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BREAK FROM THE PELOTON: FORMER PRO-CYCLIST TYLER HAMILTON TALKS OUTING LANCE AND MOVING TO MISSOULA

RICK HILL, GOP, CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND...VAN HALEN?

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News Voices/Letters Moms against “Montucky” .........................................................................4 The Week in Review Hunting season opens.....................................................................6 Briefs Two new chains challenge longtime local businesses .............................................6 Etc. Climate change melts from the national discussion ...................................................7 Up Front Former pro-cyclist Tyler Hamilton slows down in Missoula ..............................8 Up Front Kim Dudik takes aim at open House seat ..........................................................9 Opinion Western ballot measures show difference on public lands ..............................10 Opinion Rick Hill, campaign finance and...Van Halen? ...................................................11 Feature The next great aircraft is being built in a Kalispell garage..................................14

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STREET TALK Asked Oct. 18 along the Hip Strip in Missoula.

by Chad Harder

This week we feature a revolutionary airplane builder in Kalispell. What amenity would you like to add to your in-flight experience?

Follow: What’s been your worst flying experience?

Amanda Argona: I only fly a couple times a year, during the holidays. I’d like to have a soundproof bubble surrounding me. No, nothing else. I think I’d be really comfortable in my bubble. Bubblicious: Actually, my worst and best flying experience happened at the same time. I was 15 or 16, on my first flight to L.A., and I was terribly sick with a stuffy nose and no sleep. But I had the whole row to myself, and that really helped.

Elisa Niva: More leg room, and just a lot more space around me. I always seem to get cramped between fat, grumpy people.

Delhi belly: I was flying back from India to New York on a 13-hour non-stop flight and I’d eaten a tuna sandwich at the airport in Delhi. Yes, there are a lot of ways to get ill in India. I was alone, 12 years old, sitting in the middle seat and I got sick every half-hour.

Lita Ryan: More comfy chairs, free food and bigger TVs with surround sound.

The reach-around: I once sat next to a person who was so fat that they had to have an extension added to their seat belt. Yes, they were definitely in my personal space.

Sandra Gray: Free alcohol, with strong mixed drinks because if we end up going down, I want to be numb. Free-fallin’: You know, I’ve never had a bad experience flying and I hope I never do. If dreams count, then I used to dream all the time that I was falling from a plane. A lot of things go through your mind while you’re falling but before you wake up!

Levi Bullock: You know, I don’t fly much and don’t have many complaints, but I would go for more leg room and more room between the seats. I wouldn’t mind a couch. Little space here: My worst experience was flying to California to go drive to Mexico. This guy in front of me kept his chair down, leaning into my lap. His head was very close to my face.

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“Montucky” offends My daughter and her family have lived in Montana for 10 years. We have visited them many times, but this time we discovered something that truly offends our family. Apparently the word “Montucky” is a slang term for the smaller Podunk areas of Montana, and those using this term are implying that you feel surrounded by inbred rednecks.

This is insulting and a bit surprising, given the fact that Montanans generally think highly of themselves (because of their slightly inflated egos) as tolerant, open-minded, nonjudgmental, enlightened people. “Montucky” sounds very narrow-minded and judgmental to me. I doubt many Montanans have ever visited Kentucky, and that’s too bad. Yes, we have our rednecks, but my goodness, you do too! As far as inbreeding, well, look at your sparse population and think about it.

Here’s hoping my grandchildren that live in Montana do not grow up to have that snobbish mindset.

Vicki Walker Lebanon Junction, Kentucky

Easy shot The Kim Williams Trail along the Clark Fork River is a beloved recreational treasure in existence for only 30 years.

Imagine the uproar if the city or the University of Montana proposed building on it!

The UM Golf Course is every bit as precious to Missoula for its popularity and diverse recreational uses. But this recreational treasure has been in existence since 1916! In 2005, however, UM planned to build retirement housing on the course’s open space. This occurred just before Missoulians approved a $10 million bond to purchase more open space for a growing community.

Missoulians rose up and successfully blocked this plan. But, in 2007, UM developed a new plan. It would build a South Campus there, deemed vital to UM’s future. Ironically, then-president George Dennison had assured the Board of Regents in 2005 that the main campus could accommodate 23,000 students, 8,000 more than the school’s record enrollment would be in 2010.

By 2011, however, plans had changed again, and the UM Golf Course would now be buried under a Missoula College (formerly the College of Technology) campus. The destruction of this open space would begin with one building, and it would stand alone for perhaps another decade.

Not addressed by the UM were: 1) the money and time devoted since 1994 to building a new COT campus on UM land at Fort Missoula; 2) the numerous UM-owned, build-able parcels including those on the main campus; 3) the nega-

tive economic effects on local profit and nonprofit businesses; 4) the negative environmental effects of increased traffic, noise, pollution and parking on the surrounding residents; 5) loss of an important student, faculty/staff recruitment tool; 6) the growing value and importance of urban multi-use open space as Missoula grows; and 7) changing teaching techniques (online courses, for example) that require fewer buildings.

Let’s protect the multi-use “South Campus” open space when other suitable building sites exist for a new Missoula College we all support.

Ian M. Lange Missoula

“I doubt many Montanans have ever visited Kentucky, and that’s too bad.

Yes, we have our rednecks, but my goodness, you do too!”

Walker’s Wisconsin Northwest Montana recently was visited by a governor of note: Mr. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Gov. Walker was in the Flathead stumping for Republican Rick Hill, who is running against Steve Bullock for governor of Montana.

Whereas, having noteworthy politicos from other states stumping for candidates for public office is commonplace, Scott Walker’s presence is instructive.

Walker spearheaded what could be defined as a revolutionary movement against public employees in his state.

Public employees had wages and benefits reduced and their right to bargain

for better wages and benefits eliminated.

Thousands of teaches and public employees lost their jobs, their retirement, their seniority and most of all, their dignity. Thousands of school teachers that remained are now making from $2,000 to $5,000 less because of the policies instituted by Walker. At the same time teachers were losing their jobs, Walker guaranteed tax breaks for big corporations. Some districts have 30 to 40 students in a classroom after teachers were fired without due process. Classrooms are so crowded in some districts that teachers don’t have enough room to move around to give individual attention to students.

Wisconsin public employees are required in some instances to adhere to a policy handbook that require women teachers to wear skirts or dresses that are below the knee or define what teachers can do on their personal days.

Teachers can even be dismissed from their teaching job if they get a speeding ticket. Public employees have borne the brunt of a systematic plan to privatize all state services.

Wisconsinites’ reaction was swift and overwhelming: 100,000 came to Madison to protest the draconian austerity program. Walker was unfazed. In fact, he has become a cause célèbre to many Republicans like Rick Hill, and Walker brought his plan with him to the Flathead. It is the plan that Hill appears to have in mind for Montana.

Rick Hill calls Montana teachers the “second worst in the nation,” and yet, Montana students are doing fairly well (according to Hill), performing in the top third to 15 percent in the nation.

He has emphasized spending your tax dollars on subsidizing private charter schools, such as Stillwater Christian School.

What Rick Hill is promoting is nothing short of an attack on public education—a system dedicated to educating every student from every walk of life.

What Hill and those that support his education “reform” fail to realize is that student working conditions are also teacher working conditions.

If you care about our school children, then one needs to be concerned about the attacks on public education by privately funded groups with deep pockets, such as Americans for Prosperity, which sees public education as a money-making enterprise under the euphemism “education reform”—and by the snake oil salesmen such as Scott Walker and Rick Hill that these groups support and that do their bidding.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Chad Harder

Wednesday, October 17 At the Sustainable Business Council’s 8th annual Sustainability Awards ceremony, Bayern Brewing wins Sustainable Business of the Year for its bottle recycling efforts.

The brewery accepts empties in its “Ecopacks,� and washes and reuses the bottles.

Thursday,

October 18

Three dogs die from smoke inhalation resulting from a fire at 831 Woodford Ave. Three fire engines and a ladder truck respond to the morning blaze. No people are injured. The cause remains under investigation.

Friday,

October 19

A crosswalk-abiding citizen is hit by an SUV on Arthur Ave. near the University of Montana campus. The pedestrian is transported to St. Patrick Hospital with lower back pain. The driver is a UM student.

Saturday,

October 20

Hey, is it basketball season yet? The University of Montana football team loses again, this time to North Dakota, 40-34. The Griz crawl back from a 31-17 halftime deficit to take the lead, but give up a game-winning touchdown in the final minute.

Sunday,

October 21

George McGovern dies at the age of 90.

The former Democratic senator from South Dakota and 1972 presidential nominee moved to the Bitterroot Valley later in his life to be closer to his daughter.

Monday,

October 22

The Missoula City Council sends a proposed cellphone ban back to committee.

The law, if approved by council, would ban talking on a hand-held device while operating a car, motorcycle, quadricycle or bicycle.

Tuesday,

October 23

The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to wade into a dispute about whether it’s legal to limit campaign finance donations to candidates for state office in Montana. Such caps will now remain in place at least through Nov. 6.

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Politics

Stamping out money Three weeks ago, Ben Cohen—the “Ben� in Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream—started stamping paper currency. The stamps read “Money is not free speech� or “Not to be used for bribing politicians.� He’s stamped thousands of bills as the head stamper of Stamp Stampede, a nonprofit selling rubber stamps to promote a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United.

The Indy caught up with Cohen last week, just before he boarded a flight from Arizona to California. Mostly we wanted to ask why the heck he’s stamping money. “It’s monetary jiu jitsu, it’s using money to get money out of politics,� Cohen said. “When you put your message on a dollar bill, it gets seen by an average of 900 people...If you stamp 12 bills today, that gets seen by 10,000 people. If you do that 300 days a year, that gets seen by, I think, about 3 million people.�

Stamp Stampede has sold roughly 1,000 stamps online, and one of the campaign’s partner organizations, Move to Amend, has distributed an additional 500. “Now we just need to make sure

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people use them,� he said. “Can you hold on just one second while I tie my shoes?�

Cohen has been combating “political bribery� for 10 years. He initially founded a string of groups aimed at shifting defense spending to social programs. “We’re not out of money,� Cohen said. “The only crisis we’ve got is that we’re spending the money in all the wrong places.� Corporations and wealthy individuals have a louder voice than the average voter, something Cohen calls a “money-ocracy.�

He added that Pepsi vending machines don’t have a problem with his stamps.

Passing a constitutional amendment is a tall order. And with groups like American Tradition Partnership fighting against campaign finance regulations, specifically in Montana, Cohen’s push for change faces an uphill battle. “Before the Occupy movement started up, I felt like that’s not possible,� Cohen said. “But I think the Occupy movement demonstrated that it is possible to bring together a massive, broad-based, grassroots movement to demand that change.�

For Cohen, the real hurdle is more immediate: Republican and Democratic voters alike have grown

cynical about money in politics. But all the groups allied with the Stamp Stampede are from the left. “I would love to help a group on the right to form,�

Cohen said. “It’s very interesting that the leadership on the right is not advocating for...I have to get off the phone, because I’m on the plane and they’re making me.�

Alex Sakariassen

Business

Bagel wars on Broadway A new bagel shop is coming to town—one block away from the current one. Einstein Bros Bagels, a nationwide chain, is opening a new franchise in downtown Missoula on an adjacent corner to the locally owned Bagels on Broadway.

Einstein Bros is expected to open in January.

Bagels on Broadway has been in business for 19 years.

Missoula businessman Matthew Schmidt initiated the Einstein Bros’ move to downtown. Schmidt, former owner of Mullan Station, was looking around for new opportunities, and he and his wife were a fan of the bagel chain. “We all kind of missed Einstein Bros,�

[news] Schmidt says of frequent stops at the Salt Lake City locations.

Now Schmidt, along with his parents and two brothers, plan on opening five Einsteins over the next two years. In addition to the Missoula location, they expect to open one shop in Bozeman and three in Spokane, Wash. For the Missoula branch, Schmidt says being downtown at the intersection of Broadway and Ryman was key.

“Downtown is in the process of a revitalization,” he says. “I just really wanted to be apart of that.”

The fact that Einstein Bros will be so close to the established Bagels on Broadway doesn’t seem to worry anyone. Schmidt says “there is room for competition.” Bagels on Broadway owner Sue Thompson may not be overjoyed by the competition, but she isn’t crushed by it either.

“Everyone has a right to start up a business,” Thompson says.

Thompson’s bagels are made from scratch every day, and she believes her longevity in the community will be an asset.

“We have good customer service and a loyal customer base,” Thompson says. “We’ll just continue to do what we do best. That’s all we can do.”

Kelly Conde

Food

Organic chain moves in About a week before it opens, the scene inside Natural Grocers is a flurry of people unpacking cardboard boxes and loading shelves. Chad Johnson, the store’s mustached and bespectacled 34-year-old manager, who’s training a new hire how to use the cash registers, reluctantly breaks for a quick interview, but can’t escape the commotion. “There’s no quiet spot,” he says. “We’re opening a store.”

Natural Grocers, a Colorado-based organic grocery chain, opens its Missoula location on the corner of Third and Reserve streets on Oct. 30. The store marks the chain’s 60th location and aims to tap into the Garden City’s seemingly insatiable appetite for organic foods. “There’s a huge buzz for it,” Johnson says. “We’re just really excited to be in Missoula, and to offer awesome products and solid jobs.”

He says he interviewed about 50 people at Missoula Job Service for positions at the new store, and hired 25 full-time employees. Right now they’re being ordered around by Natural Grocers’ “ops team,” as Johnson calls it, a squad that gets new locations around the country from empty to open in about two weeks. The ops team oversees every detail, down to

the exact height of each adjustable supermarket shelf.

“That’s how dialed they are,” he says.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, as the chain is officially called, was attracted to the Missoula market because it’s been “an epicenter of active and healthy lifestyles,” said company co-president Kemper Isely in a statement. “Our new store product offerings and outreach programs fit perfectly with the city’s culture, residents and visitors.”

The company opened its first Montana store in June, in Billings, and plans to open a third, in Helena, in December.

The Missoula location sits just a mile down Third Street from the Good Food Store, the city’s well-established independent organic grocer. Asked if he’s concerned about the competition, Good Food Store spokesman Layne Rolston says, “Not so much.”

“We’ve always felt like the more [businesses] that are celebrating organic and getting organic food in front of people the better,” Rolston says. “That’s what we’re about, too. And we think there’s probably room for more than one or two or three people selling organic food in Missoula.”

Inside Natural Grocers, Johnson takes a more competitive tack. “We’ll open up and let our prices talk for us,” he says.

Matthew Frank

Community

Council considers YWCA loan The YWCA is asking the Missoula City Council to help with a significant expansion of its Secret Seconds thrift store on West Broadway.

“Most community members do not realize how important Secret Seconds is to the YWCA’s programs,” says YWCA Executive Director Cindy Weese.

The Missoula YWCA provides emergency shelter

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for domestic and sexual violence survivors and transitional housing for homeless women and children.

More than a third of the nonprofit’s $1.8 million budget last year came from Secret Seconds sales.

The YWCA hopes to add 5,800 square feet onto its existing store. Half of that would be retail space, with the remainder used for processing donations.

“We won’t have to turn away donations as often as we do now,” Weese says. “We can get things processed and on the racks a lot quicker.”

The YWCA is asking council to issue $920,400 in tax-exempt bonds to fund the project and to help refinance existing debt. The Internal Revenue Service allows municipalities to issue up to $10 million annually in such bonds for nonprofit family services.

Because they aren’t taxed, the YWCA will get a significantly lower interest rate than it would otherwise.

Banks buy the bonds and the city assumes no liability.

“It’s an incentive to keep commerce flowing,” says City Finance Director Brentt Ramharter.

The YWCA first planned to build a new domestic violence shelter on the lot now slated for expansion.

But because the Poverello Center homeless shelter is now slated for construction across the street, the YWCA will build its new shelter elsewhere.

“We oftentimes have women staying in our shelter escaping abusive partners who are living at the Poverello,” Weese explains.

When the YWCA approached Missoula Mayor John Engen about facilitating the loan, Engen was sensitive to issues that could arise between the two shelters, Weese says. She adds: “We certainly didn’t use that as a bargaining chip.”

Revenue generated from a larger and more profitable Secret Seconds and from refinancing old debt will help fund construction of a new domestic violence shelter at another undecided location, Weese says.

Weese aims to work with the Pov to help make further improvements, such as landscaping, to the blighted Broadway and Cedar Street stretch. “I think it’s going to be two very nice improvements to this neighborhood,” she says.

Council will hold a public hearing on the bond sale on Nov. 19.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. We roared along with you when President Barack Obama skewered Mitt Romney with his Twitter-busting “horses and bayonets” zinger during Monday night’s final presidential debate. Then Obama likened Romney’s proposal to bolster the U.S. Navy’s fleet to “a game of Battleship.” The exchange rivaled Romney’s best line of the night, “We can’t kill our way out of this mess,” when referring to the country’s various conflicts in the Middle East.

But while the digs have made for great entertainment, they don’t equate to good policy. The punditry and their insta-polls are too caught up in declaring a debate winner to note the glaring absence of any discussion addressing what many believe to be the greatest challenge facing the planet: climate change.

Before you roll your eyes, consider that there have been more than 40,000 daily heat records broken in the U.S. this year, yet the issue went completely unmentioned during the three debates—the first time that’s happened since 1988. Clearly neither candidate sees any political advantage in broaching the topic—not when jobs and the economy trump all, and they find themselves fighting over who would drill more oil and burn more coal.

During Obama’s inaugural address nearly four years ago, he said he’d “work tirelessly to...roll back the specter of a warming planet.” He moved quickly to raise fuel efficiency standards and the Environmental Protection Agency began regulating carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. “Cap and trade” was seen as a middle-of-the-road legislative approach to reduce carbon emissions, but that was quickly done in by the economic meltdown and paralyzing partisanship in Congress.

As for Romney’s stance on climate change, this quote, from a recent interview on “Meet the Press,” sums it up: “I’m not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal the planet.”

