire-relief campaigns across the western United States.

For those on the other side of the need—businesses and small governments seeking funds—Montana is helping streamline the search. Last week, the Department of Tourism and Business Development launched a webpage compiling

photo by Joe Weston

The intensity of this summer’s wildfire season prompted the American Red Cross to open 18 shelters for evacuees statewide. As illustrated by continued fundraising by numerous nonprofits, the need remains even as the fires die down.

2017 fire disaster,” gathering donations to fund a series of grants that will, in turn, be awarded to community charities.

Meanwhile, the Wildland Firefighters Foundation has struck up a partnership to help Missoulians thank wildland firefighters for their months of service—or, put another way, help them celebrate the end of a challenging season. Throughout September, Missoula Brewing Company has allowed people to purchase beers for certified firefighters at the taproom, an effort culminating in a Sept. 30 “year-end party.” According to brewery owner Bob Lukes, 50 cents from each beer goes to the Wildland Firefighters Foundation. Lukes reported selling more than 400 firefighter beers in the fundraiser’s first 10 days.

state-sponsored assistance grants and loan programs. Public information officer Dan Iverson says the list includes two new grants created in response to this season’s severity: an emergency marketing grant to address lost tourism, and a disaster recovery grant for small businesses. The site is primarily business-oriented, but Iverson says the state also included a partial list of charitable organizations to which individuals can donate.

“We know that people want to help,” he says. “We hear it all the time, that they might be better off than someone else who’s going through some issues right now, and they want to pitch in.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Lisa Triepke’s

Census day UM gambles on scholarship gambit

by Derek Brouwer

The numbers creep up daily, but never as fast as Tom Crady wants. Each morning the University of Montana’s vice president for enrollment reviews a new report showing how many students have paid their bills. He tracks freshmen most closely. On Sept. 15, incoming class size is 1,182. A week later it’s 1,200. Crady wants to hit at least 1,268, last year’s tally.

And he wants to hit it by census day, the fall semester date when Montana’s state universities report enrollment figures.

Census day has not been good to UM in recent years. The university has had to publicize drop after drop in student enroll-

cruiters this cycle, including presidential regime change, tuition increases, bad press and a recent labor grievance filed by the faculty union. Last year, Crady said his goal was to increase the freshman class by 3 percent annually. Now he’s relieved the fall class stayed flat.

“It looks like a wash,” he says.

Crady is also nervous because he’s made a gamble on tuition revenue. As the rest of campus braces for layoffs, Crady has secured a 20 percent boost in spending authority for scholarships, a roughly $2.8 million investment whereby, he says, “If we do it right, we can actually

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Tom Crady, UM vice president for enrollment, was given authority to award more scholarships to attract out-of-state students. Enrollment figures released Sept. 27 show that the number of nonresident freshmen dropped by 10 students.

ment. Officials have sought ways to soften the blows, whether by masking them in press releases or quietly adjusting figures downward after the media have moved on.

This year’s data were released Sept.

27, showing an expected 4.5 percent drop in overall student headcount. The freshman class number: 1,292, a 1.9 percent bump.

Student numbers are more uncertain than usual at this point in the year, due to a Crady-enacted policy change that delayed the bill payment deadline. But the spreadsheets indicate that UM is on the bubble. It could takes months to know if managers actually met their enrollment goals.

Crady is already hedging his bets, listing the factors that worked against re-

generate money” by attracting more outof-state students.

UM has not used scholarship money wisely in the past. In 2016, the Indy reported that an outside consultant determined the university did not have a “culture of evidence” with respect to its financial aid strategy. It increased spending only once in the previous four years. Before resigning, then-president Royce Engstrom ordered a 15-percent reduction in scholarship spending to deal with budget shortfalls. The scholarship money UM did spend wasn’t always deployed efficiently, in Crady’s view.

“You can see people were eyeballing this and not doing anything I would consider to be scientific,” he says.

A “transition review team,” led by nowinterim vice president for administration and finance Rosi Keller, asked Crady for input on the scholarship budget. Crady says he initially sought a reduction in outof-state tuition, which the Board of Regents increased to more than $23,000 this year in response to state budget cuts. He ultimately agreed to a scholarship approach, offering $5,000 in “merit aid” to applicants with a 2.75 GPA and ACT score of 22 or higher. Crady is using modeling software in an attempt to dial in a formula that boosts enrollment enough that UM generates more net revenue overall.

With the new strategy, UM is finally spending a similar proportion of its budget on scholarships—around $1,700 per student—as cross-state rival Montana State.

But while MSU expects to yield $9.9 million this year in nonresident “subsidy”—i.e., profit—UM budget documents submitted to the Board of Regents last month predict a paltry $106,000 yield. Crady says UM budgeters intentionally lowballed that number, and that he anticipates a much higher yield, even though the number of out-of-state freshmen appears to have dropped slightly.

At the same time, many UM students most in need of financial aid are still waiting to get it. UM’s financial aid office is a month behind schedule in processing certain types of applications. Director Kent McGowan says his staff has been hampered by a series of budget cuts and unfortunate events. Since McGowan’s hiring, in 2010, the financial aid office budget has been cut by 45 percent, and its staff reduced from 18 to 11—including three cuts in a recent six-month period. Then a veteran staffer died over the summer, leaving the office in another lurch.

In response, McGowan says, financial aid officers have been conducting triage with students who are “just desperate,” needing money to buy food and, in some cases, living in vehicles.

“There’s been several students who we’ve moved to the front of the line,” McGowan says. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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nature. dedi nature. dedication. ication. fullfi fullfilmen filmen [opinion] truth. good. whole. beauty beauty. uty y. fu ture. ture. visionary visionary. ary y. diversity. diversity y. love life. urban. urban. experience. cr ativity. ativity y. ecolo ecology. ogy y. collaboration collaboration Turning prejudice into politics with Jeff Laszloffy care. care. energy energy. y. health. ba balance alance growth. community growth. community. mmunity y. farmer. farmer merr.. a Last week, the Montana Supreme the grounds that the court agreed with that people will agree that men shouldn’t ternative. ternative. education. indepen d depen Court ruled that the description Attorney its challenge to Fox’s ballot description. use the women’s locker without stopping General Tim Fox had written for I-183—a From there, it moved smoothly to the to consider how the government might deinitiative that would require Mon- claim that Montana law voids the 25,000 termine who men and women are. dant. ethical. whole. advocac vocac ballot I have a friend who went to Switzertanans to use bathrooms and locker rooms or so signatures that Laszloffy’s group land in the 1990s for a series of sex reasgathered to put I-183 on the ballot, now that correspond to the sexes on their birth thoughtful. human. rresponsib esponsib ponsib certificates—did not convey enough infor- that the description has to be changed. signment surgeries. If she walked into a mation. The court ruled that Fox had not That part of the release is the ACLU’s ar- men’s locker room today, common sense natural. enjoy enjoy. oy y. conservation. conserva ation. made it clear that I-183 would primarily af- gument, but it’s made to sound like the would cause a riot. I have another friend transgendered people or apply to local decision of the court, which in fact did who hasn’t gotten surgery, but wears a full tegrity. tegrity y. motivation. moti rrespect. espect. r fectschools, beard and competes in the men’s division and that the fiscal note did not ad- not throw out the signatures. of jiu jitsu tournaments, thanks to testosequately convey the measure’s cost. The terone therapy. What does common sense also ruled that Fox’s description storing. boutique. boutique global. al. org court say about that? failed to define “sex” in sentences like this: “These people are The Montana Family Foundation has “I-183 requires government entities to anic. inspir inspired. ed. local. grassr grassroo oo designate a protected facility in a governnothing to say about how its initiative would affect these people. Instead, it foment building or public school for use not getting a focused. pr oviderr. collective. provider. colle cuses on the hypothetical scenario of high only by members of one sex, and prohibits school boys trying to get into the girls’ persons from using a protected facility sweet deal on real. real. awar awareness. eness. love. nurtur nurture e other than the facility that is designated for locker room by merely announcing that are female. I have never heard of that that person’s sex.” action. dispensary dispensary. pensary y. rrevoltiona y. evoltiona oltiona What determines a person’s sex? bathrooms by they happening. It does not seem to be a real problem, in Montana or anywhere else.

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It takes a perverse imagination to name this proposal the Locker Room Privacy Act. That imagination belongs to Jeff Laszloffy, president and CEO of the Montana Family Foundation. The day after the Supreme Court’s ruling, he sent out a press release titled “Montana Family Foundation Celebrates Big Win at Montana Supreme Court.” Quoting himself, Laszloffy cited the court’s decision not to simply remove I-183 from the ballot as a “major victory.”

That same day, the ACLU released its own statement, also declaring victory, on

the character of debate over I-183, which has been conducted on the principle of misleading voters. For example, the word “transgender” did not appear anywhere in Fox’s rejected ballot description. It is conspicuously absent from the Montana Family Foundation’s marketing, too. The description of I-183 on its website, for example, argues that “it’s just common sense that high school girls shouldn’t be forced to shower next to boys.”

“It’s just common sense” is politics for “please don’t think about this question.”

Laszloffy’s foundation seems to be betting

is that Laszloffy makes his living turning popular prejudices into politics, and prejudice isn’t as popular as it used to be. You can see that every time he contorts himself to talk around his own ideas. Maybe asking the government to divide us into men and women isn’t common sense. Maybe the Montana Family Foundation is consistently vague about what it’s doing because what it’s doing is consistently awful.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and what is commonly sensed at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

It persists Racism hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s everywhere.

by Evelyn Red Lodge

During my 13 years in Rapid City, South Dakota, I’ve learned that racism and ignorance almost always go handin-hand. The West was “won,” many people learn in school, but what did westward expansion mean for the Native people who were already living on the land?

The lure of gold brought explorers, miners and then homesteaders to South Dakota during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I imagine that most of those “invaders”—from my point of view—didn’t think twice about booting the local people out of the way. But that was then. The question today is why racism persists when America prides itself on tolerance and respecting diversity.

Here are examples from my life that reveal the kind of blatant racism I’ve experienced, as well as some of the unconscious racism that is sometimes almost comical.

I go to a Rapid City council meeting where a white local suggests placing statues of Native Americans in Founders Park, rather than in the proposed First Nations Sculpture Gallery in Halley Park. As Native author Elizabeth Cook-Lynn put it, the suggestion was made “without a hint of irony.”

After all, who were the original founders if not Native people?

I go to the veterans’ parade where the 7th United States Cavalry, formed in 1866 to protect homesteaders and raid Native villages, is still honored.

These days, of course, more Natives serve in the military per capita than any other ethnic group, according to the director of the National Museum of the American Indian. But few Natives march with the veterans in the parade.

I find a Black Hills trail guide listing the 7th Cavalry Trail as if it’s fun for people to follow the trail of mass murderers who killed anywhere from 75 to 125 babies, children and women at Wounded Knee in 1890.

I buy a Happy Meal for my daughter only to find a 7th Cavalry Custer

doll inside. She gets upset when I try to explain why I think it belongs in the trash.

In a jewelry shop along Mount Rushmore Road, I look at the gold for which my grandparents’ territory was invaded and spot a wine-bottle holder depicting a Native chief chugging a bottle of wine. Old stereotypes die hard.

“I buy a Happy Meal for my daughter only to find a 7th Cavalry Custer doll inside.

She gets upset when I try to explain why I think it belongs in the trash.”

According to a recent study in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, alcohol consumption by Natives is shown to be generally less than that of caucasians in the U.S. In 2015, I feared to go to any sporting event after a drunk beer salesman poured beer on Native students at a hockey game and shouted, “Go back to the reservation!” Within days, dumping beer on Natives had become a common occurrence at other venues.

I picked up the local newspaper

four days after the drunk hockey fan did his business, and the question was raised on the front page: Had the Native students who were attacked stood for the national anthem? (Not that it should make any difference, but it was reported that the students did stand.)

I feared to walk on the north side of Rapid City in 2009 and 2010, after at least two Native families with children were egged while racial slurs were hurled at them. “Go back to where you came from!” is a laughable favorite.

One Native woman, who was disabled, was run off the road while driving her car. Urine in bottles was thrown on other Natives. Some Natives were shot with pellet guns.

At the same time—and I am glad to report this—many of the attackers were held accountable after much public outcry: The jewelry store owner removed the wine holder featuring a drunken Native from her window after local media asked why she’d given it prominence.

The newspaper removed its victimblaming story from its website.

Two 21-year-old women were arrested in the incident involving the disabled woman, becoming the first in the state to be charged with its new hatecrime law, “malicious intimidation or harassment.”

As for failures in the quest for justice, the drunk hockey fan was eventually acquitted of his one and only charge of disorderly conduct. And I am unaware of any charges brought against anyone for the attacks involving egg and urine throwing and pellet guns.

Racism persists, I am sorry to report. I still feel it every day.

Evelyn Red Lodge is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). A writer in Rapid City, South Dakota, she is a correspondent for Native Sun News Today and member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

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EWWWWW! – Forget the horrifying clown from “It.” The newest inhabitant of your nightmares is a giant “fatberg” in the sewer system beneath the streets of London. A fatberg is created by a buildup of fat and grease combined with used diapers, sanitary napkins and wipes. This one is almost the length of three football fields and weighs more than 140 tons. Matt Rimmer with London’s Thames Water said the current glob is “a total monster and is taking a lot of manpower and machinery to remove, as it’s set hard.” He said it’s basically like trying to break up concrete.

