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THERE WILL BE BLOOD: CLASS PREPARES TRAPPERS FOR STATE’S FIRST WOLF SEASON

MISSOULA'S ONLY HOSTEL CLOSES ITS DOORS

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GAS-POWERED BIKES CREATE A LOCAL BUZZ

THEATER

1,001 REASONS TO SEE UM'S ARABIAN NIGHTS

[2] Missoula Independent • October 11 – October 18, 2012

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News Voices/Letters In defense of graffiti ........................................................................................4 The Week in Review Rehberg, Tester square off in debate .......................................................6 Briefs Missoula's hostel closes its doors ....................................................................................6 Etc. All pets go to heaven .........................................................................................................7 Up Front Inside Montana's first wolf trapping classes ................................................................8 Up Front Gas-powered bikes create a buzz ...............................................................................9 Range Keystone XL still a questionable proposition .................................................................10 Feature Why pallid sturgeon are struggling to survive in Montana.............................................14

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[voices]

STREET TALK

In defense of graffiti

Asked Oct. 8 along the Clark Fork River Trail near the UM campus.

by Chad Harder

This week's feature story looks into pallid sturgeon, an endangered, prehistoric and giant fish living in eastern Montana rivers. What's the largest fish you've ever caught?

Follow up: What's the rarest creature you've ever come across?

Jon Harbaugh: You know, I've never fished. And no, I'm not a vegetarian.

G'day, mate: A kangaroo. Actually, it was a masturbating kangaroo. I was visiting a natural park while in Australia, and it was pretty funny because when he was finished he passed out, just like a man.

There's a video of it on YouTube.

Suzanne Reed: Probably a foot long.

Species? Oh, probably a rainbow trout.

Gulo gulo: A wolverine! I retired from the Forest Service in '94, but in '92 I was in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, taking sample plots on a nine-day pack-in when we saw a wolverine humping its way across this high plateau. He was curious about us, but we were on horses so he didn't come real close. It was delightful!

Dara Rouse: When I was in high school I caught a 7- or 8-pound Northern pike in Fort Peck Lake. We probably smoked it, that's what we did with most of the fish back then. Perspective: Huh, that's hard. I think maybe I haven't seen many rare animals, unless you count badgers and porcupines. They may be rare here but they're all over eastern Montana.

Jerry Gibson: The biggest fish I've caught would be a marlin, in Hawaii, off the coast of Kona. It wasn't huge as far as marlins go, but it was probably 80 pounds. Snake, rattle and hole: I live in Hawaii, so it might be a little different.

The rarest for me is a rattlesnake that I saw on a golf course in New Mexico. I was in the golf cart, and it was just lying in the sun.

Christina Noon: On a fly? Probably a trout that was 5 or 6 inches long. On a spin rod, I think I caught something bigger in Florida when I was a kid.

Two-fer: I've seen a couple—the albino fish at this Great Falls fish hatchery. I don't know what kind they were, but they were big. The other was a naked mole rat at the Toronto Zoo.

[4] Missoula Independent • October 11 – October 18, 2012

I take issue with Dan Brooks’ assertion that “a sophisticated society does not express itself through stickers, and spray-painting a bridge is a good way to feel important without actually helping anyone” (see “Eyes off the ball,” Oct. 4). I believe what he really means here is that an educated, white society doesn’t stoop to a means of creating art and awareness through their only viable form of free expression. Graffiti and unauthorized forms of public art have always existed as the best option, for many reasons, to people with limited access to expensive materials and space; this expression has served cathartically, and as an alternative to violent crime and other social ills. A sophisticated society does, in fact, express itself, and Todd Jordan allegedly created his sticker and stencil to the effect of his interpretation of living in a town beset by this sensational rape crisis. (Editor's note: Jordan pleaded not guilty.)

The infringement lawsuit blathering is great for feeding his fire to produce more, and for drawing more attention to his cause, whether or not he deliberately has one. Just because you aren’t sitting on some charity panel or ladling soup doesn’t mean you aren’t helping anyone. Awareness and education, and the sophistication of the human experience, nourishes the soul, no matter how crude or vulgar. Art has always helped anyone who cares to look, and that includes art as trivial as a “rape nation” stencil. It’s a creative response to the world we live in, and it has sparked debate and controversy, therefore it is art. The whole melodrama of the rape culture in Missoula lately has gotten ridiculous.

As as a student at the University of Montana, I feel insulted by the absurd videos and subjective quizzes we have to take to earn final grades. A climate of fear has been put in place that is unnecessarily alarmist and detracts from other issues we find as individuals to be more worthwhile. The whole sideshow has caused people to write articles shaming an American stenciland-sticker guy, who got sick of it all, and simply had the follow-through to complete this idea, and I applaud him.

Just because many believe this is a rape nation, it doesn’t mean there is anyone attending UM who doesn’t know the definition of rape, or that it’s wrong and illegal. This isn’t Borat. I don’t have any answers for how a university and a city deal with handling rape. I’m not a lawyer or administrator. But the ill-feeling most people seem to get from the stencil or sticker should make them ask themselves why, and get over their petty, defen-

sive and decidedly un-American attitudes toward this trademark thief. And the director of trademarks and licensing should consider suggesting a more imaginative logo.

Andrew Early Missoula

Vote Gillan Montana has one voice in the U.S. House and that voice must be effective and experienced and stand up on behalf of all Montanans.

“Art has always helped anyone who cares to look, and that includes art as trivial as a ‘rape nation’ stencil.”

I am running for Congress because I believe delivering results is more important than politics and partisanship.

I am running to be part of the solution, not the problem that has led Congress towards gridlock, uncertainty and a disappointing 11 percent approval rating.

My parents grew up during the Great Depression and taught me a critical lesson: Complaining or pointing fingers never solves anything. To make a difference one must work hard to fix what is wrong. This has guided me throughout my life, and I am proud of my record of problem solving—as a mother, as a small businesswoman, as a work-force training specialist, a citizen legislator, and with your support, as your next U.S. Congresswoman.

In Washington, we need to develop sustainable and balance budgets,

encourage private and public entities to work together, and I believe that by adding some Montana common sense to the U.S. House, I will deliver results.

In Congress, I will to use my practical and policy experience to focus on initiatives that we know will help create jobs—workforce training programs, infrastructure projects, cutting waste and fraud, and building a smarter, not bigger, government.

My goal is to make our tax system fairer for middle-class families and small businesses. How? Let’s close loopholes that give tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and encourage small businesses to hire more workers and grow like we have done in Montana.

I will work and strengthen Medicare and protect Social Security. Let’s ensure promises made to workers are kept and the next generation benefits from these programs that have worked so well for so many Montanans.

For these and other reasons, I do not support the lopsided Paul Ryan budget plan that puts the burden of balancing the federal budget on Montana’s seniors, students and women.

As I have always said, the best way to protect women’s health is to elect more women to Congress.

I support continuing Bush-era tax cuts for those earning less than $250,000, but let’s fix the estate tax so it does not unfairly hurt Montana farmers and ranchers.

I will be a strong voice for Montana sportsmen and sportswomen, and I will protect the Second Amendment rights for all Montanans—don’t believe false advertising to the contrary.

When it comes to the Keystone Pipeline, changes to the estate tax to benefit Montanans, and yes, even on the Second Amendment, I know my positions are not popular among all Democrats. But that doesn’t stop me from supporting these measures. I will stand up to either party if it’s what is best for Montana.

Kim Gillan Candidate for U.S. House Billings

A sales tax?!

How dare some Republicans suggest that a sales tax might be desirable for Montana. I thought that they always said that new taxes were something that could only be originated by Democrats. To those who are encroaching on the Democrats’ rights, I say back off unless your sales tax proposal includes exclusions for yachts and private jets.

Peter Daniels Polson

missoulanews.com • October 11 – October 18, 2012 [5]

[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Chad Harder

Wednesday, October 3 UM’s student newspaper, the Kaimin, becomes the news when Poynter Institute reports on the paper printing a controversial cartoon that likens a mandatory online class about sexual assault to being raped.

Poynter suggests it was inappropriate to publish the satirical artwork.

Thursday, October 4 U.S. Courts spokeswoman Karen Redmond announces that Billings U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, who in February circulated an email that included a joke about bestiality and President Obama’s mother, will semi-retire in March.

Friday, October 5 At a $250-per-person fundraiser in Billings for Rep. Denny Rehberg’s Senate campaign, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reportedly says, “Denny Rehberg is the real deal, and Jon Tester is a phony.�

Saturday, October 6 A flame-engulfed minivan closes the Reserve St. bridge, clogging traffic for miles.

Those inside the minivan pull over after noticing smoke streaming from the glove compartment, and before the entire vehicle erupts into flames. The column of thick black smoke is visible throughout the valley.

Sunday, October 7 Danny Lee Hartford, 53, is found dead in his cell at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Investigators suspect that Hartford, serving time on two counts of sexual assault, was murdered.

Monday, October 8 Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester and Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg face off in a knock-down, drag-out debate in Billings as both men try to claim a hotly contested U.S. Senate seat.

Tuesday, October 9 A 10-year-old girl walking to school near the intersection of Creek Crossing Rd. and Rattlesnake Dr. is offered a ride by an older man who she doesn’t know. The Missoula Police Department says the man is driving a green sedan.

With autumn in full swing, leaves on this Norway maple in downtown Missoula have changed from green to shades of yellow, orange and red.

Lodging

Hutchins Hostel closes These are some of the more memorable people Dave Loos, owner of Missoula’s Hutchins Hostel, has met over the past three years: A Barnum & Bailey Circus trombonist motorcycling across the country who practiced his trombone in the hostel. An Italian man who hopped a container ship across the Atlantic to continue his around-the-world motorcycle tour. A guy hitchhiking from the southern tip of South America to Alaska.

The Hutchins Hostel, Missoula’s only hostel, has put up hundreds of travelers since it opened in November 2009, but not enough for Loos to make it a viable business. On Monday, Oct. 8, Loos closed the doors of the East Broadway business.

Summers were great, says Loos, who also writes film reviews for the Independent. He says the overall occupancy rate for the hostel's two rooms of bunk beds was usually around 70 percent in July and August. But “the winter season just never materialized, unfortunately,� he says. “It’s not really a destination town in the winter, so that was disappointing.�

More than that, Loos found himself competing with websites like CouchSurfing.org and WarmShowers.org, both of which are basically free hospitality exchanges. “It speaks well of Missoula—that people offer up their places to people coming through,� Loos says. But the hostel, which charged $29 a night from May through October and $25 from November through April (with discounts for cyclists), couldn’t compete.

Loos says about 20 percent of his clients were international, from the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Germany and elsewhere. “They’re a lot of fun, and used to staying in hostels, and so I feel really terrible that they’re not going to have an option here.� Nor do they have many hostel options elsewhere in Montana. Loos believes only two remain, and both are near Glacier National Park.

When Hutchins opened, it had been 10 years since Missoula had a hostel. Loos hopes it won’t be another 10 before someone comes along and tries it again. “I think it can work if it’s a little larger, if they do it a little differently,� he says. “I think it’s a great resource for the city. It’d be nice to have one again.�

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Education

UM students lose aid Two weeks before the beginning of fall semester at the University of Montana, senior Travis Suzuki received notice that he was in danger of losing his financial aid. He panicked. “The safety net that you’ve relied on is being basically yanked out,� says the honors student, who’s earning a teaching certificate while double majoring in history and political science.

A minimum of 120 credits is required to earn a bachelor’s degree from UM. Double majors and certification programs add credits onto minimum graduation requirements.

This semester, UM implemented a 180-credit cap as part of an effort to bring the school into compliance with new Department of Education mandates and to encourage students to complete their degrees on time. “It is more strict in the sense that if you’re one credit over, there is no wiggle room,� says UM Financial Aid Director Kent McGowan.

Suzuki was among 980 students who learned in August that they were on track to incur more credit hours than the 180 allowed under the new policy.

[news] Like Suzuki, all were notified that they were at risk of losing federal and state financial aid.

Suzuki and the majority of students who received the notices will be able to keep their Pell Grants and Stafford Loans, if they hustle to complete their required coursework. “In the long run, 66 students were denied (financial aid),” McGowan says.

Those 66 students can apply for private loans, or transfer to another institution with a less stringent credit cap.

Suzuki argues the change penalizes overachievers like himself. But McGowan estimates 90 percent of those most at risk for losing financial aid are individuals who’ve repeatedly failed classes and withdrawn from them late in the semester. “Most of these students are students who were indecisive or had difficulty meeting the admission requirements for a specific major,” he says.

As for the August notice, McGowan acknowledges that students should have been given more time. But he says reconciling the policy changes with UM’s computer system took longer than anticipated.

UM aims to send out the next round of notices well in advance of the spring semester, so students can better plan ahead. “In the next week or two, more students are going to be getting this lovely notice and probably be cursing our name,” McGowan says.

Jessica Mayrer

Politics

War over money U.S. District Court Judge Charles Lovell last week struck down the campaign contribution limits that Montana officials have enforced in state elections since 1995, declaring them unconstitutional. The decision resulted in nearly a week of confusion for candidates and state officials. It looked as though the final month of the 2012 election would see a sudden influx of unlimited donations.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated those contribution limits late Tuesday, but uncertainty remains over whether the district court ruling will stand upon further review. Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock and Commissioner of Political Practices James Murry had promptly filed for a stay of Lovell’s Oct. 3 decision, stating that “some candidates have been campaigning for nearly two years; all candidates have relied upon the longstanding rules to develop campaign strategies and allocate resources.”

The immediate ramifications of the district court ruling were made clear last week as candidates such as Rep. Champ Edmunds, a Republican from Missoula, began calling potential donors to inform them that contribution lim-

its are now void. Lovell’s ruling opened the door, however briefly, for major campaign donations from outside groups such as the Democratic and Republican governors associations—entities that had previously directed the bulk of their money to independent advertising and state political parties instead.

How much spending occurred in the week before the Ninth Circuit’s intervention won’t be known until disclosure reports are filed later this year.

The groups fighting the contribution limits, including two Republican county committees, have continually argued that the limits unfairly hinder political free speech and competitive campaigning.

They’ve so far been spearheaded by American Tradition Partnership, a Colorado-based 501(c)(4) who’s financial backers remain a mystery save for coal giant Alpha Natural Resources.

ATP is also responsible for helping overturn Montana’s Corrupt Practices Law in the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, and has chipped away at campaign finance regulations in other states nationwide.

With the current Montana case now in appeals, the nonprofit will doubtlessly push harder to see the state’s contribution limits lifted. And given ATP’s resolve, state officials are now concerned with what legal battle it might stake out in Montana next.ight stake out in Montana next.

Alex Sakariassen

Flathead

Gun jobs fly south Flathead Valley hunter and inventor Larry Butler has spent the past 12 years designing the one-of-a-kind recoil-taming XX12 shotgun. His company, the Whitefish-based Butler Arms USA,

BY THE NUMBERS Grant awarded to the $250,000 University of Montana School of Journalism by the National Science Foundation this week. The grant is aimed at enhancing environmental science news affecting rural communities. officially rolled out the final product in January.

And now, that business is in the process of relocating to West Valley City, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.

The move “was really based on making sure that we’re going to be able to keep up with demand from a production standpoint,” says Scott Smith, Butler Arms’ vice president of marketing.

Butler Arms began considering a relocation to Utah in May, about six months after a group of Whitefish investors bought into Larry Butler’s shotgun design. The company started hiring administrative staff earlier this year, following the unveiling of the XX12. Butler Arms initially planned to have those employees relocate to Montana, Smith says, but “as demand was growing, they realized we probably needed a broader production base. So before everyone was overly committed and settled [in Whitefish], they opted for West Valley City.” Smith adds that production was minimal prior to the decision to relocate.

Butler Arms has so far relied primarily on a collection of separate machine shops to manufacture various components for its guns. Some of those manufacturers, such as Defiance Machine, are located in the Whitefish area. Smith says the Salt Lake City area—home to a long list of rifle and handgun manufacturers, as well as one of the nation’s largest archery companies—offered closer proximity to more resources.

Butler Arms’ corporate headquarters will remain in Whitefish. Butler Arms is also sponsoring a professional trap-shooting team that includes two Montanans, Ciaran O’Neill and Jason Lee. But as production of the XX12 ramps up on Oct. 20, the company will be taking the bulk of its employment out of state. Smith estimates Butler Arms currently has five employees in Montana and 17 in Utah.

“We expect to be at about 120 or 125 people sometime in the first quarter of 2013,” Smith says.

Most of those will be hired to Butler Arms’ new production facility in West Valley City.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. A spotted tortoise named Pumpkin crawls in the grass outside Holy Spirit Episcopal Church. A dainty Chihuahua-Pomeranian wearing a striped sweater mingles with other diminutive canines under a tall tree in the church's courtyard. A betta fish swims in a pasta sauce jar decorated with greenery, rocks and holes poked in the lid, making it the swankiest temporary tank on display outside the Sixth Street place of worship.

As you may have noticed, this is not the typical crowd at Holy Spirit. On Oct. 6, it was a bunch of pets—and their devoted owners, of course—who took to the pews for an annual blessing of the animals. The sacred day occurs in conjunction with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

Saint Francis had a reputation some 800 years ago as a radical who could put Greenpeace and PETA to shame. Some credit St. Francis with being among the earliest trailblazers of the modern-day environmental movement, as he believed nature was a mirror to God. He also believed all creatures have souls, and would preach to them as his “brothers” and “sisters.”

Barbara Munro, 65, came to the event with her 4-month-old cairn terrier named Rowan, who is training to be a service dog. “If they don’t go to heaven, I’m not going either,” she says.

Dewey Worth, 90, brought a stuffed animal. It looks like a bull with its horns pulled back, and has a yellow sticky note taped to its head that announces its name is Billy Duke. “He’s what you might call my inner child,” Worth says.

Amy McGovern is the one watching over Pumpkin, the tortoise. Pumpkin has a penchant for wandering off, so McGovern hopes the blessing will bring her pet “safety and longevity.”

Just then the tortoise makes a beeline for Sixth Street, prompting McGovern to retrieve her. “And people say they’re so slow,” she says.

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Wolf worries Classes preach caution during state's first trapping season

by Alex Sakariassen

Williamson doesn’t stop there. He Forest Service employee Josh Brans- 250 in 2005 to more than 650 last year. ford posted a photo online earlier this Hunting alone isn’t achieving the agency’s hammers every point he can. Check year that ended up going viral. The management objectives, Thompson says, traplines regularly. Don’t go showing off image showed Bransford kneeling in which makes trapping the next logical a dead wolf in the back of your pickup at front of a bloodied, shot-up gray wolf step. Trapping accounted for 124 of the the gas station. Don’t argue with people who disapprove of trapcaught in a leg-hold trap in ping. Ask nearby landownIdaho. Bransford grinned ers if they mind you setting proudly while his catch was traplines in the area, and still alive in the background. post signs cautioning dog The Missoula-based antiowners where your traps trapping group Footloose are positioned. John Montana discovered BransHughes, a Winnett rancher ford’s photo shortly after the and regional vice president Idaho trapper posted it. The group’s outrage quickly of the Montana Trappers spread to other environmenAssociation, briefly takes tal organizations and news the floor to echo agencies picked up the story, Williamson’s concerns. as well as the image. Brans“The eyes of the world ford made headlines as far are going to be on you away as the United Kingdom guys,” Hughes says. “There for what many agree was a are groups out there that highly unethical decision. support trapping, there are Now, Bransford has begroups out there that don’t. come a cautionary tale for All of them are going to be trappers in Montana. As watching us...And this about 50 people gather Oct. season is going to be a test7 at the Rocky Mountain Elk ing ground.”

