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STREET TALK
[voices] by Derek Brouwer
Asked Tuesday afternoon in the University Center Food Court As the election mercifully heads down the homestretch, what race(s) or issue(s) are you following most closely? Followup: Whether in politics, pop culture or life, who’s your favorite underdog?
Dayton Vaughn: Obviously the one I’m following the most is the presidential election because it’s covered by all the news stations and it’s all over the internet. It’s everywhere. Pretty scary, the two candidates we chose. Absolutely terrifying, and I don’t like it at all. Dammed up: Oregon State, the football team. They’re always bad, but there’s just something about them. The record may not show it, but their drive and confidence always does.
Isa Owre: This year, I haven’t been following politics that much because I realize that we don’t have very good options. Everybody keeps telling me to vote, but even if I do, I don’t feel like it will make a difference because either way, the presidential candidates are not suited to be president. Losing seasons: The Seattle Mariners. They have been underdogs my entire life, but I still support them fully, and I will always stand behind them.
Brit Garner: Hands down, the presidential race. This is one of those where, in one of the candidates I see actual destruction and I am too scared not to see everything that’s going on. Winning Wizards: Neville Longbottom. He was the Gryffindor that was never supposed to be a Gryffindor, and yet came through in all Gryffindor glory.
Dane Scott: The presidential election. For me, it’s the lesser of two evils. I’m not terribly happy with what choices we have. I’ll be curious to see where it goes and how it’s going to affect the future of this country. Raider Nation: I’m a born-and-raised Raiders fan, and they’ve actually won a few games this year, so I hope it can take them into an era of winning.
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I am living My friend Shelly changes her fentanyl patches every two days. It used to be a single patch every three days. Now it’s two patches every other day—for a combined 62.5 mcg. Diagnosed one year ago with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, she’s in a club she never asked to join. With cancer as her entry ticket, she can fill her prescriptions without question. But when she uses morphine and Dilaudid and lorazepam for breakthrough pain and anxiety, “All I can do is sleep,” she says. “That’s not living.” Her medical marijuana card used to offer an alternative. “Mentally, physically, spiritually, psychologically … with the pot, I am living,” she says. I met Shell’s providers in early August when I took her to the pot shop, and I was impressed with their professionalism, knowledge, concern for Shelly, and their array of products. They applauded testing, taxation and regulations, but were frustrated with Montana’s forthcoming legislation. When it took effect Aug. 31 and limited providers to only three patients, they couldn’t afford to stay in business. Shell has been receiving in-home hospice care since spring. Marijuana enabled her to make memories with her family: taking road trips to Yellowstone National Park and to Colorado, enjoying movie nights and family dinners, and dancing at her daughter’s wedding. She stocked up on enough pot “to last through September” but now it’s October and her pain has worsened. She is without a provider, as are 11,849 other registered medical marijuana patients (see “In search of releaf,” Oct. 6). In 2014, there were more than 14,000 U.S. deaths involving prescription opioids. According to the DEA, “No death from overdose of marijuana has been reported.” Montanans voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2004, and it has been used to treat patients with cancer, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy and more. Please vote for I-182. Karen Buley Missoula
Don’t be fooled For years, trappers have been making up false stories about proposals to restrict recreational and commercial trapping on Montana’s public lands. Recently, trappers have been saying the Montana Trap-Free Public Lands initiative, I-177, is funded by out-of-state money.
As often happens, the truth has emerged about those falsehoods. On Oct. 3, the official Montana State Political Practice finance reports came out. It seems the trappers are the ones getting a lot of out-of-state money. Out-of-state contributions to protrappers were $37,000 (27 percent of total funds). Meanwhile, only $6,000 (5.3 percent of total funds) were contributed from out of state in support of I-177. It’s a common political tactic. People who are ashamed to honestly discuss their position become desperate as the truth emerges. A common defense is to change the subject to something only slightly related like donations and occasionally, and more shamefully, to make things up.
“The only animals I ever got in a trap
lars. I am close to 65 years old, grew up without a dad and learned everything the hard way. The only animals I ever got in a trap that it wasn’t set for were skunks— and not many of them for that matter, thank God, haha. I like some of the ideas about trapping classes besides the mandatory ones for wolves, increase trail setbacks or eliminate trapping in heavily used areas. My traps are also weight adjustable so a lynx or bobcat can step directly on the hidden pan without springing the trap. I think there can be some good dialog between trappers and non-trapping community, and it is showing up in some of these articles. One thing for sure to remember is outlawing trapping on public ground will eliminate the sage grouse in less than 10 years—they can’t reproduce with our farming practices, and cattle and sheep grazing in critical areas, and especially with their No. 1 predator, the coyote.
that it wasn’t set for
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were skunks—and not many of them for that matter, thank God, haha. “
The real issue voters need to consider is whether or not to allow this cruel abuse to continue on our public lands, where it should not be tolerated any more than it would be if observed by citizens on the courthouse lawn. I am well aware of the abuses inherent in trapping. I struggled with those abuses firsthand when I was a trapper and I fooled myself about them for too long. I will vote for I-177. Peter W. Stone Polson
Misinformed writers I have read some of the articles concerning the ban proposal to eliminate trapping on all public lands. It is sad how misinformed these letter writers are—obviously, they’ve never met a trapper or went on a trap line to see the modern equipment used in today’s world. All my traps are gaped, have rounded edges so they don’t damage the foot/pelt and are checked once a day, sometimes more often from a distance using binocu-
Key to success As an early childhood educator I have seen firsthand the lasting impact the resources offered by the Missoula Public Library have had on young learners in our community. I have been a kindergarten teacher in Missoula schools for the past 37 years. I believe the library is one of Missoula’s most valuable assets. It is well documented that early and regular exposure to literacy experiences dramatically increases the likelihood a child will become successful in school as well as a lifelong learner. Our library has consistently offered many fine programs specifically designed to develop early literacy. Currently, the Missoula Public Library has reached its capacity to meet the growing demand for these vital educational programs. A new, updated facility will ensure continued support for all the children in Missoula. Our new library will have adequate space to expand existing programs and create new and innovative experiences for young learners. Plans to include the SpectrUM Discovery Area and Children’s Museum in the library space will greatly expand learning opportunities for every child in our community. I urge you to vote yes for our library! A yes vote is a vote for enhancing educational opportunities for our children. Claudia LaRance Missoula
VOTE
Dave Strohmaier for Missoula County Commissioner The ONLY candidate in this race endorsed by the Montana Conservation Voters (MCV) Dave’s sincerity and experience combine to make him the right candidate at the right time for Missoula County. – Carol and Pat Williams (Former State Senate Majority Leader and Former US Congressman)
Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide & Working Better Together I have known Dave as a father, an author, a historian, a former firefighter and a former city councilman. His thoughtfulness towards issues and his constituents is beyond reproach. Dave has my unconditional support in the race for the Missoula County Commissioner. – Ellie Hill Smith, Representative, House District 90, Missoula
I would appreciate your vote on your mail-in ballot or on Tuesday November 8.
Dave’s ability to listen and collaborate, and his passion for justice and equality make him the right person to be our next commissioner. – Diane Sands, Montana State Senator (Lolo/Target Range/Orchard Homes/El Mar)
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Kate Whittle
Wednesday, Oct. 12 An unnamed 15-year-old boy is charged in Missoula Youth Court with misdemeanor disorderly conduct related to the recent “Zootown Klown” Facebook post.
Thursday, Oct. 13 Officials from the EPA and state Department of Environmental Quality host a meeting in Frenchtown about the cleanup at the former Smurfit Stone mill. Officials say there’s “limited” contamination at the site but more sampling is needed to see how much pollution is seeping into the Clark Fork.
Friday, Oct. 14 Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke reports he has $986,000 left in his campaign coffers. His challenger, Denise Juneau, reports $775,000 remaining in hers. Reports show Zinke’s campaign has outspent Juneau’s by about 4 to 1.
Saturday, Oct. 15 Former Missoula Osprey catcher Miguel Montero jacks a pinch-hit grand slam to help lead the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory in the opening game of the National League Championship Series.
Sunday, Oct. 16 A man and his daughter walking on a remote road near Whitefish surprise a mother bear and her cubs, prompting the bear to attack. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports that the man used bear spray and was later treated for bite wounds.
Monday, Oct. 17 About 50 young men and a handful of women line up at GameStop in Southgate Mall, awaiting the 10 p.m. special release of the new Xbox One S, the benefits of which completely mystify one man’s benevolent girlfriend. The enthused gamers have no way of knowing that the time they’ll get to spend enjoying their console will be tragically limited due to a future internet outage.
Tuesday, Oct. 18 Sometime in the early morning, Charter internet service goes down for a wide swath of Missoula, and remains out through the day. Dozens of customers flock to Break Espresso, one of the few downtown coffee shops that still has working wifi.
Dan Seifert practices vertical rope climbing during the inaugural Cave Camp, held by the Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto near Belt from Oct. 14 to Oct. 16. The event included climbing clinics, cave explorations and cleanups.
Refugees
Landing on two wheels Part of Missoula’s “soft landing” for refugees includes landing on a bicycle. That’s why, over the past month, Free Cycles Director Bob Giordano and his volunteer bike mechanics have been busier than usual. Not only have they been helping the group responsible for welcoming the refugees, Soft Landing Missoula, but they’ve also needed to translate a bit of Swahili. Soft Landing Missoula recently welcomed five families to Missoula from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. More refugees are expected to follow, and all will have transportation needs, says SLM spokeswoman Greta Bates. “[For them], driving is a long way down the road, and the bus system sometimes doesn’t quite
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fill the need,” says Bates. “But Missoula is so bikefriendly—it’s part of our identity.” When Bates asked Giordano for help, he already had a few bikes ready to go. Others have had to be assembled. Giordano’s had each family visit the nonprofit’s First Street location so they could choose their bikes, be fitted and learn some safety rules. So far, 20 bicycles have left his workshop in the hands of happy refugees. “They’ve all taken a strong liking to that freedom,” Giordano says. “It’s a good example of how people can live car-free.” Diehard cyclist Ethel MacDonald knows it takes time for even longtime residents to learn the rules of the road and the easiest local bike routes. So she’s trying to rally members of Women Bike Missoula, or MizzBs, to be volunteer “bike buddies” to help refugee families find the safest ways around town.
MacDonald thinks it’s important to have females in that role because they would be more approachable and encouraging to women coming from a more patriarchal society like that of the Congo. Having visited Africa, MacDonald says Congolese women are used to walking a lot, often carrying items for sale on their heads. But few have done much bike riding, partly because they tend to wear longer skirts, MacDonald says. “[MizzBs’] focus is on women, and I feel, as the old saying goes, ‘You educate the mother, you educate the family,’” MacDonald says. “That’s where the challenge is, but that’s also where the big reward is.” But to earn that reward, the refugee bike program needs help. MacDonald has heard from a handful of women but she’s looking for more volunteer bike buddies. Giordano, on the other hand, can’t afford to just give away all the bikes incoming
[news] refugees will need. Although Missoula In Motion donates lights, each refugee also needs a helmet and a bike lock, preferably a U-lock. “We’re digging in deep and trying to figure out funding and grants to make it sustainable,� Bates says. Laura Lundquist
Chihuahuas
Casting Bruiser Each chihuahua came dressed for the part. Pip was wearing a tutu, while Teeto—whose half-Yorkie genes gave him long, flowing fur—sported a shirt that read, “The cool dog just showed up.� Then there was Kung Pao. White-haired, 2 years old, and weighing in just under 4 pounds, she wore a pink sweater with a crown printed on it. Kung Pao was not to be messed with. While mingling in the foyer, Kung Pao hustled over to Teeto and barked in his face. “Sorry, she’s feisty,� owner Karla Colwill said. The three dogs had arrived at the University of Montana PAR/TV building to audition for any chihuahua’s most coveted role: Bruiser, the famed sidekick in Legally Blonde. UM’s School of Theatre & Dance, along with the School of Music, will perform the musical version of the cult classic in November. A month before opening night, director Teresa Waldorf had one part left to cast. “Everyone knows Bruiser, so we knew we couldn’t just pop any small dog onstage,� she says. “We knew it had to be someone who would meet the expectations—which are high.� For Kung Pao, it was an unlikely chance for a big break. None of the dogs there to audition had acting experience, but Kung Pao’s journey to the stage was particularly long. Her life began in a meth house in South Carolina, Colwill explains, where she was rescued by a friend before the meth dealers were busted and their animals seized. Kung Pao was five weeks old at the time.
Colwill, a UM employee who says she is “not a small dog person,� agreed to take in the chihuahua nonetheless. She learned about the Bruiser casting call through a friend involved with the production and decided to give Kung Pao a shot. “Oh, it’s new for her,� Colwill says. “It’s a new experience.� Waldorf outlined expectations before the auditions in the Masquer Theatre began. Bruiser’s role in the musical is modest, she said, just a few scenes in the first act. The dog must be able to run to center stage, sit or stay, walk on a leash, and hop into a bag or kennel. There’s a speaking line as well, but Waldorf has a backup plan in case the dog can’t bark on command, a more advanced skill. “We plan for every contingency,� she says. When the auditions began, Kung Pao’s name was called first. Her nails clacked along the stage as she ran around on the leash held by junior acting major Whitney Miller, who is cast for the lead role of Elle. Kung Pao refused to sit on the hard surface but impressed the production crew by jumping into her kennel on command. She gazed toward the audience while held in Miller’s arms—“cheating out,� in theater terminology. The act wasn’t flawless, and Miller describes the competition as “stiff � (the chosen dog was not immediately announced). Regardless, Kung Pao’s owner was upbeat. “We’re going to do some obedience classes, donate her time to hospice,� Colwill told the director afterwards. “Because she’s pretty good, for a chihuahua.� Derek Brouwer
Health care
New clinic opens in Lolo For the first time in more than a year, Lolo residents have access to basic medical care right in their community. On Oct. 3, the new First Care Lolo Clinic quietly opened its doors, filling a void left
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Chances left for Preserve Historic Missoula to save the Merc. On Oct. 18, Missoula County District Court Judge Dusty Deschamps issued the group “one last opportunity� to show it has legal standing to challenge the city council’s decision to approve demolition.
