NEWS
LEFT BEHIND: PROPOSED WHITTIER SCHOOL SALE COULD LEAVE HEAD START PROGRAM HOMELESS
BROWDER LETS LIFESAVER OR OVERKILL? COUNTY’S PORN SEASON ARTS FILM SKI NEWS IT ALL HANG OUT ARMORED TRUCK COMES UNDER FIRE ARRIVES IN STYLE
Welcome to the Missoula Independent’s e-edition! You can now read the paper online just as if you had it in your hot little hands. Here are some quick tips for using our e-edition: For the best viewing experience, you’ll want to have the latest version of FLASH installed. If you don’t have it, you can download it for free at: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/. FLIPPING PAGES: Turn pages by clicking on the far right or the far left of the page. You can also navigate your way through the pages with the bottom thumbnails. ZOOMING: Click on the page to zoom in; click again to zoom out. CONTACT: Any questions or concerns, please email us at frontdesk@missoulanews.com
NEWS
LEFT BEHIND: PROPOSED WHITTIER SCHOOL SALE COULD LEAVE HEAD START PROGRAM HOMELESS
BROWDER LETS LIFESAVER OR OVERKILL? COUNTY’S PORN SEASON ARTS FILM SKI NEWS IT ALL HANG OUT ARMORED TRUCK COMES UNDER FIRE ARRIVES IN STYLE
Join millions of other students in promoting Safe Routes to School, healthy activity, and a better environment. Ask YOUR school how you can help!
NFL at the Lucky Strike Come cheer for your favorite teams • Food & drink specials
Learn to Bowl in 4 weeks for FREE! • Fall leagues still open to adults, seniors and youths.
[2] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
cover photo by Cathrine L. Walters
News Voices/Letters Wolves, Amanda Curtis and Redskins ...................................................4 The Week in Review Chicken meat, Josh Clark and Jon Krakauer..............................6 Briefs Butchering, ALEC and an armored vehicle.........................................................6 Etc. From Missoula to … Brazil?...................................................................................7 News In HD 96’s close race, doorbells could be the key to victory .............................8 News Proposed Whittier sale puts Head Start future in question ................................9 Opinion A cyclist’s plea to deadly motorists...............................................................10 Feature Money matters in the city of Missoula ...........................................................14
Arts & Entertainment Arts Hanging out with Amanda Browder....................................................................18 Music Magpies, Taarka and Bonnie “Prince” Billy.......................................................19 Arts The man behind the advertisements ...................................................................20 Film Snow-sports films prove pros get scared, too.....................................................21 Film Vicious honesty pervades Hoffman’s last leading role........................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Gut punch .......................................................................................24 Happiest Hour Montana Brewery Passport ...............................................................26 8 Days a Week Death, taxes and chocolate chip cookies...........................................27 Mountain High Heart Walk and 5K Run.....................................................................33 Agenda Rooftop salsa party.........................................................................................34
Exclusives
Street Talk.....................................................................................................................4 In Other News ............................................................................................................12 Classifieds .................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess.................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle.....................................................................................................C-6 This Modern World ................................................................................................C-11
PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Pumpernickel Stewart CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING, PROMOTION & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Brad Tyer, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Jule Banville, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Josh Quick, Brooks Johnson
Mailing address: P.O. Box 8275 Missoula, MT 59807 Street address: 317 S. Orange St. Missoula, MT 59801 Phone number: 406-543-6609 Fax number: 406-543-4367 E-mail address: independent@missoulanews.com
President: Matt Gibson The Missoula Independent is a registered trademark of Independent Publishing, Inc. Copyright 2014 by Independent Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinting in whole or in part is forbidden except by permission of Independent Publishing, Inc.
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [3]
[voices]
Critical questions
STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, Sept. 30, on the corner of East Broadway and Pattee Street. Do you think the city’s pursuit of Mountain Water is a good idea? Follow-up: City taxes have increased 44 percent over the last nine years. Do you think it’s spending your money wisely?
Jacob Seidel: In general I think if you can keep a resource local and monitored by the people who have a stake in it, it is important. It’s in Missoula’s best interest to keep a stake in its local water. Bike, walk, bus: In the little bit of time I’ve been here, yes. They have good sustainable transportation.
Barry Gordon: Of course. We need to get it back. At this point I think we’re being held for ransom and we need to put who controls the water back into the hands of the people here. In the end, it’s all going to be about the water. Paving the way: Yeah, they’re doing some good stuff. They’re fixing the streets and it’s important to get that done.
Katharine Wikstrom: I think they have to. I don’t think they have any choice and should have pursued it harder from the beginning. Water woes: No. Five to seven years ago we had water hydrants that broke on Higgins, running water down to the river. You’d call them and say, “You have a broken main,” and they let it go for days. You take care of the infrastructure here, not put up stickers saying “Keep Missoula Weird.”
Daris Sgambati: Yes. Because I know when I lived in California, my city didn’t own its water and charged $75 each month just to hook up to it. I think it will be more expensive for Missoula not to own it. Building support: Pretty much, yes. They’re doing good work with the roads and bridges here.
Mark Rothman: I felt like it was worth a good try and we’ve done that. Now I think it’s a lost cause that’s proving to be very expensive. I think Engen had his chance and he blew it. Pedaling through petals: Overall I think it gets spent well. I like the urban bike trail system and the beautification of Missoula.
[4] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
In the recent story of wolves in the Independent titled “Collaring the wild” (Sept. 11), there is a strong emphasis on the importance of data from radio collars in the management of wolves. The premise is that managing wolves has become so politicized that generating real scientific facts on wolves has become evermore critical to their management. This data could be used to develop strategies that prevent conflicts with wolves, such as livestock depredation. While certainly not inaccurate, this seems to assume that the wolf issue could be resolved if we just had better data on wolves when ultimately the management of wolves is a struggle over values, not data. All one needs to do is look at the comments in articles about wolves to realize that this is about much more than just wolves, this is about what wolves mean to different people with different livelihoods and values. In trying to get rid of them, trying to protect them, or just trying to live with them, the presence of wolves has transformed our Western landscape. Some say for the better, some say for the worse. Whatever the case may be, the topic of wolves is a poignant issue. While rigorous scientific data certainly must be included in the discussion and we should continue to support those gathering such data, the critical questions are: what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of wolves, what are we willing to do to protect them, and who decides? This is not a matter that biological data alone can address. Andrew Myers Missoula
Backing bricks UM is holding its “Brick Vote” right now. This vote will help decide the fate of the Ryman Mall, a campus gateway that runs from Arthur Avenue to the Griz statue. Will this gateway become a concrete slab or will we retain the historic and charming clay brick that has existed for 50 years?
The Ryman Mall surface needs improvement. The current brick was laid without an understanding of the need for good craftsmanship to make a lasting surface. Some brick has settled and the concrete dividers make for a bumpy surface—for foot, bicycle and wheel chair traffic. UM has made three test panels. Option 1 is a colored concrete slab. Option 2 is the existing brick cleaned and relaid
“In trying to get rid of them, trying to protect them, or just trying to live with them, the presence of wolves has transformed our Western landscape. with a compact base and tighter spacing to meet wheel chair requirements (ADA). Option 3 is the existing brick relaid on the wide side instead of the narrow side, which would meet ADA requirements and provide for a smooth surface. We encourage support retaining the clay brick—either option 2 or 3—and here are some reasons: properly fired clay brick, when compared to concrete, is stronger, longer lasting, more affordable, softer on the feet and made from an abundant resource (clay). Concrete, on the other hand, is responsible for up to 10 percent of global fossil fuel use, contributes to poor health (as far as standing upon), eventually cracks (sometimes really soon) and uses toxins for coloring. Further, the clay brick is permeable for water and air, which is good for soil, tree and insect health. More subjective is the aesthetic. Yet, it seems that an overwhelming percentage
of people like and desire the natural feel of clay brick. Check out the test panels and email your vote to Barbara.Denman@mso.umt. edu. We can have both a green and accessible campus. Bob Giordano Director Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation Missoula
One of us On November 4, I plan to cast my vote for John Lewis for Montana’s only seat in the U.S House of Representatives and Amanda Curtis for U.S. Senate. I am excited that this will be my first real election to be voting in, and I am happy to finally vote for a woman for political office. It is true to say that Congress is made up mostly of old white men. I think Congress should look more like America, and that should include more women. In order to move forward as a nation, it will be the young people of my generation who lead the way to a better tomorrow. Throughout the summer, I tirelessly made phone calls and canvassed for the two candidates, day-in and day-out, as a fellow with the Montana Democratic Party. Montana now has a chance to elect truly qualified candidates to represent working class families of Montana. Montanans like to see their candidates funded by Montanans rather than out-ofstate organizations that are more interested in selling off our public lands to out-of-state private businesses. I just find it appalling that that would even be up for debate. Our public lands are so important for recreating, hunting and fishing. Despite her lack of money or time, I believe Amanda Curtis can win because she represents real Montanans. She is one of us! The U.S. Senate needs a teacher/legislator from Montana and someone who knows how most of us live each day. Let’s send her opponent packing. Sam Orr Missoula
[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Behind the scenes of ‘The Daily Show,’” Sept. 26
Change the name “So great to read your account of the action, Migizi. Thanks to the Indy for giving you this forum to share it. And thanks to you guys for putting up with all the bullshit over in DC. Hopefully, the desired result will be achieved.” Posted Sept. 26 at 4:02 p.m.
Never seen it “I am a Washington fan. Out of respect of the people who read this article I will not use the R word. It’s hard I think for myself and other fans to be okay with a name change. Most of us if not all of us
have never seen racism towards Native Americans.” Posted Sept. 26 at 4:41 p.m.
Show the tape “I wish they would have shown the treatment you received. Media has been flipping this to make the pro-mascot folks look like the victims. I’m proud of you all who went there and stood up and spoke up. Thank you.” Posted Sept. 26 at 7:15 p.m.
What up, Brazil “Hello from Brazil. I live in a country where racism surprisingly still remains an
issue, albeit none pays much attention to it. I’d like to congratulate you guys for your bravery, for it takes a lot of courage to be as prepared as you were for those situations. Few people would be.” Posted Sept. 27 at 12:08 p.m.
Party on “I am sorry the tailgaters etc. treated you without respect and threatened you. I grew up respecting others. To treat a Native American poorly would be treating my beloved Grandfather without dignity. You are welcome at my tailgate party anytime Migizi—U of M Griz kind of tailgater. Posted Sept. 29 at 6:57 a.m.
Teton Gravity Research’s film premiere of
JEREMY JONES’ ‘HIGHER’
October 10th at Wilma Theatre, Downtown Missoula All attendees receive 2-1 lift tickets to Big Sky Resort & limited 2-1 lift tickets to Whitefish Mountain Resort Doors open: 6pm
Lil’ Smokies: 7pm Promotional Raffle: 8:30pm Show: 9:15pm
Tickets available at: Elements Board Shop, LB Snow and online at www.tetongravity.com/missoulahigher Official after-party at Top Hat Lounge featuring Hillstomp (21+), discount entry with proof of ‘Higher’ Ticket ($3)
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [5]
[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, September 24 Local officials begin the disgusting job of dealing with approximately 37,000 pounds of raw chicken rotting in a trailer parked at the Town Pump’s Flying J truck stop. A driver allegedly left the poultry after his employer refused a ransom demand.
Thursday, September 25 District Court Judge Kathy Seeley files an order requiring the Montana University System to provide author Jon Krakauer with records related to the handling of rape allegations made against University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson.
Friday, September 26 Three months after losing the Democratic primary to T.J. McDermott by 2,986 votes, Missoula County Undersheriff Josh Clark announces a write-in candidacy for Missoula County sheriff. In a statement, Clark vows to “stand against political corruption.”
Saturday, September 27 Before a homecoming crowd of 25,269, defensive end Addison Owen blocks a punt and quarterback Jordan Johnson throws three touchdown passes as the University of Montana defeats the University of Northern Colorado 38-13.
Sunday, September 28 Just after midnight, Missoula Fire Department crews respond to a fire in an apartment building at 712 S. First West. The occupant of the apartment is taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Monday, September 29 Zachary Brennan Newbary makes his first court appearance to face charges of aggravated assault and sexual intercourse without consent. Police arrested Newbary Saturday after observing injuries Newbary allegedly inflicted on his victim.
Tuesday, September 30 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks asks the public for any information related to a deer poaching behind the 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar in Haugan. The poachers took the animal’s heart and liver, but left its meat to rot.
Forestry student Chris Freeborn runs alongside the Forestry Club’s award-winning float during the University of Montana homecoming parade on Sept. 27. The Forestry Club celebrates its 100th anniversary this week.
ALEC
The tech exodus The American Legislative Exchange Council lost another corporate member last week. Less than a month after Microsoft said it would be terminating its membership with the state-policy-based nonprofit, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt announced his company would also be abandoning ALEC. He called Google’s involvement with the group a “mistake,” citing ALEC’s development of several model bills opposing action on climate change. According to Anne Hedges, the statement was met with a literal cheer at the offices of the Montana Environmental Information Center. Her group had joined 54 other organizations Sept. 3 in signing a letter urging Google executives to “end its membership in ALEC.” Hedges says MEIC has been on the opposite side of the council’s policies for decades in the Montana Legislature. But as with many other organizations, that opposition had never gone beyond lobbying against specific bills. “We’ve all, for so long, seen these terrible ideas come out of ALEC,” Hedges says, “but we haven’t collectively had an avenue to deal with it.”
Yahoo, Yelp and Facebook have all since expressed similar plans to leave ALEC. In a letter to Google signed by more than 200 of its legislative members, ALEC refuted assertions that its model policy denies climate change as merely “misinformation from climate activists.” The council went on to express appreciation for Google’s involvement over the years, saying the company “will be missed in future discussions as a result of short-sighted decision making.” Rep. David “Doc” Moore, R-Missoula, was one of five Montana lawmakers ALEC listed as signatories on the letter. He says he believes Google’s decision had more to do with pressure from environmental groups than the climate change issue itself, and that the spate of tech companies abandoning ALEC is really a “tempest in a teapot.” He signed the letter primarily because he felt Google should “grow a pair and just say ‘we’re a member of this organization.’” “I don’t know if Google and Facebook and Yahoo are overreacting or not,” Moore says. “I think if I were them, I would want to be involved with as many groups as possible just to see what kind of legislation’s going on out there.” For Hedges, however, the tech exodus may be just the beginning. Putting pressure on ALEC corporate
sponsors has opened a new avenue for collaboration among environmental nonprofits, unions and watchdog groups in opposing the council’s activities. “We’re on board with asking anybody to get out of ALEC,” Hedges says, “because ALEC is not intellectually honest.” Alex Sakariassen
Justice
City appeals informant case A Missoula Police Department detective is drawing from a controversial legal doctrine in an attempt to dismiss a case filed against him by the family of a confidential informant who committed suicide in 2010. A federal district court judge in August ordered a jury trial to deliberate whether MPD Detective David Krueger violated the law when pushing 21-year-old Colton Peterson to share information on area drug dealers. Two hours after the two met on July 27, 2010, Peterson committed suicide at the O’Brien Creek Trailhead. The district court’s August decision resulted from a 2012 lawsuit filed by Peterson’s mother, Juliena Darling, who alleges that she pleaded with police to provide Peterson a mental health evaluation during a 2010
Times Run 10/3/14 - 10/9/14
Cinemas, Live Music & Theater A Most Wanted Man Nightly at 7 & 9:15 Sat at 1 & 3:15
The Trip to Italy Nightly at 7 • Sat at 1 NO show Fri 10/3
Boyhood Nightly at 9 • Sat at 3 NO show Fri 10/3
[6] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
Beer & Wine AVAILABLE
131 S. Higgins Ave. Downtown Missoula 406-728-2521
thewilma.com
[news]
search of Peterson’s home. At the time, Missoula High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force members, including Krueger, found Peterson to be growing more cannabis than permitted under his status as a registered medical marijuana caregiver. Darling’s lawsuit alleges that rather than providing Peterson with a mental health examination, Krueger coerced him to name drug dealers and thereby caused Peterson’s death. In Krueger’s recent court filing, he maintains the district court erred when ordering the case go to a jury trial and that qualified immunity should shield him from liability. The rationale behind the long-established defense holds that police must be free to make split-second decisions without fear of litigation, as long as their actions don’t violate, as the U.S. Supreme Court opined in 1982, “clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” Qualified immunity has been the subject of numerous lawsuits, including one that led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that involved an unarmed man who died while attempting to flee Arkansas police in his vehicle. Police shot at the vehicle 15 times before it collided with a building, killing the driver, Donald Rickard, and passenger, Kelly Allen. Rickard’s family alleged in its lawsuit that police used excessive force. The U.S. Supreme Court found otherwise. “In the alternative, we conclude that the officers were entitled to qualified immunity...,” the court said in its unanimous decision. Krueger’s attorney cites the Rickard precedent multiple times in his Ninth Circuit Court filing. Darling’s legal counsel, Quentin Rhoades, meanwhile, argues that qualified immunity should not apply in the Peterson case. “We don’t think that that level of misconduct should be immune,” Rhoades says. Jessica Mayrer
Roadkill
Becoming butchers In terms of learning how to butcher fresh roadkill, this isn’t exactly a real-life situation. No one is checking the dents to their car or the damage to a fresh ungulate carcass. Everyone is standing under a white catering tent, looking at a skinned, gutted and beheaded sheep that’s wrapped in plastic and laying on a table. They’re all spending a Sunday afternoon at the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project’s Roadkill Butchering Workshop. Theo Smith, the workshop’s instructor and owner of the Masala food cart, begins by explaining the dead animal’s origins. The sheep wasn’t found on the side of the highway. It was harvested from a farm near Mullan
Road and spent part of its life on Mount Jumbo, eating weeds. As for actual roadkill, Smith says, things would be different. There would be damaged internal organs to deal with. There would be guts to remove, fur to skin and discolored muscle mass to inspect for blood-tainted meat. And courtesy of a 2013 state law legalizing roadkill harvesting, there would also be a vehicle-killed wildlife salvage permit to get, at no cost, from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Here, things are easier. “First of all, let’s get this plastic off it,” Smith says. He begins the butchering process by using a knife and a hacksaw to separate the animal into three main sections—shoulder, loin and leg. From there, he shows how to carve out the chops, rack, shank, leg and other cuts.
“A lot of this is just following your knife along a bone and seeing where it stops,” Smith says. When he’s done butchering half the animal, he turns the rest over to the students. There are eight—five women and three men—but not all of them want to participate. Those who do are given a knife and a part of the sheep and are guided through the process as they go. Afterward, Matthew Walsh, one of the students, explains why he’s here. He’s a doctoral candidate studying zooarchaeology at the University of Montana, and he recently learned to hunt. He hopes what he learned at the workshop will help him butcher his own kill in the wild—not necessarily by the side of the road. Ted McDermott
Homeland Security
BearCat in Missoula Missoula County Sheriff ’s Department Capt. Brad Giffin points to a small bullet hole just below a firing turret on the driver’s side of the department’s BearCat, a $334,343 armored military style vehicle.
BY THE NUMBERS
98
Age of Floyd “Creeky” Creekm o r e , t h e G u i n n e s s Wo r l d Records-certified oldest performing clown, when he died Saturday night at his home in Billings.
“It was a .22 (caliber),” Giffin says, pointing at the small hole sustained during a nearly day-long standoff with an armed man in a Westside trailer park late last summer. Missoula law enforcement officers were inside the 17,000-pound BearCat when the bullet struck, leaving Giffin to praise the vehicle as an essential tool. Despite such accolades, the BearCat has recently come to represent the increasing militarization of community law enforcement. Americans likely first noticed the BearCat model manufactured by Lenco during demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., following the Aug. 9 shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. National media showed law enforcement standing inside BearCat roof turrets while pointing rifles at citizen protesters. The New York Times reported that Ferguson paid for the vehicle through a U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant and that communities across the nation use similar funding to fortify their arsenals. Missoula County received its BearCat through one of those Homeland Security grants. Montana ACLU Director Scott Crichton says while he understands law enforcement’s desire to use every tool available to ensure safety, he worries that military style armaments such as BearCats have a tendency to inflame situations. “They’re not the stereotype of somebody you turn to in trust,” Crichton says. “They show up as nameless, faceless, SWAT team-like combatants.” Bozeman Mayor Jeff Krauss is also a BearCat critic. He and many others in Bozeman were shocked to learn in September that the Bozeman city manager had, without notifying the Bozeman City Commission or the public, applied with Homeland Security for a grant to purchase a BearCat. “I don’t think our best response is with a rubbertired, armored counterattack vehicle,” Krauss says. In response, Giffin says it’s easy to second-guess such decisions from the sidelines. “I totally understand where people are coming from,” Giffin says. “But if they would put on a bulletproof vest and go do this stuff on their own just one time, they would have a different point of view about the value of the tool.” Jessica Mayrer
ETC. The news can sometimes be a weird business, especially in the age of viral distribution. The internet allows stories published by a small outlet like the Independent to be seen around the world, but our coverage usually sticks to intensely local topics of little interest to someone in, say, Brazil. We may win regional and statewide awards for investigative reporting and long-form journalism, but if a story does get national or international attention, it’s typically because it involves some silly bear video or a snarky post about John Mayer. That changed last Friday, when we published a first-person blog post by Migizi Pensoneau, a member of the 1491s comedy troupe and a regular Indy contributor. Migizi wrote about his experience working on a segment for “The Daily Show” about the offensiveness of the Washington Redskins’ nickname. Prior to broadcast, the segment came under fire from Redskins fans who felt duped and wronged by producers. “The Daily Show” responded by airing an edited version. Migizi wrote about what ended up on the cutting room floor, including some appallingly racist and menacing behavior directed at him as he walked among the team’s tailgaters. “There were points during that hour-long experience where I actually was afraid for my life,” Migizi wrote. “I have never been so blatantly threatened, mocked or jeered. It was so intense, so full of vitriol that none of the footage ended up being used in the segment.” Within an hour, the Indy’s web traffic spiked. National outlets carried the piece through stories of their own or links on social media, including the Washington Post, CBS Sports, Sports Business Journal, Salon, Mediaite and others. MSNBC and HuffPost Live inquired about interview segments with Migizi. We received emails of support from Ireland, Chile and, yes, Brazil. The global audience speaks to mounting interest in Washington’s insulting nickname— “South Park” aired its own episode last week skewering the team—and rising tension on both sides of the debate. It also answers a general curiosity surrounding what really happened during that edited “Daily Show” segment. But it starts with Migizi writing a brutally honest and revealing piece, one that leapt over Washington’s stubborn owner and the embattled NFL suits who continue to block for him. The essay tackled the “wronged” fans themselves, and how hateful their blind allegiance looks beyond the guise of a football game. The only surprise is that it took a writer from Missoula to help finally get that point across.