WAIT, WHAT? – Entrepreneur Miki Argawal, 38, of Brooklyn, New York, was a hit at this year’s Burning Man gathering in Nevada, where she pumped breast milk and offered it to fellow attendees to help with hangovers or use in lattes. She even tried some herself, saying it tasted a bit like coconut milk. She estimated that 30 to 40 people tried her milk. “The fact that any part of that could be seen as taboo ... it’s time that conversation changes,” Argawal said.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS – Terror suspect and Uber driver Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, of Luton, England, was detained in London on Aug. 25 after using his navigation program to direct him to Windsor Castle. But the technology led him astray, and he pulled up outside The Windsor Castle pub in Windsor. After realizing his mistake, Chowdhury headed for London, where he parked his car next to a marked police van outside Buckingham Palace, brandished a 4-footlong sword and yelled “Allahu Akbar.” Chowdhury was charged in the Westminster Magistrates Court with one count of preparing to commit an act or acts of terrorism.

BRIGHT IDEAS – An unnamed man in Plymouth, Minnesota, went to extraordinary lengths and wasted two days of police investigators’ time just to get a few days away from his wife, police Sgt. Keith Bird said. The woman reported her 34-year-old husband missing on Aug. 28 and showed police a text from him saying he had been kidnapped. The kidnapper demanded a paltry $140 for his return, and the wife agreed, but the kidnapper said she could wait for the husband to receive his paycheck. Eventually police caught up with the husband, who insisted he had indeed been kidnapped but asked officers to stop investigating. “He’s fine,” said Sgt. Bird.

LIFE IMITATES TV – Paul J. Newman of Rensselaer, New York, was sentenced on Sept. 6 to two-and-a-third to seven years in prison after pretending to be a licensed and registered architect, after an investigation the New York attorney general’s office dubbed “Operation Vandelay Industries” in a nod to “Seinfeld.” Newman’s charges included larceny, forgery, fraud and unlicensed practice of architecture. He will also have to pay more than $115,000 in restitution to his victims.

SWEET REVENGE – After arguing with a security guard about the high price of parking, a woman in Benxi, Liaoning Province, China, left her car in front of the entrance gate to a housing community on Aug. 22. But people have to get in and out, so a crane was employed to lift the car onto the roof of the security building next to the gate. Onlookers can be heard laughing in a video of the incident. The car was later lowered to the ground using the crane.

THE PRICE OF VANITY – Neven Ciganovic, 45, of Croatia was undergoing the latest in a series of plastic surgeries (this one a rhinoplasty) in Iran when he “reacted badly” to the general anesthesia and developed a painful, long-lasting erection, known as priapism. As he recovered in a Serbian hospital, Ciganovic was denied painkillers and was only relieved of the condition after another surgery, although he says it will be months before he is fully recovered. The tattoocovered Ciganovic is hoping his latest nose operation will improve his looks enough to launch him to international stardom.

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UNUSUAL HOBBIES – British tree surgeon Gary Blackburn, 53, moved to Germany 32 years ago but holds a soft spot for Britain. So when the Brexit vote passed last year, “I decided to make my own little Britain here in Germany,” Blackburn said from his home in Kretzhaus. His exhibition includes a demilitarized Centurion tank (decorated with poppies and white doves, to symbolize peace), red telephone boxes and a life-size model of Queen Elizabeth. Neighbors have complained about the tank parked on his lawn, but so far officials have not demanded that Blackburn remove it.

Farmer Jeremy Goebel of Evansville, Indiana, has honored the late actress Carrie Fisher with a corn maze planted in the shape of her iconic character, Princess Leia from “Star Wars.” He planted the maze last spring using a GPS device, and it was scheduled to open in early September. “I’ve always been a ‘Star Wars’ fan and I just wanted to pay tribute to Carrie Fisher,” Goebel said.

WHY NOT? – In Santa Fe, New Mexico, tens of thousands of people gathered at a city park on the evening of Sept. 1 to revel in the burning of the effigy Zozobra, a six-story monkey puppet filled with handwritten notes about anxieties and problems they hoped to send up in smoke. Locals dropped their notes in a “gloom box” at a shopping center, with subjects ranging from an ill family member to hurricane victims to government corruption. The tradition began in 1924 and was named for the Spanish word for upset or worry.

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oal. Guns. Freedom.

I saw these three words on a little sticker affixed to the window of a car in a small Colorado town. It struck me as funny at first: coal and guns being elevated to the status of platonic ideals or, even more loftily, the refrain of a bad country song.

All it was missing was Jesus, beer and Wrangler butts. A few days later, though, as I sat on a desert promontory overlooking northwestern New Mexico, the sticker didn’t seem so funny. As the sunrise spilled across sagebrush plains and irrigated cornfields, it also illuminated a narrow band of yellow-brown clouds on the horizon.

The clouds were smog, a soup of sulfur dioxide, particulates, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants emanating from the smokestacks of the coal-burning Four Corners Power Plant and San Juan Generating Station, on either side of the San Juan River Valley. The people of the Four Corners have experienced that cloud in one form or another nearly every day for the past half century. Our skies have been sullied, as have our lungs. Mercury wafts from these and other smokestacks and falls with rain on Mesa Verde National Park and in the clear, icy streams of the San Juan Mountains. The power plants suck millions of gallons of water from the river each day for steam production and cooling, and they leave behind mountains of ash, clinkers and sludge tainted with mercury, arsenic, selenium and other toxic material. That’s all in addition to the tens of millions of tons of climate-altering carbon dioxide the stacks release each year.

We’ve been told that this is just the price we pay for power, that this is what it costs to keep the lights on in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, that we have no choice but to live with it. To stop burning coal, or even try to mitigate the harm, we’ve been told, will put thousands of hard-working Americans out of a job, cause electricity costs to skyrocket, and black-out our lights and computers.

Coal. Guns. Freedom.

Now, however, as many of the West’s biggest coal plants near the end of their lives, coal-fired electricity is going the way of the steam locomotive and manual typewriter. It’s becoming clear that King Coal was a big lie, a long-standing myth. For decades, we’ve been hoodwinked by the fetishization of coal, to the detriment of us all.

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oal fueled the white invasion of the West. It stoked smelters, powered locomotives and generated steam, driving mills that processed tons and tons of rock. Newcomers heated their homes and cooked with coal, thousands of them toiling in mines to keep the fires going. The coal industry rose up on those miners’ backs, reaping enormous profits that lined politicians’ pockets. These lawmakers returned the favor by keeping regulations minimal and royalties low on federal mineral reserves, and by sending troops to murder striking miners. “Coal is the fuel of the present,” crowed the author of a 1906 U.S. Geological Survey report, “and so far as can be seen, will continue to lead … for a long time to come.”

Yet even then, Westerners were slowly shifting away from the expensive, dirty and inconvenient fuel. The electricity that powered the mines and towns was, by and large, generated from falling water. And when the pipelined bounty of the 1920s-era natural gas boom spread from New Mexico and Texas across the West, homeowners switched en masse to gas for cooking and

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heating, saying goodbye to stokers, clinkers and coal’s pervasive, greasy film.

By 1950, coal provided a mere 10 percent of the West’s electricity. Natural gas generation was eating into that slice, and plans for a network of dams along the Colorado River threatened to flood the grid with even more cheap, coal-displacing hydropower. Steam locomotives went the way of the dinosaurs, driven to extinction by diesel. American coal consumption fell by 20 percent in the 1950s alone. In the West, it plummeted by 40 percent.

Facing an existential crisis, coal industry executives knew they could not compete based on the merits of their fuel. Instead, they set out to imbue it with symbolism and mythology. Coal was not just coal, the lobbyists argued. It was abundant, reliable and deserving of a seat in the pantheon of American culture, alongside cowboys, guns—and, yes, freedom. (They also managed to convince the Sierra Club that coal plants were a green alternative to river-ruining dams.)

Most of all, coal was equated with honest jobs for hard-working miners (and voters)—never mind that mechanization and efficiency had been killing off mining jobs since the early 1900s. The shift from coal to diesel and natural gas was framed not as mere consumer choice between commodities, but as an attack on some ineffable American value.

Coal. Guns. Freedom.

The industry enlisted Sen. Wayne Aspinall, a Democrat from the coal state of Colorado, to its cause, and Congress created the Office of Coal Research in 1960 “to encourage and stimulate the production of coal in the United States through research and development … and maximize the contribution of coal to the overall energy market.” Lawmakers from coal-producing counties and states ganged up on other forms of energy, taxing natural gas, for example, or requiring public institutions to heat with coal, free market be damned.

In 1952, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its “Study of Future Power Transmission for the West.” It revealed the perverse logic that prevailed at the time: Since both the population and per capita electricity use were rapidly increasing, new power plants were needed. The new power supplies would lower electricity prices, thus drawing more people and encouraging more consumption, which would then spur the building of more power plants, and so on. It was a recipe for a slow-building disaster, regardless of what fueled the power plants.

Pushing coal as the main ingredient made it that much more catastrophic.

The authors of the report acknowledged that natural gas was relatively cheap and clean, easy to transport and abundant.

Nevertheless, they recommended coal to power the massive fleet of new plants, because they worried that natural gas supplies might someday run short. In so doing, they signaled that the federal government, far from being “fuel neutral,” had a strong preference for coal. The mythology around coal became policy.

Starting in the mid-1960s, coal plants were built across the nation at a rapid rate, with more than 10,000 megawatts of coal-generated capacity—the equivalent of about five Four Corners power plants— added annually. Smoke-belching plants rose up from the deserts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, including several on or near the Navajo Nation, sending their juice to the air conditioners, televisions and “electrified homes” of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Monstrous draglines gouged into spare mesas, and smog settled over valleys and obscured mesa and mountain views. Each of the new plants emitted at least 10 million tons of greenhouse gases annually.

The coal frenzy was not dampened by the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970—it took years to implement the law, and even longer to enforce it. In 1977, Congress strengthened the act in ways that would give cleaner-burning natural gas a leg up. But that was nulli-

did was double down on coal, thus tightening a stranglehold on the nation’s grid that would take decades to loosen.

This April, in a move that harkens back to the 1950s, Energy Secretary Rick Perry launched a review of the electrical grid, clearly looking to kill regulations and otherwise prop up the flagging coal industry.

Perry presumed that reliable and “critical baseload resources,” such as coal-power, were being unfairly bullied off the grid by “regulatory burdens” and “the market-distorting effects of federal subsidies that boost one form of energy at the expense of others.” Meanwhile, long before the review was complete, the Trump administration went about killing environmental protections aimed at keeping harmful pollutants out of the air, rescinded an initiative to get corporations to pay their fair share for mining coal owned by U.S. taxpayers, and halted a study of the effects of mountaintop mining—all in the name of reliability, affordability and, of course, jobs.

It must have been a shock, therefore, when Perry’s own experts concluded in August that government interference isn’t killing coal. The free market is. “The biggest contributor to coal and nuclear plant retirements has been the advantaged economics of natural gas-fired generation,” the study’s authors wrote,

“As many of the West’s biggest coal plants near the end of their lives, coal-fired electricity is going the way of the steam locomotive and manual typewriter.” ated capacity. When the shale drilling revolution glutted the market with natural gas beginning in 2008, an abundance of power plants were already on hand to put it to use. The Great Recession caused electricity demand to plateau at about the same time, and the combination of factors caused wholesale electricity prices to fall.

The myth of coal as the most affordable

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fied by another law, the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, which prohibited the use of natural gas as a primary fuel for generating electricity. It was a blatant act of market interference, in which the government chose coal over cleaner-burning natural gas. Lawmakers and lobbyists argued the law would help the U.S. achieve energy independence, but that was yet another myth. All it really

essentially repeating common knowledge. Furthermore, coal’s phase-out and the increase in renewable energy on the grid have not hurt reliability or, for that matter, caused a net loss in jobs.

The findings were of little surprise to industry watchers. Coal’s foreseeable decline began when Congress repealed the Fuel Use Act in 1987. That opened the way for a huge buildup of natural gas-gener-

fuel perished, though its greater symbolism has proven more stubborn.

The buildup of wind and solar power further decreased overall electricity prices in relation to coal. Playing a minor role in coal’s misfortune were “a suite of environmental regulations”—from the Clean Power Plan to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard—that, Perry’s review says, “had varying degrees of effects on the cost of

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generation.” While these rules do affect coal more than other fuels, they aren’t “unfairly” targeting coal, as the industry and its boosters contend. Rather, they target air pollution, and coal happens to be the most polluting fuel currently in use.

Other Obama-era regulations are harder on natural gas—both the Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management’s methane rules targeted oil and gas production, leaving methaneventing coal mines alone.

Between 2002 and 2016, some 59,000 megawatts of coal-generated capacity were taken off the grid nationwide

due to plant retirements. Salt River Project announced it would shut down its Navajo Generating Station in 2019 because the plant no longer made economic sense. Colstrip in Montana is slated to go dark in 2027, and Intermountain Power Project in Utah will close in 2025. Public Service Company of New Mexico wants to phase coal out altogether over the next 15 years, which includes shutting down San Juan Generating Station in 2022 and divesting from Four Corners Power Plant.

It won’t be an easy task, since the utility currently gets 54 percent of its electricity from coal, but PNM analysts insist that

more efficiency and a switch to natural gas, nuclear and renewables will cost their ratepayers less in the long-run.

Even the coal plants that continue to run are seeing less use, and different uses, causing coal to lose ground. The Navajo Generating Station put out 30 percent less power in 2015 than it did two years earlier, for example, so if it weren’t scheduled to be shut down, it might just fade away. Two decades ago, coal plants were mainly used as a baseload power source, meaning they’d run at maximum output around the clock in order to supply the minimum demand

on the grid. Yet in 2016, according to a Western Interstate Energy Board analysis, only a small handful of plants spent more than half the year in baseload operation.