Foundation for one of the None of the instrucstate’s new wolf-trapping certors sugarcoat the fact that, tification courses, Bransford’s ethical or not, wolf trapstory keeps coming up. Rick pers in Montana will feel Williamson, a veteran trapper some level of hatred from and former wolf specialist certain groups. One stuwith Idaho Fish and Game, dent at the front of the uses the now infamous photo class calls them “the other Photo by Alex Sakariassen as a cautionary tale in his side” when asking a quesbiggest lesson of the day: Veteran trapper and former Idaho Fish and Game wolf spe- tion. The goal of the ethics. It’s what he and Mon- cialist Rick Williamson teaches a class of Montana trappers course isn’t to win over how to properly bury a leg-hold trap. tana Fish, Wildlife and Parks those opposed to trapping, Region 2 director Mike Williamson says. It’s to Thompson talk about the most during the 379 wolves harvested in Idaho last year. avoid the negative encounters that frame But unethical behavior by a single trapper the non-trapping community’s view of six-hour class.

“You need to leave here as profession- gives the entire trapping community a bad the sport. Reducing the possibility of als,” Williamson says. “You need to have name, and could derail the state’s current catching non-target species—particularly management strategy. respect for these animals.” dogs—is vital, even if those situations Williamson and Thompson continu- can’t be avoided entirely. That’s why FWP is pushing the “respect” mantra hard this fall. Now that Montana is follow- ally fall back on the Bransford example. FWP is holding off on approving snare ing in Idaho’s footsteps and opening its The firestorm his photo sparked left the traps until their effectiveness can be betfirst wolf-trapping season on Dec. 15, trapping season in Idaho with a serious ter documented, Thompson adds. there will be increased attention and black eye. Avoiding similar incidents in For Williamson, the biggest question scrutiny over how things go. FWP is al- Montana is easy, as far as Williamson is isn’t what impact bad press during Monready noting a groundswell of interest: concerned. Dispatch the animal quickly. tana’s first wolf-trapping season will have the agency had to add more classes after Don’t stop to take photos. on the future of wolf trapping. He’s more “To me, there’s no bragging rights or afraid of how far the public’s reaction to initial demand spiked. By fall’s end, FWP will have offered trapping certification to honor in taking a picture of a wolf, or any one negative story might extend. animal, that’s caught in a trap,” says roughly 2,300 people.

“If we goof up on this wolf trapping Exposing that many potential trap- Williamson, who has spent the past three thing, will it stop at wolf trapping?” he asks pers to these ethics lessons is FWP’s best years trapping and collaring wolves for the class. “No.” Bungle this season, and shot at “quality control,” Thompson says. monitoring efforts in Idaho. “That’s a mo- trapping in general could be in jeopardy.

The minimum estimate of wolves in Mon- ment between you and that animal...Retana has steadily increased from about spect it by dispatching it quickly.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

[8] Missoula Independent • October 11 – October 18, 2012

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It’s Here, Missoula!

THE BIG READ

Power beyond pedals

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Motorized cruisers create a buzz around Missoula

Featuring

by Matthew Frank

Jim Tregarthen, a 66-year-old retired Hutchings and Foust. Tregarthen posted Post at the time, “What was happening grocer, recently spotted a motorized bicy- his Retro Cruiser last week, asking $425. was as they became more popular, the cle zipping around the Miller Creek area, His reason for selling it? “I want to build likelihood of them colliding with cars or where he lives. From afar, the bike resem- another few of them!” he wrote on bikes became greater. The need for inbled a Whizzer, the bicycle-styled motor- Craigslist. To that end, he recently found surance became more obvious. The last cycles that were popular in the 1940s and himself test-riding an $88 Huffy around thing you want is a crash with a Porsche and no insurance.” ’50s. While it wasn’t a Whizzer—just a WalMart’s aisles. modern bicycle with a basic motor attached—Tregarthen’s fond memories of Whizzers “clicked in my mind and I thought, ‘I could do that.’” He added building a motorized bike to his “bucket list.”

Now, inside Tregarthen’s garage, secured to a motorcycle lift formerly used for the Harley Davidson Road King Classic he’s since sold, stands Tregarthen’s own motorized bicycle he just finished building. It’s a Sun Retro Cruiser with a small two-stroke motor affixed to the frame, a two-liter gas tank on the top tube, a muffler, ignition and throttle.

But it’s still very much a bicycle, with pedals, fenders and a squeeze horn on Photo by Chad Harder the handlebars.

This 66cc hog, which Tre- Jim Tregarthen wanted to build motorized bicycles as part of his “bucket list,” and garthen built with a kit he now works on them in his garage. bought off eBay for about $150, has a range of up to 70 Tregarthen says motorized bikes are miles, he says. He got it up to 21 miles per Missoula Police Sgt. Travis Welsh hour once, though usually he cruises at easy to build; he would have finished his says the city hasn’t run into many probaround 16 mph. “It’s just fun to ride in one day if not for a complication. “You lems as motorized bicycles have become actually have to have a full complement of more popular here. “Considering the around,” he says.

Tregarthen isn’t the only one who’s tools and a little bit of a mechanical back- price of gas, it’s a pretty economical way discovered the appeal of gas-powered or ground, but I don’t think it’s beyond any- to get around,” he says. He just reminds electric bicycles. They’re seen more and body doing one,” he says. His “pie in the users to follow the same rules all bicymore on Missoula’s streets, providing a sky plan” is to “keep building them and clists have to follow. cheap, exertion-free way to get around sell them cheap.”

Sgt. Greg Amundsen adds this warnThough if he wants his bikes to be ing: “By city ordinance, even though town, and they typically don’t require a license. They’re conspicuous when a rider street-legal, he’ll need to keep them they’re a bicycle, you’re not allowed to passes you without pedaling, but espe- below 50cc, and incapable of reaching use them on the Riverfront Trail and park cially so for their noise. Chris Hutchings, speeds exceeding 30 mph. Those are the system trails...We’ve actually had issues another Missoulian who’s tinkered with thresholds below which, under city and with people riding them down on the motorized bicycles, says they sound like state law, a user of a motorized bike Riverfront trail system. Those things book; weed eaters. “You can hear them coming doesn’t need a driver’s license and reg- there’s a bunch of them that go 25 or 30 istration. The threshold is the same in mph, which is way too fast when you’re a mile away.”

“They’ve definitely increased in pop- several states, which is why many motor- mixed in with pedestrians.” ularity, that’s for sure,” says Hutchings, ized bike kits available on the internet inTregarthen’s not too worried who along with his partner Dave Foust clude 49cc motors. about heavy pedestrian traffic near his have built two motorized bikes and one Colorado treats motorized bikes a house in the Miller Creek area. Eventrike in the last couple of years. “Winter little stricter. In 2009, the legislature tually, after he gets more practice, he’s time might be a little rough, but it’s a vi- passed a law requiring all users of “low- going to build his “ultimate” motorable option.” power scooters”—all self-propelled ve- ized bicycle. That means better parts, Check Missoula’s Craigslist page and hicles under 50cc—to have a license, a better exhaust system and springing you’ll find a half-dozen motorized or elec- registration and liability insurance. As for a Schwinn frame. tric bicycles for sale, including Tre- Jerry Abboud, a lobbyist for the lowgarthen’s and a red cruiser built by power scooter industry, told the Denver mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Down the pipeline Keystone XL still a questionable proposition

by Allen Best

Besides repealing “Obamacare,” Mitt Romney has said he would issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day as president. That’s an interesting statement from a candidate who, when it comes to other issues, portrays himself as a standard-bearer for states’ rights. In this case, he seems to be saying that as soon as oil crosses an international border, local concerns go out the window. Of course, on other occasions— as when immigrants cross international borders—local concerns count for a whole lot more.

Keystone XL would originate in the Canadian province of Alberta, pumping the heavy, tar-like substance called bitumen, then picking up oil from the Bakken shale while slicing through Montana and South Dakota. It’s when the pipeline crosses into Nebraska that it runs into political trouble.

Protests were few when TransCanada, the pipeline company, laid the pipeline called Keystone I across Nebraska. But then, right after the route selection, came the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a giant spill of bitumen crude in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River and a ruptured pipe in the Yellowstone River. All raised questions about oil safety. The Kalamazoo spill particularly sharpened concerns over whether bitumen, because of its corrosive and acidic qualities, poses special hazards in pipeline transport.

Pipeline safety is a federal responsibility. Whether federal standards are up to snuff for bitumen is an open question, though. Congress has directed further study, a task delegated to the National Academy of Sciences, with a report due in 2013—probably an after-the-fact event if Romney gets elected.

Pipeline routing, by contrast, is normally a state responsibility. In this case, the U.S. State Department must approve the pipeline because it would cross the international border from Canada. Routing across the individual states is basi-

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cally a state and local matter. In Nebraska, routing is subject to environmental review, now under way in a partnership between the State Department and the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.

Last fall, Republicans in Congress put President Barack Obama on the spot by demanding a decision. Sidestepping, he denied the permit in January but invited TransCanada to apply with a new route. In April, TransCanada

“The suggestion that the bitumen will make the United States more energy independent also seems fanciful.” did just that. This new route gives a wider berth to the Sand Hills as they are defined by the Environmental Protection Agency. But it avoids neither sand nor high water tables.

In early May, while doing research for a story, I visited a ranch along the Niobrara River that would be crossed by this new proposed route of Keystone XL. It’s in the Midwest, east of the 100th meridian, but the setting has a wilder, more untamed feel to it. On the ranch of

Karl Connell, I dug into the ground and found it to be sandy and wet, like what you’d put in a bowl for a pet turtle. The water table was just a few feet below ground. In other words, at least a portion of this new route looks very much like the old route. Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman supports the pipeline, but Nebraskans remain divided.

John K. Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, one of the organizations fighting the pipeline, sees Romney’s support for quickly building the pipeline as rife with hypocrisy.

“Here is a guy who on one hand is railing against the excesses of the heavy-handed federal government,” he said. “Yet they don’t bat an eye when they’re getting ready to ram an international pipeline down the throats of landowners and the state, without any regard for siting authority or the use of eminent domain.”

The suggestion that the bitumen will make the United States more energy independent also seems fanciful. Some critics think it would end up as diesel and be exported to world markets. TransCanada’s promise of 20,000 jobs has also been questioned; at any rate, after construction is completed, just a few dozen lasting jobs will remain.

In Nebraska, the cattle ranchers I met took a long view. Many who have lived on the land for four generations say they want better assurances that hasty decisions won’t imperil their land and water. “If you don’t take care of your land, it won’t take care of you,” a rancher told me. “You don’t take care of your water, you don’t have anything.”

None of this, of course, can be boiled down into a 30-second campaign ad promising a quick fix.

Allen Best is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes about natural resource issues from the Denver area.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN A gunman tried to rob a bank in Decatur, Ga., only to be thwarted by a security guard, who shot the robber in the knee. DeKalb County police Lt. Pam Kunz said the suspect’s gun turned out to be a plastic toy. (Associated Press) When two men, one of them armed, accosted a man on the front porch of his Atlanta home and ordered him to open the door, the resident told them he had money in his pocket. The robber with the gun placed it on the ground so he could search the victim’s pocket, whereupon the victim grabbed the gun and shot the robber at least twice, including once in the head. The gunman and his accomplice fled. (Atlanta’s WSB-TV) Two men who kicked in the back door of a home in Marlboro County, S.C., were met by 89-year-old Ruby Hodge holding her .38-caliber pistol. “When they saw me standing in there with my pistol, they left and run,” she said, adding that she pressed the lifeline button hanging around her neck to summon sheriff’s deputies. After getting the license plate number of the getaway car from an eyewitness, deputies arrested Nelson Hawkins, 42, and Ronnie Stevenson, 31. (Florence’s WPDE-TV) Upon his release from jail, Richard Blome, 27, stole a golf cart and drove it 10 miles from Clayton, Mo., to his home in Lemay. He traveled primarily on side roads to avoid detection, then parked it on his front lawn.

Someone saw the cart with city of Clayton name on it and called Clayton police. “At that point, it had not been reported stolen,” Capt. Kevin Murphy said, pointing out, “Instead of just calling someone for a ride home, he ended up riding himself into a class C felony.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

SEX IS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT David and Mindi Rice, both 29, spent the evening at their home in Pasco County, Fla., injecting themselves with prescription drugs and having sex with a 24-year-old woman, according to sheriff’s deputies. They all fell asleep. When Mindi Rice awoke during the night, she found her husband having sex with their friend, but without her. She grabbed a loaded revolver, threatened to kill the woman and fired a round into the ceiling. David Rice grabbed the gun and threatened to kill his wife, firing a bullet that missed her head. Meanwhile, the younger woman called 911 and fled. When deputies arrived, the Rices refused to come outside, so a SWAT team was assembled. After a two-hour standoff, the couple came outside, but the husband fought with deputies who shocked him with a Taser and ran back inside.

Negotiators finally talked him into surrendering. In addition to filing multiple charges, deputies found that Mindi Rice was on probation for stealing a credit card in 2011 so she could use it to bail her husband out of jail. (Tampa Bay Times) HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS Even though Somali piracy is lessening, the pirates are becoming more businesslike in their approach. They now have packets of paperwork with their own letterhead. An example, written in memo form and stamped with a skull and crossbones logo, was addressed to the owner of one seized ship. It begins: “… welcome to Jamal’s Pirate Action Group (J.P.A.G.) and you have to follow by our law to return back your vessel and crew safely.” It sums up: “Do not imagine that we are making to you intimidation,” and concludes “Best regards,” followed by the signature of Jamal Faahiye, the General Commander of the Group. An expert in ransom negotiations said it makes sense for Jamal and his colleagues to appear well organized. “They want to get their money,” Derek S.T. Baldwin of IBIS International said. “If they present themselves and behave as someone who will live up to their commitment to give us the package in good condition, we are much more likely to go ahead and pay the ransom easily and efficiently. If they present themselves as a non-structured group of disorganized loons, they stand an awful better chance of having an extraction team show up on their front porch and shoot them.” (Reuters) GREEN DEATH A Scottish company has installed two of its flameless cremation machines in Florida and Minnesota, and eight more states have passed legislation allowing their use. The Resomation machines dissolve the deceased in an alkaline solution, which is heated under pressure, reducing the body to skeletal remains in the form of a white powder that can be given to the family. Resomation Ltd., a Glasgow-based subsidiary of Co-operative Funeralcare, claims the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy and allows for the complete separation of mercury-based dental amalgam for safe disposal. (BBC News) WAY TO GO Hoping to provoke a Bigfoot sighting by dressing up in a costume and standing alongside a highway outside Kalispell, Randy Lee Tenley, 44, died after a car hit him, knocking him into the middle of the road, where a second car ran over him. The drivers were two girls, ages 15 and 17.

Noting that Tenley’s costume was a military-style “Ghillie suit,” consisting of strips of camouflage fabric, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider observed, “He probably would not have been very easy to see at all.” (Associated Press)

WHERE THERE’S A WILL A worker in a wheelchair at a Rona big-box home and garden store in Barrie, Ontario, wanted to get to a training session on a non-wheelchair accessible second level, so he brought a portable ramp to work and enlisted the help of his colleagues. Kai Malmstrom used the ramp to wheel himself onto a skid. Workers strapped his wheelchair to the skid, and supervisor Gord Stirk used a forklift to lift Malmstrom high enough to reach the second level. After the training session, the process was reversed.

A worker who witnessed the incident complained to management, which disciplined several workers, and fired Stirk and assistant store manager Kerry Barton. Barton filed a wrongful dismissal suit, arguing he wasn’t present and did not consent to the incident. Ontario Superior Court Justice Peter Lauwers awarded him $59,000. (Canada’s National Post) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION A woman drove to the police station in La Crosse, Wis., and told an officer she wanted to drop off her husband because he was “talking stupidly” and swearing. The husband, Johnnie Bolds, 53, had two outstanding warrants and was arrested. (La Crosse Tribune) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.

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Photo by Aaron Delonay

“Chrrrrp, chrrrp”: Our headphones echo with the tinny peeps of a radio-tagged pallid sturgeon (Scaphyrincus albus). Dave Fuller, a Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries technician, maneuvers the jet boat up and down the Missouri River on a beautiful October day. The sapphire sky has yet to succumb to winter’s haze, and the cottonwoods and willows that line the bank are dressed in fall's finery, their branches sleeved in green and gold.

Soon we zero in: “CHRRRP.” “It’s a female,” says Pat Braaten, a U.S. Geological Survey research fish biologist, checking the transmitter. “Code 117.” He throws a buoyed net into the water, and we drift downstream until the buoys start dancing: We’ve got her.

“You can look into (a pallid’s) eyes and back into the future— or something,” Fuller says as the two men haul in one of North America’s largest and most endangered fish. Braaten smirks at this facetious attempt at eloquence, but Fuller’s sentiment is one often evoked by pallid researchers. Aaron Delonay, a USGS ecologist who works with the fish, calls them an “irreplaceable treasure from a time older than the Missouri River itself.”

Today’s Missouri River pallids are descended from fish that lived alongside dinosaurs more than 70 million years ago. They’ve weathered ice ages, volcanic explosions and a mass extinction event. Through it all, the fossil record indicates that, in form and function, they’ve hardly changed.

Lately, though, their remarkable evolutionary tenacity has been tested. Since dam-building and channelization began on the Mis-

souri in the early 1900s, roughly 80 percent of the fish’s habitat has been modified or destroyed. Scientists estimate that if they stopped stocking the river with hatchery fish tomorrow, the species could vanish from the Upper Missouri—the dam-locked stretches of river in Montana and the Dakotas—by the century’s end.

After freeing Code 117—a four-foot-long behemoth—from a dripping tangle of net, Braaten and Fuller slip her into a tank.

With the caution of a beast accustomed to life in the murky dimness, she lifts her spade-shaped snout from the water. She has the sickly hue of a corpse but her tiny eyes are the color of warm honey. Her under-slung mouth is fringed with fleshy whiskers, and bony scutes armor her from tip to tail. She is weird and wonderful, beautiful and bizarre.

Fuller pulls on rubber gloves and assembles his tools: scalpel, forceps, suturing thread. He makes a one-inch incision in 117’s lower abdomen and peeks inside, looking for signs of recent reproductive activity. If 117 hadn’t spawned, her ovaries would be filled with large, gray-black eggs, which she would eventually reabsorb. But her eggs are tiny and white: She’s spawned. He stitches her up; then, as if handling a priceless antique, he and Braaten lower 117 back into the river.

In recent years, Fuller and Braaten have biopsied a handful of wild pallids that, like 117, appear to be spawning successfully.

What’s troubling is what they haven’t found: wild offspring, in either the Upper Missouri or the lower reaches of a major tributary, the Yellowstone River. A hatchery and propagation program has bought the species time. But the ultimate goal—a population that can sustain itself in the wild—remains elusive.

“We are always hopeful,” says Braaten. “But I’ve been working on this stuff for 10, 11 years, and little sturgeon are just not found. Something is happening between reproduction and the rest of their lifespan.”

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Figuring out what that something is would help answer a more fundamental question for this and many western rivers: Can struggling fish be rescued without tearing down dams?

hhhh From the beginning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dramatic makeover of the river seemed the obvious culprit for the species’ decline. Pallid sturgeon evolved in warm, dynamic rivers that were free to jump their banks and ramble about the floodplain, muddying themselves with the dirt and clay churned up in the roil. Flows swelled every spring with snowmelt, peaked again with early summer rains, then dropped off in early fall. This ebb and flow added organic matter and nutrients to the river and redistributed sediment. For native fish, these changes—and their associated shifts in temperature and turbidity—triggered spawning migrations, and enhanced spawning conditions and nursery habitat.

Today’s “Big Muddy”—a nickname the Missouri shares with its cousin, the Mississippi—is not nearly as big or muddy as it once was. At the start of the 20th century, the Corps began wrestling the river into submission, hoping to create jobs, minimize flood risk and ensure a reliable thoroughfare for the barge industry.

Six dam and reservoir projects went up in the Upper Basin, and the river’s southern stretches were straightened and stabilized.

The dam system, which provides water for cities, irrigation, hydropower and recreation, was one of the 20th century’s great engineering achievements. But it wreaked ecological havoc, severely altering the river’s natural temperature and hydrologic patterns, which play key roles in the movement, growth and reproduction of native fish. It’s halted most annual floods, preventing the river from connecting to low-lying lands and reducing key nutrients, forage and habitat for young fish.