The words may be more than a century old, but they carry fresh, contemporary purpose for Julie Cajune. Her voice rises as she builds to the last line—“Ireland unfree shall never be at peace�— and she jabs the air with an index finger for effect. The common room at the Dearborn Apartments, where Cajune is rehearsing, falls into silence. Cajune is one of more than a dozen speakers recruited for an Oct. 20 University of Montana event commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Her piece is a stirring one: a panegyric delivered by rebel leader Padraig Pearse at the graveside of Irish visionary O’Donovan Rossa in August 1915. But the passion behind Cajune’s delivery stems from the connection this Salish educator and historian felt upon reading them for the first time. When Pearse writes of the Ireland his fellows dreamed of—“not free merely, but Gaelic as well; not Gaelic merely, but free as well�—Cajune thinks of all the losses Native American people have incurred. She wonders if the Irish once felt as tribal members feel today, not as truly sovereign but rather as dual citizens. And she hopes those tribes can one day fully revive their languages and customs as Ireland has. When Pearse pledges his hate of English rule—“to hate evil, to hate untruth, to hate oppression, and, hating them, to strive to overthrow them�—Cajune thinks of the “unified struggle� unfolding now near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. What began as a fight for clean water and cultural heritage has morphed into a larger stand against corporate and historic oppression, with members of more than 260 tribes traveling to join the movement. Cajune says something “remarkable� could occur in North Dakota, adding, “The women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, all of those things happened through the labor and sacrifice of ordinary people.� When Pearse invokes the spirit of Rossa, Cajune is reminded of historic Salish leaders like Chief Victor who strived to preserve his homeland. To her, she isn’t simply reciting the thoughts of some long-dead Irishman. She’s channeling a sentiment that lives on in a people an ocean and a century away. “It wasn’t just freedom in this small space,� she says of Pearse’s vision. “It was also the right to be who they were with their language and their beliefs and their life and history.�
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when the Western Montana Clinic-operated Lolo Family Practice abruptly closed in mid-2015. “Shortly after it closed, we started getting inquiries from different folks from the Lolo area saying, ‘Gee, can you come in?’� says David Lechner, chief medical officer for Community Medical Center. “We started looking at doing that, and started looking at space to come in.� Lechner says the owner of the vacant Family Practice building, local businessman Frank Miller, was willing to cut a good deal, and the new Community Physician Group First Care walk-in clinic moved in with minimal remodeling. “We’re ecstatic to be in Lolo, and ecstatic that we could go back into the building that people associate with their health care,� Lechner says. A nurse practitioner and physician assistant provide primary care at the facility, supervised by a physician. Lechner says they expect to serve 3,000 to 4,000 patients from the Lolo area, and potentially draw residents from South Hills and Linda Vista neighborhoods as well. So far, the Lolo clinic has garnered a lot of attention just by word of mouth. Clinic manager Casey Knutson says they’re seeing 15 to 20 patients a day, Monday through Saturday. “Word’s been getting out more and more every day,� Knutson says. “Multiple times a day we hear, ‘So happy you’re here, so glad you’re back.’� In August 2015, Western Montana Clinic shut down the Lolo branch after the sudden departure of both of its care providers. The closure created a hardship for people like longtime Lolo resident Jean Belangie-Nye, who says she and other seniors can’t easily get to Missoula clinics. “It’s our gain that Community has picked it up,� Belangie-Nye says. “A lot of seniors were real concerned.� Kate Whittle
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Homeward bound Salish and Pend d’Oreille embrace a painful past by Alex Sakariassen
As Andrea Adams puts another mile on her hiking shoes, she reflects on the stories her father Louis told her of their people’s time in the valleys she’s now walking through. This land used to be home. Her great-grandmother was born over where the University of Montana currently sits, she says. Her Salish ancestors used to dig bitterroot along modern day Reserve Street. They lived here, camped here, traveled and searched for food here. “There’s a lot of history,” she says on a recent Saturday afternoon, her white Griz poncho rustling in the wind. Adams’ feet are steadily moving toward the Bitterroot Valley, where her father’s family lived until the U.S. Army led them on a forced march north to the Flathead Indian Reservation in 1891. Louis, who died this spring at 82, carried that burden with him all his years, Adams says. So did many before him. But as she covers the tracks of those who came through here more than a century ago, Adams does so with something less than a heavy heart. “Even though it is a sad occasion, when I woke up this morning, I had this drive to do this,” she says. “I wanted to do this. I was excited. I still am.” Several dozen tribal members are stretched out along the Missoula to Lolo Trail in front and behind Adams. Intermittent rain and blistered feet don’t appear to have dampened their spirits as they participate in the three-day Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee’s Return to the Homeland. This isn’t a celebration, says event organizer and Salish Language Coordinator Chaney Bell, but rather an act to honor their tribes’ ancestors. Bell remembers the words Louis Adams said to him prior to his passing, when the event was still in the early planning stages. “Louis told me it’s a sad moment, but we don’t want to carry that,” Bell says. “We want to be happy, and when we bring our kids back to the Bitterroot, we tell them the good stories and remind them of the good times our people did have there too.” Gena Sorrell Montoya feels it’s important to keep her people’s history alive, to teach her children who they are and where they came from. As she pushes her
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two small children along the trail in a double-wide stroller, she says she has high hopes for what they ultimately take away from the experience. “I just hope they get to feel the connection we all have as tribal people,” Montoya says. “What happens to one person affects all of us ... We’re connected and support each other.” Walking next to Montoya, Katy Sorrell ponders the differences between this trek
tality over lunch. The general manager at Fred’s Appliance opened the doors of the store’s employee kitchen, allowing the Salish and Pend d’Oreille contingent a halfhour reprieve from the rain as they dined on cups of chili. Bell acknowledges the mixed emotions the weekend’s event has stirred among its participants. It’s a hard thing to imagine his ancestors driven from their homes, he says, and 125 years isn’t even that long ago. But
photo by Alex Sakariassen
Last weekend, a band of Salish and Pend d’Oreille tribal members retraced the route of their ancestors’ forced march from their Bitterroot homeland in 1891. Those participating in the walk stressed the importance of maintaining their connection to the past, however sad that past might be.
and the one her Salish relatives were forced to undertake. There’s a fleet of vehicles leap-frogging along the route to ferry food, personal supplies and those physically unable to complete the full 51 miles on foot. The walkers carry little more than water bottles and raincoats. “They were wearing moccasins,” Sorrell says of her ancestors. “They were walking without paved roads. They didn’t have strollers.” Two women did start the first day of the Return to the Homeland in moccasins, Bell says. By the time they reached the KOA Campground in Missoula, one had completely worn through her soles. The group also benefitted from a little modern hospi-
embracing their history, even the painful parts, is as critical a component in preserving who they are as maintaining cultural traditions and ensuring a new generation of Salish language speakers. In many ways, this land still is home. “It’s not about claiming something, it’s about our connection to that spot,” he says of their return. “We don’t want to forget who we are, where we came from, because when you know that, when you know who you are and where you come from, you have a stronger sense of identity. And in this crazy world, you need to know who you are so you can get through those tough obstacles.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Priced to sell UM closer to cutting loose upscale Island Lodge in Seeley by Derek Brouwer
The University of Montana is finally once the listing expired in October 2015. with Sotheby’s. They also reduced the price walking away from the island resort busi“If we had to drop that price a lot, it dramatically, asking $3.5 million. ness—but without much to show for it. doesn’t really benefit the institution,” Vice UM Foundation President Shane Giese For the second time in as many years, President for Administration and Finance says the asking price matches what a recent the university has put the Montana Island Mike Reid told the Missoulian in January. appraiser said the property is worth. Lodge, located on a private island on Salmon UM’s calculus changed in the months Bergquist calls it a fair market value. Lake, up for sale, slashing the asking price by that followed. The university shut down the “This was definitely not a firesale nearly 50 percent in hopes that a buyer will lodge by spring and informed the UM Foun- price,” Bergquist says. take the property off its hands. dation that it would terminate its lease by JanWith the reduced price, however, UM For 20 years, the university operated uary 2017, or whenever the property sells stands to reap less from the property the 18,000-square-foot mansion as a resort, (whichever comes first). Officials say the de- than it might have two decades ago. The terms of Washington’s gift also stipulate hosting weddings, overnight guests and cision was financial. that net proceeds from a sale must corporate retreats. A series of drabe divided equally between the four matic events in the early 1990s led affiliate campuses, making the divito UM’s acquisition of the unusual dend to main campus smaller yet. asset, which is only accessible by Before dividing the money, though, boat. It was built in the 1980s by officials in Missoula will look to rebusinessman Bruce Vorhauer, the coup the maintenance costs and upinventor of the Today contraceptive grades it has invested at the lodge sponge. Not long after he built the over the years, which previous news property, Vorhauer’s life and wealth articles state exceeded $1 million. unraveled. He landed in debt after Giese says a provision in the agreea failed U.S. Senate run and other ment allows for UM to be reimmisfortunes, including a car accibursed for “improvement work” dent on the way to the mansion that before the remaining money would killed his fiancèe. Vorhauer burned be distributed, a phrase he says is his yacht, which he had purchased “open to interpretation.” from billionaire businessman and photo courtesy of Cole Bergquist UM donor Dennis Washington, a At least this time around, a sale day before it was to be repossessed, could come quick. Bergquist says a according to an account of his life in The University of Montana Foundation re-listed prospective buyer group put the lodge its Montana Island Lodge for sale in August and the Los Angeles Times. A year later, reduced the asking price by 46 percent. under contract less than a month after facing an arson investigation, listing. Bergquist brought out the welVorhauer was found dead across the shore “The facility did not generate sufficient come wagon for the buyers’ September from the lodge, an apparent suicide. revenue to keep up with management and showing, including a new boat hauled over Washington subsequently bought the maintenance costs,” spokeswoman Paula by a Bretz RV representative so the crew property for $2.2 million at a foreclosure Short says. could tour Salmon Lake in style. auction, then gifted it to the University of Associate Vice President of AdministraBergquist says the partners, who are Montana Foundation in 1996. The island tion and Finance Beckie Christiaens adds that based in Salt Lake City, have “a lot of diflodge was valued at $4.8 million at the the facility brought in roughly enough rev- ferent visions” for the property. The agent’s time, according to UM Foundation finan- enue to cover operations, but not enough to Facebook page also indicates he may have cial statements. The university has leased afford the long-term maintenance and capital been able to leverage his football past to the property from the foundation since, upgrades required. With no bookings last make the sale—one of the buyers is an old employing a caretaker and maintenance summer to bring in revenue, the lodge ran a teammate from his time in the Canadian workers to manage the island. $40,000 deficit in 2016 and will continue to Football League. But the deal isn’t final, Bergquist What began as a gift eventually be- bleed utility costs until it’s sold or the lease came a financial and management expires. No employees are assigned to the fa- notes, with a presale inspection of the property still pending. headache, and in 2014 the university de- cility. Its phone lines are disconnected. In August, the UM Foundation re-listed “We’re nowhere near out of the forest cided to sell. But unloading the property proved difficult. The original $6.5 million the property with a new real estate agent: for- yet,” he says. asking price generated little interest, mer Grizzlies quarterback Cole Bergquist, dbrouwer@missoulanews.com prompting UM to reconsider its options who specializes in high-end residential realty
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Undermining democracy Ryan Zinke has no more excuses for supporting Donald Trump by Dan Brooks
It is a peculiarity of Montana politics that virtually no polls emerge until they are too late to do anyone any good. The recently released Lee Newspapers poll follows this tradition, finding incumbent U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke with a 13-point lead over challenger Denise Juneau. Barring some massive gaffe or personal revelation, that’s an unsurmountable advantage. Only 6 percent of respondents were undecided, so Juneau would have to win over all of them plus a considerable amount of Zinke’s current supporters in the next three weeks. That seems unlikely. There is hardly time left for Juneau to turn the race around, but there is still time for Zinke to capitalize on his lead by withdrawing his endorsement of Donald Trump. Perhaps you’ve heard of Trump. He’s the Republican candidate for president who was caught on tape bragging about using his fame to force himself on women. “Grab them by the pussy,” he told Billy Bush. “You can do anything.” If any billionaires or presidents’ nephews are reading this, do not take Trump’s advice. What he is describing is in fact sexual assault. But in the two weeks since the tape emerged, Republicans have tried to rebrand it as “locker room talk.” That’s how Rep. Zinke’s wife, Lolita Zinke, described it in an editorial submitted to Montana newspapers. She says that because of her continued support for Trump, she has been called uneducated and a disgrace to women. “The intolerance of the modern Democratic Party is a far cry from the Democratic Party I used to support as an independent voter,” she writes. Let us take a moment to appreciate her position. The wife of a Republican congressman would have a hard time repudiating the Republican nominee, no matter how odious he became. Motivated reasoning is a powerful thing. You can see just how powerful in her claim that the Democratic Party is intolerant. Perhaps the party of intolerance is not the one that rejects criticism of its own nominee. Maybe it’s the one that nomi-
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nated a man who proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States, published false statistics about black-on-white crime, promises to deport millions of nonwhite immigrants and—after taking a break for that sex crime thing—now calls on his supporters to “monitor” polling places in black neighborhoods. In that moment, he reached a new low. Trump spent last weekend undermining confidence in democracy itself.
“There is hardly time left for Juneau to turn the race around, but there is still time for Zinke to capitalize on his lead by withdrawing his endorsement of Donald Trump.” He warned a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., that the election could be “stolen” from them. On Sunday, he tweeted that “the election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary—but also at many polling places—SAD.” Appearing on CNN the same day, his surrogate Rudolph Giuliani said only a moron would think elections in Chicago and Philadelphia were legitimate, since Democrats control “the inner city.” Trump made these claims with no evidence. Neither the mainstream media
nor any of the partisan outlets controlled by either campaign has reported instances of fraud related to this election. Declaring voter fraud three weeks before Election Day would be absurd, were it not so irresponsible. Trump’s comments undermine the very foundation of American government. They are different from smears against his opponent, bigoted rhetoric or boasts about forcing himself on women. So many things Trump has said in the last year have been crass or dishonest, but they were politics—attempts to win votes within our electoral system. His new lies, utterly unsubstantiated, are designed to convince his supporters to reject that system. They attack democracy itself. I call on Rep. Zinke to repudiate them and withdraw his endorsement of Trump. His wife says this election is about bigger issues than “locker room talk.” Very well—what issue could be bigger than the election itself? When one candidate starts saying the results don’t matter, that he deserves to win regardless of what voters say, he transgresses the bounds of American politics and ventures into sedition. As a Navy SEAL and a member of Congress, Zinke has taken more than one oath to defend the Constitution. Today he has an opportunity to do just that, without risking his life or even his seat in the House. He’s going to win in November. If he wants that victory to mean something, he must reject the man at the top of his ticket who says the vote is rigged. The Zinkes don’t have to endorse Hillary Clinton. They don’t even have to vote for her. But they must endorse American democracy and the system of free and fair elections that has sustained it for more than 200 years. There are some things more important than political parties, and the vote itself is one of them. Commander Zinke should step forward and defend it. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the opportunity to do right at combatblog.net
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Into the (not so) wild When hiking takes you through fragmented high country by Kyle Boelte
“You have to stop in Twin Lakes for beer,” a young thru-hiker told us on the Colorado Trail, several days after we’d already passed through Twin Lakes. “I had two before heading up the pass.” It didn’t sound like a winning strategy to us, but to each their own. My wife, Julia, and I are longtime backpackers, but we had never attempted a long-distance point-to-point hike. Julia was about to turn 40, and she suggested we do something more than, say, a party, to mark the occasion. We picked the Colorado Trail in part because I grew up in Colorado, and the trail is one of the most beautiful thru-hikes in the United States. As important, though, is that it is short enough to be done without taking a sabbatical or retiring. Other popular thru-hikes, including the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail, take about six months to complete. It didn’t take long to figure out that thru-hiking would be very different from our typical backpacking trips, and not just because of the trail’s 486-mile length. ( We completed the trail in 29 days, which is about four “standard” weeklong backpacking trips back to back.) What really stood out was the trail itself. Our typical backpacking adventures have taken place in wilderness—either official wilderness areas or at least lands that have a wilderness quality. These trips often involve loops, which allow us to stay within the wilderness even if it’s not a huge area, geographically speaking. In contrast, the Colorado Trail, like all thru-hikes, is about getting from one place to the next. That means it often leaves the wilderness. The Colorado Trail Foundation boasts that it’s the state’s “premier longdistance trail. Stretching from Denver to Durango … it travels through the spectacular Colorado Rocky Mountains among peaks with lakes, creeks and diverse ecosystems. Trail users experience six wilderness areas and eight mountain
ranges topping out at 13,271 feet, just below Coney Summit at 13,334 feet. The average elevation is over 10,000 feet and it rises and falls dramatically. Hikers traveling from Denver to Durango will climb 89,354 feet.” This is not exactly inaccurate, but it leaves a lot out. Julia and I typically don’t backpack on, beside, under or
“Backpacking solely in wilderness areas can trick you into thinking that a lot of land has been protected, especially if you are hiking big loops.”
near: dams, power lines, houses, roads, ATVs, motorcycles, highways, ski lifts, bus stops, fire stations, parking lots, gondolas or golf courses. On the Colorado Trail, we passed all of these things, some of them multiple times in the course of the month. The Colorado Trail is broken up into 28 segments and almost every segment ends at a road of some kind. The longest segments are about 30 miles long, though most are closer to 15 miles. That means a typical thru-hiker
crosses a road at least once per day. And there are opportunities for beer down many of those roads! All of that (except, maybe, the beer) sounds to me like a good list of reasons to skip thru-hiking. Leave it to those who want backpacking to be more like a moveable party than a search for solitude. But here’s what I learned: Backpacking solely in wilderness areas can trick you into thinking that a lot of land has been protected, especially if you are hiking big loops. If you fly to Colorado from the East Coast and head straight to a wilderness area for a backpacking trip, you may be forgiven for thinking that Colorado is just one big conservation success story. In contrast, thru-hiking demonstrates just how fragmented our wildlands are. There are few places in Colorado where one can walk 15 or more miles in one direction without coming across a road of some kind. Houses line most of the mountain valleys. Rivers have been dammed. Roads cut across the high country. Sprawl is everywhere. Walking from Denver to Durango made me more enamored with Colorado’s beauty—and more concerned about its future. Julia and I were blessed to see elk, moose, deer and even a couple of foxes on our trip. But where will all those animals go to winter once all the valleys are full of people? I’m not giving up wilderness adventures. Having the time and space to appreciate the world where, as the Wilderness Act puts it, “the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” is a special gift, one that has the power to renew and restore. I’m reminding myself of all the development that surrounds our wilderness areas, and asking: “What can I do to protect more land?” Kyle Boelte is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the author of The Beautiful Unseen.
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Columbia River System Operations The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and Bonneville Power Administration invite the public to help identify issues that the agencies will analyze in the Columbia River System Operations Environmental Impact Statement. The agencies will use this EIS to assess the effects and update their approach to operations of 14 federal dams and related facilities in the interior Columbia River basin. The agencies welcome your comments, suggestions and information to help inform the scope of issues, potential effects and range of alternatives evaluated in the EIS.