The lack of any meaningful discussion of climate change during this campaign stunts any action at a time when it can hardly afford it. We know how Romney would address it (or not) if elected. As for Obama, his recent silence is disappointing. Whether a second term would bring effective policies, well, it’s a guessing game—sort of like Battleship.

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Breaking away Former pro-cyclist Tyler Hamilton slows down in Missoula

by Alex Sakariassen

Tyler Hamilton has spent the bulk of his life in the passing lane. As a teen, he competed in downhill ski racing events and joined the University of Colorado’s ski team.

Two broken vertebrae his sophomore year ended his competitive ski racing days, so he joined the UC Cycling Team to get back in shape. The decision launched a 14-year career that took him to the Tour de France and netted him a gold medal in the 2004 Olympic Games.

But life in the passing lane came with a dark side. Hamilton tested positive for doping twice in the latter years of his cycling career. He retired in 2009 and, following a phone call from a special agent with the Food and Drug Administration in June 2010, Hamilton decided to come clean. He’s one of 11 former U.S. Postal Service cycling team members who testified before the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency this year about the doping subculture among top Tour de France racers in the late ’90s and early 2000s— testimony that resulted in Lance Armstrong being stripped of his seven Tour medals early this week.

Now Hamilton is changing his pace. Part of the change involved moving from Boulder, Colo., to Missoula in May. Hamilton and his wife, Lindsay, call it a fresh start, a transition away from the controversy encapsulated in Hamilton’s new book, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France.

After years of passing anything that moved, Hamilton is tubing the Clark Fork, drinking local craft beer and prepping for his first ski season in Montana. He even drives slower now, he jokes on a recent Friday morning at Zootown Brew. “I don’t have that competitive bone in my body anymore,” he says.

That doesn’t mean life’s been easy the past few years. Ever since publicly admitting to his doping history before a federal grand jury in July 2010, Hamilton has taken heat from media, fans and fellow members of the peloton. He was one of the first pro cyclists to break a long-held code of silence on the doping culture. In The Secret Race, which is nominated for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, Hamilton describes key scenes of his and Armstrong’s use of erythropoietin, or EPO, to boost endurance, as well as elaborate blood transfusions conducted prior to the 2000 Tour

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de France. The details read like mafia-style confessional, from Armstrong’s habit of keeping EPO chilled in a thermos when traveling to cover-ups involving doping cyclists disposing of spent syringes in crushed Coca Cola cans.

“I’m really proud of writing the book, but I’m not proud of what’s in the book,” Hamilton says. “It’s a sad story.”

“We have some racers, we have the whole spectrum.”

Whether the company will build a base in Missoula depends. Hamilton has preferred to let the operation grow organically.

As the dust settles over the next few months, “We’d love to help out the [local] bike community in any way we can,” Hamilton says. “Maybe help out with some

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Hamilton and his wife briefly moved back to Boulder from Boston last year, but found it difficult to get away from the ongoing controversy. The couple scoped out Montana—Lindsay has family in the state, Hamilton used to race in college with Missoula Bicycle Works owner Alex Gallego— and, after one visit, “fell in love” with Missoula.

Hamilton spent the bulk of his summer completing his book, which he co-authored with cycling journalist Daniel Coyle.

In addition, he and Lindsay have continued to operate Tyler Hamilton Training, a coaching program for cyclists that Hamilton started shortly after his retirement from professional cycling in 2009. The company is still based out of Boulder, where head coach Jim Capra currently resides. But Hamilton works with athletes all over the globe, and he fills much of his days with Skype calls. The company’s primary focus is amateur cyclists, Hamilton says, the “weekend warriors that have full-time jobs.” Hamilton helps them customize a training regime based on everything from age to local altitude.

“We have one 13-year-old client and we have one 60-year-old client,” Lindsay says.

free clinics for the kids...I’ve got a lot of experience, and I’ve got a lot to give.”

Hamilton isn’t in the habit of running from the darker chapters of his past, but he doesn’t envy the position Armstrong and other former fellows from the peloton are in now. Those cyclists appear to be starting the same process Hamilton began years ago, Hamilton says, and while they have a lot to look forward to in potentially coming clean, it’s a rough road—one Hamilton admits he played a key role in paving.

“I opened this can of worms with the story,” he says. “Just to inform people of what really happened back then, it’s my obligation.”

As for the near future, Hamilton and his wife are looking forward to discovering exactly what a normal routine is in Missoula. They’ve already got their Snowbowl passes, and intend to hit the slopes as much as possible. Over coffee, the couple jokes that Hamilton was so relaxed last winter, he skied in jeans.

“Proving that you’re better than somebody else for so long gets a little old,” Hamilton says. “I’m over it.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

[news]

On the doorstep Kim Dudik takes aim at open House seat

by Jessica Mayrer

On a recent sunny morning, Montana legislative candidate Kimberly Dudik knocks on an apartment door at a beige multiplex off Rodgers Street on Missoula’s Northside. The sound of muffled coughs and a baby’s cry makes it clear that someone’s home, but the window curtains remain drawn and nobody answers.

Undeterred, Dudik walks across the courtyard to knock on another door. A harriedlooking woman holding a phone answers.

She says she’s too busy to chat about the campaign. The woman warms, however, when she learns that Dudik is a Democrat.

“I vote straight Democratic ticket,” the woman says. “You will get my vote and my son’s...We need to win, dear...We’re in serious trouble, our economy.”

Armed with this small victory, Dudik marches on in her gray and purple tennis shoes. After logging more than 100 hours on the doors this past year competing for the House seat vacated by Democrat Betsy Hands, Dudik knows to wear sensible shoes. She has also perfected her pitch.

It’s gentle, yet persistent. “I am a registered nurse and an attorney,” she tells those who answer their doors, and then asks if they have any concerns about local government.

While on the stump, Dudik has also come to recognize the substantial demographic differences in HD 99. The district blankets 246 square miles that include bits of Arlee, the Westside, downtown Missoula and Grant Creek. “Sometimes there’s the lingering smell of pot smoke,” she says of some doors she’s knocked on.

“I’ve never smelled pot up in Grant Creek.”

The district is sprawling, but Dudik doesn’t actually live within HD 99. She grew up in Frenchtown and now lives with her husband and two children in central Missoula, “a few blocks” from the district line. Her detractors have said her living outside the district makes her less qualified to serve its residents. It’s not unusual, however, for legislators to represent areas they don’t live in. State law only requires that they live in the county encompassing their specific district.

“It’s a pretty broad area,” Dudik says.

“All of these people don’t have the same concerns.”

Part of Dudik’s doorstep speech focuses on how she’s best equipped to represent HD 99’s varied interests. At 37, she worked most recently for the State of Montana as an assistant attorney general.

She left the attorney general’s office in June to focus on her legislative aspirations. She also holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dudik points to her experience as an attorney as key to her House bid. “I understand what’s legal. I know that we

Photo by Chad Harder

Kim Dudik, Democratic candidate for House District 99, says she’s logged more than 100 hours knocking on doors during the campaign.

shouldn’t necessarily be writing bills to secede from the union,” she says, taking a jab at a failed bill crafted during the 2011 legislative session. Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, famously billed that session as being “bat-crap crazy” for efforts to impose such legislation.

Dudik also questions why, in light of the state’s budget surplus last time around, legislators opted to trim 6 percent from spending, shrinking school funding and social service budgets. “It seemed like the legislature last time just wanted to cut,” she says.

While Dudik criticizes legislation from the 2011 session, she steers clear of directly taking aim at her opponent, Republican Gary Marbut. A longtime HD 99 resident, Marbut serves as director of the Montana Shooting Sports Association and is a vocal advocate of liberal gun laws. Recently, he’s argued the U.S. Congress overstepped its authority when passing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Dudik is a strong supporter of the regulatory overhaul.

A similar difference between the candidates unfolds on the issue of campaign finance. Dudik is critical of recent judicial decisions to loosen campaign finance restrictions. Marbut’s MSSA, meanwhile, fought alongside American Tradition Part-

nership (formerly Western Tradition Partnership) in a lawsuit that successfully reversed Montana’s century-old ban on corporate campaign spending.

“Money spent for speech IS an essential element of speech,” Marbut wrote in an email response to questions posed by the Independent for this article.

Marbut’s efforts against federal oversight have earned him endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the Montana Cannabis Industry Association.

Dudik, meanwhile, received endorsements from NARAL Pro-Choice Montana, Planned Parenthood, the Montana AFLCIO and Montana Conservation Voters, as well as from a slew of local leaders, including Mayor John Engen.

“I think nurse, lawyer, big-brained mom adds value to the decision-making process,” Engen says.

In the coming days, Dudik will continue knocking doors in HD 99. If you spot her through your curtained windows, wearing tennis shoes and carrying a clipboard, she’d appreciate the chance to introduce herself.

“I’m knocking doors until Nov. 6,” she says. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • October 25 – November 1, 2012 [9]

[opinion]

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[10] Missoula Independent • October 25 – November 1, 2012

by Luther Propst

Arizona voters face two land-related ballot measures this November, and together they reveal not just the state’s split personality but that of the West as well.

You can think of Proposition 119 as a respectable Dr. Jekyll, a 19th century gentleman who wants the state and federal government to exchange land to improve management and to protect the “mission readiness” of the state’s military bases. By carefully consolidating state and federal land, Prop. 119 would also promote solar energy while protecting public lands for conservation and public use.

The measure requires an extraordinary degree of openness, including a requirement that the voters must specifically approve future land exchanges.

Prop. 119 is the result of intensive stakeholder involvement combined with old-fashioned collaboration. It was the kind where participants with diverse perspectives met and worked to balance competing interests.

The Sierra Club’s Sandy Bahr, dean of Arizona's environmental advocates and nemesis of the legislature’s often bad ideas, along with John Nelson, retiring state senator and a thoughtful adult in the legislature, hammered out the final compromise that brought everyone together.

Environmental groups, military support groups, economic development organizations and educators all support the measure.

Many Democrats and Republicans also came on board, so the obvious question arises: Who’s against it? The answer is that a cadre of Tea Party legislators opposes Prop. 119 out of the misplaced conviction that some odd bedfellows—military and environmental groups—had formed a conspiracy to deprive Arizonans of their land. Opponents also talk about foreign paratroopers massing on the border; the details are a bit murky.

In any event, here’s a cheer for the legislature for putting Prop. 119 on the ballot, and here’s hoping that a majority of voters study the measure, because if they do, they will almost certainly vote “yes” as it is in the state’s best interest.

Proposition 120, however, can be

thought of as Robert Louis Stevenson’s sinister character, Mr. Hyde. This measure authorizes Arizona to seize federal lands in the state, excluding American Indian reservations and “land for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards and other needful buildings,” quoting the U.S. Constitution. And where are these dockyards in Arizona? Maybe they were thinking about the dockyards at Fort Sumter.

But how in the world will Arizona manage an additional 27 million acres of public

“Some say that the American Legislative Exchange Council, better known by the acronym ALEC, spoon-fed these measures to Western states.” lands that include the Grand Canyon, Saguaro National Park, the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and many other crown jewels of the public domain with no new money? Prop. 120 provides no funds for management.

Arizona already struggles to manage 9.3 million acres of state trust land–– 12.7 percent of the state. That land’s management is a tribute to the Herculean efforts of Land Commissioner Maria Baier and her recently slashed staff. The Arizona Legislature cut the land department’s annual general fund ap-

propriation from $29 million in 2006 to $1.2 million in 2012. That’s not a typo. Appropriations dropped from $3.13 per acre in 2006 to 13 cents per acre today. Compare that to the Bureau of Land Management, which spends somewhere around $3.79 per acre, and the National Park Service, which spends more than $20 per acre. And Prop. 120 would put the legislature in charge of the Grand Canyon!

If this is a joke, it’s not funny. What’s also not funny is that the federal government gave the state of Arizona some 100,000 acres of public land to fund buildings for its legislature, executive department and courts. The state legislature expressed its thanks in 2009 by taking out a “payday loan” (also called a saleleaseback deal with a private investor) against the building to cover its budget shortfall.

Prop. 120 seems to have come from outside Arizona because almost identical versions appeared in Utah and Colorado at the same time. Some say that the American Legislative Exchange Council, better known by the acronym ALEC, spoon-fed these measures to Western states. All speak of “returning” public lands managed by the federal government to the states. If return is the right verb here, I wonder whether ALEC thought about Arizona’s American Indian tribes, who would be in line well ahead of the state legislature if any returns are offered.

After the November election, it might be a good idea to examine the political, social and economic dynamics that led the Arizona Legislature to bring back both Dr. Jekyll and the fiendish Mr. Hyde through two ballot propositions. What factors prompted both a thoughtful measure that improves management of our public lands, and a childish act of insurrection that tells the federal government and everyone who loves our public lands to get lost?

Luther Propst is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the executive director of the Sonoran Institute, based in Tucson, Ariz.

[opinion]

Unchained Rick Hill, campaign finance and…Van Halen?

by Dan Brooks

The World Affairs Council of Montana Much like Van Halen, campaign finance law in Montana can be divided into three distinct periods. From 1912 until three weeks ago, donations to candidates from political parties were limited to $22,600 per election cycle. On Oct. 3, Judge Charles Lovell ruled that limit unconstitutional in light of Citizens United v. FEC, and for six days—the state’s Van Hagar period, if you will—Montana had no laws governing political contributions whatsoever. Then, on Oct. 9, an appeals court reinstated the old limits, pending a federal ruling.

During those six days, the state Republican Party gave gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill $500,000. We don’t know where they got it—Federal Election Commision filings show that the Montana GOP had just over $64,000 in the bank as of September—and until the next filing deadline in late October, they don’t have to tell us. The only thing state GOP director Bowen Greenwood has made clear is that they won’t be asking for it back.

“We don’t make the laws here, we just follow them. At the time, that was the law,” Greenwood told the Associated Press. “Supporting pro-jobs candidates is what we do here, so of course we donated to Rick Hill.”

Greenwood’s claim that the Republican Party of Montana does not make laws is a little disingenuous. To name one example, the GOP helped make the Montana Corrupt Practices Act of 1912—a law that has forbidden corporations from contributing to Montana political campaigns for the last 100 years, give or take six days.

The Corrupt Practices Act was passed by popular referendum in response to the shenanigans of copper baron William Clark, who in 1898 bribed enough state legislators to have himself declared the Democratic senator from Montana. Clark was one of the 50 richest Americans ever. After his bribery scheme was made public, he bragged that he “never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.”

Rick Hill is not for sale, but he is accepting offers. He scoffed at a lawsuit filed last

week by his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Steve Bullock, demanding that he return the half million. Hill says he already spent it. To strain our Van Halen analogy to its breaking point, he simply cannot drive 55.

It is possible that the $500,000 the GOP gifted Hill—50 cents for every man, woman and child in Montana—came from individual donors within the state. It is also possible that it came from the corporations that support American Tradition Partnership, a

“Rick Hill is not for sale, but he is accepting offers.”

501(c)(4) organization whose name appears on almost every brief filed in support of Hill since his windfall.

American Tradition Partnership is the Washington, D.C., nonprofit that sued to overturn the Corrupt Practices Act after Citizens United v. FEC. Their website is one of six domains hosted on the same server as The Montana Statesman—an ersatz online newspaper that calls itself “Montana’s oldest and most trusted news source” and features seven front-page articles attacking Bullock. Besides another faux news site, the other two domains on the server are the campaign websites of state House candidates Jerry O’Neill and Dan Skattum. Of course, American Tradition Partnership is not giving those Republican candidates free web hosting; that would violate the

law they’ve spent the last year trying to erase. It’s a coincidence.

It is also a coincidence that American Tradition Partnership is a plaintiff in the motion to find Bullock in contempt of court for his lawsuit against Hill. In the nonprofits’s filing, they argue that Bullock should be required to pay for ads to undo the damage he has done to Hill’s character.

The same day he filed that motion, ATP lawyer James Bopp wrote to Justice Anthony Kennedy and asked the Supreme Court to intervene in Bullock’s suit.

All of these motions and injunctions and countersuits refer to Hill’s campaign committee by its legal name: A Lot of Folks for Rick Hill. He does seem to garner support from a lot of folks. He also seems to be fighting tooth and nail against whatever law might require him to disclose who they are.

“The law is unconstitutional and remains unconstitutional,” Hill’s campaign manager told the AP. “It was a legal contribution. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Montana Republican Party is going to support its nominee for governor.”

We are not surprised, Montana Republican Party—we’re just very disappointed.

This brings us to the third stage of our Van Halen analogy, when Montana campaign finance law is fronted by that guy from Extreme. We’ve returned to the old songs, but in such obviously perverse fashion as to spoil the original material.

It is again illegal for copper barons and third parties to fund political campaigns. For a week in October, though, one judge undid 100 years of Montana law. During that week, one candidate took 20 times as much money as his campaign can legally accept now. We can all act like “Why Can’t This Be Love” never happened, but the fact is that Hill is still touring on the proceeds.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and lying at combatblog.net.

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missoulanews.com • October 25 – November 1, 2012 [11]

[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – After breaking into a St. Louis home and stealing several items, Damon L. Petty, 37, lingered to eat. The homeowner and a friend returned to find him frying bacon in the kitchen.

