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NEWS

PARTISIAN POLITICS, PAC MONEY PERMEATE CONTENTIOUS STATE SUPREME COURT RACE

MISSOULA COLLEGE BUILDS UP CHALLENGES HOW HIP-HOP AND POETRY NEWS NEWS MARBUT ARTS DESPITE DROP IN ENROLLMENT DUDIK AGAIN IN HD94 ARE HELPING AT-RISK TEENS

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cover photo by Cathrine L. Walters

News Voices/Letters Conservation, public lands and Ryan Zinke .........................................4 The Week in Review Zack Wagenmann, Draught Works and minimum wage ............6 Briefs Water, buses and a familiar House race ..............................................................6 Etc. The Forest Service’s camera kerfuffle.....................................................................7 News Missoula College talks up new home as enrollment fluctuates ..........................8 News Partisan politics, money permeate Montana Supreme Court race......................9 Opinion How our founders would’ve felt about same-day voter registration ...........10 Opinion Trail dogs deserve respect for grunt work on public lands .........................11 Feature A cover-to-cover guide to the Montana Festival of the Book........................ 14

Arts & Entertainment Arts How hip-hop, poetry is helping at-risk teens ......................................................18 Music Bludded Head, Carbon Leaf and Hillstomp .....................................................20 Film October’s Festimation approaches the bleeding edge .......................................21 Film Fincher delivers a classic thriller with Gone Girl................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Ratatouille .......................................................................................24 Happiest Hour Big Sky Bierschnapps ........................................................................26 8 Days a Week Ready to launch a Kickstarter for next year’s festival ........................27 Mountain High “An Insight Into Mischievous Ravens” ..............................................33 Agenda Youth Dynamics Missoula ..............................................................................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

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Oct. 7, near the corner of Higgins and Spruce.

What’s the best book you’ve read recently?

Follow-up: If you were to recommend one book that everyone should read what would it be and why?

Justin Woirhaye: The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, about the secrets to a successful life. Just do it: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It calls you out on your shit.

He talks about the excuses you make and how you procrastinate in any creative medium and how we self-sabotage and defeat ourselves in our work.

Emerson McCuin: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts. Teacher seeks pupil: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. It’s an interesting story that talks about how people live in the world.

It’s a gateway book to better understanding how we got to where we are.

Denise Juneau: Hollowing out the Middle. It’s about rural education in Iowa, but it’s transferrable to education in Montana. And The Color Purple. Historical education: Fools Crow by James Welch. He’s a Montana author and Native author. It’s got a lot of historical importance for people to understand this state.

It’s beautiful and heartbreaking.

Dick Clemow: I’ve been re-reading some of my old childhood tomes, like Tinkerbelle by Robert Manry. It’s about a guy who worked for the Detroit newspaper and he bought a 13-foot wooden sailboat and sailed across the Pacific Ocean. Young adventurer: A Jack London book like To Build a Fire. It’s about self-reliance and inspiration. London was a self-made man who wrote adventures and capitalized on what he did. Sea-Wolf was the best.

Owen Mayer: Tenth of December by George Saunders. They’re really good short stories. Paradoxical fiction: Probably Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It’s really entertaining and funny and also shows the absurdities of war really well.

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Winning the West

Not now. Not ever.

As the parents of two young children, we want to make sure they can enjoy the great outdoors like we did growing up.

That’s why, like the majority of Montanans, we support candidates of all parties who are committed to preserving federal public lands in Montana, not “transferring” them to the state to auction to the highest bidder.

According to a recent Colorado College State of the Rockies poll 69 percent of voters in six Western states (including Montana) are “more likely to vote for a candidate who supports enhancing protections for some public lands, like national forests.” This includes support among 59 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Independents.

We live in Montana in large part because protected federal public lands give our family unfettered access to hiking, camping, biking and wildlife viewing. We are not alone: a shocking 96 percent of Montanans visit public lands at least once a year.

With this in mind, it is imperative that our elected officials recognize that the region’s natural resources are attracting capital to the region. There is a promising future for Montana’s economy as technology professionals—like us—and other skilled professionals move into Montana to work remotely. We can live anywhere and choose to make places near protected national lands our home.

Westerners want our elected officials to fight for clean water, clear air and places for their kids and grandkids to play. It’s smart for the health of our lands and the long-term economic well-being of the state. Apparently this message still hasn’t hit home for some of our elected officials, which is why our family happily participated in the Center for Western Priorities’ recent ad campaign, “Winning the West.”

“Winning the West” aims to educate elected officials, candidates and the public that land conservation is a winning issue in the Mountain West.

There’s little hope for Congress to pass land protection bills within the year, and the Center for Western Priorities and the “Winning the West” campaign knows politicians in Washington need a conservation wake-up call. They need to hear that Westerners value our public lands and plan to vote accordingly.

Kathryn Grady and Eric Franzon Missoula

The transfer of public lands to state ownership and the elimination of excessive regulation, two mainstays of Republican dogma, have been generating considerable interest in the press and among Western legislators lately. On the surface these seem like good ideas to many folks and will probably gain traction as sound bites. Minimal investigation reveals serious problems with both.

The state of Montana currently manages 5.5 million acres quite well. What happens when 27 million more acres get dumped from federal to state management? We have neither the infrastructure, nor the management or financial capabilities to handle that.

Sure, we could hire more managers and build more infrastructure, but that takes time and money. In the meantime, how much of our public land gets sold to the highest bid-

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“The public lands under federal management absolutely are our most precious natural resource.

Let’s not sell our Golden Goose.” der for quick cash, and where’s the rest of the money coming from? I think you know the answer: As always, the money comes from you and me, the taxpayer. We all like local control, but that’s not really what this is. This is not simply getting federal government regulation out of the picture, and letting the state take over. This is deregulation.

Historically, deregulation has benefited the rich, the corporate, the 1 percent, while taxpayers, ratepayers and land users pay the bill.

The deregulation of the Savings and Loans in the ’70s and the whole banking system in the ’90s led to the current Great Recession that keeps not going away. Who won and who lost in that one?

We all know about Montana Power, and how deregulation lost us our hydroelectric dams. Some few made millions on that deal.

Today, our utilities are hoping to buy the dams back. Who will pay the price? Ratepay-

ers. How many times are we going to fall for this? Deregulation is nothing but a scam to concentrate wealth and power (and in this case the public lands in our back yards) into the hands of the few. When our National Forests in the West are privately owned and posted, we will find out what locked up and locked out truly mean. We’ll also be wondering where our clean air and clean water went.

Please educate yourself and be careful what you wish for and who you vote for. The public lands under federal management absolutely are our most precious natural resource. Let’s not sell our Golden Goose.

Please stand with me when I tell deregulation folks that Montana’s public lands and outdoor heritage are not for sale. Not now.

Not ever!

Terry Meyers Kalispell

Cynical phony I met Ryan Zinke in 2008 when he asked me to support his campaign for state Senate and help him secure the endorsement of Montana Conservation Voters. Skeptical, I told him I’d seen green Republicans chewed up and spit out by extremists in the party.

Not me, he thumped. I’m a Navy Seal and I don’t back down from doing the right thing.

“I’m a Teddy Roosevelt Republican,” he said.

MCV co-endorsed Zinke, and he was elected. I was proud when he emerged as the legislature’s most informed, responsible Republican on energy and climate. He was eager to tell me about bringing top military brass to Helena to explain that climate change is a national security issue. He co-signed a letter asking President Obama and Congress to pass strong climate change legislation.

If Ryan Zinke was running for Congress in 2010, he’d have my support. Because in 2010 he was unafraid to put leadership before politics. Sadly, the opposite is now true.

I now regard Zinke to be an unprincipled, self-glorifying, dangerously cynical phony.

Zinke now denies the clear scientific evidence that climate change is happening and is caused by burning fossil fuels. He says we should do nothing to address this enormous threat to our state and nation. Instead, he champions Big Coal and its agenda to export Montana coal to China.

At one time, Zinke was principled and brave. Now he’s more politics, less leadership.

Steve Thompson Whitefish

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence.

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Teton Gravity Research’s film premiere of

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Doors open: 6pm

Official after party at Top Hat Lounge featuring Hillstomp (21+), discount entry with proof of ‘Higher’ Ticket ($3)

Lil’ Smokies: 7pm Promotional Raffle: 8:30pm Show: 9:15pm

PRESS BOX 18+

ELBOW ROOM 18+

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Oct 9

Oct 10

Oct 11

7 PM Missoula Homegrown Comedy All Stars with winner Duane Raider 11 PM Late Night Humor stand-up comedy

7 PM Washington Takeover Comedy Show (featuring Spokane & Seattle comics) 11 PM College Humor Stand-Up Showcase w/headliner Zack Jarvis

7 PM The Lady Lovin Comedy Showcase (featuring an all-female cast) 11 PM Last-Call Laughter (featuring Boise & Portland comics)

9 PM Sketch comedy with Lulinda and Lucinda, The Home Shopping Gals 11 PM Acoustic music with Blue Dream and Jesse Lee Falls (Portland, OR)

9 PM Cow Tipping Improv Troupe (Helena, MT) 10 PM Acoustic/folk with Hailey Tomm (Payette, ID) and Britchy (Missoula, MT)

9 PM Das Frut Improv Troupe (Deer Lodge, MT) 10 PM Acoustic music featuring Tyler Scruggs (Spokane, WA), and The Barefoot Band (Seattle, WA)

THE MUSIC & LAUGHS SHOWCASE 9 PM Stand-up comedy with headliner Harry J. Riley (Spokane, WA) 10:45 PM Reggae/rock by In Walks Bud (Helena, MT)

THE PUNK ROCK COMEDY SHOW 9 PM Stand-up comedy (featuring Seattle comics) 10:45 PM Music by Battleships (Bozeman), Buddy Jackson, and The Camorra (Spokane, WA)

THE LAUGHTER & SWAGGER SHOW 9 PM Stand-up comedy w/ headliner Ed Hill (Vancouver) 10:45 PM Hip Hop with Frodie and The BassMint Pros (Ogden, UT)

10 PM Alt/rock with Cain & Fable and The Baked Bean Society.

(Helena, MT)

10 PM Blues/rock with As The Crow Flies (Bozeman, MT), Lust For Glory (Spokane, WA), and Too Little, Too Late (Helena, MT)

10 PM Metal Night with Shramana and Corporate Defiance.

10 PM Music by Holy Lands, Rod Blackman and the Midnite Ride, and The Buckthorn Brothers (Afton, MN)

10 PM Groove/rock/new wave with The Harms Brothers, The Colourflies (Post Falls, ID), and The Vacationist (Boise, ID)

missoulanews.com • October 9–October 16, 2014 [5]

[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, October 1 The Montana Department of Labor and Industry announces the state’s minimum wage will increase from $7.90 per hour to $8.05 on Jan. 1, 2015. The increase will affect an estimated 12,850 workers.

Thursday, October 2 Jonathan Lee Staggs, 35, appears in Missoula District Court to face a felony charge for a rash of robberies that began last April.

Missoula police began investigating Staggs after a witness reported seeing him wheel a concrete saw away from a job site.

Friday, October 3 Missoula police arrest Jacob Reynolds on a charge of assault with a weapon, near Russell and South Third St. West. Reynolds allegedly pulled a knife on his 17-year-old victim after asking if he and his companions had any “weed.”

Saturday, October 4 Missoula’s Draught Works Brewery is named the Very Small Brewing Company and Very Small Brewing Company Brewer of the Year at the 28th annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo.

Sunday, October 5 Frenchtown Rural Fire Department crews respond to a wildfire up Roman Creek.

With aid from other agencies, firefighters work to contain the blaze, which spreads to about nine acres. The fire’s cause is under investigation.

Monday, October 6 For the second time in three weeks, University of Montana defensive end Zack Wagenmann is named the Big Sky Conference’s defensive player of the week. Wagenmann registered eight tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in the Grizzlies’ 18-15 win over North Dakota on Saturday.

Tuesday, October 7 Soon after 1 a.m., a man wearing all black enters Montana Lil’s Casino on North Reserve Street, demands money from a clerk, receives an undisclosed amount of cash, fires a weapon at the ceiling and flees. Witnesses report the weapon sounds like a cap gun.

Max, Lucas, Stella and Wes Fenimore, left to right, play on a swing at the new Silver Summit playground in McCormick Park. The play area, which opened Oct. 3, is Montana’s first large-scale playground for kids of all abilities.

Water

MOR opposes lawsuit Citing mounting legal expenses, the Missoula Organization of Realtors last week formally asked Mayor John Engen to end the city’s legal fight to acquire Mountain Water Company from the Carlyle Group.

“We’re just concerned that the costs are just piling up,” says MOR Government Affairs Committee Chair Mike Nugent.

In 2011, the Carlyle Group bought Mountain Water’s California-based parent company Park Water, setting the stage for a bitter court battle. On Sept. 19, an announcement from Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. that it intends to purchase Park Water for $327 million complicated the dispute.

In a Sept. 30 letter to Engen, MOR points to the pending Algonquin deal when itemizing concerns about the city’s ongoing efforts to forcibly acquire Mountain Water. “We feel it may be irresponsible to continue down this road,” MOR states.

Nugent reiterated the organization’s stance to the Independent, noting specifically that legal expenses associated with the battle will adversely affect property taxes.

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Litigation costs since the city filed its eminent domain lawsuit in March have topped $500,000—or $100,000 more than the city originally estimated. Six months remain until the dispute goes to trial.

“I think it’s safe to say that it’s going to be over a million dollars, which is a chunk of the budget,” Nugent says.

Nugent adds that property taxes in Missoula are already high. In light of 2015 tax increases from the city and county, plus countywide bond measures, including a $42 million Parks and Trails Bond on the November ballot, MOR says the legal fight for the city’s water system is too dangerous to continue.

In response, Engen says Mountain Water is sending more than $2 million a year to Park Water in California for administrative expenses. It doesn’t take much number crunching to see that if the city were to own the utility, municipal coffers would quickly be replenished.

“The long-term expense of private ownership is incredible and certainly dwarfs any expense we’ll have in acquiring this system,” Engen says, adding he’s confident the city will win the lawsuit.

As far as long-term costs to locals, Engen says utilities consume a significant portion of living expenses—and the cost of water under Carlyle’s ownership has only in-

creased. Algonquin’s track record shows a similar pattern.

“When you look at what we’ve seen in California under Carlyle’s ownership, in New Hampshire under Algonquin’s ownership and in Missoula, Montana, under Carlyle’s ownership, these rates are going nothing but up,” Engen says, “without considerable investment in the local utility.”

Jessica Mayrer

Labor

Keep working About 50 unionized workers who drive, maintain and clean the Mountain Line transit system’s buses met Oct. 4 to decide whether they wanted to accept a new twoyear contract. The document was the product of some five months of negotiation, including three sessions with a federal mediator who was brought in to help the two sides reconcile differences they couldn’t overcome on their own.

“I wouldn’t say [the meeting] was heated,” says Wendell Barnes, a Mountain Line driver and a steward for the Teamsters Local 2, which represents the workers, “but it was a good discussion.”

[news] In the end, a vote approved the contract. It has now been sent to the board of directors of the Missoula Urban Transportation District, which operates Mountain Line, for ratification. The board is expected to vote on the contract at its next board meeting, which will likely take place Oct. 16.

The protracted negotiations came during a time of major transition at the transit agency. In January, Mountain Line will begin offering extended night service as well as free rides. While administrators of the system have expressed excitement about the changes, employees are somewhat wary.

“There’s a lot of unknowns coming up in the future, with the free-ride system and later nights, so there was a lot of concerns that drivers had that they wanted some input or to be addressed, to some extent,” Barnes says.

Shawn Fontaine of the Teamsters says employees were also concerned about issues such as sick leave and medical expenses.

According to Barnes and Fontaine, the process of reconciling differences with management was initially complicated by the absence of MUTD General Manager Michael Tree from negotiations. The mediator, however, worked separately with each side in order to find common ground and avoid a work stoppage.

“I think it’s just an important lesson both sides learned: You keep working at it until you can reach an agreement,” Fontaine says. “It just took a little bit longer than either side wanted to to get where we needed to be, but we got there. That’s the important thing, is that we got there without any sort of interruption in service.”

Tree agrees that the talks were productive and says “we reached that win-win contract we were all hoping for.”

Ted McDermott

University of Montana

Bar scores drop A significant decline in bar exam passage rates among University of Montana School of Law students is leaving administrators anxious. For decades, UM has graduated law students who go on to pass the Montana State Bar Exam at a rate of between 87 and 94 percent. In July, however, one year after the state adopted a new standardized test called the Uniform Bar Exam, the school’s passage rate plummeted to 64 percent.

“When recruits are looking at the school, one of the first things they want to know is, ‘How’s your bar passage rate?’” says Interim Law School Dean Greg Munro. “We are very worried about what this will do to recruiting.”

The drop also impacts students who, after paying for three years of tuition and potentially thousands on a test preparation course, plus $300 to take the bar, still aren’t credentialed.

“Some of those people had their jobs already,” Munro says. “So there’s some question whether they can hang onto the job when they haven’t passed the bar exam.”

In an effort to figure out why scores dropped, Munro evaluated the academic records of July test takers, scrutinizing their grade point averages and law school admission test scores compared to students who took the exam in years past. He found little change, prompting questions about the newly introduced bar exam’s integrity.

“It looks to me like the exam regimen being used as the UBE is probably unreliable,” Munro says.

Before the Montana Supreme Court authorized adoption of the UBE, supporters said it would make it easier for attorneys to practice in multiple jurisdictions.

Rather than taking the Montana bar and also one in North Dakota, for example, the one standardized test credentials

attorneys to practice in both states. Since 2011, 14 states, including Alaska, Alabama and North Dakota, have adopted the UBE. University of North Dakota Law School Dean Kathryn Rand says bar passage rates at her school dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to 56 percent in 2014.

Like Munro, Rand’s been unable to pinpoint any significant changes to her admission protocol or curriculum.

“We didn’t see anything there that would explain this kind of dip,” she says.

The nonprofit National Conference of Bar Examiners prepares and coordinates the UBE. In response to questions about the test’s integrity, NCBE President Erica Moeser says though the organization is seeing a national drop in July’s mean bar score, “we’re satisfied that the scoring was done properly.”

Jessica Mayrer

Politics

Marbut jumps back in After the Montana Secretary of State removed Republican Sebastien M. Guilhemotonia from the ballot in House District 94 this spring, it looked like Democratic incumbent Kimberly Dudik would coast to reelection unopposed. Then came a citizen petition to the Missoula

BY THE NUMBERS Same-sex couples challenging Montana’s prohibition against gay marriage in federal court. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week declared similar bans in Nevada and Idaho unlawful.

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County Elections Office and a new challenger: Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association and the very candidate Dudik defeated by a two-to-one margin in 2012.

Things are a bit different this time. Marbut is running as an Independent rather than a Republican—a critical factor, he says, given the personal distaste he’s developed for the state GOP in recent years. There’s also the fact that Dudik now has a voting record. Dudik sees that record as one of success, given her efforts to combat child sexual abuse, jail suicide and human trafficking. Marbut sees it as a failure when it comes to reducing property taxes and supporting the Second Amendment.

The lines of HD 94, formerly HD 99, have changed radically as well, stripping Dudik’s district of the downtown and Westside neighborhoods and replacing them with rural pockets like Frenchtown. Marbut considers the shift in political demographics a boon for his campaign.