Thursday, November 3, 2016 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hilton Garden Inn Missoula 3720 N. Reserve Street Missoula, Montana For more information about the Columbia River System Operations EIS, please visit this website: http://www.crso.info Information is also available by calling 800-290-5033. missoulanews.com • October 20–October 27, 2016 [11]
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EXTREME HOBBIES – John Weigel and Olaf Danielson are engaged in a frenzied battle of “extreme birdwatching,” each hoping to close out 2016 as the new North American champ of the American Birding Association, and a September Smithsonian piece had Weigel ahead, 763 to 759. Danielson is perhaps better known for doing much of his birding in the nude (and is the author of the provocatively titled volume, Boobies, Peckers and Tits—all common names of popular birds). The old oneyear record was 749, and the association attributes the larger numbers this year to El Nino, which has disrupted food supplies and driven birds into different locations. FINE POINTS OF THE LAW – Compelling Explanation: Senate Bill 1342, passed in the Idaho legislature earlier in 2016, authorizes schools to use the Bible as a reference in classrooms (despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s having specifically condemned a previous version of the bill ever since 1964). The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Sage Dixon, said he thought his law was nonetheless constitutional because, “The little Supreme Court in my head says this is OK.” (Even so, Gov. C.L. Otter vetoed the bill.) Nebraska voters in November will be asked whether to keep the state’s longstanding death penalty for murder—even though retaining it will require them to vote “repeal.” The legislature replaced death row last year with mandatory life sentences, and the referendum is to “repeal” or “retain” that legislation. Hence, to abolish the death penalty, voters must select “retain.” The state attorney general, and election officials, declined to challenge the confusing arrangement, instead suggesting that Nebraskans are smart enough to figure the whole thing out. FUN WITH PENNIES – Robert Napolitan, 34, was arrested in Taylor, Pennsylvania, in September and charged with theft of a drum containing 300,000 pennies from his employer, Pyne Freight Lines. That steel drum weighs several tons and, of course, netted Napolitan only $3,000. (By contrast, in New York City’s Diamond District in September, a brazen thief made off with a 5-gallon drum containing 86 pounds of something else—gold flakes, valued at more than $1 million—and is still at large.) For some reason, according to a High Point, North Carolina, TV report, Larry Hall of Randolph County took seven-plus weeks out of his life recently and glued pennies to cover (except for windows and chrome) his 2000 Chevrolet Blazer (a total of 51,300 coins). GREAT ART! – The 1,496-page German novel Bottom’s Dream, translated into (broken) English, more than twice as long as War and Peace, recently reached U.S. bookstores as a 13-pound behemoth, bound with a 14-inch spine that, based on a September Wall Street Journal description, will almost surely go unread. The story follows two translators and their teenage daughter over a single day as they try to interpret the works of Edgar Allen Poe, making for slow going for anyone not already conversant with Poe. BRIGHT IDEAS – While other vehicle safety-control engineers work on actually slowing down cars and buses when a risk is detected on the road ahead, one of Volvo’s recent innovations appears aimed merely at bullying pedestrians to get out of the way. According to a September report on Treehugger.com, the safety “control” for a Volvo bus consists of progressively louder horn-honking to scare off the pedestrian. SIMPLE AS THAT – (1) British farmer Pip Simpson, who lost nearly 300 sheep to rustlers in recent years, recently sprayed his remaining herd of almost 800 sheep a bright luminous orange (harmless, he said, though the sheep’s opinions are unknown) to make them less attractive to thieves. (2) Saudi Arabia switched to the 365-day Gregorian calendar on Oct. 2, in part to reduce government expenses. Bureaucrats had been using the Islamic lunar Hijri (354-day) calendar, but now must work a 3 percent longer year for the same salaries. LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES – In 2014, British entrepreneur Azad Chaiwala, 33, created the matchmaking service Second Wife—because, just as men have trouble finding that special person, some Mormons, Muslims and others have at least as much trouble finding that special additional person. (Most clients, he said, are in the United States and the United Kingdom, though bigamy is illegal in both places.) The service was so successful that Chaiwala this year inaugurated Polygamy.com, which he adamantly defended as a moral alternative to adultery and one-nightstand services such as Tinder.
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POLICE REPORT – The long-rap-sheeted Darren Clinton, 48, was in the process, according to Minneapolis police, of burglarizing a hotel room in September when an occupant returned and surprised him. Clinton, wielding a knife, escaped momentarily, but the occupant summoned his nearby roommates—the visiting University of Arizona men’s cross-country team—and after a chase, which included jumping several barriers, the runners steered a severely winded Clinton into the arms of a state trooper. Thanks this week to Peter Swank, Deborah Rogers, Mel Birge and Pete and Sara Discenza, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
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Her campaign has garnered national attention, but Denise Juneau has a lot of ground to make up in her challenge to Rep. Ryan Zinke for Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House.
History hangs in the balance A day of highs and lows in Denise Juneau’s long-shot bid for U.S. Congress he sound of Denise Juneau’s name echoes across a field at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. Kevin Kicking Woman, the congressional candidate’s childhood friend and a Blackfeet tribal member, is singing it out in their native language as the two hold hands during a recent campaign rally. It’s a praise song, Kicking Woman explains, for the Native American woman whose trailblazing campaign for U.S. House has served as a beacon for Indian Country even before any votes are cast. If elected, Juneau would become the first American Indian woman to serve in Congress, a full century after the state elected the first white woman to the same seat. Already, Juneau’s the first openly gay person to run for federal office in Montana. If only there were more people to hear Kicking Woman’s song. Just 15 have gathered for the lunch-hour rally, including staffers and a member of the media. While Juneau’s bid has garnered national interest and inspired Democrats eager to
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reverse a two-decade congressional losing streak, the event underlines just how hard it can be to slog through a statewide race. Even historic campaigns can struggle to draw a crowd.
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icking Woman’s praise song to an empty field seems to reflect the paradoxical trajectory of Juneau’s campaign: Her run is simultaneously unprecedented and conventional, prominent without being captivating, singular but not quite singled out. The latest national news outlet to write about the campaign, MTV, headlined its story “The Historic Congressional Race That Nobody’s Watching.” Juneau herself wonders why the race isn’t more high profile inside the state. “I guess the governor’s race is sucking up all the air,” she says after finishing a plate of fish tacos at the Old Post, sounding unconvinced of her own answer. Unlike Montana’s gubernatorial contests, the U.S. House hasn’t been compet-
itive for years. Democrats have lost the last 10 races, often by double digits. Juneau’s opponent, incumbent Rep. Ryan Zinke, was elected to his first term in 2014 by a 15-point margin of victory. The closest Democrats have come to winning the seat in the last two decades was Nancy Keenan’s 5-point loss to Denny Rehberg in 2000. Juneau seemed poised to break the trend. She grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation (she’s a member of the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes), then obtained a master’s degree from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Montana. In 2008, she became the first Native American elected to statewide office, overseeing Montana’s K-12 schools as the superintendent of public instruction. During her eight-year tenure, high school graduation rates have steadily risen. The campaign aimed to capitalize on the excitement generated by Juneau’s background to drive up voter turnout, especially among young people and in Indian Country, where her candidacy has particular meaning.
“To have young native women say, ‘I can do this,’ especially coming from a place like Browning, that is phenomenal,” Kicking Woman says. Juneau has turned heads in Montana and beyond, but by all accounts her campaign has failed to upend the race. She trails significantly in the polls, with the latest from independent firm Mason-Dixon showing Zinke ahead by 13 points. Her campaign has also been out-fundraised, and outside groups haven’t funneled the kind of cash into the state that would suggest the parties see Zinke as vulnerable, says University of Montana journalism professor and political analyst Lee Banville. “[Juneau] has the historic nature of her candidacy, but she still needs something to kind of rally people around in a way that they have not done for the last series of House elections,” he says. Since announcing her candidacy almost a year ago, Juneau has campaigned much like conventional Montana Democrats, Banville says. She’s positioned herself,
in her words, as an independent, “no-nonsense” thinker who can bring “reasonableness and rationality to Congress.” In a recent debate, Juneau commented that she “might have a little bit of a libertarian streak,” but her pitch remains a pragmatic one. She points to her record as state superintendent to support this. As head of the Office of Public Instruction, Juneau won some skirmishes with federal education officials over student testing requirements and held out against Obama administration programs that pushed other states to tie test scores to teacher evaluations. “I haven’t been afraid to buck my party, either, particularly around education issues, and trying to make sure what-
“That’s part of the problem with politics,” she says. “People want to hear the grand rhetoric, but what are you actually going to get done?”
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uneau’s opponent also pitches himself as a pragmatic problem-solver, willing to break from his party when necessary. But Ryan Zinke’s embrace of unconventional politics includes his early endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Even as Trump plummets in the polls and alienates certain voters, Zinke has maintained his support. “What’s happening in the national scene right now is probably making
herself glued to her computer as the Trump furor intensified, angered by his misogynist comments. Davis then recalled Zinke’s earlier characterization of Trump as an “equal opportunity offender.” “I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” she says. While growing distaste for Trump may help Juneau narrow her margin, she will still need to “run the board” to have a serious chance at winning on Nov. 8, according to Banville. “She could do it, but it’s only partially her own destiny at this point,” he says. Juneau is undeterred. She thinks she can galvanize Democrats, moderate Republicans and American Indian voters in ways prior Democratic challengers in the
Stepping up Greg Gianforte is far from a stranger in Montana politics, but he’s reaching for a higher power olitics is a vile business. The words roll off Greg Gianforte’s tongue between jabs at Democratic incumbent Gov. Steve Bullock. The two have spent the past year lobbing neardaily attacks at one another. It’s a battle that’s hard for Gianforte to escape, even as he sits in his favorite living room chair;
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the view overlooks his property and a stretch of the East Gallatin River, the trout-laden waterway he’s been accused of cutting off from public access. Gianforte acknowledges the nasty nature of a high-profile campaign, but he doesn’t flinch when explaining why he would voluntarily step into such a “vile” arena and challenge a sitting elected official.
photo by Derek Brouwer
A couple hundred people, including many American Indians, turned out for a “Rez Out The Vote” event Oct. 12 in support of Denise Juneau’s candidacy. Juneau, the first Native American woman elected to statewide office, is counting on record-high turnout to again make history in Congress.
ever happens at the federal level fits our rural state,” she says, “and I’ll maintain that perspective and that attitude when I get to Congress, too.” The approach, however, can lead to some tepid-sounding answers on specific issues. Juneau calls herself a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and says Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s policy proposals go too far for Montana. But asked if she supports comprehensive background checks for gun purchases, Juneau says, “Anything that comes in front of Congress on that issue, I’d have to make sure Montanans have input as far as moving forward,” before adding: “I don’t think I’m opposed to the background checks and making sure that’s happening, because the main goal should be to ensure that we’re keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists, and that strengthens the rights of law-abiding gun owners and citizens.” Pragmatism may appeal to moderate Montana voters, but it’s hard to package in a soundbite. It’s something Juneau admits has proven challenging.
[Juneau’s] candidacy stronger by the day,” says UM’s Banville. “Ryan Zinke has aligned himself pretty tightly with Donald Trump. Even though he’s tried to put some space between them lately, I think that is an increasingly dicey position to be in.” In wake of the surfaced audio revealing Trump boasting about groping women, Juneau is sharpening her line of attack. She says Zinke, who has condemned Trump’s remarks, should be yanking his support of the candidate altogether. “There’s something wrong with continuing to want to be in the inner circle of a presidential candidate who’s imploding and who doesn’t say great things about half the population of our country,” Juneau says. “He continually tweets about the presidential candidate, talks about the presidential candidate. His wife works for the presidential candidate.” Sensing an opening, Democrats staged statewide protests outside Zinke’s congressional offices in an effort to draw further attention to the matter. Juniper Davis, a Missoula resident who volunteered to lead the protest on South Avenue, says she found
race haven’t. In her campaign’s final weeks, she’s focused on pushing them to the polls. The evening event following her sparse lunchtime rally offered some hope. Speaking in an underground lecture hall on the University of Montana campus, where the 1491s comedy troupe was performing in support of her campaign, Juneau sounded confident, forceful and at ease in front of a largely Native American audience. “We weren’t considered citizens of this country until 1924, we didn’t get the right to vote in Montana until the ’50s,” she said. “The power of the Indian vote, and the history of that, we should not forsake that. “We need to make sure American Indians are at the table at every level of government,” she continued, “and that includes Congress.” Roughly 200 people showed up for the “Rez Out The Vote” event. But by the sound of their cheers when Juneau took the microphone, it seemed like there were 200 more. Derek Brouwer
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Republican gubernatorial challenger Greg Gianforte stands on his backyard bridge over the East Gallatin River. Despite describing politics as a “vile business,” the longtime campaign donor feels duty-bound to run for office.
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“If not me, then who?” he says. “The question I think each of us has to ask is what’s the highest and best use of the skills we’ve been given. I’ve concluded that it might be in public service. It ends up not being my decision, but I’m willing to put myself forward and if Montanans want me, I’ll go to work.” Gianforte’s name was already a familiar one in Montana’s political sphere well before he officially announced his gubernatorial aspirations on Jan. 20. The wealth he’s amassed over the years as founder of software company RightNow Technologies —purchased by global tech firm Oracle for $1.5 billion in 2011—positioned Gianforte to become one of Montana’s more prolific campaign financiers. He and his wife, Susan, have donated nearly $200,000 to dozens of Republican lawmakers statewide since 2002, and poured more than $3.3 million into Gianforte’s own campaign coffers so far this year. Their nonprofit Gianforte Family Charitable Trust has contributed even greater sums in support of organizations like the Montana Family Foundation, the Montana Policy Institute and the Bozemanbased Petra Academy, a private Christian
school attended by all four of Gianforte’s children. In other words, while Gianforte may be a newcomer to actual candidacy, he’s influenced Montana politics for years as a sponsor of specific causes and legislators.
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ianforte’s candidate support includes backing some of the Montana Legislature’s loudest conservative voices. He’s supported former Rep. Art Wittich, who was found guilty earlier this year of failing to disclose $19,599 in inkind contributions, and Rep. Matt Monforton, the GOP attorney behind the legal fight to close Montana’s primary elections. Gianforte has made repeated donations to several legislators who voted to expand privatized education in the state— namely Sen. Elsie Arntzen, now running for superintendent of public instruction, and Rep. Sarah Laszloffy, chair of the 2015 House Education Committee and daughter of lobbyist and Montana Family Foundation President Jeff Laszloffy. Prior to running for office, Sarah Laszloffy worked as the state director for ACE Scholarships, a private school scholarship company that received nearly $3.4 million
from the Gianforte Family Charitable Trust from 2012 to 2014. ACE is a primary driver of the newly minted Montana School Choice Coalition, along with the Montana Family Foundation, the Montana Policy Institute and the conservative political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity. These ties to organizations and politicians active in the school choice movement have generated concerns among public education advocates. “Greg Gianforte, his wife and their foundation can give money to any organization they desire,” John C. Board, a retired Helena teacher and past president of the Montana Education Association, wrote in a letter to Montana media last month. “They have given money to Montana State University, but MSU is not a public K-12 school. What I object to is Gianforte’s sleight-of-hand and deceptive rhetoric trying to make it appear that he really cares about K-12 public schools. Clearly Gianforte champions organizations that are pro-private and anti-public K-12 schools.” Despite his considerable investment in legislative races, Gianforte says his fiscal support of certain candidates can only do so much. He feels state government has failed to move forward, despite the best
efforts of state senators and representatives. He attributes the lack of progress directly to his opponent. For example, during the last session Bullock vetoed a Republican-sponsored proposal to divert coal severance tax funds to pay for infrastructure investments, as well as three gun rights bills. “We have many great people serving in the legislature,” Gianforte says. “The challenge we have, even if the governor claims bipartisanship, he’s vetoed more bills than any governor in the history of the state. The vast majority of the work done by the House and Senate ends up in a trash can in the governor’s office.” Gianforte’s donations stretch beyond Helena, however, and it’s his financial investment in conservative Christian causes that have garnered an equal amount of criticism and concern from Democrats. According to tax records, the Gianforte Family Charitable Trust has also donated more than $75,000 over the past six years to Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative legal aid nonprofit that helped push Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law in early 2015. Critics have also singled out for attack Gianforte’s $290,000 donation to the Foundation Advancing Cre-
The incumbent advantage
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n November 2006, just days after the election, writer Timothy Egan made much of Jon Tester’s flattop haircut and hardscrabble farming roots in the pages of The New York Times. Tester had just defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Conrad Burns in a tight race punctuated by constant attack ads, and Egan joked that the Democrat from Big Sandy would soon become the only member of the U.S. Senate familiar with the art of greasing a combine. The contest quickly came to symbolize that even a regular Montana Joe could take on a three-term Beltway powerhouse and win. Montana’s 2016 election landscape is riddled with political challengers hoping to craft a similar narrative on Nov. 8. But Tester’s story of congressional ascension is the exception, not the rule. The Indy recently went over campaign data going back 20 years with the goal of shedding some light on the power of incumbency in the Treasure State, focusing specifically on partisan statewide races, from U.S. congress to clerk of the Montana Supreme Court. While the results weren’t that easy to come by—we had to get creative with the National Institute on Money in State Politics’ database and crosscheck our info with records from the Montana Secretary of State’s office—they indicate candidates who go toe-to-toe with incumbents face unfavorable odds. Between 1996 and 2012, a total of 26 incumbents for partisan statewide office were challenged while seeking reelection. Only two—Burns in 2006 and former Secretary of State Brad Johnson in 2008—lost. In
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that same span, 40 candidates have launched unsuccessful attempts to oust statewide officeholders, a figure that includes more than a dozen third-party contenders. Of course, incumbency advantage is a far more nu-
anced topic than our state-based number crunching might imply. University scholars across the country have conducted studies on the issue delving into variables such as previous political experience and quality of challengers. The nonprofit Center for Responsive
photo courtesy of Gutsche for PSC
Democrat Gail Gutsche is running against incumbent Republican Public Service Commissioner Bob Lake, who won the seat from her in the 2012 election.
ation Truth, the nonprofit that operates Glendive’s creationist museum. Most notably, Gianforte was vocal in his opposition to a nondiscrimination ordinance in Bozeman one year before filing for office, describing it as “a sticky issue” in an email to Bozeman city commissioners and Mayor Jeff Krauss on Jan. 23, 2014. “No one wants discrimination in our community,” he wrote, “but let’s not throw safety to the wind, trample religious freedom, open the city up to expensive law suits [sic] and drive Christian businesses and organizations away from Bozeman in the process.” The ordinance eventually passed. Though it’s widely known that religion has played a large role in Gianforte’s life, he’s been reluctant to talk about his beliefs in the context of his campaign. When asked by the Indy why he chose to make the transition from philanthropist to political candidate, Gianforte initially gets tripped up and asks what’s the “question behind the question.” He has a similarly difficult time responding to how his past support for organizations like the Montana Family Foundation will carry over into the governor’s office, claiming it’s “not something I ever thought about.”
