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News Voices/Letters Morrison and veterans ......................................................................4 The Week in Review Walsh declares, homecoming and a suspect .............................6 Briefs Park and Rec, pot and wine..................................................................................6 Etc. Shutdown overshadows failed Farm Bill .................................................................7 News Clark Fork cleanup puts the focus on one piece of land......................................8 News City explores stricter laws against downtown panhandlers .................................9 Opinion The shutdown is tearing America apart, one house at a time .......................10 Opinion Climate chaos makes us all environmental klutzes .......................................11 Feature Georgia Pellegrini brings Girl Hunter Weekend to Montana..........................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Breaking down Montana’s Festival of the Book ...................................................18 Books Willow Frost details Depression-era Chinatown ...............................................19 Books Opportunity, Montana asks tough questions about one town’s fate ...............20 Music Blitzen Trapper, Idle Ranch Hands, The Bugs and Edo G.................................21 Film Bullock keeps Gravity grounded.........................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Mad for mayo....................................................................................24 Happiest Hour The Jack is back ..................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Georgia on our minds .........................................................................27 Mountain High Big Sky Gun Show..............................................................................33 Agenda Financial Fitness ..............................................................................................34

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Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11

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[voices]

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Oct. 8, on the University of Montana campus. Do you hunt? Follow-up: What type of wild game do you eat and where do you get it?

Liberty Barrows: No, I never have before. I shoot guns. I just don’t point it at things that are alive. Sitting target: I’ve eaten antelope, venison and elk that I get from my mother-in-law’s family. They give me some when they have a full freezer. I have a .45 but I just use it for target practice.

Anna Huyck: Yes. My dad taught me how and it’s something I get to do with him. Buck fever: Mostly deer. I hunt with a rifle but there’s not a lot of kick to it. I’m getting a new one for my birthday this year!

Kelly Shank: Yes, because it’s delicious. Bambi tastes so good! Nice racks: I hunt deer and elk and have only ever gotten a deer. I don’t have my own rifle but used a .270 last year.

Melissa Swalla: No. I’m just not that into being outdoors all that much. There’s a lot of walking and it’s too quiet. Trophy husband: My husband hunts elk and I’ve had pheasant, moose and deer.

Poor choice I was delighted to see the article on the forthcoming Montana Health CO-OP and the great work John Morrison has done helping health CO-OPs across the country get launched (see “Proving ground,” Sept. 26). It was a poor editorial choice to repeat details from a Senate primary in 2006, and in poor context. John continues to make good things happen for Montana and the rest of the country, but the author felt it was important to take a shot at John. The article states that Morrison’s 2006 Senate bid failed in part because of a story that broke about “alleged ethical misconduct while in office.” This apparently refers to the story run by the Independent in the heat of the primary, citing unnamed sources, who faulted Morrison’s handling of a certain securities case. No one ever filed a complaint or charge of any kind against Morrison in any forum regarding this unfounded “misconduct”. After the Senate primary, John Morrison asked numerous people to review the case file. The State Auditor employees, and former employees who were involved in the case, unanimously wrote that Morrison acted with the highest degree of integrity in the handling of the case. Those employees also affirmed Morrison’s honesty and dedication in handling all cases before his office. Supreme Court Justice Beth Baker, then the special prosecutor in the case in question, agreed. John then submitted the file to outside experts, including: a former (Republican) State Auditor, former Attorney General, former Supreme Court Justice, former U.S. Attorney, and many others. All wrote that Morrison handled the case properly and in accordance with high ethical and professional standards. The allegations, made then to a reporter by unnamed sources during a contested primary race, were unfounded and unfair. They do not now merit being mentioned in current stories about John’s continued public service for our state. Joe Easton Missoula

Protect the protectors In Montana, we take care of our veterans—the men and women who were willing to give so much for us. The sad truth is that many veterans in Montana don’t have Chandra Taylor: Yes. It’s fun and a good way to get out into nature and hang out with family. If it’s brown, it’s down: Elk and deer. I hunt with a bow and a 7mm-08. My brother hunts antelope but I don’t eat that.

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access to the health care they need. Montana has the highest percentage of veterans without health insurance in the nation. All of the men and women who have served our country deserve access to health care. Medicaid expansion would allow almost 7,000 Montana veterans and 3,000 of their family members to gain access to quality affordable care coverage.

“John continues to make good things happen for Montana and the rest of the country, but the author felt it was important to take a shot at John.”

Many people assume that all of the nation’s 12.5 million non-elderly veterans receive health benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs. But in reality, one in ten veterans neither has health insurance nor is able to use the VA for care. Expanding Medicaid would give these men and women an opportunity to receive the care they need. Right now in Montana, there are approximately 7,000 veterans who would benefit from Medicaid expansion. Despite serving our country, many veterans do not meet the length of service time, income, or disability requirements necessary to qualify for VA service. For example, members of the Montana National Guard or the military services’ reserves who were not called up for federal active duty may fall into this category. These men and women completed the necessary training, spent months away from their families

and homes, received proper discharges, and always stood ready to answer the call to serve their country. These veterans who were willing to give everything they had to protect our liberties should be able to access the health care they need. Approximately 2,600 of these veterans do qualify for VA coverage, yet still lack access to health care. With only one VA hospital in the state and a limited number of outpatient clinics, many VA-eligible veterans simply live too far away to receive care. Medicaid expansion would allow these veterans who served on the other side of the world to go to the doctor next door. We now have an opportunity to help thousands of these veterans gain access to health care, and we shouldn’t turn our back on them. Medicaid expansion would provide vital health care coverage to childless adults under the age of 65, as well as to uninsured families near the poverty line, making lifesaving health services, including mental health care, available to those veterans who may need it the most. In addition to the veterans who would gain coverage, nearly 3,000 spouses and family members who also made sacrifices for their country would also gain coverage. Despite these well-deserved benefits for veterans, there are those who are fighting against expanding Medicaid. The 2013 Legislature failed to accept federal funds to provide this critical care, instead sending it to cover veterans and other citizens in states like California and New Jersey. Despite knowing the benefits of expansion—and the costs to our families, communities and economy if we fail to expand—the legislature simply said “no.” We ask that the Montana Legislature reconsider its position. Come back to Helena and take advantage of this opportunity to say “thank you” to the men and women who once wore our nation’s uniform. Let’s protect those who so proudly protected us. Ed Croucher Commander Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Department of Montana. James W Higgins Brig. Gen.(ret) Board of Directors Montana National Guard Association

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, October 2 The Missoula City Council deliberates the first request to build an accessory dwelling unit in a single family residential neighborhood since changing the granny flats law in May. According to Bob Jaffe’s online listserv, “No one came to argue the project was ruining the neighborhood.”

Thursday, October 3 Democratic Lt. Gov. John Walsh announces that he’ll run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Max Baucus in 2014. The former National Guard Commander says in a statement to the Associated Press that his candidacy is prompted by a “sense of duty.”

Friday, October 4 Kalispell resident Jordan Linn Graham, 22, pleads not guilty to murder charges filed in July after Graham allegedly pushed her husband of eight days off a cliff in Glacier National Park.

Saturday, October 5 Thousands of locals bundle up in their best Griz gear before descending on Higgins Avenue to collect candy handouts, ogle the shrubby College of Forestry and Conservation float and show some school pride during the annual University of Montana Homecoming Parade.

Sunday, October 6 Missoula mayoral candidates, including incumbent John Engen and challengers Mike Hyde, Peggy Cain and Dean McCullom, debate the city budget, development and economic growth during a candidate forum at the Missoula Children’s Theater. Missoula’s citywide election is Nov. 5.

Monday, October 7 The Missoula City Council votes 10-2 in favor of entering negotiations with Mountain Water Company, with a goal of purchasing the utility or attempting to acquire it through eminent domain. Council will hold an Oct. 21 public hearing to vet the issue.

Tuesday, October 8 The Missoula Police Department requests help tracking a man who allegedly robbed a convenience store on the 3300 block of Brooks Street on Sept. 26. The suspect is approximately 38 years old, 6-feet tall and weighs 175 pounds, with blue eyes and facial hair.

Glacier National Park is one of hundreds of national parks closed due to the federal shutdown as of Oct. 1. Visitors already camping inside the park at the time of the closure were given 48 hours to vacate.

Shutdown

Park closures hit Ten Spoon Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery co-owner Andy Sponseller doesn’t mince words when it comes to the first government shutdown in nearly two decades. In his eyes, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives “aren’t behaving honorably.” They’re putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work nationwide “to prove a political point,” he says, and punishing hardworking Americans over a beef with the Affordable Care Act. That beef has already cost Sponseller thousands of dollars. For roughly 10 years now, Ten Spoon has supplied speciality wines to Yellowstone National Park. But in addition to shuttered offices, furloughs and huge reductions in key governmental programs, all national parks are now closed—a development conservation groups claim has cost neighboring communities more than $600 million nationwide so far. Yellowstone already canceled its final Ten Spoon order for the season. And if the fight in Congress continues much longer, it could cost Sponseller even more revenue. “If we miss $10,000, $15,000 worth of business be-

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tween now and the end of the year over this, that’s definitely going to hurt us,” Sponseller says. “The fat we have to spread around here covers things like a burned-out forklift motor or a price increase on one of the fruits we use here. … If we lose an order or two before the end of the year, it just sets us back.” Sponseller is particularly worried about a new contract Ten Spoon landed earlier this year with the concessioner at Grand Canyon National Park, which is open year-round. The winery developed two wine labels for the contract: Canyon Cutter and Air Patrol. For every bottle sold, Ten Spoon and concessioner Delta North have agreed to donate $1 to the Idaho-based Peregrine Fund to support condor recovery. Ten Spoon spent years working toward such a project, Sponseller says, and now he’s concerned the shutdown will “give us a bad start.” “It’s a real bump in the road—a pothole,” Sponseller says. “It just couldn’t come at a worse time, because we’re trying to get started with what could be a good project for us.” Sponseller was so livid last week he says he called Republican Rep. Steve Daines’ office and “complained bitterly.” If Ten Spoon’s winter order for the Grand

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Canyon is canceled, it will not only cost the winery more money than the Yellowstone cancellation, but also leave the business looking for a home for the wine already set aside for the contract. “Our business is a real seat-of-the-pants business,” Sponseller says. “If we don’t sell it one place, we have to go find another place to sell it.” Alex Sakariassen

Marijuana

Driving law kicks in The law creating a limit for just how stoned a driver can be in Montana went into effect Oct. 1. Debate over the veracity of the new limit, however, continues. The new statute says that if a driver is suspected of being under the influence of marijuana while operating a motor vehicle, a blood test may be requested to determine intoxication. If the blood test reveals a THC content of 5 ng/ml or higher in the driver’s blood stream, the driver may be charged with a DUI, resulting in a possible license suspension, up to six months imprisonment and a fine of up to $1,000.

[news] The 5 ng/ml limit has been criticized as an arbitrary threshold to determine driving impairment. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has said that the connection between the amount of THC in a person’s bloodstream and their level of impairment is difficult to determine. “It is inadvisable to try and predict effects based on blood THC concentrations alone, and currently impossible to predict specific effects based on THC-COOH concentrations,” the NHTSA said in a 2004 report. “It is possible for a person to be affected by marijuana use with concentrations of THC in their blood below the limit of detection of the method.” Missoula Deputy County Attorney Andrew Paul says in an email that he does not feel comfortable commenting on what blood level of THC indicates impairment, as he is not a doctor of medicine. “You have to establish a standard,” Paul writes. “Whether that (THC) standard is too high or too low should be a question addressed to the scientific community.” Ten states now have zero tolerance laws pertaining to drugged driving, and Montana is one of five others that have designated a nonzero limit related to marijuana. Paul says that as far as he knows, there are no numerical or presumptive standards regarding DUI prosecution for other drugs such as narcotic painkillers. “However, if we get a blood sample that contains evidence of such drugs in the blood system, we will get a doctor to testify regarding the interactions between the drugs and the alcohol and testify regarding the effect of the drugs over a person’s ability to safely operate a motor vehicle,” Paul writes. According to the Missoula Police Department, no drivers have been cited under the revised law. Mike Gerrity

Spirits

The celebrity connection Montgomery Distillery co-owner Ryan Montgomery figured he had the perfect birthday gift idea for distiller Chad Larrabee this summer: a distiller’s bung mallet made specially by a Los Angeles-based wood shop. Now that mallet is being marketed by none other than Nick Offerman, the mustachioed comedian who plays Ron Swanson on NBC’s hit series “Parks and Recreation” and who also happens to own the Offerman Woodshop—the very outfit Montgomery commissioned. “We’ve always teased Chad that he resembles Ron Swanson in many ways,” Montgomery says. “He’s about the manliest man we know. On the weekends he’s always off hiking or chopping wood in the mountains or rescu-

ing animals from trees or something. And he had a mustache for a long time too.” It’s a strange twist for Missoula’s year-old distillery. What started as a gift is now officially billed online as the Offerman Bung Mallet, “the perfect companion for all manly folk, male and female.” The wood shop is selling them for $125 each. “We had actually just barreled whiskey that week,” Montgomery says, “and we’d said something about having a cool bung mallet to finish off the whiskey and put it to sleep for a number of years.”

Montgomery adds the deal with Offerman Wood Shop came with a Swanson-esque stipulation: Send along some whiskey, once it’s aged. Random celebrity ties aside, Montgomery Distillery has been preparing to roll out several new spirits this fall. Among them is a beer schnapps made from distilled Big Sky Belgian Pale Ale. Big Fork’s Whistling Andy became the first Montana distillery to produce a beer liqueur with its Hopschnop, made from distilled Blackfoot IPA. Montgomery decided to age its own Big Sky concoction in a used bourbon barrel purchased from the brewery. “So it’s kind of a mix of the original bourbon, the imperial stout, the barley wine,” Montgomery says, “and then there’s this strong flavor of the Belgian Pale Ale.” The distillery hoped to release the schnapps to coincide with the Montana Brewers Fall Festival in late September, but is still awaiting labeling approval from the federal government. In the meantime, Montgomery says he’s in preliminary talks with Draught Works to produce a similar liqueur using one of its brews. Alex Sakariassen

Coal

Piping up pays off Missoula City Councilman Jason Wiener feels emboldened by a recent decision by officials in Washington state to weigh the potential environmental impacts of a

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Black-footed ferrets released by federal wildlife officials on the Fort Belknap Reservation this week as part of a statewide effort to bolster populations of the endangered species in Montana.

As the federal government entered its first day of the shutdown this month, critics nationwide were quick to issue scathing statements on the partisan gridlock. The public’s attention became instantly and intently focused on the showdown over the Affordable Care Act—how long it would last, and who would suffer as a result. But for some, Oct. 1 came with added bad news. Congress also failed to pass a new Farm Bill. According to John Youngberg with the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, it’s not the shutdown that has the state’s ag industry panicked. It’s the complete lack of progress toward a lasting Farm Bill. Without the measure and the safety nets it provides, he says, it’s hard for producers to plan even one year down the road, let alone 10 years. And he says the impacts will spread to the consumer quickly; without a Farm Bill, milk prices could as much as double at the beginning of 2014. “This was supposed to be done a long time ago,” Youngberg says, referring to Congress’ decision last year to simply extend the existing five-year Farm Bill another nine months. Of course, the shutdown’s influence on Montana agriculture can’t be completely ignored. Hundreds of U.S. Department of Agriculture employees in the state have been furloughed and all 49 Farm Service Agency offices have been shuttered. The result, as Montana Farmers Union President Alan Merrill pointed out this month, is that farmers and ranchers will be unable to collect payments for USDA loans until those offices re-open. Additional services like disaster assistance and USDA conservation programs are also stalled out for the time being. Whenever Congress settles its differences regarding the shutdown, elected officials will still have to come to an agreement on a new Farm Bill. That’s proven a more-than-difficult task over the past year as Republicans have attempted to reduce or strip out provisions in the bill relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps. And the combined failures of Congress have already taken a toll on public opinion. Youngberg says the frustration among farmers and ranchers has only gotten worse. Their faith in the House, the Senate and the Obama administration is shaken, and they’re no longer blaming just one party or the other. “They’re blaming them all,” Youngberg says.

planned increase in coal shipments from the Tongue River Basin through Montana. “We see it as a positive response to our comments,” Wiener says. “We have what could be one of the largest coal projects in the world about to go on.” In May 2012, the Missoula City Council joined thousands of citizens and environmental activists, along with tribal, county and municipal governments from across the Northwest, when it called upon regulatory agencies to conduct a comprehensive study of how shipping freshly tapped Tongue River Basin coal deposits to West Coast ports by rail could impact communities along the way. In June, the Army Corps of Engineers announced it would not employ such a study. In an unusual move, however, Washington’s Department of Ecology announced a month later that it will assess how coal shipments to one of two planned export facilities in that state, the Gateway Pacific Terminal, could impact train traffic in Washington and Montana. The agency will also evaluate to what extent an increase in coal exports through the Gateway Terminal to Asian markets will affect climate change. “The project would be responsible for increasing global warming,” says Larry Altose, a Department of Ecology spokesperson. “Washington state has serious concerns about global warming related to emissions.” Washington officials along with collaborative agencies received roughly 125,000 comments before making their decision to study the Gateway Terminal during what’s called the “scoping,” or evaluation, period. Altose says such input helps shape the breadth of a potential environmental analysis. “Scoping really looks at the substance of comments,” he says. That’s among the reasons why Wiener feels emboldened. As regulatory agencies now accept public comment on the second proposed export facility, the Millennium Bulk Terminal in Longview, Wiener hopes a similar Missoula City Council resolution requesting additional study will also gain traction. “From the last effort, at least we saw something,” he says. Council must officially approve Wiener’s pitch before the city makes an official request to regulatory agencies. On Oct. 16, Council’s Committee of the Whole will begin discussing the resolution. Jessica Mayrer

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“Even though it’s going to be like a Schmidt four and a half years to break her. Maggie Schmidt, 24, slips underneath a barbed wire fence and into a pasture with bomb went off, in the end the rancher “She tested me in every which way. It felt five horses. The air is cold and sharp with the should be left with a piece of ground that’s like it was one step forward, 10 steps back,” first snap of autumn and snow dusts the better than it was before,” says Schmidt, she says. Lily Bee was in tow when Schmidt highest peaks of the Flint Creek Range. She who adds that the cleanup should increase points out her mare, Lily Bee. This past sum- property values and acreage by removing began managing Dry Cottonwood Creek mer the horse was in a trailer and panicked, and restoring previously fenced-off slickens. Ranch in April 2012. It’s a valley where ex“If that is not the case, then it will be a perience is measured in generations. She splitting her head open down to the skull. not successful Superfund site. That means remembers meetings early on when other Schmidt believes the mare had a flashback. “Abuse cases can go either way, but that we failed, the DEQ failed, the state ranchers spoke over her like a child. It wasn’t until she spent days in most horses never forget,” she the saddle that she began desays. veloping a rapport with those Schmidt keeps Lily Bee’s in the area. mind off her past by giving her “I think they slowly started work. They herd cattle toseeing me in a different light, gether on a ranch in the upper like I wasn’t this prissy from Clark Fork basin near Deer Missoula who wanted to talk Lodge, in the heart of the naabout water rights,” she says. tion’s largest Superfund site. Jeremy Nicholson is a It’s a sweeping valley surrancher in the valley who atrounded by low-slung mountended those early meetings. tains and scarred by a flood He calls Schmidt a “sweetheart” that washed toxic mine waste with a strong work ethic but downriver from Butte and doesn’t view her ranch as the Anaconda over a century ago. same as the others. Dead patches of land called “It’s a nonprofit situation,” “slickens” pepper its banks. In he says. “They ain’t like us, they one, an animal bone stained don’t have to make money.” teal green lies next to a sunWhile the ranch is a limited bleached stump. liability company, it is buoyed “The color in the soil, you by the Clark Fork Coalition and almost don’t even want to two private investors. “I think it walk through it,” says Ted always will work against us and Beck, a rancher in the valley. how legitimate we’re viewed,” The Clark Fork Coalition Schmidt says. hired Schmidt to manage the As autumn draws the ranch Dry Cottonwood Creek Ranch photo by Nate Hegyi closer and closer to the day of a year and a half ago. Next summer, the U.S. Environmen- Maggie Schmidt, shown with her mare, Lily Bee, manages its restoration, the little details Dry Cottonwood Creek Ranch, which is slated to be the tal Protection Agency will strip first private property to undergo restoration along the of the largest Superfund site in the nation are beginning to away 200 acres of contami- Clark Fork. magnify. There are fences to nated land and begin rebuildtear down, water to haul, ice to break and ing the property’s riverbanks as part of an failed,” she says. “I’m super nervous.” Schmidt is an athletic woman with a fingers to cross. The uncertainties are ambitious restoration of the Clark Fork. “The most productive land in all places perennial squint and a quick smile. As a mounting too. “Even just having this amount of activchild she rode bareback and tended horses is around the river,” Schmidt says. It’s where cows give birth in the spring at a stable outside of Salt Lake City. She was ity, you don’t know how it affects livestock,” and hay grows in the summer. It’s her job a star soccer player in high school and al- Schmidt says. “The sounds, the stress, the most played for the University of Arkansas people, the commotion.” to run the ranch without this prime land. “That will require patience and stam- before a stray cleat nicked her Achilles tenOut in the horse pasture, Lily Bee’s ina in the extreme, I think, and luckily don and ended her senior season. She en- wound has healed into a ruddy scab. Schmidt Maggie has those qualities,” says Karen rolled in the University of Montana instead remembers feeling blood on her fingers after Knudsen, executive director of the Clark and joined the equestrian team. The sum- the accident. In the far distance trucks rummer after her freshman year a family friend ble back and forth carrying contaminated dirt Fork Coalition. While the first phase of the cleanup hired her to herd goats in the vast basalt from the first phase of the Superfund began last March on a neighboring parcel canyonlands of southeastern Idaho. cleanup. Schmidt strokes Lily Bee’s head. “I worked my ass off,” she says, “I reof state-owned property, Dry Cottonwood “A horse like that with such a strong Creek Ranch is the first of 14 major, private member crying behind my sunglasses all spirit that’s been so mistreated, you’re like, landowners to undergo restoration, accord- the time.” ‘We’re going to get there, we’re going get At the end of the season her boss gifted there,’” she says. ing to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. All eyes in the valley will be her an abused, liver-colored mare—Lily Bee. The horse bit, bucked and startled. It took on Schmidt. editor@missoulanews.com