“When I ran two years ago, I knew it was going to be uphill sledding because the demographics were somewhere along about 70 percent Democrat,” Marbut says, adding that after redistricting, it’s closer to 50-50.

Dudik cites upside potential, too. She grew up in Frenchtown. Her parents still live there. She knows the people, she says, and their stance on issues like public lands. “I don’t think that I could be representing people that I understand more,” she says.

Marbut’s late entry raised some questions regarding his motivations, Dudik adds, specifically whether his decision came in reaction to the shooting death of a German exchange student at a Grant Creek home. Marbut balks at the assumption, saying the incident and any subsequent challenge to the state’s Castle Doctrine had “zero” to do with his entering the race. “Absolutely disconnected,” he says. “Nothing to do with it.”

Marbut has complaints of his own, which he documented this week in a letter to the Commissioner of Political Practices. He says a friend and HD 94 constituent contacted him regarding one of Dudik’s mailers, and whether a faint blue image of a donkey—“what looks like a bucking horse”—meets the requirements for party identification. Marbut believes Dudik is clearly running from her party. Dudik takes umbrage.

“I know of no concern about whether or not I’m a Democrat,” she says. “It’s pretty obvious.”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. For the better part of 2014, people across the country have been taking part in celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. But at some point amid the conferences and stewardship projects, a thunderhead began to form.

The U.S. Forest Service, it seemed, was hellbent on charging journalists and filmmakers a fee for shooting in the backcountry.

Scores of media outlets chastised the agency in recent weeks over a proposed rule requiring a commercial permit for still and video photography in federally designated wilderness. The Montana Standard declared it a “backwoods assault on a free press.” Esquire went with the phrase “nonviolent press infringement.” The Forest Service quickly clarified the lack of impact to news organizations, leaving just filmmakers hanging in the balance.

All of this discussion made us wonder how the proposed new rule fit with the original intent of the half-century-old Wilderness Act? Wilderness Watch Executive Director George Nickas offered his take.

Surprisingly, Nickas feels much of the recent uproar was “misplaced.” He doesn’t believe the rule does what many claim. Yet there are some serious problems with the Forest Service’s policy, he says—problems that have been overshadowed by the latest fervor.

“The first is that they are wrong in suggesting that they can authorize commercial photography in wilderness,” Nickas says. “If they decide that something is a commercial enterprise … they can’t authorize it because it is prohibited.”

From Nickas’ perspective, the Forest Service is attempting to authorize filmmaking as a commercial service under an existing exemption for outfitters and guides. The pressure to create such an exception to the commercial enterprise ban is likely coming from cable hunting and fishing shows drooling over the prospect of filming in wilderness—shows Nickas refers to as “elk porn.” It’s precisely that kind of commodification of wilderness the Wilderness Act was built to prevent.

The battle is already being waged by those commercial interests in Congress. A provision in the U.S. House version of the 2014 Sportsmen’s Act would have opened wilderness areas nationwide to commercial filming activities. The version died in the Senate; the passion of supporters did not. Even considering such exemptions is a slippery slope, Nickas says, and ultimately flies in the face of what the architects of the Wilderness Act intended.

“Once you let these commercial entities in the door, it’s very hard to control them,” he says.

“That’s what they were trying to protect wilderness from.”

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Building block Missoula College talks up new home as enrollment fluctuates

by Ted McDermott

In 2012, Missoula College needed more trailers. The two-year occupational and technical affiliate of the University of Montana had experienced massive growth—the student population increased from 964 in fall 2003 to 2,803 in 2011—and administrators were doing all they could to accommodate demand. Math, culinary arts and other classes were being offered in doublewides, and Dean Barry Good didn’t want to add more. He was looking for a more permanent means of adding space.

“There was no room,” Good says. “So what happened is, we needed more trailers. So instead of getting those trailers, we went to our carpentry program—construc-

Since peaking in 2011, enrollment is down by nearly 600 students. This fall, 2,245 people signed up for classes, a 9 percent decrease from just a year ago and a nearly 20 percent drop from 2011. But while a shrinking student population at UM’s main campus has been the source of apparent concern for administrators there, those involved with Missoula College’s expansion say they aren’t worried about the trend.

John Cech, the Montana University System’s deputy commissioner for two-year and community college education, says there’s “an inverted relationship” between two-yearcollege enrollment and economic prosperity. When the economy is bad, unemployed

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Despite recent declines in enrollment at Missoula College, Dean Barry Good is helping lead the two-year school as it prepares to move to a new and bigger building on East Broadway.

tion and carpentry—and we spoke to the faculty there and we said, ‘Instead of buying trailers or all of that, do you think our carpentry students could build trailers or build modulars as part of their projects in that program?’ And that’s what they did.”

He looks back at a pair of long, low buildings that look more like suburban tract housing than academic facilities. “And what you’re seeing here, students built this.”

This August, Good joined Gov. Steve Bullock, Mayor John Engen and a long list of political and educational dignitaries from around the city and state to break ground on a much bigger construction project, one that will require far more manpower and resources than the carpentry department could possibly handle: a brand new, four-story, 155,500-squarefoot, $32 million home for Missoula College on East Broadway, expected to be completed by fall 2016. But construction begins amid a three-year period of declining enrollment at the college.

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workers flock to technical schools to get training and credentials that will improve their chances of finding new jobs. When the economy improves and employment rates increase, potential students enter the job market instead of the classroom.

“Now that we’re in a period where the economy has not only stabilized in Montana but has actually started growing, the enrollments at the two-year colleges have corrected themselves a little bit,” Cech says.

While acknowledging the correlation between unemployment and enrollment, and recognizing that some correction has occurred, Good says Missoula College is still on a path toward growth. As evidence, he points to 2008, when the state unemployment rate was 4.5 percent and enrollment at the college was 1,641. Good compares those numbers to the latest data, which indicates the college has approximately 600 additional students despite a slightly higher unemployment rate of 4.7 percent. Good sees the past three years as a temporary slump, and he be-

lieves the new building on East Broadway will be the key to getting out of it.

“What this is really going to allow, this new facility—it’s going to allow us really to start partnering with business and industry, more and more and more,” Good says. “And the location of it is terrific, especially for the downtown area in Missoula. Everything. This facility is really going to give us what we needed—and need.”

Cech agrees. In 2002, he was made dean of what was then the College of Technology at Montana State University Billings and is now City College at MSU Billings.

Cech says the completion of a 50,000-squarefoot health sciences building on the campus in 2008 “paved the way for significant growth,” helping to more than double enrollment between 2002 and 2010. He believes the new Missoula College building will do the same.

“That new building is going to do a couple of things,” Cech says. “It’s going to provide the space that’s necessary to meet the college where it is today, but it’s also going to provide opportunities and space for growth.”

According to Bullock, who helped secure funding for the building through his Jobs and Opportunity by Building Schools initiative, those opportunities for growth will come primarily from the business community.

“We launched, a little over a year and a half ago, this Main Street Montana project to really start putting together a business plan for the state of Montana,” Bullock says. “And as those business leaders travelled around getting input, one of the main things that came out of it is that one of the things we really need to be working on is workforce development and the linkages between higher education and the business communities.”

Those links can be fostered through training, credentials and degrees targeted directly at the needs of businesses, he says— and the new Missoula College will be able to better provide students with that kind of directed, in-demand instruction. As that happens, economic growth and enrollment should both improve, thereby combatting their historically inverted relationship. But investment in the new East Broadway facility isn’t only about aiding businesses and colleges, say Bullock and Good. It’s also about helping students excel.

“Really, we’re creating upward mobility for people,” Good says. “We really are. And that’s where we’re headed.” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

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Crowding the race Partisan politics, PAC money permeate Supreme Court campaign

by Jessica Mayrer

photo courtesy by Mike Wheat

photo courtesy of Lawrence VanDyke

Attorney Lawrence VanDyke, bottom, is challenging Montana Supreme Court Justice Mike Wheat in the Nov. 4 election.

bent and retired Montana Supreme Court judges. The group, including Wheat and Rice, warns that an influx of money and politics will taint the judiciary.

Since Sept. 10, three PACs have registered their interests in the upcoming judicial elections with the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices. The first was Montanans for a Fair Judiciary, which sent the mailer to Wheat’s home.

The second is the Helena-based Montanans for Liberty and Justice PAC, for which Helena attorney Anita Roessmann serves as treasurer. The most recent arrival, on Oct. 2, was the Republican State Leadership Committee-Judicial Fairness Initiative Montana, which lists as treasurer Billings business owner Barry Usher and a Washington, D.C., mailing address.

As special interests line up, six retired Montana Supreme Court Justices are joining Wheat and Rice to alert voters. In a shared opinion piece issued last month, the

justices note specifically the impact of the Republican State Leadership Committee on judicial elections in North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee, and its work with the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity.

“These various groups and organizations are inundating non-partisan judicial elections with staggering amounts of cash to accomplish their goals and to politicize otherwise non-partisan judicial races,” the justices wrote. “Unfortunately, it has been demonstrated that the amount of expenditures and contributions to judicial races correlates directly with how a benefiting justice votes on cases.”

Separate from institutional support, a significant portion of VanDyke’s campaign funding is coming from his former colleagues at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Among the donations is one for $320 from Virginiabased attorney Theodore Olson, who’s represented the Koch brothers and sits on the Cato Institute Board of Directors. Olson also served as lead counsel in the historic Citizens United campaign funding lawsuit.

VanDyke lauds the Citizens United decision, arguing, as the court majority did, that limiting corporate contributions in elections constitutes an infringement on free speech.

In response to questions about whether out-of-state support indicates that he doesn’t have Montanans’ best interests in mind, VanDyke says his former colleagues have nothing to gain “personally” from contributing to his campaign. That marks a contrast with Wheat supporters, VanDyke says, who are largely Montana attorneys with a vested interest in future court decisions.

“Wheat has consistently put the interests of his friends at the Trial Lawyers Association ahead of both Montanans and the law,” VanDyke said in an emailed response to Independent questions.

VanDyke notes further that the PACs are lining up on both sides of the bench. He says Montanans for Liberty and Justice, for example, is “attacking” him. “Coincidentally, their office is right next door to the Trial Lawyers Association, who are some of Mike Wheat’s biggest supporters,” he says.

Wheat has received individual contributions from the Service Employees International Union’s Jacqueline Helt and Planned Parenthood Public Affairs Director Stacey Anderson. Wheat’s other backers include the Montana MEA-MFT political action committee, which represents state, county and municipal staffers. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Montana Supreme Court Justice Mike Wheat felt a sense of foreboding as he pulled from his mailbox a glossy political flier showing a picture of his challenger in the upcoming judicial election.

“It alarmed me a little bit,” Wheat says.

“It confirmed for me that there’s going to be money supporting his race.”

The flyer described Wheat’s challenger, Lawrence VanDyke, as “fair, honest and impartial,” and was paid for by a Billings-based political action committee called Montanans for a Fair Judiciary. According to state records, the PAC is overseen by former Montana Republican Party chairman Jake Eaton. The flier marked an early shot in what’s shaping up to be the most hotly contested, expensive and partisan race for the Montana Supreme Court the state’s ever seen.

The Wheat-VanDyke race is one of two for the Montana Supreme Court that will be decided on Nov. 4. As the court shapes the law, whomever is elected stands to impact all Montanans.

Wheat is a former Democratic state senator who served as a prosecutor in Butte Silver-Bow County and worked in private practice in Bozeman. In 2009, Gov. Brian Schweitzer appointed him to the bench. He ran uncontested for election in 2010. Wheat penned the majority opinion in Public Lands v. Madison County Commission, reinforcing a longstanding precedent that ensures public access to state waterways. He also authored the court’s majority opinion in Clark Fork Coalition v. Montana DEQ, reversing the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to allow a Canadian mining company to extract resources from its proposed Rock Creek Mine into the Clark Fork.

Decisions such as those have earned Wheat the endorsement of Montana Conservation Voters and criticism from opponents who call Wheat’s track record anti-business.

Among Wheat’s staunchest critics is VanDyke, a Harvard Law School graduate who for five years worked for the global law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and for 18 months as Montana Solicitor General. The Montana Chamber of Commerce endorsed VanDyke, as has the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

Marking a significant change from years past, the state’s Democratic and Republican parties are also publicly supporting judicial candidates, with Wheat garnering progressive backing and VanDyke conservative endorsements. Until recently, judicial races in Montana were nonpartisan affairs. Candidates

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[opinion]

Democracy foul How our founders would’ve felt about same-day voter registration

by Dan Brooks

As a constitutional conservative, I evaluate new laws based on whether they reflect the ideas of the Founding Fathers. For example, I oppose the federal ban on assault rifles, because the authors of the Constitution died 100 years before gas-operated reloading was invented.

Alexander Hamilton did not forbid the AK-47. He would probably think that an automatic rifle was mind-blowingly cool, especially if you showed it to him under electric light. I am confident he would feel the same way about the limited-liability corporation, which is why I support LR-126.

You may not have heard of it, particularly if you are one of those political outsiders that I and other supporters of the measure call “voters.” LR-126 limits the damage such people can inflict on democracy by ending same-day voter registration in Montana. It would change the deadline for late voter registration to 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. LR-126 began as Montana Senate Bill 405, sponsored by Alan Olson, R–Roundup.

Olson says the measure will prevent fraud, a problem that has plagued elections repeatedly in the strictest sense of the word. Since 2006, when same-day registration was implemented, Montana has seen two documented instances of voter fraud. Once is a fluke, but twice—that’s a pattern.

LR-126 is about more than preventing Montanans from casting illegitimate votes, though. It’s about keeping a whole class of irresponsible people from mucking up our democracy.

Over the last eight years, about 29,000 Montanans have registered and voted on Election Day. Many of them were students, the elderly, or recently returned members of the armed forces—in other words, losers.

They were young people who forgot to register at their new addresses, old people who had trouble filling out forms, and soldiers

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who spent months outside of Montana doing god knows what. Do we really want these forgetful, disconnected people electing our representatives? Do we want a bunch of veterans and bookworms deciding who has the power to declare war and fund our schools?

I say no. The state of Montana cannot afford to put such people in charge of our collective destiny. We must preserve democracy as the Founders intended it, so that the

“All that remains is for Montanans to go to the polls in November and vote to reduce our right to vote.” levers of power remain graspable by only the best people, plus certain corporations.

As we all remember from our home schooling, post-Revolution America limited the vote to white male property owners.

This genius expedient solved the age-old question of democracy: How do you keep out the riffraff?

The Founders made this country great by only listening to people who had bought a piece of it that they could pee on standing up—people who had some skin in the game.

And who has more skin in the game than multimillion-dollar corporations?

Take the American Legislative Exchange Council, for example. ALEC is an $8 million

501(c)(3) composed of former politicians and “private-sector partners” who write model legislation for state governments.

These patriotic Americans and legal-financial constructs love democracy so much that they think up ideas for laws and give them to our elected representatives—for free!

LR-126 is one such idea. From its humble beginnings as a draft bill handed to Sen. Olson by an ALEC lobbyist, the measure has become a shining promise of Founder-style democracy in the modern age. All that remains is for Montanans to go to the polls in November and vote to reduce our right to vote.

Are we smart enough to realize that we shouldn’t have a say? Only time will tell.

But I, for one, hope we can return to the system of government the Founding Fathers intended: the one where rich men make the law, and the rest of us know that we are all equal.

It’s true that the Founders did not anticipate the development of multimillion-dollar corporations operating across state lines.

They knew nothing of the 501(c)(3), and they probably would not have comprehended an entity that spent $8 million taxexempt dollars in Virginia to make laws in Montana.

“What is Montana?” James Madison would say. “How can you carry that much gold across the—yeeeeaaargh! An iron bird!”

I am confident, however, that he would recognize the basic idea of rich people making it harder for poor people to vote, and he would embrace it. You can’t have a democracy by letting everybody fill out a ballot.

That’s a rookie mistake. Even the very first people to do it knew that.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and luxurious powdered wigs at combatblog.net. His column appears every week in the Independent.

[opinion]

Howling mad Trail dogs deserve respect for grunt work on public lands

by Jimmy Tobias

Trail dogs—that’s what trail workers across the country call themselves. It tells you what life is like for the thousands of young men and women who spend their summers tending to the travel corridors on our country’s public lands.

Trail dogs really do work like dogs, cutting back brush, sawing through trees and rebuilding rough paths in heat, sleet and thunderstorms. They wolf down dinner after a day spent building bridges, managing pack mules or removing invasive weeds from some high-mountain meadow. Like a canine pack, a crew bonds together, building camaraderie and mutual trust.

But that’s where the analogy ends, because working on a trail crew is more than an outdoor experience that builds muscle and confidence. It gives young people an opportunity to get out on our nation’s forests, grasslands and parks and develop a commitment to service as well as a deep love for our public land. It’s like a boot camp that churns out lifelong conservationists. At least that’s what happened to me.

That’s why the decline of this dignified trade is so troubling. Trail dogs everywhere face a steep reduction in public support for their work, as across the country, landmanagement agencies continue to slash budgets for recreation and trail maintenance programs.

The Forest Service, which manages more trails than any other agency, is currently burdened with more than $500 million in backlogged maintenance costs for its trail system. The hemorrhage of resources that has caused such neglect shows no sign of abating. In 1980, reports The Wilderness Society, the Forest Service budget allotted $793 for every trail mile on its system. Today, that amount has fallen to about $540.

The agency’s Northern Region, where I worked for three years, is a good place to take a closer look at the problem. I talked to one trail dog there, a 23-year veteran on Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest, who

said, “We don’t have enough money to do the job. It’s not even close.”

Garry Edson, the region’s trails coordinator, described his program’s grim financial reality. His trail budget, he says, has decreased by 18 percent in four years, from $10.5 million in 2011, to $8.6 million in 2014. As a result, the region maintains only about one-third of the 28,000 miles of trail for which it is responsible. Without volunteer help from nonprofit groups, it wouldn’t be able to do even that.

“It means there are fewer access points to the public lands, fewer trails from which to hunt or fish and fewer opportunities to take an ATV adventure in the national forest.”

All this is largely the result of the austerity craze in Washington, D.C., where politicians love to heap scorn on public services like trails maintenance. But it’s also due to the fact that an ever-growing portion of the Forest Service budget goes toward fighting wildfires.

“When I started in the agency, fire was about one-third of the budget,” says Edson, “and now it is nearly half of the budget. That

money has come out of someone’s hide, and it comes out of these other areas.”

The Forest Service released a report this August that pinned the blame for its declining trail budget on its fire-suppression crusade. The report noted that the number of firefighting personnel—12,000 people—now exceeds the number of land managers employed on our national forests—11,000 people. When people call the agency the Fire Service, they are only half joking.

What does this mean for trail workers and trail users? It means that many ranger districts have stopped fielding trail crews altogether. It means there are fewer access points to the public lands, fewer trails from which to hunt or fish and fewer opportunities to take a horseback ride or an ATV adventure in the national forest. It means that more sediment is washing off old eroded trails and into pristine streams. And it means there are fewer job opportunities for young outdoor enthusiasts who want to be a part of our country’s magnificent public-lands legacy.

The agency’s acceptance of this trend is a breach of public trust. It’s a betrayal of the conservationists—most notably members of the Civilian Conservation Corps and their trail-dog descendants—who labored over generations to ensure public access to the public lands. It also shows heedless disregard for the 313 million Americans and counting who increasingly rely on our trail system for affordable recreation.

The Forest Service needs to resist its drift toward neglect and urge Congress to put a little balance back in the agency’s budget.