Sara Trotter Win a 50% OFF Merchandise Coupon Sign Up for our Weekly Drawing
Leather Goods – Great Footwear Downtown – 543-1128 www.hideandsole.com
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [7]
[news]
Breaking through In HD 96’s close race, doorbells could be the key to victory by Alex Sakariassen
Hellegaard did not respond to re- duction value for new wells for the first A television blares behind the front door of a khaki-colored house off George peated requests for comment about her year of operation. Increasing that amount Elmer Drive on Missoula’s western fringe. campaign, but Deschamps says he’s seen could relieve property owners who have Andrew Person rings the bell and adjusts her canvassing his neighborhood at least increasingly complained of tax increases, his cap—forest green with a coin-sized three times. “I know that Lyn’s out work- Person says. “No one needs incentive in 173rd Airborne Brigade logo on the front. ing,” he says. “I think that’s important for the Bakken anymore.” Person wouldn’t be the first legislator The door opens and a young man in base- any candidate. They need to look the voter eyeball to eyeball, and our candidate to pursue such a change. Senate Bill 295 ball duds straddles the threshold. sought to end the tax holiday in 2013, to “Hi,” Person says. “My name’s Andrew is doing that.” Person, who served as an aide to for- the tune of an estimated $32 million Person, and I’m stopping by because I’m going to be on your ballot this fall. I’ve mer Sen. Max Baucus and is now a Uni- more annually in revenue to the state. been hearing from a lot of people in the veristy of Montana law student, has made The measure stalled out in the Senate district that they’re sick of all the partisan- personal contact the primary focus of his Taxation Committee due to Republican campaign. He’s not running television opposition. ship in politics these days.” Person mentions The man nods the property tax issue and tells Person this first to a woman in the will be his first time middle of leading a voting. Person tells him Bible study, then to a he doesn’t think either man with a gray goatee party has “a monopoly and white shorts who on good ideas,” that stands on his porch for he’ll work across the a good 20 minutes pickaisle in Helena to reping Person’s brain. That resent the people of conversation meanders House District 96. He from the issue of transtalks about access to ferring federal lands to public lands, property state control—sometaxes and job creation. thing Person points out At the end, Person photo by Cathrine L. Walters his opponent suppasses over a flyer with the slogan “Service Democratic incumbent Andrew Person knocks doors in the race for ports—to whether some House District 96. It’s going to be a “razor close” election, he says, taxpayer funding for first. Politics last.” Person, 35, is the given the complexities of redistricting and the name recognition of public schools should be diverted to private or Democratic incum- his Republican opponent, Lyn Hellegaard. charter institutions— bent in HD 96—formerly HD 98, the boundaries of which ads, nor, he says, is he actively courting again, a plank Person points out is in Hellechanged significantly when the Montana high-paying donors. Most days of the gaard’s platform. By the end of the Legislature adopted its final redistricting week, he starts knocking on doors a little conversation, it’s unclear if Person has anplan in February 2013. Gone is a sizeable before 5 p.m. and doesn’t stop until 8 other convert. But the next three doors chunk of the typically left-leaning North- p.m. He estimates he visits with about 25 promise to cast ballots in his favor; one, a self-professed sportsman with a fishing raft side, replaced by more conservative rural people each night. “I’ve met a lot of people who have in the driveway, points to the paratrooper areas running west to the Ninemile. “It’s almost a toss-up House seat, never met their legislator before,” Person emblem on Person’s hat. “I’m the only member in the House which is unusual for Missoula,” says Mon- says between houses, “which is shocking tana Republican Party Chairman Will De- to me because there are only 6,000 regis- who’s served in Afghanistan,” Person exschamps. This election, he adds, will likely tered voters in this district, 10,000 people plains, adding that he also did a tour in “tell the tale” regarding the long-term ef- total. It’s not hard to get out and meet a Iraq. Not all knocks have resulted in such lot of them if you take the time.” fects of redistricting. Since hitting the pavement in March, civil exchanges for the Democrat. “I’ve The shifting demographics of HD 96 are compounded by the fact that, despite Person says he’s learned a lot from con- had one guy chase me down and kind of his incumbency, Person has never served stituents. For example, he never intended rip up the flyer as I was walking away,” a day in a legislative session. He was to make property taxes a part of his cam- Person says. Person adds that he initially named by the Missoula Board of County paign platform. But when asked, voters got into a heated debate with one voter Commissioners last December to replace overwhelmingly cited it as one of their who identified as a member of the Tea the resigning Rep. Jen Gursky. He’s also primary concerns, prompting Person to Party. The man pressed Person on the isrunning against a familiar name in the add property tax relief to his talking sues, and Person pressed back. After a while, however, the debate mellowed and Missoula area: former City Council- points. One way to bring those taxes down, Person was offered a beer. woman Lyn Hellegaard, a Republican “TV ads,” he says, “don’t break who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Ellie he says, is to end the oil and gas tax holiHill in HD 94 in 2012. All those factors day in Montana. The nearly two-decade- through like this.” add up to what Person calls a “razor old provision taxes oil and natural gas producers just half a percent of the proclose” race. asakariassen@missoulanews.com
[8] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
[news]
Left behind Proposed Whittier sale could leave Head Start without a home by Ted McDermott
but also everything from Missoula OutOn a recent Thursday morning, Loren would be disjointed, all over the place.” Since joining Child Start four years door Cinema screenings to Missoula Skelton, director of Child Start Inc., gives a visitor a tour of Whittier School. His or- ago, Skelton has been concerned about Urban Demonstration Project canning ganization leases the 93-year-old North- the current arrangement. In search of sta- workshops. The schoolyard and playside building from Missoula County bility, he and Child Start’s board of direc- ground are lively with neighborhood kids Public Schools and uses it as the head- tors looked into the idea of purchasing and dogs whenever Head Start’s not in quarters for a federally funded, five- the building from MCPS. That option was session. “If Head Start is unable to stay there,” county Head Start program. Head Start quickly shot down due to doubts about promotes child development and school whether the perennially cash-strapped Oaks says, “then what happens to that site is readiness for 3- and 4-year-olds whose program could afford to buy and maintain of critical importance to the neighborhood.” The land Whittier occupies is zoned families fall at least 100 percent below the such an old building. According to Hatton Littman, for multi-family development, meaning federal poverty line. Passing through Whittier’s well main- MCPS’s director of technology and com- the school building could be razed and the block it occupies tained hallways, Skelton could be filled with apartpoints out Child Start’s ment buildings or homes. administrative offices, the Up to 50 dwelling units health and nutrition ofcould be built on the fice, the family advocacy 50,400-square-foot lot. center, the mental health Oaks says he and the and disabilities offices, NMCDC will work to prethe speech pathologist’s vent that kind of developoffice, the library, the kidment from happening. To friendly bathrooms, the that end, Oaks says the teachers’ offices, the gym, NMCDC would help raise the kitchen and the exfunds for the purchase of pansive schoolyard. He Whittier, if it comes on opens doors to classthe market. Oaks also rooms crowded with says his group will push kids. MCPS to attach covenants “As you can see, we photo by Cathrine L. Walters or deed restrictions to use every inch of this building,” Skelton says. Loren Skelton, director of Child Start Inc., is concerned about a the sale that would reMissoula County Public Schools committee’s recommendation “And we need to.” that the district make the sale of Whittier School, Child Start’s quire it be used for the community benefit. Operating within a headquarters, a “high priority.” So far, the only intertight budget of around $2.5 million, Child Start enrolls 354 qual- munication, similar concerns informed ested buyer to emerge publicly is the ifying students and employs 84 staff mem- the steering committee’s decision to rec- Zootown Arts Community Center, which bers. Though its students, employees and ommend the building be sold. Littman is located nearby on the Northside. facilities are spread across Missoula, Gran- points to findings from the Smart While ZACC director Kia Liszak says the ite, Mineral, Powell and Sanders counties, Schools 2020 plan that estimate it would school would be ideal for the needs of Whittier acts as the nonprofit’s hub and cost $2.3 million just to make the school her growing organization, she also serves more than 200 students directly. useable again for MCPS students; the dis- would prefer to see Whittier remain the Child Start’s future in the former elemen- trict hasn’t operated the building as a home of Head Start. “If Head Start were to campaign to try tary school, however, is very much in school since 1985. With a range of expensive facilities needs across the dis- to stay there, I would be the first supdoubt. In June, the steering committee of trict, and Child Start paying only $1 a porter of that campaign,” Liszak says. Despite the interest in keeping WhitMCPS’s Smart Schools 2020 Strategic Fa- year to rent Whittier, the committee decilities Plan made a number of long-term termined selling the building would tier School a community space, Skelton recommendations about how the district make the most financial sense and would knows it’s not inevitable. “That’s the pie in the sky,” he says of the likelihood Head can improve deteriorating school build- help raise funds for other projects. The possibility that Whittier will be Start will remain. “And it may not happen, ings and accommodate a growing student population. Among the committee’s “high sold to the highest bidder has some in the because it’s business and it’s money and priority” recommendations was for MCPS neighborhood concerned. Bob Oaks, di- the building goes to the highest bidder. to sell Whittier within 1-5 years. As soon rector of the North Missoula Community Probably.” But whatever happens, Skelton says as next April, MCPS’s Board of Trustees Development Corporation, says the site will vote on whether to follow that advice. has been been “a heart of the Northside Head Start will soldier on. “If the building were to disappear, If they do so, Child Start will likely have neighborhood” since 1891, when a school was first built near the corner of Worden that’s not to say Head Start wouldn’t to find a new home. “That would really put us in a bind, Avenue and Howell Street. The current exist,” he says. “It’s just, where would we without this building,” Skelton says, building replaced the original facility in exist?” adding that “it would disrupt services. It 1921 and continues to act as a vital comwouldn’t be this nice flow of services. It munity space, hosting not only Head Start tmcdermott@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [9]
[opinion]
Watch out A cyclist’s simple plea to motorists by Jonathan Thompson
(406) 541-2886
MontanaSmiles.com
Appointments available evenings and Saturdays Southgate Mall (Next to Dillards) • Missoula, Mt Independent dentists since 1983
[10] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
I write with a plea to all motorists out there, including the one who passed me way too close this morning while I was riding my bike and then turned sharply and unexpectedly into a driveway. This nearly caused me to crash into your passenger-side window at a high rate of speed. And that is why I am asking you: Be careful. It’s true that my reaction, flipping you the bird while screaming derogatory things about your mother and your dog, was rude. And yes, I know, cyclists sometimes do stupid things. They—okay, we— might roll through stop signs and ride two abreast on country roads, and sometimes we swerve into traffic to avoid gravel or glass or potholes, or we turn without signaling first. While my words and actions might annoy you or cause a little heartache, it’s nothing compared to the damage you, while piloting that car, can inflict on me with an ill-timed flick of the wheel or moment of inattention. Hit me straight on? I’m dead. Playfully whack me with that giant rearview mirror? I’m in the ditch, seriously injured. That car of yours, two tons of internal combustion-powered steel and glass and plastic, can maim or kill. The evidence is in the numbers. From 1994 to 2012, more than 13,000 cyclists and 90,000 pedestrians were killed on U.S. streets and roads. Another 50,000 cyclists were injured. A 2003 study found that in the United States, a cyclist is 12 times, and a pedestrian 23 times, more likely to be killed on the road than a motorist. And New Mexico, California, Arizona, Colorado and Oregon all have higher cyclist fatality rates than the nation as a whole. Most cycling deaths occur on the rural, high-trafficked roads ubiquitous in the West. Most mornings, I send my two daughters on a two-mile bike ride to school.
Sometimes they groan about the heat, or the cold, but I know that they appreciate the freedom their bikes give them. And I’m happy not to have to climb into a carbon-spewing car and contribute to the morning stop-and-go traffic. Yet every day as they ride toward intersections without stop signs or crosswalks, and streets without adequate bike lanes, those statistics, and my own fear, run through my brain. Car-loving highway engineers and town
“A 2003 study found that in the United States a cyclist is 12 times more likely to be killed on the road than a motorist.” and county officials have already failed them. Now they must rely on motorists for their safety—motorists who are in a hurry or are yapping on a cellphone or are just plain stupid. Forgive me for my lack of confidence. Efforts are in the works to make things better for those of us who get around on foot or bike, though it may be years before they bear fruit. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced a federal initiative to make the nation’s streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians. The program will assess road safety in every state and then provide “multiple re-
sources to help communities build streets that are safer.” They’ll help communities create “road diets,” redesigning streets to better accommodate bikers and walkers. “When used on rural highways that pass through small towns,” says a U.S. Department of Transportation press release, “they (road diets) can reduce crashes by almost half.” While waiting for that to kick in, California, one of the deadliest states for bikers, implemented a law that requires passing motorists to give cyclists three feet or more of space. Twenty-three states already had similar laws, including Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Colorado. Most of the law’s value is probably educational, letting drivers know that it’s dangerous to pass too closely to bicyclists. But I’d say that many car owners aren’t even aware of the rule. And there’s very little enforcement, even when the violation results in an accident. In fact, it’s rare for motorists to be prosecuted and convicted for hitting a cyclist at all. Cyclists must take some responsibility here. We need to abide by the rules of the road and ride defensively, as if we were invisible. The one time I got hit by a car, I was as much to blame as the driver. Still, in 40 percent of fatal bike-car collisions, a car hit the bike from behind. Those bikers, now dead, never even saw it coming. So, motorists, a plea: Pay attention, slow down and remember that, as annoying and gaudy as those Lycra-clad bikers might be, they are dads, moms, daughters and sons. That car you drive is a deadly weapon. Treat it that way. Jonathan Thompson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a senior editor for the magazine, based in Durango, Colo.
SELECT WINE & BEER PAIRINGS PRESENTED WITH EACH COURSE.
EXCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS WITH AWARD-WINNING CHEFS IS PROUD TO PRESENT
ANDREW WILSON RESTAURANT: Carneros Bistro Wine Bar, Sonoma CA
Friday, November 21, 2014
BROOKE WILLIAMSON RESTAURANT: Playa Provisions, Hudson House, The Tripel, Los Angeles CA
The Governor’s Room in the historic Florence Building 111 North Higgins Ave • Missoula Hosted by:
ERIC SKOKAN RESTAURANT: Black Cat Farm Table Bistro, Bramble & Hare, Boulder CO
W
hen you attend the Celebrity Chef Tour dinner you’ll meet some of America’s top culinary talents, enjoy a fantastic dinner, drink some great wines and enjoy authentic Belgian beers. Join us for a night of culinary magic!
ANDY BLANTON RESTAURANT: Café Kandahar, Whitefish MT
TANYA HOLLAND RESTAURANT: Brown Sugar Kitchen and B-Side BBQ, Oakland CA
Reception at 6 PM $150 per person all-inclusive dinner
BETH & SUSAN HIGGINS RESTAURANT: Two Sisters Catering, Missoula MT
Limited tickets available. On sale now at msochef.brownpapertickets.com and at the Missoula Independent.
Special thanks to our sponsors missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [11]
[quirks]
Re-Imagine with Bhavana ADDING TO OUR URBAN BOHEMIAN MIX... CLOTHING HAS ARRIVED!
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Police accused Ryan Mullins, 22, of breaking into a pharmacy in Swansboro, N.C., and stealing a safe containing prescription drugs. He made his getaway by tying a rope around the 100-pound safe and dragging it behind his vehicle for two miles before he passed a police cruiser. The officer noticed the safe being dragged and pulled him over. (New Bern’s WCTI-TV)
clothing ~ home decor ~ life * FREE PEOPLE * * JOHNNY WAS COLLECTION * * BIYA * * LOTTA STENNSON * * INHABIT CASHMERE * * GRAYLING JEWELRY * * SABRINA TACH * FIND US:
Around the Corner from Dana Gallery 101 E. Broadway, Downtown Missoula
406.926.2260 Monday-Saturday 10 am - 6 pm, Sunday 11 am - 4 pm www.bhavanahome.com
Robert D. Haught Jr., 42, aroused police interest by leaving an unattended van running in a handicapped parking space at a shopping mall in Burlington, Mass. An officer ran the license plate and learned it belonged to a different vehicle. As the officer approached the vehicle, Haught got in and drove off, leading police on a high-speed chase. He rammed two cruisers that tried to stop him and hit two other vehicles before abandoning the van. Police arrested him and found evidence in the van suggesting he was involved in a credit card fraud operation. Police charged Haught with multiple violations, including attempted murder, but not unauthorized use of a handicapped parking space. (Boston’s WCVB-TV) MUSIC HATH CHARMS – Kyra Kopestonsky said she was stalked by a mountain lion while hiking alone in Placerville, Colo., before she figured out how to shake it. “I don’t know why, I just started singing opera really loud,” Kopestonsky said, noting it got as close as 8 feet. “It kind of put its ears down and just kept looking at me, and it sort of backed away.” (Denver’s KUSA-TV) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – British baker Shane Thompson, 22, damaged a computer-operated sausage roll machine by head-butting it after it stopped working properly. “He admits he became frustrated with the equipment,” defending solicitor Robert Vining told a Yorkshire magistrates court, which ordered Thompson to pay $1,125 towards the cost of repairing the $42,000 machine. (Britain’s York Press) Brothers Anthony Kelly and Ted Kelly injured each other with sticks when they got into a fight after Anthony accused Ted of stealing okra from his garden in Spartanburg, S.C. Police who arrested the pair said they were too intoxicated to give written statements. (Greenville’s WHNS-TV) VEGETARIANS REJOICE – Tick bites are causing victims to become allergic to beef, as well as pork, venison, rabbit and some dairy products. The culprit, researchers said, is the Lone Star tick, which has spread throughout the South and the eastern half of the United States. Its bite transmits a sugar, called alpha-gal, that triggers an immune-system response that sets the stage for a severe allergic reaction the next time the person eats red meat, which contains the same sugar. In some cases, eating a burger or a steak has hospitalized people. Dr. Erin McGintee, an allergy specialist on New York’s Long Island, has seen nearly 200 cases in the past three years and said few patients seem aware of the risk. “Why would someone think they’re allergic to meat when they’ve been eating it their whole life?” she said. (Associated Press) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Philadelphia police said a man entered a convenience store, waited in line, took a banana from the counter next to the cash register, stuck it in his sweatshirt pocket to simulate a gun and demanded cash and cigarettes from the clerk. Surveillance video of the incident shows the robber escaping on a bicycle. (Associated Press) Malissa Robert, 18, admitted burning a 20-year-old woman on the left buttock and lower back with a lit cigarette and hitting her on the right buttock with a cooking spatula, according to police in Westfield, Mass. The victim was passed out at the time of the attack. (Springfield’s The Republican) Jimmy Morgan Jr. called police to report someone had broken into his home in Wichita Falls, Texas, and that he had stabbed the intruder with a spear. “I don’t have a firearm, so I have a short spear, very quick, very agile and very deadly,” Morgan said after police arrested Thomas McGowan, 25, who suffered hand and shoulder injuries. (Wichita Falls’s KFDX-TV) NOTHING TO SEE HERE – Carl Cannova invented a portable screening device that can be set up at accident scenes to prevent passing motorists from rubbernecking. The SRN 1000 privacy, safety and security barrier system comprises a 6-by-12-foot weather-resistant screen and three folding tripods that fit in a portable bag. Cannova said he has sold more than 400 of the $2,299 SRN 1000s to law enforcement agencies, medical coroners, hospitals, airports, hotels and even filmmakers to screen scenes from view. “It’s easy to put up, easy to put away,” Sarasota, Fla., Police Chief Bernadette DiPino said. “You can’t see anything. You can’t begin to pay attention to what’s going on.” (Tampa-St. Petersburg’s WTSP-TV) When Florida’s Department of Transportation set up reversible express lanes on a 9.5-mile stretch of Interstate 595 in Fort Lauderdale in March, it installed 34 warning gates and five barriers intended to keep motorists from entering in the wrong direction. Each entrance has signs warning drivers to keep out if the lanes are closed. In the first five months, drivers plowed into the gates 105 times. “It sounds like maybe people aren’t paying attention and veering to the left a bit and smacking into the gates,” Highway Patrol Sgt. Mark Wysocky said. The warning gates cost $3,000 to replace; the barrier gates, $7,000. (South Florida Sun Sentinel) RETURN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE – Surveillance cameras at a home in Fairview, Ore., showed a woman stealing footstools from the front porch. (Portland’s KPTV-TV) HARD LESSON TO LEARN – Christina Jahnz admitted she was texting and driving when she hit a guardrail pole that went through the front of her pickup truck and pierced her thigh and buttocks. Firefighters in Elizabeth, Colo., had to saw off the front and back ends of the pole to get the woman out of the vehicle before they could rush her to the hospital to have the rest of it removed. She was released after four days and is expected to make a full recovery. “I’m truly a miracle,” she said. “They said if it had gone just a little bit the other way, I would have bled out.” (Denver’s KUSA-TV)
MISSOULA NORTH 721-1770
MISSOULA SOUTH 721-0888
HAMILTON 363-3884
STEVENSVILLE 777-4667
POLSON 888-1099
[12] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
RONAN 676-7800
BAN THE BAN – Mayor Kent Guinn of Ocala, Fla., wants the city council to repeal a ban on saggy pants on city property, even though he signed it into law. He said he meant to veto it, but there were too many papers on his desk, and he mistakenly approved it. (Orlando’s News 13)
fall into style at
612 S Higgins Ave, Misoula, MT 59801 : (406) 317-1074 : www.lastellablu.com
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [13]
M
issoula Mayor John Engen kicked off the press conference with his characteristic good humor. “Oh, no pictures, please,” he quipped as nine journalists filed into his City Hall office and photographers and camera operators jockeyed for a spot. The one-liners proved helpful in diffusing what might otherwise be a difficult press conference. Engen invited the press to meet with him to discuss the future of Missoula’s water supply. Earlier that morning, Sept. 19, he learned via email from Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. that the company intends to purchase Missoula’s Mountain Water Company and its parent company, Park Water, from the Carlyle Group. Engen called out Carlyle’s arrogance in pursuing the sale considering the utility is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the city. “That was the most striking thing to me today,” Engen said. In 2011, the Carlyle Group, which manages more than $200 billion in assets, bought Park Water from longtime owner Sam Wheeler. The deal set the stage for a bitter court battle between the city of Missoula and a multinational investment firm with very deep pockets. Earlier this year, Missoula filed a lawsuit seeking to forcibly acquire Mountain Water through its power of eminent domain. The city argues in court filings that Carlyle promised Missoula first dibs to purchase Mountain Water when it again went on the selling block. In exchange, the city supported the deal with Carlyle, helping pave the way for regulatory approval. Missoula maintains that, as evidenced by its two declined offers to buy the utility, Carlyle reneged on the agreement, pulling, as city attorneys call it in legal filings, a “classic bait and switch.” While a poll conducted by Missoula legal counsel found 70 percent of residents want the city to own Mountain Water, not everyone believes it should engage in an expensive legal dispute to get it. Some, including Missoula City Councilman Adam Hertz, who ran for office on a platform of fiscal conservatism, question the financial prudence of picking a legal fight with a company that has seemingly endless resources. “Just as I’ve said from the get-go, I think that we’re just pouring good money down the drain,” Hertz says. Even before Algonquin complicated an already snarled lawsuit with its $327 million bid for Park Water, legal expenses associated with the city’s fight for its water supply topped $500,000—or more than $100,000 above the city’s anticipated total costs. The case still isn’t set for trial for another six months. For Hertz and others who have spoken out in recent months, the Mountain Water sale represents government at its worst—reckless spending to the detriment of private
industry and local taxpayers. Those critics also point out that Engen’s spending isn’t a new development: Between 2005 and 2015, city taxes have increased 44 percent (see chart on page 15). “There’s no doubt the budget has ballooned since he’s been the mayor,” Hertz says. While the Mountain Water fight represents the worst of government for Hertz, it illustrates the best to Engen. He believes elected leaders serve as community stewards. He adds that neither Carlyle Group nor Algonquin have local interests at heart. “We’re the best buyer,” he says, “because we don’t have a profit motive.” Engen, now in his third term, is used to hearing criticism and, in this case, he cuts straight to the main issue: an ideological difference over property taxes. “I believe that my view reflects the majority view of what taxes are in Missoula and, I think, maybe around the country,” he says. “But there is clearly another view that is held very strongly, that there are some things we ought to be in this together on, but not many. And maybe that’s the fundamental rub. I think there’s more that we should be in on together.” But how much more can Missoula afford?
••• Missoula County Delinquent Tax Clerk Annie Cathey sees firsthand how taxes impact people. From her nook inside the first floor of the Missoula County Courthouse, the deputy treasurer counsels locals who are behind on their tax bills. She advises them on tax law, such as when penalties will be applied to their outstanding bills and how best to avoid them. The people she serves are often upset, she says. Periodically they yell. Sometimes they cry. “Unfortunately, being in this position,” Cathey says, “I’m on the negative end of all of it.” Throughout history, tax collectors and the leaders who hire them have been the subject of mistrust, animosity and worse. The earliest records of a central tax system date back more than 6,000 years and were found in Lagash, near the Tigris River in modern-day Iraq. Notably, it was “high and multifarious taxes” that prompted Lagashites to oust their leaders in 2350 B.C., according to Sumerian history expert Samuel Noah Kramer. As for Cathey, she collects property assessments on behalf of the city, county and state. Between 2005 and 2013, countywide delinquencies increased from $823,518 to more than $5 million.