“I would say that I think the reason we give is it’s to whom much is given, much is expected,” he says. “Our focus tends to be on helping the vulnerable. That’s why we support all kinds of medical services for women and why we support MSU—education’s extremely important to us. It goes back to this core principle that I hold which is, I think the purpose of work is to help other people, and my priorities are very clear when I’m going to be governor.” Pressed on the question of how his faith would factor into his actions as governor, Gianforte replies, “If the question is how will my Christian faith affect me as governor, I can answer that question very simply. I am a Christian, and my Christian faith teaches me to treat others as better than myself, and I’ll carry that into the office with me.”
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ianforte claims he never gave much thought to running for public office prior to the 2016 cycle. He concedes his idea of what effective leadership would look like may have come up years ago in a fireside conversation with Sen. Steve Daines, who at the time was a RightNow
Politics does offer some straightforward data on congressional reelection rates, which have rarely dipped below 90 percent for U.S. House incumbents like Ryan Zinke going back to the 1970s.
Technologies colleague and backcountry camping buddy. Daines took the leap from the business world to public service when he ran for Congress in 2012, and it’s a transition Gianforte has supported to the tune of $10,800 across two campaigns. At a certain level, Gianforte says, Daines’ path was “an inspiration to me.” Unlike many of the politicians he’s backed, however, Gianforte’s $3.3 million underwriting of his own campaign puts him squarely in the category of “selffunded candidate” as defined by the National Institute on Money in State Politics. The Helena-based group has studied the efficacy of such fundraising techniques going back to 2000. According to the institute’s latest report on the topic, 21 percent of all gubernatorial candidates between 2010 and 2015 fit the description of self-funder. “It’s not uncommon, especially among people who have been major donors, to be recruited for office,” says Executive Director Edwin Bender. “Actually that’s one of the criteria major parties look for. They’re true believers and work in the party’s interest.” But the institute’s findings don’t necessarily bode well for Gianforte’s attempt
If recent history is any indication, Montana likely won’t see many political upsets this year. However, recent polling of roughly 1,000 Montanans by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research suggests the gubernatorial race between incumbent Steve Bullock and Republican challenger Greg Gianforte could be close, with Bullock commanding a mere 2-point lead. Here’s a quick list of other well-positioned challengers statewide and in Missoula that will be worth keeping an eye on come Election Day:
to enter the political fold. Only 22 percent of self-financed candidates nationwide have won their races in the past five years. And while Republicans were far more likely to rely on their own cash, their success rate was still only 13 percent compared to Democrats’ 11 percent. Long odds aren’t going to deter Gianforte. With less than a month left until Election Day, the attacks are now coming rapid-fire. Just last week Gianforte released another television ad, this time accusing Bullock’s reelection campaign of receiving money from environmental groups who sued to shutdown Colstrip. For Gianforte, ousting Bullock is synonymous with fighting back against a government he views as ineffective, rife with cronyism and populated by “career politicians.” It’s a fight this Bozeman tech mogul has waged with his pocketbook for years. Now it’s one he hopes he can win by putting his own face out there. “The real question is why don’t you go start another business versus run for office,” Gianforte quips. “For me, I have an obligation to use my skills to the best of my ability to serve other people.” Alex Sakariassen
House District 97 Republican incumbent Brad Tschida vs. Democrat Nick Davis House District 100 Democratic incumbent Andrea Olsen vs. Republican David “Doc” Moore
Attorney General Republican incumbent Tim Fox vs. Democrat Larry Jent Public Service Commissioner Republican incumbent Bob Lake vs. Democrat Gail Gutsche Senate District 7 Republican incumbent Jennifer Fielder vs. Democrat Elizabeth Retallick House District 90 Democratic incumbent Ellie Hill Smith vs. Republican Bill Murray photo courtesy of Adam Hertz
photo courtesy of Larry Jent
Challenger Larry Jent, a Bozeman attorney and former state legislator, hopes to topple Republican Attorney General Tim Fox on Nov. 8.
House District 96 Democratic incumbent Andrew Person vs. Republican Adam Hertz
Republican Adam Hertz, who previously served on the Missoula City Council, is currently running against incumbent state Rep. Andrew Person.
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During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $35, $20, $9.50, $7.50 or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.
Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required for Savor diners!
Prix Fixe Menu Bayern Brewery $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Mushroom Cream Soup Second Course: Breaded Ham Dumpling served over Beef Goulash
Brooks & Browns $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Manhattan Clam Chowder: Baby clams, bacon, peppers, onion, tomato, carrot, heirloom potato Second Course: Salmon BLT: Grilled maple glazed Atlantic salmon, Daily’s thick-cut bacon, Dijon, lettuce, heirloom tomato on ciabatta Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Cold Smoke Scotch Ale, Montana OR First Course: Elk Chili: Ground elk, chipotle peppers, bell pepper, tomato, onion, red wine Second Course: Garden Pasta with Chicken: Seasonal vegetables, penne pasta, pesto, roasted red pepper, brined and grilled chicken breast Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Blackfoot IPA, Montana
All prices are per person
Burns St. Bistro $ 50 9 lunch Westside Meatball Sub: Locally-raised beef meatballs on made-from-scratch bread smothered in Marinara, covered with melty cheese. With fries of course.
Finn & Porter $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Mussels stewed in Pernod and garlic, with grilled baguette Second Course: Grilled Petite Fillet of Beef with Truffle and Pecorino Gratin, and Italian salsa verde Third Course: Assorted Chocolate Truffles -milk chocolate and chili -dark chocolate and espresso -white chocolate and coconut
Good Food Store $ 50 7 lunch Turkey cranberry panini Kale slaw Chocolate Pumpkin cookie
Choose an entrée: Cold Smoke & Cheddar Meatloaf Paired with a Pint of Kettle House Cold Smoke or glass of Drumheller Washington Cabernet OR Montana Lentils, Mushroom & Squash Saute (gf, vegetarian) Paired with a can of Harvest Moon’s Beltian White Ale or a glass of Ryan Patrick Washington Riesling
Montana Distillery $ 5 & $750 cocktail specials PUMPKIN PIE MARTINI: the MT Distillery Vanilla vodka, Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Cream, Agave, Garnished with Pumpkin Spice $7.50 HARVEST MOON: our Soiled Dove Gin, Cinnamon, Agave, Cayenne, Lemon, Apple Cider, Garnished with Apple slice $5.00
Pearl Cafe $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Roasted Beet, Amalthea Dairy Goat Cheese and Toasted Almond Salad with Orange and Balsamic Vinaigrette OR A Cup of Our French Onion Soup
Iron Griz $ 20 2-course dinner
Second Course: Cider Brined and Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloin, Grilled and Served with Wild Mushroom Cream, Cider Reduction, Butternut Squash Puree, Sauteed Greens, Pickled Crabapple and Crispy Sage
Choose an appetizer from our garden: Fried Zucchini Rampicante (vegetarian) OR Kale Caesar (gf, vegetarian)
Third Course: Dark Chocolate Mousse with Whipped Cream and Candied Kumquats
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Prix Fixe Menu Red Bird $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Butter Lettuce with Peas, Bacon & creamy Blue Cheese dressing Second Course: Beef Bourguignon with roasted Root Vegetables with Polenta Third Course: Fried Apple Pie served with Buttermilk Ice Cream
Romaines $ 50 9 2-course lunch Large Signature Salad and Brownie OR A Small Signature Salad with a Cup of Soup of the Day and Biscuit $
20 2-course dinner Small Signature Salad or a Bowl of Butternut Squash Soup with Candied Walnuts OR Dessert of Chocolate Brownie and Huckleberry Caramel Sauce AND Oxbow Cattle Company Steak with Caramelized Shallots, Rosemary Mashed Potatoes, and Braised Kale
All prices are per person
Second Course: Entrée - CEDAR PLANK SALMON wild caught salmon broiled on a cedar plank to your liking, served on top of wild rice with almonds and mushrooms, sautéed bok choy OR PORK TENDERLOIN beet and caraway roasted pork tenderloin served with cheesy garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed seasonal vegetable
Sushi Hana $ 20 2-course dinner
Third Course: Dessert - FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE TORTE raspberry coulis, whipped cream
The Trough $ 50 9 2-course lunch, available 10am-8pm
First Course: Crab Cakes Second Course: Steven’s Maki - Creamy scallops & tuna with wasabi relish
Market Club: Roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, provolone, cheddar, tomato, romaine, and roasted red pepper aioli on a Le Petite sourdough baguette OR Pulled Pork sandwich on a Le Petite sourdough baguette topped with pepper jack and bread and butter pickles with a side of coleslaw AND Cup of one of our savory soup options
Stone of Accord $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Choice of soup OR dinner salad Second Course: Choice of one of our 1/2 sandwiches with side $ $
20 2-course dinner
First Course: Choice of Small Cheesy Chips, Spinach Artichoke Dip, OR Thai Peanut Chicken Skewers Second Course: Choice of Petite Corned Beef and Cabbage, Petite Bangers and Mash, Shepards Pie, OR Chicken Leek Pot Pie
20 2-course dinner, available in the evenings Slow cooked Beef Brisket dinner with Garlic mashed potatoes and Honey glazed carrots OR The Trough Signature Lasagna with a Caesar salad AND Homemade Apple Pie w/Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Rumour $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Salad - ROASTED BEETS with chevre cheese, maple walnuts, arugula, honey dijon vinaigrette
missoulanews.com • October 20–October 27, 2016 [19]
During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $35, $20, $9.50, $7.50 or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.
Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required for Savor diners!
Prix Fixe Menu Bayern Brewery $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Mushroom Cream Soup Second Course: Breaded Ham Dumpling served over Beef Goulash
Brooks & Browns $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Manhattan Clam Chowder: Baby clams, bacon, peppers, onion, tomato, carrot, heirloom potato Second Course: Salmon BLT: Grilled maple glazed Atlantic salmon, Daily’s thick-cut bacon, Dijon, lettuce, heirloom tomato on ciabatta Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Cold Smoke Scotch Ale, Montana OR First Course: Elk Chili: Ground elk, chipotle peppers, bell pepper, tomato, onion, red wine Second Course: Garden Pasta with Chicken: Seasonal vegetables, penne pasta, pesto, roasted red pepper, brined and grilled chicken breast Third Course: Pear Tart: Brown butter custard and wine poached pears Paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand or Blackfoot IPA, Montana
All prices are per person
Burns St. Bistro $ 50 9 lunch Westside Meatball Sub: Locally-raised beef meatballs on made-from-scratch bread smothered in Marinara, covered with melty cheese. With fries of course.
Finn & Porter $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Mussels stewed in Pernod and garlic, with grilled baguette Second Course: Grilled Petite Fillet of Beef with Truffle and Pecorino Gratin, and Italian salsa verde Third Course: Assorted Chocolate Truffles -milk chocolate and chili -dark chocolate and espresso -white chocolate and coconut
Good Food Store $ 50 7 lunch Turkey cranberry panini Kale slaw Chocolate Pumpkin cookie
Choose an entrée: Cold Smoke & Cheddar Meatloaf Paired with a Pint of Kettle House Cold Smoke or glass of Drumheller Washington Cabernet OR Montana Lentils, Mushroom & Squash Saute (gf, vegetarian) Paired with a can of Harvest Moon’s Beltian White Ale or a glass of Ryan Patrick Washington Riesling
Montana Distillery $ 5 & $750 cocktail specials PUMPKIN PIE MARTINI: the MT Distillery Vanilla vodka, Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Cream, Agave, Garnished with Pumpkin Spice $7.50 HARVEST MOON: our Soiled Dove Gin, Cinnamon, Agave, Cayenne, Lemon, Apple Cider, Garnished with Apple slice $5.00
Pearl Cafe $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Roasted Beet, Amalthea Dairy Goat Cheese and Toasted Almond Salad with Orange and Balsamic Vinaigrette OR A Cup of Our French Onion Soup
Iron Griz $ 20 2-course dinner
Second Course: Cider Brined and Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloin, Grilled and Served with Wild Mushroom Cream, Cider Reduction, Butternut Squash Puree, Sauteed Greens, Pickled Crabapple and Crispy Sage
Choose an appetizer from our garden: Fried Zucchini Rampicante (vegetarian) OR Kale Caesar (gf, vegetarian)
Third Course: Dark Chocolate Mousse with Whipped Cream and Candied Kumquats
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Prix Fixe Menu Red Bird $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Butter Lettuce with Peas, Bacon & creamy Blue Cheese dressing Second Course: Beef Bourguignon with roasted Root Vegetables with Polenta Third Course: Fried Apple Pie served with Buttermilk Ice Cream
Romaines $ 50 9 2-course lunch Large Signature Salad and Brownie OR A Small Signature Salad with a Cup of Soup of the Day and Biscuit $
20 2-course dinner Small Signature Salad or a Bowl of Butternut Squash Soup with Candied Walnuts OR Dessert of Chocolate Brownie and Huckleberry Caramel Sauce AND Oxbow Cattle Company Steak with Caramelized Shallots, Rosemary Mashed Potatoes, and Braised Kale
All prices are per person
Second Course: Entrée - CEDAR PLANK SALMON wild caught salmon broiled on a cedar plank to your liking, served on top of wild rice with almonds and mushrooms, sautéed bok choy OR PORK TENDERLOIN beet and caraway roasted pork tenderloin served with cheesy garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed seasonal vegetable
Sushi Hana $ 20 2-course dinner
Third Course: Dessert - FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE TORTE raspberry coulis, whipped cream
The Trough $ 50 9 2-course lunch, available 10am-8pm
First Course: Crab Cakes Second Course: Steven’s Maki - Creamy scallops & tuna with wasabi relish
Market Club: Roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, provolone, cheddar, tomato, romaine, and roasted red pepper aioli on a Le Petite sourdough baguette OR Pulled Pork sandwich on a Le Petite sourdough baguette topped with pepper jack and bread and butter pickles with a side of coleslaw AND Cup of one of our savory soup options
Stone of Accord $ 50 9 2-course lunch First Course: Choice of soup OR dinner salad Second Course: Choice of one of our 1/2 sandwiches with side $ $
20 2-course dinner
First Course: Choice of Small Cheesy Chips, Spinach Artichoke Dip, OR Thai Peanut Chicken Skewers Second Course: Choice of Petite Corned Beef and Cabbage, Petite Bangers and Mash, Shepards Pie, OR Chicken Leek Pot Pie
20 2-course dinner, available in the evenings Slow cooked Beef Brisket dinner with Garlic mashed potatoes and Honey glazed carrots OR The Trough Signature Lasagna with a Caesar salad AND Homemade Apple Pie w/Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Rumour $ 35 3-course dinner First Course: Salad - ROASTED BEETS with chevre cheese, maple walnuts, arugula, honey dijon vinaigrette
missoulanews.com • October 20–October 27, 2016 [19]
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Devilish details Six things you might have missed in Courtney Blazon’s The Year Without a Summer by Erika Fredrickson
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uring October’s First Friday art walk, a large crowd flooded the top floor of the Missoula Art Museum to see drawings inspired by the 1815 volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa. The solo exhibit by beloved Missoula artist Courtney Blazon, titled The Year Without a Summer, had built up a buzz over the previous several months. Blazon is known for her beautiful but often creepy, richly storied and extremely surreal marker-and-ink works, and for this particular project she went the distance. She raised over $7,000 for the project and holed up working in her studio for months of sleepless nights. The result is four largescale illustrations and dozens of smaller pieces rendered with extraordinary detail and inspired by the eruption, capturing death and illness, folklore, climate change and even the birth of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Blazon’s First Friday talk helped provide viewers with part of the deep backstory behind the exhibit, and the museum offers a booklet for further investigation. Even so, there’s no way to absorb all the characters and symbolism Blazon has woven together. Here “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome” is part of Courtney Blazon’s new exhibit at MAM. are just a few of the smaller details you might not want to miss. envy and all the other “sins” plagued the world, reSeven is a key number The number 7 shows up in two of the pieces. sulting in starvation and addiction. But “Pride” is deCholera is everywhere Most obvious is “Poetry of the Seven Sorrows,” a ref- picted by two children. “Sometimes I think we don’t The volcanic eruption killed over 100,000 people erence to a Chinese genre of writing that was revived have enough pride in ourselves,” Blazon says. One of and devastated crops, but it also led to the spread of by poet Li Yuyang after the volcanic eruption led to the children has her head turned all the way around, a deadly strain of cholera. Unlike typhus, which swept famine in China. The piece also shows seven people representing the hope of evolution and innovation. “I through the poorest regions, cholera was an equal dressed as harlequins who famously died during a feel like that’s our design flaw,” she says. “We should opportunity bacteria that infected the water of rich Parisian masquerade ball. They died of cholera, of be able to swivel our heads all the way around.” and poor. Three of Blazon’s large-scale paintings de- course. In “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome,” Blazon’s pict the colorful cholera plankton. “Sur La Fin Du futuristic characters with strange attributes—one has Pyrotechnics Monde” shows the bacteria bubbling up through the a garden spade for a leg, for instance, while another Obvious volcanic explosions show up in almost ground. In “Poetry of the Seven Sorrows,” the plank- spews a green substance—might seem familiar: every one of the large-scale pieces. But Blazon also took ton seems to have taken over the entire water system They’re the seven deadly sins. the liberty to showcase other examples of natural and and, finally, in “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome”—a human-made pyrotechnics happening at the time. In “Sur piece that takes place long after the eruption (per- “Pride” provides a glimmer of hope La Fin Du Monde” you can see a temple-like structure haps in the present time)—a character sports what Almost all the seven deadly sins show how we with fire spurting from the top. This exotic tent illustrates Blazon imagines as “the latest cholera-inspired fash- haven’t come very far since the eruption of the vol- the obsession people around the world had with volcaion”: a dress with the plankton printed on it. cano, according to Blazon. For 200 years greed and noes, from Vesuvius through to Tambora and Krakatoa.