And maybe it’s time for trail dogs to show their teeth and start howling until our public lands get the respect and care they deserve.

Jimmy Tobias is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a freelance journalist and former Indy staff writer. He also used to be a trail worker with the Forest Service.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - British police released surveillance video of a hooded man who entered a Manchester store armed with a machete and demanded cash. As the robber emptied the register, his pants kept slipping down so that when he began his escape, he tripped, dropping the money. While stuffing it back in his pockets, his hood fell off, exposing his face and “potentially identifying himself,” Detective Constable Andrea Holden-Cullum said, adding, “Watching this CCTV is like watching a comedy of errors.” (Manchester Evening News) Police responding to the theft of $2,748 from a bank in Merced County, Calif., spotted Shawn Lee Canfield, 25, outside the bank shoving money down his pants. When officers brought him to the police station, $2,414 fell out of his pants. During questioning, the remaining $334 dropped from Canfield’s pants when he was asked to stand up. (Fresno’s KFSN-TV)

EUPHEMISTICALLY SPEAKING - Plagued by repeated recalls, General Motors directed its engineers to avoid using 69 words when discussing GM automobiles. Among them: asphyxiating, deathtrap, disemboweling, genocide, grenade-like and powder keg. (Detroit Free Press) MUTED MESSAGE - The women’s advocacy group UltraViolet responded to the National Football League’s handling of recent domestic violence cases by having an airplane fly a banner during an Atlanta Falcons home game calling for the resignation of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: “ULTRAVIOLET: GOODEL MUST GO.” Besides misspelling Goodell’s name, the message was delivered above Atlanta’s new Georgia Dome, whose roof prevented spectators from seeing the banner. (Atlanta’s WXIA-TV)

BREAKING NEWS - India’s state television channel Doordarshan fired a news anchor who referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as “Eleven Jinping,” confusing Xi’s name with the Roman numerals XI. “It is an unpardonable mistake,” a Doordarshan senior official said. (Reuters) KTVA-TV news reporter Charlo Greene concluded her report on the Alaska Cannabis Club by revealing on air that she was the owner of the Anchorage medical marijuana business. She announced she would “be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska,” and informed viewers, “And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, fuck it, I quit.” Then she walked off camera. (Anchorage Daily News)

LAW AND ORDER: DIY - Police forces in England and Wales have begun asking crime victims to carry out their own investigations after having their car stolen or property damaged, according to a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. The watchdog agency found that police instructed victims to look out for potential fingerprint evidence, check for witnesses and search second-hand websites for their stolen property. The HMIC also said that 37 of the 43 forces investigated dealt with cases over the phone without victims ever meeting a police officer. “They’re the cops,” HMIC inspector Roger Baker said, “and we expect the cops to catch people.” (Britain’s The Independent)

CASTING THE FIRST STONE - While Doug Wilkey, 61, spent two years asking the city of Dunedin, Fla., to shut down the lemonade stand run by his 12-year-old neighbor, T. J. Guerrero, news reports of Wilkey’s efforts brought an outpouring of donations for the boy from as far away as Canada, ranging from $5 to $250. Meanwhile, acting on an anonymous tip, city officials began investigating Wilkey for possibly running a business out of his home without a license, subjecting him to daily fines of $250 until he complies with ordinances governing home-based businesses. (Tampa Bay Times)

Y’ALL TALK - The Oak Ridge National Laboratory canceled plans for a six-week course in “Southern Accent Reduction” after workers complained. The east Tennessee facility employs more than 4,000 people. The class promised to give employees “a more-neutral American accent, and be remembered for what you say and not how you say it.” The class was canceled within hours of its announcement, according to the lab’s communications director, David Keim. “Given the number of staff here who have Southern accents, this was clearly not received well,” Keim said. “We’ve offered accent reduction training to foreign nationals for years, but this one obviously surprised some folks.” (Knoxville News Sentinel) GENDER INCLUSIVITY - Wesleyan University’s two on-campus fraternities must start accepting women, according to a ruling by the Connecticut school’s Board of Trustees. The decision was made “with equality and inclusion in mind,” school President Michael Roth and Trustee Chairman Joshua Boger told students.

“Our residential Greek organizations inspire loyalty, community and independence. That’s why all our students should be eligible to join them.” (The Washington Times) Mills College became the first all-female college to admit men, provided they were “assigned to the female sex at birth” and have legally changed their gender to male. The California school’s admission policy on “transgender or gender questioning applicants” is believed to be the first of its kind among the nation’s 119 singlesex colleges. (The Washington Times)

SHOW OR GO - Eleutherios Spirou, who has worked at a pizzeria in Quincy, Mass., since 1989, risks deportation to Greece because of exaggerated claims made on his visa application. The owners of Copeland Pizza declared that Spirou was able to “exercise showmanship in preparation of food, such as tossing pizza in the air to lighten the texture.” Spirou later admitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that he doesn’t actually throw the dough and was denied his visa. “Even accepting Copeland’s definition of the term ‘showmanship’ would require Spirou to perform his duties in a dramatic manner,” U.S. District Court judge Denise Casper ruled, upholding the federal agency’s deportation order. (Boston Herald)

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n its 15th anniversary, the Montana Festival of the Book has gotten a little more experimental. In past years, panels on how to write a memoir and readings by poetry and fiction writers brought in a solid crowd to big venues like the Holiday Inn and the Wilma. Writers rubbed elbows (and toasted pint glasses) while book nerds settled into the heavenly lull of fine literature.

At times, like when David Simon, Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos of “The Wire” showed up for a 2009 tribute panel to the late James Crumley, it felt like the festival was providing some

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needed pop culture entries into the literature realm. This year, the festival is decidedly more focused on regional and local writers, but it’s also embracing visual artists, musicians and, well, beer drinkers, in a much bigger way than it ever has.

Recently, Humanities Montana, which has organized the festival since its inception, announced it would no longer be at the helm (see page 16). What that means is still up in the air, but if this year’s festival is any indication, Missoula isn’t done with it yet.

On the following pages—plus additional coverage in our arts section on page 18—we focus on some of this weekend’s highlights.

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Book wild Bones, beer, souffles, slams and other must-see sessions

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he Montana Festival of the Book runs Thu., Oct. 9, through Sat., Oct. 11, with free admission to nearly all of the sessions. That’s a lot of ground to cover— visit humanitiesmontana.org for the full schedule—so we’ve tried to single out some of the best.

from the legend and the, uh, cock from the bull.

Richard Etulain presents Life and Legends of Calamity Jane at The Roxy Fri., Oct. 10, at 1 PM.

Bones, wind, blood Punk rocker of the West?

Doris Day portrayed Calamity Jane as a cute and goofy character who bursts into song, while Robin Wiegert of “Deadwood” made her into an androgynous, buckskin-wearing town drunk with a penchant for the word “cocksucker.” Weigert’s refreshingly non-prettified version of the gun-toting legend seemed more realistic in the gritty context of the Wild West. But as it turns out, according to historians, truly accurate portrayals are hard to come by.

In a 2005 Salon article, Calamity Jane is called the “Courtney Love of her time,” a punk who broke the rules in obnoxious ways but also, unlike Courtney Love, possessed a humanitarian streak. After her death, prominent newspapers printed her obituary, including her outrageous adventures, many of which were falsehoods. In other words, after all the hype, she remains a mysterious contradiction.

Enter historian Richard Etulain, whose new book Life and Legends of Calamity Jane traces the real woman back to her Missouri roots and through the history of her mythmaking, separating the fact from the fiction, the woman

According to a 1997 essay, BlackfeetGros-Ventre poet and novelist James Welch says his first book editor read the poetry manuscript for Riding the Earthboy 40 and asked him, “Why are you so obsessed with bones and wind?” Welch recalled being surprised by the question—until the editor started to point out how often bones and wind turned up in his lines. “I realized that I was writing about a country I knew deep down, without thinking about making choices, or selecting the right metaphor,” Welch writes.

“I was writing about a world I was born into, a world full of bones and wind—the world of my ancestors.”

Wind and Bones is a new exhibit at the Radius Gallery featuring artists like Louise Lamontagne, Ric Gendron and Melissa Bangs. It’s a visual art tribute to the writer, who died in 2003, and yet another cool way to keep his work alive.

(The tremendous 2013 film adaptation of his debut book, Winter in the Blood, has been screening at festivals and select theaters over the past year.)

That exhibit is already up, but for the Festival of the Book the gallery hosts a James Welch karaoke of sorts with local literati, including Robert Sims Reid, Neil

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Barbara Michelman’s “untitled” archival print is part of the Radius Gallery’s Wind and Bones exhibit, a tribute to the late writer James Welch.

McMahon, David Allan Cates and Joseph Grady, reading or performing their favorite Welch poems and passages. Lois Welch, his widow and a former University of Montana literature professor, will present opening remarks. Anyone is welcome to get up and read, along with the scheduled readers.

Maybe you’ll hear something from “There is a Right Way,” where Welch talks about wind like this: “The justice of the prairie hawk moved me; his wings tipped the wind just right and the mouse was any mouse.” Or from “Dreaming Winter,” where he references bones with, “Wobble me back to a tiger’s dream/ a

dream of knives and bones too common/ to be exposed. My secrets are ignored.

Here comes the man I love. His coat is wet/ and his face is falling like the leaves,/ tobacco stains on his Polish teeth.” “ Wind and Bones: An Interartistic Tribute to James Welch” takes place at the Radius Gallery Fri., Oct. 10, at 2:30 PM. Email Lisa Simon at lisa.simon@radiusgallery.com to participate.

...and beer!

If there’s one thing that can make a book festival even better, it’s beer. And

the thing about good local beer—besides being delicious—is there’s usually a decent story behind it. Ryan Newhouse, author of Montana Beer: A Guide to Breweries in Big Sky Country and principal writer at the Montana Beer Finder blog, will talk about all aspects of Montana beer. The presentation at the Top Hat makes it easy for audience members to casually sip suds while hearing about locally sourced barley and other quirky details worth knowing about Montana brewskis.

Ryan Newhouse presents a talk on Montana beer at the Top Hat Fri., Oct. 10, at 4 PM.

Soufflé triumphs In so many ways, soufflés are a metaphor for failure. Any movie involving a fancy dinner will show some poor schmuck watching with a sad face as the soufflé sinks into itself. But when a soufflé is achieved, it becomes the triumphant turning point. Greg Patent, an award-winning cookbook author and baker and cohost of Montana Public Radio’s “The Food Guys,” wrote a book, titled The French Cook—Soufflés, all about the creamy, airy baked dishes. He, unlike most of us, has

of a notably creative group taking a book into the realm of visual art and adding a whole new dimension to the story.

The Mystery Mark installation runs on a loop and will be on display at the Holiday Inn Yellowstone/Glacier Room Sat., Oct. 11, at 11 AM, 1 PM and 2:30 PM.

Slam dunk It’s the sixth year the Festival of the Book has hosted a poetry slam. At its inception, the slam was probably the most inven-

writer’s words. Risky? Certainly. Better than a dryly rendered elegy? You bet.

“Creative Reading” takes place at the Dana Gallery Fri., Oct. 10, at 2:30 PM.

Carry on Based on New York City’s The Moth, Tell Us Something is the monthly storytelling event where people—many of whom are known faces around the community—go up to the mic and tell a 10minute story. The theme is often something like “Be careful what you wish

photo courtesy of Jonathan Qualben

Mystery Mark is a theatrical installation based on a book by Josh Wagner and Theo Ellsworth. It takes the comic-style story of a paranoid character and renders it into 3D.

been baking them for decades. Along with the book’s photographer, Kelly Gorham, Patent will talk about the process of writing the book and the art of making soufflés. It takes no genius to predict this will all end on a very hungry note.

Greg Patent and Kelly Gorham present The French Cook—Soufflés at the Holiday Inn Sat., Oct. 11, at 9:30 AM.

TV casualty Mystery Mark is a book by writer (and frequent Indy contributor) Josh Wagner and illustrator Theo Ellsworth that tells the story of a paranoid man who is being stalked by his childhood television hero. A theatrical art installation based on the story and produced by Viscosity Theatre went up during Missoula’s Zootown Fringe Festival this summer, and it was weirder than it even sounds. The paranoid man, Clay, sported a papier-mâché head. He fell asleep and was visited by strange creatures.

There was a mysterious briefcase. A kind of dismemberment happened. Colorful skulls peeked over the set and provided a gibberish soundtrack along with the surreal tunes created by Cash for Junkers. It met at the crossroads of creepy and magical. But what’s important for the Festival of the Book is that it serves as an example

tive part of an event that has traditionally focused on readings and panels. The festival has gotten more creative, as evidenced by the visual art aspect this year, but the poetry throwdown continues to be a favorite event. As always, Tahj Kjelland emcees with special guest judges (read more about Kjelland on page 18) and anyone can sign up to compete for the slam championship.

The poetry slam starts at Stage 112 Fri., Oct. 10, at 8 PM.

for” or “What are you waiting for?” But to coincide with the Festival of the Book and Missoula Public Library’s ongoing Big Read, this month’s theme is “The Things We Carry,” based on Tim O’Brien’s book The Things We Carried. O’Brien’s classic is about the ugliness of war, but it’s also generally about the burdens of being merely human—and that’s a story we can all tell in one form or another.

Tell Us Something takes place at the Top Hat Thu., Oct. 9, at 6 PM.

Shooting the Crown Photographer Steven Gnam talks about what it takes to document the wild

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f it weren’t for a few photos of the Bob Marshall Wilderness in a mid-’80s issue of National Geographic, Steven Gnam may never have discovered the Crown of the Continent. Those photos inspired his parents to relocate the family to Whitefish when Gnam was just an infant. And in a truly small world twist, Gnam wound up dedicating his professional life to capturing images of the very same vistas that prompted his family’s migration.

Gnam’s photos have appeared all over, from the pages of Big Sky Journal and Outside Magazine to Patagonia ads and metropolitan billboards plugging Montana tourism. But for the past few years, he’s spent the bulk of his energy collecting shots from across Montana, Alberta and British Columbia for his recently released book Crown of the Continent: The Wildest Rockies. It’s more than just a coffee table book. With written contributions from the likes of author Doug Chadwick, the National Parks Conservation Association’s Michael Jamison and Karsten Heuer (who trekked on foot from Yellowstone to the Yukon), the project highlights the ecological significance and social importance of the Northern Rockies. Gnam is scheduled Fri., Oct. 10, for a Festival of the Book appearance introducing the book, but the Indy caught up with him early to discuss wolverines, politics and the dangers of spending too much time in the backcountry.

Which of the images in Crown of the Continent was actually the first one you shot in the collection?

Steven Gnam: There’s a shot that’s from about 10 or 12 years back in there.

It’s a photo of an owl—a pygmy owl—and that was shot on slide film while I was still in high school.

What drew you into the backcountry at that age?

SG: I grew up in Whitefish, so you’re kind of surrounded by mountains and wildlife and lots of rich wild places. I was

just immersed in it in that sense. My folks would take me out fishing, camping, hunting. I was out a lot. I’ve always been drawn to the mountains, and there was some early work I was exposed to of Galen Rowell, an adventure outdoor climbing photographer … He’d go up in the mountains climbing or doing whatever around the world, and he’d take your classic adventure photos but then also these more artistic photos. That was my first exposure to seeing the beauty of the mountains in an artistic sense.

So when did the book project finally start to materialize?

SG: I think it was four years ago. I was working in the Mission Mountain Wilderness clearing trails with wilderness rangers there and taking a lot of photos during my free time. I realized I was getting this growing body of work that was focusing on the region and thought, “I really want to do something with this but I don’t want to make like a coffee table book.”

Several of your shots blend wildlife with these sweeping vistas. How difficult was it to find those moments when you had wildlife and landscapes side-by-side?

SG: That’s one of the great things about the Crown is when you look at it on a global scale, it’s a rich place for wildlife.

So if you’re out there, you’re going to cross paths with wildlife.

A lot of wildlife photography is these trophy shots, you just get the head and shoulders ... but it’s nice, too, to show context. I’m always looking for opportunity for that, like if it’s a scene that lends itself to context I’ll go for that rather than trying to get close.

When pulling this project together, did you give any consideration to the delicacy of covering politically polarizing topics like endangered species?

SG: Yes and no. My dad works at Stoltze Lumber in Columbia Falls, and in the back of my mind I was always like, “We

Readings gone wild Readings can be an off-putting experience if you’re not prepared. (The monotone intonation so many poets learn to perfect comes to mind as one egregious example.) But readings can also open up a whole new way to experience a story— the words are given an energy not usually conjured up from just silently staring at them on the page.

The Dana Gallery is taking the idea of transforming a story to the extreme. During a performance called “Creative Reading,” Charles Finn, editor of High Desert Journal, and author David Allan Cates read from their work while Dana Gallery painters R. David Wilson and Caleb Meyers, calligrapher Amity Parks, poet Sheryl Noethe and members of the musical group Stellarondo improvise based on the

Reunion time This year’s gala is perfect for a 15-year anniversary, because it’s a little like a class reunion. Festival favorites past and present like Pete Fromm, David James Duncan, William Kittredge, Rick Bass, Tami Haaland, Walter Kirn and Annick Smith, plus emerging author Malcolm Brooks (see page 16), will all make appearances during the final night of the festival to celebrate the literature of the West. If this is the last Festival of the Book—and we don’t think it will be—it’s an obvious note to end on. If it’s just the beginning of a newly formatted festival, then there’s no better crew to kick things off.

The gala reading takes place at the Wilma Sat., Oct. 11, at 7:30 PM. —Erika Fredrickson

Steven Gnam’s photos from the new book Crown of the Continent: The Wildest Rockies highlight the political, social and and ecological significance of the land he grew up in.

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Shooting the Crown continued need to make the book in a way that’s not totally greenie environmental.” I wanted this book to be something my dad could bring to his work or share with his coworkers and be proud of or comfortable sharing with them.

Several of the photos in the book focus not on landscapes or wildlife but on people—a rancher on the Front, an herbalist from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, a customer at the Polebridge Mercantile.

What was the logic in including shots of humans as well?

SG: People have been part of the landscape for a long time here, and so part of that was just being true to the place. If you’re telling the story of a piece of land and people are part of that story, you should include them … The other part, too, is that people in the Crown aren’t going to go away. The challenge is for us in co-existing with nature—pristine nature—is how can we run businesses, how can we have thriving communities next to thriving nature.

Were there any tricky or sticky moments or close calls in the course of collecting all these images?

SG: There was one time where I was climbing up a 15-foot rock face and popped over it and saw an outline of fur in front of me. It was a grizzly bear only 20 yards away … It smelled me and saw me pretty much right away. It took two steps toward me. I had my bear spray out and was talking to it, saying, “Hey, bear. Sorry. I didn’t know you were there. I didn’t mean to be this close. It’s totally an accident.” It actually sat down and started scratching itself like a dog, like behind its ear … Then it yawned and walked away peacefully. I think I have a shot of that bear in the book.

Wait, so you were face to face with a griz and you went for your camera?

SG: Well, it was on my back. I had my telephoto out. Once it sat down and started scratching and yawning and being pretty docile, I was like, “I mean, I can’t go anywhere. I’m stuck on the edge of this rock face.” So I fired off a couple shots.

So what’s next? Did you develop any new interests while working on this project?