[14] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
Large landowners account for a significant portion email to council. Harstad said she’s working three jobs of the problem. Among them are M2Green, which owes just to stay afloat. “Why do you insist on tapping every the county hundreds of thousands of dollars on the de- last dime out of the city taxpayers?” Harstad asked. “You funct Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. site, and bankrupt must do what the rest of us do, live within your means.” Hertz says his problem with the city’s safety district developer Scott Cooney, whose plans for Bonner didn’t play out according to plan. While those landowners make up the bulk of the outstanding bills, Cathey says the “It’s a value message. toughest cases to handle involve You know, Ronald Reagan city and county residents simply struggling to make ends meet. did a great job of convincing “Most of the people I hear from are the elderly,” she says. people that taxes are evil Every time there’s a bond issue slated to go before voters and that government is bad for approval, or a proposal to and that this is just a raise taxes, Cathey says she gets an earful from fed-up citizens. mechanism for wasteful When folks vent, Cathey tells them, “If you need to yell and people to transfer wealth scream at me, yell and scream at me within reason.” from the wealthy to the She heard from residents lazy poor—and it’s not. It’s this spring when the city moved to create a Public Safety & Justice the way we work together.” District, which would have increased taxes on a home valued —Mayor John Engen at $250,000 by $11 in 2015 and $24 in 2016. It failed when property owners representing more than 16 percent of privately held city land value protested, surpassing the 10-percent thresh- proposal is exemplified by the uncapped growth of two similar special funding sources created in 2010. old required by law to table the issue. One of those funding sources, Roads District 1, as Missoula resident Marg Harstad summed up what was on the minds of many district opponents in a June it’s called, collected $300,000 in tax-generated revenue
Photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Missoula’s “Roads District 1” budget will generate more than $1.27 million in tax-generated revenue in 2015, up from $300,000 in 2011. Much of the revenue will be used to repair and build sidewalks.
in its first year to improve and maintain local infrastructure. In 2015, it’s budgeted to take in more than $1.27 million. “Historically what they’ve done with (the special districts) is they’ve taken existing expenditures, transferred them into special districts and then that frees up money in the general fund,” Hertz says. Hertz sees the districts as a fiscally irresponsible way to evade a tax cap imposed by the Montana Legislature in 1987. The cap limits revenue increases into municipal general funds to roughly half the annual rate of inflation.
“I mean, certainly we can stay within that cap without the special districts,” Hertz says. “But we might not be able to pay for things like Mountain Water condemnation.” The fight over Mountain Water isn’t the only expense Missoula should do away with, Hertz says. He rattles off a list of costly city endeavors, including the municipal cemetery, which loses some $500,000 annually, and the city’s sidewalk investment. “I just don’t know that every single street throughout the entire city needs a sidewalk on both sides of the street.
It just seems sort of obsessive compulsive about making like the perfect little Pleasantville,” Hertz says. Another expenditure Hertz takes issue with is the city’s generous health care plan. The city of Missoula contributes $767 monthly for each enrolled employee, while staffers pay $21.75. The cost of providing health care to 276 city staffers—not including fire or police—is slated to cost $2.54 million in 2015. “We’re even way out of line with the average there,” Hertz says. As council’s lone conservative, Hertz says he knows
to pick his battles carefully. One that he took on this spring during discussions of the 2015 budget was funding for the Missoula City Band, which this summer put on nine shows in Bonner Park. Hertz says the band asks the city for a $5,880 handout every year, yet does no independent fundraising. “They make essentially no attempt at making money—I mean they pass a hat at city concerts, but they don’t do any real fundraising,” Hertz says. The band’s request may seem minimal, but Hertz believes it represents yet another example of city ad-
TOTAL PROPERTY TAX + DISTRICT ASSESSMENT
$29 Million $27 Million
CITY OF MISSOULA TAX HISTORY
$25 Million $23 Million $21 Million $19 Million $17 Million $15 Million
SOURCE: CITY OF MISSOULA
FY06
FY07
FY08
$18,369,060
$19,966,850
$21,454,436
FY09
FY10
FY11
FY12
$22,914,175 $23,225,564
$24,461,021
$25,661,698
FY13
FY14
$26,921,728 $27,958,298
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [15]
Photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Mayor John Engen defends city taxes as “a good value” for Missoula residents, noting the total cost amounts to less than the cost of cable television.
ministrators nickel-and-diming property owners into disproportionately high tax bills. “It’s just so frustrating that that’s kind of the mentality of the way the city spends money,” he says.
••• For someone constantly under fire for how he manages the city, Mayor Engen’s public tone rarely wavers from light and conversational. He sounds almost like a radio announcer when he addresses Missoula City Council meetings, patiently thanking those who comment, even if they’re aggressively questioning his policies. But when the mayor talks about Mountain Water, his demeanor changes to a rare show of anger. He says Carlyle double-crossed the city. The equity firm told him it doesn’t flip companies, but that’s exactly what it’s doing. In 2011, Carlyle purchased Park Water, including Mountain Water and two California utilities, for $102 million. Three years later, it’s selling for more than three times that amount. “Carlyle has said that they don’t flip. They don’t buy and sell. Carlyle has said that pretty repeatedly until they started to buy and sell,” Engen said during his Sept. 19 press conference. “This company was for sale the day Carlyle bought it.” As Engen notes, Mountain Water sends roughly $2 million a year to Park Water in California for administrative and overhead costs. Engen says that, despite city attorneys sifting through piles of documentation from Carlyle, they can’t figure out where the millions are going. “We still don’t know what the hell that money is being spent on,” he said in front of council on Sept. 17. “That’s part of what’s wrong here.” The city predicts its Mountain Water acquisition expenses, in addition to legal fees, which had run more than $500,000 as of press time, will cost $4 million. Even in light of the mounting bills, Engen believes the fight is worthwhile. If Missoula came to own the water company, Engen says, it would then collect the
millions now being sent to California. That would enable the city to recoup the legal and acquisition costs, as well as reinvest back into Mountain Water. “That money will go back into the system,” Engen says, “and go back to making sure that we don’t have to raise rates at the same rate that the for-profit water utility would.” As Engen believes the Mountain Water fight will pay off, he also sees his annual budgets as smart investments. On a per capita basis, locals pay less for the range of municipal offerings than other Montana cities,
City Councilman Adam Hertz believes city spending has gotten out of control under Engen’s administration. “There’s no doubt the budget has ballooned since he’s been the mayor,” Hertz says.
ple solution—vote him out. Absent that, Engen believes a majority of residents agree with how he’s managed the budget and repeats a refrain that he often uses when working to put the issue in context. “The fact is I give you police service and fire service and streets and a long list of other things that make our life together here collectively work for less than you pay for cable,” he says. “It’s a value message. You know, Ronald Reagan did a great job of convincing people that taxes are evil and that government is bad and that this is just a mechanism for wasteful people to
In 2015, MPD’s personnel costs will have increased by 40 percent since 2007. Next year, $13.179 million is budgeted to employ 129 full-time department staffers. Engen acknowledges MPD is larger and better paid than when he first took office. That’s by design, he says. Back in 2006, MPD officers were some of the lowest paid in the state. That led to Missoula footing the bill for training new officers who would then leave the city for better-paying positions in other communities. As for the public safety district, Engen still believes it’s a priority. When making the
REVENUE PER CAPITA for FY 2014 revenues (budgeted)
$500
$400
$300
SOURCE: MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND CITY OF MISSOULA
Missoula
Kalispell
Bozeman
Helena
Great Falls
Billings
$419
$459
$483
$430
$297
$438
Engen says, pointing to a budget comparison compiled by city staff that divides property tax by population. That data shows Missoula residents paying $419 a year compared to Kalispell, which came in at $459, and Bozeman at $483. Great Falls tallies the lowest tax per capita at $297. “Per capita, we’re in great shape,” Engen says. When rebuffing criticisms brought forward by Hertz and others, Engen notes that he’s been reelected twice. If people are unhappy with his policies, he says there’s a sim-
[16] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
transfer wealth from the wealthy to the lazy poor—and it’s not. It’s the way we work together.” The city’s 2015 budget calls for $52.05 million in general fund expenditures. Property taxes are slated to contribute $29 million to the pot. Among the largest general fund expenses is law enforcement. In 2007, the Missoula Police Department spent $9.358 million to employ 125.5 full-time employees. That number includes benefits such as health insurance.
case for the district last winter, city administrators, including MPD Chief Mike Brady, said it would help pay for the mounting costs of complying with U.S. Department of Justice mandates stemming from MPD’s alleged mishandling of sexual assault investigations. The money was also slated to help pay for a new $5.2 million MPD evidence storage warehouse and law enforcement training center. Engen says he intends to ask council next year to support putting the district before voters to decide for themselves if it should be funded.
Overall, Engen defends special districts as a necessity, one imposed on city officials by the state legislature. When the legislature capped general fund revenue, it forced municipal leaders to get creative. “We’ve got one artificial cap that’s imposed by a legislature that is more than happy—or has been in some cases, our delegation excluded—more than happy to push the obligation for paying stuff down to the local government level, while not taking the responsibility at the state level,” Engen says. In the 2015 budget, Engen’s administration itemizes what the city intends to do with the increased funding into Roads District 1. A chunk of the $1.27 million will help offset the rising cost of asphalt, which jumped 91 percent between 2002 and 2014. The Missoula Roads Department’s asphalt budget, meanwhile, only increased by 19 percent, to $137,464, during the same period. The roads district is also slated to pay for crack sealing, which helps extend the life of city streets, as well as painting bike lanes and repairing street lights. There will be 300 more hours of sidewalk grinding performed in 2015 than this year. Sidewalk grinding evens out cracked walkways, decreasing the odds of a trip and fall, which the city could be held legally liable for. (A woman in March filed suit against Missoula after she tripped on an elevated portion of pavement in the Caras Park parking lot and, according to her lawsuit, fractured her left knee in several places.) Sidewalks, too, are getting a significant boost from the roads district. The city’s allocated $600,000 to replace 8.5 miles of sidewalk and pave 16.6 miles more. Engen stands by his budget, but he’s not immune to criticism that tax increases authorized under his watch are contributing to individual financial hardships. “I’m very sensitive to my role in that,” he says. “The challenge becomes understanding whether those examples are real or anecdotal.” When he hears from constituents struggling to meet their financial obligation to the city, Engen refers them to the Montana Department of Revenue Property Tax Assistance Program, which provides an abatement mechanism for low-income people.
What about Missoula County taxes?
I
t’s tough to talk about Missoula city taxes without also addressing those imposed by the county. There’s a significant amount of overlap between the two—and similar ideological differences at play. Those differences are set to intensify in November when voters across the county, including city residents, will be asked to support a $42 million Parks and Trails Bond. If passed, the measure would tack $37 onto the annual property tax bill of a home valued at $200,000. The proposal calls for dedicating $38 million toward completion of Fort Missoula Regional Park, which is owned by the county and city. Park planners envision a sprawling recreational complex complete with nine multi-use recreation fields, lighted softball fields, pickleball courts, a bocce ball area, a dog park, ponds and playgrounds, among other amenities. From the $42 million, $1 million would be set aside to upgrade and maintain Missoula city park playgrounds; $3 million would fund creation of a countywide trails program. Bond supporters say that creating new soccer and softball fields at Fort Missoula will draw regional tournaments and serve as a significant economic driver. According to county-compiled data, tourism from weekend sports tournaments generate as
much as $1 million to the local economy, as visitors rent hotel rooms, eat and shop. After hearing from supporters, including the Missoula City Council and a cadre of local outdoor enthusiasts, the Missoula Board of County Commissioners unanimously agreed to place the bond on the 2014 ballot. Missoula Mayor John Engen supports the measure. When council voted on the bond in June, specifically asking commissioners to put it on the ballot, Missoula City Councilman Adam Hertz cast the lone “no” vote. Hertz says he voted against the Fort Missoula bond because he remains uncertain about how the expense would square with other countywide bond requests on the horizon, such as one from the Missoula County Public School District, which has said it intends to ask the public for additional financial support in coming months. “We need a more comprehensive look at community priorities,” Hertz says. Like city taxes, county taxes have seen a steady increase in recent years. County taxes, which are approved by the Missoula Board of County Commissioners, will go up by 4.8 percent in 2015. Since 2005, the county has raised taxes at an average annual rate of 2.2 percent, for a total of 21.7 percent. Jessica Mayrer
Photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Fundamentally, Engen believes that community members are stronger when they’re united by government and common goals. Patrick Barkey, director of the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, notes there’s another, more tangible payoff. Taxes that maintain and improve community amenities such as schools, police, fire and parks add value to real estate prices. To test the theory of whether tax rates in Missoula are a good investment, Barkey says to look at real estate value. “Missoula’s home prices are among the highest in the state,” he says.
••• Mayor Engen says one way to ease pressure on property owners is to find a different way to pay for things. He aims to do that during the 2015 state legislative session, which convenes in January.
As it stands, Montana municipalities aren’t authorized to create what’s called a “local option sales tax,” which would allow city and county leaders to tack taxes on specific goods, such as rental cars and liquor. Engen notes that roughly 3 million tourists visit Missoula annually, using roads, sidewalks and emergency services. But, he adds, “they’re not paying the freight … Glad to have them all day long. I think they ought to pay a share. And that’s all the local option asks them to do.” If the legislature were to remove legal prohibitions, Engen would then ask local voters to support the funding mechanism. “All we’re asking the legislature is, ‘Let me ask voters whether they agree with me,’” Engen says. Engen isn’t alone with his support of the local option. The Montana League of Cities and Towns has for years lobbied for the local
option sales tax, with lawmakers shooting down a similar effort in 2009. Gary Buchanan, who led the citizen effort to limit property taxes in 1986, also supports the local option sales tax. “I think the legislature unnecessarily creates a problem there,” says Buchanan, a Billings stockbroker who in the early 1980s served as the state’s first commerce director. As for Hertz, he points to historical opposition to the local option sales tax, from both citizens and the legislature, when predicting the proposal’s failure. That said, he personally believes taxing tourists in Missoula to help alleviate the local burden is a good idea. “A sales tax makes sense to me,” Hertz says. That means, on at least one tax issue, there’s agreement between Engen’s administration and fiscal conservatives. It’s a start. jmayrer@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [17]
[arts]
Letting it all hang out Amanda Browder’s fabric installations take contemporary art into the neighborhood by Erika Fredrickson Photo courtesy of Lauren Silberman
C
hicago drains of color in the winter. The industrial precincts become like sepia-toned photographs of brown brick apartments and icy metal Metro tracks. No wonder Chicago musicians such as Muddy Waters dressed up traditional blues with a more raucous flavor—they needed an antidote to the bleak landscape. In January 2006, about a century after Chicago blues was invented, artist and Missoula native Amanda Browder found herself living in the Windy City and looking for a similar remedy for winter doldrums. She had with her five years worth of colorful fabrics—green stripes, hot pink, sunny yellow—which she sewed together into a 35foot-long piece and draped from the third-story window of her building onto the sidewalk below, like a patchwork waterfall. She called it “Rapunzel.” “I told people about it and we had a mini art opening in my house,” Browder says. “And it became this conversation piece—this thing that just happened. People who were walking past—neighbors, kids going to school—were totally freaked out by it because it was this big surprise. I liked that a quiet installation could create such a hubbub in the neighborhood.” Browder has always been the kind of artist who wouldn’t scoff at contemporary art made for a neighborhood audience. In the mid-1990s, she and fellow cellist Helen Belangie would dress up in horned-rim glasses and chicken beaks to play goofy songs as The Cello Chickens for small Missoula crowds. She also played bass for Chicks with Chainsaws, a favorite sloppy punk band that frequented Missoula rock club Jay’s Upstairs. Her artwork, even as a sculpture undergrad at Beloit College in Wisconsin, was both playful and thoughtful. For one
of her projects at the college she concocted a hoax: a bigtime New York artist was going to show his work at the school. At least two local newspapers printed up press releases showcasing the event. In the end, it was her work on display; the NYC artist nonexistent. The experiment was part of an exploration about the hype surrounding “famous” artists, the way marketing can sometimes skew how art is perceived and limit who ends up appreciating it. “It got me thinking about who the audience is,” she says. “And it gave me an appreciation for the everyday space.” Since “Rapunzel,” Browder has created several of what she calls “architectural interventions”—fabric installations that cover buildings. A few years ago, after working as a professor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, she moved to Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York, not knowing a soul. She started talking with people in her neighborhood, telling them about a “crazy” fabric installation she wanted to do on the block. People were interested. Volunteers donated fabric and helped her sew it together. The North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition helped sponsor the project and a nearby landlord offered his building as the canvas. The installation, called “Future Phenomenon,” was up for two days and the neighborhood threw a party. But even after the piece came down, Browder says people continued to talk about it. For her, it was an equally meaningful experience. “It’s not the kind of project where you’re sitting in the studio making work,” she says. “You have to go out and talk to people. I liked that even people from the neighborhood who would walk past this building every day all of a sudden were stopping and talking to each
[18] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
other and pointing at it. And with these installations, the idea is that when the project’s finished they could look up and say, ‘I helped make that.’ ‘That’s my fabric.’ ‘I sewed that section.’ And they feel that empowerment.” After “Future Phenomenon,” Browder created other volunteer-assisted pieces, including “Good Morning!” in an old neighborhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and “Hello Niagara!” for the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn. This past summer Browder was commissioned to make her biggest piece yet, called “Magic Chromacity,“ to cover a new cultural corridor on the University of Alabama campus. For that one, she was flooded with volunteers from women’s sewing groups. “They were so proud of it afterward,” she says. “It’s an Amanda Browder design with me helping out, but all the people who come together are the ones who make it site-specific to that location.” Browder’s designs are carefully constructed to work with the architecture of the building. She was briefly a math major in undergrad before jumping into art, and she uses her geometry skills and a modeling program called Sketch Up to realize her visions. Once the design is done, Browder can provide easy instructions for volunteer sewers (even newbies) to work on sections of the piece—and there’s room for error since the installations are so large-scale and the actual stitching goes relatively unseen. The idea behind Browder’s fabric art isn’t just about beautifying dull spaces. It’s about understanding scale and how it affects human perception. “Why I make my work has to do with growing up in Missoula,” she says. “We have such a comfortable connection to the world of scale, being next to mountains.
In the city you’re enveloped by buildings and people and everything has been hand-built and you lose sight of the bigness of the Earth.” Browder returns to Missoula this week to showcase her fabric art for the first time in her hometown. (Though she did make a fabric installation of rock-and-roll T-shirts for Missoula’s Total Fest music festival two years ago.) For First Friday, she’ll drape “Rapunzel” onto the Missoula Mercantile building. On Oct. 16, the Montana Museum of Art and Culture will host End of the Infinite, which includes “Good Morning!” and “Future Phenomenon” on the PARTV Center, plus an inside installation, “Prism/Livin/Room,” at the Meloy Gallery. Because of weather concerns, the outdoor works will hang only at select times until January. But that’s okay—the fleetingness of the exhibitions have always been a part of Browder’s process. “I like the idea that people will have walked past a building for 20 years and had no idea it existed or cared,” she says. “And then to put something dramatic on it for just a couple of days is really awesome. When it’s gone, the building’s still there but it seems different—it becomes charged. I’m hoping these bright, colorful pieces will energize the buildings [in Missoula], too, even after the pieces are gone.” Amanda Browder’s “Rapunzel” can be seen on the Missoula Mercantile Fri., Oct. 3. On Thu., Oct. 16, MMAC hosts End of the Infinite, with an artist talk at 5 PM and a reception. The exhibit runs through Jan. 10, 2015. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[music]
Barn burner Magpies’ Tornado builds power
Magpies
Like all good-hearted people, I want my rock to be as noisy as possible. Ideally, I would hear only waves of guitars breaking over drums until the air was filled with a fine mist that used to be my face. The bitter irony is that’s impossible—a cathartic explosion of sound only works if you get pent-up first. Trying to bring the noise without penning anybody is like a comedy routine that’s all punchlines. Tornado, the new LP from Missoula’s Magpies, is at its most exhilarating in chaotic bursts of noise, but it’s the setups that hold it together. The album’s opener, “Parties Unknown Until Now,” compresses roaring guitar and Jamie Rogers’ urgent drumming into
Photo courtesy of Amy Donovan
a tight structure, creating a laid-back intensity reminiscent of late-1990s Yo La Tengo. As Tornado progresses, though, it evokes sounds farther west. The dual chorus and emotional intensity of “Barn Burner” capture the defiant energy of Sleater-Kinney, as does Samantha Pollington’s vocal phrasing. Something ineffable ties together these influences, though—a thread running through the album that cannot be ignored even as it eludes attribution. It is Magpies’ own sound, subtle and persistent, undergirding the crafted noise rock of one of Missoula’s best bands. (Dan Brooks) Mag pies play a release show at the Real Lounge Fri., Oct. 3, at 9 PM with MASS FM and Boys. Free.
Taarka Taarka falls somewhere between mainstream folk and Eastern European tavern music. The style is almost mellow enough to sip cocktails over in a dark little bar, but it’s got a raucousness that invites a little improvisational adventure. This isn’t girls-night-out music, or a soundtrack for making a swanky “Mad Men” business deal. No, it’s a kissing-a-stranger-in-arainy-alley kind of a deal. It’s also a bit jam-band-ish— the noodling solos and instrumental interludes fit right in with other bands from Colorado’s bluegrass scene. I can forgive the jamming because it doesn’t linger for too long and it’s thrown together with a little soul, plus slapping upright bass and a whirling fiddle that will tug at the ears of Devil Makes Three and Gogol Bordello fans.
The band’s most recent album, 2012’s Adventures in Vagabondia, fits the gypsy-jazz narrative with songs about wandering and swimming in the Milky Way and jumping off the ledge—not to your death but, like a bird, into flight. You can find threads of blues and Irish jigs and drum-heavy space-rock. It’s good, but I much prefer the band’s 2004 instrumental Even Odd Bird, which captures the feeling of brushing off obligations and following your bliss better than words could ever do it justice. (Erika Fredrickson) Taarka plays Missoula Zoograss at Stage 112 Sat., Oct. 4. Missoula Zoograss runs Fri., Oct. 3, through Sat., Oct. 4, at Monk’s Bar and Stage 112. $10 for full weekend. Visit the Missoula Zoograss Facebook page for more info and tickets.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues I got into Bonnie “Prince” Billy around 2008, when his vulnerable, humorless folk songs captured my sense that a very important person had broken up with me. Billy was an undeniably talented artist whose songs took big risks. It’s just that the payoff was always to picture him living in a shed and crying on a broken ukelele. I was therefore pleasantly surprised to hear pedal steel guitar on the opening track of his most recent release, Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues. As that title suggests, high serious continues to reign. But you can’t have pedal steel guitar without irony, and you can’t
have irony without a sense of humor about yourself. Sure enough, Singer’s Grave can be upbeat and even cheeky. With its perky banjo and possibly unreliable narrator, “We Are Unhappy” finds our boy pushing against the limits of the abject. Maybe, to paraphrase Furry Lewis, Billy has just been down so long it sounds like up to me. But maybe a ray of sunlight is penetrating the solemn atmosphere that has made his last decade’s work a cloudy afternoon. You can’t dread the coming storm forever without a little lightning—or even, heaven forfend, a little lightening. (Dan Brooks)
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [19]
[art]
Shutter to think The man beyond the advertisements by Melissa Mylchreest
“Ella in Carrara” is by Canon-sponsored photographer Parish Kohanim, who comes to Missoula this week to share behind-the-scenes anecdotes about working in the commercial photography world.