So when coal plants go dark, the grid won’t lose much in the way of baseload power or the reliability it purportedly provides. “Reliability is adequate today,” Perry’s review concludes, going on to say that the loss of capacity due to retirements has been replaced, and that energy-source diversity is as high as ever.

Another piece of the coal myth, smashed.

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ne of the few things that coal-generation has going for it is “fuel assurance.” That is, coal plants can stockpile fuel on site. Natural gas is more difficult to store, and relies on vulnerable pipeline networks. Solar and wind power are weather dependent. For the centralized coal plants of the interior West, however, fuel assurance is offset by the fact that the plants rely on long-distance power lines to deliver the goods, and those not only leak a lot of electricity, they can be taken out by extreme weather, wildfire, saboteurs and even squirrels.

Such practical considerations, however, do not make for powerful myth.

Symbolism does. And the coal industry seethes with symbolism.

Coal. Guns. Freedom.

Perry’s grid review found that the coal industry has shed nearly 40,000 jobs over the last 15 years, but attributes those losses not only to the downturn in demand but also to “increased mechanization and a shift to western coal”—the massive mines of Wyoming’s Powder

Montana’s long coal decline M ontanans haven’t had to look far in recent years for signs of the coal industry’s steady decline. In Helena, that West-wide slump has manifested in countless hours of legislative debate on numerous coal-centric bills. The long-simmering fight over the proposed Otter Creek coal mine ended last year when the bankrupt Arch Coal voluntarily shelved its permit application. Empty railcars continue to line the tracks in the Bitterroot Valley, stashed by Montana Rail Link more than a year ago as coal shipments flagged.

The brightest canary in Montana’s coal mine, though, remains Colstrip, the massive four-unit power facility that pops up in regional headlines on what now seems like a monthly basis. The plant’s two older units, 1 and 2, are slated for shuttering by 2022. Washington-based Puget Sound Energy struck a multi-party deal in the course of its general rate case in September that would see the utility recover its investments in units 3 and 4 by 2027, advancing Colstrip’s anticipated

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River Basin require fewer workers than those in Appalachia to extract each ton of coal. For each job lost due to displacement of coal by natural gas, solar or wind power, another rose to take its place in an electricity generation-related industry.

The Energy Department’s 2017 employment report found that coal power plants and mines employed about 160,000 people, while the wind and solar industry provided more than 475,000 jobs. Coal jobs carry far more symbolic and therefore political heft, however, since no one has yet figured out how to romanticize solar-panel installation.

When Obama was castigated for a socalled war on coal, it was not for trying to mitigate a catastrophic global habit, but for attacking miners, a powerful symbol in rural, white, American culture (85 percent of coal miners are white men, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

When Trump demonstrates that he “digs coal” by rolling back regulations, he’s banking on rural nostalgia and pushing back against Obama, who, for portions of white America, became a symbol of urban elitism, progressivism and blackness.

Coal boosters have meanwhile seized upon this mythology for cynical ends.

Trump has used it to blot out Obama’s legacy (one of his few discernible policy goals) and to solidify his base of white, male voters. The regulation rollback is good for coal’s bottom line, yet instead of using the savings to hire more workers, companies have poured the extra revenue into executive pay and bonuses. Top executives in the industry make, on average, $200,000 per year, plus millions of dollars in bonuses, while a miner toiling

in dangerous conditions gets just $55,000—if he hasn’t been replaced by a machine. The pay gap has only grown as the industry has faded, as though the folks at the top are grabbing all they can before the industry crumbles.

Meanwhile, neither Trump nor anyone else is helping the miners themselves, the humans behind the symbolism. The Trump administration has delayed or rolled back a number of rules aimed at miner health and safety and nominated a former coal executive to head up the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Miningrelated fatalities are up this year, with 20

“depreciation date” by nearly 20 years. That same settlement outlined PSE’s plan to provide Montana with a $10 million “transition fund” for community and worker assistance in a bid to prevent the town of Colstrip from fading alongside the industry that’s been its lifeblood for decades.

“This good faith effort recognizes that the public interest here involves the intertwined concerns of Washington ratepayers and Montana residents who benefit from affordable, reliable Colstrip power and livable Colstrip wages, respectively,” Montana Attorney General Tim Fox said in a Sept. 15 statement supporting the settlement.

Approval of the deal now falls to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. Fox added in his statement that he hopes PSE’s offer inspires other Colstrip owners to extend similar aid.

The PSE transition fund adds to $4.6 million in federal community assistance funds secured for Colstrip by

deaths overall, 12 of which were in coal mines. And Republicans in Congress are working hard to lower taxes on the rich— which doesn’t include most coal miners— at the expense of the rest of us, and to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which, although flawed and fragile, remains the best safety net that many people have.

If anything, the Energy Department’s review of the grid made it clear that rescinding regulations would do nothing to save the coal industry, or the miners who make it run. It offered very few justifications for saving coal plants. But that’s unlikely to stop Trump, Perry and friends from doing

what they can to prop up the coal industry.

After all, they’ve got the myth behind them.

As for the land, the air, the water and the people who live near and work in the plants and mines, they’ll continue to pay the price for coal, guns and freedom. And if those ever become the lyrics of a country song, it will be a tragic one indeed.

This story was originally published at High Country News (hcn.org) on Sept. 21.

Jonathan Thompson is a contributing editor at High Country News. He is currently writing a book about the Gold King Mine spill. Follow @jonnypeace.

Gov. Steve Bullock in August. And Bullock hasn’t been alone in trying to plan for the wave of unemployment— more than 300 people are employed in Colstrip alone— that will accompany the plant’s incremental closure.

Last year, the not-for-profit Montana Community Affordable Renewable Energy Saves crafted a ballot measure partly aimed at establishing a displaced fossil-fuel workers program in the state. The initiative failed to gather enough signatures to qualify, but according to the Secretary of State’s website, a second attempt is in the offing for 2018 under the sponsorship of former Billings city councilman Ken Crouch.

As thankful as Anne Hedges is for the nearly $15 million already promised for long-term planning and workforce retraining at Colstrip, she views the effort to place the issue on the 2018 ballot as “wrongheaded” and “a distraction.” Hedges serves as deputy director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, one of two nonprofit groups that PSE settled an air quality law-

suit with over Colstrip units 1 and 2 last year, establishing the 2022 shutdown deadline. Discussing remedies for coal industry workers is important, but the polls, she says, aren’t an adequate venue for that conversation.

Hedges says Montana ultimately needs to be making its Colstrip case to utility commissions in states like Washington. And the case needs to be made yesterday.

Utilities including PSE are already busy planning where they’ll source their power in the coming decades, Hedges says, and the longer Montana lawmakers dither over a resource that’s already in decline, the less time the state will have to support alternate resources, namely wind, that could help fill the void left by coal.

“Everybody is so afraid of their own shadow when it comes to talking about the future of coal in this state that everybody is ignoring opportunities,” she says.

“And they’re going to leave these workers in the dust.”

—Alex Sakariassen

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[arts]

All through the night On the joy of reading Stephen King’s forgotten fairytale

by Sarah Aswell

I

n 1984, after a decade of stunning success as a horror novelist, Stephen King decided to write an illustrated fairytale for children. The result, The Eyes of the Dragon, flopped so hard with some fans that he turned around and wrote Misery, the story of a bestselling author who is trapped, figuratively and then literally, by rabid fans who wanted him to deliver only more of the same.

The fairytale was still a commercial success—it was a bestseller with a million-copy paperback first printing—but the story never had the impact of many of King’s other books. In fact, when I tried to track it down in Missoula this week, the search took the better part of the afternoon before I finally uncovered a dog-eared copy at a local high school (an electronic Kindle version will be released in December).

Fittingly, I first discovered the book in a high school, too. As a freshman in 1994, I found a bent and broken-backed copy on a bookshelf in my English class.

Grabbed by the tale after just a few pages, I stuffed it in my backpack.

I’d already read lots of King novels in middle school: The Shining and Cujo and Carrie and Pet Sematary among others. I’d even listened to Dolores Claiborne on about a billion rattling cassette tapes during a family road trip the summer before. But this one was different. It was illustrated with pencil drawings and started like a bedtime story: “Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons.”

I continued reading the story (King prefers not to call it a novel) that day, curled up on the school bus, as I often was, and then through the afternoon stretched out on my family’s window seat.

I shared a room with my younger sister and so when it was time for lights out, I dove under the covers with the 400-page book and a book light, a fantasy world expanding in a tiny blanketed dome. Poisoned goblets, evil magicians and daring escapes—and, yes, a dragon hunt, followed one after another at a tremendous clip. When I was sure my sister was asleep, I

reminiscent of his other darker coming of age novels, like The Body and It. It’s about siblings struggling to find their adult voices and it’s about processing the loss of loved ones. It’s not even about good and evil, as I wrote above, it’s about how good and evil are pretty complicated. This is never clearer than at the end of the book, in which our loving, paternal narrator can’t quite deliver the clear-cut happy ending that I longed for at 14.

Did they all live happily ever after?

They did not. No one ever does, in spite of what the stories may say. They had their good days, as you do, and they had their bad days, and you know about those. They had their victories, as you do, and they had their defeats, and you know about those, too. There were times when they felt ashamed of themselves, knowing that they had not done their best, and there were times when they knew they had stood where their God had meant them to stand. All I'm trying to say is that they lived as well as they could, each and every one of them; some lived longer than others, but all lived well, and bravely, and I love them all, and am not ashamed of my love.

emerged from my blankets into the coolness of the room, the small light still creating an orb only big enough to hold me and my book.

I fought sleep to finish the story. I had to know what happened. The story finally climaxes in a chase, the chapters shortening to single sentences that bounce between the perspectives of the good guy and the bad guy—between good and evil. I finished just as my book light was dimming and not long before sunrise. It was the first time I had stayed up all night reading a book.

When King conceived the story in the 1980s, though, it was to put children to sleep, not to keep them up at all hours. The book is dedicated to his daughter, Naomi, who grew up hearing the tale from her dad in the form of a bedtime story. It shows. The book reads

as if it is being told orally, and perhaps the most special aspect of the book is the narrator: a loving person who nonetheless wants to shock and entertain, and someone supremely sensitive to the concerns of the young listener. In other words, it is King to his daughter. In other words, it is all parents to all their children. New York Times book reviewer Barbara Tritel compared the voice to the narrator in A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, and she’s right. The Eyes of the Dragon is rich in the asides, explanations and wisdom so common in spoken narrative and classic kids’ stories.

Still, the book was mainly marketed to adults in the ’80s, ostensibly because of King’s expansive established readership. He has since said the book is meant for people of all ages, but perhaps initially downplaying the book’s fantasy genre

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and YA angle is the reason that most people have heard of Misery, but not that Stephen King book about dragons.

The fairytale itself is both traditional and not. The story follows two sibling princes, one strong, one weak, as well as a Rasputin-like adviser, Flagg. Flagg frames the stronger brother, Peter, for regicide, all in an attempt to make the weaker brother, Thomas, both King and his pawn. The tale marries all of the best components of fairytales with all of the best storytelling powers of King: the small telling details; the tight, pretty plots; and the expert pacing that has surely been both at the heart of his success and the demise of many, many book light batteries.

But this is not just a simple child’s tale. The fairytale is a starting point for King, created with a foundation more

Last night I opened The Eyes of the Dragon to look for a few quotes (like the one above) and to refamiliarize myself with the story ahead of writing this little essay. With a parade of writing deadlines laid in front of me for the week, and my two young children surely waking at dawn, I wouldn’t have time for more. But that first chapter set me down the path of the tale, just as it had over 20 years ago, and urged me forward. The lights clicked off around the neighborhood one by one, and the noises faded, too, until I read just one more page and just one more page until the very last one.

Stephen King and his son Owen King read from their new novel Sleeping Beauties at the Dennison Theatre Mon., Oct. 2, at 6:30 PM. Sold out. arts@missoulanwews.com

[music]

Duo magic No guitar necessary on Sunchaser Missoula two-piece Swamp Ritual are like the kid brothers of Fu Manchu, who never bothered to get a guitar player involved, and didn’t get bogged down thinking about what a cocky shredder might’ve added to the mix. Instead, they figured out how a simple bass and drum could explore the heavier end of the rock and roll spectrum. That they got there so well is a testament to their solid talents. Bassist Dustin Fugere can lock into a brutally heavy groove, provide a galloping riff and solo with a wah pedal if necessary. Drummer Sid La Tray’s drum chops are excellent and unadorned.

Where Fu Manchu represented the well-washed

hair, Ocean Pacific shirt and shiny retro van scene of southern California, Swamp Ritual channels a seedier Birminghamcum-Lolo vibe, complete with stringy hair, dirty van and no Ocean Pacific. Sunchaser is the Missoula duo’s second record, and it follows their highly effective first studio recording, the 2015 Ritual Rising. Common to the stoner rock genre, Swamp Ritual doesn’t give a shit about writing short. On this album, they mostly blast out six- to 13-minute songs, with the exception of the two-minute-43-second “Lawnmower,” an ode to stoned lawnmowing. It’s the only part of this record that’s a little throwaway for me. (Josh Vanek)

Alien Boy, Stay Alive Who said goth music has to be sad? Fronted by Portland mainstay Sonia Weber ( Your Rival, Our First Brains, Loving and Caring), Alien Boy incorporate catchy choruses with the sort of darker sounds and navel-gazey lyrics that make you want to put on too much eyeliner and smoke clove cigarettes at a cast party. “Swell,” the first track on the band’s latest EP, Stay Alive, starts with the standard wailings and distorted guitars you’d expect from a goth band, but quickly elevates the mood with the energetic drive of a contemporary pop band. A self-described “gay goth poppy punk band,” Alien Boy deftly bridges the

gap between the spookier sounds of bands like Joy Division and the Cure with the earworm qualities of modern pop music.