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Sideshow attractions popped up, including in London, where one building created a Vesuvius eruption show every half-hour. Additionally, the impact of volcanic eruptions like Tamobra led to weather patterns producing St. Elmo’s Fire. In the same piece, you can see blue light bursting from the tops of the buildings and ships. “They’re nature’s pyrotechnics,” Blazon says. “Those were reported worldwide. I used them a lot [in the pieces] because they’re really fun. Well, not for the people at the time. I think they were really concerned when that was happening.” Symbols of starvation The area around Sumbawa was known for breeding ponies. Those who survived the volcanic eruption in nearby countries lost so much food that they were forced to eat whatever they could—favorite animals included. They also mashed up leaves into a paste to provide some sustenance. In “Sur La Fin Du Monde,” Blazon combined the two ideas with a picture of leaves falling out of the stomach of a rearing pony. The apocalypse includes climate change—and a Ken doll You’d know that doll with the rounded-off crotch anywhere. The naked, blonde-haired surfer in “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome” is Barbie’s boyfriend, Ken. He represents the fate of Sumbawa now: an impoverished island overrun by wealthy surfers in an ocean plagued with plastics. In the corner of the piece, a cloud-seeding plane attempts to curb global warming. The effect of putting sulphates into the atmosphere parallels some of the same properties of volcanic gases, Blazon notes. “It might be a good idea now, but I don’t know,” she says. This is how, she explains, the story comes full circle. Check out The Year Without a Summer during MAM’s regular hours or on Thu., Oct. 27, when MAM hosts an End of the World Masquerade and Costume Party at 7 PM. $20/$15 members. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org for more details. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Nice things Eric Tollefson’s EP features Seattle heroes In 2010, the Indy wrote about how musician Eric Tollefson graduated from the University of Montana, moved to Oregon to become a stockbroker and, after the 2008 housing collapse, turned back to his passion of music. Now based in Seattle, Tollefson has continued to build some solid collaborations. His upcoming EP, This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, features noteworthy session musicians like pedal steel player Eric Heywood (Ray LaMontagne, Son Volt) and it ends on a song cowritten—and inspired—by Josiah Johnson from The Head and the Heart. Tollefson and musician Matt Hopper met the frontman during a 2014 show at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern. “Josiah is one of my heroes,” Tollefson says during a recent phone interview with the Indy. “We walked up and talked with him and he had just had
a breakup.” Later, Tollefson and Hopper started writing a breakup song and invited Johnson to join them. “He sang the third part harmony on it and then walked outside in rainy Seattle to smoke a cigarette,” Tollefson recalls. “And then he wrote the last verse in five minutes.” The result, “Wish You Well,” is a semisweet tune with full, dark edges. (In March, Johnson went on hiatus from The Head and the Heart to go to rehab.) Tollefson won’t officially release the six-song EP until February 2017, but he’ll be bringing early copies for his Missoula show this week. The collection showcases the songwriter’s prowess along with the ability to surround himself with talented people. (Erika Fredrickson) Eric Tollefson plays the Badlander Fri., Oct. 21, at 7 PM. $11.
Brand New, “I Am a Nightmare” Brand New style themselves a punk rock band, but their fans know better. The New York emo group raised a lot of hopes with “I Am a Nightmare,” a new single released this May along with the promise of a new album. “I Am a Nightmare” is fast, polished and full of angsty sentiments, sounding a lot like Brand New’s 2003 debut album. It’s indistinguishable from the vast majority of emo rock popular with the Hot Topic crowd a decade back. A few weeks ago, Brand New announced they won’t release the new album after all, because it’s not yet up to their standards. Instead, they’re performing the entirety of their landmark 2006 album The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me for the rest of their
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tour dates this year. The Devil marked Brand New’s progression from a relatively by-the-numbers emo group to a more artistically driven band. The album’s tracks brood slowly, build into tormented choruses and recede again into atmospheric meandering. I’m taking Brand New’s delay of the new album as a welcome sign that they’re still willing to take risks. In the meantime, everyone going to their live shows gets a sweet consolation prize. (Kate Whittle) Brand New play the Adams Center Thu., Oct. 27, along with The Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32.50 at GrizTix outlets.
Dex Romweber, Carrboro Imagine you’re wandering through a postapocalyptic Las Vegas, far from the decimated Strip. Tumbleweeds roll past in the hot Mojave wind, and you hear faint music coming from inside a crumbling nightclub. As you push open the heavy door and peer inside, you make out a figure on the stage. Stringy black hair hangs in his eyes, He’s dressed in a blue silk suit. Polished shoes tap an empty stage while he belts out the plaintive “I Have a Dream.” Is it Elvis? Are you having a heat stroke? No, it’s just Dex Romweber, the lo-fi rockabilly stalwart who will outlast everything on this earth, including Keith Richards. Carrboro is a Link Wray-meets-the-Cramps mashup of minor-key rockabilly stomps, haunted-
house instrumentals, with a few loungey ballads sprinkled in. From his solo work to his turbocharged rock with the Flat Duo Jets, Romweber’s approach has always been performance before perfection. These songs are short and tight, without an ounce of fat. “Tomorrow’s Taking My Baby Away” is squarely in Jerry Lee Lewis territory, with its swaggering piano and slapback vocal. Romweber fans need not worry that his gritty sound has been sanitized. This is raw and real, not an Unknown Hinson-style parody, but neither is it a studied homage. It’s a guy playing and singing his guts out the only way he knows how—honest, bullshit-free and as direct as the desert sun. (Ednor Therriault)
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On location Silas Thompson’s brushes with nature by Sarah Aswell
Silas Thompson’s “Won’t You Dance” is part of the Dana Gallery’s Young and the Reckless exhibit.
Painting en plein air sounds very prim and proper, but in the wilds of Idaho, things can get a little rough. For artist Silas Thompson, there isn’t anything quite like filling a hiking pack with oil paints, brushes, canvases and, on top of it all, an easel, and heading into the woods to create art, for better or worse. “It can be super challenging if there is any wind or if there are clouds that change the light every three minutes,” Thompson says. “I’ve had paintings fly into the mud. I’ve had paintings get soaked in the rain. You are not in charge of the thermostat out there– and there are animals.” But despite the mud and animals, the upside of painting outside and on location is worth it all. “There is something that you can’t capture with a camera,” he says. “The eye is so much more amazing in its ability and design. You can see the colors and lights interacting. It is almost always valuable and worthwhile.” The results of these hikes, many of which are shared with his wife, Bianca, and their dogs, speak for themselves. Thompson’s oil paintings–some of which are painted in open air, some of which are painted in the studio from photographs, and some of which are a combination–all share a sturdy appreciation of the colors and lights of the mountains as well as a sincere love of the natural world. With deep color and energy, the impressionist landscapes span the four seasons and strongly capture the feel of a person alone enjoying the woods; some of Thompson’s winter landscapes even include a fresh path of snowshoe prints meandering across the frame. Thompson is one of 12 artists currently featured in the Dana Gallery’s invitation exhibit The Young and the Reckless, which focuses on a handful of young artists as well as a few established “reckless” painters. The annual show aims to encourage people of all ages
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to make and appreciate art—and to buy it. The gallery offers a special payment plan for collectors that allows buyers to put a small payment down, take the art home with them and pay for the balance over the next year, interest free. At 25, Thompson has reached a big milestone: Within the last year, he’s been able to provide for his family almost solely through his painting. It was an accomplishment years in the making. After nights stocking grocery store shelves and working in a warehouse to support his art, he took an apprenticeship with fellow Idaho artist Robert Moore. In addition to serving as a mentor and letting him borrow studio space, Moore taught Thompson the ropes of the business side of painting, from keeping inventory to emailing gallery contacts. By the time his apprenticeship ended, he was making a living painting on his own. Thompson credits his mother, who was an art teacher, with fostering his love of drawing and creating, and his father, who took him on backpacking adventures, with fostering his love of nature. His other significant inspiration is his religion, which informs both his paintings and his artistic goals for the future. Beyond the art itself, his future goals are modest: Thompson has no plans for seeking out fame and fortune in the coming years. “We live a pretty simple life,” he says. “I don’t need a $300,000 house and there’s a lot of freedom there. I can really explore and experiment and have fun with my art. There’s still the need for groceries. A big part of me wants that simplicity to remain.” The Young and the Reckless continues at the Dana Gallery through November. arts@missoulanews.com
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Proof Denial provides the thrill of intelligent debate by Molly Laich
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The biographical drama Denial tells the story of writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt and the libel case brought against her by David Irving. Mick Jackson directs a screenplay by David Hare, based on Lipstadt’s book about the trial. The result is a smart, serious and largely effective treatment of an important real life case that only occasionally disappointed me with too much sentiment. Rachel Weisz stars as Lipstadt, an American Jewish academic who’s dedicated her life studies to antiSemitism. We see her giving a lecture on her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust, the one that will later be the subject of Irving’s libel suit. Well-meaning students in the audience challenge Lipstadt on why she won’t debate with Holocaust deniers, because wouldn’t that be more democratic? It’s a clever way of presenting one of the film’s major themes: Not all opinions are equal. Enter David Irving (Timothy Spall), a self-educated Hitler historian with a polite British accent that makes his blatant bigotry somehow harder to immediately spot. Irving stands up at Lipstadt’s lecture and sensationally offers a billfold containing a thousand dollars to anyone in the audience who can prove the Holocaust happened. A couple of years later, Irving has brought the libel suit to Lipstadt in the British courts, a wacky place where officials wear wigs and the burden of proof is on the accused. She writes in her book that Irving is an anti-Semite who deliberately distorted findings in his book to support a false narrative about German history—and Irving disagrees, I guess? Usually frivolous cases like these get settled out of court, but it’s the principle of the thing, damn it, and Lipstadt feels that to fight it is the fulfillment of her destiny. With that settled, we follow Lipstadt to England, where she assembles a team of lawyers and researchers to take on the case. Anthony Julius (An-
drew Scott) will lead the legal team with Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson) presenting in court. For me, and for I think a lot of people, it’s a great joy to watch intelligent people talk through issues, work toward a conclusion and ultimately use facts and reason to fight for a just cause. The courtroom scenes come to us from the actual trial transcripts, and that offers a helpful dose of credibility. A less courageous film would have worried about boring the audience, but Denial trusts us enough to give it to us straight. A series of recurring issues come up throughout the trial. For one, the lawyers don’t want Lipstadt or any Holocaust survivors to testify. They have good reasons for it, but it’s a hard pill to swallow, particularly for an outspoken Jew from Brooklyn. And the film brings up important points about the occasional lack of scientific rigor toward proving the Holocaust existed. Of course it should be enough that thousands of survivors say it happened, but in court cases like these, some quantifiable data would help. (The film brings up the work of American Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter. If you’re keen on this subject, check out Errol Morris’ bizarre documentary, Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.) In the final quarter, Denial can’t quite help itself from playing a few familiar chords, and I’m speaking literally of a score that highlights and underlines our feelings: The Holocaust was sad, but good prevailed, and here’s how you should feel now. I think most people won’t notice or share my complaint, and anyway, after nearly two hours of dry procedure, it’s not as if we haven’t earned the release. You deserve a treat, (the score seems to say) here’s a single rope of black licorice! No thanks. Denial opens at the Roxy Fri., Oct. 21. arts@missoulanews.com
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[film] Ethan Hawke. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaoplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK AMERICAN HONEY Selling magazines door-to-door is a nice way for a teenager to make some extra money. So is armed robbery though. Rated R. Stars Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough. Playing at the Roxy.
MASTERMINDS He stole a cool million dollars, but still couldn’t afford a decent haircut. Rated PG-13. Stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.
DENIAL A professor is sued for libel when she includes a historian in her book about Holocaust deniers. Now she has to prove that Holocaust happened. Rated PG-13. Stars Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film.)
MAX STEEL Look out! A teenager and an alien team up to face the scariest thing of all: a movie based on a toy line your kids love. Rated PG-13. Stars Ben Winchell, Billy Slaughter and Andy García. Playing at the Carmike 12.
JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK This former military cop stops at nothing to save his partner from a bum wrap. Stars Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders and Aldis Hodge. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES The grass is always greener on the other side, unless the grass is on fire because your new next door neighbors are super spies. Rated PG-13. Stars Zach Galifianakis, Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL Nothing scarier than a horror film based on a board game, huh? Rated PG-13. Yikes. Stars Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso and Lulu Wilson. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex.
NOW PLAYING THE ACCOUNTANT What do criminal cartels, weapons dealers and terrorists have in common? They all have the same accountant. Rated R. Stars Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. DEEPWATER HORIZON Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the oil strikes back! Rated PG-13. Stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson. Playing at the Carmike 12 and the Pharaoplex. FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) A slasher kills horny camp counselors in a film so scary you’ll forget its 9th sequel is about an undead cyborg on a space station. Rated R. Stars Kevin
METROPOLIS Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent masterpiece about class warfare screens at the Roxy featuring a live score by Love is a Dog. Not Rated. Stars Brigitte Helm and Alfred Abel. Thu., Oct 20 at 7 PM.