I wouldn’t blame Parish Kohanim if he had a big ego. After all, the photographer has shot images for the likes of Coca-Cola, IBM, Fossil, Hanes and DeBeers. His work regularly shows up in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Forbes, Time and Newsweek. For the past 20 years he’s been honored as one of Canon’s Explorers of Light, a designation held by only the top 55 photographers worldwide. And yet, although he’s made a wildly successful career as a commercial photographer, he has managed to maintain a genuine sense of humility. “A lot of photographers do workshops and sell their products, and I don’t really push for that, because I think sharing is more important than anything,” Kohanim says. “It’s just priceless.” He views photography and lecturing about image-making as the perfect way to “meet people— interesting people—and gather friends from all different walks of life.” More than anything, though, Kohanim seems to have maintained throughout his career a deep devotion to aesthetics and a sense of awe at the world around him. “Focusing on beauty, it centers me, it enables me to live a better life,” Kohanim says. “What photography has enabled us to do is to escape the incessant thinking and all the clutter and noise that the world has brought to us. When we’re creating and doing photography, we’re able to escape that.” These are not the motivations I expect from someone so entrenched in the hectic, high-speed world of commercial photography. Somehow, “working for Coca-Cola” and “finding beauty inherent in the world” just don’t seem to go hand-in-hand. But, while he admits he still takes commercial jobs to pay the bills, Kohanim much prefers to delve into the world of fine art. “I think it’s that love for image-making, and love of photography, that are really important. It’s about being focused and passionate and spiritual.” Kohanim is well-known for his stunning portrai-
[20] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
ture, and his images are full of gorgeous people made even more so by elaborate costumes, vivid colors and artistic lighting. Through his lens, the human body becomes a malleable prop: In one, a nude is balanced precariously atop an enormous, glowing sphere. In another, a woman poses in period dress before a pastoral backdrop, looking every bit like an 18th century painting. Even in process, Kohanim is dedicated to aesthetics: While he does plenty of digital work, he still also develops, prints and hand-tints black-and-white photos in the darkroom. He also enjoys shooting landscapes, and is quick to note that there is no better place for such things than here in Montana. “I think it’s one of the most beautiful states in this country,” he says. And, just as he finds inspiration in a face, a flower, or the human form, he finds equal motivation in our state’s mountains, night skies and cloudscapes. “That’s the thing with places like Montana: They really connect you to a source of energy, the landscape energizes you,” he says. “Often we’re just too busy, we’re buried with our heads in our computers, but then when you get out there, you see the bigger picture, you see what’s more important than anything else.” While the Atlanta-based artist will be coming to Missoula largely to speak as part of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s annual evening lecture series, he says he has no intention of wasting a trip. He plans to stay for several extra days. “You live in heaven, in paradise,” he says. “Yes, I’m going to bring my camera—I mean, how could you come to Montana and not bring your camera?” The Rocky Mountain School of Photography presents Parish Kohanim, who gives a public lecture at the UC Theater on UM’s campus Thu., Oct. 9, at 7 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com
[film]
Spy v. spy Vicious honesty pervades Hoffman’s last role by Molly Laich
Smoking gun.
Here’s a tightly wound, smart spy thriller set in Hamburg, Germany, where the scenery always looks cold and sterile and people are still allowed to smoke in bars. German intelligence officer Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman) heads a small, off-the-grid intelligence operation designed to root out terrorists. He’s a shrewd, intelligent man who utilizes patience and diplomacy when taking down a target, but pretty soon U.S. agencies are involved and so never mind those virtues. A Most Wanted Man explores the intricacies of fighting the war on terror and everything that can go wrong when agendas compete for the final word. Gunther’s investigation focuses on a part-Chechin, part-Russian Muslim immigrant named Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) who’s escaped from a Russian prison and now seeks asylum in Germany. He’s the beneficiary of a large sum of money attained through nefarious means by Issa’s father, who was most definitely an Islamic extremist and all-around evil man. The question on everyone’s mind with regards to Issa seems to be: “But how far does the apple fall from the tree?” Martha Sullivan (Robin Wright) shows up as a representative from the U.S. Embassy; they are very interested in Issa, what he plans to do with his father’s money and what it means for American security concerns. They want to make arrests and ask questions later, whereas Gunther—forever patient, reasoned and calculated—wants more time. Holland filmmaker Anton Corbijn directs the picture. His previous work includes Control (2007) and The American (2010). Andrew Bovell adapted the screenplay from a John le Carré novel. His previous novels, The Constant Gardener and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, have both made their way onto the big screen. Rachel McAdams plays Annabel Richter, a German social advocacy lawyer who’s been assigned to Issa’s case. She’s liberal, plucky and trusting. When she ends up getting pulled off her bicycle into a mysterious van with a hood pulled over her face, she takes the whole thing in stride. Never mind which agency is behind the kidnapping and why; she’s helping them spy on Issa now. Tommy Brue ( Willem Dafoe) runs the bank where Issa’s father’s dirty money is hidden, and he too gets sucked into the fold. They make him bring a pen
that is also a microphone into the business meeting. There’s a van outside with Gunther and his team sipping coffee from Styrofoam cups, listening in on headphones—you know the score. If it seems as if there are a lot of characters to follow in this picture, you’re right. And still the film manages to get all the players’ competing motivations across without tangling itself up in confusion and obscurity. When Gunther either intuits or discovers through intelligence Annabel’s privileged background (wealthy parents, doing pro bono work for Muslims as a rebellion against her father), he’s showing off his brilliance. From Annabel’s unwavering reaction, we learn about her diligence and strength. There’s likely an attraction between Gunther and the American agent, but it’s unclear if the feeling is mutual and anyway there’s no time for romance. It’s a curious thing that in a film about spies and apprehending terrorists, there are no real villains—just people carrying out goals using what wits and resources they have. In my earlier review of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s third-to-last film role in God’s Pocket, I mentioned that his character looked heavy and tired, and it’s the same here. His German accent sounds quiet and husky. I wanted to sit in his lap and put my ear up to his mouth to hear him better. The film doesn’t bog Gunther down with family concerns or romantic entanglements, but there’s a rich history implied simply in the way he carries himself. He’s a spy who’s let everything else slide, his health in particular. Gunther drinks bourbon and smokes too many cigarettes. When he chases a suspect through the city streets of Hamburg, we hear his labored breathing and get a sense of what he’s been through. Actors don’t usually get to choose their last leading role. This isn’t Hoffman’s most glamorous turn, but it’s viciously honest. The fact that he still has the two Hunger Games movies left to go makes me feel a little depressed and defeated inside. I want him dead and buried already so we can properly mourn. It’s like how Orson Welles ended his illustrious career with a voiceover role in the 1986 animated Transformers movie. It’s weird. A Most Wanted Man continues at the Wilma. arts@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [21]
[film]
Fear factor Snow-sports films prove pros get scared, too by Alex Sakariassen
photo courtesy of Chris Patterson
Utah skier/model Sierra Quitiquit follows gravity’s lead at Lost Trail Powder Mountain in Warren Miller’s new film No Turning Back.
provides FREE classes & services to assist veterans in preparing for and transitioning into ANY college or training program.
This statewide program offers: -A complete academic refresher-on-campus and online! -Assistance with GI Bill -Career counseling -Academic advising -Referral to community service providers -Most programs are eligible for GI Bill Benefits
STATEWIDE in-class, on-campus instruction in Butte, Great Falls, Hamilton, Helena, Kalispell & Missoula
Online faculty-led instruction & self-paced tutorials... ANYWHERE!
Course offerings: Math/Algebra Science Writing Foreign Languages Computers College Success Personal Finance Our staff is ready to serve you.
Now enrolling. Fall evening classes begin in October. Whatever your academic or transition needs, VUB can help you plan and prepare for what comes next with an education program that meets your needs and fits your schedule.
MSUN Center for VETS 1500 University Dr., Billings, MT 59101 Toll-free: (877) 356-8387 • www.vubmt.com
[22] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
When I was maybe 7 years old, I told one of the most grievous lies of my life. On the deck outside the bierstube at Red Lodge Mountain, I looked my dad in the face and told him I’d skied a black diamond that afternoon—Pine Ridge, to be exact. I wanted to impress, to be counted among the ranks of a higher echelon of skier. But the guilt over fibbing about what was, in my family, a rite of passage proved overwhelming. I fessed up in less than an hour. Dad’s punishment fit the crime: Ski it for real. The whole world melted away in front of my skis as we approached the run. Legs trembled, arms shook, butterflies tickled the pit of my stomach. Dad coaxed through each turn. Halfway down I gave up, took off my skis and walked the rest. Today I look on Pine Ridge as little more than a nicely groomed hillock. Yet that rush of fear is as familiar a sensation each season as the tear of fresh powder underfoot. It’s easy to fall into the myth that the pros are above the butterflies. In truth they’re just as vulnerable to fear as the rest of us, a point underscored in three films touring through Missoula this month. Normally ski porn takes us around the world with breathtaking time lapses and fly-overs of powdery peaks we mere mortals could only dream of shredding. While there’s still much of that on deck in 2014, the time has come, it seems, for a reality check. Days of My Youth—from Matchstick Productions and Red Bull Media House—initially spends a good deal of time playing up the lighter side. Every descent, every 360, every backcountry romp screams that these athletes are having the best time ever. Crammed in the back of a snowcat in British Columbia, freeskier Cody Townsend quips, “So what do I do this year? Go heliskiing or buy a house?” In Crested Butte, Colo., the sense of levity hits a highpoint, with wipe-outs, gnarly tricks and tons of friendly ribbing. Then shit gets real. As freeskier James Heim prepares for an attempt at the north face of Peru’s Quitaraju, a local search and rescue team passes in the background dragging the body of a Peruvian guide killed in an avalanche. Heim himself is skunked, forced to rappel 6,000 feet from Quitaraju’s summit without making a single turn. Later, in the coastal mountains of Alaska, sluffing snow carries
Richard Permin over a band of rocks. The distant look in his eyes afterward makes a powerful point; the desperate hug he gives a fellow skier hammers that point home. Teton Gravity Research appears particularly keen on the theme of caution this year with the release of snowboarder Jeremy Jones’ third film, Higher. TGR takes viewers on three mind-boggling treks through Jones’ eyes, and Jones can’t mask his hesitancy as he executes a highly technical descent off Wyoming’s Grand Teton. Friend Ryland Bell, himself an accomplished big mountain snowboarder, also can’t deny that he’s reached his limit far below a summit in the Alaska Range. He calls it quits right there. If you aren’t feeling it, he says, don’t do it. Higher opts to showcase the family element as well, including the pleas from Jones’ young son that he not leave for a trip in the mountains. During an attempt to snowboard a set of steep spines off Nepal’s Shangri La— not far from Mt. Everest—Jones admits that leaving his two children behind without a father would be “devastating.” “I think it would kind of erase all my successes in the mountains,” he says. Even the ever-upbeat Warren Miller couldn’t let this year pass without a nod to self doubt. No Turning Back, which also features a light-hearted segment at Discovery and Lost Trail Powder Mountain, takes frequent detours from cheesy narration and vintage Breel to memorialize two of skiing’s fallen heroes: legendary pro skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey and extreme skiing pioneer Doug Coombs, both of whom died in the mountains. Skier Tim Petrick reminisces on camera about the time Coombs asked him how he’d describe skiing at Chamonix, France. His answer is short and candid. “Frightening.” The lesson to be gleaned from these on-camera moments isn’t simply that the big dogs get scared too. It’s that fear is a healthy reaction when facing new challenges, and there’s no shame in acknowledging your limits. Visit thewilma.com for more info. Days of My Youth, Higher and No Turning Back screen at the Wilma Fri., Oct. 3, Fri., Oct. 10 and Sat., Oct. 25, respectively. Visit thewilma.com for more info.
asakariassen@missoulanews.com
[film] NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Scully—I mean Gillian Anderson, ahem, plays Blanche and Ben Foster is Lone Stanley in director Benedict Andrews’ acclaimed rendition of the Tennessee Williams classic. Screening at the Roxy Tuesdays at 7 PM through Oct. 14.
OPENING THIS WEEK ANNABELLE After a husband buys a creepy old doll for his wife, evil Satanic cult stuff starts to happen, as you’d expect. When will we, as a country, learn to ban creepy old dolls? Starring Ward Horton, Annabelle Wallis and Alfre Woodard. Rated R. Carmike 12, Entertainer.
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND Princess Nausicaä must help her people and battle giant poisonous bugs in the process. English version features the voices of Allison Lohman, Patrick Stewart and Uma Thurman. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 1 at 8 PM and Sat., Oct. 4 at 4 PM as part of a Hayao Miyazaki retrospective.
DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS A Brazilian woman married to a nice but kinda boring dude is haunted by the ghost of her previous husband, a total “erotic” stud. Mustachioed men all around, hallelujah! Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 8 at 7 PM, with Brazilian cuisine available at the concession stand. GONE GIRL A husband becomes the focus of suspicion when his wife disappears. Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Because nothing is sacred, now the turtles are getting the CGI-and-explosions Michael Bay treatment. Starring Megan Fox, Will Arnett and William Fichtner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
THE GOONIES Plucky kids set out in search of treasure in the ‘85 classic. Starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and Jeff Cohen. Screening at the Roxy Thu., Oct. 2 at 7 PM. LEFT BEHIND The one and only Nic Cage must lead a group of survivors who remain after millions of people mysteriously vanish. Also starring Lea Thompson and Cassi Thomson. Rated PG-13. Pharaohplex. SURFWISE: THE AMAZING TRUE ODYSSEY OF THE PASKOWITZ FAMILY Documentarian Doug Pray delves into the life of Doc Paskowitz, who homeschooled his nine kids in an off-the-grid, beach-loving life. Rated R. Screening at the Top Hat Mon., Oct. 6, at 8 PM. WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO Modern-day pilgrims endure gnarly physical and emotional trials on the 500-mile trek to a holy site. Screening at the Roxy Oct. 3-5 at 5 and 7 PM, with Q&As with director Lydia Smith after screenings on Oct. 3 and 4.
Three’s company. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands screens Wed., Oct. 8, at the Roxy.
BOYHOOD Watch a kid literally grow up in Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making epic. Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Rated R. Wilma. CASTLE IN THE SKY Young kids endeavor to find a legendary floating castle and encounter whimsical shenanigans along the way. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 8 at 8 PM and Sun., Oct. 12 at 4 PM as part of a Hayao Miyazaki retrospective. DOLPHIN TALE 2 The fight to save the injured dolphin Winter isn’t over, after her surrogate mother dolphin Panama passes away. Starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Nathan Gamble. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
NOW PLAYING
THE DROP Tom Hardy plays a bartender Brooklynite who gets caught up in a robbery gone bad; James Gandolfini appears in his last film role. Also starring Noomi Rapace. Rated R. Carmike 12.
THE BOXTROLLS A young boy raised by cave-dwelling garbage collectors (parenting is getting so avante garde these days, amirite?) must save his buddies from an exterminator. Starring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris and Nick Frost. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.
THE EQUALIZER A former CIA operative gets called out of retirement to rescue a young damsel and defeat “ultra-violent Russian gangsters,” as opposed to all the sweet and cuddly Russian gangsters out there. Starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas and Chloë Grace Moretz. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Basically, imagine Andy from “Parks and Rec” as a space pilot goofball leading a team of misfits. Totally excellent. Starring Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. LET’S BE COPS Count how many felonies these dudes commit as they pose as police officers and fumble with weapons. Starring Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., and Rob Riggle. Rated R. Carmike 12. THE MAZE RUNNER Young boys with erased memories try to escape a dystopian labyrinth. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Will Poulter. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. A MOST WANTED MAN A half-Chechen, half-Russian winds up at the center of an international intrigue. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Daniel Brühl. Rated R. Pharaohplex. MY LITTLE PONY: RAINBOW ROCKS Canterlot High is hosting a battle of the bands, and the Rainbooms team up against the evil Dazzlings. Princess Twilight has to step in and kick some neon-colored behind. Not rated. Carmike 12.
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU A squabbling family reconvenes to sit shiva for their deceased father, forcing them to deal with frayed relationships and lost loves. Starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda. Rated R. Carmike 12. THE TRIP TO ITALY Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat pasta and crack jokes as semi-fictional versions of themselves. Not rated. Wilma. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES Withhold your surprise in learning that Liam Neeson portrays a man with a special set of skills, skills he’s earned over a long career, and he must use them to find out who killed a drug kingpin’s wife. Also starring Dan “I Gave Up ‘Downton’ For This” Stevens and David Harbour. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [23]
[dish]
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Gut punch by Ari LeVaux Evidence continues to accumulate that sugar is a sweet road to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other maladies. As the dangers of sugar have unfolded there has been an increase in the production and consumption of sugar substitutes, five of which are currently FDA-approved. A recent study published in Nature adds to a growing set of concerns about these artificial sweeteners by presenting evidence that they, like sugar, can cause diabetes as well. The Israel-based research team presented evidence that artificial sweeteners cause this outcome by disrupting the balance of microbes that live in the body’s gut. This isn’t the first study implicating sugar substitutes with metabolic issues. Research at Purdue University found that saccharin consumption can lead to weight gain in mice by interfering with their ability to control their appetites. Multiple studies have shown that some artificial sweeteners can mess with the body’s endocrine system, and lead to insulin resistance. Many links between the consumption of artificial sweeteners and type 2 diabetes have been uncovered as well, and studies have also shown that consumption of artificial sweeteners can change the way the body deals with food that contains actual calories. The link between artificial sweeteners, gut bacteria and obesity has been charted as well, in a Duke University study that found that Splenda (sucralose) reduces the amount of “good bacteria” in the intestines, increases the intestinal pH level, and leads to increased body weight. The new Nature study moves this ball of research forward by demonstrating that several artificial sweeteners, not just sucralose, can mess with our gut bacteria, and that this disruption is directly responsible for glucose intolerance—at least in mice. As the Duke study had shown that sucralose causes changes in the gut microbiota in mice, the Israeli researchers used antibiotics to wipe out the microbes in the mice that had been made glucose intolerant from consuming artificial sweeteners. Eliminating the microbial community in the mice with antibiotics eliminated their glucose intolerance as well. The team eventually turned its attention to humans, examining dietary data and health metrics from non-diabetic people that had been gathered in an unrelated, ongoing nutritional study. They found correlations between artificial sweetener consumption and metabolic markers associated with pre-diabetics. What’s tricky about looking at this kind of human data in these cases is that those who are drinking diet sodas might very well be doing so because they are already at risk for obesity or diabetes. In other words,
[24] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
FLASH IN THE PAN
instead of demonstrating that artificial sweeteners make you fat, you might instead be observing that fat people are more likely to use sugar substitutes. To address this issue the researchers assembled a group of seven healthy volunteers who don’t normally consume artificial sweeteners. For one week, the subjects consumed the maximum FDA allotment of Saccharin. After only one week, four of the seven volunteers began showing glucose intolerance. Those who did also showed a marked shift in their gut microbial profiles, while the microbial profiles of the subjects that did not show glucose intolerance did not show this change. The fact that only seven subjects were studied, and for only one week, won’t impress many statisticians. And the authors of the study are quick to point out that their results should not be taken as a call for anyone to change their diet, but rather as a signal that more studies along these lines are warranted. To this end, the National Institutes of Health is conducting a large, long-term study on what happens when healthy, non-artificialsweetener-using subjects begin consuming sucralose. The emerging understanding of the connection between diseases like diabetes and the gut’s microbiota opens up the intriguing possibility of treating disease by manipulating gut microbes. Using antibiotics to wipe out the microbial ecosystem in glucose-intolerant mice is one example of how this might work, but there are other ways as well. Taking probiotic supplements is another way, but the most important avenue, and easiest, might simply be dietary changes. Altering one’s diet can be difficult, in part it turns out, because the bacteria in your gut are controlling what you want to eat. A recent article reviews some recent studies that suggest gut bacteria influence the brain and endocrine system via the vagus nerve, which connects the brain and gut. “Microbes have the capacity to manipulate behavior and mood through altering the neural signals in the vagus nerve, changing taste receptors, producing toxins to make us feel bad, and releasing chemical rewards to make us feel good,” explained Athena Aktipis, co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer with the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, as quoted in the article. In the coming years, the relationship between diet, gut microbes and health will be further explored by scientists, and the role that artificial sweeteners play in this dynamic will surely be more clear. But science moves at a slow, cautious pace. Even if we don’t know exactly how artificial sweeteners can cause us harm, it’s becoming increasingly clear that they do. Consume accordingly.
[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Welcome Back Students!! Happy Fall!! Fall is Bernice's time of year. The smell of fresh baked goods waft around the Hip Strip as Bernice's prepares to serve a rockin' cup of joe, danishes, cookies, croissants, muffins, and a whole lot more. The crisp Missoula air is the perfect complement to a slice of apple pie in the afternoon or a warm Tipus Chai around 6 pm. Fall BBQ's are topped off with Bernice's Parkerhouse Rolls, Curried Chicken Salad and an 8" Chocolate Chocolate cake for dessert. Stop by the UC, COT and Book Exchange to see what goodies Bernice's is showcasing this school year. A spinach croissant just before class is a great wake-meup! xoxo bernice. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns: Thursday 10/2 Big Brains Trivia 8-10 pm. Friday 10/3 Live Music with David Boone 6-9 pm. Monday 10/6 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 10/7 Burger + Beer $8. Wednesday 10/8 $2 Wells & $2 PBR Tall Boys. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh cof-
$…Under $5
fees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT' SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays. Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
$–$$…$5–$15
$$–$$$…$15 and over
OCTOBER
COFFEE SPECIAL
DISCOVER THE UNUSUAL
Guatemala Antigua I TA L I A N R O A S T
$10.95/lb.
BUTTERFLY HERBS
BUTTERFLY HERBS
232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN
232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN
Coffees, Teas & the Unusual
Coffees, Teas & the Unusual
Bring in this coupon for
$5 off any purchase of $10 or more. Expires 10/17/14
2101 Brooks • 926-2578 • www.cafezydeco.com Mon 9am - 3pm • Tues-Sat 11am - 8 pm • Closed Sundays
SATURDAYS 4PM-9PM
MONDAYS & THURSDAYS ALL DAY
$1
SUSHI Not available for To-Go orders
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [25]
[dish]
Montana Brewery Passport HAPPIEST HOUR Who’s involved: Every existing brewery is listed in the passport, including newcomers like Great Burn and Lolo Peak. Newhouse says every taproom also now has stamps. Part of his plan was to make the passport program all-inclusive and not a burden for the breweries. That makes it different from the Montana Brewers Association’s “Brew Crew” punchcard, photo by Cathrine L. Walters which only applies to member breweries. (Not all breweries are Where it came from: Local beer expert Ryan Newhouse, author of MBA members, including local favorites like Montana Beer: A Guide to Breweries in Big Kettlehouse and Big Sky.) Sky Country, calls himself “a list keeper.” He The prize: Newhouse often gets asked remembers once filling a similar type of passport for national parks and thought the idea about what happens when/if someone visits would translate to Montana’s many brew- every brewery. Right now, those adventurous eries. He launched a Kickstarter campaign souls receive a couple pint glasses and their earlier this year to print the passports and own stamper. Newhouse is also exploring the make the stamps, raising $5,500 from more possibility of offering winners custom T-shirts. than 100 backers. Where to get one: Visit montanabrew“Montana is a big, beautiful state with exceptional breweries in every corner of the erypassport.com to order one directly for $10. state, literally,” he says. “This is something Newhouse says some breweries are also carpeople can do as they explore and visit those rying them, so ask at your favorite taproom— breweries, something that provides a deeper and then get your first stamp. —Skylar Browning level of engagement.” What it is: A way to track your travels to the state’s nearly 50 breweries, and have fun while doing it. The passport works like, well, a passport. Visit a brewery, order a beer and get your passport marked with an official Montana Brewery Passport stamp. There’s also space to mark down tasting notes and to rate your experience.
Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am2am. $-$$ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 South Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh
$…Under $5
[26] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN' music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare. Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers! Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
$–$$…$5–$15
$$–$$$…$15 and over
promote range of motion and joint health. Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from 11 AM-noon through Nov. 6. $50 for six-week series/$10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 for info.
nightlife Bellingham’s Br’er Rabbit hops in with folksy musical tales to the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover.
October 2–October 9, 2014
Three keep y’all company when Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio, featuring Ron Meissner and Pete Hand, sets the scene at Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover. The Minnesota Vikes take on the Packers, so commune with local Cheeseheads or team up with your Helga buddies when the Top Hat shows the game at 6:25 PM. No cover. The inaugural Light Up the Night gathers folks for an evening of poetry and music in support of anyone who’s been affected by interpersonal violence. Meet at the amphitheater at the base of the M trail and bring flashlights, glow sticks or anything else that lights up without an open flame (no fire hazards, yo). 6:30 PM. Contact the Women’s Resource Center at umt.wrc@gmail.com if you’d like to perform. Turning the Wheel Missoula brings the Tapestry Class, a creative and improvisational dance class with tools for stress relief, to Headwaters Dance Company studio, 1042 Monroe St. Meets Thursdays from 6:30-8 PM through Nov. 20. $10 per class, or $110 for entire series. Advance registration required by emailing lulu@turningthewheel.org or calling 544-7561. The original Hugh Bickley play Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25, Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets. The Real Live Goddess MindBody for Women workshop kicks off today, with lessons in yoga, cabaret and belly dance. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 7-9:30 PM. Registration and more info at RealLiveGoddess.org. $55 for a month of classes.