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Wiener worries, however, that blanTen months ago, a transient wielding tion to sitting, sleeping or lyingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on or a cane chased Jenna Smith from her Hig- within 20 feet of pedestrian footbridges and ket prohibitions against loitering, such as those now being debated by the commisgins Avenue clothing store to her car, pedestrian tunnels. For the past six years, the advisory com- sion, could trigger unintended consewhich was parked in a lot between Pine and Broadway. Smith was eight months mission has played a pivotal role shaping quences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To make a uniform exclusion downtown. First called the Panhandling area would effectively put large portions pregnant and terrified. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to get to my car,â&#x20AC;? she says. Working Group, it formed in 2007 to ad- of the business district off limits,â&#x20AC;? he says. dress complaints about threatening and ag- â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wonder where the people who are on â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was banging his cane on my car.â&#x20AC;? Smith owns Cloth and Crown, a gressive behavior. Composed of community the streets are going to go.â&#x20AC;? Poverello Center Director Eran Fowler womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothing boutique. After the inci- service providers, law enforcement, busiPehan echoes Wienerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns. dent last winter, she filed a police â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t inherently think that report and bought pepper spray any kind of sit-lie ban is inapprofor all of her employees. The adpriate,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just think we ditional precautions help assure have to be really thoughtful the safety of Smith and her staff, about if something like that does but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alleviate an inget put into place, what does creasing number of recent probthat mean? What are the potenlems stemming from illegal and tial implications?â&#x20AC;? unsavory behavior among tranThe commission is also dissients downtown. cussing streamlining existing â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was worse this year,â&#x20AC;? says panhandling prohibitions the Missoula Communications DiMissoula City Council authorrector Ginny Merriam, who ized in 2009. These include the helps field concerns from locals so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;buffer zonesâ&#x20AC;? recomabout problems downtown and photo by Cathrine L. Walters mended by the commission and coordinates a commission tasked with finding solutions to Glen Harley Stephens Jr., who says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been homeless approved by council in 2009 that those complaints. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People per- for five years, sits on the steps of the Simon Law Office prohibit lying and sleeping on Ryman Street. A new proposal would limit where within 12 feet of a doorway, ceived that it was a lot worse.â&#x20AC;? Stephens can sit, sleep or lie down on city sidewalks panhandling within six feet of an Almost daily, Smith says she between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. entrance and soliciting for and her neighbors find feces and broken bottles left outside their shops by a ness owners and a Missoula City Council money within 20 feet of a vehicle. small yet costly and oftentimes destructive representative, the commission crafted the Scheben says these can be tough to posegment of the local homeless population. cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aggressive Solicitation and the Pedes- lice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes it difficult not only for peoSmith says she can no longer keep flowers trian Interference acts, both of which passed ple to understand it, but it also makes it near her entryway because when she does, in 2009. The ordinances prohibit panhan- difficult for us to enforce,â&#x20AC;? he says. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the primary reason Scheben is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re knocked over and uprooted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We dling and loitering in specific areas, such as near doorways and ATMs. asking the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and ultimately the find syringes in the doorway,â&#x20AC;? she adds. The commission was also largely re- Missoula City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to create a blanket According to counts conducted by Missoula Downtown Ambassadors, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sponsible for launching Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-year 20-foot buffer zone that prohibits loitering urban core hosted more panhandlers this Plan to End Homelessness, which was re- or solicitation around vehicles, doorways and ATMs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to make it so that year than at any time since 2010. Law en- leased last year. Missoula Crime Prevention Officer and everything is at a uniform number,â&#x20AC;? forcement and city officials attribute the influx in part to this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rainbow commission member Rob Scheben sug- Scheben says. If a daytime loitering ban were impleGathering held outside Jackson. The gath- gested the most recent changes. He believes ering drew nearly 10,000 people, a portion the amendments will leave law enforcement mented, the 20-foot zone would take effect of whom stayed in Missoula before and after better equipped to combat gaps in the ex- after hours. isting law and, in doing so, ease the worries As the commission deliberates the the event. changes, its members emphasize that the Smith isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much worried about how of locals like Smith. the transients landed on her doorstep, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want people changing their be- city doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to penalize all transients, rather how to curb their troublesome be- haviors to have to walk to the (Motor Vehicle but rather bad behavior exhibited by a few. City leaders are also quick to say that they havior. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why she supports a proposal Division) or walk to lunch,â&#x20AC;? Scheben says. unveiled during an Oct. 1 meeting of Mayor Missoula City Councilman Jason will increasingly seek public input on proJohn Engenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Advisory Commis- Wiener serves on the commission and be- posed changes to loitering and solicitation sion that aims to further limit loitering and lieves the measure preventing solicitation laws during the coming months. When the panhandling in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban core. Specif- on and around pedestrian footbridges may commission gains consensus among its ically, the proposal seeks to ban sitting, be warranted to preserve community safety. membership the city council will be asked sleeping or lying on downtown sidewalks â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get enough people contacting me about to actively vet the amendments. Council between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. the Northside Pedestrian Bridge to under- must sign off on any new restrictions before â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love that idea,â&#x20AC;? Smith says. stand that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being used in ways that they become law. The commission is also discussing the werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intended for in its construction,â&#x20AC;? jmayrer@missoulanews.com merits of prohibiting panhandlingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in addi- Wiener says.

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Domestic dispute The shutdown is tearing America apart, one house at a time by Dan Brooks

In this time of partisan rancor, it is easy to overlook the brave Americans hurt by Washington’s political gamesmanship. Of course I am referring to myself. My girlfriend works for the U.S. Forest Service, performing important scientific experiments that I totally understand, and she has been furloughed since last Tuesday. Instead of satisfying her lifelong ambition to contribute to the field of wildlife biology, she has been home watching “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” on Netflix. That is a problem, since I work from home and need to keep our internet bandwidth open so that Facebook refreshes quickly. My delicate work as a professional writer is nigh impossible to perform with my girlfriend looking on. Heaven forbid I should investigate some of the internet’s tasteful erotica. I can barely watch a third video of cats using the toilet without her asking when I am going to put up the storm windows. “Not now,” I say, the heart-cry of a struggling nation. “I’m working.” But my lamentations fall on deaf ears. That is why I demand that President Barack Obama end this government shutdown and do whatever it takes to get America’s girlfriends working again. Each side deserves its portion of blame for the present impasse. I have tried to negotiate with my girlfriend, but she refuses to compromise. Just yesterday, she asked me to mail the heating bill, ramming through an afternoon agenda that ignored the will of the people to reach level 25 in Diablo III. Fully 60 percent of the electorate opposed her plan, plus or minus 10 percent, but I remained calm, even as my most deeply held convictions fell under attack. Although her scheme contradicted the very principles on which this household was founded, I offered to compromise. “I’ll pay the heating bill,” I said, “but we’re not putting up the storm windows, and you have to bake a pie.” I spoke eloquently on the subject and at some length, but my girlfriend remained un-

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moved. Even as we agreed that the heating bill must be paid, she refused to consider my proposal. I returned to the negotiating table in good faith, suggesting that in the interest of resolving this problem quickly, I would allow her to skip the pie. Her counteroffer cannot be repeated in polite company. What am I to do with such intransigence? The situation is especially vexing because no one wants a cold house less

“Far better to live in the America our founding fathers intended, where everyone gets his way all the time.” than I. Autumn is setting in, and the home is getting drafty, especially over by the windows. In these troubled times, ordinary, hardworking Americans need central heating more than ever, but my girlfriend continues to hold our heating bill hostage to her inflexible demands. That is why I am calling on President Obama to end this foolish shutdown and get our federal employees back to their offices where they belong. In addition to restoring our fragmented domestic politics, he has the opportunity to refresh the very roots of democracy. All he has to do is compromise. Democracy is not about the many outvoting the few. The founding fathers designed our constitution to reflect the will of the people, as expressed on the floor of the House of Representatives. The American people gave control of that half of the legislative third of our federal government to the Republican party, and their mandate is clear.

Fully 46 percent of voters oppose Obamacare, and 37 percent oppose the Affordable Care Act. It is House Republicans’ duty to represent this majority against the un-democratic collusion of the President, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the previous House of Representatives. In tying continued funding of the government to defunding of the Affordable Care Act, the Republican Party has stood by its principles. It’s even stood slightly away from them by offering to settle for a delay in implementation and repeal of the medical device tax. Yet President Obama refuses to compromise, even as he faces the chance to determine the future of American government. Are we to live in a country where every bill that is passed by Congress, ratified by the chief executive and upheld by the Supreme Court becomes a law? Such a system would make a mockery of American liberty. Every elected representative would become a lawmaker, and every hardworking writer a slave to the girlfriend-utility complex. Democracy would become the tyranny of the majority, and dedicated patriots such as myself would be crushed beneath its iron heel. I say no. Far better to live in the America our founding fathers intended, where everyone gets his way all the time. That’s the system that made this country great, and it’s the one that will nurse our fragile households back to health. All I am asking is that President Obama and Senate Democrats compromise by giving House Republicans what they want, and we can get this country moving again. Only when our nation’s girlfriends go back to work can Americans be truly free. Let the winds of freedom whistle through the windows of this great land, so the furnace of democracy can make that pinging sound once more. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and lying at combatblog.net. His column appears every other week in the Independent.

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Guessing game Climate chaos makes us all environmental klutzes by Pepper Trail

Remember that kid from elementary school, the one with the terrible depth perception? That was me. I fell down stairs, missed the next rung on the monkey bars and could always be counted on to drop the easiest pop fly. But I eventually grew out of that, and these days my depth perception is probably as good as the next guy’s. My spatial depth perception, that is. On the other hand, my ability to perceive and react to the depths of time remains terrible—just like everyone else’s. Lately, I’ve come to believe that humanity’s poor time-depth perception explains our lack of environmental coordination. Basing all our plans on a paltry few decades of experience—or at most a century or two of records—we ignore the clear lessons of the deep past and insist on building and rebuilding in floodplains and fire-prone forests. We dam rivers and drain wetlands with little thought for the longterm consequences. We eliminate enormous populations of passenger pigeons and bison, overfish stock after stock, and still are stunned each time it happens again. There’s no question that time has depth. Planet Earth is billions of years old. Events like the advance and retreat of ice sheets are so brief that they hardly register on the geological time scale, which is measured in eons and eras, each many millions of years long. By comparison, the Earth’s spatial dimensions are trivial. I will never climb Mount Everest, but on my Saturday hikes I often average five and a half miles, which is about the height of that highest peak above sea level. I just have to imagine going up a mountain, instead of across a landscape. Plus, we have plenty of other tools at our disposal—cars and ships and airplanes—that allow us to take the measure of the world, to travel to its remotest corners. By contrast, our experience of time can’t be mechanically enhanced. It is simply

gained the painful and old-fashioned way: by getting older, day by day and year by year. Of course, we can improve our time-depth perception by using science and imagination. The insights into the history of the Earth provided by geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology are amazing. It has been millions of years since dinosaurs walked the Earth, but every child

“This belief in a stable natural world has never been less accurate—or more dangerous—than it is today.” holds a vivid imaginative picture of those incredible creatures, thanks to the painstaking work of scientists. And yet, how little thought do we grownups spare for our planet’s past! Against all evidence, we believe that the world we grew up with is the norm, and that any changes we notice are mere temporary fluctuations in the status quo that will pass. This belief in a stable natural world has never been less accurate—or more dangerous— than it is today. Climate scientists and ecologists have no doubt that climate change, or, more aptly, climate chaos, will transform the planet’s habitats in the coming decades. But they have surprisingly little confidence in their ability to predict what the world to come will be like. Indeed, climate change ecologists commonly use an ominous-

sounding term: “the no-analog future.” That is, they believe that the future world will resemble nothing that we’ve ever seen before. This is in sharp contrast to how most of us picture the future. To the extent that we accept the likelihood of any climate-driven changes at all, we expect simple northward shifts of the habitats we know. Let’s say temperatures in San Francisco will come to resemble those in Southern California today. Well, then, we expect that the plant life of the Bay Area will become more like that around Los Angeles. Unfortunately for this orderly picture, studies of past environments suggest that major climate changes shuffle species into new and unpredictable arrangements. The associations that seem so natural and permanent today, say, between pines and oaks in the California foothills, or between sagebrush and juniper in the Great Basin, may fall apart in the future. What new arrangements will come … well, if we think we know, we are kidding ourselves. To prepare for this chaotic future world, the best we can do is to try to slow the pace of climate change and preserve as many species as we can, to give nature a chance to adapt with as little dislocation as possible. Back in elementary school, when my depth perception finally started to improve, I figured out that to catch that pop fly, I had to keep my eye on the ball and move to where it was going to come down. As environmental changes come hard and fast, will we be able to do something similar—anticipate and adapt and keep our eye on the rapidly moving ball? Let’s hope so, because our very future will depend on our depth perception—of time.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police investigating break-ins at dozens of businesses in Montgomery County, Md., identified Andre Antonio Henry, 30, as their suspect in what authorities termed a one-person “crime wave” after finding his name on court documents that he apparently dropped at the scene of one of the burglaries. “Obviously, that’s a clue,” prosecutor Stephen Chaikin said after a judge sentenced Henry to 18 years in prison. (The Washington Post) While Joshua Burgess, Chaz West and Marquise Williams were awaiting the start of their trial for home invasion and armed robbery in Pensacola, Fla., Court Security Deputy Joseph Kastor found a note in the courtroom, apparently dropped by one of the suspects. The note advised another suspect about what to say to get their stories straight when they appeared before the judge. When confronted with the note, the suspects changed their pleas to guilty. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

SHORTCOMINGS - The International Paralympic Committee declared swimmer Victoria Allen, 19, ineligible for this summer’s world championships because she isn’t disabled enough. Having won four medals and set a world freestyle record the year before, she “failed to provide conclusive evidence of a permanent eligible impairment,” the IPC ruled on the eve of this year’s competition. A star child athlete, Arlen developed a neurological condition that led to her spending three years in a vegetative state before she awoke in 2010 with paralyzed legs. She insisted she is being punished because her doctor believes that her condition might improve. IPC official Peter Van de Vliet defended the ruling. “If you’re classifying an amputee, either they’ve got a leg or they haven’t, and in 12 months they still won’t have a leg,” he said. “But when you get to these types of wheelchair athletes, it gets tricky.” (The New York Times) After Jakiya McKoy, 7, won the Little Miss Hispanic Delaware contest, pageant officials took away her crown because of concerns that she isn’t Hispanic enough. Contestants are required to be at least 25 percent Hispanic, but Maria Perez, president of the sponsoring Nuestras Raices, said the verification the child provided “does not specify she was 25 percent Hispanic or Hispanic at all.” The McKoys protested that the real reason their daughter’s reign was cut short was her dark skin, not the lack of documentation. (New York’s Daily News)

GEOGRAPHICALLY CHALLENGED - When President Barack Obama made a bus tour with stops in Scranton, Pa., and Binghamton, Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y., cable news network MSNBC showed a map of the presidential itinerary that grouped Syracuse, Buffalo and Binghamton near the state’s northeastern border with Vermont. Buffalo is in the far western side of the state, 330-plus miles from where the MSNBC map located it; Binghamton and Syracuse are in the state’s center, roughly 200 miles from where the map depicts them. MSNBC host Martin Bashir called the error an honest mistake. (Business Insider)

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Prosecutors told a court in Deschutes County, Ore., that Lawrence Loeffler, 86, shot his wife to death for putting the lid on the ketchup bottle too tightly and because his stepdaughter failed to wish him a happy birthday. (Associated Press) Authorities accused Boca Raton, Fla., city worker Donell Allison Jr., 33, of brutally beating another city employee after the victim took refuge in the back seat of a city vehicle when it began raining and sat on Allison’s lunch. (South Florida Sun Sentinel) Police charged Vernett Bader, 54, with stabbing her 64-year-old roommate in North Charleston, S.C., because he was listening to Eagles music and watching television with his brother. According to the police report, when Bader complained that she didn't want to listen to the rock band, the roommate told her to shut up. Bader then grabbed a serrated knife from a kitchen drawer and swung it at the man. After the two men wrestled the knife away from Bader, she went back into the kitchen and returned with another knife. (Charleston’s The Post and Courier)

CRIMINAL COMESTIBLES - A Scottish court sentenced Wayne Stillwell, 25, to 10 months in jail for rubbing bacon over the handles of a mosque in Edinburgh and then throwing the bacon into the building. “Muslims regard bacon as unclean,” Stillwell explained after pleading guilty to causing a breach of the peace. (Edinburgh News) Police arrested a 52-year-old woman who reportedly entered Seattle’s Dim Sum King restaurant, told the patrons to “go back to China,” flipped over their plates, spit on one man and doused other diners in soy sauce and chocolate milk. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME - Ed Gemar decided the best way to eliminate a fire hazard from a storage building in Great Falls, Mont., was to burn weeds and grass away from the part of the building that was brick and concrete. The fire spread to some dry weeds near a wooden section of the building and destroyed the building and its contents, which included vintage automobiles and farm machinery. (Great Falls Tribune) Police shot and wounded a 16-year-old high school student they thought was a would-be burglar but later learned had fled from officers because he was skipping school. After DeKalb County, Ga., police Chief Cedric Alexander called the shooting “an unintentional misfire,” the victim’s aunt and legal guardian said she wasn’t angry with the police. “If he’d been at school,” Geraldine Lloyd explained, “this never would have occurred.” (The Atlanta Journal Constitution)

DOWNSIDE OF LAW & ORDER - The Dutch justice ministry announced the closing of eight prisons because of a lack of criminals. Crediting the declining crime rate, deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak said the closings will result in the loss of 1,200 jobs but indicated the Netherlands is negotiating with Belgium to take 500 prisoners. That deal would net the Netherlands $40.5 million and delay the closing of two of the prisons. (The Huffington Post)

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS - The National Rifle Association joined an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s phone-tracking program. The NRA’s supporting brief warned that the NSA’s data mining could inhibit people’s “willingness to communicate with the NRA” and “allow the government to circumvent legal protections for Americans’ privacy,” thereby creating an illegal “national gun registry.” (USA Today)

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t’s early afternoon at the Ranches at Belt Creek. and a group of women in plaid shirts and cowboy boots stand on a gravel path squinting into the bright blue sky. One of them, a petite brunette with pursed lips and smoky eyeliner, hoists a shotgun into position. As a clay pigeon passes through the air in front of her, she points the barrel toward it, flinching slightly as she pulls the trigger. Miss. Behind her, Georgia Pellegrini, a striking blonde wearing red plaid, helps the woman reload the gun and guide it back into place, pressing the butt of it to her shoulder and the body near her cheek. Georgia whispers something encouraging to the woman. This time when the clay pigeon appears across the blue sky, the woman follows it with the tip of the gun, eases the trigger and blows the hunter-orange disc into a shower of shards. The woman yells “Woo hoo!” and the crowd of onlookers cheer. Georgia smiles. With the surrounding hills vibrant in green brush and pine set against a backdrop of golden bluffs, the scene of stylish women looks straight out of an L.L. Bean catalog. This is Girl Hunter Weekend, a threeday, $2,000-plus adventure for women looking to learn about living off the land. This weekend’s attendees have come from Texas, Colorado, New York and California to shoot guns, ride horses, cook wild game, tool around on ATVs and fly fish, plus indulge in the luxury of high-end accommodations, champagne toasts and gourmet meals. Georgia Pellegrini plays the role of teacher and central attraction for the gathering. The New York chef-turned-hunter/ author/budding celebrity hosts weekends like this one all over the country, hocking her book, Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing How We Eat One Hunt at a Time, and spreading a message of female empowerment. A New York Times book review and Georgia’s own marketing materials describe her as a cross between Annie Oakley and Carrie Bradshaw of “Sex in the City.” As a true Montana “girl hunter,” all of this leaves me skeptical and conflicted. A New York celebrity teaching women how to hunt in a state full of women hunters? At worst, it sounds like the National Rifle Association’s take on glamping (aka glamour camping), some glossy imitation of the dirt-under-the-fingernails traditions my father passed down to me during my youth. At best, it promotes a better understanding of how we get our food and introduces hunting to a whole new demographic. The weekend has the potential to be infuriating or invigorating, an example of interlopers squeezing the state of every last bit of its authenticity or a potential paradigm shift in a historically male-dominated act. It could go either way. “We’re going to lunch now,” Georgia announces at the sporting clay course. Everyone grabs their plastic water bottles and other belongings and jumps in the ATVs. There isn’t room for all of us, so another woman and I hitch a ride with a kindly ranch hand named Dean. Driving through the hilly prairie back to the lodge we pass a

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of the story, except for the turkey incident. At Stone Barns she and the other chefs were told they’d be killing five turkeys for the evening’s meal. In Girl Hunter she writes:

handful of small deer grazing in the distant grass. Deer are a dime a dozen in Montana, but I still perk up at the sight of wildlife in such a beautiful setting. Something doesn’t look right, though. Just as I’m about to comment on it, Dean says, “There’s the deer for our 3D archery course.”