Photo courtesy of USGS

Though hard data are lacking (pallids weren’t recognized as a separate species from the smaller, darker shovelnose sturgeon until 1905), records suggest pallids may never have been common. Still, according to Braaten’s calculations, roughly 1,000 cruised the river between Fort Peck Dam, in eastern Montana, and North Dakota’s Garrison Dam when the latter was finished in the early ’50s. Fewer than 150 wild fish persist here today.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed pallid sturgeon as endangered in 1990 in response to declines throughout its range, which runs from Montana to the Louisiana Gulf—some 3,000 total river miles. It’s considered an indicator species for the Missouri; if it’s in trouble, other species probably are, too. Indeed, two native birds—the piping plover and least tern—are listed under the Endangered Species Act, due in part to the loss of winter and midstream nesting habitat. And roughly half of the river’s 106 native fish species are uncommon, rare or decreasing across all or part of their ranges.

In today’s Missouri, the pallid sturgeon’s biological quirks aren’t doing it any favors, either. Pallids are poky and particular about life and love. They grow slowly, live for decades, don’t reach sexual maturity until they are at least 10 years old and spawn only every few years. And if the spawning setup isn’t perfect—if the river is too cold, for instance—the females re-absorb their eggs and wait for conditions to improve.

In the upper river, the dam-locked run where we found Code 117 has been a top priority for recovery teams because it hosts the largest remaining cadre of “heritage” fish, the biggest (50-70 pound), oldest (40- 80-year-old) wild fish that hold the genetic key to their species’ long-term survival. Scientists believe the Upper Missouri adults are genetically distinct from their Lower Missouri and Mississippi River counterparts, where hybridization with shovelnose sturgeon is thought to be more common.

The first 10 years of pallid recovery here focused on preserving these genes and stocking the river with hatchery fish. “(Stocking) has certainly helped boost population numbers,” says George Jordan, who coordinates recovery for the Fish and Wildlife Service. “(But) if we stopped stocking now, pallids won't be any better off.” For pallids to make it, they must spawn and their babies must survive.

“We are always hopeful.

But I've been working on this stuff for 10, 11 years, and little sturgeon are just not found.”

—Pat Braaten, fish biologist

hhhh In 2000, the Corps tapped Dave Fuller and Pat Braaten to lead an experimental effort to help that agency comply with the Endangered Species Act and boost the species’ prospects in the upper river. Scientists have long suspected that channelization and bank stabilization on the Lower Missouri, and dams and reservoirs on the Upper Missouri, were responsible for the species’ decline. But the details—the exact whys and hows—were still uncertain.

Braaten had been working downstream in Missouri and

Kansas on another native fish study. He grew up fishing in Minnesota and by high school knew that he wanted to be a fisheries biologist. His mother remembers him cutting open his catches to see what the fish were eating. “Now, I get paid to do that,” he chuckles.

Fuller’s road to fisheries work was less direct. He started out in engineering, following in his father’s footsteps. But the idea of working with fish lingered, and in the early ’90s, he moved from New York to Bozeman, chasing dreams of blueribbon trout streams. “I told my folks the move was for school, but it was for fishing,” he confesses. After taking a year off to do Westslope cutthroat trout habitat work, he decided to switch careers and eventually ended up in Fort Peck, studying sturgeon, catfish, suckers and chubs.

The two biologists soon discovered they had much in common. “We hit it off really well,” Braaten says. Both in their early 40s, they dress alike—T-shirt, ball cap, jeans, boots—share a love for bird-hunting and the outdoors, and even speak in the same cadence, their voices equal parts dirt and drawl. But it’s their differences that make them a good team: “I’m more the thinker, the idea man,” says Braaten. Fuller is “extremely good at making things happen in the field.”

The Corps’ plan when the two teamed up at Fort Peck was to help restore key aspects of the river’s ecolog y that had been lost to dams, and see how the fish responded. The Fish and Wildlife Service, which drafts the biological opinion telling the Corps what recovery measures to implement, recognized that the fundamental aspect of all rivers is the seasonality of flow. If sturgeon did well before people altered things, then adjusting the dams’ releases to better mimic natural conditions would, in theory, enhance spawning and juvenile development for pallid sturgeon and other native fish species.

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Photo courtesy of Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game

The pallid sturgeon's remarkable evolutionary tenacity has been tested through ice ages, volcanic explosions, a mass extinction event and human capture, as evidenced by this historic Idaho Department of Fish and Game photo. But its biggest threat is a series of dams built along the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers.

Map courtesy of High Country News

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They suspected that water temperature might be limiting reproduction and the survival of hatchlings. At Fort Peck, the dam releases water from the reservoir’s chilly bottom, making the river much colder than it would be naturally. The Fort Peck Flow Modification Project, or “Flow Mod,” would address this with two test releases of warm surface water over the spillway in 2001 and 2002, followed by spills once every three years if reservoir levels allowed.

At the time, this sort of thinking was taking hold on dammed rivers worldwide. In the 1990s, says Brian Richter, a freshwater conservation expert with The Nature Conservancy, scientists learned a lot about how important natural fluctuations were in maintaining river systems and native species. In the last decade or so, this knowledge has begun to influence management, with numerous experiments under way to “renaturalize” rivers without removing dams. But there are plenty of obstacles: funding, politics, the limitations of existing infrastructure—and on the Missouri, nature itself.

As it turned out, Flow Mod was not so much born as stillborn. Low water levels in the reservoir behind the dam prevented the Corps from conducting test spills in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The region was suffering from severe drought, making it technically impossible to spill since the reservoir was 30 to 50 feet below the spillway.

The delays had a silver lining, though.

They allowed Braaten and Fuller to collect baseline data on the pallid population under normal dam operations, so that when the spills finally came, they would have something with which to compare the fish’s response.

They also began investigating the mystery of the pallids’ missing offspring. By sampling the stomachs of potential predators, they eliminated the possibility that ravenous fish, not dams, were to blame. This brought them to the most popular theory: that the distance newly hatched pallids, or “free embryos,” need to drift while they develop into larvae and gain the strength to swim, and forage exceeds the amount of free-flowing river between Fort Peck Dam and Lake Sakakawea—the vast reservoir that Garrison Dam created downstream. Scientists thought the drifting embryos might be reaching the reservoir’s slack water too early and getting gobbled by lake fish or sinking into the reservoir’s oxygen-poor bottom layers and suffocating.

In 2004, Braaten and Fuller released thousands of hatchery-reared embryos into a side channel near Culbertson, Mont. They followed them downstream and re-collected what they could at different time intervals.

The results were deflating. “It looked like even if we got pallids to move up the Missouri, there wouldn’t be enough drift distance to make a difference,” Braaten says.

This new information, however, renewed interest in modifying the Intake Diversion Dam 70 miles up the Yellowstone to allow fish passage, opening up more than 150 miles of new habitat to native fish. If sturgeon used the passage, the added

mileage might give embryos enough time to develop before hitting Lake Sakakawea.

In the meantime, Braaten and Fuller examined drift in the mainstem Missouri. In 2007, they released new findings: Immediately after hatching, pallid embryos drift for up to 14 days. Braaten’s models showed that the slowest embryos would travel between 159 and 230 miles before they developed.

But there are only about 211 miles of freeflowing river between Fort Peck and Lake Sakakawea. If spawning took place near or in the Milk, a turbid tributary that joins the Missouri 11 miles below Fort Peck, the slowest drifters might settle out of the current before hitting the reservoir. Most, however, would end up smack in the middle of it.

That same spring, Fuller discovered that two females he’d been tracking up and down the lower Yellowstone had spawned— the first documented instances of pallid spawning in the Upper Basin. It was a big step forward, one that allowed researchers to cross spawning off the “reasons-for-recruitment-failure” list.

Later that year, thanks in part to Fuller’s spawning discoveries on the Yellowstone, the pair’s disheartening drift results on the Missouri and the region’s relentless drought, which continued to preclude spills from Fort Peck, the Corps obtained the legal authority it needed to partner with the Bureau of Reclamation to work on Intake, which the Bureau operates. It was a cheaper solution—Intake could cost as much as 10 times less than potential Fort Peck modifications, which are estimated at $500 million—but one that included some controversy. Any money spent on Fort Peck or Intake is money that can’t be spent on recovery and restoration elsewhere on the river—building aquatic habitat in the Lower Missouri, for example.

This has angered some downstream biologists who are not convinced that enough wild pallids currently swim all the way to Intake, or spawn in the upper river, for the project to matter much. (Only two or three fish typically make it to Intake each year.)

Others believe that even with passage, embryos still won’t have enough room to develop before hitting Lake Sakakawea.

But unlike the Upper Basin populations, Lower Basin fish enjoy access to thousands of miles of free-flowing river, which means no devilishly complicated drift issues.

Plus, the Upper Basin’s wild heritage population will almost certainly die out within the decade. This won’t end the species as a whole: Scientists have preserved roughly 90 percent of the Upper Basin pallids’ genetic diversity in hatchery fish, some of which are finally reaching sexual maturity. But unless the drift issue is figured out, their offspring will meet the same fate as their wild brethren: death by reservoir.

Either way, in 2009, the Corps officially terminated Flow Mod. Braaten and Fuller would still share an office and a mission— pallid sturgeon recovery in the Upper Basin—but their research territory shifted.

Braaten was assigned to the Yellowstone; Fuller, the Missouri below Fort Peck.

Photo courtesy of Dave Fuller

hhhh Not long after that, in 2011, the Missouri River Basin experienced a 100-year flood event. Throughout the Upper Basin, record snowpack and spring rains triggered massive runoff. To protect Fort Peck’s structural integrity, the Corps had to release surface water over the spillway. The river raged for weeks.

For Fuller and Braaten, it was an ironic meteorological twist of fate. “We felt it imperative that someone be out there to document the pallids’ response to the record flows,” says Braaten. The crews mobilized: Fuller and his guys on the Missouri, Braaten and his team on the Yellowstone. The huge flows were a stroke of good luck. Getting crews out there, says Braaten, required foresight.

And it paid off. Pallid sturgeon migrated nearly 200 miles up the Missouri toward Fort Peck and the Milk River.

“We had never seen that before,” says Fuller. Spring after spring, pallids would leave their wintering grounds below the confluence and swim into the lower Yellowstone. But last year, 16 wild fish went “as high up (the Missouri) as we could have expected them to come.”

What’s more, in early July, Fuller and his crews located what looked like a spawning aggregation, when fish gather for a big, piscine org y: the females release their eggs on the riverbed while the males swim nearby, broadcasting sperm.

Six days later—about as long as it takes eggs to hatch and begin their drift—Fuller and company returned to sample for embryos. They positioned themselves downstream from where the spawning aggregation had occurred, and tossed in their net.

“I did not have my hopes up at all,” says Fuller. “We were sampling such a small fraction of the (river).” Yet they did net some embryos, which they sent off for genetic testing to determine if they belonged to pallid sturgeon, shovelnose or paddlefish.

Finding a wild embryo has long been one of the effort’s “Holy Grails”—a sought-after sign that pallid survival in the post-dam era is even possible. Last December, Fuller received some incredible news: One of the embryos was, in fact, a pallid sturgeon—”the first genetically confirmed wild-produced pallid (embryo) collected anywhere in the Missouri River Basin,” he says. “It was a giant haystack with probably just a few needles. We got lucky, there is no doubt about it.” He called his boss. “I was worried he wouldn’t be that excited because he’s more of a walleye guy,” he recalls. But his boss went out and bought two bottles of champagne. The men spent the afternoon celebrating.

Since Fuller went public with his discovery, the tiny embryo has been the talk of the recovery community. “The Service built its original (plan) on the hypothesis that if you can restore historic flow and temperature conditions, pallids will respond,” Braaten says. “That appears to be exactly what happened.” What’s more, Fuller’s finds—the spawning aggregation and the embryo—show that the dammed Missouri below Fort Peck doesn't have to be “a terrible, inhospitable, crappy place” for pallid sturgeon, Braaten says.

For others, though, last year churned up more questions than answers. “The fact that they captured one pallid (embryo) is huge,” says Steve Fischer, the senior program manager for the Corps’ Missouri River Recovery Program. “But how many were actually spawned that year? Can we find them again, or were conditions just right last year? And, if so, what might those conditions have been?”

“It tells us that wild fish will spawn and eggs can hatch in the wild,” agrees Jordan. But, he says, whether the embryos survived their drift between dams is still unknown. If in the next few seasons crews start finding wild, young fish, then, Jordan says, we will know that they’ve recruited on their own, and “the champagne can really flow.”

Given the massive property damage caused by last year’s flooding, in Braaten’s mind, the biggest question now is whether pallids will respond as well to much less extreme flows —the kind it might be possible to release from Fort Peck on a more regular basis. “What would it take?” he wonders. The experimental spills prescribed by Flow Mod were less than half the volume of last year’s emergency spillway releases. “Could we get away with something less?”

If the answer is yes, it may still be possible to help the fish below Fort Peck by modifying dam releases to more closely mimic natural conditions. If the answer is no, the pallids’ future in the upper river looks far less bright, and passage at Intake might be their only shot. After all, the Corps would be hard-pressed to elicit public support for pallids if, to save the species, it essentially had to flood the Missouri Basin every spring. On the other hand, the Intake project has faced significant design setbacks, delays and cost increases, and is still controversial.

“There is a lot of jabber going on about putting emphasis back on Fort Peck and this section of the Missouri,” says Fuller. The Service, he says, now has solid evidence to pressure the Corps to follow through with flow and temperature changes below Fort Peck. This year, the Corps held meetings to discuss the feasibility of fitting Fort Peck with a temperature-control device that would funnel warm water from

the surface of the reservoir to the dam’s lower intakes instead of using the spillway. This would increase temperatures below the dam—and, ideally, compel pallids to migrate up the Missouri to spawn—without increasing flood risk or interrupting the dam’s hydroelectric operations.

In the end, says Fischer, the Corps has to decide if it’s cheaper to invest in Intake or pursue changes at Fort Peck.

“We have to take into account the social, cultural and economic impacts,” of each project, Fischer says. “We have to factor all of those in to our management actions.”

hhhh Last July, just a week before Fuller collected his embryo, Braaten made an important—though sobering—discovery of his own.

Braaten and a USGS technician had spent the day tracking telemetered pallids on the Yellowstone. As they were driving back to Fort Peck, Braaten received a call from a hydrologist who’d also been on the river that day.

He asked if Braaten saw the dead pallid near the bank. “Are you sure it was a pallid?” asked Braaten. “Oh yeah,” the hydrologist replied. “And it reeked.”

Braaten drove back and walked the bank until he found the corpse, afloat amid a tangle of vegetation. It was easily four feet long, says Braaten, “one of our heritage fish.” The smell “was horrible and mostly undescribable,” he says.

“I’ve smelled many a dead fish in my days, but the pallid odor was different—at least to me.”

He scanned its tag: It was a female that was captured in 2007, taken to the Miles City Fish Hatchery and spawned.

Since then, 10,000 of her progeny had been stocked in the Upper Basin. It was comforting to know that she had some descendants out there, Braaten thought.

The fish was the first dead pallid he’d ever found. The fact that he was there to identify her was just dumb luck, he says. What are the odds with so few fish out there? “(Maybe) it’s another commonality that Dave and I share—working with hard odds and coming up with something.”

Braaten believes the pallid succumbed to old age; a poignant reminder that, despite Fuller’s heartening discoveries, the upper river’s wild pallids are on their way out.

When Braaten got home that night, he sent an email to colleagues describing the fish and its fate. The first line read, “Sad day on the river.”

This story originally appeared in the Sept. 18 issue of High Country News (hcn.org).

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[arts]

Life patterns Things are not as they seem with Shalene Valenzuela’s ceramics

by Erika Fredrickson

halene Valenzuela takes apart telephones and vacuum cleaners. Once the object is in pieces, she plasters each part and casts it in clay.

The phone—she uses an oldfashioned model with a cradle and cord—is a singular object, but it requires three separate molds: receiver, body and cord. After she’s fired each piece, she fits them back together as to-scale porcelain replicas of the domestic objects.

“In the mold-making process things get destroyed a lot,” she says, laughing. “But I end up being kind of an engineer.”

Valenzuela learned her technique at UC Berkeley under the tutelage of Richard Shaw, whose ceramic sculptures were meant to trick the viewer into thinking it was the real thing. The slip cast process Valenzuela now uses is a relic of the 1950s and ’60s when porcelain knickknacks were produced on a

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mass scale. In the spirit of that era, she paints images on her works of women performing domestic tasks and projecting the impression of homemaker bliss.

“I use colors that are in advertisements that draw people in,” says Valenzuela, who teaches at Flathead Valley Community College and is executive director of the Clay Studio of Missoula. “I hope it catches their eye from far away and they come closer. Then, not only do they discover that all these things are made from clay, they realize the imagery isn’t what they expect.

Something is awry.”

That something is usually slight— little indicators of dissatisfaction. She may alter the gestures or facial expressions of the women with an undertone of anxiety and frustration, despite the work's bright sheen.

“When I was a little kid I would sort through old photographs and memorabilia,” Valenzuela says. “People talk about the good old days...and

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the ’50s is always a prime example. You pick up that photo of everyone looking happy, but then you get the backstory and it’s not what it seemed.”

Valenzuela has never seen “Mad Men,” but she’s been told—“by a lot of people,” she says—that she should. The AMC show is a fair parallel: Recall Betty Draper, in her perfectly coiffed blonde hair, shooting at birds from her front lawn in a fit of rebellion toward her stultifying suburban lifestyle. Scenes filled with cocktails, white-toothed smiles and the newest fads threaten to crack from the underlying emptiness that sometimes fills their lives. In other words, the manicured outside is only part of the story. That’s how Valenzuela’s pieces work, too.

In her new exhibit at MAM, Following Patterns, Valenzuela has taken a slightly different approach from her usual large-scale domestic pieces. The room has more wall space than floor, which challenged her to come up with ways to make art that fits on walls. The exhibit showcases a couple of her telephones in a piece called “Let’s Play Telephone,” which nudges at her theme of mixed messages. But a large portion of the exhibit consists of dress patterns silkscreened on thin sheets of porcelain and, again, painted with images of women doing household duties. They are

less three-dimensional, though no less challenging—the ceramic sheets tend to break easily, Valenzuela says. Playing with patterns is something she’s wanted to do for a long time. When she was a kid she perused the fabric store with her mother, eyeing the patterns, touching fabrics, sorting through buttons. “I loved the ephemera of those things and I’ve always wanted to incorporate pattern paper into my work,” she says.

“The idea [in the exhibit] is that on these literal patterns are images of people who have fallen into life patterns.”

As with “Mad Men,” there isn’t one message to glean from her work. The issues of identity and gender roles don’t overpower. There’s no hint of disdain in how she plays with what might be considered objects of oppression. In some ways, by playing with those objects, she gives them new, liberated identities.

“I wouldn’t call myself an angry feminist,” say Valenzuela, smiling. “A lot of people define themselves by their objects, but I do have this love and appreciation for the surface quality of things.”

Shalene Valenzuela’s Following Patterns is on display at MAM in the Shott Family Gallery. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[books]

Parallel lives J. Robert Lennon on his novel Familiar, fear and the good life

by Molly Laich

J. Robert Lennon is the author of seven novels, including Mailman and Castle, plus a collection of short stories, Pieces From the Left Hand.

He’s a graduate of the University of Montana’s MFA program, a recent guest at the Montana Festival of the Book and he teaches writing at Cornell University. I talked to him over Gchat about his latest novel, Familiar, which came out this month—a surreal story about contemporary American life in which a woman finds herself in a kind of parallel universe. It may even be considered a horror story.

J. Robert Lennon: You in there?

Indy: Ha. Yes, I am in there. I am in the computer.

Lennon: OMG Indy: Hello! How are you?

Lennon: I’m great! Just sent in the page proofs for Familiar, the new book, so I am relieved and happy.

Indy: Oh, what a feeling. Let’s start by talking about your time at UM. When were you here?

What were the circumstances that led you to an MFA? What sort of writer were you before the MFA, and how did it change you?