They subdued him until police arrived. Petty pleaded guilty to burglary and received a seven-year prison sentence. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Police investigating a bank robbery in Southfield, Mich., arrested Todd Jason Kettler, 37, after the manager of a strip club in Kalamazoo Township reported a man was paying for lap dances with money covered in red dye, which banks use to mark stolen money. (Detroit Free Press)

WINNER OF THE NEXT NOBEL PRIZE – Eva Restaurant in Los Angeles began offering a 5 percent discount to customers who check their cellphones with staffers when they’re seated. Noting that nearly half the customers take advantage of the offer, owner Mark Gold explained the policy is an attempt to create an environment where diners connect to each other instead of technology. (Associated Press) MENSA REJECT OF THE WEEK – Bank of America executive Jason Selch protested the firing of a colleague by bursting into a conference room and mooning his bosses. His subsequent firing cost him a contingent bonus package worth millions that would have vested only a few months later. Besides losing his job and the multi-million dollar bonus, Selch lost his lawsuit arguing he couldn’t be fired “for cause” because the mooning didn’t interfere with his official duties. (CNBC) IDENTITY CRISIS – When the driver of a tour bus at Iceland’s Eldgja volcano reported a passenger missing, police began searching for a 5-foot-2 Asian woman who spoke English well. The search lasted from Saturday until around 3 a.m. Sunday, when one of the passengers who had joined the search party realized she was the person she was looking for. The unidentified 5-foot-2 Asian woman who spoke English well had changed clothes after getting off the bus, and neither the driver nor fellow passengers recognized her. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

DOWNSIZING – San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors postponed a vote on a proposed change to the city’s building code that would allow construction of apartments as small as 220 square feet, about the size of a one-car garage. Proponents contend the smaller units would provide an affordable option for the city’s single residents. “The fact is 41 percent of San Franciscans live alone,” said Supervisor Scott Wiener, who drafted the proposal. “There are a lot of people who don’t need or can’t afford a lot of space.” If the board approves the measure, San Francisco would join New York City, which recently voted to test similar micro-units. Singapore authorities, meanwhile, just raised minimum dwelling sizes because of concerns about urban congestion. (Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle) An Italian study of male sexuality discovered that the average size of male genitalia has been steadily shrinking. Penises now are roughly 10 percent smaller than they were 50 years ago. The study identified the causes as weight gain, pollution, stress, smoking and alcohol, although radio host Rush Limbaugh insisted “it’s feminism.” (Salon)

REAR-ENDED – Federal authorities accused Ronald Robinson, 34, of returning used enema kits to a Florida drug store, which returned them to shelves. Prosecutors said Robinson resealed the enemas inside their boxes and brought them back to the store for refunds. (United Press International) Police who arrested Anthony Leopold Rowe, 26, at his home in Easton, Pa., said he tried to swallow marijuana that he had hidden in his anal cavity. (Allentown’s The Morning Call)

FREEDOM TO LIE – When Canada’s Competition Bureau tried to fine Rogers Communications $10 million for misleading advertising, the telecom company asked the Ontario Superior Court to strike down a key provision of the federal law requiring companies to have “adequate and proper” tests of a product’s performance before making performance claims in advertisements. Rogers declared this requirement violates its right to free expression granted by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Michael Janigan, executive director and general counsel at Public Interest Advocacy Centre, called the notion that companies shouldn’t be required to have facts and evidence to back up their advertising claims before making them “a bit like a Madison Avenue wet dream.” (Ottawa Citizen) GOOD NEWS FOR ZOMBIES – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Gerber Legendary Blades announced a voluntary recall of 119,000 Gerber Bear Grylls Parang Machetes that were marketed to zombie killers on last fall’s season opener of “The Walking Dead” television series. “If the Dead walk, the continuation of the human race will become a daily struggle,” the Portland, Ore., company said on its website. “Are you prepared to protect and defend your family and friends? Your best chance lies in the Gerber Apocalypse Survival Kit.” The limited-edition kit, which included six other zombie-fighting tools, sold for $349. The problem with the 19.5-inch-long curved weapons, with a 13.5-inch blade, was a weakness where the handle meets the blade, “posing a laceration hazard,” the recall said. Gerber received 24 reports of the blade or handle breaking during use and one injury, not, however, to a zombie. (Orlando Sentinel) EVERY VOTE COUNTS – After the two top candidates in a Democratic primary for Connecticut’s 5th General Assembly District tied, a recount gave a one-vote edge to Leo Canty. A second recount gave runner-up Brandon McGee another vote, re-tying the results. After McGee filed an elections complaint, the apparent outcome hinged on a previously uncounted absentee ballot marked “deceased” that was found to have been cast by a 91-year-old woman still living. Superior Court Judge A. Susan Peck ordered the ballot opened, even though doing so identified the voter and her vote. The vote was for Donald Trinks, who finished a distant third. Peck ordered a new primary election, which McGee, 28, won, 1,095 to 942.

(The Hartford Courant)

BEYOND SUSPICIOUS – Federal officials at Los Angeles International Airport who noticed a passenger arriving on a flight from Japan dressed in bulletproof vest and flame-retardant pants decided to search his luggage. After finding a smoke grenade, knives, body bags, a hatchet, a collapsible baton, a biohazard suit, a full-face respirator, handcuffs, leg irons and a device to repel dogs, they arrested Boston-bound Yongda Huang Harris, 28. (Associated Press)

[12] Missoula Independent • October 25 – November 1, 2012

missoulanews.com • October 25 – November 1, 2012 [13]

ohn McGinnis always dreamed he’d fly. He was five years old in 1969 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and that made him want to be an astronaut more than anything. He saw in the “The Jetsons” the promise of a flying car and a colorful Orbit City built for a flying population. Like most of us, he marveled at the galaxy far, far away in the 1977 Star Wars: A New Hope filled with swift TIE fighters and X-wings.

Lots of people dream of flying, but besides boarding a jumbo plane now and then, the dream goes no further.

McGinnis is different. He’s building an aircraft in a garage in Kalispell. It’s a small plane called Synerg y, a cuttingedge, original design that he’s creating with the intention of it becoming the minivan of the skies. It’s an aircraft meant to be assembled with relative ease, flown in the same way one drives an automatic car, and affordable enough to be attained by the average household. It could be the minivan of the skies, except it would have better fuel efficiency and an engine that’s as quiet as the clouds.

John says the whole project will cost $1.5 million.

It sounds far-fetched, and maybe it is, but McGinnis says that defeatist line of thinking is part of the problem.

Airplane technolog y hasn’t come very far over the years because there’s little incentive to make better aircrafts.

The Federal Aviation Administration deserves some of the blame for its cumbersome rules and regulations; aviation enthusiasts like to poke fun at the agency with a fake slogan that reads, “FAA Mission: We’re not happy until you’re not happy.”

The average age for most planes is about 35 years old. The designs are 50 years old and based on 1930s technolog y and 1950s aerodynamics. Planes haven’t changed, McGinnis says, they’ve just quadrupled in relative cost.

“There has been a vacuum for the innovation—the necessary breakthrough innovation that would change the paradigm and bring money to the process of producing and selling airplanes,” he says. “I know why. It’s a very difficult market to enter. It’s highly regulated, it’s full of risk.”

With so few breakthroughs, aerospace investment is hard to secure. With such little investment, change can only happen through nontraditional measures and extreme ingenuity.

Building a plane in a garage in northwestern Montana just may be the perfect plan to changing an entire industry—and how we live.

[14] Missoula Independent • October 25 – November 1, 2012

Pat Pat McGinnis’ McGinnis’ wooden wooden shop shop next next to to the the garage garage

:::::: Pat McGinnis, John’s father, lives on a pastoral piece of land in Kalispell. Bird houses nestle in the trees and a blind squirrel, which Pat rescued, scurries around in the home Pat built for it. A rustic wooden shop on stilts hosts a gallery of tools Pat has carefully refurbished. All this countryside beauty doesn’t prepare you for the futuristic vision inside the large garage next to the shop.

The pod-shaped body of the Synergy aircraft sits partially constructed in the center of the room. The front canopy curves across the cockpit and five minivan seats act as placeholders on the craft’s floor before new seats are made. The landing wheel props up one end. On the smooth side of the plane, a small hatch that looks like the fuel compartment door on a car opens to reveal the aircraft’s door handle. Next to the craft is a CAD/CAM machine, a computer-controlled milling machine, which John uses to precisely cut the parts that he’s designed with high-end engineering software.

On any day of the week you might glimpse John and Pat—plus John’s wife, four kids and a myriad of volunteers—working on parts of the aircraft. Pieces of it in various stages—from its early stage in aerospace foam to the later stage of carbon fiber—cover the table tops.

The walls are cloaked in ear protection gear and masks, the benches to the side of the room colonized by several laptops, the screens lit up by data testing his aeronautical ideas. Pictures of classic aircraft like Hellcats, Sky Raiders, Hopper Hurricanes and Spitfire wallpaper one side of the room. Above the plane-in-progress is a fullydeveloped one-fourth scale version of Synergy attached to the ceiling, its nose pushing up into the air like it’s about to bust out of its chains and take off.

The scene may evoke Doc Brown’s mad scientist shop from Back to the Future, but it’s a mistake to dismiss the engineer as merely an eccentric chasing a dream in a garage. John, who also runs his own threedimensional modeling company, MC Squared Designs, started building Synergy in 2009. Since then, his ideas have generated buzz from articles in Wired, Popular Science and AeroPunk magazine. NASA has a profile page for the Synergy company on its website. John gets calls daily from people wanting to order planes—orders he can’t fulfill until his original is completed. Designers from large companies inquire constantly as to his design, which remains largely under wraps. Curious professional engineers and engineering students from MIT and Stanford have traveled on their own dime to work on the aircraft with him in Kalispell.

Here’s what the buzz is about: all airplanes encounter turbulence during flight, which can cause friction and makes the plane less efficient. Every part of Synergy—the body, wings, engine, etc.—is designed to reduce drag. In fact, with the help of its low-powered propeller, Synergy actually reduces drag to the point of producing “negative drag.” John says the plane has 10 times the fuel efficiency of a small jet.

Many of the particular design features that make Synergy so efficient are hidden in its core or revealed only through complex equations, except for one: its scifi-looking double box tail wings. They look like rectangles and are made to glide in a way that keeps the plane from ever stalling.

“When we describe how much power it takes to move something through fluid, like a ship through a canal, we talk in terms of horsepower,” says John. “If

you use some of that horsepower differently—not just to make thrust but to overcome drag—you only need half the horsepower. So, on 200 horsepower we’re going to set world records. In fact we’re going to set world records every time we fly.” :::::: Pat McGinnis has a word to describe his son: “Tenacious.”

“He always had a really inquisitive mind,” Pat says.

“Even as a very young child he was looking for ways to do something better. He wasn’t really satisfied with the way things [were made].” He recalls that when John was just barely four, he bought him a train set with cars that hooked together. John, who had already learned a little about magnets, suggested that the train set would do well to use magnetic coupling rather than latches.

“He amazed me later on, too,” Pat says. “I knew he was always driven—especially in science and physics— to look at new ideas. He never let the latest publications get off the shelf before he had read them. He knew all the big names in science.”

When John was a boy, Pat bought him a styrofoam aircraft carrier with a motored helicopter for Christmas.

John would fly the helicopter off the ship and zip it around to rescue pretend astronauts that had just returned from space, and bring them back to the ship.

“That was a multi-educational toy for me,” John says. “It taught me how things fly. It taught me about controlling those things that fly—hand-eye coordination, that sort of thing.”

Pat, an electrical power lineman, built a tire swing in the McGinnis’ yard in Kalispell with a pulley hooked

through it so John, or any other little kid, could be raised up to the top of a large pine tree. When the swing was released, the pulley would send it sailing through the yard and to another set of tall trees where their feet would touch the highest limbs. It was like flying. “Kids came from miles around for it,” says Pat. By junior high, John was flying control line airplanes (“Or smashing up control line planes, I should say,” he says, laughing). When he got his own job in high school he could afford radio control planes. He worked at a hobby shop and started building model planes. He often dreamed up his own designs.

“I knew I was going to be an aeronautical engineer and I was going to go design airplanes for a living [and] fly fighter jets,” he says.

A couple of things veered John away from that path.

The cost of becoming a pilot varies, but it’s somewhere between $40,000 and $100,000, depending where you get training. John started his training at 16 and earned 200 student pilot hours before he realized he could no longer afford it. Private jets are for the rich. High-end planes built from a kit are also expensive. All of them require significant amounts of money to fly and maintain. It bothered him, he says, that it was called “general” aviation when it was really an elite pursuit.

“I had some questions that weren’t getting good answers,” he says. “I think the main one that was bothering me was, ‘How come we can’t make an airplane that has an engine as efficient as an airplane that doesn’t [have an engine]? And that question was always there, bumping around in my brain.”

John seemed destined to pursue his dream by attending some institute of technology and working his

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way through the aerospace industry, but he had a problem: school left him “bored to tears.” Although he graduated high school with honors, college never appealed to him. Instead, he continued to build models of unmanned aircraft and read books on design.

In 1997, he founded MC Squared Designs, making three-dimensional designs, including a concrete Japanese garden, a Star Trek-inspired staircase, a golf bag caddy and a fireplace screen “for a biker” that resembles the sprocket and chain of a bicycle. He also started working on composite manufacturing, designing and making snowboards.

In 2003, John and Pat started up Garage Snowboards in Pat’s garage.

“It was going like gangbusters,” says John, “but we knew [to keep it moving] we would have to respond to demand, raise capital, have a business plan, the whole enchilada.”

Snowboarding companies often rely on stylized ad campaigns to make a name, but John preferred something that was both more interesting and, in his mind, a smarter use of money. Instead of an ad campaign he decided to return to his childhood dream and build a plane. He figured the thousands of dollars he was about to spend on marketing could go toward a $75,000 plane kit. John imagined flying to conven-

tions and ski hills, transporting snowboards and snowboarders, and standing out from the competition. “The message was clear,” John says. “If we can build [an] airplane, we can build your snowboard.”

They picked an airplane kit from a company called Velocity. It looked like something Luke Skywalker would have flown. “We didn’t want to do it with a Cessna 172,” says Pat. “We wanted a really sexy airplane that would really grab attention and get these young snowboarders all excited.”

But trying to build the plane was frustrating. The Velocity was up to par for any modern model, but it didn’t matter. All the parts and the overall design didn’t inspire John. In fact, none of the planes he found were all that exciting. He told Velocity if they gave him the kit, he’d help them improve it. They agreed before eventually telling him, as John recalls, that if he was going to go through all that trouble, he may as well design his own.

It had been a long time since John had worked on aircraft design in the mid-’90s. He was responsible for his own business and the world had changed. For one thing, the internet had come along. He told Velocity he’d think about it, and he started doing research, comparing published papers written by designers and scientists about flight from every

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decade he could find—the 1930s, the 1970s, the 1990s—detailing the work of aviation luminaries such as August Raspet, Fabio Goldschmied and Burt Rutan.

He was amazed by the work that had been done and also the gaps where aeronautics had fizzled, particularly with private aircraft that travel between 110 and 450 mph.

According to John, the paths that led up to modern aircraft design were fraught with technological and theoretical baggage. There were brilliant ideas, but somehow aeronautics had lost its way.

“We use representative equations that have kind of killed off a lot of promising aircraft developments,” John says. “People think we need super computers and CFD software and a genius NASA panel of engineers to design airplanes when the guys that designed every airplane flying used graph paper and a slide rule.”

John decided he would design and build his own plane—on his terms. :::::: The upside of being a man building a plane in your garage is that you don’t answer to anyone. At a big company, you’re one of a hundred engineers— not designing a plane, but figuring out how ready-

made parts fit together and don’t break. Even a plane designer at a big company is expected to stick to prescribed design language and the accepted science.

“So few individuals in the entire aerospace industry have the freedom that I have, which is to say I can work on anything I want to,” says John. “I was free to go down the rabbit hole quite a ways with this.”

There are downsides, too. In 2011, John unveiled a one-fourth size radio-powered version of Synergy at the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation electric aircraft symposium in Windsor, Calif. He had hoped to finish the full-scale plane in time for CAFE’s 2011 Green Flight Challenge, which requires participants to fly 200 miles in under two hours on just one gallon of gasoline. But it wasn’t to be. Even with family and volunteers, the building process has been slow. Running his own business means time away from working on the plane. With such a small operation, there’s also no room for error or setbacks. During a lightning storm last summer, a tree fell onto the garage and broke his CAD/CAM machine. The damage suspended work for two months.

As with any project of this size, managing the money is a challenge. John says he’s on budget to finish Synergy, but he’s still regularly on the phone with

potential long-term donors and investors. Pat McGinnis invested some of his retirement savings to keep things running early on. John launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year that earned him a modest $95,000, but it took considerable effort to run it. John admits that the financial side of the operation takes time that he’d prefer to spend finishing the plane.

While he hustles to finish the plane, John is also feeling pressure from other companies. He applied for multiple patents on his technology even before he started building, but knows of conceptual designs similar enough to his to make him sweat. Bauhaus Luftfahrt, an aeronautical think-tank in Germany, has been showing off a new wing design. It’s not a box-wing, but a c-wing located in the same spot as Synergy’s. Another company, Airbus, is even more aggressive with getting close to the Synergy design with a half-box wing.

Both designs have been ridiculed on online forums and the companies’ own websites. John says that’s because neither idea will work. “It’s an overture,” he says, pointing out that all you have to do is close the wings into a box shape and you’ve arrived at his plane’s most prominent feature.

“I guarantee you that tacked to that engineer’s wall, they’ve got the [Synergy] design and they’ve run it through the computer,” he says. “They know that’s the future.”

John knows time is of the essence. If he wants to see this project through, if he’s going to be the one to make his plane fly, he’s got to work fast and keep those who want his design at bay. “This is the kind of multi-trillion dollar opportunity that gets a guy like me beaten to a pulp, so we’re not going public with that right now,” he says.

For that reason, the image of an eccentric guy tinkering away in his garage serves him well. “If you’re just some crackpot they’ll leave you alone,” he says.

“The big players don’t think we’re going to pull this together and be any kind of threat. That’s what we want them to think for the whole time.” :::::: Synergy is a plane, but it’s also a demonstration of a better way to build any plane. It’s the smallest aircraft John could possibly build that would showcase his breakthrough technologies. But it’s the largest that he felt comfortable building on his own in his garage. As he sees it, his design could translate all the way up to Boeing scale.

But for John, bigger isn’t necessarily better. The size of plane he’s designing harkens back to his frustration with the aviation elite. He wonders what it would be like if everybody had access to a plane like his.

Once John finishes Synergy—if he finishes—he has a second dream: He wants to put together a team to make Synergy kit aircrafts. Kit aircrafts make up 50 percent of the aircraft economy—that’s where the market is, he says—and, down the line, production could even grow to the point where a Synergy airplane is as common as a Toyota Prius. One day, maybe even soon, John envisions ordinary people flying planes from Missoula to Spokane in 25 minutes, without a worry in the world.