Standout tracks include “If We Don’t Speak,” which bolsters the gloomy subject matter with a bright bass line and upbeat percussion. By blending the extremes of the emotional spectrum, Alien Boy makes you want to dance and feel sad at the same time, which, honestly, is probably the most goth thing a band could do. (Charley Macorn) Alien Boy plays the ZACC Below Sat., Sept.

30, along with Tag Along Friend, Perfume V and Tormi. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30. $7.

DARKO BUTORAC, MUSIC DIRECTOR

Jon Langford, Four Lost Souls There’s something in the water at Muscle Shoals. From Aretha to Dylan, Skynyrd to the Stones, dozens of rock and soul legends have tapped into the funky energy that permeates the music recorded there. Jon Langford is the swamp land’s latest convert.

The Welsh-born, Chicago-based musician has been making alt-country waves with the Waco Brothers for a couple of decades, but his latest solo effort, Four Lost Souls, is a different kettle of kippers altogether. “Poor Valley Radio” is a gentle, melancholy duet bolstered by spare piano and Pete Finney’ weeping pedal steel that feels like a modern take on Byrds-era country-rock, circa 1973.

Through “Natchez Trace” and “In Oxford Mississippi,” Langford’s heavy UK accent tends to work against the authenticity of lines like “Faulkner is still here,” al-

though how can you not like a line like, “Grab a twenty from the ATM / Andrew Jackson’s on the road again.”

The Southern concept album has been done before, and done better, by the likes of Tom Petty and Drive-By Truckers. But Langford has earned his insurgent country bona fides by being utterly true to his vision, and he does it his way. Halfway through the album, things lighten up considerably with “Halfway Home,” a jaunty hardluck tale set to the tune of the Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron.” Guest players abound, the most striking being a trio of singers — Bethany Thomas, Tawny Newsome and Tomi Lunsford — who provide a sweet, hard contrast to Langford’s ragged bleating. This is a complex album, the kind that rewards repeated listenings with new revelations. (Ednor Therriault)

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[books]

Pilot light Melissa Kwasny unearths a multitude of souls

by Erika Fredrickson

“Soul” is the word I edit out of writers’ first the body does. Kwasny looks for it and finds it in drafts whenever possible. It’s a word that causes spooky and unobvious places.

Between the sections are letters written “to the me to roll my eyes and turn the page when I see it crop up in an essay about death in which the au- soul.” These are often addressed to “you,” which thor is trying so hard to say something meaningful. makes them feel personal and intimate, and allows Soul singers like the unrivaled and recently de- “you” to shift shape, becoming the reader, or a ceased Charles Bradley can gracefully shoulder the friend, or a lost family member. Though these secterm, but mostly it’s a word that’s been drained of tions have the tone of love letters, Kwasny resists its power (if it ever had any) through woo-woo romanticizing the idea of the soul. Even so, she covers many of the bases that people philosophy, self-help factories like to talk about when they disand cheesy marketing (Think: cuss spiritual matters. It’s just Chicken Soup for the Soul and that she does it in the language Missoula). It’s a word that of imagery, slipping in the consounds big and important but cepts without readers realizing too often comes up empty. she’s doing it.

But now here goes poet The soul is full of damages: Melissa Kwasny deciding to use “You are the story of my love in the word not just in the title of ruins,” she writes in one letter, her new collection, but as the “the garden I planted in what was focus of every poem in it. In left of the concrete. You are the Where Outside the Body is the back step of childhood, mother Soul Today, Kwasny explores it and father so absorbed in each like she’s a hundred Wallace other their children were like Stevenses looking at a blackbird ants got into the kitchen, a nui(if the blackbird was a soul) and the result is a book that gives Where Outside the Body is sance, an insignificant grief.” The the Soul Today soul is elusive: “The deer under “soul” the kind of in-depth attenMelissa Kwasny the cherry tree, gone at first tion it’s needed, in a way that hardcover, Pacific Northwest light.” It’s a guide for survival: feels fresh and specific and full.

Poetry Series “My pilot light, you led me out. I Where Outside the Body is 96 pages, $19.95 recognized you first in the side the Soul Today is the award-winning Missoula poet’s sixth collection. It’s divided yard, in the hard-packed solitude where the roses into eight sections, starting with “The Deer Peo- grew. In my adolescence you taught me to bear the ple” and followed by similarly subtitled sections heavy self, like carrying loads in one’s arms of wet such as “The Blue Heron People” and “The Creek laundry.” And it’s not something you can keep: People.” The sections and poem titles evoke an- “But what are your attachments? I feel as if I belong cient indigenous storytelling, and they feature el- to you, but you belong to something else.”

Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today exements of that traditional style: lots of natural imagery—blue sage, rabbit tail, antelope—and presses the unseen through images of ephemera lines that sound almost like proverbs. But the and anatomy. Kwasny also includes lines from poems also carry within them a stripped-down, poets including Seamus Heaney and Alice Notley, modern-world anxiety. Kwasny doesn’t seem to be building a web around their words and giving them telling us about the soul so much as asking a series new context. This is a collection that butts up of questions aimed at figuring it out. In one line against the idea that the soul is a pure, untarnished she writes about holding a candle to an egg to entity fit only for some afterlife in a heaven away check its freshness. That image is followed by from earth. It’s also a collection about human lim“grown men can hold their guns to the soft belly itations. The soul portrayed here is beautiful and of a child,” and the next image describes violence messy, and our perception of it can’t really ever be (I think) as a “locked bedroom door bucking in its separated from the bodies we live in.

Melissa Kwasny reads from Where Outside casement.” Each image is dramatically different from the next, but also vaguely connected. Inside the Body is the Soul Today at the Dana Gallery an egg shell is potential life and food. Inside a Fri., Sept. 29, at 4:15, as part of the Montana child facing violence is fear. Inside a locked room Book Festival. is something trying to get out. The simple description of “soul” is a spirit that never dies, even when efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[film]

In the mood Savoring dreariness in The Unknown Girl

by Molly Laich

Adèle Haenel and her plaid peacoat star in The Unknown Girl.

This is the first time I’ve checked the upcoming weather forecast before thinking about how to recommend a movie, which sounds odd, but I can explain. With The Unknown Girl, we have on our hands a prototypical foreign-language art film. It’s the kind of picture you see, are momentarily changed by and then try but fail to encapsulate later with a friend over coffee. My dream for you is to quit your job, then find solace from dreary weather by seeing this picture alone in a theater on a weekday afternoon. As luck would have it, the forecast is on my side for my weird fantasy: Clouds and showers with a high in the 50s on the film’s opening Friday, and then a string of partly cloudy days thereafter.

The Unknown Girl is written and directed by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

Their 2014 film, Two Days, One Night about a factory worker fighting to keep her job won Marion Cotillard an Oscar nomination for best actress.

I have similar hopes for Adèle Haenel, who stars in The Unknown Girl as a Belgian doctor named Jenny. We first meet Jenny on the job with her intern, Julien (Olivier Bonnaud). They’ve already stayed long over office hours when the buzzer rings. Julien wants to let the person in, but Jenny’s determined to demonstrate toughness and boundaries. The door buzzes once more before the anonymous caller wanders off. The next day, detectives show up to deliver the bad news: The girl at the door was the film’s titular “unknown girl,” an African teenager frantically trying to escape her attackers, and now they’ve found her corpse in a nearby body of water.

Of course, Jenny couldn’t have known the stakes and it’s not her fault, but she absorbs the woman’s tragedy anyway. From there, Jenny embarks on a methodical investigation into the girl’s

identity, death and potential killers. The murdermystery scaffolding technically qualifies the picture as a “thriller,” but the adjective’s a bit rich. In fact, this is a modern exercise in neorealism, made famous by the Italians in the 1940s—think back to Introduction to Film: The Bicycle Thief, and so on. The Unknown Girl has a haunting voyeuristic quality, made possible by cinematographer Alain Marcoen.

(I’m rarely inclined to call out a cameraman by name, but Marcoen’s work here is so accomplished and invisible that it warrants special attention.) And forget about a score to guide you through the emotional experience. We’re on our own.

Jenny’s a fascinating example of a woman in a helping profession who can’t resist the impulse to give too much of herself. She makes house calls at all hours, answers patients’ calls on her commute and, at the end of the day, goes home alone to a quiet, sad apartment. After all, the one time she tried to practice professional distance, a young girl ended up dead. So now, for better or worse, she’s not going to let that kind of regret into her life again.

I first saw this film in late May at the Seattle International Film Festival with a hopeful sun waiting for me outside. The weather spoke not at all to the bleak Belgian landscape Jenny endured during her detective work. When she’s not in hospital scrubs, Jenny spends much of the movie clad in an ugly plaid pea coat, and the ugliness matters. She’s a beautiful girl who never takes a moment to admire her reflection. Instead, she gives everything of herself away. Even if the Dardennes’ quiet style ends up underwhelming you, I hope you will at least join me in hating that coat.

The Unknown Girl opens at the Roxy Fri., Sept. 29.

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[film] shell out 50 bucks on to see with your family. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Dave Franco, Justin Theroux and Jackie Chan. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK AMERICAN MADE If the CIA ever asks you to fly an airplane full of cocaine to Panama in an attempt to get dirt on deadly cartels, it would probably be in your best interest to just say no.

Rated R. Stars Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright and Lola Kirke.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS This year’s batch of short films includes friends from the laundromat, missing fathers and killer tampons.

Playing Thu., Oct. 5 at 6 PM at the Roxy.

FLATLINERS Remember that Julia Roberts movie from 27 years ago about a group of med students monkeying around with near-death experiences? Good news, it’s finally getting that soft reboot sequel we’ve all been waiting for! Rated PG-13. Stars Ellen Page, Diego Luna and Kiefer Sutherland, reprising his original role, and collecting a paycheck. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

MOTHER! Tell your children not walk my way, tell your children not to hear my words. What they mean, what they say. Darren Aronofsky divisively explores the terrors of being a mother in a Darren Aronofsky film. Rated R. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Roxy.

MARJORIE PRIME An 86-year-old widow spends her last days with a computerized version of her late husband who looks exactly like Jon Hamm. This is also how I want to die.

Not Rated. Also stars Lois Smith, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins. Playing at the Roxy.

THE SEA INSIDE (2004) A Spanish ship mechanic is left paralyzed after a horrific diving accident. But that’s nothing compared to the 30 years he spends fighting for the legal right to end his own life. Rated R. Stars Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda and Lola Dueñas. Playing Wed., Oct. 4 at 6:30 PM at the Roxy.

THE UNKNOWN GIRL (LA FILLE INCONNUE) After learning of the death of the mysterious woman she refused to see after hours, a talented doctor takes it upon herself to uncover the woman’s identity. Not Rated. Stars Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud and Jérémie Renier. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) VICTORIA & ABDUL Queen Victoria was the undisputed monarch of the British Empire for over 60 years. Abdul Karim was a humble Indian muslim servant. Despite their different stations, these two unlikely friends became inseparable, much to the condemnation of the big wigs in Parliament. Based on the true story. Rated PG-13. Stars Judi Dench, Ali Fazal and Eddie Izzard.

Playing at the Pharaohplex.

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

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

THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN He’s been the sidekick to a Western legend his whole life. Now that his boss is heading to the Sen-

TANGLED (2010) Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair! We’ve got to get to the theater so I can cry my eyes out at the image of floating lanterns. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

“I sure hope the sight of me next to an airplane doesn't remind audiences of The Mummy.” Tom Cruise stars in American Made, opening at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. ate, what’s an old cowpoke to do? Not Rated. Stars Peter Fonda, Bill Pullman and Jim Caviezel. Playing Thu., Oct. 5 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

FUNNY HA HA (2002) Finish college. Check. Get a boring desk job. Check.

Meet a shy, neurotic coworker who helps you better understand yourself. Check. Not Rated. Stars Kate Dollenmayer, Christian Rudder and Andrew Bujalski.

Playing Thu., Sept. 28 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

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

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IT There’s an evil clown caked with makeup and sporting unnaturally colored hair threatening everything we hold dear, so take your mind off politics with a trip to the movies to see this new Stephen King adaptation. Rated R. Stars Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher and Sophia Lillis. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Superspy Eggsy Unwin is back to battle the forces of chaos. This time he’s getting some help from his brash American counterparts. Rated R. Stars Taron Egerton, Colin Firth and Channing Tatum. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE They’re ninjas, they’re made of Lego and they’re in a two-hour toy commercial you’re going to have to

WESTWORLD (1973) A futuristic amusement park turns deadly when the exhibits (created with futuristic technology that allows parkgoers to interact with the past) go bananas and start killing the guests. Why does this Michael Crichton movie seem so familiar? Rated PG in 1973.

Starring James Brolin, Richard Benjamin and Yul Brynner as the Man in Black. Playing Sat., Sept. 30 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

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

Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-todate movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

[dish]

Spicy wonton soup

by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

Ingredients 2 tsp vegetable or coconut oil 4 cloves garlic, chopped, divided 1 small (1") piece ginger, peeled, minced, and divided 3 tbsp fish sauce soy sauce 1/2 lb raw, peeled, deveined shrimp, chopped finely 1 green jalapeño, finely minced 1 medium shallot, minced 4 green onions, sliced (reserve a few pinches for garnish) about 20 small, round wonton wrappers

sauce if it’s not salty enough for you (or a touch more water, if it tastes too salty for you).