Lennon: I was a student there from 1993 to 1995, met my wife, the novelist Rhian Ellis, and we stayed there a couple years more. I got an MFA for the usual reasons—my favorite college class was a fic-

Familiar J. Robert Lennon paperback, Graywolf Press 224 pages, $16

tion workshop and my teacher suggested I apply to MFA programs. Montana was the only place I got in. I was not a terribly skilled or mature writer at the time. The main thing I learned there, though, was discipline—to write every day, and, most importantly, to revise. I’m no longer in a position to be able to write daily but I am a total pig for revision. My first drafts are crap.

Indy: Familiar is about a woman who stumbles into a parallel reality in which she’s estranged from her children. To me, this is the saddest thing I can imagine. The ultimate life failure: to have a ruined relationship with your kids. (I don’t have any kids—I’m guessing.) And you confirmed my suspicion that you were writing about your worst fears. To me, it’s almost a horror story, just not in any conventional way.

Lennon: A friend of mine just read it, and mentioned how sad it was. And my reaction was, “Is it?

Damn, I guess it really is.” Of course it is.

I do like your characterization of it as a horror story, though, and that is precisely how I’ve been describing it to people—a horror novel about parenthood. Not as horrifying as, say, Pet Sematary, but maybe less easy to dismiss as fantasy.

Indy: In your 2009 novel, Castle, it’s clear we’re dealing with an “unreliable narrator,” but precisely how he is unreliable remains a mystery for much of the book. It’s a source of much tension and intrigue!

Lennon: My editor and I worked very hard to keep the nature of [Eric] Loesch’s unreliability consistent. He is not lying—but he is telling a highly self-serving narrative. There are things he needs to say, but he can’t bring himself to do it, not for a long time. At first he will only allow his past to enter the story via other characters—e.g., the hardware store clerk who calls him “Soldier.”

But as the narrative wears on, he talks more openly about what he did, and what happened to him. The turning point is when he falls into the pit trap in the woods.

A colleague of mine at Cornell, a medievalist, told me, after hearing me read that bit, that this is a very, very old trope—you fall in a hole and remember things. Murakami’s Wind-Up Bird Chronicle does this too.

Indy: I used to have these insane fears as an undergrad the night before workshop that I would show up and someone would have written the same story as I had, exactly—the way normal girls might worry about someone at the wedding wearing the same dress as them.

Lennon: A former teacher who shall remain nameless once told our workshop, “If you get a good idea, write it immediately, because somebody could steal it.” NO! No, that is dumb.

It is one of the most popular questions I get from would-be writers, too. "Should I copyright my idea?" No, because your idea is worthless!

J. Robert Lennon

Photo courtesy of Jenn Northington at WORD in Brooklyn

Ideas are nothing. A book is something—it’s real—and it won’t be like anyone else’s. In very much the way that two women are never going to inhabit the same dress in the same way. Hell, it might not even look like the same dress.

I’ll tell you what: Dudes don’t worry about wearing suits that ALL LOOK ALIKE. Because dudes are taught to think that their own personal special penis power will radiate out from them like glorious rays of man sun.

Indy: Would you like to tell me a little about your writing process? Life plans and dreams?

Lennon: Sure.

One: Usually in three- or four-hour shifts, when I am not teaching. I try to produce maybe a page an hour. It’s all rather craftsmanlike—I get “inspired” sometimes, but inspiration is kinda bullshit most of the time. When I have time, I write—that’s about the size of it. Sometimes it’s goodish, sometimes it sucks.

Two: Get old. Read and eat and drink and hang out with my wife. Record music. I like my life; I just want to keep it going. arts@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Moving planet Robust Worlds gravitates toward heavy goodness

by Erika Fredrickson

Robust Worlds is more than a musical soup made of Johnny Thunders’s garage-punk mojo and Neil Young’s pensive, western soundscapes. There are other things to consider in describing Chris Rose’s Minneapolis project— including synth and reverb—that give it its own identity and make it more of a concoction made for this decade.

Rose calls his debut album Emotional Planet. I would never call my album “emotional planet” for fear of driving off listeners averse to treacle. But this album is emotional— in a non-invasive, sincere way. It doesn’t ask you to feel more than you want to, but it could set you over the edge if you’d had one too many beers.

On “Heavy Moon,” which I admittedly associated with “Harvest Moon,” Rose sings about pulling tides and “a heavy moon in my mind” in the way someone does when they’re left threadbare but not destroyed. “Lion” evokes a “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” melancholy and “Best Wishes” feels like the soundtrack to driving through the desert under a starry night, perhaps under the influence of calming psychedelics.

Rose manages major contradictions in his sound: it’s both wispy and raw, rocky and placid. It’s rock and roll, but it always seems to be floating away in-

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stead of walloping you with chords. Some impressionistic music is best left to background sound—it’s not interesting enough to dwell on—but Robust Worlds isn’t mindless in that way. You want to cling to the words. Even as the echoes evaporate, you wish they’d stay a little longer. (Erika Fredrickson) Robust Worlds plays Zoo City Apparel Thu., Oct. 11, at 9 PM with Collin Gorman Weiland, Skin Flowers and Better Tennis. All ages. $5.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: The Heist You know you’ve struck audio gold when you put on an album and immediately think, “My little brother better hear this.”

With smart lyrics and a nearly LMFAO pop mentality, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis use The Heist as a vehicle to get at this generation’s concerns: Move over Minneapolis, Seattle is the new champ of indie hip-hop. Or is it better named hipster-hop? The Goodwill-sifting rhymes on “Thrift Shop” might make you think so. On “Same Love,” they amp up the progressive politics indicting the hateful in a way no stump speech ever could.

The pair embraces experimental challenges and blends sampled genres, from funk to Passion Pit-style synth, and even to bluegrass on “Cowboy Boots.” Unfortunately, they have a tendency to drop into tired crunk production—those tip-taps just begging to get retired already.

Still, The Heist has its finger on what the kids are into these days: “Cowboy boots doing lines at the bar/where the time goes slow when you’re drinking PBR.” (Brooks Johnson) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform at the Wilma Theatre Wed., Oct. 17, at 8 PM. Sold out.

Cheap Time: Wallpaper Music Simple is sexy, and Tennessee trio Cheap Time wastes no time letting you know that. Overdubbing and orchestration is nice for Grammy winners and huge venues, but getting sweaty off messy solos and fuzzy power chords creates an intimacy that real music lovers should care about.

On Wallpaper Music, the band abandons the shortform punk of previous albums and attempts a sound closer to a mix of Fugazi and The Ramones. Except for lead singer and guitarist Jeffrey Novak’s distinct bratty drawl, Cheap Time’s original songs are familiar enough they could pass for a punk cover band; they know how to

make that classic sound and they do it well.

Given some extra attention, Cheap Time could have come up with a few more tricks. Novak, the band’s only consistent member, embraces lazy structures and repetitive choruses. Any group of dudes playing with pedals and progressions could eventually settle on a similar sound. Still, Novak is so self-assured about his structural apathy that it’s easy to buy into what he’s selling—and like it. (Brooks Johnson) Cheap Time plays the Badlander Tue., Oct. 16, at 9 PM. $5.

Kanye West: Good Music Cool Summer The title of Kanye’s new mixtape—Kanye West Presents Good Music Cool Summer—suggests a messy operation. Announced last October via all-caps Tweet, slated for release in August and then pushed back to mid-September, it manages to both arrive late for and predate actual summer. “Mercy” is on there, even though it came out in April and continues its metamorphosis from sick jam to song strippers are tired of. Kanye’s appropriation of “Don’t Like” falls into the same category: stupid catchy but another hoary relic of early spring.

In other words, Kanye West Presents Good Music

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Cool Summer bears the hallmarks of disaster. There’s only one catch: roughly 80 percent of the tracks are fantastic.

As obviously disconnected from reality as Kanye has become, he somehow refuses to fall off. One need only hear his expert use of R. Kelly on “To the World” to know 'Ye remains the master of rap that just barely touches the ridiculous. When he indignantly shouts that “Mitt Romney don’t pay no tax” or suggests that God has perhaps killed members of his family out of resentment, we know that he’s gone crazy. Then the beat kicks in, and we know he did it for us. (Dan Brooks)

[theater]

Tales worth telling 1,001 reasons to attend UM's Arabian Nights

by Erika Fredrickson

The best part of any good thriller occurs when the college degree in 1980, nails the role of the coy Perfect protagonist finds herself trapped with the villain in a Woman—one that is usually typecast for a younger girl. seemingly inescapable situation. In the quiet of the mo- (“I may be the only person to have played this role that ment, before the inevitable series of gun fights or car is also a member of AARP,” Joki notes in the playbill.) chases, we’re left rooting for our hero(ine)—James Bond Brandon Bawden is especially commanding and delightor Jason Bourne or Lisbeth Salander—to survive ful as an exuberant king who allows his wife-to-be to return to her true love. Colton Swibold has perfect timing through sheer wit.

The leviathan of such tales is One Thousand and for perhaps the oldest fart joke ever told.

One Arabian Nights, a compilation written over centuries and, finally, compiled in 225 BCE. It has since been translated into several languages, made into Disney films and rehashed on the screen and stage.

UM’s School of Theatre and Dance offers a production of Mary Zimmerman’s version, The Arabian Nights. In this story, the king, Shahryar, made cynical by his former wife’s adultery, turns mad: He weds one woman each night only to slit her throat by morning. That is, until he marries Scheherezade. The clever girl tells the king stories, and stories within stories, creating a string of fairy tales, legends, farces and parables with cliffhanger endings that keep the king enthralled and her life spared.

The UM production, directed by Randy Bolton, is fantastic from the start. When the play begins, 15 people enter the circular arena of the Masquer Theatre, playing instruments and humming in a controlled chaos that’s harmonic and, despite the small space and small cast, reflective of a bustling Baghdad market. As the story develops, you’re allowed to lose yourself in a swiftly paced, romantic world populated by kings and paupers Photo by Chad Harder who, in the oldest of soap-opera twists, are conThe Arabian Nights stars Rebecca Schaffer, middle, fronted by ill and good fortune. and G. Stephen Hodgson, front.

All 1,001 tales can’t be told in one sitting, of Rebecca Schaffer as Scheherezade and G. Stephen course. Zimmerman handpicked a handful that seem to speak to issues of women and war. Sound like a drag? Hodgson as Shahryar are two constants who keep the It’s not. The stories are mostly amusing diversions pep- production electric. Hodgson, who stole scenes as the pered with hidden philosophical questions. There’s the Russian dance teacher in last year’s You Can’t Take It titillating story of a woman who’s cheating on her hus- With You, delivers here with a balance of intimidating band with her butcher, her green grocer and a clar- and sympathetic. He easily reverts to the latter, a child inetist, all of whom accidentally show up at her home under the spell of a good story and who is made a better the same evening, each with their phallic props—zuc- king for it. Schaffer, small in frame next to Hodgson, chini, rolling pins and such. (This play is not for children dominates the stage when she’s zestfully conjuring each or the prudish). Then there’s the man who tries to new story. She plays her character with a bewitching marry a beautiful woman, only to be tricked into mar- mischievousness that just barely masks the trauma of a rying a gasping, snarling, snorting monster. There’s also woman on the verge of death night after night. Like a Sympathy, the all-knowing woman who challenges thriller’s protagonist, she’s doing anything to survive. learned men to a battle of the wits involving everything But unlike Bond or Bourne, she portrays Scheherezade as a storytelling wizard who means to convert her agfrom the Koran to enlightenment.

Alessia Carpoca’s costumes and Michael Monsos’ gressor, not destroy him.

The end may or may not be what you expect. Zimset add sensuous layers. Women wrapped in brightly colored silk scarves engage with men in feathered tur- merman’s added one more twist in her version. I won’t bans and billowing pants. Metal lamps glowing in jade, give it away, but I will say this: It’s controversial. Some red, aqua and burnt orange hang from the ceiling above people will find it a heavy-handed gesture that overshadPersian rugs, woven baskets and luxurious pillows and ows everything else, but I think it’s appropriate to add sofas. In the intimate Masquer, the lush decor, live music one more modern story to wrap up this web of ancient tales. After all, Shahryar’s knife comes in many forms. and constant motion make this a rich experience.

The Arabian Nights continues at the Masquer Actors play a multitude of characters, and they also help tell the story in the way Greek myths are told Theatre Thu., Oct. 11 through Sat., Oct. 13, at 7:30 through a chorus. Kate Robischon as the witty Sympathy PM nightly. $16/$14 seniors and students. is fun to watch as she briskly takes down some sputtering hubris-filled men. Leah Joki, who earned her first efredrickson@missoulanews.com

The School of

Journalism

at The University of Montana Hank Stuever 2012 T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor will present

Liner Notes for the End of the World: My Adventures in Covering American Pop Culture Hank Stuever is the TV critic at the Washington Post, where he has worked as a features writer since 1999. He is the author of Off Ramp, an essay collection about American life, and Tinsel, a nonfiction book about the emotional and economic impact of Christmas. He has appeared on Today, the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and NPR.

Monday, October 22 • 7 p.m.

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[film]

Ben, not break Affleck sharpens his skills with Argo

by Scott Renshaw

It seems absurd to those who still associate him with Daredevil and Gigli, but when our backs were all turned, Ben Affleck became a Serious Filmmaker.

That’s not the same as saying he just decided to make Serious Films; it’s easy enough to jump on board projects that seem pre-packaged with prestige.

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in which the press becomes the mouthpiece for those wanting to sell a story. For a film that’s got to shoehorn in a mess of politics and history, Argo generally clicks along with satisfying, crowd-pleasing style.

What Affleck doesn’t have here is a screenplay with a ready-made structure like the novel adaptations he had for Gone Baby Gone and The Town.

That’s a problem when it’s deemed necessary to give Mendez some kind of personal back story, specifically a young son and an estranged wife. The subplot feels like a forced attempt at making his mission more per-

My facial hair is better.

films as a director—Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone and Jeremy Renner in The Town—and the transformation seemed complete. When “a film by Ben Affleck” was making its way to theaters, people wouldn’t be rolling their eyes; they’d be sussing out the prospects for gold statuettes.

Argo seems like a perfect fit for Affleck in its human-scale suspense, with the added cachet of an improbable real-life story. In November 1979, as Iranian students took over the American embassy in Tehran, six Americans managed to sneak out a back door and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Two months later, time is running out to bring the hidden refugees home, and the intelligence community’s options aren’t good. So CIA analyst Tony Mendez (Affleck) comes up with a seemingly absurd plan: He’ll fly into Iran and have the six Americans pose as part of a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a science-fiction film titled Argo. As one of the skeptical would-be escapees responds, “Is this where we say, ‘It’s so crazy it just might work?’”

It is crazy—and funny—and some of Argo’s most satisfying moments come from Mendez working with his Hollywood contacts to set up a convincing fake movie. Alan Arkin gets the juiciest material as a veteran producer whose expertise manifests itself in a savvy negotiation with the company that owns the rights to the script they want. Affleck also directs a terrific sequence cutting between a staged press event for the beginning of the fake Argo production, and the ratcheted-up rhetoric of the Iranians holding the hostages in the U.S. embassy, emphasizing the different ways

sonal: the long night of soul-searching we see when he’s informed that the government is shutting down the operation for fear of jeopardizing the planned military rescue of the other American hostages. At the point where the narrative should be getting most focused on the logistics of the escape, Argo starts to feel cluttered as it bounces between Mendez and his charges, the suits in Washington (including Bryan Cranston as Mendez’s boss) trying to get the mission re-approved, the producers in Hollywood waiting for a call to support the cover story, and Iranians trying to reconstruct shredded documents to see if they can identify whether any Americans are missing.

But when it matters most, Affleck nails the scenes that require building maximum suspense. The “location scouting” trip to the Tehran Grand Bazaar captures the anxiety of the fake Canadian filmmakers with minimalist intensity as locals stare suspiciously at any North American face; the navigation of the security gauntlet at the airport builds to a wonderful moment in which the American who most doubted the mission winds up selling the fake Argo plot to guards by giving it a twist that resonates with their philosophy. Affleck as a director may not be able to overcome every limitation of his raw material, but he’s got an enviable skill set as a filmmaker: rendering anxiety as action, and turning difficult stories into mass-market entertainment. And he can do it while making you forget about Gigli.

Argo continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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ARGO Based on a true story, crafty CIA dudes try to bust some Americans out of the not-so-hospitable country of Iran circa 1979. Ayatollah rock and roll-a! Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Rated R. Carmike 12.

ARBITRAGE A troubled hedge fund manager makes a big time money mistake and finds help in an unlikely source, the American taxpayer. Jokes, I bet its Satan. Starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Brit Marling. Rated R. Wilma.

ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART II Who is John Galt? If you know the answer, you are probably stoked for another installment of self-sufficient good times and taking care of one’s own. Based on the book

by Ayn Rand. Starring Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe and Esai Morales. Rated PG13. Carmike 12.

END OF WATCH Two cops torque off the wrong drug cartel during a routine traffic stop and they find them-

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA In this animated gem, Dracula has to protect his tween daughter from the advances of a human boy, all while operating a high-end resort for monsters and ghouls. Love bites, indeed. Starring the voices of Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Andy Samberg. Rated PG. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET Mom and daughter move next door to a house where the parents of a family were murdered by their own daughter. The surviving son be-

RUBY SPARKS To defeat a bout of writer’s block, an author creates a female character for him to love rather than dating girls from his MFA program like you’re supposed to do. Starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan and Annette Bening. Rated R. Wilma.

TAKEN 2 It’s all about revenge, baby. Retired CIA operative Brian Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of the man Mills killed in Taken. Undoubtedly, it’s personal this time.

Starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.

HERE COMES THE BOOM MMA fan Kevin James stars in a movie about MMA wherein he plays a teacher who decides to take up the sport in order to save the music program from budget cuts. The school nurse is not so sure it’s a good idea.

Starring Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler. Rated PG. Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE A baseball scout who used to be one of the best things going in all of cinema, excuse me, baseball, slowly loses his mojo and credibility, so he takes his daughter along for one last scouting trip. Starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and John Goodman.

Rated PG13. Carmike 12.

ROBOT & FRANK A robot butler cares for a retired jewel thief. But with the help of said robot, one last heist might be in the works.

Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon. Rated PG13. Wilma.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS A screenwriter gets mixed up with some goofy and dangerous gangsters after his bro-hams kidnap one of the gangster’s beloved shih tzu. Starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell. Rated R. Carmike 12.

SINISTER A novelist uncovers some old-timey found footage and discovers the Sniff test. “It was you two! You let the dogs out!” Seven Psychopaths opens Friday at the Carmike 12. cause of a grisly murder. I hope nothing bad happens to his family. This just in, selves in more trouble than a sack of snakes at friends the new girl and things get real, quick. something bad happens to his family. Starring an emu convention. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Starring Jennifer Lawrence, the eternally gorEthan Hawke, Juliet Rylance and James Ran- Michael Peña and Anna Kendrick. Rated R. Vil- geous Elisabeth Shue and Max Thieriot. Rated sone. Rated R. Carmike 12. lage 6.

PG13. Carmike 12.

THE MASTER In this film not about Scientology, a former sailor drifts around the country until he discovers The Cause and its charismatic leader. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Rated R. Village 6.

PITCH PERFECT Oh hells yeah, girlfriend, this is the story of a gal who brings some much-needed spunk to her all-girls’ college choir. Watch out boys, it’s time for a sing-off and some shenanigans. Starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and Rebel Wilson.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

FRANKENWEENIE Go ahead bring your dead dog back to life, kid.

But I guaran-damn-tee there are plenty of consequences to doing so. Starring the voices of my ex-girlfriend Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Martin Short. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit Missoulanews.com, contact the theaters telephonically or check theater websites in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–5417469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan-883-5603.

LOOPER In 2072 time-travelling mobsters travel around space and time killing each other with convoluted devices. Starring my wife’s boyfriend Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. Rated R. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

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Soup without tears

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French onion soup is the last meal Julia Child ate before she died. While she once publicly wished to go out after a gluttonous feast of caviar, oysters and foie gras, ending on a rootsy note as she did was fitting for the champion of French cuisine. French cuisine is largely based in peasant cookery, and you can’t get more bucolic than onion soup.