Of course, there are all kinds of questions that come with this vision. How do you manage a population of people navigating the skies?

“Come outside,” John says. He points up into a perfect bluebird day. A road is a two-dimensional surface, he says. The sky has layers of pathways—like a parking garage—“to the moon.”

Won’t we collide with each other?

“No,” he says. NASA research actually shows that mid-air collisions are rare.

Won’t we need more airports?

“No,” he says. There are small airports in every town that are totally unused.

Plus, he adds that Synergy isn’t nearly as noisy as a standard airplane so increased air traffic won’t bother neighbors.

Flying is better than driving, he says. He recalls flying from Kalispell to the aviation center in Oshkosh, Wis., for an aeronautics conference. On the way he spotted just seven airplanes in the sky, “and those were around the busiest airspace in the universe,” he says. When he landed back in Kalispell he had to make a drive with his family to Kennewick, Wash.

“I started having heart palpitations,” he says. “I was stressed out. I thought, ‘Something is really wrong here, what’s up?’”

He realized that in the car he felt more consumed by the dangers around him—dangers that up in the plane he had forgotten.

“Here I’m driving inches by 150-miles-per-hour closing velocities, down the highway,” he says. “And we think nothing of it. That is crazy. Driving a car is insane when you have the perspective of flying.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Electric feel Documentary showcases Heyoka Merrifield’s solar powered Jaguar

by Erika Fredrickson

eyoka Merrifield has made large-scale sculptures, including one complete with a waterfall and greenhouse. He’s made tiny inlaid, double-sided pendants with intricate etchings. The Cherokee shaman and silversmith recently finished another intriguing project: He built an electric Jaguar sports car with solar powered batteries. That car is the subject of a short documentary called Sun Jag: The Seven Generations Car, made by video artist Jason Gutzmer, which screens at the CINE film festival this week.

The “sun jag” was a joint effort between Merrifield, who lives in Stevensville, and his neighbor, Marcus Reddish. Reddish has the techie knowledge to make an electric car. Merrifield had the aesthetic eye to make the parts beautiful. Merrifield fabricated the parts out of stainless steel, gold and brass, cutting them with his jewelry tools and welding them together.

“It’s the same kind of detailing he does with his art,” Gutzmer says. “It’s a work of art on wheels.”

The car is a fiberglass replica of a 1938 Jaguar exterior, placed on the chassis of a 1969 Volkswagen. It has an electric motor that runs on 110 volt D/C batteries, which Merrifield has artfully connected together with colorful wires under the hood. It can go 150 miles in one charge. The only maintenance it needs: changing the brushes on the motor every 80,000 miles.

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Gutzmer, a longtime Missoulian and associate professor in the University of Montana’s media arts program, met Merrifield about 14 years ago in what sounds like a story of serendipity. Gutzmer had been traveling for 13 years across 17 countries with the Rainbow Peace Caravan—a group of artists, activists and teachers he helped found. On their brochure the group used a quote about a new tribe of people called The Rainbow Warriors who would come from the seven directions of the earth to be guardians of peace and goodwill. It was a quote from Merrifield’s book, Sacred Art, Sacred Warriors. Despite knowing the quote, none of the caravan members really knew who Merrifield was.

In 1998, Gutzmer went to Merrifield’s home with a friend, without recognizing the name. “I go into his bathroom and see his book and it has the quote,” says Gutzmer. “And I come out and say, ‘You’re that Heyoka Merrifield?’ And he says, ‘What do you mean?’ and I tell him the story about [the caravan] using his quote as a guiding story element. And he says, ‘You’re that caravan?’”

They made a good connection, says Gutzmer, and he went on to make a film about Merrifield called Sundancing with the Muse, which had its premier at CINE two years ago and has since aired on PBS. Sun Jag is a lot about the technical side of the car,

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but it also shows Merrifield’s principles. In the film we hear that he’s always had a love for cars, which comes as a surprise from someone who is also so adamant about living with nature.

“The seven generations car is the real meaning for him,” says Gutzmer. “It’s not about saving money and not buying gas or doing it because he’s into techie geeky stuff. It’s really about the creative potential to make something really beautiful that does no harm for seven generations.”

Merrifield’s interest in sun power also comes into play here. He has a solar system on his large artist studio, which he uses to recharge the batteries, but that system can go both ways: “He could run his whole house off of his car battery,” says Gutzmer. “It’s so much bigger than most people’s solar systems batteries who are off the grid.”

The short doc captures just enough of Merrifield’s personality. Here he is, a wise-looking 70-something man with long silver hair and a bandana around his head, wearing a cool black leather jacket, driving a sleek red soft-top convertible Jaguar. His love of art shows with the curvaceous hood, the wooden dash and all the attention made to every bolt and wire.

Gutzmer says that part of Merrifield’s philosophy is that art is essential to our everyday designs; you make cars beautiful as well as efficient, and people won’t be

so quick to throw them away.

The documentary recently showed at the Electric Car Conversion Convention in Missouri, and Merrifield displayed the sun jag, which was one of just a couple classic cars there. He was a “fish out of water” among the techies, Gutzmer says, but after the film screened he told Gutzmer he felt like a rock star. It also got him a chance to race the sun jag against other electric cars around a track. As it turns out, tech geeks aren’t the only ones excited by cutting-edge electric cars. The sun jag is the kind of car drag racers drool over because of the torque and the way it swiftly takes off without spinning its tires.

Gutzmer, inspired by Merrifield, hopes to build his own electric car soon.

“If Heyoka can do it in his art studio and garage, anyone can do it,” says Gutzmer. “There’s a movement of people doing this and we’re not waiting for Chevy or Ford or anybody else.”

Sun Jag shows at the CINE film festival at the Roxy Theater, Thu., Oct. 25, at 10:30 AM and Fri., Oct. 26, at 5:30 PM. The Friday screening is part of a Montana filmmakers and films reception, and Merrifield will bring the sun jag to show. Go to the CINE film page for more info. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Life after kids The Clumsy Lovers’ Trevor Rogers keeps rollin’ on

by Molly Laich

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revor Rogers, guitarist and singer for the Clumsy Lovers, is a displaced Canadian living in Missoula with his wife, two sons and infant daughter. For many touring bands, having three kids in as many years would be the end of the line, but Rogers isn’t letting family life slow him down. Beginning Oct. 19, he’ll set out on a six-week tour with fellow band members Jason Horney, Jeff Leonard, Devin Rice and Robyn Jesson. After a couple of shows in Idaho and Big Fork, the band will play the Top Hat in Missoula on Oct. 26, the band’s first show in town since Rogers moved his family here last year.

“We’ve played the Top Hat around a dozen times,” he says, “And maybe 25 times in Missoula overall.”

Those numbers represents a grueling tour schedule over nearly 20 years totaling more than 2,500 live gigs in 49 states and throughout Canada.

The Clumsy Lovers are a working band and have been for many years. These days, Rogers schedules tours around the family schedule. His sons are shy toddlers with tow-blond hair and a penchant for playing in the dirt. His three-month-old daughter looked around the backyard at everything with what I guessed was a knowing bemusement. When they first arrived, the two mini

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I first met Rogers last September on a crowded Saturday night at the Rhino. A mutual friend introduced us based on this thing we had in common: We were both artists from out of town, hoping to suck the marrow out of Missoula’s strange and eclectic scene.

Funny how this town works—a year later I invited his entire family over for a vegetarian barbecue in my meat-eating roommate’s backyard.

“We’ve toured in a lot of different vehicles over the years,” Rogers tells me, including a van with 400,000 miles. The band has been traveling together for nearly two decades, and they do all the driving themselves, so this latest stint is not their first rodeo. Rogers explains to me with elaborate hand gestures how the drums will be stacked into his family’s minivan (I forget to ask what the kids will be riding in while he’s on the road), how he’s taking just one guitar instead of two, and how they plan to “cannonball it” the 1,200 miles from their gig in Billings to the show in Milwaukee, Wis., two days later.

“What’s it mean to ‘cannonball it’?” I ask. I think I imagined a human slingshot, but no. It means the band will do the drive straight through, alternating pilots for all 19 hours of that flat, cow-sprinkled expanse through North Dakota and Minnesota.

This latest tour is in support of their ninth album, 2010’s Make Yourself Known. The Clumsy Lovers’ sound is a blend of rock and bluegrass, with some Celtic influence. The beat bounces and meanders and so, too, do its listeners. The music is designed for dancing, which means they have to get out on the road and play shows. Lots and lots of shows.

poodles I’ve been dog sitting charged the boys and made them cry, a natural reaction when you’re so low to the ground; imagine it: My little dogs arrived like snarling white lions.

The Clumsy Lovers started making records in Vancouver in 1993. Since then, they’ve gone through some personnel changes, but Rogers remains a constant. “The band is getting younger,” he tells me.

Rogers left his day job to tour full time at 27, and now he’s a young-looking 44. Jesson, their latest fiddle player, is 24 and plays like a maniac. Rice, the 24-yearold drummer, joined the band straight out of music school, after a series of killer auditions on Skype. Such is the makings of a modern band.

We are busy talking about the group’s various adventures and I burn everyone’s veggie burgers. They looked like hockey pucks, but we decide they are edible.

Inside, my roommate’s grilled meat goes cold on the counter next to him while he and Rogers talk about the election and war. It is deliciously old fashioned.

Many times throughout the night, we halt our conversation to take various things out of the kid’s mouths: a piece of dog food, lint, some BB gun pellets out of a box that looks to a two-year old like a milk carton. It might sound like I’m joking, but I mean it: The whole thing was very rock and roll.

The Clumsy Lovers play the Top Hat Fri., Oct. 26, for the free Family Friendly portion of the evening from 6 to 8 PM and again at 9 PM. $7. arts@missoulanews.com

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Sea Wolf sails Old World Romance is fated for soundtracks Old World Romance, the latest album from Alex Brown Church, aka Sea Wolf, starts with a track instantly recognizable as an indie rock hit. “Old Friend” opens with a drum machine and builds around shimmery guitar and a catchy chorus that you can sing along with by the second listen. It reminds me of a half-dozen Shins singles, and is destined for the soundtrack of some romantic comedy. I mean that as a good thing. Hits are hard to come by.

The rest of Old World Romance showcases Church’s range of skills. The Los Angeles-based musician plays every instrument on the album and, even as a oneman-band, he creates a lush sound. “Priscilla” rings with layered guitars reminiscent of Band of Horses, but softens into an orchestral bridge. Church’s subtle harmonies come through in the airy “Kaspar” and the melancholy closer, “Whirlpool.” Lest you think the whole thing wallows at an introspective pace, tracks like “In Nothing” and “Saint Catherine St.” deliver some timely energy.

There’s plenty to keep listeners hooked throughout

Old World Romance, which is more than you can say for most albums. But make no mistake, “Old Friend” is the one song worth going back to the most. (Skylar Browning) Sea Wolf plays the Top Hat Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 9 PM. Hey Marseilles opens. $10.

The Eeries: Home Alone Playing old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll without any spins or twists is almost a quirk in and of itself these days. The Eeries’ retro garage pop doesn’t aim for lofi production or subversive elements: For the most part, it’s just a simple, fun soundtrack to a basement sock-hop. Going for simplicity works fine as long as a band does it well, and the Eeries sure do.

The Philadelphia trio’s latest, Home Alone, was recorded at a band member’s dad’s house in February, according to the Bandcamp page, and released as an LP on independent-punk-powerhouse Evil Weevil Records and a cassette on Burger Records. (Aside: Are cassettes really coming back? Seriously?)

With earnest lyrics so simple as to seem instantly familiar—“I can’t sleep at night without you by my side, baby please stay with me”— Home Alone delivers nothing but two-minute sweet treats with no fibrous filler to get in the way. The heartsick “Blue” is the longest track by far, clocking in at a whopping 3:30.

Music geeks who prefer complexity will be bored, but people who love three-chord progressions, surfy guitar bits and lots of “whoa-oh-ohs” and “ooh-ooh-oohs” will find plenty to like here.

(Kate Whittle) The Eeries, King Elephant and Shahs play Zoo City Apparel Thu., Oct. 25, at 8 PM. $5.

Josh Farmer Band: Josh Farmer Band EP The Josh Farmer Band should be contracted by city council to be Missoula’s representative house band. The band operates on the same laid-back level as the majority of our residents and it wouldn’t be a bad way to introduce a newcomer to who we are: the chillaxed. Seriously.

“Chillaxed” is a pretty apt description of Josh Farmer and his band’s first album, a four song EP full of smooth vibes. Right off the bat, on “Sapphire Eyes,” a syncopated piano paves the way for Santana-esque guitar riffs. Farmer’s vocals evoke the fluidness of Dispatch’s Brad Corrigan. “January Rain” lives up to its

name in the droplets of percussion and a reverberated piano, building to a flurry of soloing. “How the Fire Glows” feels like a long, empty street lit only by the cigarette in front of you. Before it ends, the pace picks up, psychedelics kick in and the lights come back up for “Comin’ Back Alive,” a strong, electric finish.

All that’s missing here are stronger lyrics. They aren’t weak, but there’s also nothing that pops out and gets stuck in your head. It’s all about the melody and rhythm, mon. (Brooks Johnson) The Josh Farmer Band plays the Union Club Fri., Oct. 26 at 10 p.m. Free.

RNDM: Acts The best part of “Modern Times”—the latest single from RNDM, whose bassist is none other than Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament—is the video. I urge you to watch it on YouTube immediately. It features Ament and drummer Richard Stuverud skateboarding/biking to band practice, where they are first made to cut their hair and then don an array of brightly-colored outfits. “Modern times are coming after us,” Joseph Arthur sings, as Ament’s sunglasses and Stuverud’s porkpie hat are cast off in favor of neon sneakers and animal-face ski masks.

The joke, of course, is that these men were forced into the appearance-driven world of pop rock 20 years ago. Modern times literally comes after them. Whether

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you think Ament, et al, look ridiculous riding around on skateboards probably correlates with what you think of “Modern Times.” If you consider that a best-case scenario for a man in his 40s, you’ll probably also enjoy RNDM’s swirling, minor-key guitar riffs and busy bass. Otherwise, you might hear the tense formlessness that afflicted Pearl Jam. Everything old is new again, and it’s as grumpy about nowadays as it was the first time. (Dan Brooks) RNDM plays the Badlander Halloween night, Wed., Oct. 31, with the Boxcutters (covering The Black Keys and The White Stripes) and Möther, a Danzig tribute band featuring members of Total Combined Weight, Tidal Horn and The Cold Hard Cash Show. $10.

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Letting go

by Melissa Mylchreest

need paying, our own desires. The result is a life lived frenetically, fraught with doubt, angst, guilt, inattention and a nagging sense that if we don’t figure out how to manage these memories and demands, they are sure to kill us eventually.

Bare Bait Dance’s new show, How to Open a Cupboard, explores this balance of hoarding and purging, in both the tangible and psychological realms. Led by Bare Bait founder and artistic director Joy French, the eight-woman company spends just over an hour embodying those issues. French’s signature choreographic style is clearly on display here: sweeping phrases punctuated by subtle gestures and fluid partnering. In keeping with Bare Bait performances of the past, this piece also makes effective use of dialogue, theatrical moments and a selection of props, including, not surprisingly, cupboards.

Five bright red cupboards built by Missoula artist Jack Metcalf occupy the stage at various points.

Their physical reality serve as metaphors: a space within which to hide, a place to cloister away the past, a shield, a constraint, a support, a stage, a casket. Dancing with a literal cupboard is an awkward thing. The dancers meet the challenge, gracefully taking advantage of the constraint the cupboards provide. They dance inside the cupboard, and then

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Ticket stubs. A slip of paper, a flower petal, a pebble, a bottlecap. We all do it: gather the scraps of our lives that carry memory and tuck them away to fill our closets and drawers. We often can’t justify keeping them, but it’s so hard to throw them away.

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translate that movement into the larger space of the stage. The choreography evokes the limits that pervade all of our lives.

Overall, the three-act, evening-length piece is strong: whimsical, intellectual, poignant and meticulous. As with Bare Bait’s previous performances, the dancers have, it seems, tirelessly rehearsed— there never seems to be a misstep. During a few moments the pace lags, with ensemble sections lasting perhaps a bit longer than necessary, but these lulls also serve to highlight the sections of uptempo activity and rapid-fire dialogue, giving the piece a nice ebb and flow.

One highlight is the recitation of “to do” lists –at the beginning of the piece and at the end. The lists are at once hilarious and uncannily perceptive (“Clean the kitchen to avoid office work.”)

Other highlights: duets centered on the giving and keeping of letters, a dancer who encounters a literal avalanche of artifacts and the fabulous ensemble section that showcases principal dancer Clare Antonioli as the harried object of demands. The conclusion photo courtesy of Amanda Opitz of this ensemble section, in which Antonioli succumbs to the voices, is a striking illustration of an overwhelming world.

The entire performance is supported by a musical score created by Missoula favorites Bethany Joyce and John Sporman, featuring cello and piano. The duo creates a soundscape of ambient noise, buzzes and abstract clock-like ticking, birds and something that sounds like a far-off subway. The effect is to make the audience cognizant of the background noise that underscores daily life. By commissioning music and sound specifically for the dance, and Metcalf ’s art, French has taken the performance past the boundaries of dance into a well-envisioned multigenre piece.

How to Open a Cupboard marks Bare Bait Dance’s one-year birthday and it proves the company is coming into its own. This is a performance worth seeing, not just for the dancing, but also for the questions it raises about what we choose to hold on to, and what we choose to let go.

How to Open a Cupboard continues at the Downtown Dance Collective Fri., Oct. 26, at 8 PM and Sat., Oct. 27, at 2 PM and at 8 PM. $12/$10 advance.

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No brainer In shark v. zombie, topless scuba diver wins

by Andy Smetanka

Zombies can live underwater. This was news to me, because last time I checked in with a zombie movie, the big innovation was that zombies could now run at a dead sprint instead of just staggering around moaning and waiting to be felled by handy pieces of lumber. And not merely get by, but actually thrive on the bottom of the sea—a point brought home with a certain forcefulness in Zombie, when one of their number attempts to rape a topless scuba diver who has just survived the least convincing shark attack in the history of movies. When the diver eludes her second assailant, the zombie goes after the shark, tearing out and eating its heart. Say what you will about the rest of the movie, but you’re not going to see that anywhere else. Zombie versus shark. Category closed. And this was in in 1979.