Cover, increase heat to high, and bring to a boil. Once it boils, reduce heat to medium, and let simmer while you prepare the wontons.

In a mixing bowl, combine the remaining garlic and ginger, the shrimp, the jalapeño, the shallot and the green onions.

Add 1 tbsp soy sauce and stir well to combine.

To roll the wontons, brush the edges of a wonton skin lightly with water (use a clean finger or a small pastry brush).

Place about 3/4 tsp of the shrimp mixture in the center of the wrapper.

Fold the wrapper in half and make 5-6 small pleats as you seal the wrapper together, pinching gently to ensure total closure.

Repeat with the remaining filling and wrappers, until all the wontons are made. Add the prepared wontons to the simmering broth.

Cook for 7 to 8 minutes, until the wrappers are no longer doughy.

Divide between bowls (make sure each bowl gets an even number of wontons) and garnish with the reserved green onions. Serve immediately.

Directions Heat oil in a large soup pot over medium heat.

Add half of the garlic and half of the ginger and cook for 1 minute, stirring.

Add the fish sauce, 3 tbsp soy sauce and 6 cups of water. Stir well, and taste. Add a touch more soy

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

It’s a cold, blustery day here in San Francisco.

The wind whips through the trees, smacking residents in the face. The rain (which, yes, we do need) shows no signs of stopping.

It’s a perfect day for hot, spicy wonton soup. I made this with shrimp dumplings, but it would also be delicious with gyoza (drop them into the soup instead of frying).

Serves 4

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

Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation.

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

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

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns 200 S. Pattee St. 721-8550 Brooks & Browns Bar and Grill has the best patio in town, relax and unwind with great food and a selection of Montana Brews on tap. Come down as you are and enjoy Happy Hour each day from 4-7p and all day Sunday with drink and appetizer specials!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The PSL

HAPPIEST HOUR

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

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

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

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

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

photo by Derek Brouwer

What you’re drinking: I saw a Starbucks advertisement in an airport recently that just said “PSL” in big sleek letters. I knew what the letters stood for. They stood for Pumpkin Spice Latte. I have never consumed a Pumpkin Spice Latte. Why do I know its acronym? Do I know what it tastes like, too?

Why you’re drinking it: Type in “Pumpkin Spice Latte” at Google.com/trends and you will see a graph resembling a crude EKG, which stands for electrocardiogram, with spikes every year beginning the last week of August.

Starbucks releases the PSL annually in the first week of September. (It’s a seasonal drink.) Except this year, when some stores got confused and released it early. This angered some customers, according to a USA Today article I read.

The article included this tweet by one Tyler Markle as proof: “Through mixed signals and cryptic messages but nothing real, @Starbucks has totally botched the launch of the #PSL still no clue when.” Markle is a real person, a journalist in fact. His tweet has three likes.

What the ambiance is like: On the advice of friends, I went to the Starbucks at 5260 Grant Creek Rd. to try my first PSL. Getting there took only 5 minutes on I-90. I ordered a Venti, or 20 oz., size. The barista spelled my name correctly—a nice bonus.

There was one tense moment, however, when the man behind me in line gave his travel mug to another barista. As she began pouring his dark roast, he hollered, “I wanted it rinsed.” Everyone froze until the barista made a joke about rinsing it out with coffee. The man chuckled. Everyone returned to their drinks.

What it tastes like: Alas, I already knew.

We all already know.

What it costs: $5.25 for 20 ounces and 470 calories, making it the second-most-expensive drink on the menu. The Pumpkin Spice Frappe costs 20 cents more.

—Derek Brouwer

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WED | 9 PM Canadian electronica icons Black Tiger Sex Machine play the Top Hat Wed., Oct. 4. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance.

SAT | 6 PM Humorist and woodworker Nick Offerman brings his Full Bush comedy tour to the Adams Center Sat., Sept. 30 at 6 PM. $39.50–$59.50.

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TUE | 8 PM Sick Puppies perform with Drowning Pool, Trapt and Adelitas Way at the Make America Rock Again Tour at the Wilma Tue., Oct. 3. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$27.50 advance.

FRI | 8 PM Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Jarosz plays a seated show at the Wilma Fri., Sept. 29.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance.

TUE | 10 PM

¡Mayday! plays the Top Hat Tue., Oct. 3. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15.

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

Unleash your inner bibliophile. The Montana Book Festival continues with four more days of special events throughout Missoula. Visit montanabookfestival.org for a full schedule of events and locations.

Missoula Art Museum Senior Curator Brandon Reintjes gives a tour of the exhibition Dear Viewer: Text-Based Artwork from the MAM Collection. 10 AM. Free.

Chelsea Robinson, JET program coordinator for the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle, lectures on teaching opportunities in Japan. University Center Room 330.

12 PM.

nightlife Tom Catmull plays Draught Works from 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Join Free & Fair Montana to learn about how you can act as an ally to your trans friends and neighbors. Congregation Har Shalom. 5:30 PM. Free.

Anyone up for Tango/Cash mpreg?

Local authors read original erotic fan fiction at Monk’s Bar. 6 PM. $5 suggested donation.

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

6 PM. $3.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. Portland’s WIBG, aka Wooden Indian Burial Ground, plays the ZACC with Charcoal Squids and Cory Fay. 7 PM. $5.

The Lil Smokies, The Brother Comatose and Mipso bring the Campfire Caravan to the Wilma. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $23/$18 advance.

Portland’s WIBG plays the ZACC Thu., Sept. 28 at 7 PM. $5.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30– 10 PM. Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo serenade the wine at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM. Free.

Dusk comes the Sunrise Saloon not to create a time paradox, but to get your feet tapping and your boots scootin’. 9:30 PM. Free.

Is it big? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s not small.

No, no, no. Groove the night away at the Honeycomb Dance Party at Monk’s. 9 PM. Free.

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

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.

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

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

Unleash your inner bibliophile.

The Montana Book Festival continues with special events throughout the Garden City. Visit montanabookfestival.org for a full schedule of events and locations.

Butte authors David Abrams and Ted McDermott read from their

newest works at Shakespeare & Co. at 2:30 PM.

sculptures at Le Petit Outre. 5 PM– 7 PM. Free.

Ansel Adams vs. Yogi Bear. Is this one of those Mayweather/McGregor things? Author John Clayton reads from his book Wonderlandscape at Missoula Art Museum.

3 PM.

They said it was a weather balloon! The Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free.

nightlife Artist Wesley Delano hosts a closing reception for his exhibit of

Mind Fields, an new exhibit featuring imagination-straining work by eight artists, opens with a reception at Radius Gallery. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter and multi-instru-

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mentalist Sarah Jarosz plays a seated show at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance.

Pulitzer-winning author Jane Smiley and PEN-winner Donald Ray Pollock host a reading at Holiday Inn Downtown as part of the 2017 Montana Book Festival.

7:30 PM. Free with festival button.

Bringing their rustic Americana sound from the Inland Empire,

Folkinception mixes roots with soul music at the Top Hat. 8 PM. Free.

Kris Moon and Mark Myriad host the No Cover Dance Party at the VFW. 9 PM. Free, obviously.

Loosen your tie when Blue Collar plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

406 dials up an evening of music and dancing at the Union Club.

9:30 PM. Free.

Spotlight

go splat

People have been using handfuls of expired fruits and vegetables as projectiles since the Roman Emperor Vespasian ended up on the business end of a hail of turnips during a riot in A.D. 63. But it wasn't until budding actor and lecturer John Ritchie attempted a somersault at a performance in Hempstead, Long Island in 1883 that the tomato would enter popular culture as the preferred way for audiences to express their displeasure with a performance. Just as Ritchie went in for his somersault—a trick he assumed would dazzle the assembled crowd—a rotten tomato, one of many that were being handed out in the audience, rocketed through the air and exploded against the actors surprised face.

WHAT: Compost Comedy WHERE: Free Cycles Missoula WHEN: Sat., Sept. 30 at 6 PM HOW MUCH: $5

Ritchie paused. No actor, after all, had ever been hit by a rotten tomato. This pause was all it took for the crowd, not impressed at all with Ritchie's somersaults, to start

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raining tomatoes on the poor performer.

If you'd like to take part in the long held tradition of tomato-throwing, Missoula Grain & Vegetable Co. hosts Compost Comedy. A mixture of local comedians and brave amateurs try out their worst jokes to an audience armed with an arsenal of rotten tomatoes. Beer from Great Burn and cider from Western Cider helps get you in the catsup-making mood. If you're feeling particularly brave, you can don the provided goggles and ponchos, and try your own jokes, for the well-armed crowd.

—Charley Macorn

in memoriam

In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers wrote, “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” In Eva Luna, Isabel Allende wrote, “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.” In The Girl at Midnight, Melissa Grey wrote, “Humans make art to remember and be remembered … Art is their weapon against forgetting.” And Haruki Murakami wrote in his collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories, “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

In that same spirit of remembrance, Missoula’s Festival of the Dead kicks off Oct. 1 with an evening dedicated to lost loved ones. Bring small shrines, memorials

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WHAT: 25th Festival of the Dead Kickoff Event

OCT MAKE AMERICA ROCK AGAIN TOUR OCT DROWNING POOL, TRAPT, SICK PUPPIES & ADELITAS WAY

WHERE: Missoula Art Museum’s Art Park WHEN: Sun., Oct. 1, from 7 to 9 PM HOW MUCH: Free

UPCOMING SEP

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or art pieces, plus poems or short stories to share with others at the MAM art park. The event is hosted by Festival of the Dead founders Bev Glueckert and Mike DeMeng and is one of several events leading up to the Festival of the Dead procession on Nov. 2.

—Erika Fresdrickson

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

The Crazy Dog Band takes a bite out of musical entertainment at Ten Spoon Vineyard at 6 PM. Free.

Want to cross off something on your bucket list? Huck rotten tomatoes at stand-up comedians at Compost Comedy at Free Cycles Missoula. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $5. Tomatoes provided.

(See Spotlight)

The Missoula Farmers Market continues its 45th season with local produce, artisanal meats and cheeses and diverse delicacies. Join the fun every Saturday through October. Circle Square by the XXXXs. 8 AM–12:30 PM.

Tag Along Friend, Alien Boy and Purfume V play the ZACC Below with Wrinkles, and Tormi. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $7.

Unleash your inner bibliophile.

The Montana Book Festival continues with special events throughout Missoula. Visit montanabookfestival.org for a full schedule of events and locations.

Movement meets art when MASC Studios host A Night at the Circus.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $5. Free for 12 and under.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley highlights her young readers series The Horses of Oak Valley Ranch at Shakespeare & Co. 10 AM. Love your parks? Celebrate National Public Lands Day by picking up litter along the shores of Flathead Lake, pulling weeds and refinishing picnic tables. Tools will be provided. Bring your own work gloves and sunscreen, and dress for outdoor work. A free lunch will be provided to volunteers following the cleanup. Call 406-8373041 for more info.

Turn your existing hardback books into works of art with an all-day workshop with Michael DeMeng at Radius Gallery. Make steampunk journals, gothic tomes and more.

10 AM–5 PM. $150. BYOBook.

Ryan Zinke hates this band. The National Parks play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 advance.

The National Parks play the Top Hat Sat., Sept. 30. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 advance.

Yoga and Beer: The two cornerstones of Missoula. The Yoga Spot and the Sweat Shop host yoga every Saturday morning at Imagine Nation Brewing. Class and a beer for $8. 10:45 AM.

Craft Beer Rendezvous at Caras Park. Enjoy some made-in-Montana beer starting at 4 PM. $25.

John Clayton, Jack Clinton, Bernie Quetchenbatch, Jim Robbins, Maya Jewell Zeller and Nick Neely discuss the many paths that lead them into nature writing.

Shakespeare & Co. 4:15 PM.

nightlife

Humorist and woodworker Nick Offerman brings his Full Bush comedy tour to the Adams Center. 6 PM. $39.50–$59.50. Head to umt.edu/griztix for more info.

Brewers from across the state descend on the Garden City for a

The Montana Natural History Center hosts its 26th annual ban-

Andre Floyd plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Western Cider’s Harvest Party kicks off Montana Cider Week

Russ Nasset and the Revelators open the seventh seal of music at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM. Go ahead and call my bluff. The Double Down Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free.

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The Missoula Festival of the Dead, an all-inclusive, annual multicultural event that honors life and death through community involvement in the arts, returns for another year of celebration. It might sound morbid, but remember, the morbid the merrier. Visit zootownarts.org/fotd2 for a complete list of events and workshops.(See Spotlight.)

Canta Brasil plays bossa nova, samba and a variety of Brazilian classics at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5:30 PM. Free.

Cabela’s demos the latest in grinders, slicers and vacuum sealers to make the most out of your harvested game. 2 PM–3 PM. Free.

Sunday Unleash your inner bibliophile.

The Montana Book Festival ends with a final day of special events throughout Missoula. Visit montanabookfestival.org for a full schedule of events and locations.

quet and auction at the University Center Ball Room. 5 PM. $50.

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

with food, apple pressing, dunk tanks and more. Night Blooming Jasmine, The Timber Rattlers and The Beet Tops provide the tunes.

10 AM–10 PM. Free.

nightlife

nightlife

The Awesome Possums blossom at Draught Works. Music from 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

The Riverfront Ramble Disc Golf Tournament puts your folf skills to the test at Silver Park. 10 AM. $20 for adults or $10 for 17 and younger.

Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM.

Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there.

Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

Take a free guided tour of the World War II Internment Camp at Fort Missoula. Four guest speakers share their perspectives on the darker part of Missoula’s history.

2 PM and 3 PM. Reserve your spot by going to lwvmissoula.org

“Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW kicks off at 9:30 PM.

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

6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

The acoustic American of Britchy provides the soundtrack at Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM–10 PM. Free.

Masters of the macabre Owen and Stephen King discuss their new novel Sleeping Beauties at

the Dennison Theatre at 7:30 PM. Sold Out. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander.

10 PM. Free. 21-plus.

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.

Kaleidoscope Karaoke at the VFW. 9:30 PM. Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 10 PM. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

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

Questions about Social Security? Missoula Aging Services hosts a Q&A with Mary Olsen.

11:30 AM. $10.

The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1PM–2:30 PM. Join Parks and Recreation and the Garden City Flyers for a free, family-friendly round of disc golf in Garland Park. 4 PM–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Artists Elizabeth Dove and Brock Mickelsen discuss their artistic research and practices at 6 PM at Shakespeare & Co. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM. All ages.

Professor Richard Drake delivers the John Henry Cardinal Newman Lecture at Christ the King Newman Center. Professor Drake addresses Newman’s ideas about the struggle between faith and its adversaries. 7 PM. Free.

Drowning Pool, Trapt, Sick Puppies and Adelitas Way bring the Make America Rock Again Tour to the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$27.50 advance.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. $10/$35 for four classes. Email tarn. ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more info.

Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What gameday staple was first served on today’s date in 1964? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

Floridian hip-hop group ¡Mayday! plays the Top Hat. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15.

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

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Wednesday NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.

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

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes.

This week support the Montana Women Vote. 5 PM–8 PM. Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal

meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method.

Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 6 PM. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Yes, even you with the tuba. Hosted

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

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

Broadway Sports Bar and Grill.

7 PM. Trivia answer: Buffalo Wings.

Canadian electronica icons Black Tiger Sex Machine play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance.

Paddle down the Rastafarian river for Reggae Runs Thru It at the VFW. 8 PM. Free.

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

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

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

8:30–10:30 PM. No cover.

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

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Managing Natural Resources in a Changing Climate in the Mekong Delta, a lecture by UM professor of environmental studies Dan Spencer, starts at 12 PM in University Center Room 327 at 12 PM. Artist Casey Schanchner exhibit Contrapposto opens with an artists reception at the University Center Art Gallery. 4 PM–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Edwin Johnson provides the soundtrack at Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM. Free.

The Montana Film Festival kicks off at the Roxy Theater with four days of special screenings at the Roxy Theater. Visit montanafilmfestival.org for a full schedule of films and times. $25 for a full festival pass.

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. The Tease Burlesque Revue brings a heaping helping of glamour and music to the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

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The Ballad of Lefty Brown screens as part of The Montana Film Festival at the Roxy Theater. Visit montanafilmfestival.org for a full schedule.

What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me. Go from a night at the Roxbury to a night in Missoula, when Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan performs at Monk’s Bar. 8 PM. $25.

Nebraska’s The Ambulanters ambulate into the ZACC for a night of booming midwest emo with Butte’s A River Runs Thru it and Charcoal Squids. 8 PM. $5.

Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo provide the jazz at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM. Free.

Heavy instrumental rock fusion band TAUK plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $14/$12 advance.

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

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

Knock knock? Who’s there?

Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union

Club. I don’t get it. Sign up at 9:30 PM. Show at 10 PM. Free.

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

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Agenda As someone who spent a good number of their teenage years bagging groceries, I can tell you that there is no better workplace zen than the one that comes from playing live-action Tetris with raw meat and vegetables. It was also hell on my feet, but that's more because I'm incredibly lazy. I enjoyed the bagging, but always ended up with considerable pain by the end of my shift. Of all the helpful suggestions I was given to improve my footwear, strapping on a pair of roller skates never came up.

For the fourth year, Hellgate Roller Derby returns to Orange Street Food Farm for the Bruised Baggers Fundraiser. Decked out in full derby gear, including helmets, pads and, yes, even roller skates, Missoula's non-profit derby team bags groceries for tips.

“This is our most popular fundraiser,” says Hellgate Roller Derby PR Director Jannette “Loch Nett Monster” McDonald.

“It's a lot of fun getting out there, and helping introduce people to Roller Derby that might

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28 Join Free & Fair Montana to learn about how you can act as an ally to your trans* friends and neighbors. Congregation Har Shalom. 5:30 PM. Free.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4.

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not be familiar with it.”

A merchandise table will also be set up to answer questions about Roller Derby and promote Hellgate's final home bout of the season against the Gallatin Roller Girlz on October 7 at the Missoula Fairgrounds.

—Charley Macorn The Bruised Bagger Fundraiser for Hellgate Roller Derby takes place at Orange Street Food Farm Sat., Sept. 30, from 10 AM to 2 PM.

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

It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1PM– 2:30 PM.

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

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

NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness every Wednesday at 2 PM.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

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

A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week support the Montana Women Vote. 5 PM–8 PM.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4.

Questions about Social Security? Missoula Aging Services hosts a Q&A with Mary Olsen. 11:30 AM. $10.

Grand ideas are welcome but hemlock tea is frowned upon at the Socrates Cafe, an informal meeting to discuss philosophy using the Socratic method. Missoula Public Library, the first Wednesday of every month at 6 PM.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 5 Start your day with Yoga for Everyone at Missoula Senior Center at 9 AM. $4.

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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he introduction to Jim Robbins’ latest book, The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World and a Better Future, reads like nothing short of an ode to feathered creatures that is both scientific and personal. Robbins lives in Helena and has written about the outdoors and conservation for The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. Birds, according to Robbins, can tell us more about humans than we might think.

“My goal with this book is to help change the way we perceive birds, to move them from the background of our lives to the foreground, from the quotidian to the miraculous,” he writes. “In it I hope to share my own soul-stirring wonder, and I hope that will be infectious.”

Here, Robbins nails the importance of good nature writing. Writing about the outdoors inspires people to look differently at the world around them.

It looks at not just the scientific study of nature but how people interpret it and relate to it. It transmits the writer’s awe to the reader, and makes experi-

encing the natural world feel communal.

Writing is also the only way to reach some people and educate them about nature and conservation issues. Robbins quotes Senegalese forester Baba Dioum on this: “In the end we will only conserve what we love, we will love what we understand, and we will understand what we are taught.”

Robbins will be one member of a panel on nature writing at the Montana Book Festival. Moderated by natural history essayist Nick Neely, the panel features several other northwestern writers, including John Clayton and Maya Jewell Zeller, who’ve focused their writing on everything from Yellowstone National Park to ecofeminism.

—Margaret Grayson The Montana Book Festival presents Different Paths Into Nature Writing at Shakespeare & Co. on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 4:15 PM.

photo by Joe Weston

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28 Punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat to McCormick Park. 6 PM. $3.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30 Love your parks? Celebrate National Public Lands Day by picking up litter along the shores of Flathead Lake, pulling weeds and refinishing picnic tables. Tools will be provided. Bring your own work gloves and sunscreen, and dress for outdoor work. A free lunch will be provided to volunteers following the cleanup. Call 406837-3041 for more info.

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Cabela’s demos the latest in grinders, slicers and vacuum sealers to make the most out of your harvested game. 2 PM–3 PM. Free.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 1 The Riverfront Ramble Disc Golf Tournament puts your folf skills to the test at Silver Park. 10 AM. $20 for adults or $10 for 17 and younger.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 Join Parks and Recreation and the Garden City Flyers for a free, family-friendly round of disc golf in Garland Park. 4 PM–6 PM. Free.

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By Amy Alkon THE GYM REAPER This annoying guy at my gym keeps asking me out. I’m always polite, saying, “Would love to, but sorry, I’m really busy.” And then I move to another part of the gym.

I’d go at a different time, but unfortunately, he’s always there in the hours I can work out. What should I say so he gets the hint and leaves me alone?

—Go Away Already!

There are people—some of them men—who won’t take no for an answer.

But you haven’t tried no—or any of the variations: “Nuh-uh,” “Are you crazy?” or “The only way you’re ever getting into my pants is if you’re trying on ladies clothing at Goodwill.”

Women have a tendency to be hinty and otherwise indirect in telling a guy they aren’t interested. As personal security expert Gavin de Becker puts it in The Gift of Fear: “Rejecting women often say less than they mean,” and “men often hear less than what is said.” Men’s poor, um, hearing actually seems to be an evolutionary design feature. Research by evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss suggests that men evolved to be poor guessers about women’s sexual interest in them—erring on the side of assuming a woman’s interested when they have no definitive sign that she isn’t (as in adult variations on “off my case, toilet face!”).

As Buss explains the likely benefit from this “sexual overperception bias,” it leads men “to believe that a woman is sexually interested in them in response to ambiguous cues such as a smile or going to a bar alone” and thus functions to keep men from “missing sexual opportunities.”

(Or—in somewhat less scientific terms— it gives a man a chance at passing his genetic material on to the next generation instead of into an old tube sock.)

You don’t have to be cruel, but something a little more hope-crushing than “I’d love to” would be a start. Saying you’re “busy” doesn’t cut it, as it suggests that all that’s keeping the guy from getting into your ladybusiness are scheduling conflicts.The most effective rejection is a direct one—like this one I suggested in Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck: “Thanks so much. I’m really flattered, but I’m sorry to say that I’m just not interested.” Though “I’m flattered” might seem condescending, it softens the blow—without being misleading.

It suggests that you believe the person you’re rejecting has some merits, as opposed to what may actually be the truth: “I would rather be pecked to death by angry hens than have sex with you.”

LADIES WHO HUNCH This hot guy I met online lied about his height.

We got together, and I’m like 3 inches taller than he is. That doesn’t bother me, but I’m worried that his height is a source of insecurity for him (since he lied about it on his profile).

—Skyscraper You can’t always find your one and only, but you can sometimes find your three-quarters and only.

It isn’t a surprise that this guy, in calculating his height, added in the vintage ottoman he was standing on when he took the photo. While there are breast men, leg men, butt men and even toe men, in female preferences for men’s appearance, across cultures, there’s one thing that really, really matters, and it’s height. (Guilty: I’ve joked about getting one of those amusement park signs to post over my bed, “Must be this tall to ride this ride.”)

Research by evolutionary social psychologist Gert Stulp suggests that women, in general, find it “unacceptable” to be taller than the man they’re with and prefer to be substantially shorter (ideally a whole 8 inches shorter; so, say, 5’6” to a man’s 6’2”). As for why women evolved to prefer taller men, though being tall doesn’t always mean being stronger (and thus better able to protect a woman), tallness points to physical health. (If a man’s body is riddled with parasites, his metabolic resources get invested in battling the little buggers instead of upward growth.)

In modern times, some men try to cheat their way taller, with dating profile fudgery, shoes with built-in “lifts,” and strong hair gel (the essential ingredient in a towering pompadour). However, a shor t man isn’t necessarily shor t on self-worth. According to Stulp and his colleagues, shorter men’s dissatisfaction with their height seems linked to the general preference by women for taller men. This makes sense, considering how bad it feels to know your partner doesn’t find you all that attractive. But since that isn’t a problem here, let him know.

And you might also keep in mind that good things do, as they say, “come in small packages”: gum, Shetland ponies ... and, hey, Ron Jeremy is a short dude.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP IN THE JUSTICE COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 302 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 CAUSE NO. CV-20172115 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION PLUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLD, PLAINTIFF, v. SUMMER HUNTER, AND ALL OTHER TENANTS, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: Summer Hunter 720 Turner St., Unit #D Missoula, MT 59802 STATEMENT OF OBJECT OF ACTION: The above-captioned action is a Cause of Action against you relating to the possessory interest that you claim in the real property located at 720 Turner St., Unit #D, Missoula, MT 59802. Plaintiff demands relief which consists partially of excluding you from said possessory interest.YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the above-entitled Justice of the Peace, a copy of which is herewith served upon you.

In the event you deny any or all of the material facts stated in the complaint, you must file your written answer together with a $30.00 answer fee for each Defendant with the above-entitled Court, and serve a copy of your answer upon the Plaintiff or attorney at the address shown on the Complaint. The answer must contain a denial of any or all of the material facts stated in the Complaint that the Defendant believes to be untrue, and also a statement, in plain or direct manner, of any other facts constituting a defense.

Any matter not denied shall

be deemed admitted. If you fail to answer or assert a counterclaim within ten (10) days after the service of the Complaint and Summons, the Plaintiff may request entry of default judgment against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. DATED Sept. 13, 2017 /s/ Landee N. Holloway, Justice of the Peace Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17243 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JOHN PAUL LOGAN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LOIS IRENE GRANT 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 the abovenamed as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 20th day of September, 2017. /s/ JOAN E. COOK Katherine C. Holliday (MT Bar #9965) Carmody Holliday Legal Services, PLLC PO Box 8124, Missoula, MT 59807 tel.

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modyhollidaylaw.com Counsel for Plaintiff MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY CAUSE NO. DV17-737 DEPT. NO 1 LESLIE HALLIGAN SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION PLUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, MANAGER ON BEHALF OF 1421 EATON STREET, INC. PLAINTIFF, v. NICOLE STEVENSON F/K/A NICOLE PASTIAN, DEFENDANT.THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: NICOLE STEVENSON F/K/A NICOLE PASTIAN 1421 Eaton St., Unit #33, Missoula, MT 59801 The above-captioned action is a Cause of Action against you is to in part foreclose a lien upon the real property located at 1421 Eaton St., Unit #33, Missoula, MT 59801.A lawsuit has been filed against you. Within 21 days after service of this summons on you or (42 days if you are the State of Montana, a state agency, or a state officer or employee), you must serve on the plaintiff an answer to the attached complaint or a motion under Rule 12 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure. Do not include the day you were served in your calculation of time. The answer or motion must be served on the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney, if plaintiff is represented by an attorney, whose name and address are listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. You also must file your answer or motion with the court.WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 19th day of September, 2017.