Onions are in season right now, but few cooks are squealing for them like they do for tomatoes and corn.

Onions are typically supporting cast members, rarely the stars of the show, and few dishes are built around them.

Nonetheless, onions are among the most essential supporting ingredients of all, right up there with oil, salt and pepper. Add white wine to that short list of essentials and you have the ingredients for French onion soup, one of the only dishes I know of that showcases the lowly onion.

Legend has it King Louis XV invented the soup after arriving at a hunting cabin and finding only onions, wine and butter in the cupboard. I’d wager the king’s chef was the true soup savant that night, if anyone. But truth is, the average peasant’s larder would have been stocked with such ingredients as well, and perhaps not much more, on an average winter day.

The creation of French onion soup was inevitable, and it was probably invented more than once.

To this day, French onion soup is that rare bird among recipes that usually won’t require a trip to the store, because like the average French peasant most of us have the ingredients at home. And if you are out of onions, then a shopping trip is probably warranted anyway, because if you’re like me you can’t function in the kitchen without onions.

The rich, concentrated flavor and warmth of onion soup is especially appealing as chilly weather settles in. And autumn can be a sad time, when it feels okay to cry. But excessive crying over French onion soup isn’t necessary, according to Alain Ducasse, who lists among his many restaurants the Louis XV in Monte Carlo. Ducasse says keeping your knife sharp will reduce the number of tears you shed when making French onion soup, as less of the onion’s volatile and tear-jerking cellular fluids are released with the clean, smooth cut of a sharp blade.

The impact of a sharp knife would be duly felt if following Ducasse’s recipe, which involves thin-slicing the onions. Not so much if you follow the method put forward by Nigel Slater, an Englishman no less, in his recipe, “Onion Soup Without Tears,” which appeared in his 2005 book The Kitchen Diaries. Slater’s onions are simply cut in half and slowly caramelized in the oven.

This method requires fewer cuts, generating fewer tears.

Slater’s method represents a minority opinion in the French onion soup-making community, as most recipes call for thin slicing. Another split, more evenly divided, is between those who caramelize their onions on the stovetop and those who do it in the oven.

Many great chefs, including Julia Child, use the stovetop, while Slater and others prefer the oven.

FLASH IN THE PAN

I prefer the oven, largely because I’m less likely to burn the onions if—or, more likely, when—I space out while cooking them.

Slater advises to cut four peeled yellow onions in half (along the tip-to-root axis, as Ducasse also recommends). Bake them cut side down in a baking pan with two tablespoons of butter and a little salt and pepper. From here on I mostly follow Slater’s directive, though I deviate from time to time.

Bake the onions at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes, and then reduce the oven temperature to 200.

Stir gently, on occasion, until the onions are, as Slater describes, “tender and soft, and toasted dark brown here and there.” Deglaze with shots of white wine or water whenever the pan gets dry.

At this point the onions are so delicious it’s hard to imagine that anyone could have invented French onion soup by baking onion halves in butter like this; all of the onions would have been eaten immediately upon removal from the oven. The onion halves, ready to fall apart into sheets, are as sweet as ripe fruit, awash with umami and earthy pungency.

If you caramelize the day before and refrigerate the pan of onions overnight (after letting them cool to room temperature), the following step will be easier: cutting the onion halves into the “thick segments,” as Slater advises. I cut my onion halves into thirds, along the tip-to-root axis.

To these onions, add a cup of white wine (I went with a 2011 Bota Box Pinot Grigio). Then, as they say in England, “bring to the boil.”

Once there, lower the heat to a simmer and let the wine reduce into a thickening sauce. Before it starts to burn, add stock from the bones of a red-meat animal, like beef, buffalo, venison or lamb. Use mushroom stock if you’re a veggie.

I recently made the soup with stock from a fawn leg, into which I tossed a honking specimen from a jar of dried morels. If you don’t have time to make stock ahead of time, I recommend Better than Bouillon brand.

Slater recommends the addition of six cups of stock. Add more if you want to stretch it, but the rich onion broth can only be stretched so thin before it loses its authority.

Finally, bring the soup to the boil, and simmer for about 20 minutes.

Though almost universally served under a floating cap of melted cheesy bread, here I leave Slater and return to Julia, who liked to serve French onion soup old-school style, with a poached egg on top.

You should feel free to find your own way as well.

There are so many variations on the simple combination of wine, onions and butter you could spend the rest of your life improvising. Which method you choose on any given day depends on how you’re feeling, how sharp your knife is and how attached you are to your tears.

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Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) 728-8900 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.

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The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St 9262038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious!

Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-9pm MondaySaturday. Downtown Missoula. $

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Bernice’s Bakery is a Missoula Landmark.

34 years of baking goodness. Open 6a – 8p Bernice’s offers an incredible selection of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, breads and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you’ve never been in you are missin’ out. And if you haven’t been in lately you really should make it a point to stop by. August is a great month for slow walks along the Clark Fork while you sip Bernice’s iced coffee or Mountain Huckleberry iced tea and nibble on a coconut macaroon.

Picnic? Bernice’s is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice’s: made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. Xoxo Bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com 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 Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. 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. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 40 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. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your

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Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items.

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. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 41-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Brooks and Browns' Bear Paw Brunch Buffet, with specialty game food and drinks + amazing Bloody Mary Bar. This Saturday 9 am- 1 pm. Bloody Mary Bar Saturday 9am-4pm. Think you know your Griz Trivia?

Come test yourself out on Thursdays for Big Brains Trivia from 8-10 pm. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

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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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. Tuesdays are Service Industry Nights. $-$$ $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual at-

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Montana Brewers Festival HAPPIEST HOUR What it was: Last weekend, the 4 annual Montana Brewers Festival featured 70 different Montana-made beers from more than 20 breweries. The event was hosted by the Montana Brewers Association at Caras Park. th

atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ 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. $$-$$$ 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. $

Great. It’s over. Thanks for nothing: Hold up. We’re mentioning it for a few reasons. For one, the Indy Blog noted five must-try beers beforehand, so be sure to check it out next time so you don’t miss out. More importantly, one of those musttry beers is slated for a local tap any day now.

Whoa. Do tell: The Imperial Honey Citra IPA from Bitter Root Brewing was named the festival’s Best Imperial and is due to reach the Hamilton taproom within the next week or so. Tony Wickham, Bitter Root’s brewmaster, describes it as more barley wine than IPA and calls it “big.” We’re talking 10 percent alcohol by volume; it’ll be served in a snifter.

And back to the festival: The Oct. 6 event drew 2,400— double the attendance of last year’s festival in Bozeman. MBA Executive Director Tony Herbert says the 2013 event is already set for Sept. 28 in Caras Park.

—Skylar Browning

About that honey: Here’s what makes this beer special. Wickham says he used 40 pounds of Montana honey for an eight-barrel batch, giving the beer a sweet balance.

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

The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates.

Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ 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.

Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

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Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.

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Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ 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 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. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 406-830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week.

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Award is brought to you by the UM School of Business Administrations and the Montana Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. The award goes to Greg Gianforte (strong giant, duh) with Q&A and networking to follow.

Dennison Theatre. 6:30 PM. Free.

Hang out with like-minded folks or be Mrs. Poopypants and do some eye-rolling and huffing at the Obama for America Presidential Debate Watch Parties. Union Club.

6:30–9 PM. Free.

October 11-October 18, 2012

Hepcats take note, the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Ave., hosts a Jazz Night, with Big Sky High Jazz Band and the UM Jazz Band II. 7 PM. Donations accepted.

Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian speaks after the Peace and Justice Film Series feature, Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist “Democracy.” UC theater. 7 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)

The Bonner Milltown Community Council Meeting has a boatload on the agenda including future uses of the mill site, tax increases and an update on mountain sheep from the FWP. Bonner School Library. 7 PM. Technology is like a snake eating its own tail, so if you’re luddite like me check out the Native Plant Society’s Digital Macro Photography Demystified with Clare Beelman and Ken Stolz. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. L09. 7:30 PM. Free.

John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley sing and play guitar and have the kind of last names normally reserved for Brits. Oh, they’re playing some Stones tunes acoustically. Ronan Performing Arts Center, 30400 S. Sunray Trail. 7:30 PM. $14/$12 adv.

Gift of god. Reggae rapper Matisyahu performs with the Constellations at the Wilma Theatre on Sat., Oct. 13, at 8:30 PM. $25.

THURSDAYOCT11 Wrap Uncle Fritzy in a blanket and take him back to the salad days of the Big One in WWII when Deschutes Brewing presents Beer-Lesque Tastings and Tassles, a night of comedy, beer and burlesque. Top Hat. 10 PM. Cost TBA. Get the skinny from those in the know at the Mansfield Center Brown Bag Lecture Series event Reflection on Issues of Women’s Empowerment in Southeast Asia with State Department officials from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Mansfield Center at UM. Noon. Free.

Børg, børg, børg it’s time for another Swedish Pancake Supper and Bingo Night at

the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins.

4 PM. Bingo at 6 PM.

Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Have a pint at Higher Ground Brewing, 518 N. First St., Hamilton, and help out SAFE and their program to reduce domestic violence. Tunes by the Celtic Knots. 4–8 PM.

The Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club talks spirituality and Eckhart Tolle’s Stillness Speaks. 306 State St. 6–7:30 PM. Free.

The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30 to 6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment.

Healthy Aging: Tips for Transition is the featured talk at Senior Options & Services’ free fall lecture series. Tip No. 1, lay off the cheese curds before you end up like Donna Summers.

Courtyard by Marriot, 4559 Reserve St. Free.

Still crazy after all these years, Russ Nasset sings and plays git-ar at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-8 PM. Free.

Girls, girls, girls, join other females from the YWCA’s GUTS program and The Girls Way celebrate the International Day of the Girl at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St., for a film screening, discussion and refreshments. 6:30 PM. Free.

Time for some brewgrass with acoustic music maker John Schiever at the Bitter

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Hear the sometimes erotic and often hilarious tales of Queen Scheherazade in the UM School of Theatre & Dance production of The Arabian Nights. Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids ages 10 and under.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Second place: a set of steak knives. First place, Synergy Sessions, a night of phat beats and bumpin’ grindage, with DJs Atom, Web, Anivox and Logisticalone. Palace. 9 PM. Free.

They set our arts editor aflutter Party Trained performs dancing tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

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[calendar] Hop in the way back machine for VTO VFW Residency Week Two, with Douglasses and dirty skunks Humpy, 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. $2.

(See Spotlight.)

squawkin’ with your homeslices at Wildwood Brewing Co., 4018 Hwy. 93 N. 4-8 PM.

nightlife Test drive your million dollar Tshirt idea at the ZACC’s Free Silkscreen Night. Staffers conduct demos and guide you step-by-step in the art of being awesome. 235 N. First St. 5:30–8:30 PM. All ages.

Free. zootownarts.org.

FRIDAYOCT12 Eden Atwood is gonna sing her tail off during this edition of DalyJazz, with musicians Chris Colangelo, Craig Hall and Adam Greenberg. 7 PM. $30. RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Grab up the kids and listen to the beat of the rhythm of the night and forget about the worries on your mind at Family Friendly Friday with the Drum Brothers and Friends at the Top Hat. 6–8 PM. Free.

Ladies, turn on your power at the Women’s Leadership Conference: Making Connections on Shared Priorities. Ladies from Montana and Southwest Asia get in cahoots and talk social justice, health, education and more. Third floor of the UC. 1-6 PM. Free. To register call 243-2988.

If you’re suffering post-Festival of the Book withdrawals, look no further than the Reading Tour with poets Mark Gibbons, Art Homer, James Jay and Miles Waggener. Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. 3rd. W. 6 PM. Free.

Enjoy an organic beer and some Up N’ Smoke bbq while you’re bull-

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Check out the Bad Goat Forest Products Grand Opening and learn about its sustainably harvested forest products, and have some Clove Cart pizza and beers. 1301 Scott St., under the bridge. 6 PM. China in Missoula continues with Climbing to 20,000 Feet in Sichuan, a photo essay by climber and photog Christopher Gibisch.

Zootow Brew, 121 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Free.

You like it loud? Then check out Get Loud, a night of worship, music and fundraising to help out Haiti. 7 PM. $5. Visit LoveHasCome.com.

Ben Armstrong signs his work after he reads a few pages of Strange Trip Home. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.

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At the VFW last winter, I witnessed VTO’s return to rock and roll music after its years-long hiatus due to familial obligations. Post-set, they regrouped at the bar and earnestly recounted how the performance went with the vigor of a baseball team who had just lost a game after boasting a six-run lead at the top of the ninth inning. It was clear that they were serious about music, but not serious enough about themselves to skip playing old-school tracks about girls and aliens.

The band is currently filled out by Joe Bates on guitar, Brian Collins on drums and bassist Greg Twigg. On Oct. 11, though, they’ll also be joined by original drummer Yale Kaul for a couple of tunes.

Kaul will also be playing drums with loudcore, oldguy outfit Humpy that same night. Adding some sweetness to this rock and roll pancake is Mary Jo “Butterworth” Reynolds, who returns to VTO after being whisked away to Seattle by Love Battery’s frontman during an Indy block party back in the ‘90s.

In one form or another, VTO has been around since 1992. These days some of the band members are “coming out of the haze of having little kids,” says guitarist and vocalist Charlie Beaton. “I didn’t realize how much I missed playing music.”

All this reminiscing and reuniting is great, but VTO plans on sticking around. The band is recording new tunes at Club Shmed Studios that are country and punk in style. “People appreciate simple music,” Beaton says. Besides Humpy, the Oct. 11 show includes a mystery band called the Douglasses and during week three, Oct. 18, VTO has invited the Red Carpet Devils and Valis to join them.

WHO: VTO and special guests WHAT: VFW October music residency WHEN: Thu., Oct. 11, 18 and 25, 9 PM nightly WHERE: VFW, 245 W. Main St. HOW MUCH: $2

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Although the final week of the VFW residency is billed as “VTO Goes Country,” the music of youth still inspires the 38- to 43-year-old bandmates to keep on rocking the free world. “It feels great to still be playing punk rock music,” Beaton says.

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[calendar] hurricane and earthquake resistant homes for Haitians. 9-5 PM. Free.

The Milltown Bridge Market serves up fresh greens, baked goods and wares, all while suspended high above the beautiful Blackfoot River.

Park across from Town Pump megastation. 10 AM–2 PM. Free.

Meet your goals or quit being a darned goof at Patrick Marsolek’s selfhypnosis class, where partakees learn to change bad habits subconsciously.

Warehouse Mall, 725 W. Alder St. #1.

10-4 PM. $45. Call 443-3439.

The Met: Live in HD features L’Elisir D’Amore, a comic opera filled with mirth and love elixirs. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $20/$18 seniors/$15 students.

Sole train. Mudfoot and the Dirty Soles kick out the blues-rock at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., on Sat., Oct. 13, at 7 PM. Cost TBA.

and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.

is playing the Union Club. Now go on and rosen up that bow. 9 PM. Free.

Big time Lefty and cool-as-heckdarn radio host David Barsamian gives a talk based on his book, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, at the Urey Underground Lecture Hall. 7 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)

If you’re not afraid of giants or cliches, check out the country music tunes of Ten Foot Tall and 80 Proof at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

Help out the Griz Scholarship Fund and pickle your liver at the Montana Wine and Beer Festival in the Adams Center. Silent auctions and art sale, too. 7-10 PM. $60. Visit gogrizz.co, MCT Inc.’s production of The Woman in Black is a moody, suspensful play about a man, a woman and a funeral. Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $10.

The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula, 546 South Ave., at 7:30 PM. $2 suggested donation.

Call 493-1210 for more info.

Hear the sometimes erotic and often hilarious tales of Queen Scheherazade in the UM School of Theatre & Dance production of The Arabian Nights. Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids ages 10 and under.

Uncle Steve’s three favorite things: Country Boogie Boys get you two-stepping down at the Eagles, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

It’s a house party at I’ll House You, a night of house music with DJs Kris Moon, Hotpantz and Mike Stolin. Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Hellblinki is a bat guano bonanza of bingo bango bongo musical insanity fusing folk, weird, punk and sass, with the Cigarette Girls Burlesque Show because, why not? Palace. 9 PM. $5.

Call Mitch Gaylord and tell him to cancel his plans. Why? Man, Muzikata

Turn someone’s mother out when funketeers Cure for the Common are joined by Shakewell for an evening of “grooves” and “grinds.”

Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

More events online: missoulanews.com Get a look at some art with the aid of expert guide Ted Hughes during the O’Connor Collection Tour at the Missoula Art Museum. Staff members tell you why the collection is so gall-darned spiffy. Noon. Free.

Join the Big Read and head to the big Missoula Art Museum for a free screening of 1979’s Heartland, a film based on the diary of homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart. There is a discussion with local producers

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free.

Call 728-8799.

Check out the sustain when stoner rockers Tidal Horn blow out the bilge pumps at Sean Kelly’s. 10 PM. Free.

SATURDAYOCT13 “Spokane’s hottest blues guitarist” Mick Croon plays the crud out of the pentatonic scales for your listening pleasure at Sean Kelly’s, with The Workers. 9 PM. Free.

Western Montana’s farmers markets are chock full of the beautiful people, fresh-baked yummies and gorgeous veggies. In Missoula, at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine Street and under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com); in Stevensville, on Main Street; and in Hamilton, at South Third and Bedford Streets. Hours vary for the markets, but it all typically goes down between 8 AM and 1 PM. The Missoula non-prof Wood for Haiti hosts a fundraiser in the Dillard’s parking lot at Southgate Mall.

The Mayor is on hand and the group shares their mission to build safe,

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Annick Smith and Beth Ferris following the film. Unfortunately, Rip Torn is not in the house. 1 PM. Since the End Times are nearing it’s important that we all learn how to fend for ourselves, do so at MUD’s Beer Brewing Workshop where Summer Sun and Brewing’s Jared Robinson gives you the knowledge to stay buzzed when the Mayans return. 629 Phillips St. 1–4 PM. $20/$10 members. Visit mudproject.org/events/beer-brewing.

Southern Utah is a beautiful place, many distractions (national parks, scenic vistas, nearby Las Vegas), many reasons why the Thunderbirds can’t quite put it together on the football field. Burns-os! They play the Griz at Washington-Grizzly stadium this afternoon, certainly with predictable results. 1:30 PM. Tickets available at Griztix outlets.

Be pretty while you Party in Pink at The Canyons Athletic Club Family Fun Event in Hamilton. Barbecue, Zumbathon, raffles, bouncy house and face painting. Ducky is not in attendance but Slash of the Maulers is. Proceeds go to the Aid for Mammography Fund. Du4– 7:30 PM. $8/$20 per family.

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Come visit our beautiful, LEED-registered office and view our commercial space for lease.

Food, drink, and music will be available for your enjoyment.

journalism teacher, here’s to hoping they are less weaksauce. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-8 PM. Free.

No bull, the Environmental Law Group of the University of Montana hosts the 8th annual Bulls, Blues and Brews benefit and silent auction. The event raises funds for the Prickly Pear Land Trust.

Tunes by the Discount Quartet. Missoula Children’s Theatre, located at 200 N. Adams St. $10 admission includes food and beverages.

Eden Atwood is gonna sing her tail off during this edition of DalyJazz, with musicians Chris Colangelo, Craig Hall and Adam Greenberg. 7 PM. $30. RSVP at dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Hear the sometimes erotic and often hilarious tales of Queen Scheherazade in the UM School of Theatre & Dance production of The Arabian Nights. Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids ages 10 and under.

MCT Inc.’s production of The Woman in Black is a moody, suspensful play about a man, a woman and a funeral. Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $10.

Buenos Aires all stars Los Pinguos are back in Whitefish to get your hands a-clapping to their South American stylings. O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. 7:30 PM. $27/$20.

Embrace Argentinian tango at the Brick Room and help out a worthy cause. This month they’re raising money to support live milongas, such as tonight’s featuring Johnny Munez and Diego Baccino. Lessons at 8 PM, milonga at 9 PM. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main. $16 couple/$10 ind. ddcmontana.com.