Laid-back ladies. The Wailin’ Jennys play the Hamilton Performing Arts Center Sat., Oct. 4. 7:30 PM. $27-$37. Call 363-7946 or visit bartc.org for tickets.
THURSDAYOCT02 Knock back some IPAs to get in a literary mood for the Big Read Kickoff Reception, with a proclamation from the mayor, speechifying from assorted other dignitaries, appetizers, music and free copies of this year’s book, The Things They Carried. Old Post, 6 PM. Free.
“The Future of Federalism: What Will be Retained and What Surrendered” symposium with the Montana Law Review features keynote speaker Ilya Somen on Oct. 2 and panels throughout the day in the UC Ballroom Oct. 3. Visit scholarship.law.umt.edu/browning/symposia/2014. Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where
you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulainmotion.com/bwbw for a complete listing. If you’re living with arthritis or other similar chronic conditions, the Regaining Mobility Through Gentle Movement will use mostly chair-based, yoga-inspired gentle exercises to
Bust out a little geetar at the Open Mic with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W. Runs 7:30-10:30 PM. If Romeo ain’t got Julie yet, seal the deal when Dark Horse Country Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9 PM. No cover. Reverby Seattle shoegaze outfit Vibragun massages brainwaves at Stage 112, along with the undoubtedly lovely Uglyhead. 9 PM. $5-$7. Hark, Spencetober arrives at the VFW, with comedian Kyle “The Hotdog” Kulseth, Purple Thunderstorms of Emotion, Joey RC and the Long Hairs and Spencer himself providing entertainment. Doors at 9, show at 10 PM. $5.
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [27]
[calendar]
Open 7am to
9:30
my panache
pm
Wednesday-Sunday and 7am to 3pm Monday & Tuesday
fine wine & beer selection see our complete menu online at www.theshackcafe.com
For certain members of my cohort, “being awesome” is a way of life. Similar to getting rad, it involves partying, wearing cool/and or ridiculous outfits, romance, drama and shots of Fireball. It’s not about being wise or dignified, mind you. Some purely hypothetical examples of being awesome include getting day-drunk and shopping at the clearance section of Wet Seal to getting tossed out of Stockman’s on a Sunday evening. But we did not invent being awesome; it’s been around for centuries, under different names. One could argue that 17th century French noblemen were really good at being awesome—or, as they might have called it, panache. Cyrano de Bergerac, both the real person and the fictional character, are emWHAT: Cyrano de Bergerac WHO: UM School of Theatre and Dance WHERE: Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center WHEN: Tue., Oct. 7–Sat., Oct. 11 and Tue., Oct. 14–Sat., Oct. 18 at 7:30 PM
S i n c e
222 West Main, Missoula 406.549-9903
HOW MUCH: $20/$16 seniors and students/ $10 kids
blematic of a lifestyle that, while not necessarily healthy or smart, is flamboyant and destined to be memorable. The real Cyrano, born in 1619 as Hercule-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, was a gentleman, dramatist and duelist, back in the days when one could hold those
Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2 for dudes, no cover for women. (Hey, gotta make up for that wage gap somehow.) EDM aficionado Mitis is all about da bass, all about da bass (no treble) at the Palace. Cry Wolf and Bear Grillz get thangs started. 9:30 PM. $12/$10 in advance. Tickets at seafarerentertainment.com and Rockin Rudy’s. Mike Bader Band plays bluesy tunes with some cajun and reggae garnish at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.
FRIDAYOCT03 Former rodeo bareback rider, fisherman and current carpentry teacher Kim Zupan reads from his novel, The Ploughmen, about a sheriff and a hardened killer. Ron Swanson would probably endorse the hell out of this. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 5:30 PM. “The Future of Federalism: What Will be Retained and What Surrendered” symposium with the Montana Law Review features keynote speaker Ilya Somen on Oct.
[28] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
sorts of job titles. Some historians speculate that he had a bitter falling-out with a gay lover, and that his death might have been a botched assassination attempt. In between loving, dueling and whatnot, Cyrano also found time to write some of the earliest examples of science fiction, which influenced writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Jonathan Swift. We remember Cyrano today mostly because he was immortalized in an 1897 play by Edmond Rostand, which filled in the sketchy details of the real Cyrano’s life by imagining his unrequited love for the beautiful Roxane, and his general embarrassment over his large nose. (Historians haven’t found any evidence that the real Cyrano had a giant proboscis.) There’s also the 1990 Gerard Depardieu film, which as of this writing, is streaming in its entirety on YouTube. At the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac, opening Oct. 7, this old-school version of being awesome is brought to life once again.
2 and panels throughout the day in the UC Ballroom Oct. 3. Visit scholarship.law.umt.edu/browning/symposia/2014. Missoula ZooGrass’s fall edition features fine folks like Dodgy Mountain Men, Taarka, Lil’ Smokies, Ten Skip Stone, The Moonshine and all the hooch you care to sip at venues including Monk’s and Stage 112, Oct. 3-4. $10 for two-day pass, available at Rockin Rudy’s. Visit the Missoula Zoo Grass Facebook page for tickets and more info. (See Music.) Good eggs are called to the American Red Cross blood drive, in Missoula on Oct. 3 from 10 AM-2 PM and Oct. 6 from 2-6 PM. The Seeley Lake Tamarack Festival and Brew Fest promises tunes, food and beer drinking with nice scenery, Oct. 3-5, at venues including the Double Arrow Lodge. Visit SeeleyLakeChamber.com. Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulainmotion.com/bwbw for a complete listing.
—Kate Whittle Syncopation-loving tots can express their creativity at the Rhythm Tykes class series at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. Fridays through fall, with basic instruction in instruments and themes for each month including campfire songs, finger plays and Halloween. Ages 1-4 meet from 10:15-10:45 AM, ages 205 from 11-11:30 AM. $50 for four classes. Visit tangledtones.com.
nightlife Bitterroot folks can do their part to help those affected by domestic or sexual violence at the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes, which invites dudes to wear some smashing heels and walk a mile through downtown Hamilton. Families are invited to participate together; gals get to wear their comfiest walking shoes. Registration at 5 PM, walk at 5:30. $20/$10 for youth/free for ages 6 and under. Visit safeinthebitterroot.org. Proceeds benefit SAFE. The fine folks at MUD present a Cuppa Community fundraiser, with cider pressing and apple bobbing, at Liquid Planet. 5-8 PM. Proceeds from the Apple Pie in a Mug sales benefit MUD. All the cool kiddos should check out Mismo Gymnastics’s Friday
[calendar] Night Children’s Party, where ages 5-plus play games and explore obstacle courses with guidance. 1900 W. Broadway St. 5:30-9:30 PM. $25/$20 for members, plus $10 for additional siblings. Limited to 80 kids, so zoom over to mismogym.com or call 7280908 to sign up ahead of time. It’ll be a cheesy evening at Zootown Improv sketch comedy and improv evening at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. W. Doors at
6:30 PM for main show at 7:30. Beer, wine and Tarantino’s pizza available. $12/$22 for two if purchased online. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.
ja, to the North Valley Public Library in Stevi. 6-7:30 PM. Free.
Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM, with a rotating group of live, local musicians. No cover.
The original Hugh Bickley play Holocene, “part ghost story, part cautionary tale,” is performed at the Palace, Sept. 21-23, Sept. 25, Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at 7 PM. Doors at 6:15. $12-$15. Visit the Viscosity Theatre Facebook page to find more info and tickets.
The Fun & Support Accordion Group brings das gut German polka,
Fiction author, George Clooney hobnobber and UM Visiting Kit-
FIRST FRIDAY Guest Calendar Submitter Asa, who is 9 years old, says, “I made up some monsters and got some of my artist friends in Missoula to help me make them into an art I like writing books about monsters and I wanted to see what they would look like in other styles with other people making them.” Check out Facts About Made-Up Monsters, featuring collaborators like Patricia Thornton, Josh Quick, Jon Richter and many more, at the ZACC. Reception from 5-7:30 PM. Free. Artist Amanda Browder, who you may remember from a totes cool T-shirt installation at Total Fest XI presents a new site-specific fabric installation at the Missoula Mercantile, 110 N. Higgins Ave. Reception from 5-8 PM. (See Arts.)
127 N. Higgins Ave., from 5-8 PM. The Indy’s very own Pumpernickel Stewart displays her considerable talents in one place, with the Rock Art Show of the posters she’s made over the last year for the Top Hat. Limited edition signed prints available for your collecting pleasure. Reception in the basement from 5-8 PM or so. Photographer Jenna Nord captures the cycle of pregnancies to newborns to little ones in her First Embrace work, on display at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins St. Reception from 5-8 PM.
Inner Wisdom Hypnotherapy features artist Jay Arellano’s gothic vibes and modern themes, along with live bluegrass. Plus, you get to “harass the local hypnotist.” 127 N. Higgins Ave., thirdfloor atrium. 5-8 PM. Photog Nancy Greenfield and sculptor Danny Kraus get back to basics in Fire, James Bailey’s “Black Locus #7” is Earth, Air, Water: No Element part of the Post-Rural exhibit this Stands Alone, a joint show at 4 month at the Brink Gallery Ravens Gallery, 248 N. Higgins Ave. 5-8 PM. Photog Mike Huberman Bhavana gets into the First shows assorted works, featurFriday swing of things with jazzy ing scenic shots of the Missoula tunes from the Jordan Wiegert area, at Missoula Acupuncture Trio, 101 E. Broadway, Ste. B. 5-8 and Wellness Center, 127 E. Main St., Ste. 314, 5-8 PM. PM. Free. Claire Emery opens her new studio and celebrates with an exhibit of her new, intricate woodblock prints and notecards of seasonal birds. 223 W. Railroad St. Reception from 5-8 PM. Bev Beck Glueckert shows Tribute: a mixed-media series of subtly toned nest and bird imagery, in contemplation of mortality and the natural world. Reception at the Artist’s Shop,
Up-and-coming artists will be underfoot at the Primrose Montessori School’s display, Up and down, over, under, this way and that, at Betty’s Divine. Reception from 5-8 PM with wine, grape juice and sundry baked treats, plus tunes from mandolinist Jon Schick. Don’t expect any tribute to Emilio Estevez’s butt, sadly, but there’s plenty of neato art to inspire at the fifth annual Young
Guns exhibit at the Dana, featuring Caleb Meyer, Silas Thompson, Anna Moore and many more. Reception from 5-8 PM. B. Martinez rings out “a summer well spent” with a mixed media series, High Plains Drifter and Artist at Large Travel Project, Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave, 58 PM. Anticipate sketchy characters and some naked folks when Monte Dolack exhibits recent charcoal and conte figure drawings. Reception from 5-8 PM, with tunes from Alyssa Rae Hands. Hamilton gets into the First Friday gear with The Fox and the Hedgehog, works by Jennifer Ogden and Dulcie Belanger, and live tunes from Light and Variable Winds and refreshments. Art City, 407 W. Main St. in H-town. Reception from 5-8 PM. Melvin Cooper presents his far-out Space Age Landscapes series, 15 years in the making, finding the beauty in disastrous events. E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. Reception from 5-9 PM with tunes by Ryan Belski. The Clay Studio presents married sculptors Chris Dufala and Elena Lourenco, who offer different takes on their shared skills with Vestiges. 1106 A Hawthorne St. Reception from 5:30-9 PM. The Post-Rural collective exhibit considers the shifting notions of rural spaces, you betcha, with creative art-makers including Brad Allen, Jamies Bailey, Karina Hean and more. Brink Gallery. Reception from 5-8 PM with the usual tasty foodsnacks. Digital painter Joseph Michael Harris trots out a menagerie of creepy critters and demented characters for the Spooktacular show at Frame of Mind, 1706 Brooks St. 5:30-9 PM. Witches’ brew and treats will be on hand for tricksters.
COME IN AND DISCOVER THE NEW PRODUCTS FROM doTerra. Essential oils of Arborvitea (Cedar), Cardamom, skin & face care, breath drops, free samples and special classes.
ALL doTerra IS 10% OFF THIS WEEK! Enjoy an Aromatouch/Rekei session for half price. Body, Mind, & Spirit with Essential Oils | Oct 2nd | 6 to 7:30pm Learn how essential oils can soothe your body, mind & spirit. Essential Oils can work with you to decrease symptoms of stress. We will work with intuition and muscle testing to create an essential oil blend tailor-made for your soul. First Friday | Oct 3rd | 4 to 7pm Try an Aromatouch/Reiki mini-session for free, Experience ear seeding, try out the new doTerra products, enjoy free samples. Food & beverages will be served. Learn about Meadowsweet Membership!!! Oct 4th | 11 to 5pm Enjoy samples & test the new doTerra products. We will have kids’ activities 11-1pm, stop by and check out the fun.
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [29]
[calendar]
REGULAR Adult (18-61)
$329
Teen (13-17)
$199
Junior (7-12)
$179
Child (6 & under)*
$30
Family (2 Adults + 1 Jr or Teen)
$799
Family (additional Teen)
$189
Family (additional Jr)
$169
College & Military Pass with ID
$279
Senior (62-69)
$199
Super Senior (70-79)**
$159
Midweek***
$189
Corporate (2 transferable per day)
$689
SALE! $229 $169 $159 $25* $589 $149 $139 $199 $159 $129 $169 $579
*ID Photo Fee. **80 yrs + Free. *** Midweek operating days are Mon, Thurs & Fri, + Wed in January & February. 6% sales tax will be added to all purchases.
Your #
place
1
Ends October 31st
Lookout Pass Season Pass holders receive discounts at other ski areas. Plus discounts at local ski shops, sports shops, restaurants and other community business partners.
USA
O
E LIN
RDER ON
I-90
SK ILO O K SE A SO NO U T. CO M / -PA SS
Uke know you wanna. Big Mama Lele plays the Badlander Mon., Oct. 6, after trivia around 10:30 PM. Free.
#lookoutpass skilookout.com 208.744.1301
THE
MONTANA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL PRESENTS
JOHN DAU One of the “Lost Boys of Sudan” and President of the John Dau Foundation
Wednesday, October 8th
DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING "Duk County: Peace is in Sight" 7:00pm Missoula Children's Theatre // Free
Cocktail Reception 5:30 - 7:00pm // Missoula Children's Theatre $20 for Council Members and Students ($25 for Non-Members) RSVP to the Council Thursday, October 9th
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS PROGRAM "Hope is Not Lost" with John Dau 7:30pm DoubleTree Hotel // $5 Admission Free for Council Members and Students All Events are Open to the Public For more information: www.montanaworldaffairs.org (406) 728-3328 Sponsored By: Montana World Affairs Council The John Dau Foundation - Moran Eye Center - Dr. Roger & Heidi Furlong
[30] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
tredge Fellow Walter Kirn reads fiction at Turner Hall. 7 PM. Free. Watch out, ‘cuz the drinks are stiff, the hills are steep and the ring toss is harder than it looks like at the White Front, and The Moonshine is gonna show up and provide folkie tunes while Philipsburg provides the hospitality. 8 PM. No cover. Southwestern DJ EshOne invites all y’all to his octopus’ garden under the sea, aka the Badlander’s Fishbowl Friday. Locals Deadline, M-AD and Digerati swim on in, too. 9 PM. $5 fishbowl dranks til midnight. No cover. The scholars of Dirt Rhodes (formerly Kung Fu Kongress) present their funky expertise, along with bluesman emeritus Kevin Van Dort. KVD! KVD! KVD! Palace. 9 PM. No cover. Island-beat lovin’ dude J. Boog, straight outta Compton, brings posi vibes to the Top Hat, along with Hot Rain. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $15/$12 in advance. 18-plus. Give that cutie from HR a twirl ‘round the dance floor when ThreeEared Dog plays tunes at the Union Club, 9:30 PM to close. No cover. Find out what kinda chops Seattle’s “best country band” has to offer when The Olson Boys take over the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. No cover.
SATURDAYOCT04 Keep the doctors away at the annual McIntosh Apple Day, featuring a farmers market, kids’ games, live music, a “mega-raffle” (ooh!) and, of course, apple butter, fresh apple juice, apple pies and generally more apple than you can shake a stick at. 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton.
Get hot coffee, baked treats, fresh produce and bump into all the friendly acquaintances you can handle at the Missoula Farmers Market, now running for 42 years. 8 AM-1 PM. Missoula ZooGrass’s fall edition features fine folks like Dodgy Mountain Men, Taarka, Lil’ Smokies, Ten Skip Stone, The Moonshine and all the hooch you care to sip at venues including Monk’s and Stage 112, Oct. 4-5. $10 for two-day pass, available at Rockin Rudy’s. Visit the Missoula Zoo Grass Facebook page for tickets and more info. (See Music.) Sustainable commuting is the name of the game at the annual Bike Walk Bus Week, where you can get free coffee, cheap treats, assorted discounts and join in special events throughout Missoula. Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Visit missoulainmotion.com/bwbw for a complete listing. Early rising produce-seekers, occasional walk-of-shamers and waffle sandwich lovers rejoice, the Clark Fork Market is back in action under the Higgins Bridge. Saturdays through October from 8 AM-1 PM. Odette Grassi hosts “Growth,” a writing and tiny terrarium workshop, for folks dealing with illness or loss, including care providers. Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. Free. Phillip Douglas signs his debut novel, Spirit Made Smaller, a tale of medical mystery and a man’s fight to save his son. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 10:30 AM-noon. The 17th annual Festival of Cycles celebrates everyone’s favorite humanpowered motion machines with an obstacle course, bike art, potluck beer
and food and free kids’ bikes. Free Cycles, 732 First St. 11 AM-5 PM. Dunrovin Ranch up in Lolo celebrates furry and feathered friends with an Animal Blessing in honor of the Feast of St. Francis, with Pastor Jean from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church at the ranch and Deacon Ron Davies from Toronto officiating online. 11:30 AM-1 PM. Bring a leashed pet to the ranch or check out DaysAtDunrovin.com/dunrovinpresents. Various lithe, graceful people will be prancing around campus today for the UM Dancers on Location annual site-specific concert, which meets at Mansfield Mall at noon on Saturday and Sunday. Free. Visit umt.edu/umarts/theatredance. The guild that sews together, stays together, so join Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., at Craft Vigilantes, its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike. 12–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free). Pints shall be flowing at the Customer Appreciation Day party at Draught Works, which features free food, prizes and live music from Red Onion Purple, noon-9 PM. If last year is any indication, you won’t wanna dilly-dally getting to this dealio, either. As part of the Big Read, which features The Things They Carried, local vets host a Veteran’s Memorial Service at the Rose Park war memorial. 1 PM. The Teenage Writers Group performs a dramatic reading of the Vietnamese fairy tale Why Ducks Sleep on One Leg as part of the Big Read festivities. Missoula Public Library. 2:30-3 PM. Free.
[calendar] Hard cider: it’s not just a breakfast drink any more! The postApple Day festivities continue with the first ever Liquid Apple Night hard cider fest at the Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford in Hamilton. 4-8 PM. No cover.
nightlife The Dirty Sexy Chocolate Show promises to melt in your mouth and your heart with a 70s-funky themed dinner show starring CheffyPants, plus actual dessert accompanying it at the Top Hat. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7:30. $28 for a reserved seat/$20 first-come first-serve general admission, $15 for students and teachers. You can also reserve a table for six for $150. Oct. 4 show is sold out, but tix might still be available for Oct. 18. Cruise over to the Top Hat to learn more. Aran Buzzas sets up shop and plays folky tonkin’ tunes at Blacksmith Brewing in Stevi. 6-8 PM. No cover.
with Cain and Fable and Red Carpet Devils. 8 PM. $5. Local Ultimate-lovers put down the disc long enough to host a fundraiser shindig and tournament after-party, with tunes provided by Three-Eared Dog and Gil and the Spills. Palace. 8:30 PM. $5/$7 for ages 18-plus, with $6 Pabst pitchers all nite long.
nightlife
>`VTPUN c ^^^ /VTL9L:V\YJL VYN c
Find out what kinda chops Seattle’s “best country band� has to offer when The Olson Boys take over the Sunrise Saloon. Tunes start at 9:30 PM. No cover.
Habitat for Humanity is opening up applications for folks interested in building a home in partnership with the nonprofit. Meets at the conference room in City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview, Oct. 1 at 7 PM and Oct. 5 at 2 PM. Call 5498210 to learn more. Child care will not be available at either meeting, as a heads up.
)HUX\L[ )LULĂ„[ (\J[PVU )ULGD\ 2FWREHU
No matter the date on the calendar, Mission Valley outfit Gladys Friday will always be in our hearts and Fireball (TM) will always been in our livers when the Union Club hosts live tunes. 9:30 PM. No cover.
Har Shalom presents the Jewish Film Festival, celebrating the Jewish experience on the first Sunday of every month at the Roxy. This evening features Dancing in Jaffa, starting at 5 PM. $5-$7.
SUNDAYOCT05
No tickets needed to the Big Sky Gun Show, a collegiate Ultimate disc-tossin’ tournament Oct. 4-5 with divisions for men, women and co-ed teams. Showcase game is Oct. 4 at 7 PM in Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Free.
History aficionados Tate Jones and Jim Hamilton present Difficult Duty: Tim O’Brien’s Americal Division in Vietnam, 1967-72, and give insight to the era of The Things They Carried. Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History, Fort Missoula building T-316. Free.
Feel the Halloween spirit with A Party to Murder, the murder mystery dinner theatre at Stensrud Playhouse, featuring local performers and including dinner. 314 N. First St. 7 PM. Tickets for the opening weekend must be bought in advance at stensrudplayhouse.com.
Various lithe, graceful people will be prancing around campus today for the UM Dancers on Location annual site-specific concert, which meets at Mansfield Mall at noon on Saturday and Sunday. Free. Visit umt.edu/umarts/theatredance.
Renewable energy advocate Paul Fenn chats about programs where cities can speed up transitioning to sustainable energy sources at the Fast Track to Renewables lecture tour, stopping at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 7-8:30 PM. Free. The Shantala duo, AKA Benjy and Heather Wertheimer, lead a kirtan with classical Indian instrumentation, audience participation, dance and meditation at The Hive, 800 S. Third St. 7-9 PM. $20/$15 in advance. Visit eventbrite.com. Celebrate #emorevival when Michigan’s Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) brings the feelings and the jams and the square glasses to the ZACC, along with Nashville’s Free Throw and local “electro-clash post hardcore� thingy Eat Strike. Plus Ethan J. Uhl and Catamount open up a can o’ whoopass. ZACC. 7 PM. $7. All ages, alcohol free.
son Theatre. Oct. 4 at 7:30 PM and Oct. 5 at 3 PM. $10-$45, tickets at missoulasymphony.org or 406-7213194.
Gals between 18 and 40 with singing and dancing chops, are sought for the Missoula Community Theatre’s auditions for Winter Wonderettes, at MCT from 12:30-5 PM. Call 728-1911 with any burning questions about the auditions or to check out a script in advance. Grammy-nominated violinist Tim Fain performs along with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra for “Music, Love and Other Drugs� at the Denni-
Feel the Halloween spirit with A Party to Murder, the murder mystery dinner theatre at Stensrud Playhouse, featuring local performers and including dinner. 314 N. First St. 5:30 PM. Tickets for the opening weekend must be bought in advance at stensrudplayhouse.com. It’s like storytime when you were a kid, except with bourbon at the Second Wind Reading Series, where professors, students and guests from the UM Creative Writing Program read selected works. Badlander. 6 PM. No cover. Oct. 5 features Brendan Fitzgerald and Erin Saldin.