SHIRLEY E. FAUST, CLERK

OF DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Cady Sowre, DEPUTY CLERK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-226 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WANDA V. SMALLEY AKA WANDA VIOLA SMALLEY, DECEASED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to CHERYL W. MILLER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2687 Palmer Street, Suite D, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 5th day of September, 2017. /s/ Cheryl W. Miller, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty,Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-19 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE AND INFORMATION TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, DECEASED. To the

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2. This notice is being published for persons who have or may have some interest in the estate being administered.

3. GEORGE MORSE AKA GEORGE W. MORSE whose address is: 5135 Mullan Rd. MIssoula, MT 59808 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate on January 26, 2017 without bond. 4. Papers and information relating to the estate are on file in the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, County of Missoula, at Missoula, Montana.5.

This estate is being administered by the Personal Representative under the Uniform Probate Code of Montana without supervision by the Court. Recipients are entitled to information regarding administration from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any manner relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. DATED this 7th day of September, 2017. DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-17-142 Dept. No. 2 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BETTY LOU SHUBERT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to LORI KOHLMAN, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Lori Kohlman, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

SIGNED this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Lori Kohlman, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 5 day of September, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires September 24, 2019 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause

missoulanews.com • September 28–October 5, 2017 [39]

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current. Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations.The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some newspapers publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported.They were pink underpants. I tell you this,Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself. Before bedtime on the next 10 nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently—perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity.This will have a deeply tonic effect.You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s high time to allow your yearnings to overflow ... to surrender to the vitalizing pleasures of non-rational joy ... to grant love the permission to bless you and confound you with its unruly truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the oldest houses in northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian.They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual. The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach.

Listen with alert discernment.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The United States has a bizarre system for electing its president.There’s nothing like it in any other democratic nation on earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. So theoretically, it’s possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world. For example, in two of the last five elections, the new chief of state has received significantly fewer votes than his main competitor. I suspect that you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo.You’ll be able to claim victory on a technicality.Your effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed.

INCREDIBLE! Smash bricks with your bare hands! Walk on fiery coals unscathed! Leap safely c the off a roof! No broken bones! No cuts! No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then everything VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I found this advertisement for a workshop: “You will learn to do

else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your attention,Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, a very different approach is preferable for you: I recommend that you start with safe, manageable tasks. Master the simple details and practical actions. Work on achieving easy, low-risk victories. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself for more epic efforts in the future.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be realistic, Libra: Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before. Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials, and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles.You are braver than you know, as sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to take

good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and e extra protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit

can’t or won’t give it to you, seek elsewhere. Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of self-respect and self-healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A queen bee may keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from many different drones. When composing my horoscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparable receptivity. Long ago I realized that all of creation is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher. If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the possibility that they may arrive from unexpected directions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favorable time to expand your capacity to be fertilized.

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now you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourg minute self—or both.This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both lib-

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re approaching a rendezvous with prime time. Any

erating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1901, physician Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That question is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner state has been heroic. It’s like you’ve been ingesting a healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats!

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are enough authorities, experts and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you what to think and do. In accordance with current astrological factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily. Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives you to trust your own assessments and heed your own intuitions. Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good practice for dealing with the little voices in your head that speak for those authorities, experts and know-it-alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies.

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[40] Missoula Independent • September 28–October 5, 2017

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PUBLIC NOTICES

No. DV-17-586 Dept. No. 3 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION ANNE L. FOGELBURCHENAL, Plaintiff, vs.

CHARLES J. MANNING; the unknown heirs and devisees of Charles J. Manning; NANCY J. MANNING; the unknown heirs and devisees of Nancy J. Manning; and all other persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the real property described in the Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO all persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon,

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the real property described in the Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This is an action in which the title to, alleged interests in, or liens upon, real property are involved, af-

fected, and brought into question.This action is brought for the specific purpose of quieting title in Plaintiff to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in Block 28 of Park Addition, according to the official plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana, together with the vacated alley through Block 28 adjacent to said Lots. Recording reference: Book 23, Page 451.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 6th day of September, 2017. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Clerk of the District Court (SEAL) /s/ By: Molly A. Reynolds Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-17-870 Dept. No.: 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Ethan Hunter Walker, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Ethan Hunter Walker to Ethan Hunter Elliott.The hearing will be on 10/25/2017 at 1:30 p.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: September 8, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-17-51 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANNY JOSEPH LODWIG, Deceased. Danny Joseph Lodwig of 2010 Trail Street, Apt. E., Missoula, Montana 59801, died on September 22,2016.

Decedent’s creditors are hereby notified that all claims against the estate will be forever barred unless presented to the personal representative through his counsel of record, Rochelle Loveland at 2709 Highland Dr., Missoula, Montana 59802, or to the Probate court and the personal representative within 4 months of publication of this notice. DATED this 18th day of September, 2017. /s/ Rochelle Loveland, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP-14-61 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IRENE E. MOSIER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate.All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of

the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Richard K. Mallick, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED: April 4th, 2014 /s/ Richard K. Mallick Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 1 PROBATE NO. DP17-237 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY C. TYVAND, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to JOHN PATRICK DOWDALL, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806-4747, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 8th day of September, 2017. /s/ John Patrick Dowdall c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP17-235 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT J. ROSENGREN, a/k/a Robert Joel Rosengren Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their 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 AMY M. SCOTT SMITH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of September, 2017. /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith, Personal Representative c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT,

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No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-225 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BONNIE C. HENNES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jon V. Parker has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 6th day of September, 2017. /s/ Jon V. Parker, Personal Representative for the Estate of Bonnie C. Hennes /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Cause No. DP-17-97 Hon. Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND A. MEYER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned 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 Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 30 day of August, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Hon. John W. Larson Probate No. DP-17-228 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN

THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONNIE LOUISE PETERSON, A/K/A CONSTANCE PETERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JEFFREY A. PETERSON 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 JEFFREY A. PETERSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 327 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 13 day of September, 2017.

THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Probate No. DP-17-167 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: SYLVIA H. SELK, 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 (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 JAMIE McKITTRICK, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED 18 day of September, 2017. /s/ Dwaine F. Selk, Personal Representative WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Jamie McKittrick, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Cause No. DP-17-219 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAY L. POWERS, 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 KIM D. POWERS, Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25th day of August, 2017. /s/ Kim D. Powers, Personal

Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Suzanne Geer for Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss.

County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 25 day of August, 2017. /s/ Kim D. Powers, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 25 day of August, 2017. /s/ Suzanne Geer Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Stevensville, Montana My Commission Expires October 2, 2020 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-17-155 DEPT. NO. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES GRUHN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Melanie Gruhn Newton has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Howard Toole, the attorney for Melanie Gruhn Newton, return receipt requested, at the address of PO Box 8774, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 19 day of September, 2017. /s/ Melanie Gruhn Newton, 10 Clearview Dr., Randolph, NJ 07869 Personal Representative PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S ATTORNEY: /s/ Howard Toole, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 59807 406-728-4682 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No.: DP-17-213 Dept. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: WARD LEE FORBES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lynn Forbes has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Lynn Forbes, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 3819 Stephens Ave., Suite 301, Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18 day of December, 2017. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorney for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT,

MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA Cause No.: DP-17-238 Department No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUKE MEARS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. If any person or organization has a valid claim against said estate, the claim must include the basis of claim, the amount claimed, the name and address of claimant.

Mont. Code Ann. §72-3804(1). Creditors must make claim within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred. Mont. Code Ann. §72-3-801. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative at the address named below, Certified mail requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of September, 2017. /s/ Katherine Mears, PO Box 16362, Missoula, MT 59808 Notice of Close of Regular Voter Registration Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Municipal General Election to be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 will close at 5:00 p.m., on Tuesday October 10, 2017.

Ballots will be automatically mailed on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 to Active Electors only. *Note: Voters who miss the Close of Registration deadline may late register for the Municipal General Election at: The Elections Center (Missoula Fairgrounds Election Center, 1101 South Avenue West, Building #15, Missoula, MT 59801) from October 11, 2017 through November 6 , 2017. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, voters can complete & submit a voter registration card, but they will need to return to the local election office on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot. Same day voter registration is also available at the Elections Center on Election Day – November 7, 2017. All active and inactive electors of Missoula County Montana are entitled to vote in said election. **Note: Inactive electors may reactivate by appearing at the Elections Center in order to vote, by requesting an absentee ballot in any election, or by notifying the County Election Administrator in writing of the elector’s current address in the county. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator at the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 from September 17, 2017 through September 27, 2017. Starting September 28, 2017 through November 7, 2017 the Election Administra-

tor’s Office will be located at the Missoula Fairgrounds Elections Center 1101 South Ave West, Building #15, Missoula, MT 59801. An application for voter registration properly executed and postmarked on or before the day regular registration is closed must be accepted as a regular registration for 3 days after regular registration is closed.

For more information visit our Current Election webpage at www.Missoula Votes.com or contact the Elections Office at (406) 2584751. DATED this 12th Day of September, 2017 /s/ Bradley Seaman Missoula County Election Supervisor Run Dates: September 17, September 24, & October 1, 2017.

This notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation 3 times in order to notify individuals of the close regular registration and the availability of late registration.

Notice of Election: Municipal General Election Notice is hereby given that Missoula County will hold a Municipal General Election on Tuesday November 7, 2017 via mail ballot for the following items: Municipal General Election: Missoula City Council Member Ward 1 (Vote For One) Ward 2 – 4yr Term (Vote For One) Ward 2 – 2yr Term (Vote For One) Ward 3 (Vote For One) Ward 4 (Vote For One) Ward 5 (Vote For One) Ward 6 (Vote For One) Missoula Mayor Missoula Municipal Court Judge The election will be conducted solely by mail ballot. Ballots will be mailed to all eligible/active registered voters no later than October 18, 2017, and must be returned by each voter, by mail to the Missoula County Election Administrator at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, or in person at the Missoula County Election Center Building #15 at 1101 South Avenue West, Missoula, Montana, 59801 during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.), weekdays (exclusive of holidays), October 18, 2017 through November 6, 2017, or as described below. On Election Day, November 7, 2017, the following locations will be available for deposit of voted ballots: Missoula Fairgrounds Election Center, 1101 South Ave, W, Building # 15, Missoula, MT 59801 All Election services for November 7, 2017 Election will be located at the Fairgrounds.The Courthouse will only be available for ballot drop-off. Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 Ballot drop-off only prior to and on Election Day. Cold Springs Elementary School, 2625 Briggs Street, Missoula, MT 59803 Paxson Elementary School, 101 Evans Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801 Franklin Elementary School, 1901 S 10th St West, Missoula, MT

59801 Lowell Elementary School, 1200 Sherwood, Missoula, MT 59802 Rattlesnake School, 1220 Pineview Drive, Missoula, MT 59802 University Center, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT 59812 Missoula City Fire Station #4, 3011 Latimer, Missoula, MT 59808 Lewis & Clark Elementary School, 2901 Park Street, Missoula, MT 59801 These locations will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, and all ballots must be in the Elections Office, the Elections Center, or other dropoff location by 8:00 p.m. in order to be counted. All ballots will be tallied in the Counting Center – Building #35 at the Missoula County Fairgrounds on November 7, 2017. A qualified voter who will be absent during the time the election is being conducted may: A.Vote in person at the Missoula County Election Center as soon as the ballots are available on October 10, 2017 until noon November 6, 2017. B. Make a written request, signed by the applicant and addressed to the office of the Missoula County Election Administrator requesting the ballot be mailed to an address other than that which appears on the registration records. All ballots will be mailed no later than October 18, 2017. C. An elector may obtain a replacement ballot if their ballot is destroyed, spoiled, lost, or not received by the elector by personally appearing at the Elections Center at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. D. Ballots may be returned in person at the places of deposit listed above, or returned by mail. If returning by mail, please use $0.49 postage (or the then-prevailing first-classpostage price, if higher) or one Forever Stamp. Postmark date does not apply; ballots returned by mail must meet the 8:00 p.m. Election Day deadline to be counted. Note: All electors, as defined in MCA 20-20-301, are those who reside within the City and are registered to vote by the close of registration on October 10, 2017. For electors who miss the close of registration deadline, electors may register late at the Elections Center (Missoula Fairgrounds Election Center, 1101 South Ave, W, Building # 15, Missoula, MT 59801) from October 11, 2017 through noon November 6, 2017.

Same day voter registration is available at the Elections Center on Election Day – November 7, 2017. For questions or additional information contact the Elections office at 406-258-4751 or via website at www.missoulavotes.com.