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northern climates, but in Caribbean waters they can bathe their suppurating ulcers in a natural saline solution which offers the further benefit of added buoyancy for all that dead weight. On land they just can’t goop the moisturizer on fast enough.

This was well into the movie, and it was one of those wonderful movie moments for me when I am actually forced, in the moment, to come to terms with suspension of belief and its arbitrary logical underpinnings. As a movie viewer, when you see something humanoid exerting itself underwater, you can’t help but pause to consider its relation to oxygen, and that means getting distracted from the action at hand. But of course, zombies don’t need oxygen: Their extremities are already in a chronic state of gangrene. As long as they can go on lurching, biting and occasionally vomiting infectious fluid into people’s faces, zombies are fine without oxygen.

What tripped me up was the reverse shark attack.

You don’t exactly go into a movie like Zombie—corny gore, bad acting, worse overdubbing, bad ’70s hair and cheeseball synth soundtrack—expecting much intelligence, and up until the shark attack, in Zombie your expectations are largely borne out. You don’t have to think: It’s a zombie movie. So belatedly encountering a possible glimmer of intelligence is actually what disrupts your suspension of disbelief, which was otherwise whirring quietly on power-save mode. Although the shark attack was probably just

written into the script on location (“Hey, I just met a guy at the marina whose friend has a tame toothless shark!”), the beast itself is still fraught with symbolic potential and you really want to think director Lucio Fulci made the point consciously: If a zombie can hand the world’s most perfectly-adapted predator its ass on the predator’s own turf, humans are in big trouble.

But then you think, “Nah. It was all about the topless scuba diver.” Because, hey! Topless scuba diver! This is an Italian movie, after all. Just a few days earlier I had been having this discussion with someone: Italy doesn’t make as many great movies as it should (limited exceptions and apologies here), and a very large proportion of what Italian cinema is known for is weirdly eroticized schlock like The Night Porter. Legions of fans will tell you horror auteur Dario Argento is a visionary genius, but I remain unconvinced of that and prepared, as ever, to argue that possibly since the late ’40s Italian cinema has been largely mired in a prolonged state of sophomoric sexual retardation. Argento’s is just a little more gothic and, like Fulci’s, more graphically violent.

Incidentally, Fulci and Zombie cannot be credited with introducing horror fans to the dramatic potential of the nude female scuba diver. That honor belongs to Spanish director Vicente Aranda and his 1972 cult vampire lesbian classic The Blood Spattered Bride, in which a sexually frustrated bridegroom just happens to find such a woman buried in beach sand with only her snorkel sticking out. He brings her home to stay with him and the new missus and things work out about like you’d figure. The Blood Spattered Bride doesn’t quite live up to its potential, either, but it’s plenty weird and the scene on the beach is quite startlingly surreal, worth the rental by itself.

But anyway, no. Let me spare you the effort of looking by just telling you up front that there’s no real brain function in Zombie. As soon as the opening credits go up—a reassuring mixture of no-name Anglophone actors and Italian production team—Zombie is exactly what you’d expect to see and exactly why you went to see it.

It drags a bit, but it’s (barely) worth it for the spurts and blorts of cheapo gore. Take that, Saw XXIV! In the end, Zombie’s zombies aren’t much more threatening than the others—shark-fighting abilities are about the only evidence of an evolutionary upper hand—but the movie is a goofy good time if you know what you’re getting into. If you’re there to see it in the first place, you probably do. And hey: topless scuba diver.

Zombie shows at the Wilma Theatre Sun., Oct. 28, at 8 PM. Doors open at 7 PM and there will be a costume contest with prizes. $8, with advance tickets at the Wilma. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] ROBOT & FRANK A robot butler cares for a retired jewel thief. But with the help of said robot, one last heist might be in the works. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon. Rated PG-13.

Wilma.

OPENING THIS WEEK CHASING MAVERICKS A surfer discovers that the legendary megawave called Mavericks is near his home so he enlists the help of salty surfing dog Frosty Hesson. Starring Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler and the always beautiful and enchanting Elisabeth Shue. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

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

CLOUD ATLAS David Mitchell’s book is turned into a movie that tells the stories of many people over many centuries and explores how the actions of one person can affect the world. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant. Rated R. Carmike 12.

FUN SIZE This teen comedy has a twist. Just kidding. An older sister loses her little bro on Halloween and has to find him before mom gets home. Set your timers on “Fun.” Starring Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler and Ana Gasteyer. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

SILENT HILL: REVELATION What if your nightmares were the key to your past? What if an alternate reality wasn’t so alternate after all and your dreams were the real world and your real life was dream? Heavy stuff, man. Starring Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Carrie-Anne Moss. Rated R. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING ALEX CROSS Comedian Tyler Perry only plays one role in this film: vengeance seeker. As Dr. Alex Cross, Perry seeks out those who have brought harm to his family. Seriously. It’s Oscar season. Also starring Matthew Fox and Rachel Nichols . Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12.

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

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS A screenwriter gets mixed-up with some goofy and dangerous gangsters after his bro-hams kidnap one of the gangster’s beloved shih tzu. Starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell. Rated R. Village 6.

Brains before boobies. Silent Hill: Revelation opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

HERE COMES THE BOOM MMA fan Kevin James stars in a movie about MMA wherein he plays a teacher who decides to take up the sport in order to save the music program from budget cuts. The school nurse is not so sure it’s a good idea. Starring Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler. Rated PG. Village 6.

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

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

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D: RE-ANIMATION Nothing worse than inheriting the family business, particularly when the business is making

stale copycat films or running the family morgue that is infested with zombies. Starring Andrew Divoff, Jeffrey Combs and Sarah Lieving. Rated R. Carmike 12.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 What’s the creepiest thing on Earth? How about a single mom moving in next door to your suburban family. I bet these mysterious new neighbors aren’t killing anyone with kindness. Just ice picks. Starring Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton and Matt Shively. Rated R. Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER A naive high school freshman learns the ways of the world from a couple of salty old seniors.

Starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. Rated PG-13. Village 6.

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

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

SINISTER A novelist uncovers some old-timey foundfootage and discovers the cause of a grisly murder. I hope nothing bad happens to his family.

This just in, something bad happens to his family. Starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance and James Ransone. Rated R. Carmike 12.

SLEEPWALK WITH ME You’ve heard him on “This American Life,” now laugh at the perils of somnambulistic comedian Mike Birbiglia as his sleep disorder ruins his life/makes us laugh. Starring Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose and James Rebhorn. NR. Wilma.

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

Undoubtedly, it’s personal this time. Starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit missoulanews.com, contact the theaters telephonically or check theater websites in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan-883-5603.

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Hunting animals can mean a lot of things, from freezer filling to sport killing. As a meat hunter, I’m looking for a year’s worth of protein. Hunting season is a beautiful, invigorating part of my annual routine that gets my ass up and outside early and often. While I don’t hunt for the thrill of killing, the post-kill posing or big racks, as a hunter I’m lumped together with everyone else who shoots animals.

I don’t mind being associated with the stuffed-animal collectors, assuming the trophy hunters in question actually eat their meat. But I’m less into being grouped with those who shoot “varmints”—supposed pest animals—for fun, and other practitioners of sport killing. Perhaps “animal shooting” would be more descriptive than “hunting.”

But semantics can’t change the fact that I shop at the same gear stores as the sport killers, and we share space at the range and in the field. We respect each others’ safety by following safe shooting etiquette. I’ll even listen politely at the gas station if some proud killer has a story to tell. A friend who took me on my first elk hunting trip is a varmint hunter. We had a great time together, but remained worlds apart with regard to how we really feel about shooting animals.

A seldom-discussed divide exists in the hunting community between those who hunt because they enjoy shooting at living targets, and those who hunt despite the killing part. There are also those who hunt as part of their overarching obsession with guns—after all, shooting at real, living things is what guns were designed for. In my experience, however, very little time spent hunting is spent actually killing. You can hunt hard for days or even weeks and come up empty, and I’m OK with that.

It’s part of the process. And even when you are successful, the kill itself is as fast as a speeding bullet.

Trophy hunters can at least decorate their homes with skulls, fur and bones, and bask in their glory. But with sport killers, generally, as soon as one animal is down it’s onto the next, like a gambler sitting at a slot machine.

Varmint hunters can generally shoot as many animals as they want, since the targeted animal is a legally ordained pest. Prairie dog hunters will drive hundreds of miles to explode the little critters with high-powered long-range rifles.

I’m a rifle hunter, but not a lover of guns. I think the National Rifle Association is a bunch of wackos, and I’ve never gotten used to triggering loud explosions inches from my head. But while I don’t love guns, I do love my Ruger .270. It’s one of my most sacred possessions and best friends, and the annual journey we take together has given me some of my life’s best moments, as well as many freezers full of the best meat there is.

FLASH IN THE PAN

Medical research has found several benefits to wild game, as distinct from feedlot-raised livestock, but many of these discoveries have yet to permeate standard dietary practices. You’ve probably seen endless reports linking red meat to cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other such so-called diseases of civilization. But until very recently, few of these studies have distinguished between an Oscar Meyer wiener and Wilbur the pig.

A 2010 Harvard School of Public Health study found a clear correlation between diseases of civilization and processed red meat, but the correlation with unprocessed meat was weak. The take-home message, not surprisingly, is that whole cuts of meat are better for you than meat that’s been adulterated in all sorts of ways.

But in the Harvard study, both the processed and unprocessed meats were typical grain- and soy-fed cattle grown on feedlots. By contrast, wild game is the ultimate unprocessed meat, from the ground up.

Although the body of research on wild game nutrition and toxicity is thin, we do know about some differences between wild game, like deer and elk, and feedlot-raised meat. Wild game has more omega-3 fatty acids, branched-chain amino acids, creatine and other nutrients. I’d sure like to see more research in this department. Another area in need of more study is in comparing wild game and grass-fed beef. The two are often lumped together and billed as nutritional equals, but it would be interesting to know if this is true.

While I wait for scientific consensus on the relative health benefits and risks of wild game versus livestock, I’m going to continue to follow my gut and eat game. It feels right, it tastes good, and the tidbits we have learned thus far are encouraging.

From an environmental standpoint, hunting your own is one of the few defensible approaches to eating meat. Growing food to feed livestock, we all know, is a terribly inefficient use of land and water. Now that humans have killed off most deer predators and replaced much of their habitat with farmland full of tasty crops, deer populations have exploded like rats in the city. Several states allow for the harvest of 10 or more deer in a season, and taking your share does farmers a favor.

Killing is an unnecessary evil. Then again, crashing your car into a deer when you’re driving to the store for a shrink-wrapped, grain-fed beefsteak isn’t such a hot option either.

Hunted meat is the only meat I want to eat.

Pulling the trigger may not be my favorite part of preparing the daily meal, but neither is doing the dishes. It’s all part of the package of eating well.

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9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun. Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) • 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts.

Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 The first few weeks of October Bernice’s is the perfect place to hide-a-way, sip a cup of coffee while enjoying a croissant, and soak up the natural light coming through our huge front windows. These weeks are relaxed; a good time to share a slice of cake with a friend. The kids are back in school; a perfect time to make them Bernice’s Honey Whole Wheat PBJ’s. BUT THE LAST WEEK: HALLOWEEN! Bernice’s does it right! Skull Sugar Cookies. Scary Cupcakes.

Pumpkin Cookies . And, Pumpkin Bread. Perfect Halloween treats to end a perfect Missoula month. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus.

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty.

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Accomodates indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Crawfish omlettes, beignets, and cafe au lait. Open Monday 11am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am8pm, and Sunday 9am-3pm (Beignets available Saturday 11am-2pm, and All Day Sunday) Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your

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Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ 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.

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

(Happy Hour 3-6 PM Mon-Sat. 2 Empanadas for $7) Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-8pm MondaySaturday. Downtown Missoula. $ $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 41-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

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Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Brooks and Browns' Bear Paw Brunch Buffet, with specialty game food and drinks + amazing Bloody Mary Bar. This Saturday 9 am- 1 pm. Bloody Mary Bar Saturday 9am-4pm. Think you know your Trivia? Come test yourself out on Thursdays for Big Brains Trivia from 8-10 pm. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm Happy Hour 3-6pm Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close $-$$ $$$

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Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

What you’re doing: Laser tag, brah. A 12minute game costs $8 and accommodates up to 26 players. Play with friends and against strangers, individually or as teams. At the end of the game, players get printouts detailing their laser war prowess, including how many times you got shot compared to your friends. Such records, we’ve found, are good to keep around for bragging rights.

Who you’re playing with: Hub owner Norman Parmiter says just about everyone. On a recent Friday afternoon, it’s a smattering of 20somethings sizing up the go-carts and little kids ogling prizes in a glass case. Even old people play laser tag, Parmiter says. “Grandmas, grandpas…I mean, it’s exercise, like mall walking,” he says.

Ambience: The Hub has five pool tables, air hockey, go-carts, pinball machines and “Dance, Dance Revolution Extreme.” It smells like French fries and has a race car painted on the wall. We can’t imagine a better to way to spend a Friday night.

Specials: Friday night is ladies' night, where a 14-lap go-cart race costs $10 compared to the normal $14 adult price. The Hub also has a lunch-hour special, a 12-lap race for $12. Junior carts run $8 for the first eight-lap race.

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

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What you’re drinking: A bottomless root beer in a big blue cup for $1.59 from the Hub’s food counter, The Pit Stop. Sugar is the perfect drug for waging faux war.

What you’re eating: Pit Stop burgers on par with quality bar fare. We recommend “the Racer,” a bacon cheeseburger for $6.99.

How to find it: Take North Reserve to Expressway. It’s 1.4 miles west, at 5055 Expressway.

It’s open now, but the grand opening celebration is Nov. 3 with plenty of prizes and free soda.

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

Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates.

Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

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

Call if you need us to deliver!

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

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Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

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Suck it in. The Infamous Stringdusters shred some bluegrass tunes at the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., on Wed., Oct. 31, at 10 PM. $20/$18 advance at Ear Candy, with a $5 surcharge for ages 18-20.

THURSDAYOCT25 The John Adam Smith Band is a presidential-sounding aural feast with a side of singing gravy, Top Hat. 9 PM. Free.

Brown Bag It! discusses arguably Niccolo Machiavelli’s greatest work, The Prince. Don’t get any ideas, though. Bitterroot Public Library. Noon–1 PM. Free.

USDA attorney Alan Campbell gives a talk titled The Public’s Treasure in Land, Water & Minerals: Western Public Lands Policy. UM Law Building, Rm. 101. Noon.

nightlife Muzikata brings little noise and a bit of the funks. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Arthur Gonzalez talks ceramic art in the Social Sciences Building, Rm. 356 at 5:10 PM. Free.

The spectacular Monica Bauer discusses the works of her cohort as well as her own during her lecture Art. Class. Nation. Location., in the University Center Theater. 5:30 PM. Free.

KVD! KVD! KVD! That’s right Kevin Van Dort is doing work at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton and there won’t be a dry eye in the house. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Metal madness is the radness when Walking Corpse Syndrome is joined by A Balance of Power, Universal Choke Sign, Undun and Vengeance. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 7 PM. Free.

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Love on an escalator. Songstress and folkie Camille Bloom performs tunes at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Ave., on Fri., Oct. 26, at 8 PM. $12.

Attend author Victoria Jenkins reading and signing of her book An Unattended Death at Fact & Fiction, 200 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.

Eeries bring some awesomeness to Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., with awesome locals Awesome Shahs and Awesome King Elephant. 8 PM. $3-$5.

love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent).

Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Jo Deurbrouck reads from the book Anything Worth Doing, which tells the tales of Idaho’s bravest men riding the waters of America’s wildest river, the Salmon River. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.

Hark, ye all! MCT presents Camelot to your highnesses. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $21. Visit mctinc.org.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams, just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

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

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

The whole world’s gone country and so does VTO during the final night of their VFW Residency, 245 W. Main St., with Spirit Hole and Secret Powers. Old people unite. 10 PM. $2.

FRIDAYOCT26 Hark, ye all! MCT presents Camelot to your highnesses.

MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $21. Visit mctinc.org.

Sing it with me bird lovers, help with bird migration observation at the MPG conservation ranch near Florence. Them birds

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[calendar] is headed south, do your part to make their trip count. 11 AM to 4 PM. RSVP with Joshua via jlisbon@mpgranch.com.

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

The Captain Wilson Conspiracy brings about musical changes and helps you meet nice people

at the Brooks and Browns Bar, 200 S. Patte St. 6–9 PM. Free.

Leave the boutonnière at home, Charlie, it’s time for Fall Studio Works: Informal Dance Concert. The concert is choreographed, produced and performed by UM dance students.

UM PARTV Center Open Space.

6:30 PM and 8:30 PM. $5 per show or $8 for both.

Ceramic artist Julia Galloway hosts an artist’s talk and presentation at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St.

Galloway talks modern ceramics and her own studio practices. 7 PM. Free.

Tricia O. presents Under Cover Up, a before-and-after theater dance performance with video and tunes, too. 1200 Shakespeare, Ste. C. 7 PM. $5.

Currency manipulation be damned, Mittens, the totally rad Imperial Acrobats of China are in town to perform Chi of Shaolin: The Tale of the Dragon. The troupe’s mixture of Shaolin warrior skills and circus stunt aerial dis-

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Mr. Grimm and Matthew Bile of Walking Corpse Syndrome.

What would Halloween week be without a dark metal show from one of Missoula’s longest running heavy bands? “Incomplete” would be one answer; “effed,” would be another. This year the band signed on new vocalist Leif Winterrowd and seems to be playing out more often and playing in far-away metal lands such as Polson. But that’s what is necessary to be a loud band in a quiet state. You have to log a lot WHO: Walking Corpse Syndrome WHAT: Jagermeister Monster Mash WHERE: Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. WHEN: Thu., Oct. 25, at 7 PM HOW MUCH: Free

of miles and seek out your audience; no busking for the metal crowd. Right now, the band has a Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording, mixing and production of its third full-length album, Alive in Desolation. As of this writing, the band has received almost 40 percent of the full $10,000 it seeks.