In that moment, for the first time in my life, I considered becoming a vegetarian. And just as quickly I thought, “If I’m going to be a chef, then I’m going to eat meat.” And if I was going to eat meat, I needed to be able to kill it myself. That first turkey kill was emotional and intense; it awakened a dormant part of me— something primal, perhaps that original human instinct. It made a kind of sense I could feel deep within me, the kind that makes me want to be a true omnivore.

he sporting lodge at the Ranches at Belt Creek is a stunning space with a bar, a long dining table, a fireplace and a wall full of sliding glass doors that open onto a deck. Outside, there’s another stone fireplace and a view overlooking the coulee, bordered by buttes to the west and the Little Belt Mountains to the south. The dining room table is set for the 11 “girl hunters” here for the weekend. Deidre, the ranch’s concierge, brings out plates of mixed greens and goat cheese, and a chicken, grape and walnut salad in a bread bowl. The guests slowly filter in, many sporting cowboy hats, glitzy belt buckles and diamond rings. There are designer jeans and a few hints of Botox, expensive leather and the kind of confident chatter I imagine goes on in a Manhattan loft brimming with socialites. Georgia sits at the head of the table, quietly texting on her phone and taking bites of food, looking up to nod or answer when one of the women asks her a question. I take it all in and try not to focus on the superficial, try to hear what they’re saying. But all I can think about is my postpregnant belly, non-manicured nails and un-whitened teeth. It’s not a typical Montana crowd in any way. After we eat lunch, a man named Mark Hawn escorts me to my log cabin, which features a rustic-chic décor with gorgeous wood finishes, a loft, a mini fridge and a flat-screen television. Mark owns the ranch with his father, Mark Sr., and tells me the family story. His father bought up commercial land in Jackson Hole only to be outdone by billionaires who had deeper pockets and could therefore entice the tourist population. “The billionaires came in and pushed out the millionaires,” he says. “And so [my father] looked north and found Belt.”

Holly, a San Diego lawyer, shoots at a clay pigeon while ranch owner Mark Hawn Jr. looks on. Clay shooting at the Ranches at Belt Creek is one event that attracts guests to the three-day, $2,000-plus Girl Hunter Weekend.

The 800-acre Ranches at Belt Creek is similar to the Stock Farm Club in Hamilton. Invitation-only guests pay to stay at the cabins, eat at the sporting club lodge and take part in recreational activities like hunting and horseback riding. There are also residents who have bought land on the ranch. In addition to their five-acre plots, residents have access to 200 additional acres, plus big-game hunting passage to the adjacent Hawn family ranch, which is a whopping 6,500 acres. Girl Hunter Weekend is another way the sporting club makes money. Mark came across Georgia’s book last year and told Deidre, who had just been hired as the full-time concierge. “He said, ‘I would love to get this celebrity out here,’” Deidre says. “So he wanted me to figure out a way to connect with her on social media.” Georgia’s book had already pushed her into the spotlight. She showed up on “Jimmy Kimmel” to make boar meatballs and was a judge for “Iron Chef.” Publications ranging from The New Yorker to

American Hunter to Bitch magazine reviewed her book. The original Girl Hunter Weekend took place in Texas at Joshua Creek, but was mainly intended to generate interest in the book. After Deidre contacted her, Georgia agreed to revive the Girl Hunter Weekend. Before the first gathering at Belt Creek, the Wall Street Journal published a preview in its weekend travel edition and Deidre says the September weekend filled with 20 reservations and a waiting list almost immediately. A second weekend was added a month later and attracted 15 more guests. “It was interesting to have women from 18 years old to early 20s to 60s,” Mark says. “And they found a common ground, which was kind of this adventure, playing in a man’s world, so to speak, without men, many of them learning these things for the first time. They bonded and connected and it transcended age and socioeconomics—everything.” After dropping my bags in the cabin, I return to the lodge hoping to talk with

Georgia and watch her in action. But the women have been split into two groups and mine does not include Georgia. I see her only briefly, notice that she’s changed into a new set of clothes, and then I am whisked away with my group to the great outdoors.

eorgia has an origin story about her hunting experience that she retells in every interview she gives. She grew up fishing for trout on her great grandfather’s land in upstate New York. After attending a Manhattan private school alongside the likes of Ivanka Trump, she went into finance and ended up on Wall Street. But she was unfulfilled in the sense that money can’t buy happiness and since the one thing she loved to do was cook, she applied to the French Culinary Institute in New York. Georgia’s culinary education took her to ritzy farm-to-table restaurants in New York, like Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and to France. And that might have been the end

On her blog and in her book, Georgia calls hunting “paying the full karmic price for the meal,” which reveals a philosophy that several foodie writers before her—like Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma—have explored. But Georgia also displays a dramatic flair that attracts the attention of television hosts and producers. In a trailer for her book you can see Georgia strutting toward the camera with her aviators on, gun slung over her shoulder, rock music blaring. In her narration she gives a snappy summation of how she worked at Lehman Brothers but “traded in her laptop for a set of knives” and that she’s left the grocery aisles to go “into the wild.” “Sometimes I’m a lady, sometimes I run with the boys,” she says. The trailer ends with another catchphrase: “I’m an omnivore who has solved her dilemma.” I have my own stories about hunting, but they lack any catchphrases. My favorite occurred five years ago when my dad broke the news to me that I would be inheriting his .30-06, a rifle he inherited from his dad. Being the oldest child of the family, he explained, this inheritance was my birthright. He had a look of

A group of Girl Hunter guests rides horses across the ranch club’s 200 recreational acres.

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“Women are just different from men. They experience the outdoors totally differently and that’s something we need to embrace.” —Georgia Pellegrini, author of Girl Hunter

pride and gruff finality in his voice when he told me this over a cup of coffee one evening. I almost choked. I let the news sink in, nodded grimly to confirm my acceptance and took a long, pensive sip from my drink. The thing is, I never saw myself as a dedicated hunter. I remember walking through the woods once with my father on a bird hunting expedition, watching my now-deceased dog bounding through orange leaves. I breathed in the cool autumn air and studied how my dad hit a grouse as it sprang from the bushes. I always wanted to hunt in a far-off, romanticized way. I enjoyed the wild game processed into breakfast sausage or sautéed in stir fry. I just didn’t feel at ease with a gun, not trusting myself to hold one without it going off and causing permanent damage. But my first time at a shooting range was anything but horrible. I took a deep breath and concentrated, the gun in my arms smooth and heavy. I calmed myself, steadied the rifle and aimed, the butt tight against the top of my armpit. I cleared my head of all but my dad’s simple instruction: squeeze the trigger gently. I felt like the last best sniper and then felt my disembodied finger pull. The boom was deafening, and the bruising from the recoil left me exhilarated.

In the following years I didn’t go bird hunting but I did find luck with big game. My first antelope required two shots. I dropped my second antelope on the first shot; it happened so quickly I didn’t even notice that I got it. A half-hour later I found her dead in the field with the bullet hole clean through her upper neck. I remember the sensation that so many hunters talk about—a pang of sorrow for the antelope’s death, a pride in my shot, a sense of belonging to a larger food chain and that feeling that I’ve taken responsibility for what I’m eating. At Girl Hunter Weekend, I feel less certain. I haven’t handled a shotgun in a long time, but I can’t imagine it’s too different from my 7mm.08. I might even be the sharp-shooter of the group if I can just remember to stay steady. It’s during downtime at the shooting range that I finally get to talk with some of the guests. One woman who looks like a rodeo queen with black glossy hair and long, thick eyelashes holds a pair of orange earplugs in her hands and pretends to swallow them with a bottle of water. “You know, like in Christmas Vacation,” she says. We all laugh. Before long, the group is listing other scenes from the Vacation movies, talking about Caddyshack and quoting lines.

Kaci, a roper from Texas, practices casting her line on the river.

As it turns out, the rodeo queen isn’t a rodeo queen but rather a Texas roper. Her perfectly crafted beauty is made more than skin-deep with her magnetic personality. She has a husky laugh and a propensity for delivering witty one liners. Her badass tomboy attitude and sense of humor have her using terms like “douche-nozzle.” I find out that she didn’t come to the weekend on her own dime—“I couldn’t afford this, could you?” she asks me—but as an employee of Stetson. She’s mainly here to fit all the women with new hats. Several of the other women in my group have shooting experience. There’s Anthe, an easy-going Greek-American preschool teacher from Austin, Texas, who grew up around hunting. She talks of defeathering pheasants with her uncle and, more recently, accompanying her husband to hunt doves. She saved up her Christmas bonus and received a gift certificate from her brother in order to afford

Girl Hunter author Georgia Pellegrini, right, shows a guest how to clean her freshly shot pheasant.

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this retreat. There’s Cara, the manager of the Aboriginal Resource Center at Guelph University in Toronto, who trains hunting dogs and goes for upland birds every year. And there’s Noel, a spunky NRA Republican who is from a small town, enjoys good whiskey and advocates for strong women and local food. She’s 45 now, but she learned to hunt from her dad when she was 30 after finally asking if he’d teach her. She’s been hooked ever since. “For me, the killing part is the tiniest part,” Noel says. “It’s going to hunting camp and cooking out and hanging out and sitting around the campfire and telling stories. It’s that whole camaraderie. Even if you don’t want to shoot something you can enjoy the outdoors aspect of hunting.” This is the second Girl Hunter Weekend for Noel and Cara. “I came last year and met a bunch of amazing ladies and Cara was one of them,” Noel says. “And so when I heard they were coming back I was like, ‘I’m going to come back.’ Not so much because I need to come back and see Georgia, to be honest. I love Georgia, but I really love Montana. ... There’s something that draws me out here.” I miss every shot, but some of the women break the clays easily. Holly, a San Diego lawyer, has perhaps the least experience of everyone. Earlier in the day, while riding horses, she turned a shade of pale when her ride seemed spooked. But behind the shotgun she has suddenly found a Zen-like confidence that makes her look right at home. Georgia is still with the other group, and has been for the duration of the day. But there’s plenty to learn from the other women, and we start to trade hunting tricks that we’ve picked up. “Do you know how to find your dominant eye?” Cara asks the other women. She shows them how to cover one eye and focus on a tall piece of grass and then uncover the eye. If you’re still looking at the

same spot, then your uncovered eye is the dominant one and the side you want to shoot from. “With shotguns you want to keep both eyes open,” she says. “But it’s good to know your dominant eye.” Cara then tells a story of watching a woman who was wearing glasses pull out a tube of lipstick and color the lens of her non-dominant eye so that she could shoot better. “She used lipstick?” I ask. “Yeah,” she says matter-of-factly. “That’s what women do. They’re resourceful.”

eorgia has been noticeably absent from my group and difficult to pin down for an interview, and I learn it’s at least partly because she’s distracted. Turns out, I’m not the only journalist at this Girl Hunter Weekend. The New York Times has sent a food writer, Jeff Gordinier, to profile Georgia for an upcoming feature. Gordinier populates the Times’ “Diner’s Journal” blog with stories such as “Ladies Who Power Lunch.” The blog appears to be about—and for—upper-class New Yorkers. I find it a little strange that a man has been sent to cover an all-ladies weekend, but think little of it. Gordinier, for his part, finds it unconscionable that a local reporter, woman or otherwise, dares infringe on his story. “Well, this isn’t good,” he says when meeting me. “What’s not good?” I ask. “I’m not trying to be gruff,” he says condescendingly, “but I thought we had an exclusive.” “I thought we did,” I say, half joking, trying to get him to lighten up. “You know, we’re an alt-weekly in Montana. You’re The New York Times. I don’t think we’re in competition here.” “We’ll figure something out,” he says before walking away. “We’ll figure something out” turns out to mean threatening Georgia’s publicist with pulling his article if he doesn’t at least

get an exclusive on two of the weekend’s events: pheasant hunting and falconry. The publicist apologizes profusely to me and says her hands are tied. I tell her this doesn’t come off well. “So you’re telling me that you’re going to let a man from New York come into a hunting weekend for women and push out a local woman reporter and a local woman photographer, both of whom are actual girl hunters?” I ask. It’s no use. There’s no way to change the situation. Georgia’s allegiances don’t lie with the locals, and there’s little time for the underdog when you’re successfully climbing the celebrity ladder. Her future clientele is on the East Coast or in the suburbs, not western Montana. There’s no convincing Georgia or her publicist otherwise. But women are resourceful and I use the situation to my advantage as best as possible. I want an exclusive, too. So on the second day, while my group goes pheasant hunting with The New York Times guy, I get to go fly fishing with Georgia.

irst thing in the morning, Georgia leads me and the other group into a van to head up to the Hawn family home where we’ll take ATVs to the river. The mood is upbeat and there’s a familiarity among them. They’re also rowdier. “These pants are so tight you couldn’t fart in them,” says a woman from Brooklyn. The ATVs are a good place to lounge in the sun as we wait for the fishing poles to arrive. Two women and Georgia pass the time taking selfies from their camera phones.They hang their arms over the ATV handlebars, pull their button-down shirts over their shoulders and look over the top of their sunglasses, posing and cocking their heads like Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball. Darren, one of the ranch employees, finally arrives with the poles and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Half the group piles into Darren’s ATV, while the other half join me in Georgia’s. We take off with a chorus of cheers as Georgia revs the engine. Someone yells, “Let’s go get some fish!” The backroads are rough with a few looming widowmakers and, at one turn, a tree across the road. Georgia fearlessly punches the gas and takes us through the brush and back on the road again. When we’re not dodging debris, the women spend the 15-minute drive talking about how it’s impossible to not believe in a higher power when you see scenery like this. We also talk about the freeing feeling of peeing in the woods. At the river, Darren pulls out a box of waders and three bear skins, which he lays on the ground. “Grab a rod,” he says. Someone quips, “That’s what he said.” A few of the women pose with the bear skins wrapped around them. Darren mentions that there has been several sightings of bears in the area and a few women look visibly nervous. Down at the river, we find plenty of deep pools and promising eddies for fish-

Girl Hunter Weekend includes luxuries such as a personalized fitting for a new Stetson cowboy hat.

ing. Each woman gets her own spot along the bank, and with a little instruction from Darren and Georgia, they cast, mend their lines and search for signs of a bite. Georgia and I finally get a chance to talk and she admits that she’s “obviously really distracted” because of the amount of guests and journalists. “There are so many middle men,” she says, “and it obviously creates a shit storm, as you unfortunately had to learn.” I point out that for someone with her profile, she’s been surprisingly soft-spoken so far during the weekend. “I am inherently an introvert, so it’s interesting that my work has catapulted me into the public eye,” she says. She speaks about the stresses of her newfound celebrity, but also why Girl Hunter Weekend is so important to her. “I wanted to really show women that this is an acceptable thing,” she says. “They don’t have to act like a guy, look like a guy, dress like a guy. They can still be feminine and participate in these sorts of adventures. Self-sufficiency is the ultimate girl power.” This particular adventure isn’t panning out. After our brief conversation, Georgia and Darren note that the fish aren’t biting and decide we should head back in the ATVs. Again I ride with Georgia and again she drives fast, taking corners with increased speed. The vehicle leans and some of the women yell out. I’m certain we’re all going to die at the hands of Georgia Pellegrini. When we get to the ranch there is a celebration in progress. The bird hunters have returned with one victor, Holly, the San Diego lawyer with no hunting experience. Holly’s kill gives Georgia a chance to finally show off her skills for the group. Outside the lodge, Georgia demonstrates how to clean the bird. For the first time all weekend, she looks comfortable and in her element. She helps Holly paint pheasant blood on her face like a warrior and everyone takes pictures. She pulls out

each organ, explaining that pheasants eat pebbles to digest their food. “What do you do with the intestines?” one woman asks. “I leave them for the coyotes,” Georgia says, “so they have something to eat, too.” In the lodge’s kitchen, Georgia sets out several pheasant breasts on cutting boards to teach the women how to make Devil Pheasants on Horseback—pheasant breast stuffed with goat cheese, thyme and dates, wrapped in thin bacon. You can pound the breast with anything, she tells them. The room then fills with the the musical clang of the women softening the meat with rolling pins, metal pots and the bottoms of Perrier bottles.

n the evening, before dinner is served, the women gather again in the lodge for champagne and s’mores. The Brook-

lyn woman yells over the murmur, “Georgia has something to say!” and the room goes quiet as Georgia appears in front of the fireplace smiling her impenetrable smile. “I wanted to thank everyone for an amazing weekend,” she says. “It’s been amazing to meet everyone.” She pours champagne and toasts. In front of her is a table full of plastic gift bags with s’mores ingredients, each wrapped neatly in more plastic. A couple women unwrap the bags and make the s’mores around the outdoor fire. Another bag contains a present from Georgia: earrings made of bullet casings. After the gift giving, Georgia and I get a chance to talk again. We sit side-by-side in an ATV under the light of the moon and I’m curious about her feelings on the weekend. “It’s been amazing to see how many women want to have this experience,

rolling up their sleeves and finding ways to empower themselves in small ways,” she says. “This event attracts that type of woman who is a bit more fearless and a little more eager to experience life.” Georgia says that in order to make the experience accessible to a broad range of women she didn’t want the weekend to be too intense. Activities were planned for novices. “They weren’t going to be willing to go out into the woods and pitch a tent and not shower for five days,” she says. I ask if she likes to go out into the woods and pitch a tent. “I’ve done it but I don’t do it regularly,” she says. “I like to shower. I can rough it but I’m a woman, too, and I’m feminine. And I want to be comfortable. “I’ve been in a duck blind with insane winds and the tide coming in,” she adds. “And all of a sudden we’re stranded and then snow comes in. You’re soaking wet and you feel like you’re going into hypothermic shock. That is not what I like to do regularly. I want a warm bubble bath to be welcoming me with open arms. And women are just different from men. They experience the outdoors totally differently and that’s something we need to embrace.” I’m not sure I agree, but I don’t fight her on it. I know plenty of women who experience the outdoors exactly the same as men do. I also know plenty who, while equally skilled and hardy in the face of a harsh Montana hunt, choose different types of wild adventures. In fact, the group I spent most of my Girl Hunter Weekend with made their own plans by our last day. The morning after hitting the bars for a night of drinking Fireball whiskey, a few guests have decided to extend their stay. Noel, Cara and newly minted hunter Holly plan to take an extra day to go bird hunting. They say all the media attention has gotten in the way of their weekend, and they need more time to hunt. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

Georgia and two other guests pose for photos. “It’s been amazing to see how many women want to have this experience, rolling up their sleeves and finding ways to empower themselves in small ways,” says Georgia.

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Reading riot Getting down with poetry slams, UFOs, bodice rippers and truth at the Montana Festival of the Book by Erika Fredrickson

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

here are hundreds of reasons to attend the Montana Festival of the Book. If you are a true book nerd, sometimes it’s just about listening to charming authors read from their striking works. Or it’s about stalking—stalking these charming authors in order to get them to sign a copy of their striking book. If you are an aspiring writer you will enjoy panel discussions in which successful writers affirm your neuroticism and doubt about being unpublished. You will be encouraged. You will hear surprising stories behind the stories. You will be taken by an author you’re never heard before. This year, you’ll probably be starstruck by a night of Sherman Alexie reading from decades of his work (Oct. 10 at the Wilma at 8 PM) and Saturday night’s gala ( Wilma, 7:30 PM) featuring Montana’s poet laureate, Tami Haaland, plus Jamie Ford, Richard Manning and Claire Vaye Watkins. Here we give you a handful of other must-sees from this year’s festival.

Not faking it We already know what happens when you fabricate your memoir á la James Frey with A Million Little Pieces, or write fabricated articles like former journalist Stephen Glass. For one, “South Park” will make fun of you. Also, Oprah will shame you on national TV. Those examples are the extreme, of course. Most journalists and memoirists come to their stories with good intentions, even if the process isn’t easy. Finding the way to tell those stories in the most truthful,

accurate way—and still be dramatically effective—requires a critical eye, a love for nuance, an ethical will and an arsenal of colorful language. At a nonfiction panel, authors Bill Dedman, Jo Deurbrouck, Gayle Morrison, Brad Tyer and Todd Wilkinson share their philosophies and the rules of telling other people’s stories—whether they’re writing about copper kings’ daughters, river rats, the CIA, environmental disasters or celebrity conservationists. Another panel, which includes Richard Manning and Susanna Sonnenberg, addresses how friends and family inspired their memoirs—for better or worse. Catch “Truth in the First and Third: Finding and Creating Nonfiction Stories” Fri., Oct. 11, at 2:30 PM and “Ties that Bind: The Memoir and Relationships” Sat., Oct. 12, at 11 AM, both in Holiday Inn Ballroom A. Free.