The internet is out. Time to get Netflix the old fashioned way. Ouija: Origin of Evil opens at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. Bacon, Betsy Palmer and Adrienne King. Playing Sat., Oct. 22 at 9 PM at the Roxy. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Taking the train to work every day is usually pretty boring. Maybe Emily Blunt can jazz it up by getting embroiled in a murder investigation. Rated R. Also stars Rebecca Ferguson and Lisa Kudrow. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. GOLDEN KINGDOM (GOLDENES KONIGREICH) Even though their teacher told them not to leave, these four young monks have to deal with approaching military forces. Not Rated. Stars Shine Htet Zaw and Ko Yin Saw Ri. Playing Sun., Oct 23 at 5:30 PM at the Roxy. HALLOWEEN I know two things about Haddonfield, Ill. It has a really bloody tradition every October 31st and their hardware store sells knifes and Shatner masks. Rated R. Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence and P.J. Soles. Playing Wed., Oct. 26 at 7 PM at the Roxy. HOCUS POCUS Hey, thanks for bringing those three witches back to life, new kid. Now our Halloween is ruined.
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Rated PG. Stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. Playing Sun., Oct. 23 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy. INDIGNATION Sexual repression seem like no big deal compared to falling in love with an unstable girl at college in the 1950s. Based on the novel by Philip Roth. Rated R. Stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon and Tracy Letts. Playing through Thu., Oct. 20 at the Roxy. IT FOLLOWS It’s just like my mother always said, “Don’t have sex before marriage or an invisible homicidal demon will stop at nothing to kill you.” Rated R. Starring Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist and Olivia Luccardi. Playing Sat., Oct 29 at 9 PM at the Roxy. KEVIN HART: WHAT NOW? Goof-slinger Kevin Hart performs his comedy for an audience of 50,000. Rated R. Playing at the Carmike 12. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Beleaguered townsfolk enlist seven outlaws to defend them from a corrupt industrialist in this remake from the director of Training Day. Rated PG-13. Stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and
MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN Being the new kid at school is always tough, especially when all the other students are a little peculiar. Also some of them are literal monsters. Rated PG-13. Stars Eva Green, Chris O’Dowd and Samuel L. Jackson. Playing at the Carmike 12. STORKS Instead of delivering babies, these storks find themselves delivering packages for a giant online retailer. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown and Jordan Peele. Playing at the Carmike 12 and Pharaoplex. TANNA Running away with the man you love is always a difficult decision. It’s even harder when you’re from rival tribes on the same island. Not Rated. Stars Mungau Dain and Maria Wawa. Playing through Thu., Oct. 20 at the Roxy. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-todate movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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Baked samosas with peach chutney by Gabi Moskowitz Let me set the scene for you: Around 6 p.m. I was driving home from work. I was exhausted, cranky and starving. I was craving samosas and seriously considered stopping in at my neighborhood Pakistani restaurant, but honestly, I was in no condition to wait in a line. As I tried to mentally picture the contents of my fridge, I realized that I had most of the makings of samosas already. I figured I’d swap in sweet potatoes for the traditional white potatoes and egg roll wrappers for the usual pastry and bake them instead of deep-frying. Bottom line: half an hour later, I was a different girl. Ingredients 10 large egg roll wrappers 1 sweet potato, diced 2 cups spinach leaves, cleaned and dried 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ white onion, diced ½ cup frozen green peas 3 oz. tofu, cubed 1 teaspoon curry powder salt and pepper to taste ½ white peach, pit removed, flesh coarsely chopped 1 small bunch cilantro 3 tablespoon sweet chili sauce 1 small piece ginger, peeled and minced 2 teaspoon olive oil plus more for pan and brushing (Recipe serves 4)
BROKEASS GOURMET Directions Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly grease a baking sheet and set aside. Heat the 2 teaspoons of olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes, until fragrant. Add sweet potato, tofu, spinach, green peas, curry powder and salt and pepper, stirring to ensure spices coat the vegetables and tofu completely. Cook for 6-8 minutes or until sweet potatoes start to soften. Remove from heat and transfer to bowl. To assemble samosas, set an egg roll wrapper on a clean, dry surface. Wet the edges using a spoon or pastry brush and then put about 3 tablespoons of filling in the center of the wrapper. Gather the corners of the wrapper and press together. There isn’t much art to this part—just seal them and let them fall where they will. Repeat until all wrappers and filling are used up. Transfer samosas to baking sheet. Brush samosas lightly with olive oil, coating the wrappers evenly. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until samosas are golden brown. While samosas bake, make the chutney: combine peach, cilantro, ginger and chili sauce in a food processor until chunky but incorporated. Serve the samosas hot with the sauce alongside for dipping. BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor-in-chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough:100 Delicious, Unexpected Recipes.
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[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in. Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation. Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Gotta love Missoula in October and gotta love Bernice’s! Piping hot cups of carefully crafted coffee or espresso compliment the fall chill. For breakfast (or after your morning workout) think of Bernice’s as the perfect stop for tummy satisfaction. Handcrafted bran muffins, quiche, garlic hummus, jalapeno-cheddar croissants or pumpkin pound cake are just the tip of the iceberg. And don’t forget that Halloween and Day of the Dead are Bernice’s favorite. Come by and see what we have designed as you grab your sweet treats October 27 – November 2. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$
Lunch Bento
served with rice, a california roll, shumai and one item of your choice.
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 timehonored 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. $-$$
Starts at $7.50 406-829-8989 1901 Stephens Ave Order online at asahimissoula.com. Delicious dining or carryout. Chinese & Japanese menus.
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Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$
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Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart
of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 • grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ India Grill & Curry House 400 E. Broadway 926-2021 facebook.com/indiagrillandcurryhouse Experience Missoula's only authentic Indian restaurant! Try our unique, daily vegetarian or meat combos prepared with house-made curries and spices imported directly from India. Served with rice, naan bread, salad and dessert all served on traditional Thali-style plates. Also try our housemade Chai, Mango Lassi or our special Lemon Juice. New menu items and combos daily! Special orders and catering available. Mon-Sat - Lunch 11am-3pm / Dinner 5pm-9pm. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$
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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 36pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm. Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces! Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$
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Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Garden City Beef Ribeye, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$
Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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What you’re drinking: An imperial wheat IPA, aged in oak. It’s brewed by Meadowlark Brewing, based on the eastern edge of the state, in Sidney. Why you’re drinking it: I mean, do we really have to answer this? Look at that label. Just … look at it. Savor it. Blink. Then look again. Your eyes do not deceive you—that is, in fact, Teddy in an Evel Knievel outfit, sword outstretched, standing in the back of an El Camino being driven by a bear. Don’t sleep on the small details, either. For instance, the car’s No. 27 represents Richland County’s state license plate number. How it tastes: Strong, as you’d expect from an imperial with 7.9 percent alcohol-byvolume (and from anything boasting such bold packaging), but also exceptionally smooth. Meadowlark founder Travis Peterson credits the oak for “mellowing out some of the bite” while also adding “a little complexity to the flavor.” How it came about: Meadowlark produces a Flights of Fancy series, which basically gives the brewery an excuse to experiment. “It’s a chance for [brewmaster] Tim [Schnars] and I to have more fun than usual,” Peterson says. “We have a lot of fun anyway—I mean, we brew beer for a living—but this allows us to try something different.” They came up with the idea for the imperial wheat IPA and were impressed with how well it turned out, but the name was harder to settle on. A running list of proposed titles
included Teddy Roosevelt American Badass “kind of as a joke,” Peterson recalls, but it ended up sticking. “It’s a badass beer and there’s nothing quite like it,” he says. “We decided a fun beer deserves a fun name.” And about that logo: Credit Jason Heuser for the artwork. The California illustrator’s personal website (sharpwriter.deviantart.com) includes similarly sensational images of George W. Bush blasting six-shooters while riding an airborne great white shark and Ronald Reagan firing an assault rifle while sitting atop a flag-holding Tyrannosaurus Rex. Oh, and there’s also one of Nixon wrestling a sabertooth tiger. How you know Meadowlark: Thanks to a Bozeman-based mobile canning operation, Meadowlark’s brews have become common on shelves statewide. The Badlands Extra Pale Ale and Ole Gus Scotch-Style Ale are available in standard six-packs of 12ounce cans. The Teddy Roosevelt American Badass comes in a single 16-ounce can and proves a little tougher to find. We scored ours on sale for $3.99 at Good Food Store. Peterson says Teddy will remain on shelves as long as supplies last, but it will continue to be “somewhat limited availability.” “It takes time to brew,” he says. “Woodaging isn’t something you can just speed up.” —Skylar Browning Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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SUN | 7:30 PM | DENNISON The host of NPR's “Radiolab,” Jad Abumrad, dives into anxiety at the Dennison Theatre Sun., Oct. 23. 7:30 PM. $38.
FRI | 10 PM | MONK’S Unlock the Helio Sequence as the Oregon alt-rock band play Monk’s Fri., Oct. 21. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15. 18-plus.
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FRI | 10 PM | TOP HAT Dead Larry resurrects for a night of music at the Top Hat Fri., Oct. 21 at 10 PM. Free.
THU | 10-20 | 9 PM | STAGE 112 Feeling left out? The Alienated play Stage 112 Thu., Oct. 20. 9 PM. $5 18-20/ 21-plus free.
FRI | 8 PM | WILMA The Lil' Smokies bring the bluegrass goodness to the Wilma Fri., Oct. 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$10 in advance.
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Thursday A bipartisan panel discusses the impact of sexism and racism in the 2016 presidential campaign as part of the YWTalks series at the YWCA. 4 PM. RSVP on Facebook.
Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.
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Ceramics guru Josh DeWeese gives a talk at Radius. 5:30 PM. Free.
Our father, who art in heaven, more snow be thy name. The 10th Annual Pray for Snow Party at Caras Park features the live music of Caroline Keys and the Lane Splitters and the Skurfs. 5:30 PM–10 PM. Free. (See Mountain High.)
The ZACC holds a workshop on how to create the Mexican folk craft of Papel Picado banners. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. University of Montana professor of forest entomology/pathology Diana Six gives a free lecture on the mountain pine beetle outbreak at North Valley Library. The lecture is at the library. There aren’t any pine beetles at North Valley Library. 6 PM. Free.
Venture up the Rattlesnake to enjoy local wine and the local music of Travis Yost at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free.
Beverly Lowry reads from her new book Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders. All I know is I couldn’t have done it. I was too busy watching the penguins at the North Pole. Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.
Missoula singer-songwriter John Floridis provides the soundtrack at the Montana Distillery. 6 PM. Free.
Come on and slam! Welcome to the jam! E3 Convergence is the arena for the best in local slam poets. 7 PM. Free. Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl presents a lecture on the public trust in Montana’s elections at the Gallagher Business Building. 7–9 PM. Free. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The sounds of the Backyard Recorder Consort will fill St. Francis Xavier Parish with music spanning five centuries in this fundraiser for Missoula Food Bank. 7:30–9 PM. $20 suggested donation. Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it. The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus. Feeling left out? The Alienated play Stage 112. 9 PM. $5 1820/21-plus free. Start spreading the news! There’s Karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.
A gaggle of artists explore democracy at VonCommon’s annual fall show. 6 PM–10 PM. Free.
Toney Rocks rocks Bitter Root Brewing tonally. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. The Top Hat presents FamilyFriendly Friday, a time where parents and their kids can socialize, listen to music, eat great food and have fun. This week The Loose String Band provides the musical entertainment. Free.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs' Lord of Greystoke swings to life when MCT’s Tarzan opens at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Fri., Oct. 21, and runs through Oct. 30. $25 at mctinc.org. Join Tom Catmul at the Missoula Brewing Company tap house for the live music of a local favorite. 6 PM– 8 PM. Free.
soula Haunted House is back. Missoula County Fairgrounds. Kids’ hours from 4 PM–6 PM. Adults 7 PM–11 PM. $10.
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Seattle singer-songwriter Eric Tollefson returns to his old stomping grounds for a show at the Badlander. 7 PM. $11. (See Music.)
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Spotlight All I know about skateboards is that street skating pioneer Jesse Martinez, they were invented in 1955 by a young these documentaries use rare footage and criminal named Calvin Klein. Having numerous in-depth interviews to explore started a fight in a diner, Klein ran outside the early days of the foundational Venice and grabbed an unsuspecting boy, yanking him from his homemade scooter. This WHAT: Made in Venice and Emerica MADE 2 maniac grabs the boy’s wooden toy, breaks it in WHO: Hosted by Chris Bacon and Edge of the World front of him, and used the remaining wood and WHERE: The Roxy Theater wheels to form a primitive version of what we now WHEN: Mon., Oct. 24, at 7:30 PM. know as a skateboard. What’s even worse is in his HOW MUCH: $8 escape this criminal lunatic MORE INFO: madeinvenicemovie.com caused the third worst manure truck accident in Hill Valley, California’s history. Or that might just be something I saw skateboarding scene and the fight to crein a movie. I get a lot of my historical ate the legendary Dogtown Skate Park. knowledge from movies. In fact, to brush See the real people that made skateup on knowledge of early skateboard cul- boarding what it is today. Not like that ture, I can see Made in Venice and Emer- butthead Calvin Klein. ica MADE 2 at the Roxy. Focusing on —Charley Macorn
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Let’s get fiscal! Fiscal! Get into financial shape with Financial Fitness, a free class at Homeword. 9 AM–6 PM.
Don’t be a Lycan’t, be a Lycan with the live music of Wolf and the Moons at Missoula Brewing Company. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
root River Inn and Conference Center. Fri., Oct. 21 at 7 PM– 9PM, Sat., Oct 22 from 10 AM– 6 PM. $25.
Missoula’s Clark Fork Market offers local goods under the Higgins Bridge. 8 AM–1 PM.
Bluesman Andre Floyd plays Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM. Free.
The Missoula Haunted House is back for its fourth year of sending shivers down your spine. Missoula County Fairgrounds. Kids’ hours from 4 PM–6 PM. Adults 7 PM–11 PM. $10.
Come enjoy the autumn with the 16th Annual Fall Family Fest at McCormick Park. Enjoy woodcarving, cider pressing, folf and more from 1 PM to 4 PM. $1 suggested donation. Be a light in the darkness. The ZACC is celebrating Missoula’s Festival of the Dead by carrying lanterns through downtown to show how giving lets your legacy shine on. 2 PM–4 PM. Register by emailing nikki@missoulacommunity foundation.org. Free.
nightlife Dear Me, you sure are great. Some folks don’t quite get what the big deal is, but I know I do. Dear Me, you’re gonna do a great job playing Bitter Root Brewing, you amazing triumph of humanity. 6 PM. Free.
Ugh. Can’t we just have pepperoni? Spinal Pizza play Imagine Nation. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Hear your favorite country classics belted out by your local favorite performers in drag at the Top Hat. Money raised by the event goes to support Missoula’s Blue Mountain Clinic. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $15.(See Agenda.) Free Cycles brought Huckleberry Mash to play at their end-of-the-season party. I brought something similar to my niece’s birthday party and now I’m not allowed back. $8/$6 for students. 6 PM–11 PM. What am I doing tonight? The same thing I do every night: listening Pinky & the Floyd play three completely different Pink Floyd albums back to back at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15. Skunk Apes away! The Big Sky Bigfoot Conference comes to the Bitter-
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Sunday The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. Meet every Sunday morning at 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula in the basement of the Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins. $100. Come and do the Monster Mash at the Rustic Hut for Five Valley Accordions Jam and Dance Halloween Party. 1 PM–4 PM. Free. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.
Following a screening of the local documentary Finding Traction, the Runners Edge hosts a Q&A with ultra-runner Nikki Kimball. Doors at 6:30 PM, film starts at 7. Free. Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials, starting at 7 PM. Call 406-273-2297 to sign up. No cover. Director of the Institute for Turkish Studies at Georgetown University Dr. Sinan Ciddi brings his expertise to a talk at the DoubleTree Hotel. 100 Madison. 7:30 PM. $15.
Botanist Marilyn Marler and conservationist Carla Abrams present their work on ecotourism and conservation in Vietnam at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 5 PM. Free.
Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, enjoy the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour every fourth Sunday of the month at the VFW. This month No Pads welcomes real American Hero Aaron Juhl. 8 PM. $3 suggested donation.
Sarah Aronson and Robert Stubblefield read from their work as part of the Second Wind Reading Series at the Badlander. 6 PM–9 PM. Free.
Jad Abumrad, host of NPR’s Radiolab, dives into anxiety and that gut-churning feeling that comes with it at the Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $38.
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Shakewell plays the Palace. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. 18–20/$7 21-plus/$5. DJ Kris Moon at the Badlander gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.