Like a lot of metal bands, the music allows them to share their serious side with the rest of us, but one look at some of the Kickstarter rewards reminds you that these dudes are as silly as any other bunch. Offers include a date with a member of Walking Corpse ($5,000) and an 8-hour work day for you from all the band members that includes a private show and barbecue ($10,000). Finally, Winterrrowd will tattoo your name above his corn cob tattoo on his leg for a mere $10,000 donation. Of course, you could just give $20 for a shirt, but where’s the fun in that?

—Jason McMackin

The Missoula Symphony Chorale joins forces with the Missoula Brass Consort for a delightful, surprising mix of jazz, baroque, classical and pop music. Get tickets today. And prepare to be blown away.

SUN., OCTOBER 28, 3:00 P.M. The University Theatre Tickets: $10 to $15 Online at missoulasymphony.org Call 721-3194 or visit 320 E. Main St. Sponsored by an anonymous donor

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 Have yourself the scariest of spooktastic times, you freaky ghouls, at the Haunted Hollow at Carousel for Missoula. Chill spooky from 6–7:30 PM, crazy spooky for older kids from 7:30–9 PM. $4 for 12 and under/$6 for 13 and up.

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Gals get your ghoul on early at The Girls Way Halloween Party and Costume Contest for girls 9-18 years old. Games, treats, partying and then some. 1515 Wyoming St. 5-8 PM. Visit thegirlsway.org.

Head to Hamilton for Daly Mansion-Haunted Mansion, an evening of ghoulish costumes, ghost hunting, psychic readings, spooky movies, harvest dinner and, of course, a haunted hayride. 6 PM. $60. To reserve your plot, hahaha, call 363-6004 ext. 2.

Get scared beyond your most childish imagination at the Haunted Hollow at Carousel for Missoula.

Chill spooky from 6–7:30 PM, crazy spooky for older kids from 7:30–9 PM. $4 for 12 and under/$6 for 13 and up.

There be a redneck posse of stone killers looking to make your head a floor decoration at Count ZACCula’s Haunted Basement Bash. From 7-9 PM things are kidfriendly but from 9-2 AM stuff gets real when the freaks from Zombie Tools take over the ZACC basement and make it a bloody kill zone. Tunes by a bevy of local bands and fear, bloody damned fear. ZACC, 235 N. First St. $7/$5 with costume/Kids with adults are free.

Lose your mind and your wallet at the UM International Student’s party HallowFREAKINWeen at the Elk’s Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Tunes by DJ Dobson and all over 18 are welcome. $5.

Get spooked a bit early at the Halloween Kick-off Party at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., with Three-Eared Dog, Kung Fu Kongress and Victor Johnson. Doors at 7 PM. $5.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 Put on the backside of the horse costume and get to the Halloween Haul 5K, a constume race that begins at McCormick Park and benefits the UM Physical Therapy Student Association. 10 AM. $15 on race day/$10 advance. Register at racemontana.com.

Have a spooktastic time during the Haunted Harvest Festival at the Rocky Mountain Grange south of Hamilton, where a bevy of fall fun includes a costume contest, punkin’ carving contest, games, pony rides and more. 2 PM. $4 suggested donation.

My suggestion for Cash for Junkers’s performance at Bitter Root Brewery’s Halloween Costume Party? Every-

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body in the band dresses as Garth Brooks circa ‘93. 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

Don’t be surprised if all the hair stands up on the back of your neck at the Haunted Hollow at Carousel for Missoula. Chill spooky from 6–7:30 PM, crazy spooky for older kids from 7:30–9 PM. $4 for 12 and under/$6 for 13 and up.

Experience a wide variety of entertainments from poetry readings to tunes to sword swallowing (maybe, maybe not) at the Festival of the Dead Cabaret. The event is a fundraiser for the Hospice of Missoula Foundation. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7–11 PM. $7/$5 advance at Bridge Pizza.

Zeppo MT plays the Union Club’s Halloween Bash tonight. Now is your chance to dress as the little vixen you are, Teddy Boy, and make your English TA wish he’d left his wife at home. 9 PM. Free.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 Get the childrens costumed up for the 10th Annual Halloween Bash Fundraiser at Families First Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St. Games, crafts, The Whizpops and then some. Noon–5 PM. $5.

Leap into some scare-iffic times when you head down to the Haunted Hollow at Carousel for Missoula.

Chill spooky from 6–7:30 PM, crazy spooky for older kids from 7:30–9 PM. $4 for 12 and under/$6 for 13 and up.

Slake your thirst for brain goo when the 35mm print of the 1979 film Zombie screens at the Wilma. This is a straight nasty flick. Dress up like a zombie and win prizes.

7 PM. $8/barf bags free.

MONDAY OCTOBER 29 Have yourself the scariest of spooktastic times, you freaky ghouls, at the Haunted Hollow at Carousel for Missoula. Chill spooky from 6–7:30 PM, crazy spooky for older kids from 7:30–9 PM. $4 for 12 and under/$6 for 13 and up.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31 “A river of blood runs through it” in Ely Sheets’ zombie musical Fleshed Out, which features gore, guts and Missoula locales, not to mention a zombie costume contest. Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s.

If you wanna bang heads with me, head to the Badlander Complex Halloween Party for an evening of live music by RNDM (Jeff Aments’ new deal), a Danzig tribute

by Möther, a White Stripes/Black Keys set by The Boxcutters, a bevy of DJs and rappers and a Jim Henson-themed costume contest. Phew. 9 PM. $10. (See Spotlight.)

[calendar] plays are beyond Thunderdome. $35/$25 students. Tickets available at Griztix outlets.

Pianos! They’re everywhere at Pianissimo!, with duets, solos and multiple piano sets by some of Montana’s! best! pianists! Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $20/$10 students.

Camille Blooms plays guitar and sings and songwrites out at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 8 PM. $12.

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Pop the collar, the flea collar that is, when the Wild Coyote Band play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Lose your mind and your wallet at the UM International Student’s party HallowFREAKINWeen at the Elk’s Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Tunes by DJ Dobson and all over 18 are welcome. $5.

The Josh Farmer Band is prepped for surgery at the Union Club but Hawkeye keeps screwing around. Man, will this war ever end. 9 PM. Free.

The Clumsy Lovers can make babies, too, see how when they play the Top Hat, with locals Cash For Junkers. 9 PM. $7.

Do that voodoo that you do so well when More Than Lights brings the live hip-hop to the Badlander, with Duenday, DJs Gabe Garcia and Arahant. 9 PM. Cost TBA. Get spooked a bit early at the Halloween Kick-off Party at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., with Three-Eared Dog, Kung Fu Kongress and Victor Johnson.

Doors at 7 PM. $5.

The Copper Mountain Band gets the dance floor roiling with tight jeans and loose talk at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave. 9:30 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Check out the three weird-o party rooms and get your party on at Abduction in the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. Tons of tunes.

Tons of gimmicks. Tons of odd encounters. Get dressed. Get sauced. Wake up with a goat in your bed. 10 PM. $10.

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Denim dynamo. Country legend Loretta Lynn performs at the Dennison Theatre on Mon., Oct. 29, at 7:30 PM. $66.

SATURDAYOCT27 The Met: Live in HD presents Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece, Otello, in all the namesake’s Moorish glory. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. 10:55 AM. $20/$18 seniors/$15 students. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.

Attention runners with license plates that begin with a number between 1 and 7, it’s time to make your town proud and take back what is yours. It’s time for the Montana Cup cross-country footrace, this year in Kalispell.

Teams of men and women from Montana’s seven biggest cities compete for the traveling trophy and, more importantly, bragging rights. Visit montanacup.com

Put on the backside of the horse costume and get to the Halloween Haul 5K, a constume race that begins at McCormick Park and benefits the UM Physical Therapy Student Association. 10 AM. $15 on race day/$10 advance.

Register at racemontana.com.

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Delightful UM MFA grad Kelly Kathleen Ferguson signs her book My Life as Laura: How I searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself. If you’re a good egg, she may go to Flipper’s with you and enjoy some cheese fries.

Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Noon. Free.

Get a look at some art with the aid of expert guide Ted Hughes during the O’Connor Collection Tour at the Missoula Art Museum.

This week Anna Buxton tells you why the collection is so galldarned spiffy. Noon. Free.

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October 2012 Free Events | All Ages | Free Books Sunday, October 28th, 2:00 PM 629 Phillips St Farming in the city, yesterday versus today. An urban homesteading workshop with Missoula Urban Demonstration Project.

Visit the Read Missoula website for a full listing of partners and sponsors The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

Monday, October 29th, 6:30 PM Missoula Public Library FREE screening of the documentary “Keepers of the Land: Three Montana Families & Their Homestead Legacies.”

Tuesday, October 30th, 7:00 PM Missoula Public Library “The Wind Blew Them West: The Montana Homestead Experience” with Western Montana Genealogical Society President Paulette Parpart.

For a complete events calendar, visit www.readmissoula.org.

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[calendar] Science fiction and fantasy author Jason Wilcox meets and greets his fans at Hastings, 2501 Brooks Ave., from 1–4 PM. Free.

Toss your aspiring William Tell in the trouble buggy and head to the Five Valleys Archery Range, 7752 Lower Miller Ck. Road, to Archery for Amateurs. This kid and parent-friendly event teaches bow and arrow basics in a safe place to give shooting a try. Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Missoula Children and Nature. 1 PM. Free. Visit missoulachildrenandnature.org.

Hark, ye all! MCT presents Camelot to your highnesses. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $17. Visit mctinc.org.

Tricia O. presents Under Cover Up, a “before and after theater” dance performance with video and tunes, too. 1200 Shakespeare, Ste. C. 7 PM. $5.

Pianos! They’re everywhere at Pianissimo!, with duets, solos and multiple piano sets by some of Montana’s! best! pianists! Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $20/$10 students.

The Workers do work at Draughtworks Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free.

Hark, ye all! MCT presents Camelot to your highnesses. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 8 PM. $21. Visit mctinc.org.

Bring your coupons and a thirst for wine to The Discount Quartet show when they perform at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

Hey grown-ups, it’s time for an adult Halloween party at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave., with music by Flashback. Might I suggest an outfit that covers most of your body? Thank you. 8 PM. Free.

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The legendary Russ Nasset and the Revelators hit the stage at ye olde Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., for an evening of honkin and tonkin. 9 PM. $5.

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My suggestion for Cash for Junkers’s performance at Bitter Root Brewery’s Halloween Costume Party? Everybody in the band dresses as Garth Brooks circa ‘93. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Leave the boutonnière at home, Charlie, it’s time for Fall Studio Works: Informal Dance Concert. The concert is choreographed, produced and performed by UM dance students.

UM PARTV Center Open Space.

6:30 PM and 8:30 PM. $5 per show or $8 for both.

Go where “happy little bluebirds sing” at the Wizard of Oz Sing-a-long. Join the Missoula Community Chorus and host Leah Lewis for a rollicking time as you sing along with film and your cohorts. Dress up. Be rad. Stay awesome. Wilma Theatre. 1 PM and 7 PM. Matinee $12.50/$10 for groups; evening $20/$15 for groups of 10 or more. Visit singalongmissoula.com.

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Experience a wide variety of entertainments from poetry readings to tunes to sword swallowing (maybe, maybe not) at the Festival of the Dead Cabaret. The event is a fundraiser for the Hospice of Missoula Foundation. Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7–11 PM. $7/$5 advance at Bridge Pizza.

The Copper Mountain Band gets the dance floor roiling with tight jeans and loose talk at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave. Plus there’s a costume contest tonight. Suggestion: bandit.

9:30 PM. Free.

Zeppo MT plays the Union Club’s Halloween Bash tonight. Now is your chance to dress as the little vixen you are, Teddy Boy, and make your English TA wish he’d left his wife at home. 9 PM. Free.

Book a Ronnie James Dio outfit and hit the Heaven and Hell Halloween Bash at the Elk’s Lodge, 112 Pattee St., with Boy Burns Bridge and Ryan Irby. 9 PM . $10/$15 for those 18-20.

Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo is the de facto dopest DJ duo in town, get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

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Like Jay Z said, “30’s the new 20,” and so it goes with Halloween, too. As a youngster, I don’t recall many adults gussying up as their fave Flintstone, nor do I recall my Aunt Pam using the term “cosplay,” but these days the holiday has become as much about adult fun as it is about kids grubbing on nine pounds of sweet, sweet candy.

There’s plenty of adult fun to be had this Halloween, especially since it takes place on Wednesday and many bars and other venues have decided to turn up the spooky and the sexy (unfortunately) during the prior weekend. Of course, the best way to scare people is with a musical, particularly anything with Nathan Lane in it, but UM student Ely Sheets has gone one better and written and produced Fleshed Out, a zombie musical in Missoula, with the tagline, “A river of blood runs through it.” It’s a work-in-progress but you can catch a sneak peek performance at Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., on Wed., Oct. 31, at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $15 day of the show or $10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s. Dress as a zombie, if only to blend into the crowd.

If musicals aren’t your bag, but Zombies are, you should head to the Wilma on Sun., Oct. 28, at 7 PM for a screening of the grindhouse barf-a-palooza film Zombie on 35mm print. There is also a costume contest and the obligatory free barf bags.

Cost is $8. (See Film in this issue.)

Those with a serious taste for gore and a love of music should head to the Count ZACCula’s Haunted BSMT Bash, on Fri., Oct. 26 from 7 PM to 2 AM. Bring the little ones for the first two hours and

have them take part in haunted jazzercise with coach Shane Rooney, with music by the Tangles Tones. After that, it gets really real down in the basement as the folks from Zombie Tools create a nightmarish hell pit of death and dismemberment, or something. Bands such as Bird’s Mile Home, I Hate Your Girlfriend and The Magpies are performing along with DJ Mermaid.

Beer and wine is for sale, too. The price of admission is your soul. Jokes. It’s $7 without a costume and $5 with one. Kids are free. The ZACC is located at 235 N. First St.

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Lastly, a monster of a party goes down at the Badlander Complex Halloween Party, which takes place on Wed., Oct. 31, at 9 PM, and it only costs $10. Down in the Palace there is electronic and hip-hop galore with Mr. Projectile, Kris Moon and Zooper Groupe. Most importantly, there is a Jim Henson-themed costume contest. Could someone please dress as the garbage pile from “Fraggle Rock”? Rock and roll is on tap upstairs at the Badlander, with Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament’s new band RNDM making an appearance. Also performing are the Boxcutters who are doing a White Stripes/Black Keys cover set. But Halloween is all about meeting our fears head on. So if you wanna bang heads with me, check out Möther, a Danzig tribute which includes yours truly on bass as well as members of American Falcon, Tidal Horn and the Cold Hard Cash Show. The Möther set is downright sinister, a pip sexy and I can personally guarantee plenty of leather, a little lace and a whole lot of evil crotch pumping.

If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.

—Jason McMackin

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[calendar] Bluegrasserinos the Lil’ Smokies play the dickens out of their instruments and harmonize likes Civil War vets. They are joined by the Kitchen Dwellers at the Top Hat. 9 PM. $5.

The Tommy Gun Band ain’t about street fighting with Rocky Balboa, only rocking the streets with rockin’ rock and roll, at Fergie’s Bar in Hot Springs. 9 PM. Free.

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

Call 728-8799.

SUNDAYOCT28 The past comes to life during Stories and Stones, an afternoon of historical reenactments at the Missoula Cemetary, 2000 Cemetery Rd., where folks dress in old-time garb and regale onlookers with tales of Missoula’s past. Perhaps you can give Francis Worden a piece of your mind. 12:30-3:30 PM. Free.

Profiles in courage. Canadian rappers Sweatshop Union perform at the Palace, 147 W. Broadway Ave., on Tue., Oct. 30, at 9 PM, with locals Tonsofun and the Codependents. $12/$10 advance at Ear Candy.

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Make the river a bit nicer at Bitterroot Water Forum’s Bitterroot Restoration Work Day. Meet at Safeway in Hamilton at 11:15

AM to carpool to site. Bring work gloves, sturdy boots and a five-gallon bucket if you got one. Dress appropriately for the weather. Bitterroot Water Forum provides lunch, water and warm drinks. RSVP at 375-2272 or brwaterforum@bitterroot.net.

Help raise funds for the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group and keep them bears out of your hood at the Bear Aware Apple Share Festival, which features tunes, apple recipe-off with the Food Guys judging, a raffle and so much there is “bearly” room to print it all. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Noon-4 PM. Free.

Hear about the past lives of Missoula’s Catholics during Stories and Stones at St. Mary’s Cemetery, corner of Holmes St. and Stoddard St. 1–3 PM. Free.

Hark, ye all! MCT presents Camelot to your highnesses. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 2 PM and 6:30 PM. $17 and $19, $15 for children.

Visit mctinc.org.

Get a buffet-load of musical styles (baroque, classical, pop, jazz) at the Missoula Symphony Chorale and Missoula Brass Consort concert at the Dennison Theatre. 3 PM. For a full list of ticket prices visit missoulasymphony.org.

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musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free.

This week’s edition of the UM MFA program’s Second Wind Reading Series features Andrew Martin as well as the Twitterrific Alice Bolin, whose Tweet-work often precludes me from doing my work in general. 5 PM. Free.

Check the stacks of wax at the Badlander’s Vinyl Night, with electronical tunes to make your booty move by DJs Hendawg, Chunkiye, Soultwist and Justin Slayer. 9 PM. Free, with $5 PBR pitchers.

Have a beer and listen to tunesmiths the Captain Wilson Conspiracy when they perform at the Draughtworks Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Bring the snakebite kit (Jameson and PBR) for a night of rocking and rolling with Jet City’s The Spittin’ Cobras, who play the VFW, 245 W. Main. St. 10 PM. Cost TBA.

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

TUESDAYOCT30 Naturalist, writer and inspiration for Edward Abbey’s character Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang, Doug Peacock speaks at the University Center Theater at 7 PM. Free.