Blood and Dark How a book becomes a film is always a point of interest at the Festival of the Book. If you haven’t already seen Winter In the Blood, the Montana-made adaptation of James Welch’s book, you’re in luck. The film screens at the Roxy a couple times this weekend. Another, perhaps lesser known film, Shepard & Dark, will also be showing. The documentary is based on a 50-year relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his friend Johnny Dark. It’s an intimate portrait of what happens when two besties document their thoughts in letters. The friction is palpable between the

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men who in many ways envied each other’s lives—Shepard’s in the spotlight, Dark’s as an everyman working a menial job in a small town. Winter in the Blood: Fri. at 7 PM and Sat. at 7 and 9. Shepard & Dark: Fri. at 7: 15 PM and Sat. at 7:15 and 9:15. $7/$5 seniors and students.

Wakefield slam It’s hard to tell where nonfiction and fiction merge with Buddy Wakefield. On the International Poetry Slam winner’s website he says he quit his job at a biomedical firm and moved into the “small town of Honda Civic.” (He moved into his Honda Civic to travel around.) The site offers a bunch of “press” quotes from Utah Phillips, Mos Def and Forbes that merely say “Buddy Wakefield!” or “...Buddy Wakefield,” and one quote that says “Buddy Wakefield is a honey badger.” There is also a reference to Children of the Corn. This is all to say that the slam poetry artist and author of The Henhouse: The International Book for Chickens and their Lovers is a funny, vibrant guy, and fortunately for us it’s a fact that he will appear at this year’s Slam Poetry event, hosted by seasoned local artist Tahj Kjelland. Fri., Oct. 11, at the Top Hat at 7:30 PM. Free.

Bodice-rippers and E.T. Sometimes it seems like we only care about formal literary writing around here. Or writing of the West. Festival panels support that bias, but you can find some

that cater to genre fiction and the offbeat, too. For the “Romancing the Novel” panel, romantic suspense, young adult and historical paranormal authors talk about the power of love (and lust!) in storytelling. In the offbeat vein, Joan Bird, a doctor of zoology and conservation biology, talks about UFOs and ETs. Yes, as in unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrials. Bird, who wrote Montana UFOs, will talk about Montana-based sightings and state government projects that will speak directly to your secret “X-Files” obsession even if you’re a skeptic. “Romancing the Novel” takes place Sat., Oct. 12, at 9:30 AM at the Holiday Inn Ballroom A, followed by Bird’s “Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials” reading. Free.

Lunch men You’ve never listened to the Lunchbox Podcast starring Ed Skoog and J. Robert Lennon? You have no idea how much you’re missing. The two writers share amusing observations about other writers and themselves, plus random thoughts about things like the deception of soy sausage and how a single saxophone note affects a poetry reading. You can catch a live taping of the show that includes special guests. You never know what those guys will do next. Sat., Oct. 12, at 2:30 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Song sung blue Willow Frost details Depression-era Chinatown by Kate Whittle

What leads parents to abandon the children they love? In the Great Depression, the ranks of orphanages swelled with children whose parents couldn’t support them. Jamie Ford’s novel Songs of Willow Frost imagines the story of one of these children, starting when William Eng, a 12-year-old boy of Chinese descent, awakens to “the sound of a snapping leather belt and the shrieking of rusty springs that supported the threadbare mattress of his army surplus bed.” Every morning, the nuns who run the orphanage inspect the children’s sheets and whip the bedwetters.

Songs of Willow Frost Jamie Ford hardcover, Ballantine Books 331 pages, $26

It’s a rude awakening, fitting for a gritty story that’s beautifully told. Willow Frost is the second novel from Ford, a Chinese-American author who grew up in Seattle and now lives in Montana. His first, 2009’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, about Asian-American experiences during WWII-era Seattle, was a New York Times bestseller and adapted into a stage play. In Willow Frost, we learn that Eng was raised by a single mother. When he’s 5 years old, he finds her nearly lifeless in the bathtub. She’s rushed away by a doctor and William is sent to the orphanage, never to hear of her again until his 12th birthday, when the orphans are taken out to a movie theater. When a film reel shows a beautiful Chinese singer named Willow, he sits agape, positive that she is his mother. He becomes determined to run away from the orphanage

and find her. The rest of Willow Frost alternates between William’s life in 1934 and the backstory of his mother, Liu Song, the American-born daughter of Chinese opera performers. Liu Song deals with a heartbreaking series of hard knocks that eventually lead to her abandoning William. As a teen, she loses her family to disease and illness, and is left under the care of her stepfather, an abusive rapist. She scares him away by posing as her mother’s ghost, but discover she’s pregnant and has to fend for herself as a singer and nightclub dancer. Sometimes Willow Frost can seem a little too soap-opera tragic, but then again, Liu Song’s story is no more dramatic than many real-life tales from the 1920s and the Depression. It was an era when women and people of color were second-class citizens. Catholic schools and orphanages perpetuated institutional cruelty. White hospitals wouldn’t admit minority women, so Chinese women gave birth at home; the reallife restaurateur Ruby Chow was born on the fish dock where her father worked. Ford depicts historic Seattle with a nearly photographic detail. At one point, Liu Song attends a production of the play A Chinese Honeymoon at the Empress Theater, where, “an eager crowd of patrons filled the three hundred seats, chatting and eating roasted almonds from sleeves of pink paper that turned silver when the houselights dimmed.” The book is full of nostalgia for Seattle’s neighborhoods and rainy days, too; Ford even slips in a reference to Frances Farmer. Dark themes of sexual assault, incest, suicide and racism contrast with uplifting art and vibrant color, from Chinese opera to American vaudeville acts to the burgeoning film industry. The rich smells and sights of Seattle’s Chinatown are throughout the story, from oyster sauce to barbecued chicken feet to hot steam buns. For all the sadness in Willow Song, there is love and sweetness, too. Ford doesn’t demonize even the worst of his characters. Instead, as William realizes, no one is all bad or all good. Rather, everyone is “a confusing mixture of love and hate, joy and sorrow, longing and forgetting, misguided truth and painful deception.” By the end of Willow Frost, there comes redemption for both William and his mother. The finale isn’t pat or easy, but it offers us hope that even in hard times, love wins out. Jamie Ford reads at the Wilma Theatre Sat., Oct. 12, at 7:30 PM, as part of the Festival of the Book gala with Tami Haaland, Richard Manning and Claire Vaye Watkins. Free. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Blood from copper Opportunity, Montana asks the tough questions by Chris Dombrowski

So dog-eared are the pages of my copy of Opportunity, Montana that from across the desk the book appears waterlogged. Simply put, there’s just that much to like in Brad Tyer’s debut—that much to ingest, puzzle over, learn from, return to. The bottom corner on page 29, for instance, is folded upward, and scanning the lower half of the page I find the passage I’d hoped to revisit: “Human blood does contain traces of copper, but our blood is primarily iron-based, via the hemoglobin that delivers oxygen to the cells. Crabs have copper-based blood. It’s blue.” With a shiver of pleasure I realize that this seemingly innocuous factoid alludes to all three of the book’s chief subjects: copper, water and blood. Like many fine recent nonfiction publications, Opportunity, Montana is a determined hybrid: part history, part narrative, part treatise, part balanced reportage. But the book does not waffle as it wanders. It hones in on the well-documented Milltown Dam cleanup, the history of atrocities surrounding the drainage-long pile-up of toxic sediments, and the irony of that phrase “cleanup” (i.e. If John Doe’s dog takes a huge dump in his backyard, then moves said dump to his neighbor’s backyard, can one aptly use the phrase “cleanup” to describe said process?). In the case of Opportunity, John Doe is the Atlantic Richfield Company, aka ARCO (and its predecessors and underlings). The “neighbor’s backyard” is Opportunity, the tiny upper Clark Fork community that bore the brunt of Anaconda’s fall-out (ask the horses whose mouths decayed from eating arsenic tainted grass), and to which Milltown’s toxic sediments—five parts copper, two parts lead, one part beryllium, etc.—were rail-shipped and “housed.” The facts surrounding this debacle are well documented, but it is also well documented that facts often fail to tell the story. Thankfully, one of Tyer’s particular talents is his ability to give allegorical life to statistics, to enact them. One example refers to how water contaminated with 50 parts per billion arsenic increases cancer risk by 1 percent: “One percent isn’t a sexy number. The average Facebook user has 245 friends. Only 2.45 of those would die.” Tyer, the former editor of the Independent and current managing editor at The Texas Observer, is also a master of the literary quickdraw. He slings zingers like, “A dam-plugged reservoir is a liquid scab,” his pen-turned-six-shooter well polished, perhaps, from years of editorially honing interns’ leads. Every good story needs a villain, and it could be argued that this book’s villains are a triumvirate of Copper Kings: William Clark, William Daly and Dennis Washington. Quite convincingly, the book illustrates how, over a century and a half, the big guns’ profiteering has become increasingly subtle and political. Washington, for example, owns liability from upper Clark Fork mines, but he also owns Envirocon (which was paid to clean up Miltown) and Montana Rail Link (which was paid to transport the toxic train loads up the valley to Opportunity). The reader groans. But Tyer doesn’t let the reader off so easily. He asks, Who is truly to blame for the fiasco

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in Opportunity? True, big business’ dog took the dump, but ARCO has done nothing but hemorrhage money toward reclamation since the Environmental Protection Agency levied its judgment. Politicians, on the other hand, helped procure $5 million of the congressionally appropriated Superfund redevelopment money, then initially proceeded to divvy it as follows: $4.8 million to Missoula, and a measly $200,000 for Opportunity. Now the reader squirms. And that’s what Tyer is so good at—exposing injustice while refusing, as a lesser writer would, to shirk all blame. How about that copper wiring in the phones we’re holding? Whoever we are, he seems to say, if we live outside of Opportunity, at least a trace of blood is on our hands. Missoulians may bristle at Tyer’s loving but prickly portrayal of their town. Sound rhetorician that he is, Tyer establishes ethos by poking fun at a place he clearly relishes but refuses to take as seriously as it often takes itself. And, lest these same Missoulians start to think that I have been too easy on Opportunity, here are some of the book’s errata: The Clark Fork Coalition board member who recently purchased a ranch on the uppermost Clark Fork is not from Georgia but from Tennessee, and Montana’s brown trout are wild, but not native. Small inaccuracies, to be sure, but with a book this good the reviewer is largely charged with picking nits. “It pleases me, loving rivers,” wrote Ray Carver in a late poem, “loving them all the way back to their source.” Tyer doubtless does justice to the source of inspiration (the Clark Fork) but his treatment of his own biological source and source of agitation (his late father, Bobby Rae Tyer) is less thorough. Throughout the book, Tyer returns via scenes of memoir to his at-best strained relationship with “Bob,” who was at-best bemused by his son’s decision to become a journalist. Structurally, the relationship reads like a love story in an action film; it serves the purpose of deflection, but it’s revealed to us episodically and hard to invest in. Tyer asserts that his father would have deemed Opportunity’s story not worth the telling, and it seems, at least subconsciously, the book itself is Tyer’s attempt to prove his dad wrong. Toward the end of the book, however, the dynamic gains metaphoric depth as Tyer begins to hint at parallels to the debacle in Opportunity. “It’s an irreconcilable situation,” he writes about the Clark Fork, but we sense he could be alluding to his relationship with his father. It’s a portion of Opportunity—which establishes Tyer as one of our finest writers of rivers—I’ll reread with pleasure, because it warrants deeper immersion. As does the entire book. When a story about slag heaps and sluices can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, you know you’re holding rare ore. Brad Tyer reads from Opportunity, Montana for the Festival of the Book Fri., Oct. 11, at 1 PM at the Holiday Inn. Free. Go to humanitiesmontana.org for full schedule. arts@missoulanews.com

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Furr not Blitzen Trapper sheds its old sound The musicians of Blitzen Trapper must be tired of hearing about their 2008 songs “Furr” and “Black River Killer.” When you make two nearly flawless songs that speak perfectly to a Northwest sensibility—wintry forests of the wild—you’ve set the bar pretty high. In an interview with the Indy a few years ago, lead singer and songwriter Eric Earley was up front about the band’s fame. It wasn’t even the album Furr that hit it big—it was the title track alone that captured the hearts of listeners. In it a boy runs with the wolves, and though he is one day beckoned back to be human again—getting married, having kids—he still dreams of “running careless through the snow.” It is a heartbreaking work of art. The new album from this Portland-based band, VII, disappoints because after “Furr” there’s no going back to making merely “good” music. On top of that, this album ventures into different sounds in a scattershot way. On “Feel the Chill” and “Neck Tatts, Cadillacs” the sprinkling of hip-hop and electronica in the intros makes it seem like we’re in Beastie Boys territory, rather than

in the band’s usual raw, folk-country landscape. Far be it from me to expect the band to fit a genre, and I applaud any artist for trying something new, but Blitzen Trapper’s sound loses its authenticity when it’s gussied up with disco riffs, wanky guitars and cheesy 1970s prog. I don’t want to dwell on “Furr” anymore. I don’t. But on this record, good songwriting is buried under the cloud of too much trying. Peel it away, already. (Erika Fredrickson) Blitzen Trapper plays the Top Hat Sun., Oct. 13, along with the Hasslers. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9 PM. $18/$15 advance.

Idle Ranch Hands Dear Kenny Chesney fans: There is more to country music than fruity drinks, unearned emotion and beach blanket bingo. The Idle Ranch Hands understand this and with one irascible Facebook post this past summer they let the people know where the band stood in the country music pantheon: “Yes, we do have a dress code. Western suits. Bolo ties. Cowboy boots. The audience should know you are in the band just by looking at you. No shorts. I don’t care how hot it is. No tennis shoes. That’s what you play tennis in, not music. Absolutely no sandals. You can’t look like you just got out of the fuckin’ river. That’s all.”

Dressing the part is key, but you’ve gotta be able to back it up with your playing—think Liberace—and the Idle Ranch Hands’ musical pedigree suggests that playing ain’t a problem. Featuring Sam Nasset, Tim Martin and Duke Kirshenmann of Russ Nasset and the Revelators, as well as Gibson Hartwell, formerly of Tom Catmull and the Clerics, the band performs self-described “hard country,” the kind that weeps with sorrowful steel guitar, the kind that used to play in your grandpa’s shop before Nashville decided tasty waves and a cool buzz was just fine. (Jason McMackin) The Idle Ranch Hands play the Top Hat Fri., Oct. 11, at 9:30 PM with The Cold Hard Cash Show. $5.

The Bugs The absolute minimum number of people you need for a band is two. A one-man band is a novelty act. From this scientific principle we can conclude that a two-person band is the least adorned, therefore the most authentic, therefore the most punk. Portland’s The Bugs are extremely punk—possibly even punk rawk—and they sound it, for better and for worse. The better is that they have been playing since 1998, and they have the melodic verse-chorus-done song down to a two-minute science. Their music is pleasing and disaffected, like what Moldy Peaches might have made if they only had access to Queers records. The worse is that, after 15 years, the duo’s recordings still sound distant and

tinny, like what the Moldy Peaches might have made if they only had access to dictaphones. Fortunately, The Bugs are not really about recording. They’re about the shows, and the controlled chaos that only two people who have practiced relentlessly can unleash. Someday anthropologists will remember The Bugs and bands like them as a type of music, a subgenre of a form that neatly explains the principles of punk. Until that darkened age, we have the real thing, best enjoyed in person. (Dan Brooks) The Bugs play the Zootown Arts Community Center Wed., Oct. 16, at 8 PM with Mountain Shark and Oll Breds. $6.

Edo G If you’re hearing Edo G for the first time, his style is reminiscent of Method Man, for both his oratorical delivery and his penchant for trochaic endstops. If you’re hearing Edo G not for the first time, the comparison probably offends you. The Boston emcee has been rapping since the late 1980s, during which time he has released 10 studio albums and amassed what Wikipedia calls “a cult following in Boston and an international fanbase.” Hip-hop is old enough to have long-career cult artists now. Edo G appears as an emissary from the turn of the century, when rap was hard instead of

wealthy (2005) or wasted (present.) He’s like a wooly mammoth, suggesting a branch that the evolution of mainstream hip hop might have taken but didn’t. He is also a craftsman. “Hold U,” the single from his most recent Intelligence and Ignorance, wastes not a breath in its lyrical focus. You can hear the silences in the verses, which other rappers would fill in with vocal tics or hype man noises but Edo G wisely leaves empty. He remains intent on his themes, his lyrics, his four-line payoffs, as he has for almost 30 years. (Dan Brooks) Edo G performs at the Palace Thu., Oct. 17. Doors at 9 PM. $5.

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Space bound Bullock keeps Gravity grounded by Molly Laich

Featuring: Allison Russell of Po'Girl & JT from JT & The Clouds

FRIDAY OCTOBER 11, 2013

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Where’s the Tang?

People like to make fun of Sandra Bullock because she’s too perfect or cute. (Re-watch Demolition Man sometime. It debuted 20 years ago and she looks exactly the same. The girl is The Picture of Dorian Gray.) Yet in Gravity Bullock has never been more human. In the new film directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men, Contagion), Bullock stars as the rookie astronaut Ryan Stone. She and her fellow astronauts have been floating in space for a week doing technical repairs. It’s her first walk and she’s nauseous, but the mission will be over in an hour. What could go wrong between now and then? George Clooney plays Mike Kowalski, the veteran on his last mission. He shares provocative personal stories with Houston mission control over the crackling transmission in a competent and collected manner. The conversation remains light, yet no one’s forgotten what a delicate, inhospitable environment they’re in. It’s an important job and they carry it out with reverence. Then there’s the much anticipated accident, the one you know is coming, but already you’ve grown to like these people and wish somehow it could be prevented. None of us have been in outer space, but we know instinctively to fear it. Bullock becomes untethered and starts spinning into space. All you can hear on the soundtrack is the sound of her breathing inside her space helmet. She says, “I’m detached!” with a panicked professionalism, if that makes any sense. She’s thinking, “The worst possible thing that could happen to a person has just happened to me,” and we’re forced to experience it along with her. Listen in the theater for the people around you gasping for air—you’ll hear it. Much has been made of the film’s many technical achievements. The actors’ faces were digitally imposed into the suits, which sounds easy enough to do with CGI,

but apparently there’s an art to getting the light to bounce off their faces just so. I found myself carried by Bullock’s breath. Her oxygen is dangerously low and she’s scared. In one particular shot, the camera creeps in on her face slowly, until it circles around in one uninterrupted take and the perspective changes from observing to the observed. We become the astronaut looking out through her helmet into the dark. If you see the film in 3D, computer readings hang in the air in front of you. Usually 3D is a waste of money. It insults our imagination. Do we need every book to be a pop-up? At least here it’s working in service of the narrative, but strictly speaking, the story is enough and you don’t need it. If it seems like reviewers are belaboring the technical aspects of the film, it’s probably because we don’t want to give away the heart of the matter, which is the universal human experience of doing everything you can in the moment to live another day. This is the first mission for Bullock’s character, but she’s a trained NASA astronaut. Watching a smart, competent woman work her way through a series of technical and physical challenges is delightful in its own right. Early on, we learn she had a daughter who died in an accident. That small detail couldn’t be more crucial to her experience, because it makes the temptation of giving up the fight for life and going home just a little sweeter. It’s evident in the scaffolding that Cuaron has set out to make an enduring, classic film. Who knows how it will fare over time, but he’s at least succeeded in making one of the best movies of 2013. Gravity continues at the Carmike 12 and Village 6. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Yar, there be bloody pirates! Tom Hanks plays Captain Richard Phillips during the 2009 hijacking of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates. Also starring Barkhad Abdi and Barkhad Abdirahman. PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. INTO THE MIND Sherpas Cinema presents a dreamy, philosophical ski film that traverses mind-boggling slopes across the continents. Showing at the Roxy Theatre Thu., Oct. 10 at 7 and 9 PM. MACHETE KILLS Machete is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and he’s all outta bubblegum. Gun-toting ladies provide back-up, including Lady Gaga as La Chameleon. Starring Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega and Mel Gibson. Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Rated R. Village 6, Pharaohplex. SHEPARD & DARK Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark commemorate a lifetime of friendship, marking Academy Awards, complicated relationships and odd jobs along the way. Not rated. Showing at the Roxy Theater Oct. 11-13, at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. THE SPECTACULAR NOW A hard-partying high schooler reconsiders his “live in the now, man” attitude after meeting a cute, quirky nerd girl. Starring Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley and Kyle Chandler. Rated R. Wilma.

NOW PLAYING BLUE JASMINE Woody Allen brings us a tale of a narcissistic socialite, played by Cate Blanchett, who undergoes a nervous breakdown and transformation after her life hits rock bottom. Also starring Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Rated PG-13. Wilma. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 Watch out for shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons and snarling tacodiles when inventor Flint Lockwood finds out a machine he’s created is churning out mutant food-beasts. Voiced by Bill Hader, Anna Faris and Will Forte. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharoahplex, Entertainer. DON JON A young porn-addicted dude in New Jersey tries to find his own “happy ending,” and learns some unexpected lessons along the way. Starring

A pair of 38s, and a gun, too. Machete Kills opens Friday at the Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore. Rated R. Carmike 12.

of Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. Rated G. Village 6.

THE FAMILY Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star as a mafia couple that’s in France under the witness protection program, but not so great at staying on the DL. Sacre bleu! Also starring Dianna Agron. Rated R. Pharaohplex.