S P 'RXEOH7UHH +RWHO
-PYZ[ -YPKH` (\J[PVU 7YL]PL^ *OIN US IN THE &LORENCE LOBBY &RIDAY /CTOBER P M TO VIEW 3PONTANEOUS #ONSTRUCTION WINNING PIECES AND MEET THE TALENTED CRAFTSPEOPLE WHO MADE THEM 0LUS ENJOY OFF DRINKS FROM 4HE 2ED "IRD DURING OUR EVENTĂ˜
MONDAYOCT06 Captain Wilson Conspiracy provides the cover while you whisper sweet nothings at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover. Good eggs are called to the American Red Cross blood drive, in Missoula on Oct. 3 from 10 AM-2 PM and Oct. 6 from 2-6 PM.
AUDITIONS A UDITIONS Sunday Sunday Oct 5, 12:30-5PM
The Wailin’ Jennys waltz into the Hamilton Performing Arts Center for a heart-twanging time, starting at 7:30 PM. $27-$37. Call 363-7946 or visit bartc.org for tickets. Grammy-nominated violinist Tim Fain performs along with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra for Music, Love and Other Drugs at the Dennison Theatre. Oct. 4 at 7:30 PM and Oct. 5 at 3 PM. $10-$45, tickets at missoulasymphony.org or 406-7213194. Guerilla Radio, AKA Minnesota’s best Rage Against the Machine Tribute Band, plays all your favorite fist-pumpers at the Dark Horse, along
DIRECTED BY ANDY NDY MEYERS NEEDED: FEMALE SINGERS/ACTORS/MOVERS 18 TO 40 MUST BE ABLE TO SING TIGHT HARMONIES SENSE OF HUMOR IS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED.
Street Use Main S treet Entrance Entrance Performance P erformance Dates: December 11-14, 17-21, 17-21, 2014
MC MCT T CENTER F FOR OR THE PERF PERFORMING ORMING AR ARTS TS 200 NORTH NORTH ADAMS ADAMS STREET, STREET, MISSOULA, MISSOUL A, MT 59802
406 4 0 6 -72 - 7 2 8-191 8 - 1 9 1 1 • ww www. w. M MC CT Tii n c . o r g
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [31]
[calendar] Van Draanen and Mark Huntley Parsons chat about their writing process and sign from books including Road Rash and Flipped. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 5:30 PM. Gentle bickering is always a possibility, too. Lend friends, Romans and countrymen an ear at the live storytelling event Tell Us Something. This edition’s theme is The Things We Carry. Top Hat. 6 PM. Email psst.tell.us.something@gmail.com to ask to participate. No cover. Simple pleasures in America: Free Cycles hosts a community bike ride, starting at the XXXXs at 5:15 PM, followed by live tunes and potluck refreshments at the shop, 723 First St., with Lil’ Smokies. 6-9 PM. Free. Get more in tune with your body at the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, which aim to ease chronic pain and improve flexibility and posture. Meets Thursdays from Oct. 923 and Nov. 6-20 from 6-7 PM at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. $30 for three week series. Call 721-0033 for info. Carla Green Trio provides tunes whilst our associate calendar editor bats her lashes at that hunky bartender at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. (She’s such a hussy, that associate calendar editor.) 6-8 PM. No cover. Field trip. The Moonshine plays Stage 112 Sat., Oct. 4, as part of the Missoula ZooGrass festival. 8 PM. $10 for two-day pass, available at Rockin Rudy’s.
nightlife
nightlife
Shimmy and swivel right on to Belly Dance with Aniysa at the Wellness Center, 500 W. Broadway. Meets from 7:15-8:45 PM. $36 for four weeks, or $10 per class. Email ann@aniysa.com for more info.
The Birth Center of Missoula hosts a screening of The Milky Way, a documentary about infant formula marketing and reclaiming breastfeeding. Crystal Theater. Doors at 6 PM, show at 6:30. Donations requested at the door; milk and cookies will be available.
Expect heaven’ly harmony at the third annual Choral Gala, featuring the University Choir, Women’s Chorus and Chamber Chorale in a globally inspired selection. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 for seniors/$5 students. Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: In the First Century AD, Roman Emperor Vaspasian started a tax on which bodily secretion? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife. Big Mama Lele ventures down into the lower 48 all the way from the Yukon, and she brings along her steel resonator ukelele and a bushel of songs of “crummy cabins, biking home alone, and being a smart person who does dumb things.” Badlander, around 10:30 PM after trivia gets done. Free.
The UM School of Theatre and Dance will put Gerard Depardieu to shame, I betcha, with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 7-11 and Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/ umarts/theatredance. (See Spotlight.) Missoula has a new bluegrass outfit, and it is Lochwood. They dig all things Scruggs, near as I can tell. Top Hat. 8 PM. Free show; 21-plus after 9 PM. (Trivia answer: urine collected from public restrooms, because it was one of the best sources of ammonia for cleaning and tanning processes.) Find that creative outlet ye seek at the Open Mic Night at Stage 112, starting about 9 PM. Call Mike at 2077097 after 4 PM on Monday to sign yourself up.
TUESDAYOCT07
WEDNESDAYOCT08
As part of Day of the Dead festivities, the ZACC hosts a workshop teaching the Mexican folk art of cutting paper into elaborate designs, AKA Papel Picado. 6-8 PM. $20/free for members. Visit zootownarts.org/adult.
Dancey-electronica outfit Rubblebucket ventures out of Portlandia and sets up playtime at the Palace, along with Body Language. Doors at 8 PM. $14/$12 in advance. 18-plus.
[32] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
The Hellgate High School Rooftop Salsa Party highlights the efforts of sustainability lovin’ teens with a celebration, bingo game and refreshments featuring salsa made from ingredients grown on the school’s rooftop garden. Hellgate Courtyard, 3:30-5:30 PM.
nightlife The World Affairs Council presents John Dau, one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” and a screening of Duk County: Peace is in Sight in the New South Sudan, with a Q&A afterward. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. 7 PM. Film is free. A pre-screening reception is $20-$25, call 7283328 to RSVP.
More events online: missoulanews.com Hot off “The Daily Show,” the 1491s Native American sketch comedy troupe screens videos at The Roxy at 7 PM. $7/$6 Students and seniors. The UM School of Theatre and Dance will put Gerard Depardieu to shame, I betcha, with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 7-11 and Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/umarts/theatredance. (See Spotlight.) I’ll bring the peanut butter, y’all bring that sweet jaaaaam to the
open Jam Nite at the Dark Horse, starting at 9 PM. Top acts of the night win prizes, too. No cover.
THURSDAYOCT09 The Festimation: Animation + New Media Arts Festival features up-and-coming animated movies and documentaries, screening at the Roxy on Thursdays in October. Oct. 9 at 5:30-10 PM, Oct. 16-30 from 7-10 PM. $5-$7, or $22 for all four nights. Cruise over to festimationfestival.wordpress.com. Beware, cause a buncha literary scoundrels are gonna take over town for the Humanities Montana Festival of the Book, such as James Lee Burke, Chris Dombrowski, Melissa Mylchreest, David Allan Cates, Peter Stark and many more. Venues include the Roxy, Radius Gallery, Top Hat and Montgomery Distillery, Oct. 9-11. Visit humanitiesmontana.org/programs/fob/ to find a link to the full schedule. Most events are free. Learn about Missoula’s resources for homeless veterans when Amy Weiss gives a presentation on the Valor House, followed by a discussion, as part of The Big Read. Missoula Public Library, 10:30 AM-noon.
nightlife The He Said, She Said Author Road Show with husband ‘n wife young adult writin’ team Wendelin
Nationally renowned photographer Parish Kohanim chats about his 30-year career, orchestrating shoots for Coca-Cola and being an “Explorer of Light” at the University Center Theater, 7-9:30 PM, as part of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s lecture series. (See Arts.) The UM School of Theatre and Dance will put Gerard Depardieu to shame, I betcha, with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 7-11 and Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/ umarts/theatredance. (See Spotlight.) MCT Out of the Box presents a redux of goosebumpy tale The Woman in Black, featuring the same cast as last year’s performances, ‘cept this time the thrills ‘n chills are at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. 7:30 PM. $15. Spencetober Part II: The Quickening gets 2 fast and 2 furious with songs, stories, jokes ‘n multimedia entertainment from Spencer. VFW. 9 PM. Free. Nothing certain but death and taxes. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
[outdoors]
MOUNTAIN HIGH
I
’m just gonna go out on a limb, Kanye West-style, and declare breast cancer awareness to be the Taylor Swift of health issues. Breast cancer, I’mma let you finish, but it sometimes takes the spotlight when other issues deserve plenty of awareness, too. Heart disease is the Beyonce in this particular awkward metaphor: that is, it is omnipresent in our lives today, sometimes to a point we don’t even realize. It’s also of particular concern for women. Only one in five American women believes heart disease is her greatest health threat, according to the American Heart Association, but it’s actually the number-one killer of both men and women. There are many misconceptions about how it operates in women. For instance, most people think of a classic heart attack as causing chest pain that radiates down one arm. But heart attacks often manifest differently in women; they might
notice a pain in their back or jaw, shortness of breath, breaking out in a cold sweat, heartburn or stomach pain. These symptoms can reflect a lot of other conditions, too, which is why it’s good to know yourself and the warning signs. The American Heart Association hosts its annual Heart Walk and Run 5K on the Oval this Saturday, where you can do your part to financially help out the nonprofit while also getting exercise and finding a social support network: the best way to prevent heart disease. —Kate Whittle The American Heart Association Heart Walk and 5K Run fundraiser starts on the UM Oval Sat., Oct. 4, at 10 AM. Visit missoulaheartwalk.org for info or registration.
The ZACC is proud to celebrate Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Join us in celebrating life and working through death with self-expression. Only through art can we truly appreciate the absence of life. This year the ZACC will celebrate and honor Día de los Muertos with the 3rd Annual Festival of the Dead group art show, a plethora of all-ages workshops, and a pre-party for the Festival of the Dead parade, featuring face-painting, on November 2. Be sure to catch our Festival of the Dead group art show, starting October 10. More info: zootownarts.org/FOTD
Don’t miss the Festival of the Dead parade! Downtown on Sunday Nov. 2
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
FRIDAY OCTOBER 3 The Cast One for Hope Single-Fly Event features a Friday night shindig at the Bitterroot Valley Pineview Lodge, followed on Saturday by a full-day guided drift on the Bitterroot River and catered lunch, with a dinner and auction at the Stock Farm Club Saturday evening. Proceeds benefit the national nonprofit Casting for Recovery, which supports breast cancer survivors. $1,000 for entire weekend. Tickets and info at castoneforhope.org. The Gettin’ Primitive weekend features workshops in archery, orienteering, outdoors cooking and general woodsman-ly skills, out at Sky Ranch at Rock Creek, Oct. 3-5. $135/$245 for two; families welcome. Call 240-3699 to learn more. This year’s Pray for Snow Party celebrates safe recreating in the fluffy stuff at Caras Park, with music, food, raffles and more from 5:30-10:30 PM. First 100 people in get a free Kleen Kanteen mug. Free. Proceeds benefit missoulaavalanche.org. (See Film.) The PEAK Tennis Pro-Am tournament features professionals like Robert Kendrick and Bobby Reynolds, plus amateurs and more pressed white shorts than you can shake a stick at. PEAK Racquet Club, 4990 Buckhouse Lane. 6 PM. From stomach-dropping descents in Alaska to massive terrain with Olympians, the Days of My Youth ski film captures mind-blowing outdoor adventure. Screening at the Wilma at 8 PM. $15. Visit win.gs/DaysOfMyYouth.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 All my homegirls are linin’ up for the AllWomen Diva Day 5K, on the Community Medical Center campus with awards for age group divisions from 5 to 85-plus. We’ll all <3 u at the American Heart Assocation Heart Walk and 5K Run fundraiser, starting on the UM Oval at 10 AM. Call Andrea at 243-5478 for more info.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 5 Once again, ‘tis the first Sunday in October at 9 AM, when intrepid souls line up for the annual
Wolf Creek Canyon Relay, a 28.02-mile run through the canyon alongside the river. Up to four people can compete in a team. Check out wolfcreekcanyonrelay.net. Polar Bear Rick and Co. are back in action for another year of the Libby Polar Bear Club, which plunges in Libby Creek at the Farm-to-Market Bridge every Sunday, October through April. Get refreshed over at libbymt.com/outdoors/polarbearclub.htm. All Crossed Out: The Montana State Cyclocross Championships features competition out at the Lindley Center in Bozeman all afternoon, with awards and barbecue to follow. Visit rockfordcycling.com.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 7 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info. Lend a hand at the weekly volunteer workday at the new Freedom Gardens, a community garden space on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. 6-8 PM. Bring gloves, sunscreen and a water bottle. Visit missoulacultures.blogspot.com or call 284-1780 to learn more. Cultivating goes through December.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8 The Wednesday Night Cyclocross Series brings together Lycra-lovin’ Missoulians in mens, women’s and junior’s classes at venues such as Fort Missoula and the Equestrian Park. Start time is always 5:45 PM. $10/$35 to enter in the series, plus you’ll need a USA Cycling license. Learn more by calling a local bike shop, such as Hellgate Cyclery, Missoula Bike Works, Open Road or Big Sky Cycles.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 Hobnob with other naturalist folk at the Native Plant Society’s Festival of the Botany Book, where you can bring your favorite or unusual plant identification guides to chat about and/or swap. Natural Sciences building, room 202. 7:30 PM. calendar@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [33]
[community]
Missoula County Growth Policy: Shaping Our Place, Charting Our Future We want to hear from you about your community’s assets, values, issues, and challenges at the listening sessions being held throughout the County: 10/14: Evaro Schoolhouse, Hwy 93 at Grooms Road, Evaro
10/21: Lubrecht Conf. Room, 38689 Hwy 200 E., Greenough
10/15: Bonner School, 9045 Hwy 200, Bonner
10/22: Seeley Lake Community Center, 3248 Hwy 83, Seeley Lake
10/16: Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W., Missoula
10/23: Lolo Community Center, 12345 US 93, Lolo
10/20: Swan Valley Community Center, Mile Post 42, Condon
10/27: Frenchtown Fire Station, 16873 Marion St., Frenchtown
All meetings start at 6:00 p.m. VISIT WWW.MCGROWTHPOLICY.US FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 406-258-4657 EMAIL: CAPS@CO.MISSOULA.MT.US
It’s hard to see from the outside, but some students are achieving new heights at Hellgate High School: literally, by planting a rooftop garden. The group that manages the garden, Students Against Violating the Environment (handily abbreviated to SAVE) is one of two Montana youth groups that’s partnered with the National Center for Appropriate Technology for a special celebration this fall. NCAT is a nonprofit that started trumpeting sustainability and conservation way back in the mid-’70s, and today some of its programs include fostering a new generation into awareness about energy use. What all of this translates to is a party in the Hellgate school courtyard on Oct. 8, with free salsa, which is a kind of awareness that I fully support. SAVE’s party includes speakers chatting about the student group’s work, plus activities like garlic clove planting, bingo, prizes like potted plants and tours of the rooftop garden, plus a tasting of the salsa made from this summer’s harvest. SAVE students have more plans in store for Hellgate, like improved recycling, reducing waste and
eventually making the school a zero-net-energy building. Kids these days get up to such crazy stuff. —Kate Whittle The Hellgate High School Rooftop Salsa Party highlights the efforts of sustainability lovin’ teens with a celebration, bingo game and refreshments. Hellgate Courtyard, Wed., Oct. 8, from 3:30-5:30 PM. Free.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY OCTOBER 3
at either meeting, as a heads up.
Good eggs are called to the American Red Cross blood drive, in Missoula on Oct. 3 from 10 AM-2 PM and Oct. 6 from 2-6 PM.
MONDAY OCTOBER 6
Bitterroot folks can do their part to help those affected by domestic or sexual violence at the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes, which invites dudes to wear some smashing heels and walk a mile through downtown Hamilton. Families are invited to participate together; gals get to wear their comfiest walking shoes. Registration at 5 PM, walk at 5:30. $20/$10 for youth/free for ages 6 and under. Visit safeinthebitterroot.org. Proceeds benefit SAFE.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 Odette Grassi hosts “Growth,” a writing and tiny terrarium workshop, for folks dealing with illness or loss, including care providers. Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. Free. Dunrovin Ranch up in Lolo celebrates furry and feathered friends with an Animal Blessing in honor of the Feast of St. Francis, with Pastor Jean from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church at the ranch and Deacon Ron Davies from Toronto officiating online. 11:30 AM1 PM. Bring a leashed pet to the ranch or check out DaysAtDunrovin.com/dunrovinpresents. As part of the Big Read, which features The Things They Carried, local vets host a Veteran’s Memorial Service at the Rose Park war memorial. 1 PM.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 5 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Walking Moustache, corner of Main and Ryman. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org. Habitat for Humanity is opening up applications for folks interested in building a home in partnership with the nonprofit. Meets at the conference room in City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview, Oct. 1 at 7 PM and Oct. 5 at 2 PM. Call 5498210 to learn more. Child care will not be available
Good eggs are called to the American Red Cross blood drive, in Missoula on Oct. 3 from 10 AM-2 PM and Oct. 6 from 2-6 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. The Corvallis United Methodist Church gets the gang together for the annual Harvest Dinner and Dessert Auction, 5-7 PM. Free-will donations appreciated.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 7 Families seeking to make friends in the community oughta check out the PLAY Network Open House, with games, food and fun for kids, plus a raffle for adults to win prizes. Missoula Alliance Church, 11 AM-1 PM. Find the Facebook page for the Missoula PLAY Network to learn more. The Adult Suicide and Sudden Loss Support Group meets for eight weeks to explore self-care, healthy grieving, family concerns and more. Tamarack Grief Resource Center. Tuesdays from 5:30-7 PM. $150, scholarships available. Register at 541-8472 or visit tamarackgriefresourcecenter.org. The Birth Center of Missoula hosts a screening of The Milky Way, a documentary about infant formula marketing and reclaiming breastfeeding. Crystal Theater. Doors at 6 PM, show at 6:30. Donations requested at the door; milk and cookies will be available.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon-1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.
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.
[34] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
missoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [35]
M I S S O U L A
Independent
www.missoulanews.com
October 2-October 9, 2014
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD ADD/ADHD relief ... Naturally! Reiki • CranioSacral Therapy • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Your Energy Fix. James V. Fix, RMT, EFT, CST 360840-3492, 415 N. Higgins Ave #19 • Missoula, MT 59802. yourenergyfix.com Missoula Medical Aid: Working for Health in Honduras. In 1998 we responded after a devastating hurricane. The need still continues, and so do we. Will you
help? Volunteer or donate today! missoulamedicalaid.org
munity event? Email Tannis at hargrovet@gmail.com
Missoula Medical Aid: Working for Health in Honduras. Please donate now at missoulamedicalaid.org!
Seeking sponsors: Single mother with 8-year-old disabled
ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE The cult-classic Rocky Horror Show LIVE is returning to the Wilma Theatre this Halloween! Are you interested in helping financially support this great com-
Peace happens... One heart at a time. 546 South Ave. W. Missoula 728-0187 Sundays: 11 am
HYPNOSIS
MISSOULA Antiques & Flea Market
s
.
ula Co
Misso
Public Notices . . . . . . . .C5 Crossword . . . . . . . . . .C6 This Modern World . .C11
(406) 633-9333 LIKE US!!! facebook.com/scishows —Oct. 25— Pumpkin Patch Hayrides Haunted Houses
P L AC E YOUR AD:
Walk it.
2298 Tipperary, Msla
317 S. Orange
360-4870
( :
Estimates
406-880-0688
bladesofglorylawncarellc.com
ANY TIME
Free Will Astrology . . .C4
www.SCIShows.com
FREE
327-0300
Table of contents Advice Goddess . . . . . .C2
WE HAVE AMMO!!!
À °Ê£ xÊUÊ->Ì°Ê xÊUÊ-Õ °Ê ÎÊ
MSW, CHT, GIS
Nice Or Ugly, Running Or Not
CO.
Oct. 3-5
728-5693 • Mary Place
Honda • Subaru • VW Toyota • Nissan Japanese/German Cars Trucks SUVs
The Crystal Limit!! Come see us at our store, a bead show, or at our Etsy shop!!!! 1920 Brooks St • 406-549-1729 • www.crystallimit.com
ound Fairgr
A clinical approach to negative self-talk • bad habits stress • depression Empower Yourself
I BUY
son is seeking benevolent people to help fund horse therapy at Horse Time for her son. Please contact Iris at 531-4413.
Fletch Law, PLLC Steve M. Fletcher Attorney at Law
Social Security Disability Over 20 years experience. Call immediately for a FREE consultation.
541-7307 www.fletchlaw.net
Talk it. 543-6609 x121 or x115
Send it. Post it. classified@missoulanews.com
PET OF THE WEEK Zeus may have the name of a Greek god, but he has the heart of a tennis player. Zeus loves to play fetch and will even offer some tricks if you come on down to toss the ball around. He is a smart young fellow who knows sit and shake. Zeus is hoping his new family will enroll him in one the shelter’s Basic Manners classes where he can learn more great behaviors. Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 www.myHSWM.org
“At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won’t be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.” -George Clooney
ADVICE GODDESS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
By Amy Alkon
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DOODY-BOUND You printed a letter from a guy who doesn't want to be a father and wanted to know how to be sure his girlfriend is on birth control. You said, "The single worst form of birth control is trusting that a woman ... longing for a baby" is taking hers (with whether she's ethical being a "mitigating factor"). But you forgot to tell him the magic word— abstinence! In addition to preventing pregnancy, it also guarantees that you won't get STDs or suffer the physically or psychologically damaging effects of premarital sex. Also, where'd you get the idea that women are conniving to get a bun in the oven without informing their partner? Right, we're all baby-hungry, unethical hopeful breeders. —Saved Myself I like to offer "Don't have sex!" as a form of practical advice—usually just as I'm getting into my flying car. Yes, abstaining from sex will help a person avoid producing offspring, getting STDs, or breaking a leg after somebody cheaps out on the home dungeon installation. But there's a reason they call it a sex drive, not a sex parked in the garage. Also, the advice "Just don't have sex!" is especially impractical for guys in their hornitoadinous early 20s like the guy who wrote that letter. Sure, he'll just sit his 800-pound libido down for a little chat and then politely decline any opportunity to have sex as if he'd just been offered some questionable hors d'oeuvre. As for where I got the idea about (some) women "conniving to get a bun in the oven without informing their partner," well, in email I've received from dismayed men paying child support to these women and from research by therapist Dr. Melinda Spohn. Spohn found that more than a third of the 400 women she surveyed at two community colleges had risked pregnancy—surreptitiously going without birth control or sporadically using it when they had sex with men with desirable qualities (like an apparent willingness to commit and good financial prospects). On a positive note, it isn't only men who are appalled by this behavior. A female reader who wanted a second child but whose husband wasn't up for it wrote, "I can't even remember how many people heard this and said 'well, accidents happen,' followed by a *wink wink.* Seriously, it's disgusting! Even our family doctor said this! I've always been sure to make those people feel about two inches tall by saying that I would NEVER do that to my husband (and honestly, who wants a child this way?!)."
This woman's ethics are the single best guarantee a man has that birth control will be used instead of dropped behind the bed. Meanwhile, many people will tell you they value ethics and then just cross their fingers and hope their partner has them. The thing to do is to make ethics a requirement, meaning looking for a partner to be OMG ethical!!! the way you look for them to be OMG hot!!! In other words, yes, a man who doesn't want a child should practice abstinence—the practical, doable kind: abstaining from getting into bed with any woman until he's observed that he has reason to trust her. (If he wants something loud, sticky, and expensive in his life, he can buy a Ferrari and drive it over chewed gum.)
LEICA WOMAN SCORNED My girlfriend bought me a digital camera for my birthday. Unfortunately, the one she got me lacked some features I wanted, so I returned it to the store, got the camera I wanted, and paid the difference. When I told her this, I think she was offended. Did I screw up? —Photo-Bombed When people say about gift-giving "it's the thought that counts," they don't mean the recipient's thought, "Did you find this in the trash?" Yes, you screwed up—not by ultimately getting the camera you need but by making the one she gave you disappear like a witness about to testify against a drug lord. Turning the gift your partner gave you into the gift you want should be a three-step process. First, there's the effusing—no matter how uneffusive you feel: "Wow, bat excrement!" Then there's the waiting. One day, maybe two days. And finally..."I just love my camera, honey. But there's another one that has this feature I really need—this camera-nerd thing you couldn't have known about. Would you come with me to check it out?" By keeping her involved, the camera you upgrade to becomes, essentially, Son of Camera that she gave you. By the way, that's how you should start talking about your new camera, and fast, before you find yourself using it to take a series of forlorn all-by-myselfies to post on your soonto-be-live Tinder profile.
Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com. www.advicegoddess.com
[C2] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
D’Vine Palette - PAINT . SIP . LEARN. *Pick painting *Tell friends to come *Drink & paint. 4 LOCATIONS! MISSOULA’S FIRST PAINT & SIP STUDIO. WWW.DVINEPALETTE.COM. 406.239.6856
TO GIVE AWAY Answers to your sexual health questions via text message. It’s FREE! Text 66746, Type ASKMAP (space) ur sexual health question. Confidential, Free and Easy to Use. For more information visit ASKMAP.INFO or BlueMountainClinic.org Free Haircuts. Limited availability. Call or stop by for details. Mighty Aphrodite Salon. 406-721-1866. 736A S. 1st W. Missoula (next to Free Cycles). Find us on Facebook.
YWCA Thrift Stores 1136 W. Broadway 920 Kensington
FREE SAMPLES of Emu Oil. Learn more about the many health benefits that Emu offer from oil and skin care products to eggs, steaks, filets and ground meat. Wild Rose Emu Ranch. (406) 363-1710. wildroseemuranch.com
VOLUNTEERS Mellowaires need a pianist. We’re a group of senior singers who meet in the daytime once a week and sing for an hour. Call Gwen 258-6584
ADOPTION
Ken's Barber Shop Children & Walk-in Welcome • 8:30AM-5:30PM • Tue-Sat Haircuts $10 • Beard Trims $5 Senior Citizens $9 1114 Cedar St, Missoula, MT• 728-3957
Local Artist: Charnay Murphy First Friday at Guild Mortgage Oct 3rd • 5-8pm
PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-4136293 We are looking to adopt. Young married couple unable to have children is looking to adopt a healthy newborn. We have a completed home study and background check. Willing to pay legal fees and some living expenses. Email: lookingatadoption@gmail.com to start the conversation and get a link to our ‘Profile’.
(Art will be on display throughout October.)
Featuring paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs. Themes varied, with the artist’s most recent series of paintings focusing on interdependence between man and technology/industry.
406-258-7520
1001 S. Higgins Ave., Ste A2 www.MissoulaGuildMortgage.net Branch NMLS# 398152 / NMLS ID# 3274
NFL at the Lucky Strike Come cheer for your favorite teams Food & drink specials DRIVING LESSONS M&M Driving School Call or Text
317-3272
missouladrivingschool.com
EMPLOYMENT Africa, Brazil Work/Study! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today! HYPERLINK “http://www.oneworldcenter.org ” www.OneWorldCenter.org (269) 591-0518 info@OneWorldCenter.org
Mental Health Counselor Blue Mountain Clinic is seeking a Mental Health Counselor! Must be LCPC or LCSW licensed in the state of Montana. Hours are flexible. Salary DOE. Must be pro-choice, and dedicated to serving both new clients, and our BMC established clients. Please send cover letter and re-
PROFESSIONAL CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS: • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-4937876 9am-5pm M-F
Western Transport, LLC Hiring a Mechanic for truck maintenance. • Must have own tools • Pay DOE • Great benefits
406-493-7876
sume to Blue Mountain Clinic, ATTN: Annie Hansen at 610 N California Missoula, MT 59802 via snail mail, or e-mail annie@bluemountainclinic.org Will start around the end of October, beginning of November. THE RAY CITY COMMISSION in Ray ND is now accepting applications for a Public Works Director
(PWD). The PWD oversees capital improvement and supervision of public works staff as well as performing the daily tasks necessary to assure the City’s water distribution, sanitary sewer collection and treatment, storm management system, streets, and street light systems are providing quality, efficient service for the City. The PWD must be certified or willing
EMPLOYMENT to be certified in Level 1 Water Distribution and Level 1 Wastewater Collection and Treatment in ND within one year of employment. Salary DOE. Excellent benefit package. Minimum of 5 years’ experience required. Contact the Ray City Commission at PO Box 67 Ray ND 58849 or send your resume to raynd@nccray.net. Applicants are encouraged to visit the City website at www.raynd.com for a full advertisement printout. Applications will be accepted through Oct, 2014
IH and New Holland dealership in Beach, ND is looking for a truck driver to safely transport farm equipment as assigned. Selected applicant will effectively and professionally communicate with sales, service and customers to keep them informed of scheduling and other relevant changes. Must have a CDL, clean MVR. We offer competitive wages, 401k retirement plan, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance,
MARKETPLACE short-term & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, eight paid holidays and job training. To be considered for this position, please submit resume to: West Plains, Inc., Attention: Store Manager, PO Box 128, Beach, ND 58621. Email resumes to: bzachmann@westplains.com. West Plains, Inc., Beach, ND, 701-872-4154, 1-800-5684197
TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assis-
tance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546
GREAT JOBS IN OIL FIELDS! Potentially earn $100,000+ annually. Housing available. Class A CDL w/doubles/triples, hazmat & tank endorsements. Lunderby Trucking. Send resume tim@lunderbys.com TRUCK DRIVER – BEACH, ND. West Plains Inc., a certified Case
Msla Co Pub Schools is recruiting for the following positions: Robotics Program Advisor, Full-time Bookkeeper, Speech Language Asst, Sign Language Interpreter, Para-Educators, Kitchen Helpers, Noon Duty & Bus Aides, Coaches, and Subs for all. Visit www.mcpsmt.org and click on “Employment” for job postings, descriptions, and the application process. EEOC www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com
Program Assistant, Full-time, $10.500/hr$11.760/hr. Applications received by October 9, 2014 will be guaranteed full consideration. Culinary Services Supervisor II – Sous Chef – Retail Operations, Full-time, $11.015/hr$12.290/hr. Applications received by October 8, 2014 will be guaranteed full consideration. AA/EOE/ADA/Veteran’s Preference Employer
GARAGE SALES Mini yard sale. Sat. only. ODD HOURS: 12-4. 337 Speed Way, East Missoula. MORE Fun Stuff.
Mellowaires need a pianist. We’re a group of senior singers who meet in the daytime once a week and sing for an hour. Call Gwen 258-6584 Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons. Rentals available. Bennett’s Music Studio 721-0190 BennettsMusicStudio.com
CRUISE CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)
EMPLOYMENT TECH - FT position determining and providing job coaching support to individuals w/disabilities in a community environment. Effective problem solving, communication and organizational abilities are essential. Varied hours and days. $10.05 - $10.30/hr.
Food Zoo Supervisor (Culinary Services Supervisor II) Full-time, $11.015/hr-$12.290/hr. Applications received by October 8, 2014 will be guaranteed full consideration.
HOT ROD! Fat man frame with mustang front end. Power rack and pinion, disks (new). + 2 corvette rear ends: 1 complete, 1 for parts. $2900. 406-273-2592.
Banjo lessons not just for guys anymore. Bennett’s Music Studio 721-0190 BennettsMusicStudio.com
Send resume and salary history to: LFoland@Missoulanews.com or Lynne Foland, P.O. Box 8275 Missoula, MT 59807
Director of Marketing, Full-time, $15.406/hr$15.868/hr. Applications received by October 8, 2014 will be guaranteed full consideration.
78 DATSUN 280Z. Real nice shape. $5,000. Call for more info: 273-2382
MUSIC
The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our advertising sales team. Customer service experience and strong organizational skills are required. Sales experience is preferred, but we’re happy to train someone who brings a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm. We offer a competitive comp and benefits package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment.
Associate Director for Retail Dining Operations Applications received by October 9, 2014 will be guaranteed full consideration.
The Crystal Limit!! Beads, jewelry and crystals at the absolute best prices. 1920 Brooks St • 406-549-1729 • www.crystallimit.com
Kid Crossing offers exceptional value on nearly new children’s clothing and equipment. Providing eco-friendly clothing exchange since 2001. Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Buy Local! 1940 Harve • 406-8298808 •kidcrossingstores.com
Advertising Account Executive
UM Dining (UMD) has several exciting career opportunities currently available. UMD is an international award-winning, self-operated, collegiate foodservice business enterprise. For complete details and to apply, please visit:http://umjobs.silkroad.com
CLASSICS
CLOTHING
SKILLED LABOR GIBSON IS EXPANDING and has COMPANY DRIVER positions available in Williston, ND. Hourly pay! Starting pay $24.50 plus overtime! Minimum 50 hours per week plus benefits. Flexible schedules. Gibson will provide housing while working in Williston area plus transportation. Call for details. Be a part of something new. Class A-CDL, hazmat with doubles & triples endorsement, 2 yrs. verifiable driving experience req. When it comes to dependable long-term work, Gibson offers more! Be more than a number! 866-6875281 www.drivegibson.com EOE
MISC. GOODS
ACCOUNTING TECH - FT position responsible for the complete A/R cycle related to billing state agencies for nonprofit services provided to adults with disabilities. 1 year accounting experience, Microsoft Office, and strong Excel spreadsheet skills required. Medicaid billing and nonprofit accounting experience preferred. Applicants must complete a 10-key and excel spreadsheet skill test available at the job service. M-F: 8a - 5p. $13.00/hr.
EXPLORE THE FALL SKY WITH THE POCKET STAR FINDER!
1920 BROOKS ST 406-549-1729 CRYSTALLIMIT.COM
BIG SAVINGS FALL Consignments Buy/Sell/Trade 111 S. 3rd W. 721Turn off your PC & turn on your life.
829 S. Higgins On the Hip Strip
Bennett’s Music Studio
406.543.1179
Guitar, banjo,mandolin and bass lessons. Rentals available.
Mon-Sat 10:30-6 • Sun 12-4
bennettsmusicstudio.com 721-0190
HAB TECH II- FT position providing support to staff that provides services to Adults w/disabilities. Supervisory experience preferred. Friday and Saturday: 10p - 10a, Sunday: 10p - 9a. $10.50 - $10.75/hr. SHIFT SUPERVISOR- FT Positions supporting persons with disabilities in a residential setting. $9.80 - $10.00/hr. DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL- Supporting Persons with Disabilities in Enhancing their Quality of Life. Evenings, Overnights & Weekend positions available. $9.20 - $10.40/hr. ALL POSITIONS OPEN UNTIL FILLED
Excellent Benefits!! Must Have: Valid Mt driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at
On the river, at the game or in the powder: live large and drink well
OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 or online: orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EOE.
montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [C3]
ARIES (March 21-April 19): As I hike through the wilderness at dusk, the crickets always seem to be humming in the distance. No matter where I go, their sound is farther off, never right up close to me. How can that be? Do they move away from me as I approach? I doubt it. I sense no leaping insects in the underbrush. Here's how this pertains to you: My relationship with the crickets' song is similar to a certain mystery in your life. There's an experience that calls to you but forever seems just out of reach. You think you're drawing nearer, about to touch it and be in its midst, but it inevitably eludes you. Now here's the good news: A change is coming for you. It will be like what would happen if I suddenly found myself intimately surrounded by hundreds of chirping crickets. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In three years, you will comprehend truths about yourself and your life that you don't have the capacity to grasp now. By then, past events that have been confusing to you will make sense. You'll know what their purpose was and why they occurred. Can you wait that long? If you'd rather not, I have an idea: Do a meditation in which you visualize yourself as you will be three years from today. Imagine asking your future self to tell you what he or she has discovered. The revelations may take a while to start rolling in, but I predict that a whole series of insights will have arrived by this time next week. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The journey that awaits you is succinct but epic. It will last a relatively short time but take months to fully understand. You may feel natural and ordinary as you go through it, even as you are being rather heroic. Prepare as best as you can, but keep in mind that no amount of preparation will get you completely ready for the spontaneous moves you'll be called on to perform. Don't be nervous! I bet you will receive help from an unexpected source. Feelings of deja-vu may crop up and provide a sense of familiarity—even though none of what occurs will have any precedents.
a
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the wild, very few oysters produce pearls—about one in every 10,000. Most commercial pearls come from farmed oysters whose pearls have been induced by human intervention. As you might expect, the natural jewel is regarded as far more precious. Let's use these facts as metaphors while we speculate about your fate in the next eight months. I believe you will acquire or generate a beautiful new source of value for yourself. There's a small chance you will stumble upon a treasure equivalent to the wild pearl. But I suggest you take the more secure route: working hard to create a treasure that's like a cultivated pearl.
BLACK BEAR NATUROPATHIC
By Rob Brezsny
2831 Fort Missoula Road, Ste. 105, Bldg. 2
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Family Care • IV Therapy • Women’s Health Christine White N.D. • Elizabeth Axelrod N.D.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
b
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In June 2012, a U.S. Senator introduced a bill that would require all members of Congress to actually read or listen to a reading of any bill before they voted on it. The proposal has been in limbo ever since, and it's unlikely it will ever be treated seriously. This is confusing to me. Shouldn't it be a fundamental requirement that all lawmakers know what's in the laws they pass? Don't make a similar error, Leo. Understand exactly what you are getting into, whether it's a new agreement, an interesting invitation, or a tempting opportunity. Be thoroughly informed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Jimmy Fallon was a senior in high school, he received a weird graduation gift: a troll doll, one of those plastic figurines with frizzy, brightly colored hair. Around the same time, his mother urged him to enter an upcoming comedy contest at a nearby club. Jimmy decided that would be fun. He worked up a routine in which he imitated various celebrities auditioning to become a spokesperson for troll dolls. With the doll by his side, he won the contest, launching his career as a comedian. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life: an odd blessing or unexpected gift that inspires you to express one of your talents on a higher level.
d
e
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Dear So-Called Astrologer: Your horoscopes are worse than useless. Mostly they are crammed with philosophical and poetic crap that doesn't apply to my daily life. Please cut way back on the fancy metaphors. Just let me know if there is money or love or trouble coming my way—like what regular horoscopes say! -Skeptical Scorpio." Dear Skeptical: In my astrological opinion, you and your fellow Scorpios will soon feel the kind of pressure you just directed at me. People will ask you to be different from what you actually are. My advice? Do not acquiesce to them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Tomatoes are a staple of Italian cuisine now, but there weren't any tomatoes in Europe until the 16th century, when Spanish explorers brought them from Central and South America. Likewise, Malaysia has become a major producer of rubber, but it had no rubber trees until seeds were smuggled out of Brazil in the 19th century. And bananas are currently a major crop in Ecuador thanks to 16th-century Portuguese sailors, who transported them from West Africa. I foresee the possibility of comparable cross-fertilizations happening for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Do you have your eye on any remote resources you'd like to bring back home?
f
g
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Years ago, you experienced an event that was so overwhelming you could not fully deal with it, let alone understand it. All this time it has been simmering and smoldering in the depths of your unconscious mind, emitting ghostly steam and smoke even as it has remained difficult for you to integrate. But I predict that will change in the coming months. You will finally find a way to bring it into your conscious awareness and explore it with courage and grace. Of course it will be scary for you to do so. But I assure you that the fear is a residue from your old confusion, not a sign of real danger. To achieve maximum liberation, begin your quest soon.
h
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is prime time to do things that aren't exactly easy and relaxing, but that on the other hand aren't actually painful. Examples: Extend peace offerings to adversaries. Seek reconciliation with valuable resources from which you have been separated and potential allies from whom you have become alienated. Try out new games you would eventually like to be good at, but aren't yet. Get a better read on interesting people you don't understand very well. Catch my drift, Aquarius? For now, at least, leaving your comfort zone is likely to be invigorating, not arduous.
i
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your oracle is built around the epigrams of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. From her hundreds of pithy quotes, I have selected six that offer the exact wisdom you need most right now. Your job is to weave them all together into a symphonic whole. 1. "It's crucial to have an active fantasy life." 2. "Ensure that your life stays in flux." 3. "I have every kind of thought, and that is no embarrassment." 4. "Animalism is perfectly healthy." 5. "Finding extreme pleasure will make you a better person if you're careful about what thrills you." 6. "Listen when your body talks." Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
[C4] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
Awakenings Massage and Bodywork. Some of the more common benefits our patients experience are: reduced pain, reduced stiffness and motion limitations. Awakenings Massage and Bodywork. Tami Beich L.M.T. 2409 Dearborn Ave. 406-207-0016. massagemissoula.com Bioenergetic, CranioSacral & Physical Therapies. 30 years experience. Body-mind-spirit integration. Shana’s Heart of Healing, Shana Dieterle, LPT 396 5788
406.542.2147 MontanaNaturalMedicine.com
INSTRUCTION
tails at: AwardMakeup School.com 818-980-2119
AIRBRUSH MAKEUP ARTIST COURSE For: Ads, TV, Film. Fashion 40% OFF TUITION SPECIAL $1990 - Train & Build Portfolio . One Week Course De-
ANIYSA Middle Eastern Dance Classes and Supplies. Call 2730368. www.aniysa.com
A natural healing art based on the principle that there are reflex points on the feet, hands & ears that are actually "reflections" of the body systems & organs. Using gentle acupressure, your reflexologist is able to stimulate the body's own natural ability to achieve better overall balance and energy. It's a perfect complement to traditional health care routines... and you get to keep your clothes on!!
Please call or email for appt. 406-830-7276 mountainreflexology@gmail.com 127 N. Higgins, Ste. 308
BioMat FREE First Session Far Infrared Therapy Restoration, Detox, Balance Call 541-8444 www.thermographyofmontana.c om Medical Cannabis Alternative Wellness of Montana Clinic. Safe and reliable access to the MT Medical Marijuana program. Call 406-249-1304 to schedule your appointment today.
c
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Oliver Evans (1755-1819) was a prolific Virgo inventor who came up with brilliant ideas for steam engines, urban gas lighting, refrigeration, and automated machines. He made a radical prediction: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, almost as fast as birds fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour." We may be surprised that a visionary innovator like Evans dramatically minimized the future's possibilities. In the same way, I suspect that later in your life, you might laugh at how much you are underestimating your potentials right now. In telling you this, I'm hoping you will stop underestimating.
Affordable, quality addiction counseling in a confidential, comfortable atmosphere. Stepping Stones Counseling, PLLC. Shari Rigg, LAC • 406926-1453 • shari@steppingstonesmissoula.com. Skype sessions available.
PEACEFUL HEART YOGA: Live Your Yoga workshop: create an individualized, simple daily practice of mindfulness in daily life, Sun 9/21 4-8pm. $40. 406-2399642, PeacefulHeartYogaMissoula.com; 725 W. Alder #3.