SG: I would definitely say that with wolverines—simply by running into them a lot and then learning about, one, how rare they are and, two, how sensitive they are to their unique habitat niche and climate. Obviously they’ve recently been fairly political, not being listed. I’m just really intrigued and feel like right now I want to be about giving a voice to creatures like that, that are mysterious simply because of their life habits. Even the top researchers will tell you they only know a fraction about what wolverines are about, so any information you can gain is information that’s probably needed and could help people make management decisions.

—Alex Sakariassen Steven Gnam presents Crown of the Continent: The Wildest Rockies at the Roxy Fri., Oct. 10, at 2:30 PM.

Who’s new?

Four emerging authors to catch during this year’s festival

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f there’s one criticism of the Montana Festival of the Book, it’s that so many of the same celebrated names appear year after year. While we certainly can’t get enough of James Lee Burke and the like, there are a few emerging authors just as deserving of the star treatment.

Here are four worth checking out.

And like Brooks, Zupan is now on the receiving end of glowing comparisons and accolades. “The Ploughmen isn’t an easy book to read,” explained NPR in its effusive review.

“That’s not because of Zupan’s prose, which is self-assured and beautiful. It’s because it explores the line between good and evil in a manner that’s as honest as it is unsettling.”

Brian Kevin Malcolm Brooks Technically speaking, Kevin is not a new author.

Few authors—new or otherwise—arrive to the Festival of the Book with more buzz than Brooks. The Boston He’s written a number of guidebooks, including ComGlobe called Painted Horses an “extraordinary debut pass American Guide: Yellowstone and Grand Teton novel” that patiently presents its main characters in an National Parks. But the University of Montana grad’s evolving West. “They’re interesting because of the roads most recent book, The Footloose American: Following they travel to the present; Brooks is nothing if not ambitious in exploring those roads,” the review read. The Washington Post touted the novel’s epic scope, saying Brooks “mines one of the darker veins in the mythology of the American West, the seam where ‘greatness gets built on destruction.’”

Such praise is much deserved for Brooks, a Missoula carpenter who now finds himself compared to the likes of Cormac McCarthy and Ivan Doig. USA Today picked up on Brooks’ blue-collar background when heaping even more praise on the novel. “What an appropriate day job,” the paper remarked. “The best novels are not just written but built—scene by scene, character by character—until a world Malcolm Brooks emerges for readers to fall into.” the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America, is a totally different beast.

Kim Zupan Kevin spent six months retracing the godfather of What’s with the carpenters?

Zupan made a living for 25 years as a carpenter, and gonzo journalism’s footsteps from Panama down currently teaches carpentry at Missoula College. He’s also through the Andes and up through Brazil—places worked as a smelter, a pro rodeo bareback rider and a Thompson wrote about long before he became a counranch hand. That hard living helped inform the stark re- terculture icon. “One of the really neat things about digality of his debut novel, The Ploughmen, about a troubled ging into anything Thompson did in the early 1960s, including but not limited to his South American reyoung sheriff and a hardened killer awaiting trial.

portage, is that you see glimmers of that gonzo style, but you also see someone who had a super firm grasp on the fundamentals,” Kevin told the Indy earlier this year. “… He was good at knowing what the story was.”

With his new book, Kevin displays that same knack.

Melissa Mylchreest Poets are always the overlooked and under-appreciated black sheep of book festivals. But Mylchreest is one of those poets whose imagery—heavily based in the Western landscape—is accessible to all ears, even as it offers complicated subtexts. We might seem a little biased since Mylchreest is a frequent writer for the Indy, but here’s proof we’re right: Even before her recent debut, Waking the Bones, Mylchreest was winning

Kim Zupan

awards for her work, including the 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry, the 2012 Merriam-Frontier Award, the Obsidian Prize for Poetry in both 2011 and 2012 and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Like the great Richard Hugo, she writes of small-town bars and blue-collar life, but Waking the Bones also explores ancient language, the frustration of mortality and the good little things in life like morning coffee and “feet that ferry us obediently over floorboards a hundred years ago nailed down by another body got up by the sun.”

—Independent staff

Turning the page Festival faces uncertain future with Humanities Montana stepping away

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ince its inception 15 years ago, the Montana Festival of the Book has featured headliners like Richard Ford, James Lee Burke, Ivan Doig, Pam Houston, David Simon and Sherman Alexie. On the surface, this year’s event doesn’t seem much different than past years, with Rick Bass, David James Duncan, Pete Fromm, Tami Haaland, Walter Kirn, William Kittredge and Annick Smith.

But there is one major difference about this year’s Festival of the Book: It could be the last.

Humanities Montana, the organization that has always hosted and funded the Montana Festival of the Book, has decided not to continue with the event. The decision comes in the wake of funding challenges.

“Key funders have withdrawn support for a variety of reasons,” says Ken Egan, Humanities Montana’s executive director. “That dip in support has caused us to reflect about how best to focus our resources.”

The loss of the festival would be big for the Missoula literary community. The festival has become an anticipated event that offers three days of panels, readings and literary parties, bringing together bookworms and literati from around the region each fall at the

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Wilma, Holiday Inn Downtown and other local venues.

Egan and Associate Director of Programs Kim Anderson are currently approaching partners (they aren’t naming names) and festival book organizers to see if someone is interested in taking on the project for the future.

Egan says the organization, which serves as Montana’s independent nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, spent the last six months planning its own future.

“We surveyed Montanans all over the state and what hit us between the eyes is that we really have to focus on serving the whole state,” Egan says.

The group’s sights are set on expanding a handful of its other key programs, including Hometown Humanities, now in its third year. “We partner with a single community or county in Montana for a full year and we offer a full palette of grants and programming,” Egan says.

Last year, Humanities worked in Dillon on several projects, including a community discussion on settling water resources disputes. In Lincoln County this year, they’ll focus on “Standing Together,” a reading series

for veterans and their families featuring literature of war and peace. There will be an emphasis, Egan says, on getting more historical presentations, reading programs, cultural speakers and public affairs discussions into communities around the state. In some ways, the new focus is a little more in line with what Egan sees as Humanities Montana’s calling—though that doesn’t soften the blow for Festival of the Book fans.

Egan says Humanities Montana plans to help the next festival organizers—whomever they may be—with some seed money.

“We have no concrete vision for where the festival will go,” he admits. “We’ve been hosting, organizing and funding the book festival for 15 years, and it’s been a wonderful adventure and we think it’s a wonderful gift to the community and to the region. It’s become an annual ritual—one that occurs at a gorgeous time of year and makes downtown alive. And we do recognize that.

That’s why we’re going to put a lot of energy into seeing it continue under different leadership and management.

I’m cautiously optimistic that will happen.”

—Erika Fredrickson

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Emotional intelligence Tahj Kjelland reaches at-risk teens through poetry, hip-hop and a statewide program that combines the two

by Ednor Therriault

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dozen teenagers mill around a Willard School classroom, their desultory conversations drifting about like falling leaves. Large sheets of fabric printed with colorful peace-sign patterns cover the windows, filtering the autumn sunlight. Once the kids are settled into their seats, Tahj Kjelland gets a beat thumping through his Macbook speakers. He starts rapping, going from zero to full flow in under a second, freestyling about the environment around him, his clothes, the teacher’s dachshund—whatever pops into his restless mind.

Animated and intense, he has captured the kids’ attention. They cannot look away.

He sprinkles in a few key phrases like “neurons that fire together wire together” and “emotional intelligence—I break it down with relevance.” Once he’s sure the class room is galvanized, he stops on a dime and says, “Okay, everybody take out a piece of paper.”

The Express to Speak program is officially underway.

“Who can tell me what emotional intelligence is?” he asks the class. A couple of hands go up. “Don’t worry about raising your hands, just spit it out. Give me the first words off the top of your head.” He scrawls furiously on the whiteboard as the kids call out “love” and “school” and “hungry” and “confused.” The whiteboard is quickly becoming a mess of barely legible words, all encircled and attached to each other with slashes of colored marker.

He spins around to face the class, eyes wide, looking into each face. “Anybody ever get scared of their emotions?” Several kids raise their hands. Tahj— he mostly goes by his first name—tells the kids to write down the words that represent their fears, hopes, needs and emotions.

Next, he breaks out a stack of cards and begins reading them aloud, letting them drop one by one onto the desk in front of him. The “feeling” cards bear words that can be read as values and needs. The idea is for the kids to find a card that matches the emotion or value, then find the corresponding card that displays the need that fits. These cards give the kids a language, a tool with which they can identify their tangled emotions and nameless needs.

“Everybody, on the count of three, say the word that’s on the top of your mind,” he says to the class.

Simultaneous shouted responses make it impossible to discern a single word. Then a girl says, “I’m confused.”

Tahj points at her, his eyes growing wide. “That’s all right! That’s a good place to be!”

As the beat continues to bump out of the computer speakers, he bobs his head and watches as the kids dissolve into crosstalk about what they might be feeling, what might be the source of those feelings. When he’s sure all are fully involved in the discussion, he

jumps in and asks more questions, appealing for them to go deeper. He prowls around the room, giving nonstop encouragement. There is no condescension, no lecturing, only enthusiasm.

“There is no one else in the world who has your DNA,” he says as the students keep writing. “There is no one else on earth who has your fingerprint. There is no one else that walks the earth the way you walk the earth. You’re unique. Completely unique.”

Can poetry save your life? Can the rhythm and flow of hip-hop dislodge you from a path leading to addiction and failure and suffering and death? Tahj Kjelland has no doubt in his mind that it can. Because it saved him.

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hen it comes to creativity, there are few musicians as busy and prolific as Tahj. You might have seen him rapping in one of his self-produced YouTube videos, or maybe spitting his emotional rhymes at a poetry slam, including the one he’s hosted for the last five years at the Montana Festival of the Book. You might have caught him playing some native flute at an Indian gathering. Or perhaps you danced while he played bass with Missoula blues outfit MudSlide Charley. Oh, and he shares vocal duties in a Rage Against The Machine cover band. He has so many musical irons in the fire, one wonders when he finds time to sleep.

“When I was a kid I used to sleep with my head in the kick drum while people jammed at our house,” he says.

He grew up in Missoula, the son of blues bassist Mary Allyn and furniture maker John Kjelland. Mary, who currently plays in Blue Moon, transmitted her love of the blues directly to Tahj. “It’s always been the blues,” he says. “I would always listen to it, sing it. Wednesday

night was rehearsal night. I always felt comfortable when everyone was jamming in the living room. It helped me get through my homework.”

Sometime in the ’80s he got drawn to the frenzy and physical rhythm of breakdancing. Break beats introduced him to hip-hop, and from there he “fell in love with the spoken word,” he says. “I realized that spoken word is a way to get things off your chest.

James Brown was a pretty heavy spoken word artist, but I could hear rapping too. Blues singers would just talk to the beat.”

His various musical endeavors seem to radiate from the same idea of the importance of self-expression. His hip-hop songs are mostly celebrations of life and love, exhortations to his fellow man to dive deep, climb high and always give thanks. It’s a sharp contrast to the current state of mainstream hip-hop, which treads the tired ground of luxury rap, tedious boasts and ritual glorification of thug life and/or drug culture.

Tahj doesn’t care about drinking flutes of Cristal on his Gulfstream G6. He’s interested in steering kids away from lives of drinking and drugging, physical and emotional abuse, and making poor choices because they think no one cares about them, including themselves. He doesn’t have to look far for inspiration.

His parents’ creative influence didn’t always translate to a stable upbringing. They split when he was 3. When Tahj was 13, his stepdad left. “That’s when I got really angry,” he says. Virtually all of his scrapes with authority came from fighting. “I wanted to be hard. I wanted to be a badass.”

He got into smoking pot to escape from having to feel anything, he says. But weed wasn’t what got him in trouble. It was mostly fighting, and it was an act of terrible violence at the end of his teen years that would ultimately turn him away from a world of self-destruction, toward a life of positive growth and self-realization.

He knew right from wrong, he says, but was pissed off most of the time. “I found a group of kids that were angry too. We were drawn to each other,” he says. “Maybe 70 percent of these kids did time in juvenile detention or prison.” A big part of his angst, he adds, was “seeing such a big world.”

The chance to travel into that big world came in the form of an offer to go on the road with the Missoula ska band the Skoidats. Music was becoming more important in his life at that point, and he had started running sound for shows at Jay’s Upstairs, hoping to become a recording engineer. When he got the offer from the Skoidats to be their tour manager, they didn’t have to ask twice.

“I was the ‘fuck you, pay me’ guy,” he says, laughing. If the band had been promised three pizzas and only two showed up, for instance, he would track down the responsible parties and make sure that third pie got to the band. “Nineteen years old.

It taught me to be assertive.”

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

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Traveling across the U.S., Tahj got a firsthand look at the underground music scene, and the energy and creative freedom blew him away. After coming home from a second national tour with the band, he was motivated to create an alternative scene in Missoula. “The mainstream’s got nothing on the underground,” he says.

It was Easter 1998, just after returning from that second tour, when the violent life he was shedding reappeared with horrific results. “It was a retribution thing,” he says, pulling the collar of his T-shirt down to reveal a ragged trail of scars stretching across his upper chest, from one collarbone to the other. “Guy caught me in the corner of a garage on Dearborn Street and stuck me over and over again with a brass knuckle knife.”

After recovering from his wounds, he saw his direction more clearly than ever. He’d already become

and Indian reservations for the last few years, performing about 40 Express to Speak programs a year.

While it’s become a huge part of his work, he must balance demand for the program with his other pursuits.

His second full-length hip-hop CD, Sweatshop Sneakers, will be released Nov. 7. The disc, mixed and mastered by his brother Max Allyn, is pumped with radio-ready beats and old-school soul and R&B grooves. Tahj raps with an immediacy and urgency that would suggest he has to get his message out this very moment. Words occasionally stretch into sung notes, or are punctuated by growls, yips and yelps.

The theme is an overall message of encouragement and a validation of the idea that it’s okay to be you.

Just like Express to Speak.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

For his Express to Speak program, Tahj Kjelland challenges kids to identify their needs through the language of hip-hop.

interested in working for social justice, and had begun to deal with his anger issues.

“I was already off the path (of violence), but the stabbing was like the last karmic reminder to push me into a trajectory of growth, a different way of being,” he says. “This earth walk is to reflect, self-create.”

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s the name suggests, Tahj’s Express to Speak program aims to give adolescents the tools to express their feelings and thoughts. He has crafted the program as a way to teach kids, especially at-risk teens, that emotional intelligence is as important as intellectual intelligence.

“I’m trying to put responsibility into the kids’ hands,” he says. “Being conscious of their consciousness.”

With his drooping jeans and oversized, flatbrimmed ball cap set slightly off-axis, Tahj looks like a typical hip-hop loving millennial waiting for his next good time to roll around the corner. But a second glance reveals the native beadwork hatband, the Indian-style braids hanging over his shoulders and a boyish smile set off by intense blue eyes. When he steps in front of a classroom full of restless teens and launches into his program, the raw emotion and bracing energy that pours forth can be breathtaking.

“He stomach-punched this year’s English classes with his ever-evolving Express to Speak program, including emotional intelligence,” says Willard teacher Lisa Waller. “Several students commented on how much the time with Tahj affected them in significant ways.”

Underwritten by Humanities Montana, Tahj has been traveling throughout the state to both schools

Rapping and spitting verse at poetry slams feeds his soul, he says, while playing bass with MudSlide Charley and singing Rage songs are more of a physical release. He’s also a father—his 15-year-old son Diego is a football-playing sophomore at Hellgate who also raps by the handle Deegz—and works a separate full-time job. After Tahj earned his master’s degree in social work this summer, he started working for a local company that is involved in recovery therapy. Ultimately, he’d like to become a licensed clinical therapist.

But it’s the program he created, Express to Speak, that continues to drive him professionally and creatively—and provide such a rich return. When asked what he gets out of the work he does in schools and on reservations, he takes a few moments to answer.

“That question hits me hard,” he says. “It’s the life experience and growth work I’ve been doing. I can’t continue to do this if I don’t continue to grow.” He pauses, his eyes growing wet. “I get choked up.”

Then that cool blue flame returns to his gaze.

“Sometimes looking in the kids’ eyes, seeing (the realization) that they can do what they want to do in life, I can sometimes see the essence of what they want to be. If I can convey anything,” he says, “it’s just to be comfortable with yourself, with who you are.”

Tahj Kjelland emcees the Festival of the Book poetry slam Fri., Oct. 10, at Stage 112. 8 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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Sonic bloom Bludded Head offers catharsis for all

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Kurt Vonnegut said, “Write to please just one person.� Obviously, an artist like Swedish singer Robyn writes music to please just one 41-year-old Japanese man who collects Jem and the Holograms stickers, and U2 writes just for the Pindar of the Illuminati. But who is Bludded Head writing music for? For themselves. More specifically, Nevada Hill, the trio’s vocalist, primary songwriter and cancer survivor. Hill’s serious bout with Bludded Head melanoma has roused an urgent, cataclysmic sound that often meanders from eerie silences to pyroclastic flows of volcanic catharsis for even the most jaded heavy music maven.

Reign in Bludd’s opener and foremost track is “Shitsucker Blues,� an eight-and-half-minute long number that is so pulverizing that it may (must!) have the power to keep the likes of Glenn Frey from performing his milquetoast “Smuggler’s Blues� ever again. Starting with a simple guitar figure, stand-up bass and lightly thumped toms, the song evokes wet heat and thick air. One minute in and the track unleashes an atomic drop of sludge metal shoegazery bound to make audiences bang their heads with the plodding energy of patients in a malarial sanitarium ward. The song bursts open, though, when Hill’s lar-

ynx introduces itself in a way that is so aggro one can only assume he gargles shards of electrified glass while drilling holes in his palms with a knitting needle. The band ebbs and flows sonically to the end: Hill mumbles and quietly mutters about the inanities of life and the intensity of pain before bawling again; the drums and the wicked rasp of the bowed upright bass make the heavy heavier; guitar crackles and churns muddy scuz. Somehow in all that sonic gloom Hill and company create an inescapable release, one that may have been created to please just a single person but has the prospect to please so many more. ( Jason McMackin) Bludded Head plays the VFW Fri., Oct. 10, at 9 PM with Bird’s Mile Home, Hangover Saints and VTO. $5/$7 for 18-plus.

Carbon Leaf, Indian Summer Revisited It’s been 10 years since Carbon Leaf achieved modest mainstream success and radio play with Indian Summer, their fifth studio album, which captured the high energy of the Celtic-inspired folk rockers as well as anything before or since. A decade later and no longer with a label, Carbon Leaf has gone back to that well and re-recorded their 2004 album.

It’s an odd career move, and Indian Summer Revisited isn’t a huge departure for the five-piece Virginia-based band. Carbon Leaf remixed the songs and changed up a few instruments, but it’s not like they’ve gone metal and started singing in Spanish.

It’s the same fun 51 minutes it was the first time. Now two decades into a career that’s produced more than

a dozen albums, Carbon Leaf, led by frontman Barry Privett, remain road warriors who’ve amassed a catalogue that keeps concert sets unpredictable: you’re as likely to hear poppy love songs and country-infused ballads as you are an Irish drinking song or two.

And that thing in Barry’s back pocket? It’s called a penny whistle, and when he breaks it out you’re going to want a beer in your hand, because you’re about to feel like you’ve entered a neighborhood bar in Dublin. This is the music Sean Kelly’s might play before last call ‌ if, uh, Sean Kelly’s still existed.

(Dave Loos) Carbon Leaf plays Stage 112 Mon., Oct. 13, at 9 PM. $10/$15 for 18-plus.