PARKLAND Parkland Hospital in Dallas sets the stage for the events of Nov. 22, 1963 after the assassination of JFK. Starring Zac Efron, Tom Welling and Billy Bob Thornton. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

GRAVITY A space shuttle accident leaves two astronauts untethered in space and struggling to survive in this intense Alfonso Cuarón-directed picture. Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney and Ed Harris. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat, Village 6. (See Film.) INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 The Lambert family must uncover what evil presence is terrorizing them and possibly inhabiting their kiddo. Starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Barbara Hershey. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. MONSTERS UNIVERSITY The prequel to 2001’s Monsters, Inc., visits Sulley and Mike during their college days. I bet they threw some beastly frat parties. Starring the voices

PRISONERS Families are torn and parents are driven to extreme deeds when two young girls go missing. Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. RUNNER RUNNER The stakes are high when Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake play pretty men in an ugly intrigue involving online poker games and shady offshore dealings. Also starring Gemma Arterton. Rated R. Carmike 12, Showboat. RUSH Fast cars, fast women and slick hairdos feature in Ron Howard’s drama based on the real-life rivalry between Formula One racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde. Rated R. Carmike 12.

WE’RE THE MILLERS A drug dealer asks oddballs to pretend to be his family to avoid suspicion while moving a large amount of weed over the U.S/Canada border. Dude, strippers look like normal women when they put pants on! Lolz! Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis and Emma Roberts. Rated R. Carmike 12. WINTER IN THE BLOOD This adaptation of a classic James Welch novel, shot in Montana, depicts a young Indian man’s search for identity and salvation. Starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse and Gary Farmer. Showing at the Roxy Theatre as part of the Festival of the Book Oct. 11-14 at 7 and 9 PM.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit missoulanews.com’s arts section 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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Mad for mayo by Ari LeVaux

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Americans eat more mayonnaise than any other condiment, according to Businessweek, which named three mayo brands in the top six selling condiments. The proliferation of niche mayo brands, and at least one gourmet mayo shop, suggest it could undergo a bacon-like renaissance. Clearly, we love our mayo, but do we know why? The other three condiments in Businessweek’s top six were ketchup, salsa and Miracle Whip, which is often conflated with mayonnaise. But Miracle Whip is thickened with starch, while mayonnaise achieves its coveted body via the process of emulsification. An emulsion occurs when two liquids that typically don’t mix are coerced into doing so, thanks to the presence of an emulsifier. In the case of mayonnaise, the emulsifier is lecithin, which is found in egg yolk, among other places. This emulsification is a key aspect of why mayo behaves the way it does, and can also be a source of confusion. Scott Jones, chef de cuisine at Boston’s No. 9 Park, loves mayo with a passion that renders him basically unable to comprehend that people exist who don’t like it. He blames lack of understanding about emulsification. “I have never understood why people don’t like mayonnaise, because in its essence it’s just a vinaigrette that has been stabilized with egg yolk,” Jones told me by phone. Mayonnaise should have a humble, complementary flavor that doesn’t steal the show, but is assertive enough to improve the food. And it needs that custard-like texture that will add body to food, instead of collapsing into Miracle Puddle. Beyond the process of emulsion at its core, according to Jones, mayo is essentially a distillation of French cuisine that you can dollop onto whatever’s on the table. “Mayonnaise, smeared on something, just makes it more delicious. All you’ve done is just add some fat and some vinegar, which is really everything that the French want on everything,” he says. “Mayonnaise is like the perfect balance of things. It’s just like a decent vinaigrette, you’ve got the texture from the fat, and the heaviness, and the lightness from the acidity. That’s what I want on everything.” By Jones’ standard, egg yolk shouldn’t be essential, as a vinaigrette could be stabilized with a different emulsifier. But when I told Jones that I prefer Vegenaise—a mayo-like product emulsified with soy lecithin and not egg yolk—it rocked him. “Oh no,” he moaned. He then launched into a story about the inferiority of Whole Foods mayo, as if assuming that I’m into Vegenaise because it’s healthier. True mayo lovers will rarely make concessions, in terms of mayo performance and flavor, for the sake of healthy or natural. My preference for Vegenaise may look like an exception to this pattern, but I’m not a vegan. I like egg-based mayo, even highly processed ones like Hellmann’s. But I simply prefer Vegenaise. It does what mayo is

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supposed to do, and looks, feels and tastes like mayo. And other than the soy lecithin, the other ingredients in Vegenaise are exactly what you would find in mayo. Gail Vance Civille is president of the consulting firm Sensory Spectrum, which specializes in “Linking Product Understanding and Consumer Understanding.” She says a key quality of mayo is “lubricity,” which she describes as, “moistness—a fatty moistness as opposed to a wet moistness—which makes it easier to eat. If you were to eat tuna fish out of a can, it would not be easy to eat because it’s so dry. When you add mayonnaise it adds a nice lubricity that makes it easier to chew and swallow.” When I told Civille that I’m a Vegenaise man, she responded with a simple, drawn-out “Oh-kaay.” The egg flavor in mayo, she told me, is important to her, but she was open to the possibility that another oil/acid emulsion could hold its own in the lubricity department. Chef Jones also acknowledged as much. “We had a vegan come in and order a salad that we have on the menu that has mayonnaise as a main component,” he says. “I felt bad giving her the salad without mayonnaise. So, we made some vegan mayonnaise on the fly, and we were impressed with how it came out.” His emulsifier: soy lecithin, the very emulsifier used in Vegenaise. “It does a good job,” he admitted. The vegan mayo, “came out tasting pretty good actually. I was impressed.” An emulsion is like a marriage, and the emulsifier is like the official. While this person, and what he or she stands for, is important, and must be chosen carefully, it is the bride and groom who will make or break the partnership. The success or failure of mayo depends less on how it came to be, than what it does. I maintain that eggs are not essential for producing these qualities. But since not everyone has a jar of soy lecithin in the kitchen, as Jones does, here’s an easy recipe for yolk-emulsified mayonnaise, made in the blender. It’s adapted from the L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook, by Angus Cameron. Put two eggs in a blender, with a teaspoon of Dijon mustard and 3/4 teaspoon salt, and blend for one minute. With the blender still going, add a cup of oil—olive, grapeseed, and sunflower oils are my favorites—very slowly, just a thin drizzle at first, and then faster as it starts to thicken. With the motor still running, add 2 tablespoons each of lemon juice and vinegar. Drizzle in more olive oil until it’s the right thickness, and adjust salt and vinegar to taste. Finally, stir in by hand whatever other seasonings you may desire, such as minced garlic. Store it in the fridge. (Note: As a precaution, rinse the outside of the eggs before you crack them. Since raw eggs can contain salmonella, people with depressed immune systems should avoid homemade mayo—as well as homemade eggnog, and sunny-side up eggs.)

[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway • 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice's wants to say THANK YOU. Thank you Missoula for buying Bernice's handmade breads for a third of a century - - 35 years! Bernice's will be stopping production of breads for retail sale beginning November 1st. Why? YOU. You Hipsters, Professors, Moms, Dads, Kids, Griz Fans...MISSOULIANS. We have been increasing our sweet treat production for the last 4 years and you want more. Bernice's has an awesome location in a 100 year-old historic building and we are not moving. We need more space to make Missoula just a little sweeter. Bernice's will still offer a full line of breakfast goodies, rich coffee, our infamous Parkerhouse Rolls and crazy cheap lunches. AND BERNICE'S WILL STILL BE BAKING DINNER ROLLS FOR THANKSGIVINGS TO COME! You'll just have to stop by the bakery to get 'em. Halloween is around the corner come in and check out Bernice's amazing line up for the Halloween holiday starting October 24th. xoxo bernice $-$$ 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. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 84. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns... THURSDAY is Trivia Night (7:30-10 pm). FRIDAY 10/11: Andrea Harsell 6-9 pm. SUNDAY: Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). TUESDAY 10/15: Tom Catmull 6-9 pm. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 41 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-

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11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $$-$$$ Dickey’s Barbecue Pit 143 W. Broadway Downtown Missoula • 203.1557 Taste why Dickey’s Barbecue is the world’s best barbecue since 1941! Try our 8 juicy hot pit smoked meats, like our southern pulled pork or our family recipe polish sausage. We even offer 11 home-style sides, like our creamy cole slaw and fried okra. Don’t forget we’re also your catering experts! Any event, any size – let Dickey’s do the cooking, and you can take the credit. Graduation parties, weddings, office functions, you name it! Dickey’s Barbecue is the perfect catering choice for groups of all sizes – from 10 to 10,000! Don’t forget-Kids Eat Free Sundays & everyone enjoys FREE ice cream every day! Dickey’s Barbecue. Seriously, Pit Smoked. Open 7 days a week. Offering a full liquor bar. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 10am-6pm Mon-Thurs/10am-7pm Fri+Sat. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ 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 selfserve 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. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$

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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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The Jack Saloon and Grill HAPPIEST HOUR Tears in beers: Earlier this year, the famed Lumberjack Saloon off Highway 12 between Lolo and Lolo Pass closed its doors suddenly and without explanation. Loyal drinkers lamented on Facebook, with one commenter writing, “There’s tears in my beer.” Others simply thanked the establishment for its years of service and bid a fond farewell—a farewell that, as of this weekend, many will be overjoyed to retract. The Jack is back: So much for the lyrics to Percy Mayfield’s old blues classic, “Hit the Road, Jack.” The Lumberjack, officially renamed the Jack Saloon and Grill, announced this week that it is once again pouring drinks— under new owners Stuart and Patty Larkin. Rumor first began circulating on social media, and The Blaze finally confirmed the reopening Wednesday. Juan Sandoval, general manager at the Jack, says the doors have actually been open for a month now, but the bar is still working on getting the word out. Bring on the party: The Jack hosted a grand (re-)opening last weekend featuring country music group Sho Down. But don’t worry if you missed the festivities. Live music will continue every Saturday night from here on, and in a true

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. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$

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return to style, those who have tossed back a few too many can rent a cabin for $60 to $80 a night. Sandoval says the Jack is also actively looking for “a good deal” on a bus, so the bar can resume regular shuttles to and from Missoula. Where to find it: If you don’t already know where to point your car, head west up Highway 12 out of Lolo and keep your eyes peeled for the sign on the right. The Jack is at 7000 Graves Creek Road. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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. $ 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 11:3012:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ 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. $$-$$$

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. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis’s Kitchen 531-5034 • sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods. Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis’s Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula “Best Pizza” Winner’s for 2008-2012. Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12”crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ 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. $-$$

Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$

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. $$

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.

Walking Moustache 206 W. Main St. • 549-3800 www.walkingmoustache.com Live music 10/12: John Floridis 7:3010:30 pm. Our aim is to offer excellent food with five star service. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Daily Specials + 2 am Special. Restaurant Hours: 24/6. Tues–Sun 6:00am–11:00pm. Closed Mondays. Winebar Hours: Tues–Sun 11:00am–11:00pm. Closed Mondays.

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-214-2659 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 whole-

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some ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches. We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$

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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Andrea Harsell is out to make sure you have a good time while she plays her bluegrass and rock tunes at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, from 6-8:30 PM. No cover. You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations are at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. Enter through the alley door. 7 PM. Learn more at missoulatimebank.org.

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Blue Skies Campaign hosts a meeting to plan a protest against coal trains and pollution at Kettlehouse’s Northside taproom, 313 N. First St. 7 PM. The award-winning irreverent musical Avenue Q is presented by the UM schools of Music and Theatre & Dance. These puppets are cute, but they ain’t kid friendly, remember. Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students. Tickets at the UMArts Box Office. Asian studies professor David Steinberg presents “Burma: Reforms and Opportunities for the Future in Southeast Asia,” at the Dell Brown Room in Turner Hall. 7:30 PM. RSVP to caitlin.sager@mso.umt.edu or call 243-2988.

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The shadow knows. The UM Dancers On Location perform a site-specific dance concert Sat., Oct. 12 and Sun., Oct. 13 at noon on the Mansfield Mall, between the UC and Mansfield Library. Check out umt.edu/theatredance.

THURSDAYOCT10 New Orlean’s swamp-tech puppeteering partiers Quintron and Miss Pussycat play the VFW, along with zZz and Missoula’s Shahs. 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. $8/$13 for ages 18-20. If H20 is your passion, Oct. 11 is the deadline to apply for a two-year volunteer spot on the Missoula Water Quality Advisory Council. Visit co.missoula.mt.us/waterquality or call 258-4890 to learn more about applying. The Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Ronald McDonald House, 3003 Fort Missoula Road. 1 PM. Call Cindy

Cone at 728-8283 or Ann Houston at 5438939 for more info. Free. October’s meeting features physical therapist Mary Thane presenting fall prevention techniques. UM students can safely engage in discussion on some heavy topics at Bridging Dialogues Across Cultures, a guided event that covers race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and ability. 4-6 PM, Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences Room 241. Held on Sept. 26, Oct. 10 and 24, Nov. 7 and 21 and Dec. 5.

nightlife Let’s talk about sex, baby, let’s talk about you and me at the reading of Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book, a compilation from several au-

thors. Editor Liza Bley, along with Missoula contributor Julia Milan, read and chat. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. 5 PM. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free. The Fellowship Club, hosted by Joseph Constantino, meets to discuss The Healing Code, by Alexander Loyd and Ben Johnson at Bitterroot Public Library, 6-7:30 PM. Pianoman and VFW bus aficionado Dave Manning performs tunes for y’all at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

The Whitefish Theatre Company presents a production of Noises Off, the classic play-within-a-play comedy about a bumbling cast. Performances are at the O’Shaughnessy Center Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19 at 7:30 PM, with matinees on Oct. 13 and Oct. 20 at 4 PM. $18/$16 for seniors/$8 for students. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up. Fight for your right to belt out tunes at the Dark Horse’s Combat Karaoke, hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free. If you wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy, head on over to the Dead Hipster Dance party to rub up against sexy beasts and carouse to hip tunes and underground tracks. 9 PM. Badlander. $1 well dranks til’ midnight, and remember, the last edition of Dead Hipster is on Halloween.

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Community Bank, Inc. welcomes

Jared Kuehn, Real Estate Lender

Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with Big Sky Pool Party in the Cabana starting at 5 PM, singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. Free to attend.

Jared was born and raised in Missoula, where he grew up working for his parents’ businesses. After graduating from the University of Montana, he relocated to Portland, Oregon. Jared has been in the mortgage industry for over five years. As a Real Estate Lender for Community Bank, he will specialize in all aspects of residential real estate lending.

Enjoy the chill vibes when Aaron Williams plays an acoustic set at Stage 112, along with Foster With Adam Cole. 9 PM. Free.

Please see Jared at our North Reserve branch located at 3010 American Way, for your real estate lending needs.

Colorado’s Drunken Hearts bring their whiskey-soaked good intentions to the Top Hat tonight, along with Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails. 10 PM. Free.

(406) 542-5254 jkuehn@commbank.net Community Bank, Inc. is locally owned and managed, with eight convenient locations in Lake and Missoula Counties.

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Howl at the moon when Wild Coyote Band plays the Sunrise Saloon, starting between 9 and 9:30 PM. No cover.

in their last days. To find out how to get involved, call 642-3010 and ask for Lois, or email lois@ aspenhospice.com. Brush up on your leadership skills with NCBI Missoula’s three-day Community Trainthe-Trainer seminar, with workshops on reducing group conflict, being inclusive and ending discrimination. Runs Fri., Oct. 11-Sun., Oct. 13, each day starting at 9 AM. $350, includes breakfast, lunch and snacks. Financial assistance is available, plus OPI Renewal Credits are available for educators. Email ben@ncbimissoula.org or call 5416891 to learn more.

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Slap on some Bonne Bell and paint the town red when Dead Hipster Dance Party hosts another installment of I Heart the 90s, a dance night with all your fav late20th century tunes. $3, with infamous $1 drink special from 9 PM to midnight.

Think less “spooky” and more “heartwarming” when the ZACC kicks off Día de Muertos festivities with its second annual Day of the Dead group art show, with a smorgasbord of local creative minds like Courtney Blazon, Adelaide Every, Theo Ellsworth, David Turley and many more. 235 N. First St. W. 5:30 PM. Show culminates with a Best Westerns set in the basement at 8:30 PM.

Aspen Hospice of Montana is seeking folks to volunteer with helping loved ones be comfortable

Come with me and stay awhile when Aran Buzzas plays countryfied tunes at Higherground Brewing in Hamilton from 6-8:30 PM.

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[calendar] Think about the erotic submission undertones in Western religions like you’ve never thought about ‘em before at the Order of the Red Antler Fashion Show, with artist/designers Julia LaTray, of Donkey Girl, and Matthew Hancock. LA Design, 337 E. Broadway. Models strut at 7 PM. $5 suggested donation. (See Spotlight.) Get jazzed for your evening when Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, from 6-8 PM. No cover. 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. Casey Neill and the Norway Rats bring a down ‘n dirty altfolk show to the Missoula Winery and Event Center, 5646 W. Harrier St., along with Birds of Chicago. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $10/$7 in advance. All ages. Watch as sultry ladies perform pieces inspired by their favorite geeky joys, from X-Files to Disney, at Cheeky Geeky Vaudeville Issue 2: Through the Looking Glass, which promises teasing, laughter and “all the feels!” Crystal Theatre. 7 PM. $12/$10 in advance at brownpapertickets.com. 18-plus. This evening marks the beginning of a compassion workshop studying The Way of the Bodhisattva Shedra Part III, with Namchak Khenpo. Sessions run 7-9 PM Friday and continue every day until Fri., Oct. 18 from 9 AM-noon and 25 PM. Ewam Buddhist Center, 180 S. Third St. $50 per day/$300 total suggested donation. Register by calling Devi at 240-4249 or emailing devizdziebko@gmail.com. The award-winning irreverent musical Avenue Q is presented by the UM schools of Music and Theatre & Dance. These puppets are cute, but they ain’t kid friendly, remember. Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students. Tickets at the UMArts Box Office. The Whitefish Theatre Company presents a production of Noises Off, the classic play-within-a-play comedy about a bumbling cast. Performances are at the O’Shaughnessy Center Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19 at 7:30 PM, with matinees on Oct. 13 and Oct. 20 at 4 PM. $18/$16 for seniors/$8 for students. Be a real globe-trotter at The Barn Movement Studio’s international folk dance classes led by Michael Sweet, where newcomers can explore the folk traditions from the Eastern Europe and Middle East. Partners not necessary. 2926 S. Third St. W. Classes meet on selected Fridays through December

from 7:30-9 PM. $3 donation, Wear comfortable sneakers; leave the street shoes at home. Call 5437060 to learn more. The Bigfork Community Players present Bus Stop, a romantic comedy by William Inge, about a nightclub singer and a ranch hand in Kansas. Performances at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinees on Oct. 13 and 20. $16/$11 for seniors/$6 for ages 12 and under. Munch on some Frosted CircleOs or General Gnash when Chereal plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., starting at 8 PM. No cover. Howl at the moon when Wild Coyote Band plays the Sunrise Saloon, starting between 9 and 9:30 PM. No cover. Let the good times roll when Muzikata plays sweet and spicy tunes at the Union Club, starting around 9 PM. No cover. John Adam Smith Band bring down a funky ball of tits from outer space to the Palace Lounge, starting at 9 PM. No cover. John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406-721-2416 or just show up. Make sure to hoist your Pabst Blue Ribbon™ when Corporate Defiance plays the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. No cover. You can wear any color, so long as it’s black when the Cold Hard Cash Show plays the Top Hat, long with Idle Ranch Hands. 10 PM. $5. (See Music.) Prepare for a wild ride when Baltimore’s Curse (featuring Jane Vincent, who Lab and BSMT denizens might remember from the art-noise project Abiku) plays the VFW, along with Monks on FIre and Adam Schulte. Tunes at 10:30 PM. $3.

SATURDAYOCT12 Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts 2013 is a self-guided tour of open studios, galleries and museums throughout the Seeley Swan and Blackfoot valleys. Maps available at Grizzly Claw and Blue River Station in Seeley Lake and online at www.alpineartisans.org. The Ombudsman Program at Missoula Aging Services seeks good eggs to serve as Friendly Visitors, who serve as impartial mediators and representatives for

personal care and nursing home residents. October is Residents’ Rights Month, and this year’s theme is “Speak Out Against Elder Abuse.” Learn more by calling 728-7682. UM’s Ultimate teams, BearFight and PillowFight, host the two-day Big Sky Gun Show tournament. Locales include Playfair Park, the Riverbowl and Washington-Grizzly Stadium, plus after parties at Free Cycles and the Elk’s Lodge. $250 for women’s teams/$350 for men’s. Learn more at bigskygunshow.com. You’ll get a real kick out of the Montana Open: Taekwondo Championships, a tournament for adults and children that includes sparring and poomsae at the Adams Center. 9 AM. Visit MontanaOpenTKD.com to learn more. Veg out with your carrot out during the Hamilton Farmers Market, where folks can purchase all

sorts of dee-lish local goodies from area farmers. Third and Bedford Streets. 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Start your engines, treasurehunters, it’s time for another round of the Semi-Annual World’s Largest Garage Sale, held in the UM Parking Garage from 9 AM-1:30 PM. If you’d like to sell stuff, it’s $25 to rent two parking spaces, and set-up is at 7:30 AM. No spandex required when Homeword hosts a Financial Fitness Class, where folks will learn about setting goals for savings, managing debt and other skills. 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste. 116A. 9 AM-6 PM. Free, with refreshments and childcare included. Register at homeword.org or call 532-4663, ext. 10. Author Mali Klein presents a workshop on cancer therapy with essiac, an eight-herb formula developed by Canadian nurse Rene

Caisse, hosted by the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Class is 9:30 AM-6 PM Saturday and 10 AM-noon on Sunday, includes discussions, lessons on harvesting herbs and group roundtables. $120, scholarships and work/trade discounts available. Call 883-0110 or visit renecaissetea.com to register and learn more. Let your imagination take flight during the Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts, a self-guided tour of studios and galleries in the SeeleySwan and Blackfoot valleys. Check out Grizzly Claw Trading Company in Seeley Lake, Mission Mountains Mercantile in Condon or alpineartisans.org for maps and info. Family, friends and folks afflicted by Alzheimer’s are invited to a support group hosted by the Missoula Senior Center. 705 S. Higgins Ave. 10 AM.

FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK THURSDAYOCT10 Reading is sexy and so is the annual Humanities Montana Festival of the Book, a three-day literary event with readings, poetry slams, film screenings, workshops and much more at venues including the Wilma, Roxy, Holiday Inn and Top Hat. The Holiday Inn Downtown hosts a bookstore and exhibits on Friday and Saturday. Check out humanitiesmontana.org/programs/fob. (See Books.) Get a real insider’s look at books when Audra Loyal, owner of the Vespiary Book Restoration and Bindery, gives a demonstration of book making from sewing to pressing. Buttercup Market and Cafe, 1221 Helen Ave. 4 PM. Beware of monkey paws when Tell Us Something presents another installment of its live storytelling event. This edition is themed “Be Careful What You Wish For.” Top Hat. 6 PM. Free. Email psst.tell.us.something@gmail.com or call 203-4683 to learn more. The one and only Sherman Alexie reads from a selection of his works at the Wilma. Lois Welch and Mayor John Engen also make the scene. 8 PM. Free.

FRIDAYOCT11 The Festival of the Book includes several readings and workshops throughout the day, with mystery, thriller, memoir and poetry authors at the Holiday Inn and Missoula Art Museum. 11 AM-5 PM. Check humanitiesmontana.org/programs/fob for full schedule. The Missoula Art Museum hosts the annual Readers and Writers Reception, where literary folk can enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beverages while mingling. 5:30 PM. $25/$15 for MAM members. The Roxy Theater screens literature-related films Winter in the Blood and Shepard and Dark at 7, 7:15, 9 and 9:15 PM. $5-$7, tickets available at the door. Bust out the berets, kids, it’s time for the Fifth Annual Poetry Slam in connection with the Festival of the Book. Competitors make their way through four rounds, plus international slam winner Buddy Wakefield makes an appearance. Top Hat. 7:30 PM. Free, all ages.

Claire Vaye Watkins reads at the Wilma Sat., Oct. 12 at 7:30 PM, as part of The Festival of the Book gala reading along with Richard Manning, Montana Poet Laureate Tami Haaland, Richard Manning and Jamie Ford. 7:30 PM. Free.

SATURDAYOCT12 Joan Bird, author of Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials, knows the truth is out there, and she’s going to share it as part of the Festival of the Book at the Holiday Inn at 9:30 AM. Free. Reading and workshops get rolling early today, with romance novel panel discussion, fairy tale theater and much more kicking off day three of the Festival of the Book. Locations include the Holiday Inn downtown, Missoula Art Museum and Missoula Public Library. 9:30 AM-5 PM. Check humanitiesmontana.org/programs/fob for full schedule. It’ll be real juicy at the James Lee Burke Luncheon, where MTPR’s William Marcus interviews Burke over lunch and y’all get to enjoy a three-course Cajun meal while they’re at it. Top Hat. Noon. $35, includes lunch, Burke book and $10 bookstore coupon. Go DIY when Audra Loyal hosts a Japanese Stab Binding workshop at the Missoula Art Museum, intended for ages 18-plus. 1-4 PM. $25. Participants come away with their own book after the class. The Roxy Theater screens literature-inspired films Winter in the Blood and Shepard and Dark at 7, 7:15, 9 and 9:15 PM. $5-$7, tickets available at the door.

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[calendar] Daly Mansion in Hamilton hosts the Children’s Autumn Party with crafts, activities and scarecrow contest in the garden. 11 AM-2 PM. Free. Call 363-60003, ex. 2, to learn more.

dance concert at noon on the Mansfield Mall, between the UC and Mansfield Library. Check out umt.edu/theatredance.

Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.

Get real hands-on with your liquor when Montgomery Distillery hosts a bottling party, where folks who come help out can earn themselves some fine spirits. 129 W. Front St. 1 PM. Spots are limited, so sign up in advance at montgomerydistillery.com.

If you spot some lithe people moving gracefully on campus today, it just might be the UM Dancers On Location event, where students perform a site-specific

Hey, Punkin, let’s go to the Garden City Harvest Fall Festival, with family-friendly pony ridin’, face paintin’, cider drinkin’, second annual farm stand with late-season

goodies for sale and more. The Zootown Arts Community Center peeps will be hosting and art activity, too. Costumes encouraged. PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive in the Rattlesnake. Free. It’ll be a real barn-burner during the 13th Annual Fall Gathering and Fundraiser at the Moon-Randolph Homestead, with all kinds of downhome fun like cider pressing, beer drinking, pig auction, tasty vittles and music by the Best Westerns. 2 PM. $10/$7 for students/$20 for families. All ages. Learn more and get directions at facebook.com/moonrandolphhomestead.

nightlife Gil and the Spills, the “wailinest bunch of sorry sons of guns this side of Mount Jumbo,” take your evening up a notch when they play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover. If your baby done left you, and your dog done run away, let MudSlide Charley cure your ills with his Delta-inspired blues at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays suspiciously good jazz for y’all at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7-9 PM. No cover.

It’s back y’all, so get to steppin’ at the Bitterroot Contra Dance which takes place at the Church of the Nazarene Gym, Victor (Fifth Ave and A Street). Leave the cologne and hairspray at home, hombres. Lessons at 6:30 PM, dance 7–9:30 PM. $5/$10 per family. Call 642-3601. The Coke’s in the icebox, popcorn’s on the table, and you and your baby can dance the night away at the Weekly Country Dances at the Hamilton Eagles Lodge, 125 N. Second St., with the Bitterroot Dancers and appearances from live bands like Northern Lights and the Revelators. $7.

WE WILL MAKE THE JOURNEY YOU WILL EXPERIENCE WORLD-CLASS ARTISTRY We will be closed October 19th ~ 21st to attend this incredible event, and look forward to seeing you back on October 22nd!

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[calendar] The award-winning irreverent musical Avenue Q is presented by the UM schools of Music and Theatre & Dance. These puppets are cute, but they ain’t kid friendly, remember. Montana Theatre. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 for seniors and students. Tickets at the UMArts Box Office. The Whitefish Theatre Company presents a production of Noises Off, the classic play-within-a-play

comedy about a bumbling cast. Performances are at the O’Shaughnessy Center Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19 at 7:30 PM, with matinees on Oct. 13 and Oct. 20 at 4 PM. $18/$16 for seniors/$8 for students. The Bigfork Community Players present Bus Stop, a romantic comedy by William Inge, about a nightclub singer and a ranch hand in Kansas. Performances at the Big-

fork Center for the Performing Arts Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinees on Oct. 13 and 20. $16/$11 for seniors/$6 for ages 12 and under. Party down as only writers can when the Wilma Theatre hosts a gala Festival of the Book reading with Montana Poet Laureate Tami Haaland, Richard Manning, Claire Vaye Watkins and Jamie Ford. 7:30 PM. Free.

everyday art There’s a great quote from Devil Wears Prada, when Stanley Tucci, as Nigel, is talking to Anne Hathaway’s forlorn character, who has trouble understanding why people care so much about fashion. “Don’t you know that you are working at the place that published some of the greatest artists of the century?” he asks her. “Halston, Lagerfeld, de la Renta. And what they did, what they created was greater than art because you live your life in it.” Clothing is an everyday, utilitarian item, something we need to live. But it’s also one of the most accessible means for anyone to explore aesthetic and visual statements. Fashion is art that we really do live in, regardless whether it’s a Target tank top or Valentino couture. Fashion can be found everywhere—even in Montana. The artists’ statement behind the upcoming The Order of the Red Antler Fashion Show is tantalizing. It promises “an exploration of non-secular fashion... WHAT: Order of the Red Antler Fashion Show WHERE: LA Designs, 337 E. Broadway WHEN: Fri., Oct. 11., at 7 PM HOW MUCH: $5 suggested donation with a dash of ‘Game of Thrones.’ The artists observe the clothing associated with Western religions—those that separate genders, cover up, button up, and restrain—and their strong undertones of erotic submission.” Oh my!

photo courtesy of Julia La Tray

The Order of the Red Antler is brought to you by Matthew “Matty Matt” Hancock, a professional dancer, model and clothing buyer, and the bubbly and spirited Julia La Tray, the designer and seamstress behind the Donkey Girl line. Donkey Girl’s bold pieces speak to a playful sensibility, with midi dresses, animal screenprints and abbreviated cocktail dresses in block colors. The label earned some national attention around 2010 when a Glamour style editor on a road trip found one of La Tray’s dresses at a street festival, special-ordered her own and wore it on “The Today Show.” It will be exciting to see how the Order of the Red Antler show cuts loose with high fashion and avant garde styling. We need clothes to live, but fashion’s highest, most artistic forms stimulate our imaginations and help us see the world differently, too. —Kate Whittle

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[calendar] Show them young’uns how it’s done when Marlene, Carla and co., as Basses Covered, play rock, doowop and jazz standards to dance your Saturday evening away to at the Missoula Senior Center. 705 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30-10 PM. Munch on some Frosted CircleOs or General Gnash when Chereal plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., starting at 8 PM. No cover. Feel the beat of the drum, move like you’re gonna be number one at the October Tango Night: Masquerade Edition at Downtown Dance Collective. All levels dance lesson at 8 PM, milonga from 9 PM to midnight. $10/$16 for couples. Visit ddcmontana.com or call 541-7240 for more info.

Get rad and skate on down to Monk’s tonight, where California-byway-of-Greenland pop punk band The Maxies have come to “eat your seals and make love to your men and women.” Plus The Beat and other esteemed guests yet to be announced. 8 PM. $5. 18-plus. Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are like Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, saving rec centers one beat at at time. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2. The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays. 7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM. Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground establish dancing terri-

tory this eve at the Union Club. 9 PM. No cover. The 406 Band plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. No cover. Cut the exile in guyville short and head to the Dark Horse Bar for rawk ‘n’ roll from She’s Not Dead. 9:30 PM to close. Polecat will say it, not spray it when they play bluegrass at the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. Free.

Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts 2013 is a self-guided tour of open studios, galleries and museums throughout the Seeley Swan and Blackfoot valleys. Maps available at Grizzly Claw and Blue River Station in Seeley Lake and online at www.alpineartisans.org.

Boise’s garage-soul outfit Sun Blood Stories plays the VFW, along with Missoula’s Magpies, The AllHail and Boys, starting at 10 PM. $3/$5 for ages 18-20. You might wanna call some Ghostbusters before heading out on a Ravalli County Museum Ghost Tour, where you’ll be taken on a spooky trip through the historic county courthouse in Hamilton. 10 PM-3 AM. Ages 14-plus; anyone under 17 must be accompanied by parent or guardian. All tour-takers must sign liability waver.

SUNDAYOCT13 Wildwood Brewing hosts its second annual Sustainability Fair, with exhibits, music, games and organic beer, bless ‘em. Wildwood Brewing, 4018 Hwy 93 in Stevensville. 2-5 PM. Free, all ages. Check out wildwoodbrewing.com. UM’s Ultimate teams, BearFight and PillowFight, host the two-day Big Sky Gun Show tournament. Locales include Playfair Park, the Riverbowl and Washington-Grizzly Stadium, plus after parties at Free Cycles and the Elk’s Lodge. $250 for

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with essiac, an eight-herb formula developed by Canadian nurse Rene Caisse, hosted by the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Class is 9:30 AM-6 PM Saturday and 10 AM-noon on Sunday, includes discussions, lessons on harvesting herbs and group roundtables. $120, scholarships and work/trade discounts available. Call 883-0110 or visit renecaissetea.com to register and learn more.

Commiserate or rejoice with fellow Cheeseheads when the Top Hat hosts a party to watch the Packers Vs. Ravens game. Bloody Mary bar and all kinds of cheesy, meaty Wisconsinite options on the menu. Game starts at 11 AM. Free, all ages. I want my mummy. The ZACC displays Theo Ellsworth’s “Exits and Entrances” Fri., Oct. 11 as part of the Second Friday Day of the Dead Group Show. 5:30 PM.

women’s teams/$350 for men’s. Learn more at bigskygunshow.com. Let your imagination take flight during the Alpine Artisans’ Tour of the Arts, a self-guided tour of studios and galleries in the SeeleySwan and Blackfoot valleys. Check out Grizzly Claw Trading Company in Seeley Lake, Mission Mountains Mercantile in Condon or alpineartisans.org for maps and info. Author Mali Klein presents a workshop on cancer therapy

If you spot some lithe people moving gracefully on campus today, it just might be the UM Dancers On Location event, where students perform a site-specific dance concert at noon on the Mansfield Mall, between the UC and Mansfield Library. Check out umt.edu/theatredance. If you’ve always wanted to run over art with a car, now’s your chance during the Day of the Dead DIY Steam Roller Prints. Carve a giant relief block and then print it by running over it with a motor vehicle of your choice! Hosted by the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. 1 PM. Free, donations appreciated.

[calendar] We’ll all be on a first-name basis when Rick and Phil play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 4-7 PM.

nightlife The 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. $5. Visit missoulawinery.com. If you’re up Condon way today, cut loose with “virtuosic chamber music and wild humor” from the Bottom Line Duo at the Swan Valley School off Highway 83. 7:30 PM. $14/$12 for seniors/free for ages 18 and under with adult. Visit alpineartisans.org or call 677-0717 for more info. Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free. Everyone’s fav Portlanders Bitzen Trapper are back in town to play the Top Hat, along with Missoula charmers The Hasslers. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$15 in advance, plus $5 surcharge for ages 18-plus. Tickets at Ear Candy, Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and ticketfly.com. (See Music.)

MONDAYOCT14 Find an Abe’s Cabe and let’s ankle to Monk’s for Jazz Mondays with the four-piece Basement Boys kicking things off at 7 PM and a vetted jazz jam starting at 9. $5 suggested donation. 21-plus.

tillery redistributes the wealth. (It ain’t called Wall Street Wednesday, amiright?) $1 from every drink sold is donated to a different non-profit each Monday. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

of Theatre and Dance Costume Closeout Sale, just in time for Halloween. Browse the offerings in the PARTV lobby from 11 AM-3 PM Tue. and Wed. Prices range from 50 cents to $20, cash only.

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Show how big your gray matter can get at Super Trivia Freakout. Win a bar tab, shots and other mystery prizes during the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 8:30 PM. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free.

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. Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in. Soothe your case of the Mondays when Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays the Red Bird Wine Bar from 710 PM. No cover. Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-229-0488 to get yourself a spot.

TUESDAYOCT15 Go Dutch with your date when Netherland rock band Kickin’ Bill plays the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave., from 9 PM to close. No cover. Internationally known banjo performer Sara Grey plays a house concert in the Rattlesnake neighborhood this eve. Call Nan at 544-3101 for deets.

Dr. Eric Kress discusses why he advocates for death with dignity at a City Club Missoula forum at the Doubletree Hotel Edgewater, 100 Madison St. 11:30 AM-1 PM. $5/$15 with lunch. Reserve a seat by calling 5412489 or pay at the door by check.

Chat about exceptional writing at the Marjorie Crawford Literature Seminars, a monthly series with Shawn Wathena. October’s book is Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. Bitterroot Public Library. 9:30-11:30 AM. Free.

Come on down for Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the dis-

Live the dream, guys and dolls, when you find neat-o stuff in the pile during the annual UM School

Patrick Marsolek presents a five-week Compassionate Communication class, where you’ll get “tools that will bring ease, clarity and personal integrity to every conversation,” like making connective requests, taking criticism and expressing our needs. Meets Tuesdays at the Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. 6:00–7:30 PM. $50/$90 for two. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com to learn more. Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages. The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board hosts a meeting at City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM. Visit co.missoula.mt.us/mccaps. Lo, the angels are calling to remind you that the holidays are just around the corner, and the Five Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines invite women to join in the four-part barbership harmony for performances at the Parade of Lights and Christmas concerts. Practice is at the First Baptist Church, corner of Woody and Pine streets, east entrance, Tuesdays from 7-8 PM. Call 543-8137 to learn more.

Are you caring for an aging parent or a loved one suffering from an illness? At the Learning Center at Red Willow, we offer: · Courses to teach you how to care for yourself while you care for others. · Courses for individuals, families, and professional caregivers. · Courses taught by world-class instructors. · Courses offered on convenient work-friendly schedules. · Drop-in courses.

Help others while helping yourself. Sliding fee scale available for those with financial need.

visit us online at www.redwillowlearning.org The Learning Center at Red Willow is a registered 501.c3 nonprofit organization.

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Looking Marvel-ous. Mizz Mayhem performs as part of Cheeky Geeky Vaudeville Issue 2: Through the Looking Glass, featuring sci-fi and fantasy-inspired pieces, at the Crystal Theatre Fri., Oct. 11. 7 PM. $12/$10 in advance at brownpapertickets.com. 18-plus.

the Bitterroot Public Library West Meeting room in Hamilton. Questions are chosen, terms discussed and thoughts given. 7–9 PM. Free. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: Domestic guru Martha Stewart claims to sleep how many hours a night? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) The winningest USian will get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials. Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM.

More events online: missoulanews.com Military history expert Andrew Roberts presents “Why Hitler Lost,” the annual Swanberg Lecture in Military History. (Ahem, I’ll take Russian winters for 500.) Dennison Theatre. 8 PM. Practice throwing your rock horns for when Blistered Earth plays a Metallica tribute set at the Dark Horse. 9 PM to close. Durango’s Alex Paul and the Firewall won’t let any bad times get through the barrier when they play Americana tunes at the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. No cover.

WEDNESDAYOCT16 The ZACC hosts a two-part shrine-building workshop in connection with the Missoula Festival of the Dead. Art therapist Kim Brown Campbell will talk about working through emotions with art. Folks can attend either workshop. Materials provided. Meets Oct. 16 at 6 PM and Oct. 19 at 1 PM. Free, donations appreciated. Email info@zootownarts.org to learn more. Live the dream, guys and dolls, when you find neat-o stuff in the pile during the annual UM School of Theatre and Dance Costume Closeout Sale, just in time for Halloween. Browse the offerings in the PARTV lobby from 11 AM-3 PM Tue. and Wed. Prices range from 50 cents to $20, cash only. Ty Ratana, with the Cambodia Rural Development Team, presents “Building Entrepreneurship Capacity in Poor and Urban Communities in Cambodia” as part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series at the UM Mansfield Center. 12:10 PM. Free. Bust out dem bones and party with paleontologists for the Fourth Annual National Fossil Day, with a lecture from Dave Trexler of the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center, followed by tours, movies, activities for grade-school kids and more. The University of Montana Paleontology Center at the Clapp Building on campus. 4 PM. Free.

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[calendar] The Jocko Valley Farmers Market offers treats, produce, tunes and more in The Hangin Art Gallery parking lot, 92555 Highway 93 in Arlee, from 4-7 PM. For more information or to become a vendor, call Kelley at 726-5550. The Indigenous Film Series screens 1989’s Where the Spirit Lives, about Canadian aboriginal children forced into assimilation, at the Payne Family Native American Center room 201. 4:30-6:30 PM. Free. Visit www.life.umt.edu/aiss to learn more about the series.

nightlife Mark your calendars for the bluegrassinspired picking circle at Tangled Tones, now every week on Wednesday. Bring anything from your violin to your accordion, as long as it’s got “strings or buttons that you don’t plug in.” All skill levels welcome, listeners too. 2005 South Ave. W. 6 PM. Free. Bitter Root Brewery invites y’all to come celebrate 15 years of tasty ale-making by raising the roof at an anniversary party, featuring live music by Tom Catmull. 6 PM. Free. Scholar Samir Bitar leads a discussion of epic Persian Sufi poem The Conference of the Birds as part of the Let’s Talk About it: Muslim Journeys series. Meets at the Missoula Public Library Large Meeting Room at 6 PM. Visit humanitiesmontana.org’s Programs section to learn more about the series. As the great Willie Nelson said, “It’s a herb!” And it really is, in this case, when Meadowsweet Herbs hosts an Herbal Extracts and Tinctures class, Percolations edition, with herbalist John Goicovich. 180 S. Third St. 6:30 PM. $20, plus $6 to bring home your own tincture. Prep for your “Judge Judy” appearance when UM hosts a Citizens’ Law School lecture series, which covers stuff like landlord/tenant regulations, family law, criminal prosecution and defense, estate planning and the very sexy Night With the Judges. Runs through Nov. 20, and meets at the School of Law, Room 215, on Wednesdays at 7 PM. $40 for the series. Register by calling 243-6169. The Fair Trade City Missoula Campaign invites folks to a screening of Delicious Peace, a documentary about a cooperative formed by Ugandan coffee farmers. Jhon Jairo Castro, an Afro-Columbian labor leader, will also speak about his experience as a longshoreman in one of the deadliest countries in the world for workers. Roxy Theater, 7 PM. $5. Portland’s esteemed rock entomologists The Bugs play the ZACC tonight, along with Oll Breds and Mountain Shark. 235 N. First St. 8 PM. $6, tickets available at Ear Candy and totalfest.org. All-ages, alcohol-free. San Diego funky-rock folks Brothers Gow play the Top Hat, starting at 8:30 PM. Free. Let me tell you something I learned the hard way: Meatloaf songs are not appropriate for karaoke. Now go forth to Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. Red Solo cup, I fill you up. Let’s have a party at Stage 112’s Solo Cup Wednesdays with live music. One American dollar, plus $3 cup fee, gets you a 32-ounce cup of beer or well drink. 9 PM. 21-plus.