Get an earful of folk rock supergroup action during An Evening of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, which boasts some of Missoula’s finest tunesmiths taking on the best music of the ‘60s and ‘70s. It’s a benefit for Turning the Wheel. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. $10. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.

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Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

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

Fruition plays the Top Hat; you should come to it. 9 PM. $3.

MONDAYOCT29 Russ Nasset brings some much needed grit to the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave.. 6–10 PM. Free.

I’ve had this odd feeling all week. It must be because Impending Doom is in town to make some metal, with For Today.

Elevate Church, 4907 Blue Mountain Road.

6 PM. $17/12 advance. All ages.

nightlife Learn to prep that base and grind them edges at REI’s Ski and Snowboard Waxing Basics class. 6:30 PM. Free. Call 541-1938.

Country legend Loretta Lynn performs a sold-out show at the Dennison Theatre and sings “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” without a trace of irony.

7:30 PM. Open Mic with Joey Running Crane at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for

The Pickin’ Circle at the Top Hat would prefer stringed instruments over nostrils, but who’s to judge? 6–9 PM. Free.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: According to Cracked.com, what is the number one most likely cause of a future zombie apocalypse?

(See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

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

Guitars and congos? Why the fruit not?

Hear that action at the Badlander’s Live and Local Night with Lannie Head Wounds and Mookie Ace Band. 9 PM. Free.

Canadian hip-hop rhymesters Sweatshop Union spit the good stuff at the Palace, with locals Tonsofun and the Codependents. 9 PM. $12/$10 adv, at Ear Candy.

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

The day before Halloween can be a scary time. Rest easy and feel safe in the warm indie rock sounds of Sea Wolf at the Top Hat. Hey Marseilles opens. 9 PM. $10.

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WEDNESDAYOCT31 If you wanna bang heads with me, head to the Badlander Complex Halloween Party for an evening of live music by RNDM (Jeff Aments’ new deal), a Danzig tribute by Möther, a White Stripes/Black Keys set by The Boxcutters, a bevy of DJs and rappers and a Jim Hensonthemed costume contest. Phew.

9 PM. $10. (See Spotlight.)

nightlife “A river of blood runs through it” in Ely Sheets’ zombie musical Fleshed Out, which features gore, guts and Missoula locales, not to mention a zombie costume contest. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s.

Kraptastic Karaoke welcomes Black Eyed Peas fanatics to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Rumor has it that The Infamous Stringdusters intend to recreate the sounds of the first four Led Zeppelin albums this Halloween, as well as each dream sequence the members of Zep had in The Song Remains the Same film. Or not. Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. 9 PM. $20/$18 adv.

(Pub trivia answer: Nanobots are the most likely cause of a zombie apocalypse.)

THURSDAYNOV01 Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “in Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown StandUp Comedy at the Union Club.

Sign-up by 9:30 PM to perform or sit back and take in the funny.

Free.

The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning and such for yonder childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org.

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The fact is taxidermy is weird.

See what I mean at An Aesthetic Taxonomy, an art exhibit made up of all sorts of creatures oddly stuffed and awkwardly arranged.

Think about death as it rests before your eyes. University Center Gallery. 4-6 PM. Free.

nightlife Homegrown folky tonk from local singer songwriter Aran Buzzas goes down at Draughtwork Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

Big time pro Kimberlee Carson brings blends her country roots with some jazzy toots at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

Blue Mountain Clinic presents the Abortion Monologues in conjunction with the Women’s Resource Center and the Women and Gender Studies Program at UM. Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 7:30–9 PM. $25/$18 adv./$15 student. Call Lynsey at 203-6362.

Nothing finer in the fall than the Sentinel High School Jazz

Band and Symphony Concert.

The are joined by the Meadowhill 8th Grade band. Margaret Johnson Theater at Sentinel High School. 7:30 PM. Free.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams, just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign-up.

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

Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent).

Badlander, 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Meet the devil and get countrified when Mark DuBoise and Crossroads perform at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave, 9:30 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset done gone and cured ya of your tremors with a sweet shot of country hits up at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St.,

for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

I’m going old guy on you all: get your rigs ready for winter because winter is here. I’m talking blankets, studded tires, a bit of food in a sack, plus a good book to read when you’re waiting on the tow truck. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Oct. 26 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH Holy jumping-up-and-down, Martha! We got ourselves some snow here in Missoula. In town. In our yards. Yowza. That means it’s time to fire up the old Stoke-A-Matic 1000 and take a gander at a pair of films by Teton Gravity Research, Further and The Dream Factory. TGR’s reputation for well-shot snow riding movies speaks for itself and, based on the online previews, there are plenty of steeps and deeps and bum-puckering runs for fans of big mountain riding to take in at the Wilma Theatre.

The films are the sole fundraiser for the Nature-Link institiute, a Missoula-based non profit that offers UM students the opportunity to study in the Northern Indian Himalaya and earn college credit for their work. The three-and-half-week course is a

chance for college students to immerse themselves in a different culture and different landscape.

If some fresh snow, two dope films and a great cause can’t get you stoked for ski season, perhaps tunes from the Lil’ Smokies and a mega-sized gear raffle that includes heli-skiing packages can. If not, I can’t do nothin’ for you, man.

—Jason McMackin Nature-Link Institute presents the Teton Gravity Research films Further and The Dream Factory at the Wilma Theatre Fri., Oct. 26, at 6:30 PM, with music by the Lil’ Smokies. $15/$12 advance at Edge of the World.

Visit nature-link.org.

Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 USDA attorney Alan Campbell gives a talk titled The Public’s Treasure in Land, Water & Minerals: Western Public Lands Policy. UM Law Building, Rm. 101. Noon.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 26 Sing it with me bird lovers, help with bird migration observation at the MPG conservation ranch near Florence. Them birds is headed south, do your part to make their trip count. 11 AM to 4 PM. RSVP with Joshua via jlisbon@mpgranch.com.

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

The Montana Wilderness Association presents the Wild and Scenic Film Festival at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 7:30 PM. $10. Visit wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 Attention runners with license plates that begin with a number between 1 and 7, it’s time to make your town proud and take back what is yours. It’s time for the Montana Cup cross-country footrace, this year in Kalispell. Teams of men and women from Montana’s seven biggest cities compete for the traveling trophy and, more importantly, bragging rights. Visit montanacup.com Put on the backside of the horse costume and get to the Halloween Haul 5K, a constume race that begins at McCormick Park and benefits the UM Physical Therapy Student Association. 10 AM. $15 on race day/$10 advance. Register at racemontana.com.

Toss your aspiring William Tell in the trouble buggy and head to the Five Valleys Archery Range, 7752 Lower Miller Ck. Road, to Archery for Amateurs. This kid and parent-friendly event teaches bow and arrow basics in a safe place to give shoot-

ing a try. Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Missoula Children and Nature. 1 PM. Free. Visit missoulachildrenandnature.org.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 Make the river a bit nicer at Bitterroot Water Forum’s Bitterroot Restoration Work Day. Meet at Safeway in Hamilton at 11:15 AM to carpool to site.

Bring work gloves, sturdy boots and a five-gallon bucket if you got one. Dress appropriately for the weather. Bitterroot Water Forum provides lunch, water and warm drinks. RSVP at 375-2272 or brwaterforum@bitterroot.net.

Help raise funds for the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group and keep them bears out your hood at the Bear Aware Apple Share Festival, which features tunes, apple recipe-off with the Food Guys judging, a raffle and so much there is “bearly” room to print it all. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Noon-4 PM. Free.

The Montana Wilderness Association presents the Wild and Scenic Film Festival at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 1 PM. $10. Visit wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.

MONDAY OCTOBER 29 Learn to prep that base and grind them edges at REI’s Ski and Snowboard Waxing Basics class. 6:30 PM. Free. Call 541-1938,

TUESDAY OCTOBER 30 Naturalist, writer and inspiration for Edward Abbey’s character Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang, Doug Peacock speaks at the University Center Theater at 7 PM. Free.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning and such for yonder childrens.

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

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During an election year, Marxism is a term generally best to be avoided. But even in a non-election cycle, it gets thrown around as if people actually know what it means. Your Uncle Slim probably hollers “Marxist!” at the TV any time President Barack Obama’s face pops up on the screen, but I doubt Slim knows what Marxism is any more than a frosh philosophy major knows how to mix cement well.

That’s why we have academics like Dr. Allen Wood. Wood isn’t in love with Marx, but he understands that Marx holds a special place in modern philosophical discussion and that by discussing his foibles and his generous hope for humanity we can see that there might be a system better/different than capitalism. Or we could just yell at the bearded picture of Marx each time it appears on TV. This week Wood delivers the Henry Bugbee Annual Lecture on Philosophy. His lecture is titled Marx on Equality. What with all the talk of the 1

percent, the 47 percent, and the middle class, Wood’s lecture and knowledge couldn’t come at a better time.

—Jason McMackin Professor Allen Wood, the Ruth Halls professor of philosophy at Indiana University, delivers a lecture called Marx on Equality as part of the UM President’s Lecture Series on Mon., Oct. 29, at 8 PM, in the University Center Ballroom. Free.

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MONDAY OCTOBER 29

Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Intercultural Dialogue Group, a monthly meeting that aims to bring together people from various backgrounds for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking. Every last Fri. of the month at 4:30 PM in the library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info.

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

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a futurist, aka the best job ever, and her film Humanity Ascending: Our Story, explores how a new “Universal Humanity” allows us to co-eveolve with nature and co-create with “the Spirit.” Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. 6:30 PM. Free.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 Join Sen. Jon Tester for hangouts before the Griz game at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. With only ten days left before the election, this may be your last chance to hang and bang with the senator. $25 suggested donation (families welcome). 10:30–Noon. RSVP at 969-3569.

Join Living Art of Montana for Paper Weaving Extensions: Cards with Bonnie Tarse. The class is for anyone facing illness or loss. 10:30–12:30 PM. Free. Visit livingartofmontana.org.

Experience a wide variety of entertainments from poetry readings to tunes to sword swallowing (maybe, maybe not) at the Festival of the Dead Cabaret. The event is a fundraiser for the Hospice of Missoula Foundation. Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7–11 PM. $7/$5 advance at Bridge Pizza.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 Help raise funds for the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group and keep them bears out of your hood at the Bear Aware Apple Share Festival, which features tunes, apple recipe-off with the Food Guys judging, a raffle and so much there is “bearly” room to print it all. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Noon-4 PM. Free.

US Ambassador to Chine Gary Locke speaks in a webcast titles China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections. The ambassador speaks and responds to questions from 50 different locales. Todd Building at UM, Rm. 210. 6 PM. Free.

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

TUESDAY OCTOBER 30 Don’t seed the clouds. Seriously Air Force, I’m looking at you. Perhaps professors Jane Long and Nancy Tuana can tell us why not to do such a thing at the Mansfield Center Fall Brown Bag Lecture Second (Third and Fourth) Thoughts on Geoengineering: Governance and Ethics in Climate Engineering Research. Mansfield Center. Noon. Free.

The World Affairs Council of Montana hosts a community Distinguished Speakers Program to discuss Harnessing the Power of Education: RESULTS in Action, with Genevieve Chabot, co-founder of the Iqra Fund and Ken Patterson, Global Grassroots Manager at RESULTS. Chabot and Patterson discuss their experiences working for global health and education in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Niger. North Ballroom, Third floor of the University Center, University of Montana. 7 PM. Free for council members and students/$7 for all others.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31 Attend the 1,000 New Gardens Meeting and allow the Garden City to live up to its moniker by helping folks plant the seeds of self-foodulation. UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth Street E. 5:30-6:30 PM.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1 Blue Mountain Clinic presents the Abortion Monologues in conjunction with the Women’s Resource Center and the Women and Gender Studies Program at UM. Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 7:30–9 PM. $25/$18 adv./$15 student. Call Lynsey at 203-6362.

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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;Ybi]bY 7cbbYWh]cbg HELL IN A HEN BASKET Seven months ago, when I met my boyfriend, I had no idea he had so many female friends. I’m 26; he’s 30. I understand having opposite-sex friends to get perspective on dating, but he’s like one of their girlfriends. He gabs on the phone with them constantly, and they treat him like their little teddy bear, inviting him to baby showers, bringing him leftovers, and baking him cookies. He only understands my jealousy as fear that he will cheat. But, these are married girls he’s known for years, and he’s not a sleaze-ball. I’m not scared of catching him in bed with another woman; I’m terrified I’ll overhear him discussing what color she should paint the baby’s room. I know he won’t be comfortable telling his girlfriends that he picks out nail polish with only one woman from now on—me! I don’t feel he needs these relationships when he’s in a serious relationship, and it isn’t their job to take care of him.

—Feeling Inadequate He isn’t just your man; he’s the married hens’ pet mandroid. Kind of like their own super-adorable version of “The Terminator”: “I’ll be back...to help you pick out panty liners!”

From the way you describe the guy, it sounds like his testosterone level is somewhere between zero and “crying softly while hiding under the bed.” But you apparently didn’t find him under-manly when you started dating him and apparently don’t now; you’re just upset to learn that he’s been moonlighting as a gay decorator.

Odd as it is to have a boyfriend whose homies are a bunch of suburban homemakers, outside friendships can help keep a relationship alive. (No one person shares their partner’s every interest or meets their every need.) Outside friendships can also go too far—like if your boyfriend’s confiding things he’d otherwise confide in you, ditching you to hang with them, or answering the phone during sex as their first responder for nail polish emergencies: “Definitely ‘Baby’s Breath’ over that trampy ‘Seashell Pink’!”

If you aren’t icked out because he likes scrap-booking and sipping chard with the ladies, and you don’t feel shortchanged in time, energy, and attention, maybe the real problem is insecurity on your part. It is understandable that you feel a little jealous.

When you get into a relationship with a guy, you expect to be his one-and-only, and not feel like you need to get in line behind the housewife harem bringing him plates of

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Stamping your foot and ordering him to ditch the biddies is a bad idea. Even if you got him to cave, resentment would surely rise up in him to fill the void. What you can do is tell him what you need. Explain that you aren’t worried he’ll cheat, just anxious that he’s got a bunch of women in his life who mean a lot to him, who do kinda girlfriendy things for him, who have a history with him that you don’t. Get him to tell you what he sees in you and why he’s with you.

This should help you recognize that these women are special to him, but not specialspecial, like you, which should help you rest easier when he comes home smelling like he spent the night singing into hairbrushes with the girls.

MEAN AND HUNGRY Men apparently see the organic grocery’s salad bar as the new singles bar. Sorry, but after a long day, I want to load up my container in peace, not get hit on with “So, what’s on the menu tonight?” or “You know, I make a mean kale salad.” (Didn’t know, don’t care.) I’m getting so annoyed at this always happening that I’m tempted to say to the next guy, “What makes you think I want to have a conversation with you?”

—Girl, Interrupted Sadly, shopping local often involves ducking the locals. (If only the salad bar came with a sleaze guard.) Though you could pelt these guys with croutons or cutting remarks, venting anger actually makes it worse—biochemically and psychologically. Wearing a big rock on your finger should stop some men from approaching, and mentioning “my husband” should chase away any who already have. You’ll ultimately feel better if you make the tiny effort to ditch them with dignity; treat them like they have value as human beings (if annoying ones) and like their feelings matter. You might also consider yourself lucky.

The day may come when men look at you with all the longing they have for a bench. At that point, you’ll still be complaining: “What’s the world come to when a little old lady spends six hours getting a box of sprouts without attracting a single guy wanting to do wheatgrass shots off her abs?”

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming days, many of your important tasks will be best accomplished through caginess and craftiness. Are you willing to work behind the scenes and beneath the surface? I suspect you will have a knack for navigating your way skillfully and luckily through mazes and their metaphorical equivalents. The mists may very well part at your command, revealing clues that no one else but you can get access to. You might also have a talent for helping people to understand elusive or difficult truths. Halloween costume suggestions: spy, stage magician, ghost whisperer, exorcist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Things people say may have meanings that are different or even contrary to what they supposedly mean. Qualities you usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic, and mirror magic. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I don’t have a big problem with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I find your multi-level multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel unified, steady, and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocado tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist, or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your father didn’t beat you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only ten percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope?

I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officially protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered, and underprivileged parts of your life. Not a year from now; not when you have more leisure time; NOW! If and when you do this, I predict the arrival of a flood of personal inspiration. Halloween costume suggestion: a symbolic representation of a neglected, disempowered, or underprivileged part of your life.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,” said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when first sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting started may seem painfully impossible. And yet there can also be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music. Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen field. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As you contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold; a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots; a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. For that matter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t come close to imitating any of those hapless creatures even in your non-Halloween life. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze, and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Does anyone know where I can find dinosaur costumes for cats?” asked a Halloween shopper on Reddit.com. In the comments section, someone else said that he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you. You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Live Monarch Foundation made a video on how to fix a butterfly’s broken wing (tinyurl.com/FixWing). It ain’t easy. You need ten items, including tweezers, talcum powder, toothpicks, and glue. You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration. But it definitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman, or other healer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s not a good time to wear Super-Control Higher-Power Spanx, or any other girdle, corset, or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers, or confines you. You need to feel exceptionally expansive.

In order to thrive, you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big, and wander freely.

As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed: Tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the Garuda or Thunderbird; the god or goddess of abundance.