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Whenever you strip everything back to just two musicians in your band, as Portland’s Hillstomp have, you run the risk of becoming one-dimensional. For its latest record, which bears the name of their hometown, the duo of John Johnson (percussion) and Henry Kammerer (guitar, banjo, vocals) avoid that pitfall by mixing things up. Tempos vary from the smoking, guitar-centered opener “Santa Fe Line,� a road tune that even name-drops Missoula (if my volume-addled ears aren’t betraying me, that is), to slower, moodier tunes like “Undertow� and the tension-raising “The Cuckoo.� Just when you think the band has shifted gears into a murkier groove, it’s back to the races again, this time featuring a rapid-fire banjo riff in “Henry, Oh My Henry,� a tune that still

carries a dark lyrical theme right out of the hills of Appalachia.

Portland, Ore. is a record that sinks in a little deeper with multiple visits. There are subtleties that may be missed over the course of a couple cursory listens that one catches later. Creative percussion inserts here and there, maybe a vocal harmony that slips in for a line or two then disappears—things like that. Without these little attentions to detail, Hillstomp could easily be shrugged off as just another throwback act trying to do less with more and maybe coming up short. They may have a hundred problems I don’t know about, but I guarantee that musical trend-crashing ain’t one of them. (Chris La Tray) Hillstomp plays the Top Hat Fri., Oct. 10, at 10 PM with Three-Eared Dog. $7.

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Animation station October’s Festimation approaches the bleeding edge

by Josh Wagner

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M.O.M. by Margherita Premuroso is one of 64 animated films to hit the Roxy this month for Festimation.

These days animation is often used for the purpose of making movies feel more realistic, sometimes to such an extent that we don’t recognize it even when it’s right in front of us. But animation qua animation is still a rapidly evolving art form, capable of increasingly sophisticated and intense storytelling that can transport us into far-flung imaginary worlds.

That kind of animation is the focus of Festimation, a festival of new works curated by the University of Montana Media Arts Department, and hosted at the Roxy Theater. It features four Thursdays of bleedingedge animation—a total of 64 animated films, chosen from hundreds of entries from over 70 countries, ranging in genre from documentary to experimental.

It isn’t all home runs, but even the weakest films offer some variety between the gems. Here we review some of the best.

Johnny Express (Oct. 9) Easily the most entertaining film in the bunch, Korean director Kyungmin Woo’s crowd-pleaser clocks in at just over five minutes. Johnny, an interstellar delivery guy, attempts to transport a microscopic package to a very tiny planet. The results are hilarious without being overly predictable. The style of Johnny Express will be familiar to any fan of classic Pixar, with colors and textures so rich and vibrant, I had to stop myself from licking the screen.

M.O.M. (Oct. 16) My personal favorite, with a run-time of just over two and a half minutes, Italian director Margherita Premuroso’s M.O.M. is the story of a lonely old fisherman whose line hooks a note that reads: “Where is my son?” The watercolor-esque atmosphere paints just the right mood over line work reminiscent of art found in Studio Ghibli films like Spirited Away. I can’t say much more without giving up the game, but the ending took my breath away.

Ziegenort (Oct. 9) A truly haunting masterpiece of 2D hand-drawn animation. Polish director Popakul Tomasz’s unapologetically Eastern European flavor of magical realism features a boy with the head of a fish learning the ropes from his fisherman father. Moody and surreal, Ziegenort makes a seamless motion from gritty realism to a shot of the sun rising directly out of the ocean,

just beyond the fisherboy’s reach. At 19 minutes Ziegenort is the longest of the shorts, and not to be missed by anyone who appreciates Kafka and Ajvaz.

Symphony (Oct. 9) This gorgeous abstract work by American director Erick Oh is a five minute race through an amorphous environment of inky organisms somewhere between the wax blobs of a lava lamp and Spiderman’s Venom outfit. The camera follows a single inchoate blot zooming through a deterministic world.

The blot seems to be the only entity with any spark of intentionality, and the rest of the world seems desperate to re-assimilate it. I found myself oddly invested in this formless hero, whose story reminds me of Shel Silverstein for reasons I still can’t put my finger on.

Love on a Street and Spit in the Sky (Oct. 16) Notable for their innovation more than their storytelling power, these two shorts integrate animation with the real world. Both have a hand-held feel as filmmakers step back to shoot not only the animation, but the medium on which the animation is played. In the case of Love on a Street, characters are projected and tracked throughout the city: on the sides of buildings, train tracks and underpass pylons.

In Spit in the Sky the frame reveals the view screen as part of an installation space. As the animation plays, its character’s actions manipulate the real world outside of the screen’s edge.

Big Bag (Oct. 9) A wildly imaginative critique of modern society animated with a hand-drawn feel. Spanish director Ricardo Martin Coloma immerses us in an airborne puppet universe where everyone and everything soars from moment to moment on clockwork strings. The device isn’t the most original, but Coloma’s particular spin, discreet use of color and dizzying mastery of animated camera motion makes this one of the freshest and most enjoyable pieces in the festival.

Festimation screens films each Thursday in October at the Roxy starting Oct. 9. Visit theroxytheater.org for the full schedule. arts@missoulanews.com

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Rush to judgment Fincher delivers a classic thriller in Gone Girl

by Molly Laich

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Gone Girl illustrates one of my core beliefs: that murder makes any story more interesting. In this case, the wife’s only gone missing, but there’s broken glass in the living room and just enough blood spatter in the kitchen to get us thinking in that direction, anyway. The husband immediately falls under suspicion as the secrets of their marriage unravel amid a maelstrom of detectives, reporters and creepers. It’s not satire so much as a point-by-point rendition of how these things actually play out in American media, from the candlelight vigils to the talking heads on television who want to tell you exactly who’s to blame and why.

If you’re the type of person who watches a lot of shows about murder (or “murder porn” as “South Park” accurately calls it), or if you follow missing persons cases as they unravel on 24-hour news outlets in real time, then Gone Girl is a gift from heaven.

Hell, if all the dismally produced schlock I spend hours watching on Investigation Discovery were instead written and directed by the great filmmakers of our time, I wouldn’t need food or water.

Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay, based on her 2012 novel of the same name, and it’s a lean, disciplined adaptation; she left a lot of darlings on the cutting room floor. The picture’s still a hefty 149 minutes, but director David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac) keeps the revelations coming at a steady clip. There’s simply too much intrigue, too many questions on the verge of being answered to ever feel bored.

Gone Girl stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne. A Missourian by birth, Nick had a run as a writer in New York City, where he met and married Amy (Rosamund Pike). Amy’s heir to the fortune created by her parents’ Amazing Amy book series, but soon they’re “in a recession,” as the film plainly points out. They lose their jobs. Nick has a sick mother. The couple’s forced to move to a giant house in Missouri, which for them is really slumming it. Nick and his twin sister Margo (Carrie Noon) run a bar in town together, and lord knows what Amy does to pass the time.

We learn about Nick and Amy through a series of flashbacks told through Amy’s diary entries, and let me just say: puke. They talk to each other with that toowitty cadence reminiscent of characters from “Daw-

son’s Creek.” Pike’s performance has been repeatedly lauded but I can’t decide. Her voice seems fake and breathy to me, but that’s also sort of the point. At the end of the day, Nick and Amy are not good people.

Kim Dickens plays Detective Rhonda Boney with shrewd intelligence and efficiency. Never once does she appear without a coffee in hand. Her sidekick, Officer Jim Gilpin (Patrick Fugit, the kid from Almost Famous) seems content to follow the “it’s always the husband” logic. Certainly the facts are quickly snowballing in that direction, and yet. Tyler Perry is a revelation here as the big shot TV lawyer Tanner Bolt—his performance is so good, you just wish the movie had room for more of him. Neil Patrick Harris shows up as an old, rich boyfriend of Amy’s who may or may not have a few loose screws, and the hits keep coming from there.

I don’t think fans of the novel will be disappointed, but we are at a slight disadvantage in that we know what’s coming. Also, be warned that any reports you may have heard that Flynn changed the ending of the screenplay are highly exaggerated. The ending is mostly unchanged from the novel—what happens is as perplexing and infuriating as it originally was.

Gone Girl takes on a claustrophobic, nightmarish pall as the media swarms in on Nick, and his situation becomes more helpless. The case follows a trajectory reminiscent of the Scott Peterson case from 10 years ago, and if you don’t remember how that ends, well: Peterson is currently rotting away on death row.

Don’t get me wrong—he probably did do it, but if you look into the case, the evidence is almost entirely circumstantial. The guy was convicted more by the crushing weight of the public’s collective unfavorable opinion of lying, philandering husbands.

Gone Girl is at once a captivating thriller, the blackest of comedies, a cautionary tale on the perils of marriage and a deep character study into the sick heart of our voyeuristic culture. The movie looks like a dark, velvet painting of a weird nightmare that’s thankfully happening to someone else. It’s Fincher at his very sharpest. In short, the best time I’ve had at the movies this year.

Gone Girl continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Basically, imagine Andy from “Parks and Rec” as a space pilot goofball leading a team of misfits.

Totally excellent. Starring Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH The artistic processes of the one and only Nick Cave are explored in a pseudo-documentary written by, strangely enough, Nick Cave. Screening at the Roxy Oct. 10-12 at 7 and 9 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.

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Based on the venerated kids’ book, a little boy wakes up with gum in his hair and everything goes downhill. As one IMDB reviewer says, “Ugh, they turned it into a family togetherness movie.”

Starring Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner and Ed Oxenbould. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

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.

DRACULA UNTOLD This reboot imagines Vlad Tepes as a nice prince dude who must use supernatural powers to battle the armies threatening his castle. As a history nerd, I object. Starring Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper and Sarah Gadon. 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. Wilma.

THE JUDGE A high-powered lawyer has to return home to his estranged family after his dad is accused of murder. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall and Vera Farmiga. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

“Who’s ready to kick some poetry slam ass?” Dracula Untold opens Friday at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

LIFE OF CRIME Petty criminals’ plan to ransom a millionaire’s wife goes awry, in the adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def and Isla Fisher. Rated R. Wilma.

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MACBETH Toil and trouble is on tap for the Met Opera’s rendition of the Verdi classic, starring soprano soprano Anna Netrebko. Screening at the Roxy Sat., Oct. 11, at 11 AM, and Oct. 14 at 6:30 PM. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Two little girls are led on an adventure by a charming forest spirit. English version features the work of Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning and Tim Daly. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 15, at 7 PM, as part of the weekly Hayao Miyazaki retrospective.

YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY This Showtime documentary series focused on climate change, with celebrity investigators like Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Jessica Alba, Olivia

Munn and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Two episodes from the nine-part series screen every Monday at the Roxy at 7 PM.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. (See 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.

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.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

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

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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A dramatic dish

by Ari LeVaux Ratatouille, the rustic French stew, is an iconic dish during late summer and autumn. A simple mix of tomatoes, eggplant and summer squash prepared with herbs, garlic, onion and other veggies, ratatouille is the kind of bucolic dish that put French cuisine on the map.

But unlike a lot of French dishes that went uptown, ratatouille never changed. It isn’t possible to make a fancy ratatouille, as attempting to do so would change it into something else. It’s a simple, elegant combination of garden ingredients that is easy to prepare, hard to screw up and will win over the most ruthless critic.

Case in point: The 2007 animated film Ratatouille, which has become a classic. The action goes down in Paris, and culminates with the serving of an inspired batch of ratatouille. The dish was created by a talentless chef named Linguini, who was more qualified to clean the kitchen than cook in it.

Linguini’s creation was orchestrated by a small, furry culinary savant named Remy the Rat, who maneuvered Linguini around the kitchen by hiding in his hat and pulling on his hair, as if driving a forklift. The finished ratatouille was served to Anton Ego, an evil food critic who delights in the casting of fear into the hearts of chefs, and destroying the occasional career.

Ego arrived at the restaurant with sharpened pen ready to bury the upstart chef Linguini, but instead was transformed by the ratatouille. Ego’s first bite took him back to his grandmother’s house in the French countryside, when he was a boy. As Ego ate, his tough urban veneer, along with his pride, ambition, lust for power and general meanness, melted away. All that remained was an innocent boy eating his grandmother’s simple mix of homegrown vegetables. With Ego’s return to the garden, order was restored to the universe, all thanks to the humble dish of baked veggies.

The film’s significance has been analyzed and debated many times over, with its many philosophical quotes passed around the interwebs. To me, the movie was a mirror in which I saw pieces of myself, including in all three of the film’s major characters: the rat, the klutz and the jerk.

I see myself in the hapless Linguini. On some days, such as when I’m cooking for a crowd, my inner Linguini emerges as the embodiment of choking, failure, inadequacy. Yet somehow, he manages to pull it off when it counts. Perhaps everyone has a little Linguini in them.

Not everyone has a big nose like Remy the Rat, but I do. Remy’s nose, like mine, guides him through the kitchen and informs his culinary sensibility. The rat and I share a fascination with chewing distinct in-

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FLASH IN THE PAN

gredients together, such that previously undetected flavors can be drawn out from one another by pairings that provide the proper contrast.

“Each flavor is totally unique,” Remy remarked at one point, as he co-munched a mushroom with a piece of stinky cheese. “But combine one flavor with another, and something new is created.”

Such is the case of ratatouille the dish. As the diverse flavors of the garden combine, they do things to each other, changing one another, and the final product becomes something greater than the sum of its humble parts. Everything melts together in the tomato juice and olive oil. Garlic and aromatic herbs permeate the whole business. The mushy eggplant surrenders its form, while the zucchini just hangs onto its autonomy; both become supersaturated with juices, and release them into your mouth as you chew. Each ingredient is at its best, thanks to the presence of the others.

And then there is Anton Ego, the snobby food critic whose opinion sways the fortunes of those who are doing the work he criticizes, while he remains exempt from judgment. Having been a restaurant critic for years, I’ve tasted this power, and felt the intoxication it can give. I like to think I’m not a jerk like Ego, but nonetheless, I can relate to the guy.

Perhaps the true message of Ratatouille, the movie, is that anyone can make ratatouille the dish— even a klutz or a rodent. And while easy to make, even the sternest of critics are easily pleased by ratatouille.

That’s a good combination.

Here’s my ratatouille recipe: You need equal parts sliced eggplant, tomato and zucchini.

Start with a layer of eggplant or zucchini in the bottom of a baking pan, and then alternate layers of tomato, eggplant and zucchini. Intersperse the layers with chopped garlic or even whole cloves, along with basil leaves, rosemary, oregano. Add sliced fresh peppers and/or pitted olives, if you wish. Sprinkle lightly with salt and pour olive oil liberally between the layers, with just a splash of vinegar.

Bake at 350 degrees for roughly an hour per inch of the casserole’s depth. You want to cook it until there’s almost no water left bubbling in the pan, but if you dry it out too much the layers will curl and warp like old coats of paint.

The finished product can be enjoyed immediately, but it’s better the next day, after the ingredients have a chance to merge. Leftovers can be frozen for year-round consumption. Serve your ratatouille over toast or pasta, or as a side dish. Or do like we do and gobble it out of the pan. It’s a complete meal just like that.

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Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Have you heard? There are new flavors of handmade croissants at Bernice's: Ruby Tuesday, Walnut Pesto, Mixed Berry & Cherry Jalapeno LIme! Not only that...Bernice's is now making the cheese danish with new flavors: Lemon, Rasp, Lime, Blueberry & Huckleberry. When is the last time you stopped in to sit in Bernice's ever inviting atmosphere, been greeted with a smile, sipped on a rich cup of Bernice's Blend, and enjoyed a breakfast pastry? Not recently? You are missing out! No better time to remind yourself just how delicious Bernice's handmade breakfast pastries can be. The cool fall air whisks in as you embrace the smells of fresh baked everywhere. Bernice's. Missoula's one and only. xoxo bernice $-$$ 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 10/9 Big Brains Trivia 8-10 pm. Friday 10/10 Live Music with Tom Catmull 6-9 pm. Monday 10/13 Martini Mania $4 Martinis. Tuesday 10/14 Burger + Beer $8. Wednesday 10/15 $2 Wells & $2 PBR Tall Boys. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh cof-

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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. $-$$

Cinemas, Live Music & Theater A Most Wanted Man Nightly at 9

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm

(Breakfast ‘til Noon)

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Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm

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The Trip to Italy Nightly at 7 NO show Fri 10/10, Sat 10/11 or Mon 10/13

Boyhood Nightly at 9 NO show Fri 10/10, Sat 10/11 or Mon 10/13

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

Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

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Big Sky Bierschnapps HAPPIEST HOUR tles. Booze that sells briskly What it is: Montgomery through the line, as was the Distillery collaborated with Big case with Montgomery’s Skadi Sky Brewing to roll out this Aquavit, is incorporated into hyper-local and deliciously the distillery’s regular menu. sweet spirit. Montgomery disFor bierschnapps’ inaugural tilled the amber-colored release, Montgomery produced liquor from Big Sky’s Belgian roughly 550 bottles for use in Pale Ale and then aged it for cocktails at the distillery and for 19 months in former Buffalo sale in 375-mL bottles for $20.

Trace Bourbon barrels—the Based on already brisk sales, same barrels Big Sky once Schaefer predicts the distillery used to age its imperial stout will sell out by Christmas. “It’s and barley wine. The result, as popular,” he says.

Montgomery bartender Philip photo by Cathrine L. Walters It remains to be seen, Schaefer says, is “a malty, nutty, sort of banana tropical fruit-driven however, if bierschnapps is popular enough palate. It’s lighter than a whisky, but it has to warrant a full-time slot on Montgomery’s menu. That means if you want to try the some similar sweet qualities.” homegrown spirit, it’s likely a good idea to do it soon.

How to drink it: Neat. It’ll run you $4.

How else to drink it: Montgomery Distillery created the Bierschnapps Sour, which adds lemon, simple syrup and lemon bitters.

This cocktail will set you back $7.

How to find it: Montgomery Distillery is at 129 W. Front St. Grizzly Liquor is also selling Big Sky Bierschnapps bottles.

—Jessica Mayrer

The more you know: Big Sky Bierschnapps is part of Montgomery’s ongoing “Temporal Spirits” series, which is marked by limited releases and quaint hand-labeled bot-

Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Veggie options, too!

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.

SUSHI TUESDAYS 5pm to close • Reservations accepted.

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. $$-$$$

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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

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

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

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

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

Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

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

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pass, $12 for one day. Visit Facebook.com/ Jester406 to learn more.

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.

October 9–October 16, 2014

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.

If you’re living with arthritis or other similar chronic conditions, the Regaining Mobility Through Gentle Movement will use mostly chair-based, yoga-inspired gentle exercises to promote range of motion and joint health.

Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from 11 AM-noon through Nov. 6. $50 for six-week series/$10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 for info.

nightlife The He Said, She Said Author Road Show with husband ‘n wife young adult writin’ team Wendelin 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.

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. 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. 9-23 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.

Fashion victims. Captured By Robots plays the Palace Sat., Oct. 11, along with Frederick Krueger and the Sweet Dreamers. 9 PM. $8.

THURSDAYOCT09 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.

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. (See Feature.)

Local ‘n visiting comics promise to knock your silly socks off with JesterFest, a threeday festival of music, standup and improv at venues including the Press Box, Elbow Room, Stage 112 and Dark Horse, Oct. 9-11. Performers include Cow Tipping Comedy, Harry J. Riley, Ed Hill and bands like Shramana, In Walks Bud and Buddy “Hotdog” Jackson. $30 for three day

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.