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It must be humpday, ‘cause the Milkcrate Mechanic and co. are doing werk at the Palace for Milkcrate Wednesdays. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 Pabst pitchers and free pool. Commune with your inner party animal when Off in the Woods plays the Shred Fest Movie Premiere after-party at the Top Hat. 10 PM. Free. (Trivia answer: Four hours, with the light on.)

THURSDAYOCT17 John Schiever puts on the blue jeans and plays the brewglass music for y’all at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton, 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Cerebral middle school students are invited to the two-day health/science/ fitness/cooking camp, Brain Beat, where seventh and eighth grade students can do neat stuff like cook, build heart pump models and dissect sheep innards. It all goes down at Sentinel High School, starting Thu., Oct. 17 at 8:30 AM. Free. Email martha.robertson@umontana.edu to learn more. Antiblues goes against the grain when they play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., 6-8 PM.

nightlife Local musicians are banding together for a good cause at the Molly Huffman Fundraiser Show, with Kayla Hutchins, Wolf Redboy, Jenn Adams, Kristi Neumann and Andrea Harsell. All ages from 6 PM-9 PM, 21plus afterward. Free, donations encouraged. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Captain Wilson Conspiracy is playing Montgomery Distillery, do you? 6-8 PM. No cover. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up. If you wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy, head on over to the Dead Hipster Dance party to rub up against sexy beasts and carouse to hip tunes and underground tracks. 9 PM. Badlander. $1 well dranks til’ midnight, and remember, the last edition of Dead Hipster is on Halloween. Maxwell Hughes, who you might remember from such projects as The Lumineers, brings his guitar-pickin’ abilities to Stage 112, 112 Pattee St. at the Elk’s. 9 PM. $5. Hobnob with all the swingers when Western Union Band plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9 PM to close. No cover. Boston indie rapper legend Edo.G. plays the Palace tonight, along with Filth and Foul, on the Intelligence and Ignorance Tour. 9 PM. $5. But don’t you know who I think I am? Submit events by 5 PM on Friday to calendar@missoulanews.com to ensure publication in print and online. Include the who-what-whenwhere-why and a picture, if you would be so kind. Alternately, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit events online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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ltimate, the self-officiated team sport played with a flying disc, tends to attract an interesting brand of personality. For instance, the upcoming college Ultimate tournament in Missoula is called the Big Sky Gun Show. No firearms are involved, but the name means that people can ask, “Have you got your tickets to the gun show?” and thereupon show off their biceps to one another. Ultimate combines football’s game play and disc-throwing finesse. (The sport officially dropped the “Frisbee” part of the name since it’s a registered trademark.) I am only good at one aspect of Ultimate, and that is the part where one yells “ULTIMATE!” before the pull. Yelling is really a thing I can

get into. I can also get into partying, and besides the two days of competition for UM players and alums, the Big Sky Gun Show includes cookouts and afterparties. So: got your tickets to the Gun Show? —Kate Whittle UM's Ultimate teams, BearFight and PillowFight, host the two-day Big Sky Gun Show tournament. Locales include Playfair Park, the Riverbowl and Washington-Grizzly Stadium, plus after-parties at Free Cycles and the Elk's Lodge. Sat., Oct. 12 and Sun., Oct 12. $250 for women's teams/$350 for men's. Learn more at bigskygunshow.com.

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Get stoked for powder season when Sherpas Cinema presents Into the Mind, a ski film portraying epic feats on slopes in Alska, Bolivia, the Himalaya and more. Roxy Theatre, screenings at 7 PM and 9 PM. $10, tickets available at Gull Ski and Snowboard and Strongwater Mountain Surf Co.

The Goat Grind race, part of the South Hills Trail Series, is a 4-mile meatgrinder of a junket that features steep hills, creek crossing and single-track. If you survive the race, there’s an awards ceremony and pancake brunch afterward. You’ll find the starting line at the Elkhorn Endurance Retreat, 597 McClellan Creek Road, in Clancy, and more information at southhillstrailseries.blogspot.com.

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MONDAY OCTOBER 14

General antelope season kicks off today and runs through Nov. 10.

Hoo wants to hang out at the Five Valleys Audubon meeting? This edition includes a program about the ecology and conservation of ferruginous pygmy owls with researcher Aaron Flesch. Gallagher Business Building room L14, 7:30 PM.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 10

You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Do your finest lope at the 32nd Annual Le Grizz Ultramarathon, a 50-miler running alongside the Hungry Horse Reservoir. Check out cheetahherders.com/LeGrizz.html, which includes a handy button to the group’s email labeled “Go Ahead. Email Your Stupid Questions By Clicking Here!”

TUESDAY OCTOBER 15 Join bird enthusiasts on a trip with the Flathead Audubon to learn about Swan Valley native habitat restoration. The day includes short walks and opportunities to volunteer. Participants meet at 9 AM at Swan Hall on Highway 83. Call Kathy at 8373837 by Oct. 13 to sign up, as spaces are limited.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16

Be prepared for winter adventures when the Northern Rockies Avalanche Safety Workshop brings together scientists and backcountry enthusiasts at Grouse Mountain Lodge in Whitefish. 8 AM-4:30 PM. $25. Visit avalanchesafetyworkshop.com to learn more.

Score some gently loved equipment at the Used Outdoor Gear Sale in the University Center. Noon-5 PM. Bring stuff you wanna sell (UM Outdoor Program collects 15 percent of sales) between 7 and 11 AM, pick up unsold items between 5 and 7 PM.

Work up a sweat with fellow awesome broads at the annual Run Wild Missoula Diva Day 5K, hosted by Community Medical Center. Registered teams include the Butte-ful Divas and Forest Gumpettes. Costumes encouraged. 9:30 AM. Check out runwildmissoula.org.

It’ll be totally gnar, brah, when Edge of the World presents the Shred Fest Movie Premiere, with pro snowboard movies and a show from Off in the Woods to follow. Top Hat. $5. 8 PM.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 13

If you’ve got more of a black thumb, now’s your time to shine when the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden hosts a spooky centerpiece workshop. Seed heads, dried flowers, berries and branches will all go into the mix. 5:30 PM. $5. Email cmorris@montananaturalist.org or visit montananaturalist.org to learn more.

It’s like rock, paper, scissors, but without the paper or scissors! The Third Annual Butte Bouldering Bash competition is held on the Boulder Batholith formation, and includes a prize raffle, food, tunes and beers. Check out montanabouldering.com.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 17

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Here’s a fun, cheerful internet meme: “Life Hack: Die to Get Out of Your Student Loan Debt.” It’s so funny I almost forgot to laugh. It’s tougher now than it has been in decades for the average American to get ahead, as the cost of living goes up and paychecks don’t. It’s as important as ever to have your financial ducks in a row, and it’s often a topic you’ll have to research yourself. It would be nice if we had to learn the basics of finances as part of regular high school courses, like savings and loans terminology and interest rates. But until that happens, it’s up to us to figure out stuff like saving part of our income, paying off loans, avoiding debt, doing taxes and living within our means. Help is out there, though. Homeword, Missoula’s sustainable housing nonprofit, offers free Financial Fitness classes frequently; an upcoming one on Saturday includes lessons on saving, building credit, understanding taxes and budgeting. It’s a sweet deal. Refreshments and childcare vouchers are available, plus each household that com-

pletes the class gets a $20 gift card and entry into a computer raffle. It’s open to anybody, too, so you have no excuse to get financially literate. —Kate Whittle Homeword hosts a Financial Fitness Class Sat., Oct. 12, from 9 AM–6 PM. 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste. 116A. Free, with refreshments and childcare available. Register online through homeword.org’s Events and Classes section, or call 532-4663, ext. 10.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY OCTOBER 10 If H20 is your passion, Oct. 11 is the deadline to apply for a two-year volunteer spot on the Missoula Water Quality Advisory Council. Visit co.missoula.mt.us/waterquality or call 258-4890 to learn more about applying. UM students can safely engage in discussion on some heavy topics at Bridging Dialogues Across Cultures, a guided event that covers race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and ability. 4-6 PM, Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences Room 241. Held on Sept. 26, Oct. 10 and 24, Nov. 7 and 21 and Dec. 5. You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations are at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. Enter through the alley door. 7 PM. Learn more at missoulatimebank.org. Blue Skies Campaign hosts a meeting to plan a protest against coal trains and pollution at Kettlehouse’s Northside taproom, 313 N. First St. 7 PM.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 11 Aspen Hospice of Montana is seeking folks to volunteer with helping loved ones be comfortable in their last days. To find out how to get involved, call 642-3010 and ask for Lois, or email lois@aspenhospice.com. Brush up on your leadership skills with NCBI Missoula’s three-day Community Train-theTrainer seminar, with workshops on reducing group conflict, being inclusive and ending discrimination. Runs Fri., Oct. 11-Sun., Oct. 13, each day starting at 9 AM. $350, includes breakfast, lunch and snacks. Financial assistance is available, plus OPI Renewal Credits are available for educators. Email ben@ncbimissoula.org or call 541-6891 to learn more. This evening marks the beginning of a compassion workshop studying The Way of the Bodhisattva Shedra Part III, with Namchak Khenpo. Sessions run 7-9 PM Friday and continue every day until Fri., Oct. 18 from 9 AM-noon and 2-5 PM. Ewam Buddhist Center, 180 S. Third St. $50 per day/$300 total suggested donation. Register by calling Devi at 240-4249 or emailing devizdziebko@gmail.com.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 12 The Ombudsman Program at Missoula Aging Services seeks good eggs to serve as Friendly Visitors, who serve as impartial mediators and representatives for personal care and nursing home res-

idents. October is Residents’ Rights Month, and this year’s theme is “Speak Out Against Elder Abuse.” Learn more by calling 728-7682. Family, friends and folks afflicted by Alzheimer’s are invited to a support group hosted by the Missoula Senior Center. 705 S. Higgins Ave. 10 AM. Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.

MONDAY OCTOBER 14 Come on down for Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. (It ain’t called Wall Street Wednesday, amiright?) $1 from every drink sold is donated to a different non-profit each Monday. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. Now meeting at 6 PM.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 15 Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free. The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board hosts a meeting at City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM. Visit co.missoula.mt.us/mccaps. Military history expert Andrew Roberts presents “Why Hitler Lost,” the annual Swanberg Lecture in Military History. (Ahem, I’ll take Russian winters for 500.) Dennison Theatre. 8 PM.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 Ty Ratana, with the Cambodia Rural Development Team, presents “Building Entrepreneurship Capacity in Poor and Urban Communities in Cambodia” as part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series at the UM Mansfield Center. 12:10 PM. Free.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 17 Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door. 7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

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

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ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALLOW I've missed countless opportunities because I fail to speak up in the moment. A pretty girl smiles at me on the bus. Ten minutes later, I will wish I'd stayed on the bus and struck up a conversation. The same thing happens with business opportunities. At the critical moment I need to act, I go into a fog of some kind, weighing my options. Much later, I'll realize that gold was put in my lap, and I'll endure a lot of shame from not being present enough to recognize that. I'm all man when I have a girlfriend (which I don't now) and will do anything to make her feel secure. But because of my problem with seizing opportunity, I'm much lonelier than I need to be. I'm realizing that I'm an irretrievable mental defective. —Hopeless You've heard that 80 percent of success is just showing up? Well, the other 20 percent is not acting like you got glued to the toilet seat shortly afterward. You diagnose yourself: "I'm an irretrievable mental defective." Um, no—probably just a drama queen with risk aversion jets set a little high. Your freezing in the face of opportunity is probably due to an "approach-avoidance conflict," a type of inaction-producing psychological stress that occurs when an opportunity has both positive and negative aspects that make it simultaneously appealing and off-putting. For example, with the girl on the bus, there's a possible date versus a possible rejection. The closer (and more possible) the opportunity the larger the negative aspects loom. This leads to indecision and, in turn, inaction. When you have some distance (say, a few hours after you get off the pretty girl express bus), the positive aspects take center stage, and going for it seems the thing to do. Only then, this no longer takes a nervous "hello" across the bus aisle; you need one of those "missed connection" ads and $3,000 for a private detective. You need to practice opportunity-spotting and preplan what you'll do when it knocks so you won't respond like a bratty preteen girl: "Go away! Nobody's home. I hate you!" Recognizing opportunity takes knowing your goals. Articulate them, and then identify five opportunities a day and seize at least two of them. This requires simply taking action despite your indecision. Assuming you aren't weighing the opportunity to blow through a bunch of stop signs, what are the likely damages? Step back and do a little cost-benefit analysis. If, say, you'd talked to the girl on the bus, worst-case scenario,

she might've glared back at you, giving you an ouchie in the ego for what, 10 minutes? Doing nothing leaves you with lasting regret, shame, and self-loathing. Doing nothing repeatedly should help you get a headstart on becoming a bitter old man, thanks to all the years you've invested standing near the ladder of success yet never once having a woman in a bikini shinny down and hand you a mai tai.

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HEALTH Emergency Technician Providence is calling an Emergency Technician to St. Patrick Hospital. The Emergency Department Tech is a service-oriented individual providing a variety of nursing related and patient care services for emergency room patients. This is a .6 FTE day shift, 24 hours per week. Missoula Job Service 728-7060. Job# 9648196

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In accordance with your current astrological omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week—specifically, like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J. Berrill: "To be a bird is to be more intensely alive than any other living creature. Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions. They live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy." Take total advantage of the soaring grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide, love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to hundreds of beautiful things, and do everything.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired," wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book Report to Greco. I'm hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will feel a jolt of melancholy. I'm hoping you will get a vision of an exciting experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make your dream come true.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself," wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. "I am now 62 years old, yet just one moment ago I realized that I love lightly toasted bread and loath bread when it is heavily toasted. For over 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread." Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-discovery like Wittgenstein's. It's time for you to become fully conscious of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains," said the naturalist John Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind's eye when you're lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of God that's meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for life in the here and now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The advice I'm about to dispense may have never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to express. Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will help you make the most out of the highly original impulses that are erupting and flowing through you right now. It will inspire you to generate a mess of fertile chaos that will lead to invigorating long-term innovations. Ready? The message comes from Do the Work, a book by Steven Pressfield: "Stay primitive. The creative act is primitive. Its principles are of birth and genesis."

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Two years ago a British man named Sean Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves, and tried to blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in the sense that he got rid of the wart. It was less than a total victory, though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that you not follow Murphy's lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways with a hurtful burden, but I'm sure you can do it without causing a lot of collateral damage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Grace has been trickling into your life lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting coincidences seems imminent. There's a good chance that an abundance of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you may have been harboring. For now at least, it's realistic to be optimistic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn innovator Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com from the ground up. He now owns The Washington Post, one of America's leading newspapers. It's safe to say he might have something to teach us about translating big dreams into practical realities. "We are stubborn on vision," he says about his team. "We are flexible in details." In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That's excellent advice for you, Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes you quit games too early, Aries. You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don't think that will be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than usual to the ongoing process. You're not going to bolt. That's a good thing. This process is worth your devotion. But I also believe that right now you may need to say no to a small part of it. You've got to be clear that there's something about it you don't like and want to change. If you fail to deal with this doubt now, you might suddenly quit and run away somewhere down the line. Be proactive now and you won't be rash later.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here's the horoscope I would like to be able to write for you by the first week of December: "Congratulations, Aquarius! Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you. Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life—as opposed to the life that other people think you should live."

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON STREET VACATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, passed Resolution Number 7821 at their regular meeting held on October 2, 2013. A resolution declaring it to be the intention of the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, to close and vacate all of the alley located in Block 9 of Sunnyside Addition, a subdivision on file and of record in Missoula County, Montana; all of the alley located in Block 18 lying westerly of the westerly right-of-way line of the present Bitterroot Branch, Montana Rail Link Railroad; that portion of Walnut Street lying westerly of Block 9 and located between Wyoming Street and Montana Street; that portion of Walnut Street, lying westerly of Block 18, and located between Wyoming Street and Dakota Street all located in Sunnyside Addition; and all of the alley located in Block 16 of Eddy Addition, a subdivision on file and of record in Missoula County, Montana (Section 21, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M.) The City Council will hear all matters pertaining to the proposed street vacation at its regular meeting on October 21, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine St. The full resolution is on file and open for inspection in the City Clerk’s Office from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday at City Hall, 435 Ryman, Second Floor. For more information, contact Jessica Miller, Development Services at 552-6347. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on October 21, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance to provide notice to The Carlyle Group that the City desires to purchase the water system owned by The Carlyle Group and operated by Mountain Water Company, and authorize the Mayor to enter Into negotiations to acquire such water system either by purchase or by eminent domain, and provide for other matters properly relating thereto. A copy of the ordinance is on file at the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Bruce Bender, Chief Administrative Officer at 552-60034. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk

CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Attention: All Missoula Residents ANALYSIS OF IMPEDIMENTS TO FAIR HOUSING CHOICE The City of Missoula will hold a Public Meeting on Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 2:00 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. in City Council Chambers at 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, Montana. This meeting is intended to inform Missoula residents about the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI), as well as provide an opportunity for all to participate in the AI planning process. Entitlement communities like Missoula are required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to complete an AI every five years. HUD defines an impediment to fair housing choice as any actions, omissions, or decisions that restrict, or have the effect of restricting, the availability of housing choices, based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. The State of Montana also protects the following classes: marital status, political ideas, creed, and age. In addition, the City of Missoula also protects the following classes: ancestry, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression. Persons living and working in Missoula are encouraged to attend and provide input. If you would like additional information, prefer to submit written comments, or if you would like to request special accommodations in order to participate fully in the meeting, please contact Melissa Gordon with the Department of Grants and Community Programs, 258-4980, mgordon@co.missoula.mt.us, or 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Persons using a TTY device may contact the Montana Relay Service at 711. CITY OF MISSOULA The Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board will hold a public hearing on proposed changes to the Missoula CityCounty Air Pollution Control Program on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 12:15 p.m. or soon thereafter. The Board meets in the second floor conference room at the Health Department at 301 West Alder in Missoula. The Air Board will consider proposed changes to Chapter 3 “Failure to Attain Standards”; Chapter 6 “Standards for Stationary Sources”; Chapter 8 “Fugitive Particulate”; and Chapter 15 “Penalties.” Some of the proposed rule changes include correct reference errors in Chapter 3; clarify the temporary permitting process for portable industrial sources in Chapter 6; clarify the sales parking lot paving rules in Chapter 8; and correct reference errors in

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G. Bristle, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: YOU THE RESPONDENT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the temporary judgments in this action and attend the upcoming Hearing on the Temporary Order of Protection and the Temporary Parenting Plan, set for November 7, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Temporary Order of Protection and the Temporary Parenting Plan. DATED this 30th day of September, 2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Nicole Borchers, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause No. DP-13-189 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JESSE ARCHIBALD HENDERSON a/k/a JESSE A. HENDERSON a/k/a ARCHIE HENDERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Debra Jean Glennon at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of September, 2013. /s/ Debra Jean Glennon, Personal Representative DATED this 23rd day of September, 2013. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Rochelle L. Loveland I declare under penalty and perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Debra Jean Glennon MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause No. DP-13-191 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NATHAN S. BIRD, a/k/a NATHAN SCOTT BIRD, a/k/a NATHAN BIRD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christina Lee Bird, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of September, 2013. /s/ Christina Lee Bird, Personal Representative DATED this 26th day of September, 2013. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Rochelle L. Loveland I declare under penalty and perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Christina Lee Bird

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-13-188 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES F. SANDFORD, a/k/a C.F. SANDFORD, a/k/a FRANK SANDFORD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed as Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James and Anita Jakob, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of September, 2013. /s/ Anita Jakob, Co-Personal Representative /s/ James Jakob, Co-Personal Representative DATED this 23rd day of September, 2013. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Rochelle L. Loveland We declare under penalty and perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Anita M. Jakob /s/ James N. Jakob MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-13-180 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF PETER S. ADDEO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Carolyn R. Addeo has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Carolyn R. Addeo, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of September, 2013. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 20th day of September, 2013 /s/ Carolyn R. Addeo, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-13-193 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LINDA G. BUXTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Charles Marlin Buxton, III, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT

59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 27th day of September, 2013. /s/ Charles Marlin Buxton, III, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Charles Marlin Buxton, III WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-13-196. Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND JEROME LEITHEISER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MARY LOUISE MANN, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of October, 2013. /s/ Mary Louise Mann, Personal Representative. SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /s/ Suzanne Geer, Attorneys for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-13-892 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION JOHN R. MECREDY, Plaintiff, v. CHESTER L. KRAGE, DIANE D. KRAGE, JOSEPH A. GUTHRIE, JR., CAROL W. GUTHRIE, ROGER THOMAS ALMER, BOBBE ROBBINS ALMER, SCOTT C. CHINN, BRETT HARDY, a/k/a BRETT F. HARDY, TAMMY SUE ASBURY, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in

judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: The West one-half of the Northwest one-quarter of the Southwest onequarter of Section 12, Township 15 North, Range 23 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Dated this 26th day of September, 2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Heather Olean, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-186 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES M. CLAWSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Diane M. Clawson, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of October, 2013. /s/ Diane M. Clawson, Personal Representative PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S ATTORNEY RONALD A BENDER, ESQ., WORDEN THANE P.C., PO BOX 4747, MISSOULA, MONTANA 59806 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-190 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY JANE BLAKELY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Shae Blakely Cole, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of September, 2013. /s/ Shae Blakely Cole, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Shae Blakely Cole WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County. Cause No. DV-13-1040, Dept. No. 3. Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Kelly Sedgwick-Read, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Kelly Sedgwick-Read to Kelly Lynn Sedgwick. The hearing will be on November 7, 2013 at 9:00am. The hearing will be