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Spend Monday morning exploring the fall foliage around Missoula before relaxing with a hot beverage with Coffee Walks. This week explore the Mount Sentinel Fire Road. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5. Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM– 8 PM. WordPlay! offers opportunity for community creativity. Word games, poetry, free writing and expansion all happen in Ste. 4 of the Warehouse Mall at The Base. Open to all ages and abilities every Mon. at 4 PM.
nightlife Prepare a couple songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Is your kid the next Marc Maron? BASE Missoula hosts an all-ages Comedy Open Mic. 6 PM–7 PM. Free. Think you got what it takes? Come to the University Center Atrium for a chance to show your talents with the UC Open Mic. Music, singing, spoken word and more. 7 PM–11 PM. Free. It’s not a biography of Wonder Woman; I checked. Heather Tucker reads and signs copies of The Clay Girl at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
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Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly class at Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays noon– 1 PM. $35 for four classes or $10 drop-in. Visit redwillow learning.org. Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with weekly meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details. It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM. It’s like artistic crossfit for kids. Bev Beck Blueckert at Missoula Art Museum teaches and challenges young students with a wide selections of material and creative processes. Tuesdays from Oct. 25–Nov. 29. $50.
nightlife Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Pineview Park. 5 PM. Free. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday. All ages. Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM. Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7–9 PM.
Blackalicious's Gift of Gab brings his hip-hop heat to Stage 112 Tue., Oct. 25. Joined by Landon Wordswell, the doors open at 9 PM, show at 10. $7. 18-plus. Dorothy Patent and Bill Munoz sign copies of their book Dog on Board at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Free. SALAM hosts a screening of Ken Burns’ Defying the Nazis at Urey Lecture Hall. 7 PM. Free. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler of the Northern Rockies or a new arrival, spend an evening highlighting Montana’s protected and unprotected wildlands. Missoula Public Library. 7 PM–8:15 PM. Free.
Learn the two-step and more at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7– 9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info. Show off your big brain at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. Current events, picture round and more. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: What real-life serial killer appears in The
Saturday 11/12 The Indy Sip - Enjoy local spirits (ticketed event @ The Loft, theindysip.brownpapertickets.com)
Exorcist? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. At the Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com. Blackalicious’s Gift of Gab and Landon Wordswell bring the hip-hop heat to Stage 112. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $7. 18-plus.
Thursday 11/17 Foodie Trivia @ the Holiday Inn - Downtown, Brooks & Browns
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Monday 11/14 Moscow Monday @ Montgomery Distillery Wine and Cheese Tasting @ The Trough, $20 6-8pm - 2106 Clements Rd. 721-3322 for more info
Tuesday 11/15 Cheese Pairing Class @ Good Food Store Meet Your Farmer @ Romaines Mule-tastic Tuesdays @ Montana Distillery
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Friday 11/18 Foodie film @ The Roxy, The Hundred-Foot Journey, 7pm
Saturday 11/19 Foodie film @ The Roxy, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, 3pm
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Wednesday Help your children gain empathy, greater self-esteem and better relationships with the Circle of Security. This free, six-week class gives you the skills to help with school readiness. Mountain Home Montana. 10:30 AM– 12 PM. Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information. Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing. NAMI Missoula hosts a free arts and crafts group for adults living with mental illness. Join the fun every Wednesday at 2 PM.
nightlife At the Phish Happy Hour you can enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages. Lift a glass at the Northside Kettlehouse taproom where a portion of every pint sold goes to support Tell Us Something. 5 PM–8 PM.
The Rockin’ Halloween Party features a new batch of young ZACC rockers at the Roxy Theater for a night of spooktacular music. 5:30 PM–6:30 PM. Free. This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free. The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run. Each month runners and walkers start and finish at a different brewery. This month’s spot is Northside Kettlehouse. 6 PM. Free. Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.
More events online: missoulanews.com Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Paul Bateson.
The Top Hat welcomes the Basement Boyz for a night of jazz. 7 PM. Free. Patrica teaches West Coast Swing dance classes at Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday from 7-8:30 PM. Beginning level II, so you better know how to jive. $5 per person. It’s really about the notes they aren’t playing. There, now everyone will think I’m some sort of jazz scholar. The most famous music from big-band jazz gets its due when the UM Jazz Band plays the Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11. Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free. Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team. Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer. 8:30–10:30 PM. No cover. Get your yodel polished up for rockin’ country karaoke night, every Wed. at the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander, 9 PM, no cover.
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Thursday The miniNaturalist Pre-K program at the Montana Natural History Center engages youngsters in the exploration of the natural world through fun hands-on activities, games and play. 10 AM–11 AM. Head to montananaturalist.org for registration and more info.
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Missoula Brewing hosts Brightways Learning for a fundraiser to make a difference in the lives of disconnected youth. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. They might be Brand New, but I’ve been a fan for a while. Brand New plays the Adams Center. 7 PM. $29.50-$32.50. (See Music.) Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. Get cash toward your bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.
It’s been 67 years since ski-film pioneer Warren Miller picked up a camera to capture the wonder, humor and beauty of skiing. Now Here, There & Everywhere takes you from Alaska to Switzerland in search of the perfect run. The Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $19/$15 in advance.
Dead Hipster Dance Party is so cool even I don’t know about it. The Badlander, 208 Ryman St., with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. 21-plus.
John Floridis plays Draught Works. 5 PM. Free.
First comedians spin goofs and then MCs spit fire at October Cavalcade
at the Palace. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Be sure to wear your freakiest costume. Free. Start spreading the news! There’s Karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.
We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoula news.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.com. Has anyone thought about starting a Cal-eesi cover band?
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Agenda As someone who enjoys performing, theatrics and wearing dresses, I'm often asked if I'm a drag queen. And while many of my closest friends perform to great acclaim in drag, I am not among their number. To me the term “drag queen” indicates a frightening worldview in which bloodlines or divine right gives someone the ability to rule over another. I believe that the real power is in the hands of the workers, and one day we will throw off our shackles and create a better system of rule. In short, I'm too much of a socialist to be a drag queen. Until that glorious day, comrades, I will still gladly support those drag kings and queens that use their skills to make the world around them a better place. Cross Country is a live country drag revue featuring local performers such Caroline Keys and members of the Best Westerns belting out country music hits and skewering the gender stereotypes that the songs embody. Proceeds from the event go to support Blue Moun-
THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 Spend your lunch hour learning about how homeWord promotes and creates local, sustainable communities in Missoula. 11:45 AM–1:15 PM. homeword.org for more info. The impact of sexism in the 2016 Presidential campaign is discussed by a bipartisan panel at the YWCA. 4 PM. RSVP on Facebook. Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl presents a lecture on the public trust in Montana’s elections at the Gallagher Business Building. 7 PM– 9 PM. Free. The sounds of the Backyard Recorder Consort will fill St. Francis Xavier Parish with music spanning five centuries in this fundraiser for Missoula Food Bank. 7:30pm–9 PM. $20 suggested donation.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15– 12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more. The OUTlaws present The Karaoke Gong Show at the Crystal. Support the Montana Gender Alliance by dressing in drag and signing karaoke. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $15, but only $10 if you dress in drag.
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tain Clinic. So put on your gaudiest rhinestone hat, step into your highest heels (either pumps or cowboy boots) and support a great cause. —Charley Macom
Cross Country, a benefit supporting Blue Mountain Clinic, starts at 9 PM on Sat., Oct 22, at the Top Hat. $15. dens for people for little or no cost. That seems like the kinda thing you’d want to give money to, right? Free Cycles hosts the gardening group with raffle, live music and local beer. 6:30 PM. $8.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 Botanist Marilyn Marler and conservationist Carla Abrams present their work on ecotourism and conservation in Vietnam at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 5 PM. Free.
MONDAY OCTOBER 24 Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to Blackfoot Challenge. Bring the family! 12 PM–8 PM. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.
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Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters help you improve your public speaking skills with meetings at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free and open to the public. Visit shootinthebull.info for details.
Let’s get fiscal! Fiscal! Get into financial shape with Financial Fitness, a free class at Homeword. 9 AM– 6 PM.
It’s Mule-Tastic Tuesday, which means the Montana Distillery will donate $1 from every cocktail sold to a local nonprofit organization. 12–8 PM.
The University Center hosts the PEO Holiday Treasures & Craft Market from 10 AM to 4 PM. All proceeds go toward educational scholarships for women.
SALAM hosts a screening of Ken Burns’ Defying the Nazis at Urey Lecture Hall. 7 PM. Free.
Be a light in the darkness. The ZACC is celebrating Missoula’s Festival of the Dead by carrying lanterns through downtown to show how giving lets your legacy shine on. 2 PM–4 PM. Register by emailing nikki@missoulacommunityfoundation.org. Free.
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Help your children gain empathy, greater self-esteem and better relationships with the Circle of Security. This free, six-week class gives you the skills to help with school readiness. Mountain Home Montana. 10:30 AM–12 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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ast year a million billion cubic feet of snow fell on Earth. That's a one followed by 15 zeroes, if that helps you visualize it. Surely with all that snow, the old tale about no two snowflakes being alike has to be wrong, right? Well, according to Jon Nelson of Ritsumeikan University in Japan “it is probably safe to say that the possible number of snow crystal shapes exceeds the estimated number of atoms in the known universe.” Current estimates put that number at somewhere between 4 followed by 79 zeroes and 4 followed by 81 zeroes. And the number of snow shapes exceeds this number. Zoinks. This means that despite heavy snowfall (less now thanks to all that hairspray I used in the ‘80s) the number of possible snowflake shapes eclipses the number of snowflakes that may have ever fallen in recorded history. The only way to really know is
to start cataloging every snowflake you encounter. But for that to happen you're going to need some snow. Thankfully, the 10th Annual Pray for Snow Party returns to Caras Park Friday, October 21 from 5:30 PM–10:30 PM. Not only can you invoke the divine to help you with your new quest to catalog snowflakes, but you can enjoy the music of Caroline Keys and the Lane Splitters and the Skurfs while enjoying beer, food and a fire. So come down, start praying and get ready to count. —Charley Macorn The 10th Annual Pray for Snow Party starts at 5:30 PM Fri., Oct. 21, at Caras Park.
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University of Montana professor of forest entomology/pathology Diana Six gives a free lecture on the mountain pine beetle outbreak at North Valley Library. The lecture is at the library. There aren’t any pine beetles at North Valley Library. 6 PM. Free.
Spend Monday morning exploring the fall foliage around Missoula before relaxing with a hot beverage with Coffee Walks. This week explore the Mount Sentinel Fire Road. Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.
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Join other pedalers for a weekly ride to Free Cycles Missoula and back to UM. Meet at the Grizzly statue. 12:30–2 PM. Free. Contact Sandra Broadus at 406-243-4599 for info.
Play a round of disc golf in a local park. Missoula Parks and Rec and Garden City Flyers set up a course in a local park each Tuesday. This week’s folf adventure meets at Pineview Park. 5 PM. Free.
Tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.
Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike. Find locations at facebook.com/MontanaDirtGirls. 6 PM.
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Whether you’re a seasoned traveler of the Northern Rockies or a new arrival, spend an evening highlighting Montana’s protected and unprotected wildlands and opportunities to explore them. Missoula Public Library. 7 PM–8:15 PM. Free.
You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Come enjoy the autumn with the 16th Annual Fall Family Fest at McCormick Park. Enjoy woodcarving, cider pressing, folf and more from 1 PM to 4 PM. $1 suggested donation.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 The Missoula marathon running class is designed for beginning to advanced runners. 8 AM, Run Wild Missoula. 304 N. Higgins. $100. Following a screening of the local documentary Finding Traction, the Runners Edge hosts a Q&A with ultra-runner Nikki Kimball. Doors at 6:30 PM, film starts at 7. Free.
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26 The last Wednesday of every month you can join a few dozen other thirsty road warriors for Run Wild Missoula’s Last Wednesday Beer Run.This month’s spot is Northside Kettlehouse. 6 PM. Free.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 It’s been 67 years since ski-film pioneer Warren Miller picked up a camera to capture the wonder, humor and beauty of skiing. Now Here, There & Everywhere takes you from Alaska to Switzerland in search of the perfect run. The Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $19/$15 in advance.
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By Amy Alkon A MILE IN SOMEBODY ELSE’S CHOOSE I’m a woman who’s on the feminist dating app Bumble, where women have to make the first move. Men can only write back to women who message them. I thought this would be empowering, but even pursuing a guy in this small way feels unsexy and overly aggressive. Do I just need to get over my retrograde thinking? –Uncomfortable The gazelle doesn’t wake up one day, decide it’s time for a change, and give the sleeping cougar a kick with its hoof: “Run for your life, you big ugly feline!” The cougar turns around, confused: “What are you doing, man? Haven’t you ever seen National Geographic?” Who does the chasing in dating also isn’t some arbitrary thing. It comes down to what evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, in 1972, called “parental investment.” His theory—borne out in research on humans, animals, and insects—is that the sex that has the highest cost from sexual activity (the female—in almost all species) will be choosier about whom they mate with than the sex that invests less (which is almost always the male). In humans, of course, women are the ones who get pregnant and stuck with the kids, and men can, as anthropologists quip, just “inseminate and run.” So—over thousands of generations—women being choosier and men being, uh, chase-ier got wired into human psychology. We can’t just shrug off the emotional mechanisms that drive this behavior even today—even if Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe deems it “heteronormative” hooey that women damage their desirability by chasing men. A trip to the Panamanian wetlands would show her she’s wrong—that what drives which sex does the chasing and which does the choosing really is about who gets stuck with the child care. Yes, in most species, that’s the female. But check out the role reversal in the wattled jacana, a long-legged South American wading bird. Zoologist Stephen Emlen and his team found that it’s the male jacana, not the female, that sits incubating the eggs in the nest and cares for the chickies after they hatch. And right in line with Trivers’ parental investment theory, female jacanas are the ones who do the chasing, competing for the males, and some even have “harems” of up to five boy birds. And it gets worse. The Emlen team found that as male jacanas sit tending their egg brood, they’re sometimes forced to watch while their girlfriend bird gets it on right in
front of them with the other boy birds in her harem. Getting back to Bumble, where the app goes wrong is in removing the filtering that comes from a man needing to lay his ego on the line and expend effort to pursue a woman. The notion that it’s “empowering” for women to do the chasing ignores that it’s in men’s genetic interest to not turn down a mating opportunity— even with a woman they aren’t that interested in. Also, because men evolved to expect choosier women, even subtle forms of chasing like your contacting a man first may send a message that you’re not all that. If you’re really looking to put him off, why not turn the tables all the way and send a panorama shot of your erect penis? You: “Yoo-hoo? Where’d you go?!”
WHEN PUSH COMES TO LOVE I’ve been dating a 55year-old guy for a year. I have two teenage boys; he has no kids. He initially mentioned marriage but now doesn’t want to “rush” moving in with me and my boys. As a first step, he’s moving closer. He just signed a lease on an apartment near me. I love him, but I’m overwhelmed handling two teenagers alone. Should I tell him he needs to speed up the pace? –Questioning His Commitment If a relationship leads to an outpouring of feelings, a man tends to prefer “You’re the love of my life!” to “Screw you! You’re not my real dad!” Perhaps because you’re seeing this through “I need a break!”-colored glasses, you confuse being careful with not caring. But zoologist Amotz Zahavi has some good news for you. His research finds that when a message involves some expense to the sender, it’s more likely to be for real. For example, anyone can claim they’re committed, but as the saying goes, talk is cheap. Moving, however, is not. It’s costly. Stressful. Horrible. Especially if you are older than 21 and own more than a sleeping bag, a Nintendo, and a couple of bongs. Your boyfriend may ultimately decide that the package here isn’t for him, but pressuring him is unlikely to help. In fact, it’s likely to pressure him right out of your life. There’s a reason he doesn’t have kids, and it probably isn’t that he was too put off by the possibility of life imprisonment to kidnap a few at the mall.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 1980s, two performance artists did a project entitled “A Year Tied Together at the Waist.” For 12 months, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh were never farther than eight feet away from each other, bound by a rope. Hsieh said he tried this experiment because he felt very comfortable doing solo work, but wanted to upgrade his abilities as a collaborator. Montano testified that the piece “dislodged a deep hiddenness” in her. It sharpened her intuition and gave her a “heightened passion for living and relating.” If you were ever going to engage in a comparable effort to deepen your intimacy skills, Aries, the coming weeks would be a favorable time to attempt it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming weeks would you prefer that we refer to you as “voracious?” Or do you like the word “ravenous” better? I have a feeling, based on the astrological omens, that you will be extra super eager to consume vast quantities of just about everything: food, information, beauty, sensory stimulation, novelty, pleasure and who knows what else. But please keep this in mind: Your hunger could be a torment or it could be a gift. Which way it goes may depend on your determination to actually enjoy what you devour. In other words, don’t get so enchanted by the hypnotic power of your longing that you neglect to exult in the gratification when your longing is satisfied. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When the wind blows at ten miles per hour, a windmill generates eight times more power than when the breeze is five miles per hour. Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect there will be a similar principle at work in your life during the coming weeks. A modest increase in effort and intensity will make a huge difference in the results you produce. Are you willing to push yourself a bit beyond your comfort level in order to harvest a wave of abundance?