Singer-songwriter Camille Bloom, dubbed “Ani Difranco dipped in maple syrup,” pours some sugar all over Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier.

Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $15/$10 in advance at brownpapertickets.com/event/871898 .

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

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[calendar] 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.

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.

The Speed Networking brings business-types to cut to the chase, with a round-robin-style 2-4 minute meeting with each person, plus 15-minute talk from a surprise speaker. Loft of Missoula, 7-8:30 PM. Free, but RSVP required in advance at primeconversion.com/speed networking.

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. The UM School of Theatre and Dance goes Francophile with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under.

Check out umt.edu/umarts/ theatredance.

Sudanese refugee John Dau talks about his harrowing experience and the newly stabilizing South Sudan at the DoubleTree, 7:30 PM. $5/free for World Affairs Council members and students.

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. Oct. 9-11 at 7:30 PM. $15.

The Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of family friendly comedy Harvey, adapted for the stage from the 1951 Jimmy Stewart movie, comes to the O’Shaughnessy Center, Oct. 9-12 and 17-19, at 7:30 PM. $8-$18.

The 406 Band plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

The new Thursday Flip Night features nonstop bumpin’ tunes and the chance to win free drinks with a coin toss at the bar. Badlander. 9 PM. $2 cover.

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.)

Colorado’s Drunken Hearts bring the high ‘n lonesome sound to the Top Hat, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

art adventures

Enjoy zee cinema at Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema night, the second Friday of every month.

The series showcases indie and foreign films. Doors open at 6:45, show at 7 PM. Check missoulapublibrary.org for info. Free.

It’s easy to forget that there are more ways to look at art than just the First Friday walk once a month—and plenty of creative artists living on paths less taken. You might associate the Seeley-Swan area with lakeside cabins and primo huckleberry picking (I would tell you where, but then I’d have to kill you) but it’s also home to a multitalented array of vibrant art-makers. The region might not have the cache of a bustling big city art district, but the smattering of scenic peaks and sparkling lakes undoubtedly makes for some sweet inspiration for folks who make their homes there. The Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts, usually on the second weekend in October, is a chance to visit some of the museums and galleries in the Seeley, Swan and Blackfoot valleys— WHAT: Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts WHERE: Seeley-Swan and Blackfoot Valleys WHEN: Oct. 11-12 throughout the day HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: alpineartisans.org

and as good an excuse as any for a fall excursion around an area that’s pretty easy on the eyes. The self-guided tour cruises through several open studios, galleries and museums, where you’ll get to see artists using their talents in woodworking, painting,

FRIDAYOCT10 Several artists have come together for the Día de Muertos art celebration at the ZACC. Second Friday reception from 5:30-8:30 PM. Visit zootownarts.org/FOTD to see other Festival of the Dead festivities.

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. (See Feature.)

Local ‘n visiting comics promise to knock your silly socks off with JesterFest, a three-day festival of music, standup and improv at venues including the Press Box, Elbow Room, Stage 112 and Dark Horse, Oct. 9-11.

Performers include Cow Tipping Comedy, Harry J. Riley, Ed Hill and bands like Shramana, In Walks Bud and Buddy “Hotdog” Jackson. $30 for three day pass, $12 for one day. Visit

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Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive.

Tastings start at 4 PM on weekends, tunes from 6-8:30 PM. Bring your own foodsnacks, or sample some of the Biga antipasto available.

The UM School of Theatre and Dance goes Francophile with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/umarts/theatredance.

Woodworking at Swanwoods studio in Ovando

fabrics, ceramics and more.

Some of the first stops on the self-guided tour map include the Flying Popcorn Ranch, Graces Gallery and the Swan Valley Museum in Condon, which highlights watercolor artist Sharon Lamar and pastel painter Lynne Perry. Or there’s the tantalizingly named KornUtopia Pottery studio in Condon, where Bob Korn plies his wares.

The best part of a self-guided tour is that you can pick your own adventure and stop whenever you like; so check out the tour guide PDF at alpineartisans.org.

—Kate Whittle

Facebook.com/Jester406 to learn more.

of Festival of the Book. 4 PM. Free.

(See Feature.)

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

Lunch, literature and two gray foxes: set your hearts to “dazzled” when the Festival of the Book presents a luncheon whilst MTPR’s William Marcus interviews James Lee Burke. Top Hat. Noon. $35. Tickets at the Top Hat’s website or box office.

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

Josh Wagner, of Smashing Laptops, reads selected works at Shakespeare and Co. along with Theo Ellsworth (smiling politely) as part of Festival of the Book. 2:30 PM. Free.

Craft beer and wordcraft collide most delightfully when Ryan Newhouse, author of Montana Beer: A Guide to Breweries in the Big Sky, reads and chats at the Top Hat as part

Do It in 72 is a wild and sleepless weekend where a bunch of people get together for nonstop, intense... filming of a short movie to be submitted to MCAT’s annual contest.

(What, did you have something else in mind, pervert?) First place prize is $500. Call MCAT at 542-6228 to learn more.

The Montana Natural History Center hosts a fall-themed fete with a swanky dinner and auction at the DoubleTree, 5-9 PM. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit’s community education and outreach programs. $50.

Visit montananaturalist.org.

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.

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.

El-3Oh! gets jazzy while wine aficionados get snazzy at Ten Spoon

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. Oct. 9-11 at 7:30 PM. $15.

The Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of family friendly comedy Harvey, adapted for the stage from the 1951 Jimmy Stewart movie, comes to the O’Shaughnessy Center, Oct. 9-12 and 17-19, at 7:30 PM. $8$18.

Escape that melon-choly when The Cantaloupes jazz up proceedings at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. 7:30 PM. $10/$5 for students. Visit missoulawinery.com.

Nine pianos, more than 30 pianists and two nights of concerts add up to another engaging Pianissimo! at the UM Music Recital Hall, Oct. 10-11 at 7:30 PM. $10-$20, tickets at griztix.com, 406-243-4581 or the Adams Center Box Office.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 610 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

The 406 Band plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

Bust that old hesher jacket out of the closet when Texas’ Bludded Head rawks the VFW, along with Bird’s Mile Home, VTO and Hangover Saints in their last performance. 9 PM. $5/$7 for ages 18-20. (See Music.)

DJs M-AD and Cadence Miles team up to tear the roof off the sucker, along with Seattle’s Jason Woo. Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

Watch a bunch of beer-chooglin’ wizards make Rainier magically disappear when Portland metal outfit Spellcaster sweeps into the Palace, along with Judgment Hammer, American Falcon and Tribe. 9 PM. No cover.

Missoula’s own Josh Farmer Band supplies all the tunes, and all’s you gotta do is show up and boogie.

Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

[calendar] Wash your favorite black bandanna, or hell, don’t, when Portland junkbox hillybilly blues outfit Hillstomp tears up the Top Hat, along with Three-Eared Dog. 10 PM. $7.

SATURDAYOCT11 Missoula smokejumpers, a secret war abroad and the CIA: it all adds up to some riveting stuff when author Gayle Morrison talks about Hog’s Exit, her oral history of a Missoula man with an incredible life and mysterious death. Missoula Art Museum. 1 PM. Free.

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. 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/fo b/ to find a link to the full schedule.

Most events are free. (See Feature.)

Local ‘n visiting comics promise to knock your silly socks off with JesterFest, a three-day festival of music, standup and improv at venues including the Press Box, Elbow Room, Stage 112 and Dark Horse, Oct. 9-11.

Performers include Cow Tipping Comedy, Harry J. Riley, Ed Hill and bands like Shramana, In Walks Bud and Buddy “Hotdog” Jackson. $30 for three day pass, $12 for one day. Visit Facebook.com/Jester406 to learn more.

You get a confidence! You get a confidence! You get a confidence!

The Win Global Women’s Summit is spreading empowerment like Oprah

gives away Pontiacs with an all-day conference at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $47, or $67 for Friday spa night and Saturday workshops. Visit theWINonline.com.

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. Homeword’s Financial Fitness Class aims to teach folks how to whip debt and budgets into shipshape. 9 AM-6 PM, with childcare available, plus a $20 gift certificate to people who complete the class. Free, but register at homeword.org or call 532-4663 ext 10.

Climb in the pumpkin carriage for the magical Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts, a self-guided tour of open studios, galleries and museums in the Seeley, Swan and Blackfoot valleys.

Find a tour map at Grizzly Claw Trading Post, the Seeley Lake Visitor’s Center, Condon’s Mission Mountain Mercantile and alpineartisans.org.

Load up on vitamin B at the sixth annual Montana Brewer’s Festival, where Treasure State’s finest serve up tasters of their wares at Caras Park. 1-8 PM. $25/$20 in advance. Visit montanabrewers.org for more info.

Hop heads, get ready to rumble at the sixth annual Montana Brewers Festival, which features dozens of Treasure State brews. Caras Park, 3-8 PM. $25/$20 in advance. Visit montanabrewers.org.

Transform old tomes into unique trinkets with the Altered Books workshop, where materials, snacks, tunes and instructions will be provided to help you make old books into artworks. Missoula Public Library, 3-5 PM. Free.

nightlife Sub Pop tuneslinger Sera Cahoone croons at an early show at

Stage 112, doors at 5 PM, show at 6. $6/$8 for ages 18-20.

Our associate calendar editor just might be on the rampage again while Ten Skip Stone provides tuneage at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

Always classy, sometimes sassy Charla Bauman strums away whilst folks kick back at Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tastings start at 4 PM on weekends, tunes from 68:30 PM. Bring your own foodsnacks, or sample some of the Biga antipasto available.

Don’t let actors have all the fun; join in and Come As You Aren’t at the Hamilton Player’s inaugural costume ball, with live performances, auctions, contests, DJ, hors d’oeuvre and prizes. Hamilton City Hall. 6-10 PM. $25, includes a drink ticket, available at the Hamilton Players Box Office, 406-375-9050 or hamiltonplayers.com.

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. Saturday shows at 7 PM, Sunday shows at 5:30 PM through Oct. 26. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.

When Dierks Bentley’s done getting drunk on a plane, he’s gonna play a show for all you boot-scootin’ guys ‘n gals at the Adams Center, featuring Eric Paslay. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $40$50. Visit griztix.com for tickets.

Susan Faye Roberts presents a one-woman reflection of life lived, The Suitcase, at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs on Oct. 11 at 7 PM and Oct. 12 at 2 PM. Pass-the-hat donations appreciated.

The Captain Wilson Conspiracy fills the air with jazzy ambiance while the rank and file fills it with intrigue at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St. 7-9 PM. No cover.

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[calendar] merry gang of electronic friends make pummeling tunes as Captured

By Robots. Frederick Krueger and the Sweet “This Band Name is Really Hard to Spell Correctly” Dreamers open. Palace. 9 PM. $8.

Sister Soul and the Medicine got the goods to cure whatever ails ya at the Union Club, with tunes starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

The Polyrhythmics world-beat ensemble lights up the dance floor at the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. $5.

SUNDAYOCT12 The sustainability lovin’ folks of Wildwood Brewing host its third annual sustainability fair, with vendors, pig roast, games, music, demonstrations and, of course, organic brewskies. 4018 Hwy. 93, near Stevensville. 2-8 PM. Free, but bring a side dish.

Boots, start walkin’. Dierks Bentley plays the Adams Center Sat., Oct. 11, at 7 PM. $40-$50. Tickets at griztix.com.

The UM School of Theatre and Dance goes Francophile with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/umarts/theatredance.

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. Oct. 9-11 at 7:30 PM. $15.

The Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of family friendly comedy Harvey, adapted for the stage from the 1951 Jimmy Stewart movie, comes to the O’Shaughnessy Center, Oct. 9-12 and 17-19, at 7:30 PM. $8$18.

Nine pianos, more than 30 pianists and two nights of concerts add up to another engaging Pianis-

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simo! at the UM Music Recital Hall, Oct. 10-11 at 7:30 PM. $10-$20, tickets at griztix.com, 406-243-4581 or the Adams Center Box Office.

Wordsmiths strut their stuff at the sixth annual Festival of the Book poetry slam, emceed by Tahj Kjelland, with guest judges and cash prizes for the top three finishers. 112 N. Pattee St. 8 PM. (See Arts.)

Let your inner dancing queen cut loose with Tango Missoula’s Ar-

gentine Tango at the Downtown Dance Collective from 8-11:45 PM on the second Saturday of the month. $10/$16 for couples. Check out tangomissoula.com.

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

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

The android revolution will not be televised, but it will be down at the Palace when J. Bot and his

Climb in the pumpkin carriage for the magical Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts, a self-guided tour of open studios, galleries and museums in the Seeley, Swan and Blackfoot valleys. Find a tour map at Grizzly Claw Trading Post, the Seeley Lake Visitor’s Center, Condon’s Mission Mountain Mercantile and alpineartisans.org.

(See Spotlight.)

Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every second and fourth Sunday of the month at the Eagles Lodge on Second Street in Hamilton. $4/$3 for members. Call 240-9617 for info.

Unleash that inner Monet or Degas with the Art on Tap sociable painting class, led by an instructor, with materials included. Montgomery Distillery. 2-4:30 PM. $32. Visit artontapmissoula.com for information and more tickets.

[calendar] If you’ve ever dreamed of running over art with a car, the DIY Steam Roller Prints workshop is one to add to the bucket list. ZACC, 1-4 PM. Groups of friends or family are welcome to participate together; must provide your own car. Free, but registration is required by calling 549-7555.

nightlife Malarkey puts a little Celtic spirit into proceedings while you sample fine Irish-style beverages at Draught Works, 5-7 PM. No cover.

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. Saturday shows at 7 PM, Sunday shows at 5:30 PM through Oct. 26. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com.

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

Ornithologist Terry McEaney provides “An Insight Into Mischievous Ravens,” sans any fretting about a lost Lenore, at the Five Valleys Audubon meeting at Gallagher Business Building, room L14, at 7:30 PM. 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 spark-

Showcase, every Monday evening at the Badlander after the trivia contest gets done around 10:30 or 11.

No cover.

TUESDAYOCT14 MUD is gettin’ fruity at the Cider Pressing Workshop and Mingle, with a demonstration of cider pressing and beverage sipping while MUD staff chat about the nonprofit’s new three-year plan. MUD Tool Library, 1527 Wyoming St. 5:30-8 PM. Free.

It’s storytime, plus there’s bourbon to be had, 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 Jules Ohman and Deirdre McNamer.

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:

The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band puts some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons prior at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com.

The Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of family friendly comedy Harvey, adapted for the stage from the 1951 Jimmy Stewart movie, comes to the O’Shaughnessy Center, Oct. 9-12 and 17-19, at 7:30 PM. $8-$18.

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

Free.

MONDAYOCT13 Exit Glaciers come straight outta Denton to play “glacier folk” in the Real Lounge, under Stage 112. Entrance ‘round the corner on Front St. 9 PM. Cover TBA.

nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Reggae dude Matisyahu performs at the Wilma, along with Radical Something. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$33 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketweb.com.

Rising singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne plays tunes at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover.

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

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 Lookin’ scruff. Matisyahu performs at the Wilma Mon., Oct. 13, along with Radical Something. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$33 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s.

ing, here’s a question: What famous literary critic called poetry slams “the death of art”? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Have a knockout evening when Guttermouth plays the Top Hat, along with Against the Grain and In the Wale. 9 PM. $15/$12 in advance.

Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, plus the Top Hat site and box office.

Virginia’s Folkie indie rock outfit Carbon Leaf branches out at Stage 112. 9 PM. $10-$15, ages 18-plus.

Visit stage112.com.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning tunes and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM-1:30 AM. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

Strum some post-trivia victory chords at the Singer-Songwriter

Heads up, local art-makers: the Missoula Art Museum’s 43rd annual Benefit Art Auction is next year, and you can submit your work to be a part of it, for either a cut of the sale price or the satisfaction of contributing to a nonprofit, free museum.

Deadline is tomorrow. Visit mam.submittable.com/submit to learn how it works and submit works.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best.

All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.

The Live a Joyful Life: Relief from Chronic Pain workshop teaches gentle movement, breath work and relaxation with Harriet Alterowitz.

Meets at the Learning Center at Red

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[calendar] Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., on Oct. 14 from 2-4 PM and Nov. 18 from 6:308:30 PM. $30/$25 if registered by Oct. 7.

Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40.

Students must have doctor’s okay.

nightlife It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the corner of Third and Reserve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

WEDNESDAYOCT15 Prepare for a dino-mite edition of the Annual National Fossil Day, where the UM Paleontology Center gets into the spirit with tours, a short film, rock and fossil identification demos and kids’ activities in the Clapp Building. 5-8 PM. The first 40 folks to register for new Friends of the UMPC memberships get a free T-shirt. What what!

Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials. 7:30-10:30 PM. No cover.

Learn the Mexican folk art of sugar skull decorating with the Muertos-themed workshop at the ZACC, where the materials are provided to decorate a long-lasting skull of your own. 4-6 PM. Free. Call 5497555 to reserve a spot.

nightlife The latest installment of Women on the Web explains the best domain names and how to set ‘em up, with presenters Emily Witcher, Christy Costello and Natalie Bender. University Center Tech Lounge. 6 PM. Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz

THURSDAYOCT16 The Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents a talk with installation artist Amanda Browder and reception in the PARTV Center lobby. 5:45-7 PM. Check out umt.edu/montanamuseum.

The Festimation: Animation + New Media Arts Festival features up-andcoming animated movies and documentaries, at the Roxy on Thursdays in October. Oct. 9 at 5:30-10 PM, Oct. 1630 from 7-10 PM. $5-$7, or $22 for all four nights. Cruise over to festimationfestival.wordpress.com. (See Film.)

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

Jump in the DeLorean with the Montana Memory Project staff, who demonstrate documents, photos and other memorabilia from the Vietnam era, all as part of the Big Read. Missoula Public Library, 7-8:30 PM. The UM School of Theatre and Dance goes Francophile with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/umarts/theatredance.

Doug Peacock, the Vietnam vet and grizzly expert, presents “The Importance of Wilderness and Ceremony in Healing the Wounds of War” at the University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.

Find that creative outlet ye seek at the Open Mic Night at Stage 112, 9 PM. Call Mike at 207-7097 after 4 PM on Monday to sign yourself up.

Dig up a little old-fashioned hootenanny when the Beet Tops play tunes for a square dance at the Top Hat, starting at 8 PM. 21-plus after 9 PM. No cover. (Trivia answer: Harold Bloom. For what it’s worth, the Yale University professor also hates J.K. Rowling and Stephen King.)

Marshall McLean Band and Ryan Johnson and the Dreams are out to knock back a little whiskey, make a li’l music and get down tonight (uh-huh uh-huh) at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

Turning the Wheel Missoula brings the Tapestry Class, a creative and improvisational dance class with tools for stress relief, to Headwaters Dance 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.

Reggae lovin’ dude David Baty elevates the atmosphere at the Top Hat dinner show, starting at 7 PM. No cover.

The Missoula Patriots convene to hear from speaker Marian Armstrong on her views about ending the Common Core education standards. Valley Christian School, 2526 Sunset Lane. 7 PM.

The UM School of Theatre and Dance goes Francophile with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/umarts/theatredance.

Yar, they be gettin ‘Nessy when Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails plays Montana-grass at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

If you just can’t get enough of the Man in Black, tribute outfit Cash’d Out plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $16. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketweb.com.

Use yer noggin at the Big Wearable Heads workshop at the ZACC, where teams or individuals, will make a large-scale papier mâché head in honor of a lost loved one or role model, and wear it with the ZACC group in the Day of the Dead parade.