Intro to Meditation and Buddhism
BioMat FREE First Session Far Infrared Therapy Restoration, Detox, Balance Call 541-8444
6 week class, Wed. 7-9pm Oct 15- Nov. 19, $60 Rocky Mountain Buddhist Center 540 South 2nd West 721-5836 or 240-9655
www.thermographyofmontana.com
PUBLIC NOTICES
SERVICES CONTRACTORS
REAL ESTATE
Mannix Construction. Residential • Light Commercial • Remodels. 549-4540
estimates. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
Downsizing • New mortgage options • Housing options for 55+ or 62+ • Life estates • Antique & collectible
www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com
HANDYMAN HOME SERVICES ONE. Carpentry, Painting, Clean-Outs & More. Licensed & Insured. Call Robert 978-502-1093
HOME IMPVOVEMENT Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal and solar PV. 3690940 or 642-6863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net
STORAGE for YOUR PEACE of MIND • CLIMATE CONTROLLED UNITS
Remodeling? Look to Hoyt Homes, Inc, Qualified, Experienced, Green Building Professional, Certified Lead Renovator. Testimonials Available. Hoythomes.com or 728-5642 SBS Solar specializes in design and installation services for Solar Systems: residential, commercial, on- and off-grid. Serving all of Western Montana. www.SBSlink.com
PAINTING LIGHTEN UP PAINTING. Celebrating 30 glorious years of painting! Lics’d/ insured free estimates. Carrie 207-9255
• BOAT, RV, MOTORCYCLE, ANTIQUES, ARCHIVES, WINE COLLECTIONS, HEIRLOOMS, PERSONAL ITEMS • DRY • EASY ACCESS • SECURE • ROOM FOR THE ENTIRE HOUSE
2220 RIVER ROAD • Missoula, MT 59801
406.926.3158 •
RiverRdStorage.com
(855) MQS B BARN ARN (677-2276)
30’x60‘x12’ 30’x6 0‘x12’ •1-60’ •1 -60’ •5-12’ Bays •5 -12’ Ba ys 40’x60’x12’ •3’’ Ov Overhang •3 erhang Garage/Hobby Shop Garage/Hobby Front On F ront •2-10x10 $14,900 Garage Doors Garage
•1-3’ Entry Door ϐ Ȁ ϐ Ȁ $22,600
Ǥ Ǥ Ǥ Ǥ Prices Prices based on a 40 lb. snow snow load - Delivery Deliverry fees fee e s may apply
In the 4th Judicial District Court of Missoula County, State of Montana Cause No.: DP-14-188 Dept. No.: 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Dean Michael Skrivseth, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Janice C. Stensland, PO Box 2173, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of September, 2014. /s/ Janice C. Stensland, Personal Representative IN THE JUSTICE COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 CV14-46913 Justice of the Peace, Karen A. Orzech SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Evan B. Dean, Plaintiff, vs Martin Behner, 1918 Wyoming St., Missoula, MT 59801. Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANT, GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed with the above-named Justice of the Peace, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the aboveentitled Court and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff, or Plaintiff ’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A $30.00 fee must be accompanied by the answer for each Defendant. WITNESS my hand this 19th day of September, 2014. /s/ Karen A. Orzech, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, DEPT. I/II By: /s/ RL Roadhouse, Clerk of Justice Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-14978 Dept. No. 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Kaydin Christofer Bristle, Samantha Ziesemer, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Kaydin Christofer Bristle to Kaydin Christofer Ziesemer. The hearing will be on 10/30/2014 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 09/15/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Casie Kragh, Deputy Clerk of Court
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14184 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENIS STUART MOLES, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to B. Diane Crews and Margaret E. Kemper, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 15th day of August, 2014. /s/ B. Diane Crews, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Margaret E. Kemper, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Nancy Gibson, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14186 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JULIA T. WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Ian Sayer White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 28th day of August, 2014. /s/ Ian Sayer White, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-14-192 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: WILLIAM H. RAOUL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karen Dale Raoul has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims
MNAXLP within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Karen Dale Raoul, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of September, 2014. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 4th day of September, 2014. /s/ Karen Dale Raoul, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-14-154 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEVIN W. LEONARDI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Western Montana Chapter, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State o Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 11th day of September, 2014. WESTERN MONTANA CHAPTER, Personal Representative By: /s/ Melissa Stiegler, Its: Executive Director WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ William E. McCarthy NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated February 24, 2009 Grantors: Michael Koster and Sara Koster, Husband and Wife 10613 Coulter Pine Street Lolo, MT 59847 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation P. O. Box 549 Missoula, MT 59806 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee and limited agent for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation and its successors and assigns P. O. Box 2026 Flint, MI 48501-2026 Current Beneficiary: U. S. Bank National Association 4801 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 Successor Trustee: Kristina K. McMullin Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909
Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded February 26, 2009 under Document No. 200904264, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 10th day of December, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana, KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the abovenamed Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantors, and all of their successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: LOT 99 OF PONDEROSA HEIGHTS, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the abovenamed Grantors, and all of their successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Note in the amount of Two Thousand Two Hundred Six and 80/100 Dollars ($2,206.80) for the months of August, 2013 through August 8, 2014; together with interest which continues to accrue at the rate of 4.875 percent (4.875%) per annum; together with late fees and other charges in the amount of Five Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty and 90/100 Dollars ($5,780.90). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the principal balance of Three Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand Three Hundred Forty-One and 41/100 Dollars ($387,341.41), plus interest thereon at the rate of 4.875% from and after the months of August, 2013 through August 8, 2014, in the amount of Twenty Thousand Eight Hundred Eighteen and 55/100 Dollars ($20,818.55), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate as provided in the Note, plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 14th day of July, 2014. /s/ Kristina K. McMullin, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA):ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 14th day of July, 2014, by KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, Successor Trustee. /s/ Joan D. Edmunds, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Frenchtown, Montana My
montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [C5]
JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s “The Short Version”–saving a few letters. by Matt Jones
ACROSS
1 "Let's go," to Dora 6 It can make a date 10 Show segments 14 Rewrite 15 Carmen or Cartman 16 "We've got trouble!" 17 Terrible dictionary definition of fortified wine? 19 iPod model 20 Tater Tots maker 21 Time out for Timothy Leary 23 Take back 25 Empty ___ syndrome 26 Instrument for Hawaiians and hipsters 29 Paper format? 32 Shaggy's voice 36 Without company 37 Kenny Loggins's "Danger ___" 38 "Ewwww!" 39 Hero's pursuit 40 Ninth Greek letter 41 Plumlike fruit 42 One of Holder's predecessors 43 Called off 44 California's Big ___ 45 Major inconveniences 47 Pad prik khing's cuisine 49 Queen of hip hop 54 Spiny anteaters 58 Put under 59 Speaker of Cooperstown 60 Be a hasty actor? 62 Nutmeg-flavored drinks 63 Killing time 64 Center of activity 65 Needing a massage 66 Mad Libs category 67 Sporty Jaguar
Last week’s solution
DOWN
1 Contrail's makeup 2 "I ___ Mi Amor" (Color Me Badd #1 hit) 3 Paddock parents 4 Adrian Tomine comic "___ Nerve" 5 Bowl location 6 MPG component 7 Vegas Strip casino 8 Clarence's role on "The Mod Squad" 9 North America's highest mountain 10 Family tree branches 11 #1 hits like "All About That Balsa" and "Shake It Oak"? 12 "The Bluest Eye" author Morrison 13 Pick up a few things 18 Cold and clammy 22 Dennis's sister, in "Always Sunny" 24 Washington-area airport 27 Supposedly crazy birds 28 Join the club 30 Start the pot 31 In need of jumper cables 32 X, in a love letter 33 "Because freedom can't protect itself" org. 34 Fashionable school for hybrid outerwear? 35 Potato feature 37 Popular wine, for short 39 Farmer's storage 43 Co-star of Bea, Betty, and Rue 45 Suckered 46 Right there on the map 48 ___ fit (tantrum) 50 Word said with a head slap 51 Iggy Azalea hit 52 Accepted without question 53 "Siddhartha" novelist Hermann 54 Active volcano in Sicily 55 Comfy shoe 56 Brad's role in "Inglourious Basterds" 57 Colleague of Scotty and Spock 61 Stimpy's counterpart
©2014 Jonesin’ Crosswords editor@jonesincrosswords.com
PUBLIC NOTICES Commission Expires: September 01, 2016 (9.18.14/9.25.14/10.2.14) NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated May 27, 2011 Grantor: Richard D. Morgan, a married man 2304 Leo Avenue Missoula, MT 59808 Original Trustee: Charles Peterson 38 Second Avenue E Dickinson, ND 58601 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee and limited agent for U.S. Bank N. A. and its successors and assigns P. O. Box 2026 Flint, MI 485012026 Current Beneficiary: U. S. Bank National Association 4801 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 Successor Trustee: Kristina K. McMullin Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded June 7, 2011 under Document No. 201109356, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 10th day of December, 2014, at the hour of 10:15 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana, KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the abovenamed Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Lots 3 and 18 in Block 2 of WEST MISSOULA, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Note in the amount of Five Hundred Thirty and 07/100 Dollars ($530.07) for the months of August, 2012 through July 15, 2014; together with interest which continues to accrue at the rate of 5.25 percent (5.25%) per annum; together with late fees and other charges in the amount of Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-Four and 40/100 Dollars ($7,974.40). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the principal balance of Ninety-Four Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-One and 40/100 Dollars ($94,521.40), plus interest thereon at the rate of 5.25% from and after the months of
[C6] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
July, 2012 to July 15, 2014, in the amount of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred One and 53/100 Dollars ($9,701.53), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate as provided in the Note, plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 22nd day of July, 2014. /s/ Kristina K. McMullin, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA ) : s s County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 22nd day of July, 2014, by KRISTINA K. McMULLIN, Successor Trustee. /s/ Joan D. Edmunds, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Frenchtown, Montana My Commission Expires: September 01, 2016 (9.18.14/9.25.14/10.2.14) NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 17, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot B3 of Windsor Park, Phase VII, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat. Tricia G Bowman & Cory D Bowman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 18, 2007 recorded July 18, 2007 in Book 801 Page 1192 under Document No 200718343. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $931.48, beginning February 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 3, 2014 is $158,678.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50% now totaling $5,213.58, late charges in the amount of $186.28, escrow advances of $797.16 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,218.28, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.26 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as
MNAXLP may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 14, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 14 day of July, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor
Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notry Public Binham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus V Bowman 42008.919 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 17, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 8 of Prospect Phase 1A, A platted subdivision in the city of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in book 16 of plats at page 70. R Craig Flint and Tristin S. Flint, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 5, 2006 and recorded on December 11, 2006 in Book 788, Page 889 under Document no . 200631620. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. success by merger to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,095.20, beginning February 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 20, 2014 is $261,825.04 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% now totaling $1,655.67, late charges in the amount of $175.68, escrow advances of $1,235.38, and other fees and expenses advanced of $61.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $9.68 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against
the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 14, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 14 day of July, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Citimortgage V.Flint 42090.125
RENTALS yard, storage. $600. Grizzly Property Management 5422060
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611
APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $575, LEASE INCENTIVES. Downtown, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $600, quite cul-de-sac, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1315 E. Broadway #11. 1 bed/1.5 bath, near U, coin-ops, pet? $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1404 Toole: 2 Bedroom, Downtown area, Large, Near laundry, Parking, Cat OK, $710. One year Costco membership! GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106
3901 O’Leary: 2 Bedroom, Private patio, Hook-ups/laundry, Carport, Storage, Heat paid, $825 $200 Costco gift card & one year Costco Membership! GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106 720 Turner St. “D” 3 bed/1.5 bath Northside, pet? $900 Grizzly Property Management 5422060 731 W. Sussex Ave. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops, HEAT PAID. $700 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, $800, newer townhouse style condo, newer appliances, W/D in unit, carport S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 2 bath $850, newer complex, granite countertops, open concept, coin op laundry, off street parking & storage. H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2306 Hillview Ct. #3. 2 bed/1 bath, W/D hook-ups, shared
2423 55th St. “A”. 3 bed/1 bath, South Hills, shared yard, W/D hookups. $950. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 3907 Buckley Place. 2 bed/1 bath, W/D hook-ups, single garage. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
HOUSES 1518 W. Central Ave 4 bed/1 bath, double garage, pet? $1325. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
NOW LEASING! Mullan Reserve Apartments Rugged yet refined. Secluded yet convenient. Luxurious yet sustainable. Call for a free tour. 543-0060. 4000 Mullan Road. mullanreserveapartments.com
1743 S. 5th St. W.: 2 Bedroom, Newer, 1 1/2 Bath, Porch, Hook-ups, Central, 2 Story, Study area, $950. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106
Our members are: licensed, educated, professional, bound by a code of ethics, and have a duty to provide the best possible service. westernmontana.narpm.org Owners: looking for a professional to take care of your investment? Relax and leave it to the best in the business: Western Montana Chapter of NARPM westernmontana.narpm.org Rent from the best Property Managers in Western Montana westernmontana.narpm.org
MOBILE HOMES Lolo 1/4 acre lot, nice park, $300/mo. Water, sewer, and garbage paid. No dogs. 2736034 Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric in-
2341 Dixon: Newer 3 Bedroom, Over 1700 sq. ft., Garage, Kitchen island, Basement den, Small dog OK!, $1295. One year Costco Membership!. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106
and have a duty to provide the best possible service. www.westernmontana.narpm.org Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.
ROOMMATES ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates.com. (AAN CAN)
FIDELITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7
251-4707 119 N. Johnson 1 Bed 4-Plex $510/month 100 Curtis 2 bd/garage duplex $710/month Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $675/month
1&2
Bedroom Apts FURNISHED, partially furnished or unfurnished
UTILITIES PAID Close to U & downtown
528 Hickory 1 Bed Apt. $525/month
549-7711 Check our website!
www.alpharealestate.com
fidelityproperty.com
GardenCity
Property Management
422 Madison • 549-6106 For available rentals: www.gcpm-mt.com
Grizzly Property Management, Inc. "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.
715 Kensington Ave., Suite 25B 542-2060• grizzlypm.com
Finalist
Finalist
2415 Mary Ave. 2 bed/1 bath, single garage, central location, $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 4 bedroom, 2 bath home $1,300, 2 living rooms, 2 fireplaces, microwave, DW, garage, deck, fenced back yard w/kennel S/G paid Pets on Approval, No Smoking. GATEWEST 7287333 Is your Property Manager a NARPM Member? Our members are: licensed, educated, professional, bound by a code of ethics,
No Initial Application Fee Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing 30 years in Call for Current Listings & Services Missoula Email: gatewest@montana.com
www.gatewestrentals.com
MHA Management manages 13 properties throughout Missoula.
1801 Howell #4. 2 bed/1 bath, storage, W/D hookups, pet? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
2 bedroom, 1 bath, $725, quite cul-de-sac, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333
DUPLEXES
Is your Property Manager a NARPM Member? westernmontana.narpm.org
1502 Ernest Ave. #6 1 bed/1 bath, central location, W/D hook-ups, storage. $575. Grizzly Property Management 5422060
2 bedroom, 1 bath $725, downtown & near University, coin op laundry, off street parking & carport. W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333
cluded. $425/month 406-2736034
All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.
1235 34th St. • Missoula (406) 549-4113 missoulahousing.org
STORAGE for YOUR PEACE of MIND • CLIMATE CONTROLLED UNITS • BOAT, RV, MOTORCYCLE, ANTIQUES, ARCHIVES, WINE COLLECTIONS, HEIRLOOMS, PERSONAL ITEMS • DRY • EASY ACCESS • SECURE • ROOM FOR THE ENTIRE HOUSE
2220 RIVER ROAD • Missoula, MT 59801
406.926.3158 •
RiverRdStorage.com %montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [C7]
REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1020 Stoddard. 2 bed, 1 bath Craftsman on the Northside. Hardwood floors & deck. $200,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential MIssoula 2398350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $300,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 11864 O’Keefe Creek. 5 bed, 3 bath on 20 fenced acres with tack shed, hay barn & horse stalls. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula
239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 1290 Lena Lane. 3 bed, 3 bath with 3 car garage near fishing access in Target Range. $249,900. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 1297 Big Flat. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Montana Craftsman on 7+ acres with fenced pasture & pond. $489,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 1633 South 4th West. 1920’s style 4 bed, 2 bath on new foundation & roof, fenced yard, patio & covered front porch. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rat-
tlesnake Creek and park. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 1944 South 8th West. Remodeled 2 bed, 1 bath with deck on 2 lots. $149,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2116 West Kent. Charming 2 story, 3 bed, 1.5 bath home with single garage. Low-maintenance front yard & garden in back. $172,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com
2264 Grape Arbor Court. 6 bed, 3 bath in Target Range. $660,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
with deck, Bitterroot views & 2 car garage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260. mlzapp knapp@lambrosera.com
2304 River Road. Remodeled, energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath on large lot. Patio, deck & blocks to Milwaukee trail system. $210,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com
3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
5619 Prospect. 5 bed, 4 bath well-maintained Grant Creek home with 3 car garage. $404,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350 shannon@prudential missoula.com
2515 Klondike Court. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style in Grant Creek with 2 car garage. $359,900. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 2970 Sandalwood Court. 4 bed, 2 bath in Big Flat neighborhood with Clark Fork River access. $582,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com
3411 Paxson. 4 bed, 2 bath recently remodeled with fenced yard & double garage. $275,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 3748 Brandon. 5 bed, 3 bath with 2 car garage in Linda Vista. $359,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lower Miller Creek home on 1 acre. $230,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4114 Melrose. 3 bed, 2 bath Pleasant View home with fenced yard, patio & double garage. $245,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 4700 Nicole Court. 6 bed, 4 bath high-end Linda Vista home with 3 car garage and Missoula views. $419,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com 5614 Gharrett. 4 bed, 3 bath
6200 St. Thomas. 5 bed, 4 bath on 1+ acre in Miller Creek neighborhood. $359,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 638 North 3rd St. W. 4 bed, 1.5 bath on 8700+ sq.ft. lot. New windows, furnace & hot water heater. $285,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
ment on 5 view acres. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com Anne Jablonski, Realtor with Portico Real Estate, recently obtained her Montana State Broker license. Anne has 12 years of experience helping clients buy and sell real estate in Missoula and surrounding areas. You can find her at www.MoveMontana.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you find your way home. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406-241-3321
655 Woodworth. 3 bed, 3 bath 1940’s bungalow two blocks to UM. $355,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com
“Go Griz” let me help you find your way back home to Missoula. David Loewenwarter, Realtor Prudential MT Real Estate 241-3221 loewenwarter.com
720 Ben Hogan Drive. 5 bed, 4 bath on 4 Farviews acres with Pattee Canyon views. $750,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com
I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com. Visit my website at www.on93.com
720 West Sussex. 5 bed, 2 bath ranch style home with many upgrades. $247,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apart-
Let me help save you time and energy. I know about Missoula and have lived here 30+ years. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406-241-3321 More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Newer 2 bed, 1 bath 1200 sq. ft. home on 1.02 acre lot. 1200 sq. ft. attached garage, recently fenced, new roof sealant. Easy to maintain. Bring you own landscaping ideas to this wonderful home. It’s easy to live in this semi-remote area with quiet and views. Only 10 Miles from Reserve Street. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 329-2059. loewenwarter.com
[C8] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
REAL ESTATE Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-542-8644 Slant Street Charmer 733 Marshall $225,000. Slant Street charmer with lots of light, a wonderful yard with raised beds, and an awesome shop all in a convenient location and ready to move in to. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com
Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook. Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe. 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard. A home with character! $189,000. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES
We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com
1400 Burns Street #15. $150,000. A rare, spacious 3 bedroom unit in the awesome Burns Street Commons! This upstairs corner unit is all on one level with a secure private entrance and a balcony. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com
When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com
1420D Stoddard. 2 bed, 1.5 bath Westside condo with front porch, fenced yard & garage. $158,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22;
1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with single garage near
SUSTAINAFIEDS Kid Crossing offers exceptional value on nearly new children’s clothing and equipment. Providing ecofriendly clothing exchange since 2001. Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Buy Local! 1940 Harve • 406-829-8808 • www.kidcrossingstores.com
solar thermal and solar PV. 3690940 or 642-6863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net
Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using
Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal & solar PV.
Natural Housebuilders & Terry Davenport Design, Inc. 369-0940 or 642-6863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net
Clark Fork River walking trails. $180,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 2340 55th Street #19. 3 bed, 1.5 bath split-level with gas fireplace, deck & single garage. $135,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 3811 Stephens #30. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with single garage in Lewis & Clark neighborhood. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $175,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail. No HOA fees. $285,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Clark Fork River Condo 1401 Cedar Street #16. $122,500. Charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhouse set on the Clark Fork River. What an amazing home! KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Uniquely Missoula! 619 Phillips and 633 Phillips. $165,000 each. The former MUD demonstration site on the Northside. Many outbuildings on each and so many possibilities. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage &
access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort
and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. 2 bedroom units for $119,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
DUPLEXES Central Missoula Duplex 1779 & 1781 W Sussex. $187,500. Centrally located duplex. Close to shopping, busses, bike path, and easy access to Russell, Brooks and South. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
MANUFACTURED
HOMES
2406 McIntosh Loop. 3 bed, 2 bath Redman 28x56 in Orchard
4318 Leonard Ln, Stevensville $235,000 • MLS # 20145443
2970 Sandalwood Ct Missoula $582,500
4 bed/2 bath, 3 car garage, 1 acre Big Flat home w/river access. Large kitchen & private deck. End of cul-de-sac.
• 3 bed 2 bath, 1516 sq.ft. home on 3.27 acres • Open floor plan with mountain views • Fenced with irrigated pastures, greenhouse & root cellar
PERFECT PICKS 524 Dixon • $349,000 2203 West Sussex • $170,000 2200 Garland #30 • $107,500
910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 2200 Garland #45 acre on Canyon River Golf
Promenade Community. $104,900. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700 c h r i s h o n z e l @lambrosera.com
$108,000
2 bed, 1 bath, Clearview Village LAND FOR Condominiums SALE Low maintenance, to Cote trailLane. system 1625close Lot 12A Level 1 acrewith with views fantasticofviews. Mary the city, Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros alternative ERAaffordable Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com to renting.
Course with 252 Clark Fork River
MLS# 20146082
912 Defoe $179,000
2340 55th St. #19 • $135,000
3 bed, 2 bath, vaulted ceilings. Large garage/shop. Located on Missoula’s historic Northside.
MLS# 20144748 • Split-level condo in South Hills • 3 beds, 1 bath in daylight lower level • Open floor plan with gas fireplace & 1/2 bath • Turn key with many modern upgrades • Deck & single garage
316 Tyler Way $212,500 4 bed, 2 bath home in terrific Lolo Neighborhood. Large fenced backyard. Home has a new roof and updated bathrooms. Qualifies for RD financing.
MLS# 20146317
montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [C9]
REAL ESTATE frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis. 1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
6 TIPS
FOR BUYING MORE FOR LESS 512 E. Broadway 406-728-2621 matt@clarkforkrealty.com
[C10] Missoula Independent • October 2–October 9, 2014
NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 11 acre Mission Mountain building site. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Over 40 acres with 2 creeks near Mission Mountains. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate.
LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321 NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
COMMERCIAL 101 Church Street, Stevensville. Currently Mission Bistro Restaurant, but zoned for commercial
or residential. $255,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
brary, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com
4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. Commercial or Residential. $185,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit...
12336 Frenchtown Frontage Road. 3 bed, 3 bath on 4+ acres with front porch, deck & UG sprinklers. $345,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com
www.mindypalmer.com
OUT OF TOWN 109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with li-
15080 Big Horn, Huson. Montana Dream Home near Clark Fork River. 4 bed, 3 bath on over 6 acres. $550,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com
REAL ESTATE 2039 Nighthawk Trail, Victor. 3 bed, 2 bath on 20 acres near Fred Burr Trailhead off Bear Creek Road. $675,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229. tory@montana.com 210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $465,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Bonner area home close to Blackfoot River & public lands. $324,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $236,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lolo area home home. $229,900. Prudential Montana. For more
info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4158 Petty Creek. 3 bed, 4 bath log-sided home on 40 acres with 1400’ of Petty Creek frontage. $495,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 41608 Melita Island Road, Elmo. 3 bed, 2 bath on 1.3 acres with 400’ of Flathead Lake frontage. $1,000,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 4318 Leonard Ln. Stevensville, $235,000 • 3 bed 2 bath, 16 sq.ft. home on 3.27 acres • Open floor plan with mountain views • Fenced with irrigated pastures, greenhouse & root cellar Celia Grohmann Banana Belt Realty 406-550-1014 celiamontana@gmail.com 435 Ernest. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style home, south of Florence on 5 acres, fenced and crossfenced for horses. Attached double car garage, 44 x 32’ shop with office, small tack room and barn. $310,000. MLS# 20146167. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com
5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Stevensville area home on 3.2 acres. $529,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
5 Bdr, 5 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
The people to call for properties around Philipsburg, Georgetown
Lake, Rock Creek & More! Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com
MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL
EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com
Easy Access to the highway and the river. 17430 Six-Mile, $250,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition
Real Estate is not always Black & White Call Rita Gray 406-544-4226
4700 NICOLE COURT Offering $7K allowance for counter upgrade for limited time. Custom home in prime neighborhood on view lot. 6+ bedrooms, 4+1/2 bath 3+ garage.
Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com
ritagray@lambrosera.com Missoula Properties 728-8270
$419,500 2116 WEST KENT
$7K ALLOWANCE
Charming 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 1200 sq.ft. of living space, all appliances & single garage.
Price reduced to $172,000 2014 Best Real Estate Agent
1633 South 4th West • $299,900 1920's style 4 bed, 2 bath on new foundation with new roof, fenced yard, patio & covered front porch.
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience
pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)
Properties2000.com montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • October 2–October 9, 2014 [C11]
These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 DIXIE• Dixie is an adult female orange cat. She is very independent. Dixie doesn't mind other cats being around but won't seek them out to play. She loves to play with cat trees and other toys. It is rare to find a female orange cat so she is very special. Please come and meet her.
Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MontanaSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays
FIREBALL•Fireball
is an 11-year-old male orange cat. He came in with 3 other cats that the owner couldn't keep due to being relocated. Fireball is very cuddly and easygoing. He is looking for a quiet retirement home that he can relax in and enjoy taking in his surroundings. Does this sound like your home?
2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd
ZACK•Zack is an adult male black cat. He demands that you give him attention when you meet him. He will constantly rub up against you and push hard on you 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 until you pet him. You will never feel Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) lonely with Zack in your home. Zack also 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 likes to burrow under blankets so be preLobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat) pared for him to make himself at home.
PATCHES•Patches is a male terrier mix. He came in as a stray and we have no idea why his owner hasn't come to look for him. He is young and loves to play. Patches is a great small-sized dog who would be a great companion in any home. Come meet him and see if you fall in love.
To sponsor a pet call 543-6609
OLIVER•Oliver is a 7-8 year-old male westie mix. He is very sweet and seems to be confused as to why he is in the shelter. He is good with other dogs but does enjoy having his own space. He would do best in a home with older dogs that won't jump all over him. He is calm, mellow, and not a big barker. Oliver is worth your trip to the shelter to meet him.
Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at
www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543
Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.
KOBAIN• Kobain is a male pit bull around 4 years old. He absolutely loves water. He will stand directly in front of the hose and drench himself when we clean our kennels. Kobain is very high-energy and would make a great hiking companion. He does require a grain-free diet and lots of exercise. If you are looking for a pet to keep you in shape, look no further.
www.dolack.com Original Paintings, Prints and Posters 139 W. Front St., Missoula (406) 549-3248
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 PENELOPE• Penelope is a big sweet girl who is ready to play! She has lived with other dogs big and small and loves tennis balls and rope toys. She is always interested in what her people are doing and can't wait to meet her new family and have some fun adventures. Come and meet her today!
Serving the community’s framing needs since 1993 using environmentally sustainable practices.
139 West Front St. inside the Monte Dolack Gallery, Downtown Missoula, MT
(406) 549-3248 • dolack.com
RINGO• Ringo is a sweet, chatty boy who is looking for a loving home. He enjoys lots of attention and loves to share his purr with everyone. He has fun with toys and gets along well with dogs. Come visit Ringo at the Humane Society of Montana. We are open 1 pm to 6 pm Tuesdays through Fridays and noon to 5 pm on Saturdays.
BUDDY•Buddy is a funny little character who loves his people and his squeaky toys. He will delight you with his adorable face and funny antics. Buddy loves going for walks and car rides and is looking for his forever home. Come meet this pintsized personality today!
THEODORE•Theodore is an energetic boy. He enjoys going outdoors to sniff the mountain air and feel the grass under his paws. He also loves to cuddle and get attention. Theodore is recovering from a suspected gunshot wound to his hind leg, but he is improving daily thanks to the Emily Kantor Fund and the medical care he received at Animal Blessings Pet Hospital.
BENJAMIN• This confident fellow is one of the most unique and charming boys you will ever meet! He loves toys, treats, and talking. He has a very funny meow that is sure to keep a smile on your face. Benjamin is very intelligent and is a master of using interactive food toys. We think it's about time this special guy found his forever home.
MON - SAT 10-9 • SUN 11-6 721-5140 www.shopsouthgate.com
ELLIOT• Come meet Elliot at Petco! We have so many sweet senior cats looking for homes right now and Elliot is one of them. This sleek and handsome boy loves to be with people, play with toys, using his scratching post, and snuggling. He is an allaround fun guy who has lots of personality and spunk. You can meet Elliot, and his feline friends, at the new Petco store!
1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD
Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store
www.gofetchDOG.com - 728-2275 South Russell • North Reserve