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810) had a distinguished career as an admiral in the British navy, leading the sailors under his command to numerous wartime victories. He was also a good-natured softie whose men regarded him as generous and kind. Between battles, while enjoying his downtime, he hiked through the English countryside carrying acorns, which he planted here and there so the “Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.” (Quoted in Life in Nelson’s Navy, by Dudley Pope.) I propose that we make him your role model for the coming weeks. May his example inspire you to be both an effective warrior and a tender soul who takes practical actions to plan for the future.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Eighteenth-century musician Giuseppe Tartini has been called “the godfather of modern violin playing.” He was also an innovative composer who specialized in poignant and poetic melodies. One of his most famous works is the Sonata in G Minor, also known as the Devil’s Trill. Tartini said it was inspired by a dream in which he made a pact with the Devil to provide him with new material. The Infernal One picked up a violin and played the amazing piece that Tartini transcribed when he woke up. Here’s the lesson for you: He didn’t actually sell his soul to the Devil. Simply engaging in this rebellious, taboo act in the realm of fantasy had the alchemical effect of unleashing a burst of creative energy. Try it!
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The planets have aligned in a curious pattern. I interpret it as meaning that you have cosmic permission to indulge in more self-interest and self-seeking than usual. So it won’t be taboo for you to unabashedly say, “What exactly is in it for me?” or “Prove your love, my dear” or “Gimmeee gimmeee gimmee what I want.” If someone makes a big promise, you shouldn’t be shy about saying, “Will you put that in writing?” If you get a sudden urge to snag the biggest piece of the pie, obey that urge.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the course of her long career, Libran actress Helen Hayes won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. Years before all that glory poured down on her, she met playwright Charles MacArthur at a party in a posh Manhattan salon. Hayes was sitting shyly in a dark corner. MacArthur glided over to her and slipped a few salted peanuts into her hand. “I wish they were emeralds,” he told her. It was love at first sight. A few years after they got married, MacArthur bought Hayes an emerald necklace. I foresee a metaphorically comparable event in your near future, Libra: peanuts serving as a promise of emeralds.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Welcome to the Painkiller Phase of your cycle. It’s time to relieve your twinges, dissolve your troubles, and banish your torments. You can’t sweep away the whole mess in one quick heroic purge, of course. But I bet you can pare it down by at least 33 percent. (More is quite possible.) To get started, make the following declaration five times a day for the next three days: “I am grateful for all the fascinating revelations and indispensable lessons that my pain has taught me.” On each of the three days after that, affirm this truth five times: “I have learned all I can from my pain, and therefore no longer need its reminders. Goodbye, pain.” On the three days after that, say these words, even if you can’t bring yourself to mean them with complete sincerity: “I forgive everybody of everything.”
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For the foreseeable future, you possess the following powers: to make sensible that which has been unintelligible ... to find amusement in situations that had been tedious ... to create fertile meaning where before there had been sterile chaos. Congratulations, Sagittarius! You are a first-class transformer. But that’s not all. I suspect you will also have the ability to distract people from concerns that aren’t important ... to deepen any quest that has been too superficial or careless to succeed ... and to ask the good questions that will render the bad questions irrelevant. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the past eleven months, did you ever withhold your love on purpose? Have there been times when you “punished” those you cared about by acting cold and aloof? Can you remember a few occasions when you could have been more generous or compassionate, but chose not to be? If you answered yes to any of those questions, the next three weeks will be an excellent time to atone. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can reap maximum benefit from correcting stingy mistakes. I suggest that you make gleeful efforts to express your most charitable impulses. Be a tower of bountiful power.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1415, a smaller English army defeated French forces at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France. Essential to England’s victory were its 7,000 longbowmen— archers who shot big arrows using bows that were six feet long. So fast and skilled were these warriors that they typically had three arrows flying through the air at any one time. That’s the kind of high-powered proficiency I recommend that you summon during your upcoming campaign. If you need more training to reach that level of effectiveness, get it immediately.
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PUBLIC NOTICES Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Cause No.: DV-16807 Dept. No.: 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Allexendra Pavley, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Allexendra Pavley to Allexendra Isabelle Pavley. The hearing will be on 11/15/16 at 3:00 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/4/16 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-16-833 Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name
Change of Laura Arvidson, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Laura Lee Crane Arvidson to Laura Lee Cova. The hearing will be on 11/16/2016 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: October 7, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-16-834 Dept. No. 1 Leslie Halligan Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Jonathan Sky Wilsnack Orndoff, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for
MNAXLP a change of name from Jonathan Sky Wilsnack Orndoff to Jonathan Sky Cova. The hearing will be on 11/16/2016 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: October 7, 2016. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-185 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CHARLES GLASS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Carter Glass has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims
against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 W. Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 30th day of September, 2016. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Carter Glass, Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Glass MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-16-133
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: KAY BROWN, 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 month after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, c/o Tiffany A. Nunnally, return receipt requested, at 310 W. 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
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PUBLIC NOTICES the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 2nd day of August, 2016. /s/ Roberta Smedsrud, Personal Representative /s/ Tiffany A. Nunally, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 4 PROBATE NO. DP-16-197 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHERRY ANN RUTTENBUR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Neil Gordon Ruttenbur, c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. /s/ Neil Gordon Ruttenbur, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Amy M. Scott Smith MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-16-161 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: EUGENE J. MATELICH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lewis B. Matelich, 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 Lewis B. Matelich, Personal Representa-
tive, return receipt requested, c/o, Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22 day of August, 2016. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. By: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 22 day of August, 2016. /s/ Lewis B. Matelich, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-16-188 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: WILLIAM ANDREW NAGY, JR., a/k/a William A. Nagy, Jr. Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to PAT NAGY SWARTZ, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of October, 2016. /s/ Pat Nagy Swartz, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ Craig Mungas, Attorneys for Pat Nagy Swartz, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-16-167 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DOROTHY
MNAXLP MARION RAHDERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Christy Lee Bergstrom, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas D. Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 26th day of September, 2016. /s/ Douglas Harris for Christy Lee Bergstrom, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/19/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200424029 BK-738 Pg-684, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Milton A. McAdams was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 24 in Block 7 of Wapikiya Addition No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, except that part described as follows: Beginning at the most Easterly corner of said Lot 24; thence Northwesterly along the lot line common to said Lots 24 and 25, a distance of 63.20 feet; thence Southwesterly at right angles, a distance of 5 feet; thence Southeasterly at right
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angles, a distance of 63.20 feet; more or less, to the South lot line of the said Lot 24; thence Northeasterly along the South lot line of said Lot 24, a distance of 5 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, On file and of record in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula, County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book 369 of Micro Records at Page 674. 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 Current Beneficiary has declared that the Grantor is in breach of the terms and conditions of the obligation secured by the deed of trust. The nature of the breach is Grantor’s failure to pay, when due, non-payment of taxes and/or insurances under the terms of the Deed of Trust together with all subsequent payments, costs, advances, attorneys’ and trustee’s fees and costs accruing until the date of sale, full satisfaction, or reinstatement of the obligation. As of August 13, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $194,517.69. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $187,955.30, 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 27, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 10, 31, 53, 62, 63, 146, 238, 266, 298, 355, 356, 400, 410, 441, 442, 688 & 689. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday October 24, 2016. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday October 27, 2016 4:00 P.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. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
USA-Foreclosure.com. McAdams, Milton A. (TS# 7023.116795) 1002.288281File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/26/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201222001 Book 903 Page 478, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Jane Duboise was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Carline Addition No. 3,
COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on Friday October 28th, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. A silent auction will be held Friday October 28th at 11:00 a.m. at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. 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.
Block 45, Lots 42A and 44A, a plated subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. More Accurately Described As Follows: Lot 44A of Carline Addition No.3, Block 45,Lots 42A & 44A, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/16 installment payBITTERROOT MINI STORAGE 6415 Mormon Creek Rd., Lolo, MT 59847 Will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 4, 12, 15, 16, 27, 33, 37, 41, 43, 114 & 115.. Units may contain misc. household goods, furniture, toys, clothes, tools and other misc. items. We will hold a live auction from 2:00-3:30 p.m. on October 27th, 2016. Payment will be due immediately at acknowledgment of winning bid. 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. Please contact Grizzly Property Management at (406) 542-2060 or rentals@grizzlypm.com with any questions.
PUBLIC NOTICES ment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 29, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $173,589.55. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $166,605.96, 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 Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on January 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Duboise, Jane (TS# 7023.116333) 1002.288498File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/02/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200824451 B: 828 P: 837, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Earl Jay Lowry a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee.
First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 of Lloyd Addition, a Platted Subdivision of Missoula County, according to the official recorded Plat thereof on file recorded in Book 6 of Plats at Page 19 1/2, Missoula County, Montana. 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 11/22/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 25, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $94,435.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $82,347.83, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of
MNAXLP these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Lowry, Earl Jay (TS# 7023.117021) 1002.288509-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/07/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200925539 Book 849 Page 787, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Tana L. Mullendore, an unmarried woman was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Ins Co of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Ins Co of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Mountain Shadows West - Phase 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Subject to easements, covenants, conditions and restrictions of record or apparent By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to . 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 Grantors 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 in full. As of August 26, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $668,503.96. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $639,132.13, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front
steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 3, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. Mullendore, Tana L. (TS# 7023.116670) 1002.288501File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 1, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 6H OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1863, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPLE MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Verlene Dolly Stewart, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mountain West Bank, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on December 18, 2007, and recorded on December 24, 2007 as Book 810, Page 1112 under Document No. 200732784. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mort-
gage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning August 1, 2015, 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 22, 2016 is $291,000.57 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00000% totaling $18,464.55, late charges in the amount of $491.65, escrow advances of $4,676.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,121.22, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be
postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 12, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 12 day of July, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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, ID Commission expires: 01-19-2018 Nationstar Mortgage LLC vs STEWART 100682 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 1, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6 OF LOLO HEIGHTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF KENNETH L KERN, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as designated nominee for Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on March 13, 2015, and recorded on March 13, 2015 as Book 941, Page 766 under Document No. 201504283.The beneficial interest is currently held by PennyMac Loan Services, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation, is the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning January 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 7, 2016 is $203,922.72 principal, interest at the rate of 3.50000% totaling $3,080.49, late charges in the amount of $185.52, , suspense
balance of $36.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $15.50, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 13, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, A Montana Corporation Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 13 day of July, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert
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PUBLIC NOTICES know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2022 PennyMac vs KERN 101450-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 12, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SW1/4 OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 20 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 351 Eileen D. Hatten and Marc S. Hatten, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 10, 2014 and recorded on July 16, 2014 as Book 931 Page 83 under Document No. 201409960. The beneficial interest is currently held by
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Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning March 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 1, 2016 is $257,491.10 principal, interest at the rate of 4.00000% totaling $4,277.97, late charges in the amount of $562.11, escrow advances of $0.00, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,459.01, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equiva-
MNAXLP lents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 4, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 4 day of August, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 6-92021 GUILD vs Hatten 101807-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 15, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I UNIT 10 OF BURNS STREET COMMONS, A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM SITUATED ON ALL OF FRACTIONAL FIVE ACRE TRACT
NO. 42 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF; LESS AND EXCEPTING TRACT 42A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5172 LOCATED IN SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 774 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 587. ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM FOR BURNS STREET COMMONS RECORDED IN BOOK 831 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 169 AND SITE PLAN RECORDED AS CONDO000196 AND AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM FOR BURN STREET COMMONS RECORDED IN BOOK 837 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1113 AND AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF PROTECTIVE COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR BURNS STREET COMMONS RECORDED IN BOOK 913 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 437. TOGETHER WITH THE COMMON ELEMENTS AS SET FORTH IN THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM FOR BURNS STREET COMMONS RECORDED IN BOOK 831 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 169 AND SITE PLAN RECORDED AS CONDO000196 AND AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM FOR BURN STREET COMMONS RECORDED IN BOOK 837 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1113 AND AMENDMENT TO DECLARATION OF PROTECTIVE COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR BURNS STREET COMMONS RECORDED IN BOOK 913 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 437. PARCEL II A LEASEHOLD ESTATE CREATED BY THE NOTICE OF GROUND LEASE BETWEEN NORTH MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND KIMBERLY G. TOBOL DATED APRIL 23, 2015 AND RECORDED ON APRIL 29, 2015 IN BOOK 943 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 575 KIMBERLY G TOBOL, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as
Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on April 23, 2015, and recorded on April 29, 2015 as Book 943 Page 576 Document No. 201506893. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, is the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning March 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 12, 2016 is $112,371.83 principal, interest at the rate of 4.00000% totaling $2,382.88, escrow advances of $1,007.20, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and at-
PUBLIC NOTICES torney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 4, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 4 day of August, 2016,, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, 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, ID Commission expires: 01/19/2018 US Bank National Association vs TOBOL 101804 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 5, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 28 IN BLOCK 3 OF LINDA VISTA TENTH SUPPLEMENT PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Shayne D Spence and Tina A Spence, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) solely as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 14, 2013 and recorded on November 15, 2013 as Book 922 Page 171 under Document No. 201322205. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning March 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly in-
stallments 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, 2016 is $238,120.61 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25000% totaling $4,203.43, late charges in the amount of $515.51, and other fees and expenses advanced of $679.45, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 26, 2016 /s/Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of
MNAXLP Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 26 day of July, 2016 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, 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 GUILD vs Spence 101787-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel A Of The Amended Plat Of Tract 1 And 2 Of CALRTON Tracts, Block 2, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. Together With An Easement For Access Over 20 Foot Strip Along An Existing Road Parallel to the North Portion Of The Westerly Boundary Of The Above Described Parcel A. It is more accurately described as follows: Parcel A Of The Amended Plat Of Tract 1 And 2 Of CARLTON Tracts, Block 2, A Platted Subdivision In Missoula County, Montana, According To The Official Recorded Plat Thereof. Together With An Easement For Access Over 20 Foot Strip Along An Existing Road Parallel to the North Portion Of The Westerly Boundary Of The Above Described Parcel A. RUBY FINCH, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on June 7, 2005, and recorded on June 8, 2005 as Book 754, Page 40 under Document No. 200513735. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning May 1, 2016, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other
charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 29, 2016 is $96,422.18 principal, interest totaling $1,850.77 late charges in the amount of $104.80, escrow advances of $265.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $81.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 19, 2016 /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339
Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 19 day of September, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 09/06/2022 PHH vs FINCH 101879-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 9, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NE¼ OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 17 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4385 LYNN GENSCH and RICHARD GENSCH, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Capital Family Mortgage Company of Montana, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on April 18, 2003, and recorded on April 18, 2003 as Book 704 Page 132 Document No. 200313429. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning August 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 22, 2016 is $135,251.41 principal, interest totaling $31,555.28 late charges in the amount of $435.60, escrow advances of $15,835.22, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,894.35, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent,
unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust
and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2016 /s/ Rae Albert Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 30 day of September, 2016, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Nationstar Mortgage LLCvs LYNN GENSCHRICHARD GENSCH 101379-1
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $447,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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2 Bedroom 3 Bathroom Unit, 1,496 sq ft. The Factory Condos Complex is possibly the ''Greenest'' Building in Missoula. High Efficiency Lighting and Energy Efficient Gas Boiler with H2O Baseboard Heat. Unit consists of 2 levels with 10 Foot Ceilings on Main Floor and 9 Foot Ceilings on the upper floor. Bamboo Floors throughout the Main Floor Highlight the Open Kitchen which has Butcher-Block Counter Tops. Fresh Interior, Brand New Appliances with Natural Gas Range. Living Area has a New Gas Fireplace Master Bath with Tiled Floors and Counter Tops.
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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Riverfront home. $430,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 2.5 Bath University District home. $625,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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For Sale 2- 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $35,000 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663
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Central Missoula location with 10 offices, in-space conference room, server room and cubical area. Lots of open space with outside decking and use of large community conference room and break area. Designated parking as well as off-street parking for employees and clients. Energy efficient building with low utility costs. See LA regarding lease terms. For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com Timed Online Real Estate Auction. County-Owned Land in Petroleum County, Montana. Closes Mon., Nov. 7th, 2016 5:00 P.M. 6 Parcels, varying from 1 city lot to 206 acres. Viewing, Terms & bidding info @ ShobeAuction.com. 406-5385125 or 406-366-0472
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