Meets Oct. 14-28, Tuesdays from 68 PM. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit zootownarts.org/BigHead.

Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7-9 PM.

improve flexibility and posture. Meets Thursdays from Oct. 9-23 and Nov. 620 from 6-7 PM at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. $30 for three week series. Call 7210033 for info.

The new Thursday Flip Night features nonstop bumpin’ tunes. Badlander.

9 PM. $2 cover.

Butt rockers. Spellcaster plays the Palace Fri., Oct. 10, along with Judgment Hammer, American Falcon and Tribe. 9 PM. No cover.

Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow. Wednesdays, 7:30-8:15 AM. Previous experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/ $8 drop-in.

Painted ponies are the hot topic today at the Art Associates of Missoula meeting, which convenes at A Carousel for Missoula to chat about the venerated local landmark. 10 AM. Free. Call Susie for more info at 5440891.

Get in touch with healing arts at the Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors workshop, every third Wednesday of the month at Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17.

Noon-1:30 PM. Free. Call 549-5329 for info.

Learn a handy skill at the Makerspace: LED Bike Light Construction, at Missoula Public Library. 4-8 PM. $7 for materials.

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Night, featuring a rotating lineup of local jazz enthusiasts. 7 PM. Free, all ages.

The UM School of Theatre and Dance goes Francophile with its rendition of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac. Performances at the Montana Theatre Oct. 14-18, at 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Check out umt.edu/umarts/theatredance.

Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Find this week’s lineup and info at facebook.com/milkcrateproductions.

Aaron Behrens and the Midnight Stroll waltz through Stage 112 on a rock ‘n roll-flavored trip, along with Ranch Ghost, which wins this week’s coveted Coolest Band Name Award. 9 PM. $12/$10 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s or seafarerenter tainment.com.

If you’re living with arthritis or other similar chronic conditions, the Regaining Mobility Through Gentle Movement will use mostly chairbased, yoga-inspired gentle exercises to 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.

Take a break with that Kit Kat and tunes provided by Keith Scott at the University Center Atrium, noon-1 PM. Free.

The nonprofit children’s mental health center, Youth Dynamics Missoula, celebrates the grand opening of its local chapter with food, prizes and an open house at 619 SW Higgins Ave., 1-7 PM. Free. Call Katie for more info at 728-9672.

nightlife Get more in tune with your body at the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, which aim to ease chronic pain and

Sp3ncetober 3: I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer continues with a third week of shenanigans from Can ‘O Beans, Duane Raider, Holy Lands and a magic genie (!) at the VFW. 9 PM. Cover TBA. 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.)

Double the pleasure, double the fun when The Hasslers and Tom Catmull’s Radio Static celebrate good times, uh-uh, at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. No cover.

As a wise woman once said, “Of course I drink in moderation. There’s ice in this gin.” 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 at missoulanews.com.

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n the interest of full disclosure, I’ll first note that ravens terrify me, as part of my ongoing phobia of most birds. I’m in good company with Edgar Allan Poe on this one. What’s going on behind those beady little eyes? Probably a lot more than many of us realize.

According to the Audubon Society, studies indicate that ravens demonstrate remarkable learning and cooperative skills, like playing games with sticks, working in pairs to attack newborn lambs and even learning to mimic human sounds. One particularly smart-aleck scientist taught a raven to say “Nevermore,” even.

Don’t confuse ravens with a murder of crows, either, though the two species look like. A group of ravens is called a constable, unkindness or a conspiracy. There’s a couple ways to differentiate them from crows: ravens typically travel in pairs, as opposed to crows’ groups, and produce a lower croaking sound,

instead of a crows’ caw.

All those smarts pay off. Ravens are an abundant species, well adapted to living near and among humans, which gives them a leg (or a wing) up in these ecologically perilous times.

You’ll likely learn all sorts of nifty facts like that when ornithologist Terry McEaney chats about ravens during an upcoming Five Valleys Audubon meeting on Oct. 13. Ravens are pretty cool, I’ll admit: I’ll just watch them from a safe distance.

—Kate Whittle Ornithologist Terry McEaney provides “An Insight Into Mischievous Ravens,” at the Five Valleys Audubon meeting at Gallagher Business Building, room L14, Wed., Oct. 15 at 7:30 PM.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

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.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 10

the S.H.A.T.S. junkets. Learn more at southhillstrailseries.blogspot.com.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 14 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.

Let’s go there, let’s make our escape to see Jeremy Jones’ Higher, the new splitboard mountaineering film from Teton Gravity Research. Screening at the Wilma with live music from Lil’ Smokies and Alaskan Brewing Co. ales to accompany the shindig. Doors at 6 PM. $15/$12 in advance at Elements Board Shop and LB Snow.

The Rocky Mountaineers get together for their monthly meeting and to hear about the exploits of badass journalist and professor Nadia White, who kayaked the Alaskan coast solo a couple summers back. Trail Head, 221 E. Front St. 7 PM.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 11

Outfit yourself for winter adventures on the cheapie side at the Used Outdoor Gear Sale, where you can drop off your stuff to sell it for consignment between 7 and 11 AM, or pick up newto-you goods. University Center, noon-5 PM. 20 percent of the sale price goes to the UM Outdoor Program.

Intrepid raptor lovers are invited on a Five Valleys Audubon adventure to see a golden eagle banding site near Lincoln. It includes a steep two-mile hike, and meets at the East Broadway Park ‘n Ride for departure at 6 AM. Limited to six participants, so register with Cynthia at 722-0016 or 830-5424.

Anticipate fierce competition for the 33rd annual Le Grizz Ultramarathon, a 50-mile point-to-point run on rolling forest road near the Hungry Horse Reservoir.

USA Track and Field membership required to compete; noncompliance is “your problem,” not theirs. Avoid awakening any hibernating grizzlies by finding all the info at cheetahherders.com/LeGrizz.html.

Venture out to the old Smurfit-Stone in search of migrating shorebirds, if ye so choose, by meeting at the northwest corner of the Adams Center lot before 9 AM for carpool departure. Call Terry to learn more at 214-1194.

Earn mega Missoula cred at the Introduction to Backpacking course, which departs Saturday morning and returns Sunday afternoon on a trip designs for beginners and more experienced folk alike. $55, includes food, instruction and gear. Call 5526271 or stop by Currents Aquatics to register.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 12 Beware that the 4-mile Goat Grind is a pretty serious endeavor, with steep hills, creek crossing and singletrack at the Elkhorn Endurance Retreat in Clancy. But hey, there’s pancakes afterward! Part of

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15

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.

Check out the tough gals of Pretty Faces, a film celebrating outdoorsy women, produced by professional skier Lynsey Dyer. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Oct. 15, at 7:30 PM. $12/$8 for ages 12 and under.

Advance tickets at eventbrite.com/e/pretty-facesthe-story-of-a-skier-girl-tour-missoula-tickets13170821281.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 16

We’re asking photographers of all levels—iPhone experts to pros—to scratch our city’s shiny surface and uncover something a little different. As your local alternative news source, we’re excited to see how you define “alternative” and turn it into a stunning image (or images). The best shots will be published both online and in a special issue of the Independent.

Selections will be made based on composition, subject and overall execution. Anyone can enter. We only require that the images be taken within city limits and shot between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11.

In addition to publication in the Independent, one photographer will be awarded free admission to the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s Photo Weekend, March 14-15, a $159 value.

Go to tinyurl.com/indyphoto for complete details and rules.

The ninth annual REEL ROCK Film Tour clambers up into the University Center Theater, featuring films like Valley Uprising, about rock climbing in Yosemite. 7 PM. $10/$8 in advance at the UM Outdoor Program in the rec center. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Being a kid is supposed to be a happy, carefree time of development, but for many, it’s not.

An unstable home life is just one of many factors that can contribute to a child or teen having a hard time.

Fortunately, services are available to help kids with issues related to trauma, depression, substance abuse or other troubles. They’re not easy topics to discuss: but acknowledging a problem can be the first step toward raising a happier, healthier kid.

In Montana, the nonprofit Youth Dynamics assists kids and teens with mental health or behavioral issues. The organization offers a variety of inpatient and outpatient services, like therapeutic youth group homes, counseling for individuals and families, and in-home visits and mentoring.

Youth Dynamics already serves more than a dozen communities throughout Montana, including

Billings, Helena, Great Falls and Kalispell, and celebrates its new Missoula chapter on Oct. 16 with an open house, refreshments and the chance to win door prizes.

—Kate Whittle Nonprofit children’s mental health center Youth Dynamics Missoula celebrates its grand opening with food, prizes and an open house at 619 SW Higgins Ave., Thu., Oct. 16, from 1-7 PM. Free. Call Katie for more info at 728-9672.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 The Green Path Herb School presents an introduction to the Natural Family Planning Method, a WHO-recognized means of understanding your fertility cycle. 180 S. Third St. W. Free introductory class Oct. 9 at 6:30 PM, followed by two days of classes on Oct. 11 and Oct. 18 that meet at 1 PM. $95/$165 per couple. Visit greenpathherbschool.com.

plores depth psychology, using myths, legends, and fairy tales as examples, at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Meets Wednesdays from noon-1 PM through Nov. 12. $100 for five-week course.

Thai researcher Umaporn Muneenam and UM’s Norma Nickerson present “Promoting Tourism Through Shared Cultures in Southeast Asia,” at the Mansfield Center Conference Room, 12:10-1 PM.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, local LGBTQI folks host an open mic at the University Center atrium, where people can share their music, poetry or stories. Noon.

The locally produced short doc Coal Road to China, which explores the ramifications of Pacific Coast export terminals on Montana, screens at the University Center Theater at 7:30 PM, followed by an expert panel discussion with folks like Steve Running and Elaina Buffalo Spirit. Free.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 11

THURSDAY OCTOBER 16

The Green Path Herb School presents an introduction to the Natural Family Planning Method, a WHO-recognized means of understanding your fertility cycle. 180 S. Third St. W. Free introductory class Oct. 9 at 6:30 PM, followed by two days of classes on Oct. 11 and Oct. 18 that meet at 1 PM. $95/$165 per couple. Visit greenpathherbschool.com.

NCBI’s fifth annual Leadership Luncheon brings together a farmer’s grip of whip-smart Missoula folk at the DoubleTree, starting at noon, to support the nonprofit’s work with stuff like DIversity Day and MLK Jr. Day. Call 541-6891 to learn more.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 10

TUESDAY OCTOBER 14 Learn about the good work the folks at the YWCA do, and how you can pitch in, at the YW Connects Tour, which includes a light lunch. 1130 W. Broadway. Noon-1 PM. Visit ywcaofmissoula.org or call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15 The Missoula League of Women Voters hosts a public forum on Montana’s statutory and constitutional initiative process, and whether it serves citizens well. Missoula Public Library. Noon-1 PM. Free.

The Narcissism, Sexuality, and Trauma class ex-

President Jimmy Carter and expert Robert A. Kapp chat about economic and political relations for the eighth annual China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections. UM groups team up to screen the webcast at Gallagher Business Building room 106 at 5 PM. RSVP to angela.austin@umontana.edu or 243-2988.

Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free, plus there’s nice beverages and snacks.

Justice of the Peace candidates Marie Andersen and Matt Lowy go head-to-head at a forum hosted by the Missoula College Paralegal Student Association at Missoula City Council Chambers. 7-8:30 PM.

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

[34] Missoula Independent • October 9–October 16, 2014

The Bardstown Bourbon Club and The Golden Rose presents:

American Whiskey Tasting Classic American Whiskey-Session Three Tuesday, Oct. 14 | $20 full tasting or $15 for three | 5pm to 8pm The Golden Rose | 123 West Broadway Ave., Downtown, Missoula >> Bookers >> Corner Creek Reserve >> 4 Spirits Bourbon Whiskey >> Old Forester >> Evan Williams “Green Label” >> Breckenridge >> Eagle Rare Buy tickets at the door or reserve your spot by emailing jeffc@grizzlywineandspirits.com To get a discount off of your ticket and find out more about the Bardstown Bourbon Club check us out at Grizzly Liquor on Facebook.

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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 community event? Email Tannis at

hargrovet@gmail.com Seeking sponsors: Single mother with 8-year-old disabled son is seeking benevolent people to help fund horse therapy at Horse Time for her son. Please contact Iris at 531-4413.

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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

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TO LEECH ACCORDING TO HER NEEDS My roommate's girlfriend is unemployed and just hangs around our place all week, even when he's at work. (She has her own place but is never there.) She's very wasteful with our utilities. Yesterday, after work, I found her in the living room watching TV with the air conditioning on full blast—even though she also had all the windows open and, for some reason, had turned on our gas fireplace! When I muttered something to my roommate about her kicking in for utilities, he retorted that my girlfriend isn't paying any extra. Well, she is here a night or two a week, has a job, and doesn't run up our electric bill.

—Feeling Scammed You need to establish a new house rule: "Residents and their guests can experience only one climate at a time."

Your problem started with going into a roommate situation without rules—without a written document spelling out how things would work between you and how they'd work if something weren't working. Signing a roommate contract (like this example from Nolo's "Every Tenant's Legal Guide": bit.ly/roommatecontract) might sound unnecessarily formal. However, it's wise to do whenever you're rooming with anything more animated than a cactus. Remember, to be human is to be annoying—like, for example, by letting another human move in and cause climate change in your living room.

The fair thing is to get Jackie Brownout to start forking over for the utilities—before it occurs to her to run the dryer all night because the white noise helps her sleep. But the fair thing isn't always the smartest thing.

Consider what this is costing you—and what it could cost you. Compare bills from the previous year to get an idea of how much she's actually sending the bill up. No, putting every power source in the house on full blast isn't free, but her usage probably doesn't add more than $10 or $20 to your monthly bill. And no, it isn't fair that you're paying half of that. However, getting into this with your roommate might lead to your putting the $10 or so you'd be saving on moocher energy charges toward doughnuts for the movers you'd be paying hundreds of dollars to haul your stuff to storage until you could find your next apartment.

If you decide it would eat away at you too much to be paying for her, say something to your roommate, but in a mellow way, over a beer. Tell him you really like his

girlfriend (because diplomacy, not truth, is life's little lubricant). As far as you're concerned, she's welcome to stay over as much as she wants, but you'd like a new house policy: Girlfriends who stay over four or more days a week need to kick in for utilities.

Stress that this applies to your girlfriend, as well, and add that the particular roommate, not the girlfriend, should be responsible for the payment. The last thing you need is to be going all collection agent on this woman—preferable as it might be to asking her to cut to the chase and heat the house by burning stacks of your money on the coffee table.

FOR WHOM THE WIND CHIMES TOLL This girl I'm dating is truly great—except for how she is into astrology, buys me crystals to improve my "energy," and keeps sitting me down for tarot card readings. As we get more serious, I feel like telling her I don't believe in any of this. But I think she actually believes in this stuff and would be hurt if I came clean.

—Rationally Based Somehow, people who find it perfectly reasonable to ask a deck of cards whether they should invest in a 401(k) will sneer at you for asking a mailbox for directions to the movie theater. The question is, as a guy who tries to live rationally, can you respect a woman who probably reads books like "The Healing Power of Pebbles" and "How to Ask the Universe for a Pony"?

(Without respect, you have contempt, which researcher John Gottman finds is the number one killer of relationships.)

Figure out whether you can compartmentalize—focus on what you love and shrug off her planning her day based around whether she sees a sign in her toast. If you stay together, gently explain that you appreciate how sweet she is in wanting to help you but that you really don't believe in all this stuff. Over time, if you let her see your thought process but don't hammer her with it, she may come around to the merits of evidence-based beliefs. In the meantime, do your best to be polite when she introduces you to her relatives—all her relatives, ever. (Are you free for a seance Friday night?)

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

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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.

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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

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YWCA Thrift Stores 1136 W. Broadway 920 Kensington

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

EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Africa, Brazil Work/Study!

Change the lives of others and create a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available.

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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 General helper wanted, downtown Missoula. 25 to 35 hrs per week. Flexible Hrs, informal atmosphere. Learn to make a futon mattress. Some heavy lifting.

Small Wonders Futons 7212090 FIELD ASSISTANTS / SURVEYORS Missoula employer is hiring FIELD ASSISTANTS for geophysical surveying throughout the western U.S. Employer contracts to do mineral exploration for other companies.

Experience and knowledge with gasoline powered equipment is a plus. Requires a valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

Analytical thinking and basic computers skills are required.

Travel at this time will be primarily in Washington. Hiking ability, along with a strong work ethic and punctuality is a must.

This is a physically demanding job. Drug test may be conducted.

Work requires some travel away for several weeks at a time. Work is usually for 8-10 hours each day. Pay is negotiable depending on skills and experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10080877 IT’S NOT JUST A JOB…IT’S MAKING A DIFFERENCE in the lives of others. Excellent quality of life benefits available for Corrections Professionals in the state

of Montana. For details visit https://svc.mt.gov/statejobsearch/listingdetails.aspx?id=13 765

and details contact Conrad City Hall at 406-271-3623. Standard POST application is required

Security Officer Providence is calling a Security Officer to Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, MT.* We are seeking a service-oriented individual to provide a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, staff, volunteers, and associated medical staff. This is a .9 FTE day shift, Saturday-Monday from 7:00am-7:00pm. *In this position you will:* * Patrol the facility and grounds, enforce security policies and procedures and maintain general order. * Communicate with public safety agencies, monitor alarm systems, conduct emergency response drills (fire and infant abduction) * Respond to emergency calls following appropriate procedures. * Basic Life Support (BLS) patient transports in support of LifeFlight Ground Transport program and between St. Patrick Hospital facilities. *Required qualifications for this position include:* * High School Diploma or equivalent. * Montana State Registry EMT-B Certified. * Valid Montana State driver’s license. * OSHA HAZWOPR Certification within 2 years. * Montana Licensed Notary Public also required. * Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA). * Basic computer skills. * Included in initial training: Montana Licensed Proprietary Security Officer Certification, IHSS Basic Security Officer Certified, IHSS Basic Safety Officer Certified, NCPI Crisis Intervention Certified, CPR and Rotor Wing Ambulance Emergency Procedure & Safety Training. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10081022

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THE CONRAD POLICE DEPT. is seeking applicants for an open Police Officer position. LE certification a plus but not a requirement for hire. For job description, benefit package,

Application Administrator Team members are responsible for Installation, Support and

Maintenance of Proprietary Software on in-house and client servers. This includes Remote Desktop applications, Microsoft SQL Server applications, and Web Applications. Team Members must be: * detail oriented * conscious of security, and the sensitive nature of dealing with client data * able to multi-task * able to work independently *

Payroll Manager - Missoula Responsible for the administrative support of day-to-day payroll operations on a region-wide basis; over 800 employees in 15 counties. Performs work of moderate to high complexity including technical payroll functions and/or processes, communicating payroll policies and procedures, employee education/training with electronic data systems.

Must be self-starter, detailed, accurate, efficient, and organized. 4 years payroll experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. ADP experience preferred.

Competitive salary and benefit package.