Matisyahu is joined by the Constellations for a night of rocking

Octoberist. Helena native and author Maile Meloy gives a lecture titled Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It about the creation of her book of the same title, at the Dennison Theatre on Wed., Oct. 17, at 8 PM. Free.

reggae tunes. Perhaps some MC Truth deep cuts, too, hmm. Wilma Theatre. 8:30 PM. $25. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.

Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo about to go downtown, biznatches, and they plan to slap it up, flip it and rub it down at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

Holla, holla, holla it’s time to dance party it up to Blue Collar at the Lumberjack Saloon up Hwy. 12 West. 9 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset and the Revelators provide the soundtrack for the final seduction of your Professor X. Dance the night away. Let him give you a ride home on this chilly night.

Whatever. Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

If you’re not afraid of giants or cliches, check out the country music tunes of Ten Foot Tall and 80 Proof at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free.

Call 728-8799.

Jon Wayne and the Pain get irie eyes a-smiling when they play that good old down home reggae at the Palace, with DJ Smiley opening. 10 PM. $7.

Dodgy Mountain Men are gonna play the heck-darn out of some stompgrass even though Sharia don’t like it, with G.R.I.T. Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

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The Ed Norton Big Band put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery at 6 PM. 5646 W. Harrier. $5. missoulawinery.com.

Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Turning the Wheel Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance.

Headwaters Dance Studio, 1042 Monroe St. 11-12:30 PM. $10/$75 for eight classes. Visit turningthewheel.org.

Learn whether or not you’re related to a czar or a Welsh coal miner at JoAnn Piazzola’s Online Genealogy Research Presentation.

The Red Poppy in Ronan, on the corner of 1st St. SW and Eisenhower Ave. 2 PM. Free.

Wildwood Brewing hosts a Sustainability Fair, with vendors, bartering and sustainability demonstrations.

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[calendar] Perhaps a tich of composting good sir? 4018 Hwy. 93. 2-5 PM. Free.

Oxygenate your lungs and alcoholize your veins when Mountain Breathers perform at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 4-7 PM. Free.

nightlife Wordlovers, check out the Second Wind Reading Series with MFA candidate Asta So and legendary (just ask him) yarn-spinner Bryan Di Salvatore. Top Hat. 5 PM. Free.

Slide into some slacks and slip on down to the Elbow Room, 1855 Stephens Ave., for Sunday Dance Parties with the Five Valleys Dance Club. Lesson at 5 PM, DJ from 6 to 9 PM. 825 Ronan St. $7/$12 per couple/$2 surcharge for those under 25. Visit fivevalleysdanceclub.com.

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. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

MONDAYOCT15 Kimberlee Carlson plays tunes while you chew the nummiest of num-nums and sip on la copa de vida at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. Free.

All you budding writers take note, today is the final day to submit to Montana Repertory’s Call for Monologues. Rules: no less than one page, no more than two; must be character driven; must take place at Missoula at night. My version? I buy a magic cat and Red Auerbach and I smoke cigars behind the Ox. E-mail submissions to salina.chatlain@umontana.edu.

Get the lowdown on one of the worst deals around at The ABC’s of Alzheimer’s Disease: Assessment, Management, Caregiving and More.

Health care providers are on hand to speak to the subject. RSVP by calling Terry at 243-2480.

History dorks unite! Join Princeton Professor Emeritus James McPherson for the lecture, Why Military History? Antietam as a Case Study, at the Gallagher Business Bldg. Rm. 123. 3:10 PM. Free.

The Rough Cut Science Seminar Series shows off the brainiacs of Montana’s scientific community, with different presentations on current research each week at 4 PM in the University Center Theater. Visit montanaioe.org/rough-cut-series for the schedule.

Those looking for mother-tomother breast feeding support

can find it when the La Leche League meets every first Mon. of the month at 10 AM at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth St. W., and on the third Mon. of the month at 6 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Children and babies are always welcome.

nightlife Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promote sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat,633 5th St. E. 6:30 PM. Fact: Lincoln is the greatest president ever. Learn why, or perhaps why not at the inaugural Arnold Swanberg Lecture on Military History with Princeton Professor Emeritus John McPherson during his lecture, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief.

Dennison Theatre. 8 PM. Free.

Bust a groove and your front pants buttons when the Badlander presents Live and Local Hip Hop, featuring tunes by DJ Boy Burns Bridge, and MCs B Mune, Dice, Traviste, Tedoe Da Hustla, Tonsofun, Codependents, and Frodie. 9 PM. Free, with $5 pitchers of PBR. Open Mic with PD Lear at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class.

This week is a special one with K Records’ Jason Anderson and locals Abe Coley, Bad Naked and Raised on Stolen Cable. 10 PM. Free. Call Phil at 224-0816 to sign-up. (See Music.)

TUESDAYOCT16 Hot steppers and hot-club stylists Pearl Django bust some grooves for all y’all at the Dennison Theatre, with the lovely Stellarondo. 7:30 PM. $17/$15 adv./$10 students and seniors/14 and under are free. Visit griztix.com.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Drop names not mixtapes at the Destination Missoula Marketing mixer at the Holiday Inn Express, 150 Expressway for businesses seeking to make more business. 4– 6 PM. To RSVP call 523-3250.

Hang out with like-minded folks or be Mrs. Poopypants and do some eye-rolling and huffing at the Obama for America Presidential Debate Watch Parties. Union Club. 6:30–9 PM. Free.

The Musician Showcase features some good players and fine times, at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn Downtown, 200 S. Pattee St. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. Free.

Unity Dance and Drum’s African Dance Class at the Missoula Senior

Center, 705 S. Higgins St, requests newbies and vets of all ages to join up or drop in anytime for an evening of live music and dancing.

7–8:30 PM. $10 per class or $35 for four. For more info., call 549-7933 or email tarn.ream@umontana.edu.

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Missoula Aging Services offers a Caregiver Support Group. 337 Stephens. 4–5 PM. Free.

nightlife You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s beginner/intermediate hip-hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 121 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com The Pickin’ Circle at the Top Hat would prefer stringed instruments over nostrils, but who’s to judge? 6– 9 PM. Free.

YWCA Support Groups for women take place every Tue. from 6:30 to 8 PM. An American Indianled talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-6691.

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If you owe a rooster to Asclepius, please, don’t forget to pay the debt before you head to the hemlock-soaked Socrates Cafe, a conversation facilitated by Kris Bayer, at the Bitterroot Public Library in Hamilton, 306 State St. 7–9 PM. Free.

ZACC’s weekly one-hour poetry workshop says don’t just express yourself, be expressive. 235 N. First St. 8 PM. Free.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: According to the CIA’s World Fact Book, how many people die per day on planet Earth? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams by DJs Supa J, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

If you want to take Cheap Times down you better get real low while they play garagian punk tunes, with local sass-mouths Skin Flowers. Badlander. 9 PM. $5.

Come down the mountain for Zootown Throwdown with Javier Ryan and tell ‘em Perry Farrell sent ya. Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 10 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAYOCT17 Kaya McLaren reads from her book How I Came to Sparkle Again. Perhaps sparkle has more than one meaning, hmm? Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.

Printmaker Diane Bodholdt demonstrates how to run that good old Conrad Press during her presentation Marvelous Monotypes at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. 10-Noon. Free.

lation. UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth Street E. 5:30-6:30 PM. UM geography faculty member Rick Graetz and his wife, Susie, narrate a slideshow of fine-looking country at their presentation, This is Montana. Money raised benefits Bitterroot College. Hamilton High School Performing Arts Center.

6:30-8 PM. $5/$3 seniors and students.

This is a fine thing, friends: Maile Meloy (of Helena fame) lectures as part of the UM First-Year Reading Experience, which features her book Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It. Meloy talks craft, style and ol’ Montany. University Theatre. 8 PM. Free.

Jet City rhymer Macklemore & producer Ryan Lewis bring beats ohso-sweet to the Wilma Theatre stage.

Hopefully they bring a toothbrush, too. Gotta take care of them chompers, y’all. $23/$20 adv. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. (Pub trivia answer: 151,600 die each day.)

Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Trivia Night makes you wonder why you didn’t minor in anthropology like you planned. The questions start at 8 PM. Free.

Visit your dark place at Shadow Palace, a night of electro tuneage with local DJs Zafira, Milkcrate Mechanic, Web and Anivox. Palace. 9 PM. Free.

Humpday tunes by Trickshot Johnson, Three-Eared Dog and Nexus are sure to make your work week seem more like college when you and the crew owned this town and all you needed was puffy vest, a Budweiser and a two-for-one Pita Pit coupon. Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

THURSDAYOCT18 Chase McBride is more than a sonofabride and he proves every time he belts out a tune at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton.

6-8:30 PM. Free.

Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors proves that art heals.

Noon–1:30 PM at the Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder #17. Free. Call 549-5329.

Cual es tu problema? Check out the Flamenco Montana Festival which has classes and performances by maestro Teo Morca, Carlos Lomas and Vicente Griego. Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers Ave. Visit flamencomt.com for costs and event times.

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Find out what Missoula businesses actually use their recycling bins at the Sustainability Council’s 8th annual Sustainability Awards at The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 5:30 PM.

When he’s not doing work in his hit factory Tom Catmull is playing tunes for all you all at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. Free.

Attend the 1,000 New Gardens Meeting and allow the Garden City to live up to its moniker by helping folks plant the seeds of self-foodu-

The Village Senior Residence, 2815 Old Fort Rd., hosts an Art Show and Wine Reception from 7– 9 PM. Free.

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underneath it all For you people too busy living to give death a second thought, you should know Missoula’s Festival of the Dead has become an integral part of the Missoula community. The festival tends toward the macabre, but it’s lively, with a parade through downtown featuring skeletons, ghoulish masks and even Santa Claus. The event is based on the Mexican Day of the Dead and functions as a remembrance of family and friends who have passed away. For Second Friday, the ZACC unveils its Day of the Dead Group Show as a precursor to the upcoming festival. More than 25 artists are taking part, and the pieces run the gamut in style and technique, but all seek to express the grotesque.

The grotesque is what drew artist Cindy Laundrie Marshall to participate in the show.

Marshall first became interested in the value of celebrating death when she took a trip to South Africa to meet her pen pal. There, for the first time, she saw people celebrating death rather than fearing and ignoring it. For years afterward, she worked on abstract paintings—not necessarily related to her experience—while foregoing drawings, other than to sketch out large painting projects. Marshall says, “I forgot about the simplicity and accessibility of drawing. You can get into bed with it.” The different medium and different size, and thinking back to her time in South Africa, has re-invigorated Marshall. “I feel re-inspired by the images that came out of the sketches for the show. I hadn’t drawn since before the kids were born [seven or eight years].”

Like many artists in Missoula, Marshall works, takes care of her family and ekes out time to create more. She relates that she’s never dressed as a “sexy” anything at Halloween, nurse or otherwise, instead embracing “the horrible and creepy.” Her drawings of bones and skeletons, like her drawing above, are not horrifying, not creepy; they are a peek into anatomy.

—Jason McMackin

WHAT: Day of the Dead Group Show WHO: Courtney Blazon, Adelaide Every, Cindy Laundrie Marshall and others WHERE: Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. WHEN: Fri., Oct. 12, from 5:30 to 8:30 PM HOW MUCH: Free No doubt about it, Kelly Barth might be reading at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., from her book My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. 7 PM. Free.

Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 PM. Free will offering.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, show the naysayers that your version of Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” is as passionate as your lovemaking. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

It’s Wolfgang Gartner’s house and if you don’t like it get the fruit out! If you do like it, go ahead and touch the bass and dance your back-end area off to the house beats. Or be weird and just stare at people. Like real hard stares. Wilma Theatre. 9 PM. $23/$20 adv. Tickets available at Rock Rudy’s.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kind of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people.

Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

They set our arts editor aflutter.

Party Trained performs dancing tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand. 9:30 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset done gone and cured ya of your tremors with a sweet shot of country hits up at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Explores the subterranean sonic scene when west coasters Random Rab come to the Top Hat for an evening of electronical tuneage, with Kaminada, Paravoid and Mankiisi. 10 PM. $15/$10 adv. $5 discount with Wolfgang Gartner ticket stub.

Fresh snow in the hills and soup is bubbling on the pot. It must be

time to take advantage of all the wonderful speakers at UM, art at the MAM and squash in the garden.

Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Oct. 12 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH There is a segment of the population that has been eye-balling the weather reports regularly for the past two weeks. Sure, skiers and hunters have been studying it, not to mention the cry babies who fear winter’s bite, but they are not the folks I’m talking about. I’m thinking of the hardcore gang of runners taking part in Le Grizz Ultramarathon this weekend. With forecast temps between 37 and 57 degrees, little wind and a mere 20 percent chance of precipitation, this year’s race is ripe for a record-breaking performance. So what is the record for this 50-mile ultramarathon you ask?

5:34:38. Or about nine miles per hour for fiveand-a-half hours. In other words, faster than

many of us ride our bikes around town, but slower than the top speed of a domesticated pig. In 1982, for the inaugural event, the field held 16 runners. This year, over 100 racers are participating. Le Grizz isn’t all business, in the past (the distant past) the first 24 runners to cross the finish line received 22-ounce bottles of Big Bear Malt Liquor. Not sure what the “prize” is these days, but all things considered, might I suggest Four Loko?

—Jason McMackin The 31st Le Grizz Ultramarathon takes place at the Hungry Horse Reservoir southeast of Columbia Falls on Sat., Oct. 13, at 8 AM. Visit cheetahherders.com/LeGrizz.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 Gnarmageddon it, Matchstick Ski Films presents Superheroes of Stoke, brah. Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $10.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Get back in shape and learn something new at Freestone Climbing Gym’s Intro to Bouldering course, which introduces basic techniques, safety, ethics and more. Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and two weeks of unlimited climbing.

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 The Butte Bouldering Bash up on the Boulder Batholith is alliteratively the best climbing competition Homestake Pass has to offer today, with “a wide variety of excellent problems from V0-V10,” according to the organizers. Strap on the mat, chalk up and do work! Visit montanabouldering.com.

Avalanche experts from all over the U.S. are in Whitefish for the Northern Rockies Avalanche Safety Workshop. Go see ‘em and maybe you won’t do anything stupid in the backcountry this year. Grouse Mountain Lodge, Whitefish. 7:30-6:30 PM. $25/$20 adv. Go to avalanchesafetyworkshop.com.

The Pumpkin Run is not a new dance, unfortunately, but its proceeds benefit the Missoula Food

Bank. 400 meter kids run (12 years old and under) is at 9:45 am and 5K race is at approximately 10:09 am. $4 for the 400 meter run and $13 for the 5K/$11 for Run Wild Missoula members. Race day registration is located at Osprey Baseball Stadium near River Front Trails in Missoula. Register at runwildmissoula.org. Race day registration starts at 8:45 AM and ends at 9:30 AM. A wolf trapping certification class takes place at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Rd., from 9-4 PM. Register at fwp.mt.gov.

Take a cruise up Pattee Canyon way with the Montana Natural History Center during its Saturday Discovery Day Fall Foray: Lichens! Forget whatever you think you know about this bit of flora.

Or is it a fauna? 120 Hickory St. 10–2 PM. $15/$10 members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 Get your gear sold or pick a new-to-you ice axe during the Used Outdoor Gear Sale at the University Center atrium. Drop it off between 7 and 11 AM and pick up your cash or that junkheap Mountainsmith pack between 5 and 7 PM. Sale from Noon–5 PM. Fifteen percent of the day’s sale benefits UM’s Outdoor Program.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 18 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning and such for yonder childrens.

The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

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One of the sweetest things a sailor in the Navy could do in 1995 was pass through “Officer’s Country” with a copy of David Barsamian’s Chronicles of Dissent. The book is based on a collection of radio interviews Barsamian did with linguist and rabble rouser Noam Chomsky. The book always got the attention of junior officers fresh out of the Naval Academy and marked me as a troublemaker. Nobody likes a well-read seaman.

As an interviewer, writer and member of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Barsamian is a decidedly leftist fellow. His radio show, “Alternative Radio,” is syndicated on more than 200 stations (it can be heard on MTPR, Mondays at 1 p.m.) and features a guest list that is a who’s who of left-wing all-stars: Bill Moyers, Amy Goodman and Jello Biafra, to name a few. The interviews are in-depth and lack the high-stakes hollering and prejudicial partisan tone that passes for discussion and debate in much of modern media.

Barsamian’s latest book, written along with economist Richard Wolff, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, suggests that the current economic crisis began in the '70s when the capi-

talist system began to focus less on workers and more on corporate profits.

After years of listening to the man, it seems that Barsamian’s main beef is with injustice, social and economic. But rather than simply barking about it, he efforts to change the system.

—Jason McMackin Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian speaks at two events at UM. First, on Thu., Oct. 11 after the Peace and Justice Film Series screening of Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist “Democracy,” which begins at 7 PM in the UC Theater. On Fri, Oct. 12 he talks about his new book Occupy the Economy, in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall, at 7 PM. Both events are free.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 Get the skinny from those in the know at the Mansfield Center Brown Bag Lecture Series event Reflection on Issues of Women’s Empowerment in Southeast Asia with State Department officials from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Mansfield Center at UM. Noon. Free.

Have a pint at Higher Ground Brewing, 518 N. First St., Hamilton, and help out SAFE and their program to reduce domestic violence. Tunes by the Celtic Knots. 4–8 PM. The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30 to 6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment.

Girls, girls, girls, join other females from the YWCA’s GUTS program and The Girls Way celebrate the International Day of the Girl at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St., for a film screening, discussion and refreshments. 6:30 PM. Free.

Hang out with like-minded folks or be Mrs. Poopypants and do some eye-rolling and huffing at the Obama for America Presidential Debate Watch Parties. Union Club. 6:30–9 PM. Free.

The Bonner Milltown Community Council Meeting has a boatload on the agenda including future uses of the mill site, tax increases and an update on mountain sheep from the FWP. Bonner School Library. 7 PM.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 Ladies, turn on your power at the Women’s Leadership Conference: Making Connections on Shared Priorities. Ladies from Montana and Southwest Asia get in cahoots and talk social justice, health, education and more. Third floor of the UC. 1-6 PM. Free. To register call 243-2988.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 The Missoula nonprofit Wood for Haiti hosts a fundraiser in the Dillard’s parking lot at Southgate Mall.

The Mayor is on hand and the group shares their mis-

sion to build safe, hurricane and earthquake resistant homes for Haitians. 9-5 PM. Free.

Be pretty while you Party in Pink at The Canyons Athletic Club Family Fun Event in Hamilton. Barbecue, Zumbathon, raffles, bouncy house and face painting.

Ducky is not in an attendance but Slash of the Maulers is. Proceeds go to the Aid for Mammography Fund. Du4–7:30 PM. $8/$20 per family.

No bull, the Environmental Law Group of the University of Montana hosts the 8th annual Bulls, Blues and Brews benefit and silent auction. The event raises funds for the Prickly Pear Land Trust. Tunes by the Discount Quartet. Missoula Children’s Theatre, located at 200 N. Adams St. $10 admission includes food and beverages.

MONDAY OCTOBER 15 Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promote sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 5th St. E. 6:30 PM.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 16 Missoula Aging Services offers a Caregiver Support Group. 337 Stephens. 4–5 PM. Free.

YWCA Support Groups for women take place every Tue. from 6:30 to 8 PM. An American Indianled talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-6691.

Hang out with like-minded folks or be Mrs. Poopypants and do some eye-rolling and huffing at the Obama for America Presidential Debate Watch Parties. Union Club. 6:30–9 PM. Free.

Missoula Underage Substance Abuse Prevention hosts Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan at its Community Conversation: Parents are the #1 Influence.

The good doc speaks on how parents can help reduce risky behaviors in the youngins. University Center, Third Floor. 7–8:30 PM. Free.

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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—Weary It’s a good thing you think the guy’s hot, or you might try to trade up to a serial murderer with a driver’s license.

It must’ve been a kick to get it on with a real bad boy instead of the kind who pulls up on a Harley wearing a leather jacket he bought at the mall. But, assuming you don’t have all the conscience of a dirt clod, how could you make this more than a one-nighter? Sure, officially, he’s “paid his debt to society,” but he wasn’t in prison for growing pot, the gateway drug to lying in a beanbag chair and reinventing the wheel.