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PUBLIC NOTICES at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Dated: September 23, 2013, /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By; /s/ Andy Brunkhart, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA MONTANA Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps III Case No. DV-13-1054 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Anna Rose GordonNorby, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Anna Rose Gordon-Norby, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Anna Rose Gordon-Norby to Anna Rose McComb and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 5th day of November, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, in courtroom number 2S. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 25th day of September, 2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-13-20 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In Re the Matter of the Estate of MARK I. HALLGRIMSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kristin M. Hallgrimson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 207 Whitaker, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24th day of September, 2013. /s/ Meghann F. Paddock, Attorney for the Personal Representative MONTANA JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-13-154 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: HARRY C. COOK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Toni L. Mantei has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Toni L. Mantei, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at P. Mars Scott Law Offices, PO Box 5988, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 30th day of September, 2013. /s/ Ryan A. Phelan, Attorney for the Personal Representative NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE October 10, 2013 Edna V. Carney 1020 Burton St. Missoula, MT 59802-2114 Current Occupant 1020 Burton St. Missoula, MT 59802-2114 Edna V. Carney 1633 South 14th Street West Missoula, MT 59801 Edna V. Carney P.O. Box 3 Dutton, MT 59433 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula MT 59802 Pursuant to section 15-18212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: Please take notice that a property tax lien exists on the following described property in which you may have an interest due to tax delinquency. TAX ID #: 619607 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 40 FEET OF LOTS 8, 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 60 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. The property tax lien exists because property taxes were not paid on the property. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1, 2010. Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 16, 2010. The lien was subsequently assigned to DodgeHoldings, LLC, PO Box 17275, Missoula, MT 59808. By, law, you have a 36month redemption period, beginning on the date of the Treasurer’s tax sale, during which you may pay ALL delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and county costs to stop the issuance of a tax deed. The period will end for your property on July 11, 2013. If the taxes, penalties, interest and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer as required by law on or before December 9, 2013, the County Treasurer may then issue a tax deed to DodgeHoldings, LLC by order of the County Commissioners. The amount of delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and cost owing as of the date of this notice is as follows: Taxes: $6,852.20 Penalty: $137.04 Interest: $1,317.53 Cost: $340.92 TOTAL DUE: $8,647.69 For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed above must be paid by December 9, 2013 which is the date the redemption period expires. If all taxes, penalties, interest and cost are not paid to the County Treasurer on or before December 9, 2013, a tax deed will otherwise be issued on the following day, December 10, 2013. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer’s Office that is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurers 200 W Broadway Missoula MT 59802 (406) 2583271. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE AD-

DRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1) The address of the interested party is unknown. 2) The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3) The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 26, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 56 of Avalon Meadows, Phase 2 and 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Casey T. Weitz and Andreah M. Weitz, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 8, 2009 and recorded October 14, 2009 in Book 849, Page 114, under Document No. 200924866. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. 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 $1,147.86, beginning September 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 16, 2013 is $211,474.13 principal, interest at the rate of 5.000% now totaling $32,155.57, late charges in the amount of $172.17, escrow advances of $6,653.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,936.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.97 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 17, 2013 /s/ Shandale Gordon Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 17th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, 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/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Nationstar Vs. Weitz 41706.900 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to § 71-1-301, et. seq., of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a Trustee Sale to be held on the 7th day of November, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., at the west entrance to the Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, MT, the following described property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 of Block 13 of Certificate of Survey No. 5303, located in the SE1/4NW1/4 and the SW1/4NE1/4 of Section 21, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, P.M.M., in Missoula County, Montana. Jesse K. Mitchell, Grantor, conveyed the above described property, and improvements situated

thereon, if any, to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Eugene Hansen and Karen Hansen, who were designated as beneficiaries in an Assignment of Montana Trust Indenture dated June 7, 2007 and recorded under in Book No. 798 at Page No. 1404 of Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The obligations secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture are now in default and the required payments on the Promissory Note secured by the Trust Indenture have not been made as required. As of May 15, 2013, the sum of $104,775.94 was past due. The principal balance as of that date was the sum of $89,154.76, with interest accruing thereon at a rate of 6% per annum, with a daily interest accrual of $14.66 per day, and together with costs and attorney’s fees incurred. In addition, Grantor is in also default for failing to pay taxes before becoming delinquent. In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and note and elected to sell the interest of Jesse K. Mitchell. the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the afore described property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances,, or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed David J. Steele II, a licensed Montana attorney, as successor Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Trust Indenture and note obligation be reinstated by the tender to the successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. Trustee is unaware of any party in possession of claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATE this 10th day of June, 2013. /s/ David J. Steele II, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 10th day of June, 2013, by David J. Steele II. (SEAL) /s/ Katie M. Lilje, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My Commission Expires July 28, 2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/12/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200911526 BK 839 Pg 764, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ross Miller was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Golf Savings Bank, a Washington Stock Savings Bank was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot B56 of Canyon East Phase 5, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201311244 BK 914 Pg 410, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 9, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $166,664.63. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $160,797.33, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on December 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at

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www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.107055) 1002.255316File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/21/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200531141 Bk-764 Pg-1125, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mavis H Vaillancourt, an unmarried woman was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Insured Titles LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Truman Meadows, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201117646 Bk: 884 Pg: 673, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Capital One, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 26, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $199,122.88. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,882.87, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 6, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.16132) 1002.256045-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 4, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT11A OF SOUTHSIDE ADDITION TO BLOCK 11, LOTS 11A AND 12A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Abraham F Schulz and Lyudmila N Schulz, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 29, 2005 and recorded August 5, 2005 in Book 757, Page 989 as Document No. 200520109. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing LLC. 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 $1,018.43, beginning May 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 7, 2013 is $110,801.46 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $2,422.28, late charges in the amount of $109.44, suspense balance of $384.81, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.98 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 29, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 29th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Green Tree v Schulz 42072.052 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 4, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 5 OF LINDA VISTA 5TH SUPPLEMENT, PHASE 5, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jeffery L Borchers, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Surety Title, LLC- Mr. John Barker, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 2, 2006 and recorded August 7, 2006 in Book 780, Page 723, under Document No. 200619831. The beneficial interest is currently held by RMS Mortgage Asset Trust 2012-1. 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 $2,581.75, beginning December 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 13, 2013 is $365,492.97 principal, interest at the rate of 7.2500% now totaling $105,973.81, late charges in the amount of $5,503.39, escrow advances of $6,795.20, suspense balance of $-1,547.39 and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,839.80, plus accruing interest at the rate of $72.60 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 29, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 29th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 SLS vs. Borchers 41807.581 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 4, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: THE EAST ONE-HALF OF THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 1 IN BLOCK 74 OF SUPPLEMENTAL PLAT TO R.M. COBBAN ORCHARD HOMES, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AS FILED IN THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Denise M. Sherman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on February 15, 2006 and recorded on February 15, 2006 in Book 768, Page 1510 under Document No. 200603511. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. 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 $1,052.23, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 1, 2013 is $212,394.61 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% now totaling $17,301.29, late charges in the amount of $119.10, escrow advances of $9,035.41, and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,806.01, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.73 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 obliga-

tion 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 29, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 29th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Gmac vs. Sherman 41965.453 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 9, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF Missoula, STATE OF Montana, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: TRACT 4A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1088, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH: A RIGHT OF WAY FOR ROADWAY PURPOSES OVER THE ROADWAY SHOWN IN THE SAID CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY AND OVER THE EXISTING ROADWAY. Parcel ID: 2285853 Gary L. Cleveland, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 18, 2010 and Recorded March 26, 2010 in Book 857, Page 479 as Document No. 201005794. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $2,178.92, beginning August 1, 2012, 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 5, 2013 is $298,865.60 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25% now totaling $15,862.43, late charges in the amount of $938.41, escrow advances of $2,559.39, and other fees and expenses advanced of $115.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.99 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.

PUBLIC NOTICES THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 30, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of July, 2013, 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/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Citimortgage Vs. Cleveland 42011.897 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 9, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 14 OF MALONEY RANCH, PHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Dawn Wahl, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 23, 2007 and recorded April 27, 2007 in book 796, page 95, under document number 200710053. The beneficial interest is currently held by Fannie Mae (“Federal National Mortgage Association”). 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 $1,860.72, beginning November 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 2, 2013 is $382,230.08 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% now totaling $15,978.61, escrow advances of $4,111.86, suspense balance of $-1,419.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,365.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $52.36 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 o 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 30, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is sub-

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scribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Seterus Vs. Wahl 42008.283 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 12, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE NORTH 50 FEET OF LOTS 29, 30, 31 AND 32 IN BLOCK 63 OF DALY’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICAIL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Kenneth Wabaunsee and Jill Wabaunsee, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage Co. dba Accubanc Mortgage, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 5, 2001 and recorded November 9, 2001 in Book 670, Page 1776 as Document No 200128305. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association successor by merger to National City Mortgage Co. dba Accubanc Mortgage. 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 $665.46, beginning April 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 25, 2013 is $84,816.81 principal, interest at the rate of 6.750% now totaling $1,807.72, late charges in the amount of $99.81, escrow advances of $257.11, and other fees and expenses advanced of $95.10, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.69 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day 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 5, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 5th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 5-26-2015 Pnc Vs. Wabaunsee 41230.820 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 18, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot A52 of Canyon Creek Village, Phase 3 and 4, a platted subdivision

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in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. RANDALL E. SHIELDS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 19, 2007 and recorded July 23, 2007 in Book 802, Page 40 under Document No. 200718638. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $748.13, beginning October 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 27, 2013 is $134,344.23 principal, interest at the rate of 2.000% now totaling $2,206.58, late charges in the amount of $328.12, escrow advances of $1,911.04, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,593.98, plus accruing interest at the rate of $7.36 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any

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

lowing the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be post-

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POSTPONEMENT of the PUBLIC HEARINGS NEW PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULE: Missoula Consolidated Planning Board: November 5, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. Missoula City Council: November 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. 1. Rezoning Request – Amend Mill Site Special Zoning District Standards A request from Millsite Revitalization Project, LLC, represented by Nick Kaufman of WGM Group, Inc., to amend the standards of the Mill Site Special Zoning District. See Map A.

The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Monday, October 21, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: 141 Kensington Ave – Accessory Dwelling Unit Conditional Use Request from David and Rosalie Cates for a Conditional Use approval at 141 Kensington Avenue (see Map Z),

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 53, 87, 145, 172, 201, 216, 247, 289. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 10/21/2013 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 10/24/2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

Both public hearings will be held in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the City of Missoula Development Services office, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 552-6638. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 552-6638. Development Services will provide auxiliary aids and services.

zoned R5.4 (Residential, singledwelling). The applicant requests the Conditional Use approval in order to allow a detached accessory dwelling unit on the property. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and case file are available for public inspection at the Development Services office, 435 Ryman Street. Call 552-6630 for further assistance. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 552-6630. The Development Services office will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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PUBLIC NOTICES poned 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 11, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 11th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage Vs. Shields 42011.319 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 19, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana:

TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5396 LOCATED IN THE SE1/4 OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Robert S. Lafley and Christine R. Lafley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated on October 6, 2009 and recorded on October 13, 2009 in Book 849 Page 45 as Document No. 200924797. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. 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 $1,054.46, beginning September 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 1, 2013 is $178,335.68 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5% now totaling $9,808.44, escrow advances of $1,073.49, and other fees and expenses advanced of $183.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.87 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 16, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 16th day of July, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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 ac-

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knowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs. Lafley 42062.142 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: PETER McCAY, 801 N. ORANGE ST. UNIT 201, MISSOULA MONTANA 59802 PETER J. McCAY, 25615 VANDERBURG LANE, ARLEE, MT 59821 MICHAEL ELLIS, 412 W. ALDER ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 JOSEPH ESTON, 3203 CUMMINS WAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 THOMAS SAKAI, 1300 BRISTOL ST. N., STE. 210, NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 139 EAST MAIN LLC, 140 N. HIGGINS AVE., STE. 208, MISSOULA, MT 59802 139 EAST MAIN LLC, 412 WEST ALDER ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 139 EAST MAIN LLC, 422 W. ALDER ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 139 EAST MAIN LLC, 910 RONALD AVE., MISSOULA, MT 59802 139 EAST MAIN LLC, 139 EAST MAIN ST., MISSOULA, MT 59802 OCCUPANT, 139 EAST MAIN ST., MISSOULA, MT 59801 MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, 200 W. BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 Pursuant to section 15-18-21, Montana Tax Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the

real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: MISSOULA ORIGINAL TOWNSITE. S22,T13N,R19W, BLOCK 2, LOT 1-3. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31, 2010 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16, 2010. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16, 2010, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to G. Halley, whose address is PO Box 842, Milltown, MT 59851, and a tax deed will be issued to him unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including Penalties, Interest and Costs is: Tax $44,981.21 Penalty $899.65 Interest $9,919.28 Costs $452.60 Total $56,252.74 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest and

costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to G. Halley, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer, who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 (406-258-4847) Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 30th day of September, 2013. G. Halley

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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath $550 W/S/G paid, across from Public Library, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking. No pets, no smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, newer complex, open concept, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No pets, no smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 106 Camelot: 1 Bedroom, Onsite Laundry, Microwave, Heat & Cable paid, $625; GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP & $100 COSTCO GIFT CARD!! 121 Ridgeway: Lolo, 2 Bedroom, On-site coin-op laundry, Fenced yard, Parking, $495. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP & $100 COSTCO GIFT CARD!! 1213 Cleveland “B” 1 bed/1 bath, central location, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1324 S. 2nd St. W. “B”. 3 bed/2 bath, central location, shared

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

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11689 Stolen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $315,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

Grant Creek Frontage. 4 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan, fireplace, deck & 2 car garage. $655,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417365 milyardhomes@yahoo.com

1617 Ronald. 3 bed, 2 bath across from Bonner Park. Remodeled bungalow with basement, heated studio, 2 car garage. $375,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. Lovely Bavarian-style 3 bed, 2 bath in Lower Rattlesnake. Mount Jumbo views & 2 car garage. $309,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

LotB MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath to be built with fantastic views. $189,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1845 B West Central. 3 bed, 1.5 bath on quiet cul-de-sac. Large, open kitchen, patio & garage. No HOA dues! $155,000. Rochelle Glasgow,

2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues. Starting at $149,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

Lewis and Clark Area Home! 839 W Central. $220,000 MLS# 20136229. 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Double detached garage and many other sweet features. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos $144,900 - $249,900 Under new ownership! 1 and 2 bedrooms. Large units, nice finishes, secure entry, secure U/G parking, riverfront, affordable HOA dues and much more. Owner financing comparable to FHA terms available with as little as 3.5% down! Units, pricing and info available at www.mullanheights.com

1944 S. 8th W. 2 bed, 1 bath on two lots. Wood floors, garden & front deck. $158,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

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1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath Rattlesnake home with 2 kitchens & 3 garages. $339,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath North Missoula home. $160,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $239,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Big Flat home on 5.3 acres. $440,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on 5 acres in Target Range. Borders DNRC land. $499,900. Properties 2000. Pat McCormick 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Miller Creek home on 1 acre. $250,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 6614 MacArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing views. $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properites. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 6632 MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath with gas fireplace, Jacuzzi and wonderful views. $273,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503, riceteam@bigsky.net 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres overlooking Clark Fork River. Missoula Valley and Mission Mountain views. $395,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

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SELLER MOTIVATED! BRING OFFER! 13465 Crystal Creek $244,000 3 bed, 2 bath. Two wood stoves, large deck & bonus room for small shop. Near Turah fishing access

HOME & SMALL BUSINESS 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville $283,000 3 bed, 2 bath, Landscaped. Zoned commercial for small business. Shop is 48' by 30' w/three 10 x 9' doors

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12646 Conestoga, Lolo $565,000 • MLS# 20135424

1617 Ronald $375,000 3 bd. 2bth, remodeled kitchen, bonus rm in bsment. Heated 14x20 studio in back w/ loft. Garden area, w/fruit trees, and native plants. Dbl det garage. Across from Bonner Park.

Stensrud Building Downtown Missoula • $799,000 4 bed, 4 bath, 4400 sqft, Beyer Meadows. Beautifully landscaped, with views in all directions. Custom home, top of the line finishes throughout. Basement is a private sanctuary with large family room and service bar complete with stainless appliances and black granite counter. Full theater room! The back patio is massive, made of stamped and stained concrete. Completely new paint, both exterior and interior. New plush, deep carpeting on all levels.

Excellence in Historic Preservation Award Winner. Lovingly a n d c o m p l e t e l y renovated by Mark Kersting, this turn key building is perfect for the discerning history buff. The original flare and flavor of this 1890's building is alive and beautiful. Zoning designation offers many varied uses from residential to commercial, and many other uses in between. The back 900 sq ft area is ADA compliant.

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1001 S. Higgins Ave, Suite 2A, Missoula, MT 59801

REAL ESTATE Burns Street Commons 1400 Burns St. #15. $159,9000. 3 bedroom, 1 bath. Coveted 3 bedroom home in the Burns St. Commons, next to the Burns St. Bistro and the Missoula Community Co-op. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Florence Acres 944 Pathfinder. 330 gorgeous acres with 1 bed cabin and double garage. This little slice of perfection can be yours! Build your dream home here. $650,000 MLS# 20134863, 20134864 KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Condo With Views 1545 Cooley, Apt C. 2 bed, 1 bath Westside condo close to downtown, Burns Street Bistro & Missoula Community Co-op. $128,500 MLS# 20134747 KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

Frenchtown area, 14.9 Acres, existing well, adjacent to Forest Service land. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Uptown Flats #103. 1 bed, 1 bath with W/D, patio and handicap accessible features. $120,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. From $155,000. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, car port, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 53 acres overlooking Missoula in the South Hills. Utilities and septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Near Riverfront Park. 1265 Dakota #B. To-be-built, 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. Lot: $55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com NHN Frontage Road, Alberton. 2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com NHN Mormon Creek Road. 12 acres with Sapphire Mountain views. $150,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties.2000.com NHN Ryans Lane Tract B. 103+/treed acres with year-round creek near Evaro Hill. $517,250. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com

COMMERCIAL HISTORIC STENSRUD BUILDING. Renovated 1890’s building with 95% original hardware. Residential or commercial zoning. Lovely opportunity. $799,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-9270. glasgow@montana.com

OUT OF TOWN 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath zoned commercial with 48x30 shop. $283,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503, riceteam@bigsky.net 11082 Cherokee Lane, Lolo. 3 bed, 3 bath with finished basement, 2 car garage and amazing views. $232,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 13475 Crystal Creek, Clinton. 3 bed, 2 bath with large deck, 2 wood stoves & 2 car garage. $225,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 15305 Spring Hill, Frenchtown. 4 bed, 3 bath cedar-sided home bordering Forest Service. $430,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net

call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Florence area home on 12.6 irrigated acres. $500,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Corner Lot in East Missoula! 450 Speedway. 1 bed, 1 bath, garage with attached workspace. Mature trees, easy access to downtown and the UofM. MLS# 20135333 $139,500 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Potomac Log Cabin 1961 Blaine, Potomac. $195,000. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 8.77 acres.

Light-filled log cabin with an open floor plan with high ceilings and large windows. Hiking in the summer with a great little sled hill in the winter! KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes

& Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-7211444 or visit www.creative-finance.com Looking for a local mortgage lender? Call Lisa Holcomb, Loan Officer at Guild

Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Cell: 406370-8792 or Office: 258-7519

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Ronan, Montana 406 Main Street SE

$249,900 PRICED BELOW MARKET VALUE

Beautiful large family custom built home.

This home features 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, wrap around covered porch, triple car garage, large fenced yard with lots of trees. There is separate living quarters with its own bath and kitchenette. Judy Coulter, GRI • Wright Real Estate Co. • 406.249.4101

3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $130,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info

East Missoula Lot At 559 Speedway (Next Door) $55,000. 4,800 square feet. Mature trees, sewer available. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

missoulanews.com • October 10 – October 17, 2013 [C11]

The Uptown Flats 1 bed, energy efficient condo's Unit 103 • ADA • $120,000 Unit 208 • $150,000 Unit 306 • $162,000

2348 River Rd, Missoula 2 bed, 1 bath, 2.27 acres RT10 zoning, guest house MLS# 803924 $535,000

1545 Cooley #C, Missoula 2 bed, 1 bath condo, garage MLS#20134747 $128,500

994 Pathfinder, Florence 330.3 Acres MLS#20134864 $650,000

[C12] Missoula Independent • October 10 – October 17, 2013

450 Speedway, E. Missoula 1 bed, 1 bath, corner lot MLS#20135333 $139,500

2607 View Dr. 3 bed, 2 bath, RD eligible MLS#20135338 $239,500

1965 Raymond, Missoula 4 bedroom, Upper Rattlesnake MLS#20136117 $339,000

839 W Central, Missoula 2 bed, 2 bath, double garage MLS# 20136229 $220,000