DATED this 12th Day of September, 2017 /s/ Bradley Seaman Missoula County Election Supervisor Notice of Sheriff’s Sale BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERV-

ICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, Plaintiff, vs. JERRY R. ALLEN; DONNA M. ALLEN; ERIC SHAWN ALLEN; ROBIN LIN ALLEN, Defendants. CAUSE NO. DV-13460 To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 11th day of October, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, I am commanded to sell at public auction all of Defendants’ rights and interest to the below described property: Commencing at the Northwest 1/16 Corner of said Section 24, the true point of beginning; thence South 89 degrees 57 minutes 54 seconds East along the Northerly boundary of the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of said Section 24, a distance of 665.95 feet; thence North 87 degrees 22 minutes 24 seconds East 665.62 feet to a point on the North-South Mid-section line of said Section 24; thence South 00 degrees 13 minutes 11 seconds West along said Mid-section line, a distance of 593.18 feet to the Northeast Corner of Tract A of Certificate of Survey 1124; thence the following (6) courses along the Northerly boundary of said Tract A; South 89 degrees 57 minutes 22 seconds West 216.96 feet; South 46 minutes 29 minutes 49 seconds West 105.55 feet; South 76 degrees 31 minutes 09 seconds West 158.55 feet; thence South 47 degrees 53 minutes 37 seconds West 109.18 feet; North 81 degrees 48 minutes 32 seconds West 584.60 feet; and North 89 degrees 57 minutes 50 seconds West 221.76 feet; thence North 00 degrees 02 minutes 38 seconds East 662.64 feet to the true point of beginning. Property address: 10250 Miller Creek Road, Missoula MT 59803.

The above-described property will be sold to the highest bidder to satisfy Plaintiff’s judgment, with interest and costs. **WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND ANYONE INTERESTED IN BIDDING ON ANY PROPERTY NOTICED FOR SALE RESEARCH THE OWNERSHIP OF THE PROPERTY THOROUGHLY PRIOR TO BIDDING** Dated this 17th day of September, 2017. /s/T.J. McDERMOTT Sheriff of Missoula County By: /s/ David L. Merifield, Deputy Benjamin J. Mann, MSB# 33833674 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN, P.C. 376 E. 400 South, Ste. 300, Salt Lake City UT 84111 Telephone (801) 355-2886 File #47577 Attorneys for BOA NA | HWM File #47577 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/16/14, recorded as Instrument No. B:

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PUBLIC NOTICES 931 P: 102 201409979, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Nathan Michaels and Allison Lawrence joint tenants was Grantor, American Federal Savings Bank was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee.The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 15 of CHEYENNE LANE, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/17 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 3, 2017, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $210,104.08. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $202,555.97, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on December 13, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no

default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure .com.

Michaels, Nathan and Lawrence, Allison (TS# 7883.20300) 1002.292345-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on January 17, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor or his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Successor Trustee, at the following place: On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar, of Robinson Tait, P.S. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Sara Lerback, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and Anthony Lerback, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mountain West Bank, N.A., beneficiary of the security instrument, said Deed of Trust which is dated July 7, 2008 and was recorded on July 7, 2008 as Instrument No. Book 822 of Micro Records at Page 658, and was re-recorded on July 11, 2008 in Book 822 of Micro Records at Page 984, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 2045 CHICKADEE DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59808 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 9, BLOCK 4, EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF.The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently

held by Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC.The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. The default for which foreclosure is made is grantors’ failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $86,409.78 beginning March 1, 2012 through September 23, 2017; plus late charges of $3,351.47; plus paid recoverable balance of $6,922.98; plus other fees of $1,365.00; less unapplied funds credit of $847.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $163,792.95 with interest thereon at the rate of 6.37500 percent per annum beginning February 1, 2012; plus escrow balance of $12,006.94; plus late charges of $3,351.47; plus corporate advance of $1,365.00; plus expense advance of $6,922.98; less suspense balance of $847.04; together with title expense, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and

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exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: September 7, 2017 /s/ John A. “Joe” Solseng John A. “Joe” Solseng, a member of the Montana state bar,Attorney of Robinson Tait, P.S., MSB #11800 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 11, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: ALL OF LOT 7 IN BLOCK 2 OF PLUMMER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA,AS RECORDED IN BOOK 8 OF PLATS AT PAGE 11. LESS THAT PORTION MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE MOST SOUTHERLY POINT OF LOT 7, WHICH POINT IS DUE NORTH 142.72 FEET FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID PLUMMER ADDITION; THENCE DUE NORTH 50.00 FEET; THENCE N.73°24`W., 136.90 FEET TO A POINT ON KRYSTY DRIVE, SAID POINT BEING COMMON TO LOTS 6 AND 7;THENCE S.55°49`E., 158.59 FEET ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LOT LINE OF LOT 7 TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Joshua B. Barnhart, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Title Services Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration systems. Inc., solely as nominee for Opportunity Bank of Montana., its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on September 17, 2015, and recorded on September 17, 2015 as Book 951 Page 161 Document No. 201517678. The beneficial interest is currently held by FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning February 1, 2017, 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 August 28, 2017 is $250,081.04 principal, interest totaling $5,958.74 late charges in the amount of $328.40, escrow advances of $2,858.54, and other fees and expenses advanced of $64.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 30, 2017. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221

STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of August, 2017, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. (SEAL) /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 Freedom Mortgage Corporation vs Joshua B. Barnhart 103986-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 19, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 OF HAGESTAD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF IN BOOK 31 OF PLATS AT PAGE 7.

CONSTANCE J HAGESTAD and DANIEL R HAGESTAD, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on November 28, 2011, and recorded on December 2, 2011 as Book 886 Page 493 Document No. 201120266. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning April 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 1, 2017 is $332,922.47 principal, interest totaling $18,490.22 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,376.66, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes

will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 6, 2017 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC. Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of September, 2017 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY vs CONSTANCE J

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NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Occupant(s) 132 Dallas Street Lolo, Montana 59847 Victoria M. Holder 132 Dallas Street Lolo, MT 59847 CB1 Inc., dba CBM Collections P.O. Box 7429 Missoula, MT 59801 Victoria M. Wyatt 132 Dallas Street Lolo, MT 59847 Collection Professionals, Inc. 3104 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59808 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: WEST VIEW #1, S27, T12 N, R20 W, BLOCK 2, Lot 9. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lot 9 in Block 2 of West View, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Parcel No. 570404. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 2, 2013. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 10, 2014. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 10, 2014, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $5,774.80 PENALTY $114.00 INTEREST $1,345.85 COST $239.36 TOTAL $7,474.01 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 27, 2017, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county

treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1.The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3.

The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 28th of August, 2017.

NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Occupant(s) 1895 E. Broadway Missoula, Montana 59802 Sara J. Albano 1895 E. Broadway Missoula, Montana 59802 Sara J. Albano 1636 River Mill Road Oshkosh,WI 54901-2792 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 Daniel Addition Homeowners Assoc. c/o ADEA Property Management 2527 S. 3rd Street W. Missoula, MT 59804 Pursuant to Section 1518-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: DANIEL ADDITION - PHASE 3, S26, T13 N, R19 W, BLOCK 2, UNIT 6 AMENDED PLAT OF GATEWAY GARDENS #2, S.PORTION OF LOT 3 & N.PORTION OF LOT 4. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Unit 6 in Block 2 of the Amended Plat of Gateway Gardens No. 2, Southerly portion of Lot 3 and Northerly portion of Lot 4 (Phase 3 of Daniel Addition), a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof in Book 13 of Plats at Page 36. Parcel No. 5839463.

2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 2, 2014. 3.

The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 10, 2014.

4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 10, 2014, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $6,149.14 PENALTY $121.40 INTEREST $1069.54 COST $232.80 TOTAL $7,572.88 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October 27, 2017, 60 days after date of this notice. 8.

For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all in-

terest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1.The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3.

The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 28th of August, 2017.

NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Occupant(s) 916 Parkview Way Missoula, Montana 59803 Troy D. Dussault 916 Parkview Way Missoula, Montana 59803 Buck Smith 7499 Teigen Ct. Missoula, MT 59803 Abigail J. Dussault 916 Parkview Way Missoula, Montana 59803 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 3601 Minnesota Drive Bloomington, MN 55435-5284 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT, 59802 HSBC Bank USA 636 Grand Regency Blvd. Brandon, FL 33510 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. P.O. Box 31557 Billings. MT 59107-9900 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: HIGH PARK # 1, S05,T12 N, R19 W, BLOCK 22, Lot 25. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lot 25 in Block 22 of High Park No. 1, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof..

Parcel No. 1938504. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on December 2, 2013. 3.

The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 10, 2014.

4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 10, 2014, by Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West

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5. The lien was subsequently assigned to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, P.O. Box 54292, New Orleans, LA 70154-4292, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due is: TAX $13,089.23 PENALTY $260.21 INTEREST $2577.60 COST $252.48 TOTAL $16,179.52 7. The date that the redemption period expires is October

27, 2017, 60 days after date of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period

expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to MTAG, as Custodian for ATCF II Montana LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana

1 bed, 1 bath, S. 12th West, $725, W/D hookups, storage & off street parking.W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333

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59802; Telephone (406) 2584747 FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 28th of August, 2017.

RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bed, 1 bath, Cooper Street, $700, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333

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

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

1 bed, 1 bath, S. Russell, $675, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid.

NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, newly remodeled,W/D, A/C, downtown $950. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bed, 1 bath, N. Russell, $750, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking. HEAT paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 2 bed, 2 bath, Cooper Street, $875, DW, AC, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING Gatewest 728-7333 237 1/2 E. Front St. “A” Studio/1bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops on site $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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1706 Scott Street “B”.1 bed/1 bath, Northside, all utilities paid, shared yard $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 211 S. 4th Street East #1. 3 bed/1 bath, close to U, W/D hookups $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 212 S. 5th Street East #1. 2 bed/1 bath, near University, close to downtown, W/D hookups $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 345 W. Central “C”. 2 bed/1 bath in triplex, central location, W/D, close to parks. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 509 S. 5th St. E. #1. 1 bed/1 bath, two blocks to University, sunroom, HEAT PAID $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 820 Charlo #2 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hookups, small yard, pet? $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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REAL ESTATE HOMES 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, Upper Rattlesnake home on 3.6 acres on Ray Creek. $500,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath South 39th St home, $239,900. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2636 Park Street- Amazingly sweet house in the Lewis and Clark neighborhood and close to everything, including shopping and bike trails and downtown and the U and schools. $275,000 KD 240-5227 3 Bdr, 1.5 Bath, East Missoula home. $235,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

of the Slant Streets and so close to everything near town! KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com

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

Open floor plan. Newer flooring/fixtures. Energy efficient.

Landscaped yard with privacy fence. $289,000 OPEN HOUSE Saturday 11-1pm REALTORS WELCOME Or call 396-2939 for Appt.

529 Blaine. Price reduced to $275,000. It’s a gem and ready to move into with tons of charm and amazing location in the heart

6 Elk Ridge. 4 bed, 3 bath in gated Rattlesnake community with shared pool & tennis court. Many new upgrades. $795,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350, shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

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Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 7122 Brooke Lynn. Brand new 5 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan, gas fireplace, deck & timber frame accents. $399,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

665 E Kent. Wow, university area charmer on a double lot for $320,000! 3 bedroom, 1 bath, in great condition and ready to move into! KD 240-5227 PorticoRealEstate.com

816 West Hallmark. 3 bed, 2 bath with covered deck & double garage. $275,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com

6869 Deadman Gulch. Private 4 bed, 3 bath on 2.71 acres with

901 Defoe. Updated 3 bed, 1 bath with new flooring & deck, Near

322 Central, Hot Springs $69,000

3625 Kingsbury. Pleasant View 3 bed, 3 bath on corner lot with 2 car garage. $274,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Grant Creek home on 5.7 acres. $415,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 425 S 5th St West-This is an amazing stunning historic gem.

The beautiful Victorian was built in 1890 and has absolute charm of yesteryear. $625,000 KD 2405227 PorticoRealEstate.com

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19 It comes between 3 and 27, in a series 20 Kilt fold 21 ___ Field (Brooklyn Dodgers' home) 23 Receptacle for roses 26 Sand hill 28 Singer/songwriter/actress Jenny 29 Oklahoma neighbor of Vance Air Force Base 30 Glorify 32 The night before 33 Photo that anyone can take?

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REAL ESTATE

Northside pedestrian bridge. $219,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350, shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

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5185 Old Marshall Grade Road This historic Farmhouse was built in the 1880s and is listed on the National Historic Register. It was remodeled in 2013 and 1,000 Âą square feet was

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

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2025 Mullan Heights #306. 2 bed, 2.5 bath facing the Clark Fork River. $227,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

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The Uptown Flats #301. 831 sf one bedroom plus bonus room. $184,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com The Uptown Flats #303. Modern 1 bed, 1 bath, 612 sq.ft. near downtown and Clark Fork River. $159,710. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 anne@movemontana.com

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

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13221 Old Freight. Approximately 11 acres near St. Ignatius with incredible Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 2.1 acre waterfront lot in Alberton. $169,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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NHN Raymond. Beautiful .43 acre lot in quiet Rattlesnake neighborhood. $245,000. Shannon Hilliard, 2398350 shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Real Estate - Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungstenholdings.com (406) 293-3714

COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

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

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home on 15 acres. $378,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Upper Rattlesnake home on a half acre lot. $337,500. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Alberton home on 20 acres with Petty Creek frontage. $475,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Affordable Lake Living! Charming remodeled detached condo overlooking Flathead lake, located on Finley Point near Polson. Subdivision includes; boat launch, boat yard and private beach, with ability to rent boat & jet ski slips. 1,189 sq.ft.3 Bedroom, 1 Bath cabin style getaway.VRBO approved, make additional income when not in use. $429,000. Century 21 Realtor: Cole Wallace Cell: 406-570-7321

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

Mature trees, raspberry patch, covered back porch, lilacs in front and back. Double garage. Great neighborhood 20 minutes from Missoula. MLS #21707610 Call Matt Rosbarsky at 390-9023 for more information.

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