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Beyond what he’s done to make a buck, he’s now about as independent as one of Paris Hilton’s purse dogs (although he probably asks his “mommy” to buy him a cheaper class of sweater). You can’t possibly respect him, and if you can’t respect him, you can’t love him. You’ve just been calling this “love” to cover for a bad decision that you let give birth to a whole litter of bad decisions. You did have help—the flawed machine known as the human brain. When we do something dumb, our brain encourages us to ignore evidence we’ve made a mistake so we can hang on to our shiny image of ourselves as smart people making wise choices. This feels good in the moment but can, say, leave a person working hard to convince herself that she’s shallow and materialistic to want her equal.

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You aren’t attracted to her because you’re a horrible person but because you’re a man, not in a coma, and you probably find it dangerous and inconvenient to go around blindfolded. Like breathing or digesting a burrito, attraction is involuntary. (Whether you drool on her shoe or refer to her as “Hey, sex puppet!” is up to you.)

As for why you feel so guilty, men are told it’s a thought crime to ever view women as sex objects. Of course, that’s exactly how women think of themselves when they’re dressing to attract a man. Oh, did you think women wear plunging necklines and a little gold charm dangling in their cleavage to frighten away mosquitoes?

As annoying as it is to want what you can’t have, assuming you have no plans to leave your friend pinned under a tree in bear country, what’s the problem? Keep reminding yourself that his girlfriend’s a nogo, and seek a woman you can have. If you can’t be around these two without your eyeballs crawling all over her, you might pare back your time with them. Otherwise, consider their utter inseparability your best defense against bad acts. It’s not like your friend’s going to turn to you and say, “Hey, man, I’m right in the middle of something.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was a Gemini. He liked to depict seemingly impossible structures, like stairways in which people who climbed to the top arrived at the bottom. I nominate him to be your patron saint in the coming week. You should have his talent for playing with tricks and riddles in ways that mess with everyone’s boring certainties. Here are four Escher quotes you can feel free to use as your own. 1. “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” 2. “My work is a game, a very serious game.” 3. "I think it’s in my basement; let me go upstairs and check.” 4. “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus flytrap is a remarkable plant that gobbles up insects and spiders. Its leaves do the dirty work, snapping shut around its unsuspecting prey. Evolution has made sure that the flowers of the Venus flytrap sit atop a high stalk at a safe distance from where all the eating takes place. This guarantees that pollinators visiting the flowers don’t get snagged by the carnivorous leaves below. So the plant gets both of its main needs met: a regular supply of food and the power to disseminate its seeds. I’ll ask you to derive a lesson from all this, Cancerian. Be sure that in your eagerness to get the energy you need, you don’t interfere with your ability to spread your influence and connect with your allies.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A sinuous and shimmering archetype that begins with the letter “s” has been trying to catch your attention, Leo—sometimes in subliminal and serpentine ways.

Why haven’t you fully tuned in yet? Could it be because you’re getting distracted by mildly entertaining but ultimately irrelevant trivia? I’m hoping to shock you out of your erroneous focus. Here’s the magic trigger code that should do the trick: Psssssssssst! Now please do what you can to make yourself very receptive to the slippery, spidery signals of the simmeringly sublime surge.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t burn down a bridge you haven’t finished building yet. OK, Virgo? Don’t try to “steal” things that already belong to you, either. And resist the urge to flee from creatures that are not even pursuing you. Catch my drift? Stop yourself anytime you’re about to say nasty things about yourself behind your own back, and avoid criticizing people for expressing flaws that you yourself have, and don’t go to extraordinary lengths to impress people you don’t even like or respect. Pretty please? This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you should put an emphasis on keeping things simple and solid and stable.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Hello Dear Sir: I would like to place a large order for yellow chicken curry, cherry cream cheese cupcakes, and sour, malty Belgian golden ale. It’s for my birthday party this Saturday, and will need to serve exactly 152 people. My agent will pick it up at 11 a.m.

Please have it ready on time. —Ms. Lori Chandra.” Dear Ms. Chandra: I am an astrologer, not a caterer, so I’m afraid I can’t fulfill your order. It’s admirable that you know so precisely what you want and are so authoritative about trying to get it; but please remember how crucial it is to seek the fulfillment of your desires from a source that can actually fulfill them. You’re a Libra, right? Your birthday is this week? Thanks for giving me an excuse to send this timely message to all of your fellow Libras.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here comes the big reveal of the month; the trick ending of the year; and maybe the most unusual happiness of the decade. Any day now you will get the chance to decipher the inside story that’s beneath the untold story that’s hidden within the secret story. I won’t be surprised if one of your most sophisticated theories about the nature of reality gets cracked, allowing you to at recover at least a measure of primal innocence. I suggest you start practicing the arts of laughing while you cry and crying while you laugh right now. That way you’ll be all warmed up when an old style of give-and-take comes to an end, ultimately making way for a more profound new give-and-take.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s almost nothing about the dandelion that humans can’t make use of. People of many different countries have eaten its buds, leaves, and greens. Besides being tasty, it contains high levels of several vitamins and minerals. Its flowers are the prime ingredient in dandelion wine, and its roots have been turned into a coffee substitute. Herbalists from a variety of traditions have found medicinal potency in various parts of the plant. Last but not least, dandelions are pretty and fun to play with! In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I invite you to approach the whole world as if it were a dandelion. In other words, get maximum use and value out of every single thing with which you interact.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Intellect confuses intuition,” asserted painter Piet Mondrian. I don’t think that’s always true, even for creative artists. But in the coming week I suspect it’ll be important for you to take into consideration. So make sure you know the difference between your analytical thinking and your gut-level hunches, and don’t let your thinking just automatically override your hunches. Here’s more helpful advice from painter Robert Genn: “The job of the intellect is to give permission to the intuition, and it’s the job of intuition to know when intellect is once again appropriate.”

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time to seek help from outside the magic circle you usually stay inside. You need to call on extracurricular resources—people and animals and deities who can offer useful interventions and delightful serendipity and unexpected deliverance. The remedies that work for you most of the time just won’t be applicable in the coming days. The usual spiritual appeals will be irrelevant. I’m not saying that you are facing a dire predicament; not at all. What I’m suggesting is that the riddles you will be asked to solve are outside the purview of your customary guides and guidelines.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): These days lobsters are regarded as a luxury food, but that wasn’t the case among early Americans. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the large crustaceans were meals that were thought to be suitable only for poor people and prisoners. Wealthy folks wouldn’t touch the stuff. After examining your astrological omens, Pisces, I’m wondering if your future holds a similar transformation. I think there could very well be a rags-to-riches story in which an ignored or denigrated thing ascends to a more important role.

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: The Montana Newspaper Association (MNA), a non-profit organization representing 87 member newspapers and 16 associate members, seeks an Executive Director. This position will work closely with a board of directors and will direct operations of the 127- year-old MNA, its for-profit advertising sales subsidiary and the Montana Newspaper Foundation. Responsibilities include financial planning and

operations, legislative work, marketing/advertising, seminars and conventions, contests, office and personnel management, publications.

Successful candidate will understand community newspapers, web-based news and advertising, and exhibit strong communications and interpersonal skills. Send letter of application, resume and salary history to Montana Newspaper Association, 825 Great Northern Blvd., Ste. 202, Helena, MT 59601. Deadline for applications is November 1, 2012.

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We seek a team member who enjoys interacting with people, has experience managing programs, and has a customer service background. The position is based in Missoula, Montana. This is our primary membership fulfillment position. Some duties include overseeing fulfillment of membership benefits including membership packet, Adventure Cyclist magazine, and email communication. You will provide customer Service by speaking with members and cyclists on the phone, via email and in person. A working knowledge of bicycling and bicycle travel will be favored. Please submit a resume and cover letter to ssnyder@adventurecycling.org. We will start reviewing applications and arranging for interviews on October 15, 2012.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA

City of Missoula Vehicle Maintenance Division Public Works Department 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 COMPETITIVE SEALED PROPOSALS (CSP) TO PROVIDE MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCT AN EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING The City of Missoula (City) is requesting Competitive Sealed Proposals (CSP) to provide and build one 340’ X 40’ three sided equipment storage building. This CSP will result in a contractual agreement to supply and build this building at the City of Missoula Central Maintenance Facility located at 1305 B Scott Street, Missoula, Montana. Copies of the detailed Competitive Sealed Proposal, including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, may be obtained on the City’s website: http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids or at the Vehicle Maintenance Division during normal business hours at 1305 B Scott Street, Missoula, MT 59804, starting September 27th, 2012. For more information, contact Jack Stucky, Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent at (406) 552-6387, or email: jstucky@ci.missoula.mt.us. Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 5:00 p.m. MST, Friday, October 19th 2012, at 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 598024297. A building contractor will be selected and a contract will be made shortly thereafter./s/ Martha L. Rehbein, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA

INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, 59802-4297 until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 and will be opened and publicly read in the Jack Reidy Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of two (2) Single Axle Dump Trucks. Bidders shall bid

by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside with the bidder’s company name and address and the words:, “Bid for two (2) Single Axle Dump Trucks., Closing at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid

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must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding, which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012. Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements, bidding documents, and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA

NOTICE OF ANNEXATION AND ZONING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on October 22, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a resolution to annex and incorporate within the boundaries of the city parts of Lots 49 and 50 of Cobban and Dinsmore Addition commonly known as 2616 Quinn Court, along with a portion of Grove Street right-of-way; The property is currently zoned CRR3 in the County and, upon annexation, is proposed to be zoned RT10 in the City. The property is located in Section 19, Township 13 North, Range 19 West,

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on October 15, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution amending the FY 2013 budget to appropriate expenditures that were not identified in the original budget concerning the proposed new Development Service Department. A copy of the resolution is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Brentt Ramharter, Finance Director at 552-6108. 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 HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on October 15, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution to establish a winter indoor public market on located at 2036 Mullan Road named “Missoula Winter Market” A copy of the resolution is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk at 552-6078. 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 HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on October 15, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance creating a new chapter of the Missoula Municipal Code, Chapter 8.18 entitled “Public Markets,” to allow the establishment of markets within the city limits of Missoula and repealing Chapter 8.20 and Chapter 8.22 of the Missoula Municipal Code. A copy of the ordinance is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk at 552-6078. 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 HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on October 22, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance of the Missoula City Council amending Missoula Municipal Code Title 10, entitled “Vehicles and Traffic,” Chapter 10.20 entitled “Operation of Vehicles” by amending Sections 10.20.310 and 10.20.320 by prohibiting the use of mobile telephones and other electronic communication devices while simultaneously operating a motor vehicle, motorcycle, quadricycle, or bicycle on a public highway.

The ordinance provides for exceptions for the use of hands-free devices and other exceptions. A copy of the ordinance is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Mark Muir, Police Chief at 552-6320. 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

Request for Proposals – Missoula Police Department Scheduling Software The City of Missoula Police Department is seeking proposals for scheduling software for use by the City of Missoula Police Department, City Attorney’s Office and Missoula Municipal Court. This project is made

possible by funding from U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. The goal of the project is to improve the efficiency and reduce costs by means of a rules based, userfriendly system that integrates several administrative functions into one system including scheduling court appearances, time off requests, managing shift strengths, emergency notifications to department personnel and publishing available overtime for special events. Consultants are required to submit “Intent to Respond” forms by October 31, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. MST. Proposals are due November 15, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. MST. Late proposals will not be accepted.

A copy of the request for proposals which includes more information about the project is available on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids or by contacting the Missoula Police Department at 406-552-6320.

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Request for Proposals and Statements of Qualifications Engineering, Design, Bidding. Contract Administration, and Project Construction Supervision Services Related To Replacement of a Railroad Overpass Trestle at the Intersection of Cregg Lane and Montana Rail Link Railroad in Missoula, Montana The City of Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA), acting as Project Owner for the City of Missoula, is seeking professional structural engineering, design, bidding, contract administration, and construction supervision services for reconstruction or replacement of a railroad overpass (Trestle ) at the western extent of Cregg Lane, a public street passing under the Trestle. The Trestle is owned by Montana Rail Link Railroad. The project is within Urban Renewal District II (District) administered by MRA. The scope of work will include, but is not limited to: an initial investigation of the condition of the structure and possible future uses of the railroad right-of-way; conceptual design and preliminary cost estimates for providing both 1) temporary protection for the trestle from vehicles and protection for road users from debris that could fall from use of the railroad and 2) for replacement of the current structure to accommodate a roadway beneath it; design of the protection measures and/or replacement of the structure; bidding documents and services; and construction contract administration and engineering services. MRA is most interested in firms or teams of firms with experience in removal and replacement of railroad structures. A copy of the Request for Proposals and Statements of Qualifications and other material discussed in that document is available on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids and by contacting the Chris Behan at the Missoula Redevelopment Agency 406-552-6155 or cbehan@ci.missoula.mt.us. Questions and comments should be directed to Chris Behan. Responses are due Tuesday October 16, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. delivered to MRA at 140 West Pine Street, Missoula, MT 59802. Late proposals will not be accepted.

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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS for LEAD ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR PARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER ALDER STREET BUILDING MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA I. GENERAL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Pursuant to the requirements of MCA section 18-8-201 et. seq, Partnership Health Center desires to acquire lead architectural services to assist in the renovation of its existing building to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the services provided for underserved populations. The renovation will include approximately 3,377 square feet and will address the reconfiguration of space to add additional offices and a conference room, in addition to redesigning the interior entry into the building to ensure safety for patients and employees. An upgraded heating/cooling system will also be included. II.

BACKGROUND: Partnership Health Center (PHC) has provided 20 years of uninterrupted healthcare services to our community as Missoula’s Federally Qualified Health Center, and remains the region’s main provider of comprehensive primary care on a sliding fee scale. Partnership Health Center provides medical, dental, mental health, pharmacy and a variety of other ancillary services to approximately 12,000 people each year. Our target population includes low-income, uninsured and under-insured residents in Missoula and surrounding rural areas.

Originally built in 1998, the Alder Street Building was designed to house a medical clinic and necessary support offices. Due to the demand for services, several remodels have occurred throughout the years to include space for a dental clinic, pharmacy, behavioral health services and numerous ancillary service programs.

As a result of growing demand and expanding programs, all direct patient care services are in the process of being moved to a building located approximately one block away from the Alder Street location. The Alder Street location will serve as the hub for Partnership Health Center administrative services. III. SCOPE OF SERVICES: Working with the staff identified previously, this project will involve schematic design and design development. Schematic Design Phase: concept floor plans, site elements, outline narrative of construction materials, building code analysis and implementation, and update construction costs estimates; and Design Development Phase: refine/revise selected floor plan, refine/revise site plan, develop interior elevations, detailed narrative of construction materials, develop specific construction details, finalize implementation of code issues, specify select products and materials, develop security and access narrative, develop room finish schedule and update construction cost estimate. IV. QUALIFICATION INFORMATION REQUIRED: A. Interested firms should include the following information in their response: 1. The respondent’s legal name, address, and telephone number; 2. The principal(s) of the firm and their experience and qualifications; 3. The experience and qualifications of the key personnel to be assigned to the project; 4. A description of the firm’s prior experience in design, development and management of similar project work, including project budgets, change order history, and contact names of project owners or local officials knowledgeable regarding the firm’s performance; 5. A description of the firm’s current work activities and how these would be coordinated with the project, as well as the firm’s anticipated availability during the term of the project; 6. A discussion of the firm’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) experience and how it will be applied to this project; 7. An organizational chart for this project, showing specific staff responsibilities, identifying key subconsultants, perceived work relationships and fee structure; 8. A proposed work plan and schedule for activities to be performed; and 9.

Proof of general liability insurance of $1,500,000 and errors and omissions insurance of $1,000,000, or ability to obtain required levels of coverage. B. Responses to this RFQ shall be submitted to: Barbara Berens Missoula County Auditor 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Phone: (406) 258-3227 Fax: (406) 721-4043 email: bberens@co.missoula.mt.us V. TIMELINE, SUBMISSION DEADLINE AND SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS A. Publication of RFQ: October 4, 2012 & October 11, 2012 B. Deadline for submission of responses: October 29, 5:00 p.m. C. Six (6) copies of the response are required. VI. SELECTION PROCESS: The selection process will be conducted by a committee of Missoula County senior staff. A. Evaluation of Responses: Responses to this RFQ will be evaluated by the Selection Committee based on the following criteria: 1. Professional qualifications of the professional person(s) to be assigned to the project; 2. Capability to

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PUBLIC NOTICES meet time and project budget requirements; 3. Present and projected workloads; 4. Related experience in similar projects; 5. Location; 6. Recent and current work for Missoula County; 7. Past performance and response references; and 8. Suggested project approach (understanding of project.) The Selection Committee reserves the right to request supplemental information and, if necessary, conduct telephone interviews. B. Interview Process: The Selection committee may conduct interviews with the highest ranked two to four firms.

Interview criteria will be: 1. Understanding of project requirements, firm’s analysis, preparation, interest; 2. Design approach/methodology, technical alternatives, creativity, problem solving ability; 3. Project Management, proposed project schedule, cost controls; 4. Key project personnel, project manager qualifications and experience; 5. Project design team, sub-consultant qualifications and experience; and 6. Local familiarity and availability to complete project. C. Selection, Negotiation, and Recommendation. The firm ranked first will be contacted by the Agency Project Manager to begin negotiations. Missoula County reserves the right to require the firm to affiliate with specialty firm(s). If a satisfactory agreement cannot be obtained with the top-ranked firm, negotiations will cease and the secondranked firm will be contacted for negotiations. The selection committee will make a recommendation on both the preferred firm and the term of the contract to the Board of County Commissioners who will make the final selection and term decisions. VII. NAME AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF AGENCY PROJECT MANAGER. Kim Mansch Executive Director Partnership Health Center 323 West Alder Street Missoula, MT 59802 Phone: (406) 406-258-4191 e-mail : manschk@phc.missoula.mt.us MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from Larry Tvetven to work within the Swan River floodplain. The project is located at Lot 1 of Remick’s Swan River Tracts in Section 1, Township 20N, Range 17W and includes placing riprap to protect an existing residence. The full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall.

Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application # 13 - 09 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., October 26, 2012. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Missoula County, Central Services will be listing surplus items on our Public Surplus site through October 14th 2012 at 11:30 pm. The site is on Publicsurplus.com. The region is Montana and the agency is Missoula County. Items include office furniture, bookshelves, countertop pieces and chairs. For questions, contact:: surplus@co.missoula.mt.us or call 258-4820. Payment by cash, money order or PayPal. Missoula County Central Services, 200 W Broadway.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-10-8 Department No. 2 District Judge Robert L. Deschamps III SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING A.H. A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: The unknown father and all putative fathers of A.H., born October 16, 1996 to Laura McDonel in Yuba City, California. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula,

Montana, 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Father’s Parental Rights and Award CFS Permanent Legal Custody with the Right to Consent to Adoption or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now. Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 23rd day of October, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the parental rights of the father and all putative fathers of A.H. should not be terminated, why CFS should be awarded permanent legal custody of A.H. with the right to consent to adoption, why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. The unknown birth father of A.H. is represented by the State Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 5235140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of the District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 28th day of August, 2012. /s/ Robert L. Deschamps, III, District Judge MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-10-10 Department No. 2 District Judge Robert L. Deschamps III Related Cause No. DN-10-8, DN-10-9 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING D.H. A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: The unknown father and all putative fathers of D.H., born May 6, 2004 to Laura McDonel in Portland, Oregon. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana, 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Father’s Parental Rights and Award CFS Permanent Legal Custody with the Right to Consent to Adoption or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for; Now. Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 23rd day of October, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the parental rights of the father and all putative fathers of D.H. should not be terminated, why CFS should be awarded permanent legal custody of D.H. with the right to consent to adoption, why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. The unknown birth father of D.H. is represented by the State Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 5235140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the Youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of the District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 28th day of August, 2012. /s/ Robert L. Deschamps, III, District Judge MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC

WORKS, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. October 22, 2012 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room at Missoula County Public Works for the purpose of purchasing of FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY (450) tons of LIQUID DEICER. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Liquid Deicer – 2012” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Attn: Jeff Seaton 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Roth Swan Valley Conservation Easement A hearing on a proposal to use $350,000 of Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 738 acres owned by Roth Family located along Lindbergh Lake Road in the Swan Valley. The easement would be held by the Montana Land Reliance. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2012, in Room B14 of the County Administration Building, 199 West Pine, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners. Offices: 199 West Pine.