Send cover letter and resume to Paul Meyer at pmeyer@wmmhc.org.

www.wmmhc.org for more information

EMPLOYMENT able to self start and problem solve * able to research in-house or on-line to find solutions to new problems Requires Working Knowledge of: * Windows file permissions * Windows Users and Groups permissions and hierarchy concepts * General Database Concepts * Active Directory Concepts Experience in the following is beneficial: * VPN connections * RDP connections * SFTP Use * Windows Server OS: 2003, 2008, 2012 * MS SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012 * IIS Setup and General Configuration * IIS 7 * Apache Tomcat * Apache Web Server * Command Line usage and .bat files * Remote Desktop Services (RDS/TS) Client and Application set-up * Linux / Mac Experience * Basic HTML / CSS Compensation, etc.: * This is a starting position with room for advancement * Evaluation is done after a 6 month probationary period * Health Insurance, Dental, Eye, and Flex plan enrollment available * Vacation and 401K available after 1 year We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10081129 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS: • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 9am-5pm M-F 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 resume to Blue Mountain Clinic, ATTN: Annie Hansen at 610 N California Missoula, MT 59802 via snail mail, or e-mail annie@bluemountainclinic.org Will start around the end of October, beginning of November.

CASA of Missoula is looking for a new Executive Director. Go to www.casamissoula.org to apply.

SKILLED LABOR Associate Project Manager Are you great at organization and multi-tasking? Then come join the EDULOG team!

Education Logistics, Inc. has worked hard to make sure that our software and hardware solutions stay on the cutting edge by providing efficient Routing and Planning software along with school bus GPS tracking, student tracking and driver management solutions. We are seeking highly motivated applicants who are confident in their project management skills and ready to share in the EDULOG vision. This position has wonderful growth potential and strives to utilize all talents brought to the table.

Qualifications: *Ensure the ongoing client satisfaction and success of each assigned client by becoming their trusted adviser. *Cultivate, maintain and enhance professional relationships throughout the management

process. *Problem-solve, triage and escalate account issues as necessary. *Share responsibility with sales for achieving client retention by creating positive customer experiences, identifying at-risk clients and managing internal teams as necessary to yield successful renewals. *Ability to become an expert at EDULOG software and share that knowledge with clients. *Ability to manipulate and analyze large sets of data. *Document all major interactions (phone, e-mail, meetings, etc.) utilizing the CRM tool. *Ability to manage multiple coinciding projects successfully.

Desired Skills, Attributes and Experience: *Degree preferred but can be compensated with experience *Extremely professional, clear and thorough communications skills *Perseverance, dedication, commitment and focus on delivering positive customer experiences *Service oriented with a can-do attitude *Self-motivated *Values teamwork and crossfunctional collaboration *Excellent organizational and project management skills *Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, SQL or Dynamic CRM is a plus Job Status: Entry Level Full Time We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10081130 LOOKING FOR A TRUCK DRIVER TO HAUL WATER AND SEPTIC. Must have a Class A CDL with a clean driving record.

Competitive wages, starting wage $22 DOE. Benefits: Health insurance, dental, and paid holiday. Set schedule, seven days on and seven days off. B & B Septic Services, Inc., 3604 N. Hwy 7, PO Box 1514, Baker, MT 59313-1514; Allan or Trish Barth 406-778-2599. Please send resumes to: bnbseptic@midrivers.com or fax to 406-778-2590.

TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546

WANT TO DRIVE A TRUCK... No Experience. Company Sponsored CDL Training. In 3 Weeks Learn To Drive A Truck & Earn $45,000+. Full Benefits 1-877836-0372

HEALTH CAREERS CNA/HHA (prn) Duties include, but are not limited to, providing aide services that follow the patient’s plan of care.

Perform and/or assist patients in physical activities in accordance with the plan of care, including but not limited to assist with ambulation, transferring or lifting patients, turning or positioning patients, active/passive range of motion, bathing and other physical functions needed in the performance of duties while int he patients home. Document clinical notes per agency policy and submit them timely.

Implement infection control and safety policies and procedures per agency policy and procedure. Communicate patient needs with RN Case manager in timely manner. Maintain patient’s personal hygiene, maintain a neat and orderly patient environment. CNA license and current CPR certification required. Transportation and valid Driver’s License required. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10080865 RN/LPN (prn) Brief job description is as follows, including but not limited to; Providing end of life care in patients home, long term care facility or personal care home. Make initial assessment visits and attend team meetings to develop the Hospice Plan of Care for the patient. Assist families in recognition and solution of physical, emotional and environmental health problems as they relate to the life-limiting illness, focusing on management of symptoms and quality of life.

Maintain necessary records and forms for analysis and planning of service and for establishment of priorities for care. Transportation and valid Driver’s License are required. Willing to train candidates without Hospice experience. Prn/On-call position.

Full job description at Missoula

Job Service: employ missoula.com. Job# 10080866 Sterile Processing Technician Providence is calling a Sterile Processing Technician to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, MT.* We are seeking a detail-oriented individual to sterilize surgical instruments and other medical equipment. This is a .8 FTE night shift, from 7:00pm3:00am, Monday-Thursday. * *In this position you will:* * Sort, disassemble, clean and disinfect trays, instruments, carts, supplies and equipment. * Select and use effective and safe sterilization procedures and cleaning methods. * Operate and maintain cleaning, sanitizing and sterilization equipment. * Provide instrument sets for surgical procedures and case carts for booked and emergency surgery. * *Required qualifications for this position include:* * Current certification as Central Processing Technician or current certification as Operating Room Technician. If non-certified Central Processing Technician, applicants have 18 months to become certified. Certification must be kept up to date. * Experience in Sterile Processing * Working knowledge of steam and sterradsterris * Ability to read, write, and verbally communicate in English *Preferred qualifications for this position include:* * High school diploma or equivalent * Medical terminology experience

* Ability to work under pressure and respond quickly to the Operating Room needs. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10081021

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Program Manager – Mineral County Provides outpatient psychotherapy services to a caseload of clients while providing overall direction, leadership and support to a team of professionals and para-professionals providing behavioral health services to the citizens of Mineral County. Requires appropriate licensure and eligibility for MHP certification in MT. Competitive wage and benefit package.

Send cover letter and resume to Jodi Daly at jdaly@wmmhc.org. www.wmmhc.org for more information

CASE MANAGER- FT position providing targeted casemanagement/ coordinating support services to persons age 16 or older w/developmental disabilities in Conrad, MT. Minimum requirements: BA in Human Services and 1 year exp w/individuals with disabilities. M-F: 8a-5p. $15.70/hr. Closes: 10/21/14 EMPLOYMENT TECH- FT position determining and providing job coaching support to individuals w/ disabilities in acommunity environment. Effective problem solving,communication and organizational abilities are essential. Varied hours and days. $10.05-$10.30/hr.

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.

HAB TECH II- FT position providing support to staff who provide services to Adults w/disabilities.

Supervisory experience preferred. Friday and Saturday: 10p-10a, Sunday: 10p- 9a. $10.50$10.75/hr.

FOSTER CARE PROVIDER NEEDED - Opportunity Resources Inc. is looking for a non-smoker interested in providing Foster care for a 42 year old adult male with a developmental disability in your home. Foster provider receives monthly stipend tax free. Room and board is paid by the client. The client will have direct care support staff hours during the week and respite time each month. A longterm commitment is desired. Applications available at 2821 South Russell Street, Missoula, MT. 59801 Please direct questions to Kristy at 329-1719 or Jessica at 329-1743. Position open until filled.

Must Have: Valid Mt driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation

Applications available at

OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 or online: orimt.org.

Extensive background checks will be completed.

NO RESUMES. EOE.

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 hours 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

OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 or online: orimt.org.

Extensive background checks will be completed.

NO RESUMES. EOE.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Situation #1: If you meet resistance or doubt, say this: "Ha! This diversion can't slow me down, because I am in possession of an invisible magical sword!" And then brandish a few charismatic swipes of your sword to prove that you mean business. Situation #2: If angst and worry are preventing your allies from synchronizing their assets with yours, say this: "Begone, dread! For with the power of my wicked crazy songs, I am the destroyer of fear." And then sing your wicked crazy songs. Situation #3: If you're finding it hard to discern the difference between useless, ugly monsters and useful, beautiful monsters, say this: "I am a useful, beautiful monster!" Your kind will flock to your side.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In her poem "Advice to Myself," Louise Erdrich speaks of the human heart as "that place you don't even think of cleaning out. That closet stuffed with savage mementos." I invite you to use her observations as a prod, Taurus. Now is an excellent time to purge the savage mementos from your heart, and clean the whole place up as best as you can. You don't have to get all OCD about it. There's no need to scour and scrub until everything's spotless. Even a half-hearted effort will set in motion promising transformations in your love life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I hope you will learn more in the next eight months than you have ever before learned in a comparable period. I hope you will make a list of all the subjects you would love to study and all the skills you would love to master, and then devise a plan to gather the educational experiences with which you will reinvent yourself. I hope you will turn your curiosity on full-blast and go in quest of revelations and insights and epiphanies, smashing through the limits of your understanding as you explore the frontiers of sweet knowledge.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Three times a week, I take a hike along a rough path through an oak forest. I say it's rough because it's strewn with loose rocks. If I don't survey the ground as I move, I'm constantly turning my ankles. Or at least that was the case until last week. For two days, with the help of a rake, I cleared many of those bothersome obstacles off the trail. It took several hours, but now the way is smoother. My eyes are free to enjoy the sights that aren't so close to the ground. I recommend that you do similar work. Stop tolerating inconveniences and irritations that hobble you. Get your foundations in shape to serve you better.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was ahead of his time.

He created the genre of the detective story and mastered the art of Gothic horror tales. According to the Internet Movie Database, 240 films have referenced themes from his work. British writer Aldous Huxley wasn't a fan of Poe, though. He said Poe was "too poetical—the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger." Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect you may be at risk to lapse into a diamondring-on-every-finger phase yourself, Leo. While I am all in favor of you unveiling more of your radiant beauty, I'm hoping you won't go too far. How about wearing diamond rings on just four of your fingers?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "I am naughtiest of all," wrote poet Emily Dickinson in a playful letter to Maggie Maher, dated October 1882. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to let that same declaration fly frequently from your own lips in the coming week. Feel free to invoke other variations on the theme of naughtiness, as well: "I am exploring the frontiers of naughtiness," for example, or "You need to be naughtier" (said to a person you'd like to get naughty with), or "Being naughty is my current spiritual practice."

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "There's a way not to be broken that takes brokenness to find it," writes Naomi Shihab Nye in her poem "Cinco de Mayo." I suspect this describes your situation right now. The bad news is that you are feeling a bit broken. The good news is that this is a special kind of brokenness—a brokenness that contains a valuable secret you have never been ready to learn before now. Allow yourself to feel the full intensity of the brokenness, and you will discover a way to never be broken like this again.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a competitive game show on Japanese TV, 13 people had slabs of meat tied to their foreheads. They then poked their heads up from below, through holes in the floor of an elevated platform, where a hungry lizard was stalking around. But not one of the contestants stuck around when the lizard came to nibble the meat; they all ducked down out of their holes and fled to safety. That was probably wise, although it meant that the prize went unclaimed. Now I'm wondering, Sagittarius, about what might happen if a similar event were staged in your neighborhood. I suspect there's a chance you would will yourself to stand calmly as the lizard feasted on the meat just inches from your eyes. As much as I admire that kind of poised courage, I want you to know that there are better ways to express it. Be on the lookout for noble challenges with goals that are truly worthy of you.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Director Michael Bay makes big, loud, fast, melodramatic action films, including Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the four Transformers movies. The critics hate him, but he's unfazed. "I make movies for teenage boys," he says. "Oh, dear, what a crime," he adds sarcastically. I love that stance. He knows what he's good at, and makes no apologies for doing it. I recommend that you cop some of that attitude right now.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): While walking in San Francisco, I passed the Pacific Heights Health Club. The sign out front said, "Birthday suits tailored here." It was a witty reference to the idea that working out at a gym helps people get their naked bodies in good shape. I'd like to interpret the sign's message in a different way, and apply it to you. The time is right for you to get back in touch with your raw, original self, and give it the care and the fuel and the treats it has been missing. Who did you start out to be? What does your soul's blueprint say about who you must become? Home in on your source code and boost its signal.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Horror novelist Stephen King has sold more than 350 million books. But when he was young and destitute, still honing his craft, his self-confidence was low.

His breakthrough work was Carrie, about a teenage girl who develops telekinetic powers. But when he was first writing that manuscript on his old manual typewriter, he got so discouraged that he threw his first draft in the trashcan. Luckily for him, his wife retrieved it and convinced him to keep plugging away. Eventually he finished, and later sold the paperback rights for $400,000. I hope you have an ally who will go digging in your garbage to fish out the good stuff you unwisely discard. Or maybe this horoscope will convince you not to scrap it in the first place.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Republican Jody Hice is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia's 10th Congressional District. To bolster his authority, he repeats quotes by revered figures from American history. One of his favorites has been a gem from the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." The only problem is, those words were actually written by country singer Dolly Parton, not by Adams. Don't get fooled by a comparable case of mistaken identity, Virgo. Be on the alert for unwarranted substitutions and problematic switcheroos. Be a staunch fact-checker. Insist on verification.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 above-entitled 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.: DV14-978 Dept. No. 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Kaydin Christofer Bristle, Samantha Ziesemer, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Kaydin Christofer Bristle to Kaydin Christofer Ziesemer.

The hearing will be on 10/30/2014 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 09/15/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Casie Kragh, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DP-14203 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of NEIL LEE STINGER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Monique M. Gustafson, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 29th day of September, 2014 /s/ Monique M. Gustafson Personal Representative

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.: DR07-626 Department No. 1 Summons for Publication IN RE THE PARENTING OF: Sean Etzel, Petitioner, and Enid Hobbick, Respondent.

THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain an Amended Parenting Plan and Notice of Intent to Move. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: and a hearing is currently set for Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. DATED this 30th day of September, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk 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 publica-

MNAXLP tion 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 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-14-204 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM CHARLES PETERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Margaret RollPeters has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 23 day of September, 2014. /s/ Margaret Roll-Peters, Personal Representative of the Estate of William Charles Peters /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-14-199 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MICHELLE FARRIS VERBANCE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Randy Farris 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 (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 Randy Farris, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Jasper Smith Lacny P.C., 202 W. Spruce St., P.O. Box 7785, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of September, 2014. JASPER SMITH LACNY, P.C. /s/ Cynthia K. Smith, Attorney for Petitioner Randy Farris I declare under penalty of perjury and under

the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed this 25th day of September, 2014. /s/ Randy Farris, Personal Representative, 1797 Dipper Loop, Post Falls, ID 83854 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 1, 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 3 of Longpre Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Craig M. McBeath, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 21, 2005 and recorded on July 26, 2005 in Book 756, Page 1367 under Document no. 200518846. The beneficial interest is currently held

by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor 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 $1,149.03, beginning March 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 10, 2014 is $109,354.08 principal, interest at the rate of 5.50% now totaling $2,654.35, late charges in the amount of $147.04, escrow advances of $399.20, and other fees and expenses advanced of $61.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.48 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 immedi-

ately 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 22, 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 22 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/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires:06/04/2016 Citimortgage V Mcbeath 42090.135 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 obliga-

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JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s "What If?"--you'll find out soon enough.

by Matt Jones

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1 P.I. played by Selleck 7 Muscleman's asset 10 Role for George Burns or Alanis Morissette 13 Energize 14 "Damned dirty" creature 15 Hackman of "The Royal Tenenbaums" 16 Drab shade from a Kardashian divorcee?

18 Tortoise/hare contest 19 Lennon's in-laws 20 "Young Frankenstein" actress 21 Feeling ennui 22 Served like sushi 23 Bumped into 24 Colorado city 26 Luxury autos driven by Melchior and Balthazar?

29 Former Indian prime minister Gandhi 32 Bucket o' laughs 33 It's touching?

34 So much 35 Economy class 37 Kristen of "Bridesmaids" 38 Little white lie 39 Sportscaster Andrews 40 Buttercup relative 41 John McEnroe-esque?

45 Most current 46 Loose piece in a fast food bag 47 Reggae subgenre 50 Acted sheepishly?

51 Doll call 53 Pinkie Pie or Fluttershy, e.g.

54 Razor brand 55 Focus of a Franglish lesson on grammar?

57 "Midnite Vultures" musician 58 "32 Flavors" singer DiFranco 59 "The Little Mermaid" villain 60 "Evil Dead" hero 61 School fund-raising gp.

62 English or Irish hunting dog

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44 Seventh of a group of eight (formerly nine) 47 Food recently crossed with a croissant 48 Jesse on "The Dukes of Hazzard," for one 49 How some learn music 50 ___ ghanouj 52 Afghanistan is there 53 Mosquito or fly 55 Indy 500 unit 56 Number before quattroº

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PUBLIC NOTICES tion owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 18, 2007 recorded July 18, 2007 in Book 801 Page 1192 under Document No 200718343. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $931.48, beginning February 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 3, 2014 is $158,678.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50% now totaling $5,213.58, late charges in the amount of $186.28, escrow advances of $797.16 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,218.28, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.26 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of

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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

MNAXLP 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

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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.

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HOMES FOR SALE 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 Rattlesnake 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, Por-

2264 Grape Arbor Court. 6 bed, 3 bath in Target Range. $660,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties 2000.com 2304 River Road. Remodeled, energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath on large lot. Patio, deck & blocks to Milwaukee trail system. $210,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 3411 Paxson. 4 bed, 2 bath recently remodeled with fenced yard & double garage. $275,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Lower Miller Creek home on 1 acre. $230,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 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 with deck, Bitterroot views & 2 car garage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406-456-2260. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apartment on 5 view acres. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 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

4318 Leonard Ln, Stevensville $235,000 • MLS # 20145443 • 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

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1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with single garage near Clark Fork River walking trails. $180,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653

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

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

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 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 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.

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

4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $175,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@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 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. 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

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

$108,000 2 bed, 1 bath, Clearview Village Condominiums Low maintenance, close to trail system with views of the city, affordable alternative to renting.

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MOTIVATED SELLERS

912 Defoe

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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 semiremote area with quiet and views. Only 10 Miles from Reserve Street. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 329-2059. loewenwarter.com

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PERFECT PICKS 524 Dixon • $349,000 2203 West Sussex • $170,000 2200 Garland #30 • $107,500

$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.

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REAL ESTATE 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

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

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 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

DUPLEXES

Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed

Central Missoula Duplex 1779 & 1781 W Sussex. $187,500. Centrally located duplex. Close to shopping, busses, bike path, and easy access to Russell, Brooks and South. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.

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

Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com

or residential. $255,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $148,000. David Loewenwarter.

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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 @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4318 Leonard Ln. Stevensville, $235,000 • 3 bed 2 bath, 1516 sq.ft. home on 3.27 acres• Open floor plan with mountain views • Fenced with irrigated pastures, greenhouse & root cel-

REAL ESTATE 2304 River Rd, Missoula Enjoy all the charm of this 1940s home (built-ins, custom archways) that has been fully updated for modern living and enPRICE REDUCED ergy efficiency.

UG sprinkler and drip line, mature landscaping, wooden privacy fence, beautiful patio, and brand new composite front deck. Blocks from the Milwaukie walking/biking trail system! $205,000 MLS# 20145888

435 Ernest Dr, Stevensville Ranch style home, south of Florence. Magnificent views of the Bitterroot Mtns, 5 acres, fenced and cross fenced for horses. Attached dbl car garage, 44 x 32' shop with office, small tack room and barn. $310,000 MLS# 20146167 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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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.

lar 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

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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

around Philipsburg, Georgetown Lake, Rock Creek & More! Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

Easy Access to the highway and the river. 17430 Six-Mile, $250,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL

The people to call for properties

We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula.

Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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