Mail: 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. FAX: (406) 721-4043.

Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct public hearings on the following items at a special meeting on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W Pine Street in Missoula, Montana.

1.Amendments to the Missoula County Growth Policy Missoula County is proposing the amendments at the request of the Board of County Commissioners. The proposed amendments to the Missoula County Growth Policy (2005 Update) include the following: Chapter 2 - Description of industrial land use and associated economic trends for promoting secondary, value adding industry in Missoula County Chapter 3- Additional goals and objectives that address economic development needs Chapter 4- Expanded description of all forms of tax increment financing as implementation strategies 2. Accordance of the zoning and conformance of the Bonner Mill Tax Increment Finance District Plan with the Missoula County Growth Policy Missoula County is proposing a Tax Increment Financing Industrial District (TIFID) at the Bonner mill site and surrounding area. Prior to the Missoula County Commissioners authorizing the TIFID, the Planning Board will conduct a public hearing

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for the purpose of making a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners whether the Zoning of the proposed TIFID area is Industrial in accordance with the Growth Policy and whether the Plan of the proposed TIFID is in conformance with the Growth Policy, as amended per item #1 above. The Bonner Mill TIFID encompasses approximately 148.52 acres and is located east of Highway 200, east and south of the Blackfoot River. It is located in Sections 21 and 22, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, Missoula County Montana. Information about this project is available for viewing at www.co.missoula.mt.us./rural. It is also available for public inspection at the Missoula County Rural Initiatives (physical location: 317 Woody Street, Missoula) and the Missoula County Commissioners Office (physical location: second floor of the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W Pine, Missoula). Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged on the public hearing items noted above. Comments may be directed to Missoula County Rural Initiatives at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802, or via email to ri@co.missoula.mt.us. If anyone attending these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-3432.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

The Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board will hold a public hearing on proposed changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program on Thursday, October 18, 2012 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 4 “Missoula County Air Stagnation and Emergency Episode Avoidance Plan”; Chapter 6 “Standards for Stationary Sources”; Chapter 7 “Outdoor Burning”; Chapter 8 “Fugitive Particulate”; Chapter 9 “Solid Fuel Burning Devices”; and Chapter 14 “Enforcement and Administrative Procedures.” Some of the proposed rule changes include clarify the wildfire smoke emergency episode avoidance plan in Chapter 4; add a temporary permitting process for portable industrial sources in Chapter 6; general outdoor burning procedure clarifications and bonfire definition clarification in Chapter 7; modifying the paving rules in Chapter 8; general rule clarification and the addition of solid fuel burning devices for licensed mobile food vendors in Chapter 9; and removal of the administrative review process for permitting actions in Chapter 14. The Air Board will take public comments at the hearing before making a decision. Written comments may be submitted on or before noon on October 18, 2012 by mailing them to Air Comments, MCCHD, 301 W Alder St., Missoula, MT 59802; faxing them to (406) 258-4781 or emailing them to bschmidt@co.missoula.mt.us. For more information, a copy of the proposed regulations or to sign up for the Interested Parties mailing list, visit www.co.missoula.mt.us/airquality or call 258-4755.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-1052 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Robin Keisic, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Robin Jonathan Keisic to Robin Jonathan Gabriele-Enriquez. The hearing will be on 10/25/2012 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse is Missoula County.

Date: September 11, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-127 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROY EDWARD RAYMOND aka Roy E. Raymond, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Rep-

resentative of this Estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to ELIZABETH RAYMOND, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, PO Box 7909, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 13th day of August, 2010. /s/ Elizabeth Raymond, Personal Representative.

10.11/10.18/10.25 2012 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-12-156 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID GRAFENSTEIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have 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 Deborah A. Whitaker, 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 13th day of September, 2012. /s/ Deborah A. Whitaker, Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and the under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Deborah A. Whitaker, 2609 Sky Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 WORDEN THANE, PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DR-12-460 SECOND REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF HEARING DATE & ORDER SETTING HEARING IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF RYAN INOUYE, Petitioner, and PACINTE R. ALLAM, Respondent. The Petitioner requests a change of hearing in this matter to give evidence in support of his Petition for Dissolution. Petitioner requests that the hearing be set on the Law & Motion day of Tuesday, the 23rd day of October, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard. Petitioner estimates the length of the hearing will be fifteen minutes and Petitioner intends to call one witness. DATED this 17th day of September, 2012. ASUM LEGAL SERVICES /s/ Anne Hamilton, Attorney for Petitioner. ORDER SETTING HEARING Hearing is set as requested. DATED this 18th day of September, 2012. /s/ Robert L. Deschamps, Judge of the District Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-12-160 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARK O. SULLIVAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: September 26, 2012. /s/ SHILOH HANLEY, Personal Representative. /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-39 AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN H. WICKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that J. Otis McCullough has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 3rd day of October, 2012. /s/ J. Otis McCullough, Personal Representative of the Estate of John H. Wicks /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-11-214 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Catherine Oretta Hay, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent

are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Ronald J. Hay, return receipt requested at 10850 Highway 10 East, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of September, 2012. /s/ Ronald J. Hay, Personal Representative 10850 Highway 10 East, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-12-145 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RUTH M. DAY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MARCIA A. GROSS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2337 NE 16th Ave., Portland, OR 97212 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 14th day of September, 2012. /s/ Marcia A. Gross, 2337 NE 16th Ave., Portland, OR 97212 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-90 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WINIFRED F. SANDERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Carla S. Pawlewicz 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 be mailed to Carla S. Pawlewicz, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 West Central Avenue, Ste. 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this10th day of May, 2012. /s/ Carla S. Pawlewicz, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200917604, Bk 843, Pg 1246, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jhawn D. Thompson and Misty J. Thompson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 57, together with the Northerly half of vacated Bedard Street adjoining said Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown as vacated by Resolution recorded April 7, 1966 in Book 2 of Micro Records at Page 533. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201119250, Bk 885, Pg 877, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 17, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $179,885.13. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,856.94, 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 31, 2012 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 hav-

ing 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 nonmonetary 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# 7023.97589) 1002.207163-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 19, 2012, 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 16 in Block 4 of El-Mar Estates Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof recorded in Book 10 of Plats at Page 86. Brenda M. Nydegger & Terrance Lee Nydegger, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Surety Title LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 27, 2007 and recorded August 7, 2007 in Book 803, Page 311 under Document No. 200720446. 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 $1,259.40, beginning April 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 August 9, 2012 is $190,275.80 principal, interest at the rate of 4.3750% now totaling $11975.53, late charges in the amount of $819.52, escrow advances of $4601.31 and other fees and expenses advanced of $970.95, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.81 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 13, 2012 /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 13th day of July, 2012, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 V Nydegger 41926.549 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 19, 2012, 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, BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Stephen B Monogue, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank - Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 28, 2008 and recorded on April 28, 2008 on Book 817 and Page 1211 as Document No. 200809436. The beneficial interest is currently held by SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,284.88, beginning February 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 1, 2012 is $205,402.97 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00% now totaling $12,324.12, late charges in the amount of $1,026.92, escrow advances of $3,297.21, and other fees and expenses advanced of $258.62, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.76 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 18, 2012 /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 18th day of June, 2012, 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 Suntrust V Monogue 41531.657 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 26, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First Amer-

ican Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 350 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Adam Hannum and Elizabeth L. Hannum, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Lender’s First Choice, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 25, 2008 and recorded September 10, 2008 in Book 826, Page 118, under document No. 200820934. The beneficial interest is currently held by First Horizon Home Loans a division of First Tennessee Bank National 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 tine amount of $1,689.46, beginning July 1, 2009, 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 13, 2012 is $214,946.19 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $45,407.31, late charges in the amount of $493.65, escrow advances of $11,686.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,790.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.28 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 20, 2012 /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 20th day of July, 2012, 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/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 NationstarVs. Hannum 41706.470 0596965599 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/11/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust

Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CAMERON Z GRIGGS, AND KATHLEEN M GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS AND NOT AS TENANTS IN COMMON as Grantors, conveyed said real property to OLD REPUBLIC NATIONAL TITLE CO as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 08/04/2005, in document No. 200519979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 757 at Page Number 859 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY SITUATE IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: A TRACT OF LAND IN N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 49’ 04” E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S. 35 16’ 43” E., 442.74 FEET; THENCE S. 38 23’ 38” E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N. 40 21’ 56” W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 68; THENCE N. 40 58’ 12” E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS BY DEED FROM CAMERON Z. GRIGGS AND KATHLEEN M. GRIGGS, AS JOINT TENANTS RECORDED 08/13/2004 IN DEED BOOK 737 PAGE 1511, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA, COUNTY MONTANA. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: A TRACT OF LAND IN THE N1/2 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST AND SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NW CORNER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., THENCE N. 85 DEGREES 49’ 04” E., 2436.23 FEET TO A POINT IN BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIMIT OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468 AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S. 35 DEGREES 16’ 43” E., 447.74 FEET; THENCE S. 38 DEGREES 23’ 38” E., 1081.77 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 384.92 FEET; THENCE N. 40 DEGREES 21’ 56” W., 1770.67 FEET TO A POINT ON THE BUTLER CREEK ROAD AND ON THE NORTHERLY LIST OF THAT DEED IN BOOK 212 AT PAGE 468; THENCE N. 40 DEGREES 58’ 12” E., 329.98 FEET ALONG SAID ROAD AND LIMIT TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 306

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 39.

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 October 15th 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 October 18th, 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.

OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 970.

Property Address: 9800 BUTLER CREEK RD, MISSOULA, MT 59808-9081. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, OF HARBORVIEW 2005-13 TRUST FUND. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $298,586.45 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.125% per annum from 08/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 08/29/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0111402 FEI NO. 1006.147970 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/11/2013, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST

BLUE MOUNTAIN

MINI STORAGE 5990 Highway 93 S. Missoula, MT 59803

Will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: A3-4, A24, B18-19, B20. Units may contain misc. household goods, furniture, toys, clothes, tools and other misc. items. These units may be viewed starting October 25th, 2012 through October 26th, 2012. Written sealed bids may be submitted to Grizzly Property Management's office at 715 Kensington Ave. Ste. 25B, Missoula, MT. 59801 prior to Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.

Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Unit must be emptied by buyer at least 10 business days from day of sale. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All sales are final.

COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MARK A. DARROW AND LAURIE G. DARROW, AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 05/03/2007 and recorded 05/09/2007, in document No. 200711202 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 796 at Page Number 1244 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 55 OF THE AMENDED PLAT OF TRAIL CREEK ADDITION OR PHASE VI TO THE DOUBLE ARROW RANCH, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 610 TIMBER LANE, SEELEY LAKE, MT 59868. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $192,712.80 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 06/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by David Bixby and Linda Bailey to expand their non-conforming detached garage in size and height in the R5.4 zoning district for a property located at 501 E. Crosby.

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If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the 258-3869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.

amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 08/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0074155 FEI NO. 1006.166369 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/22/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRET BALDASSIN, AND JODY BALDASSIN HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to GENUINE TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/12/2009 and recorded 07/09/2009, in document No. 200916839 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 843 at Page Number 481 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES,

IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 13 OF VALLEY VISTA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF PARCEL ID: 5802717 Property Address: 6050 APRIL LANE, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $244,994.79 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.75% per annum from 04/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

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 charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary

RESOLUTION NUMBER 2012 A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO REZONE PROPERTY LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SW1/4 OF SECTION 16, IN TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE WARRANTY DEED IN BOOK 857 PAGE 643 (MICRO), FROM C-I1 (LIGHT INDUSTRY ) TO C-RR2 (RESIDENTIAL-2 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE).

WHEREAS, 76-2-201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76-113, as amended; and, WHEREAS, 76-2202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and, WHEREAS, a notice of public hearing was advertised in the Independent on August 30th and September 6th, 2012; and, WHEREAS, a request to rezone the property legally described above was reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board at a public hearing held September 18, 2012; and, WHEREAS, a hearing was held by the County Commissioners of Missoula County on September 26, 2012, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed amendments to the zoning district; and, WHEREAS, the County Commissioners resolve to make a clear record of their intent to condition the rezoning to require a waiver of the right to protest being included in a future SID/RSID for non-motorized facilities serving Starr Drive; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will receive written protest for a period of thirty (30) days after publication of this notice on October 4, 2012, from persons owning real property within the contiguous boundaries of the C-I1 (Light Industry) zoning district; and FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will zone the above-described property C-RR2, subject to application of any legal protest; and FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will zone above described property C-RR2, subject to the required conditions of approval. FURTHER, copies of the C-RR2 zoning district are available for inspection at the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder and the Office of Planning and Grants. PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 26th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2012 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: MISSOULA COUNTY /s/ Bill Carey, Chair /s/ Michele Landquist, Commissioner, ATTEST: /s/ Vickie Zeier, Clerk & Recorder; APPROVED AS TO FORM: /s/ James McCubbin, Deputy County Attorney

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PUBLIC NOTICES has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/10/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120076045 FEI NO. 1006.167340 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/18/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY DOERR AND HEATHER DOERR, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/16/2006 and recorded 11/22/2006, in document No. 200630320 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 787 at Page Number 1095 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF DOERR SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 11878 WINDEMERE DR, MISSOULA, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, as-

sessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $842,140.49 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 09/07/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0136245 FEI NO. 1006.147173 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/18/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which AMY C GANGULI, AND CHRISTIAN M LEIBBRANDT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRA-

SUSTAINAFIEDS TION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/27/2007 and recorded 04/30/2007, in document No. 200710258 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 796 at Page Number 300 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 OF DREW CREEK ADDITION – PHASE VII TO THE DOUBLE ARROW RANCH, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 137 SOUTH MONTURE COURT, Seeley Lake, MT 59868. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $171,560.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 10/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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

Dated: 09/07/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0009348 FEI NO. 1006.153226 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/18/2013, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M CERASANI, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 12/06/2006 and recorded 12/12/2006, in document No. 200631786 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 788 at Page Number 1055 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 12 OF BEYER MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 12676 CONESTOGA WAY, LOLO, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on

03/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $387,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 03/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 09/06/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0141266 FEI NO. 1006.148053

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 108 North Davis. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage near Milwaukee Bike Path. Lots of upgrades and a great front porch. $180,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 11689 Stollen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $329,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2 Bdr, 1 Bath North Missoula home. $189,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $205,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 bed, 1 bath home with fenced yard. Near Good Food Store. $174,900. Broker owned. Red Carpet Realty 406-728-7262 3 bed, 2 bath across from park with open floor plan on 3rd Street. $182,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com www.movemontana.com 322 David Court. 3 bed, 1 bath on 1/4 fenced acre near river trail. 3 car garage & many great upgrades. $210,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Lower Rattlesnake home. $295,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Grant Creek / Prospect Meadows home. $319,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $258,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula, 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 4412 23rd Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage on 9600 sq.ft. lot.

Lots of room! $185,000. Betsy Mil-

yard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $179,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com 5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Wye area area home on 2.5 acres. $389,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 521 Daly. 3 bed, 2 bath in U District.

Single garage, basement, studio, enclosed front porch. $369,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 541-547 South 2nd West. Wonderful 4-plex in great neighborhood. Suitable for condo conversion. Newer rubber membrane roof. $275,000.

MLS #20120840 Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.541547s2ndst.com 6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 6785 Prairie Schooner. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1/2 acre at end of quiet culde-sac. $229,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 8821 Haven Heights Road. 5 bed, 4 bath with basement & 3 car garage on 5 end-of-road acres. $534,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 9585 Glacier Lily Drive. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with basement & 2 car garage with large fenced yard. $184,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

Long time family home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $259,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 2405227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home!

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for a place to call home?

Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 5447507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for homebuyer education?

Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 5447507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Near River Trail 1401 Cedar St #2: This 2 bed, 1.5 bath townhome next to rive trail is close to downtown and the walking and bike trails. Income qualified buyers only and owner occupied. $125,000. Call KD for details.

240-5227. porticorealestate.com Need Missoula area home. Guaranteed income. Owner contract. Remodels or none traditional okay.

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bedroom, one bath, all SS appliances, deck and access to community room and exercise room plus more.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com 2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues. Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola.

Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage on corner lot with Mount Jumbo views. $289,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more.

1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. $250,000. 2405227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900.

Great downtown living! Call Anne

546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Uptown Flats #109. Upscale gated community near downtown. $154,710. 1 bed, 1 bath, all SS appliances, deck and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com www.movemontana.com Wilma Condo 1 bedroom condo in the beautiful historic Wilma building, in the heart of downtown Missoula in the center of it all. This is sweet sweet. Come take a look today. $185,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MANUFACTURED

LAND FOR SALE NHN Kemp. Corner building lot. Mobiles allowed. $60,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com NHN Twin Creek Road/Bonner.

3.69 acres with creek. Mobiles on permanent foundations allowed. $165,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

HOMES

Wanted 80-400 Acres forested land in Mineral or Sanders county within 1.5hrs of Missoula airport email jon@richsoil.com more info permies.com/land

COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville. Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com

RICE TEAM

15436 French Valley Lane, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath mobile on rented lot. $48,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 15436 French Valley Lane, Frenchtown.

3 bed, 2 bath mobile on rented lot. $48,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

PRICE REDUCED 4 bed 2 bath house on one full landscaped acre near Wye. Great Well at 30 gpm. 2 gas fireplaces, updated kitchen and bathrooms. $279,000.

MLS #20120012. 9869 Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lane, Missoula. Call Anne 546-5816 for details. www.movemontana.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Uptown Flats #210. Upscale gated community near downtown. $149,900. One

Robin Rice 240-6503

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TURN KEY PROPERTY 1641 Stoddard $650,500 To-be-built 6-plex on Northside MLS #20125735

HUNTER'S PARADISE 15305 Spring Hill $590,000 5 acres bordered

by Forest Service land.

MUST SEE PROPERTY 19488 Highway 200 East $399,900 Blackfoot River right across the street

BRAND NEW LISTING 4 Klakken, Noxon $259,000 Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. Great area for hunting & fishing & other outdoor recreation MLS #20125908

1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell GREAT INVESTMENT!

Affordable Townhomes Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

$380,000 This is a property that pencils out!

Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 360-8234 Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $375,000. Call Anne for details. 546-5816 www.movemontana.com

www.1136howell.com MLS #20125053

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REAL ESTATE East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $55,000.

240-5227 porticorealestate.com

2110 Petty Creek, Alberton. Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

OUT OF TOWN

2351 Highway 83 West, Seeley Lake.

2 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 2.4 lakefront acres. $583,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

101 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with separate office. $315,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with 48’x30’ shop. $298,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 1623 Wild Turkey Lane, Stevensville.

Over 200 acre private ranch with creek surrounded by conservation easement land. $998,500. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres.

Close to the river and Forest Service land. $174,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5471 Wildlife Way, Florence. 4 bed, 3 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 1 acres. Trex decks & mountain views. $300,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com Beautiful Potomac 25500 Ashby Creek. 20+/- acres. Want beauty, privacy and off-the-grid living with creek, main house and guest house?

Here it is! $350,000. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

19488 Highway 200 East/ Bonner.

5 bed, 3 bath, basement & 3 car garage on 3 mountain view acres. $399,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

UNIQUE 4bed/3bath log home & guest cabin outside Superior on over 1.5 acres. Mountain landscaping, HUGE deck. Offered at $350,000.

Contact Dawn Maddux, Windermere Real Estate. 406-550-4131

2 Bdr, 1 Bath Stevensville log home on 1.2 acres. $139,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL

2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $219,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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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

[C12] Missoula Independent • October 11 – October 18, 2012