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[C4] Missoula Independent • October 25 – November 1, 2012

PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA

Notice of Public Hearing on a Proposed Project and the Issuance of Revenue Bonds Under Montana Code Annotated, Title 90, Chapter 5, Part 1, as Amended, to Help Finance the Costs Thereof Missoula, Montana NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana (the “City”), will meet on Monday, November 19, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., M.T., in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on a proposal that the City issue its revenue bonds (the “Bonds”), under Montana Code Annotated, Title 90, Chapter 5, Part 1, as amended (the “Act”), on behalf of YWCA of Missoula, a Montana nonprofit corporation (the “Borrower”). The Bonds would be issued in order to provide funds in the approximate amount of $920,400 to be used to finance a portion of the costs of refinancing existing outstanding debt and designing and constructing an addition to the Borrower’s Broadway Secret Seconds, store increasing the square footage

by 5,890 feet and adding 23 parking spaces on the vacant lot adjacent to the current store, and related improvements (the “Project”), and to pay certain costs associated with the sale and issuance of the Bonds. The Project will be owned and operated by the Borrower and will be located at the Secret Seconds thrift store at 1136 W. Broadway in Missoula, Montana. The maximum aggregate principal amount of the proposed bond issue is $920,400. The Bonds would be secured by a pledge of the revenues to be derived by the City from a loan agreement with the Borrower and by such other security devices, if any, as may be deemed advantageous. The Bonds will be special, limited obligations of the City. No holder of any Bonds will ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the City to pay the Bonds or the interest thereon, nor to enforce payment thereof against any property of the City except money payable by the Borrower to the City and pledged to the payment of the Bonds. All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth

above, or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of the hearing set forth above. Further information may be obtained from the City Clerk, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana 59802, telephone: 406-5526078. Dated: October 22, 2012. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF ELECTION EQUIPMENT TESTING A test of the ES&S 650 optical scanners will start at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, Building 35, 1101 South Ave W., Missoula, Montana. Immediately following the 650 optical scanner test, we will begin testing the ES&S M100 Precinct Scanners (which will be used to tabulate ballots on Election Day at the Polling Places) and the ES&S AutoMARK ballot-marking system at the Record’s Center at 2147 Ernest Ave, Missoula, Montana.

All tests are open to the public. /s/

Vickie Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. October 29, 2012 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room at Missoula County Public Works for the purpose of purchasing of FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY (450) tons of LIQUID DEICER. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.

Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked

PUBLIC NOTICES “Proposal for Liquid Deicer – 2012” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Attn: Jeff Seaton 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Notice is hereby given by the Board of Trustees of the EAST MISSOULA RURAL FIRE DISTRICT that on November 6, 2012, pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the Board of Trustees on July 24, 2012, a general election ballot by the registered voters will be held in and for the District for the purpose of voting on the question of whether to levy an additional 15 mills annually, or not less than $350,000, over a 15 year period, for improving emergency services and firefighter safety by purchasing and maintaining a new fire apparatus for the District. The polls will be open at 7:00 a.m., and continue to be open until 8:00 p.m., on Election Day at Bonner School and the East Missoula Community Center. DATED this 30th day of August, 2012 /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Election Administrator MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Notice is hereby given that on November 6, 2012, an election will be held at the Seeley Lake School for the question of Establishing a Resort Area Tax in the Seeley Lake Resort Area. If approved by the electors of the Seeley Lake Resort Area, the Resort Tax will be no more than 3% of the retail value of all goods and services sold (except goods and services sold for resale) by lodging facilities, eating establishments, taverns and resorts in the Seeley Lake Resort Area, and on luxuries, defined in MCA 76-1501 (1) as any gift item, luxury item or other item normally sold to the public or to transient visitors or tourists (not including food purchased unprepared or unserved, medicine, medical supplies and services, appliances, hardware supplies and tools, or any necessities of life). The Resort Area Tax revenue will be allocated 95% water and sewer infrastructure, 2.5% administrative, and 2.5% marketing and community promotion, unless amended by vote of the electors. The polls will be open at 7:00 a.m., and continue to be open until 8:00 p.m., on election day.

DATED this 30 th day of August, 2012. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Election Administrator MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Notice of Public Hearings The Missoula County Parks & Trails Advisory Board will conduct a public hearing on Master Plan design details for the County-owned portion of Fort Missoula Regional Park. The public hearing will be held during the regular Missoula County Parks and Trails Advisory Board meeting on Thursday, November 8th at 1:30 PM in Room B14 on the Basement Level of 199 West Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. A recommendation on the plans will be forwarded to the Board of County Commissioners. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the project on Wednesday, November 28th at 1:30 PM in Room B14 on the Basement Level of 199 West Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. Interested parties are invited to attend and provide comments on the plan. A copy of the Master Plan design details is available for public inspection on the Missoula County website and at the Missoula County Parks and Trails Program office, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. For additional information, please contact 2584716. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4716. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, HEREBY

NOTIFIES MISSOULA COUNTY TAX PAYERS THAT THE FIRST HALF OF 2012 REAL ESTATE TAXES & THE SECOND HALF 2012 MOBILE HOME TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON NOVEMBER 30, 2012. UNLESS 2012 TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME, THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT, WILL ACCRUE INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH AND WILL BE ASSESSED A 2% PENALTY FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID. IF YOU INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, PROPERTY DESCRIPTION, GROUNDS FOR PROTEST AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE PROTESTING PURSUANT TO MCA § 15-1-402. /s/ VICKIE M. ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Cause No. DP-12-174 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRS, AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONNER DARREL JOEVON HOWARD HINER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Stephanie M. Zavarelli has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs, and Appointment of Personal Representative for the Estate of Conner Darrel Joevon Howard Hiner. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the Clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court before the Honorable Ed McLean at the courtroom in the Missoula County District Court at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on the 5th day of December, 2012 at 1:30 o’clock p.m., at which time and place all interested persons may appear and object.

DATED this 18th day of October, 2012. /s/ Eric Rasmusson, Bulman Law Associates, P.L.L.C., PO Box 8202, Missoula, MT 59807-8202 (406) 721-7744 Attorneys for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-170 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VERNA A. WITTENBERG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Marisa Matter, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 8th day of October , 2012, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Marisa Matter, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC. /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-12-171 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN W. PAGE, SR., Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their 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 John William Page, Jr., at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of October, 2012. /s/ John Page Jr., Personal Representative DATED this 4th day of October, 2012 St. Peter Law Offices, P.C. /s/ Don C.

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s St. Peter STATE OF MONTANA):ss County of Missoula) I, John William Page, Jr., declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ John Page, Jr., Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 4th day of October, 2012/ /s/ Roxanne Carlson, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula, Montana, My commission expires: 09/30/2014 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-127 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROY EDWARD RAYMOND aka Roy E. Raymond, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to ELIZABETH RAYMOND, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, PO Box 7909, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 13th day of August, 2010. /s/ Elizabeth Raymond, Personal Representative. 10.11/10.18/10.25 2012 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-12-82 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN GULLIKSON ADAMS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Barbara Bondurant, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at OGG & HELMER LAW OFFICES, 1001 S.W. Higgins, Suite 202, Missoula, MT 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of October, 2012. /s/ Barbara Bondurant, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-39 AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN H. WICKS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that J. Otis McCullough has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 3rd day of October, 2012. /s/ J. Otis McCullough, Personal Representative of the Estate of John H. Wicks /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-12-157 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DEREK ROSS NELSON, 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 Paigee Smith, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested in care of David B. Cotner, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 7th day of September, 2012. /s/ Paige Smith, 8370 Indreland Road, Missoula, MT 59808 STATE OF MONTANA):ss County of MIssoula) I, Paige Smith, Personal Representative for the Estate of Derek Ross Nelson, deceased, declare under penaltyof perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 4th day of October, 2012. /s/ Paige Smith, Personal Representative DATSOPOULOS, MACDONALD & LIND, P.C. /s/ David B. Cotner, Attorneys for Personal Representative

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 13th day of February, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 A.M., on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Raymond P. Tipp, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligation set out below, has elected to sell and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale to said Successor Trustee without warranty or covenant, expressed or implied as to title, possession or encumbrances, the interest of Successor Trustee, Raymond P. Tipp, Esq., of the remaining Grantors, Michael J. Sullivan and Julianne M. Larson, and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 23, Block C of Far Views Homesites, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

LESS AND EXCEPTING that portion thereof conveyed by the Warranty Deed in Book 59 of Micro at page 707, being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the most Easterly corner of said Lot 23, Block C which corner is common to Lots 23 and 24 of said Block C and situated on Westview Drive as the same appears on the official plat of said addition; running thence Southwesterly along Westview Drive and then Southeasterly line of said Lot 23, 20 feet; thence Northeasterly to the Northeast corner of said Lot 23, which corner is common to Lots 23 and 24, of Block C, thence Southeasterly along the line dividing said Lots 23 and 24, to the point of beginning; all according to the official plat of said Far Views Homesites as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of a certain Montana Trust Indenture dated the 8th day of January, 1999, and recorded the 12th day of January, 1999, in Book 568 Page 2414, wherein Michael J. Sullivan and Julianne M. Larson are the original Grantors, Western Title and Escrow is the original Trustee, Hazel M. Sullivan (now Hazel M. Helms) is the original Beneficiary. Beneficiary executed a Subordination Agreement with Grantors on September 20, 2002 wherein she agreed that her Montana Trust Indenture recorded January 12, 1999, in Book 568 of Micro at Page 2410, records of Missoula County Clerk and Recorder shall be inferior and subordinate to that certain Deed of Trust dated 9/16/2002 in the principal amount of $64,900.00 wherein Sullivan and Larson are designated Grantors, First Magnus Financial Corp. is designated as Beneficiary, and Stewart Title is designated as the original Trustee. Raymond P. Tipp has been name Successor Trustee by virtue of Appointment of Successor Trustee filed of record in the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder, August 9th, 2012, in Book 898 at Page 540 Records of Missoula County, Montana. Hazel M. Sullivan, (now Hazel M. Helms) original Beneficiary executed a Subordination Agreement on September 30, 2002, filed in Book 689 at Page 845 whereby she agreed that any and all legal rights pertaining to said Montana Trust Indenture recorded January 12, 1999 in Book 568 of Micro at Page 2410, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder, wherein Michael J. Sullivan and Julianne M. Larson are designated as Grantors and Hazel M. Sullivan is designated as the Beneficiary, shall be inferior and subordinate to that certain Deed of Trust dated 9-16-2002, in the principal amount of $64,000, wherein Sullivan and Larson are designated as the Grantors, First Magnus Financial Corp. is designated as the Beneficiary, and Stewart Title is designated as the Trustee. That the beneficial interest under that said Deed of Trust has been assigned by First Magnus Financial Corp. unto Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC HOme Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing , LP whose address is 13150 World Gate Dr., Herndon, VA 20170, January 3, 2012, recorded in Book 887 Micro Records, Page 970. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is named as Successor Trustee in substitution of Trustee, recorded 8th day of March, 2012 in Book 890 at Page 1072 records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder, Missoula, Montana. Bank of America loan number is 20798759. Judgment was transcribed from Justice Court in favor of Beneficial Montana, Inc., Cause No. DV-05-726 against Julianne Larson and Michael J. Sullivan, the sum of $7,026.56 plus accruing interest. Julianne M. Larson and Michael J. Sullivan fled Declaration of Homestead, recorded June 29, 2005, in Book 755 Micro Records Page 107. Court Ordered the stipulated terms and conditions contained in Stipulated Decree of

Separation, filed July 7, 2010, Cause No. DR-09-591, Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County. That Grantors, Michael J. Sullivan and Julianne M. Larson have: 1) defaulted in that they have failed to pay in full the amount owing to Beneficiary Hazel M. Sullivan (now Helms) in full immediately and without demand the amount owing to Hazel M. Sullivan (now Helms) on the obligation secured by the Montana Trust Indenture or the monthly payments of principal and interest (7% per annum) in the amount of $771.75 per month on the obligation secured by said Montana Trust Indenture after transfer of said property to them since August, 2004 and 2) in that they have failed to keep the property in good condition and repair. That the principal sum owing on the obligation secured by said Montana Trust Indenture is the sum of $110,096.00, together with accrued interest at the rate of 7% per annum which was due and payable on the 5th day of September, 2005, until the date of sale interest shall continue to accrue at the rate of 7% per annum. That on the date of sale, there will be due and owing One Hundred Ten thousand Ninety Six hundred and 00/100 Dollars ($110,096.00) together with costs and expenses of foreclosures as provided by law. The present last know address for Michael J. Sullivan is 1640 Kemp, Missoula, MT 59801. The present last known address of Julianne M. Larson is 305 Artemos Dr., Missoula, MT 59803, formerly 403 Westview Dr., Missoula, MT 59803, and 1826 Margaret, Missoula, MT 59801, as listed in her Bankruptcy Case No. 1261146-RBK and Nik G. Geranios, Esq., Attorney at Law, 120 Hickory St., Suite B, Missoula, MT 59801. The Beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and directed the Trustee to commence such sale proceedings. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made subject to the Deed of Trust and obligation owing to Bank of America aforesaid, by Trustee’s deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantors, successors in interest to the Grantors or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid 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 Montana Trust Indenture and the obligation secured thereby (included costs and expenses actually incurred and Trustee’s fees)other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. DATED this 4th day of October, 2012. /s/ Raymond P. Tipp, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ))ss, County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me the 4th day of October, 2012, by Raymond P. Tipp, Successor Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Karen Berg, Notary Public for State of Montana, Residing at Missoula, Montana, My Commission Expires 05/24/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR(S), ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S) IS/ARE: Grantor: WILLIAM LEE HOFF (“Grantor”) Original Trustee: MARK C. PROTHERO C/O UPF Washington Incorporated Successor Trustee: BENJAMIN P. HURSH, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: STERLING SAVINGS BANK (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: WILLIAM LEE HOFF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: LOT 4 OF ORCHARD PROMENADE – PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust dated August 12, 2008, and recorded August 14, 2008, under Book 824 of Micro Records at Page 1146, records of Missoula County, Montana; THE DE-

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montanaheadwall.commissoulanews.com • October 25 – November 1, 2012 [C5]

PUBLIC NOTICES FAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $2,359.32 due under the Promissory Note dated August 12, 2008, as extended, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the April 15, 2012 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF JULY 6, 2012, ARE: Principal: $278,758.50 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 11.74% per annum. As of July 6, 2012 the interest balance is $10,277.72 and interest accrues at the rate of $90.9062 per day. Late Charges & fees: $609.85 Delinquent Property Tax: $22,551.53 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: January 25, 2013 Time: 1:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated: September 4, 2012. /s/ Benjamin P. Hursh BENJAMIN P. HURSH Trustee STATE OF MONTANA): ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on 4th September, 2012, by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as Trustee. /s/ Dawn L. Hanninen Printed Name Dawn L. Hanninen [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: February 14, 2016 File No. 87-1168-001 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200917604, Bk 843, Pg 1246, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jhawn D. Thompson and Misty J. Thompson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 57, together with the Northerly half of vacated Bedard Street adjoining said Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown as vacated by Resolution recorded April 7, 1966 in Book 2 of Micro Records at Page 533. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201119250, Bk 885, Pg 877, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default

of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 17, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $179,885.13. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,856.94, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on December 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person 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)

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other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.97589) 1002.207163-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 03, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The East one-half of Lot 35, all of Lots 36 and 37 in Tract 16 of School Five Acre Addition, a platted subdivision in City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Erin O. Doherty, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 18, 2001 and recorded on April 23, 2001 under Document No. 200108291 in Book 648 on Page 557. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $755.47, beginning November 1, 2011, and

each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 20, 2012 is $96,080.77 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $5,685.57, late charges in the amount of $226.62, escrow advances of $1,959.47, suspense balance of $-363.85 and other fees and expenses advanced of $599.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

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

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 26, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 26th day of July, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Chase/doherty 41954.967 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 10, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real

property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 31 IN BLOCK 2 OF BEN HUGHES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Randy T Lawrence and Carol C Lawrence, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 13, 2004 and recorded on February 19, 2004 in Book 726 Page 1048 under Document No 200404346. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $778.39, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 1, 2012 is $122,819.96 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $2,251.70, late charges in the amount of $256.00, escrow advances of $1,569.09, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,507.68, plus accruing interest at the rate of $6.73 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: August 3, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 3rd day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Citimortgage V Lawrence 42011.668 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 10, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2B OF FAIRFAX ESTATES, LOT 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, TOGETHER WITH PRIVATE ACCESS AND UTILITY EASEMENTS AS SET FORTH ON SAID PLAT Robert G. Young and Penny E. Young, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company Of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated on April 07, 2009 and recorded on April 14, 2009 in Bk-837, Pg-434, under Document No. 200908398.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,478.88, beginning February 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 25, 2012 is $263,670.27 principal, interest at the rate of 5.0% now totaling $7,476.84, late charges in the amount of $471.17, escrow advances of $628.61, and other fees and expenses advanced of $590.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.12 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real

property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then dueunder 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: Aug 6, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ) )ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Guild/young 41291.820 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 26, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real paroperty situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 350 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Adam Hannum and Elizabeth L. Hannum, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Lender’s First Choice, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated July 25, 2008 and recorded September 10, 2008 in Book 826, Page 118, under document No. 200820934. The beneficial interest is currently held by First Horizon Home Loans a division of First Tennessee Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in tine amount of $1,689.46, beginning July 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 13, 2012 is $214,946.19 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $45,407.31, late charges in the amount of $493.65, escrow advances of $11,686.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,790.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.28 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse

such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 20, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 20th day of July, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 NationstarVs. Hannum 41706.470 0596965599 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/22/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRET BALDASSIN, AND JODY BALDASSIN HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to GENUINE TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/12/2009 and recorded 07/09/2009, in document No. 200916839 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 843 at Page Number 481 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 13 OF VALLEY VISTA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MON-

TANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF PARCEL ID: 5802717 Property Address: 6050 APRIL LANE, Missoula, MT 59803.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $244,994.79 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.75% per annum from 04/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/10/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120076045 FEI NO. 1006.167340 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/18/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY DOERR AND HEATHER DOERR, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/16/2006 and recorded 11/22/2006, in document No. 200630320 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 787 at Page Number 1095 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF DOERR SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 11878 WINDEMERE DR, MISSOULA, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2011, and all subsequent install-

ments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $842,140.49 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 07/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/07/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110136245 FEI NO. 1006.147173 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/18/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which AMY C GANGULI, AND CHRISTIAN M LEIBBRANDT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/27/2007 and recorded 04/30/2007, in document No. 200710258 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 796 at Page Number 300 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 OF DREW CREEK ADDITION – PHASE VII TO THE DOUBLE ARROW RANCH, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 137 SOUTH MONTURE COURT, Seeley Lake, MT 59868. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $171,560.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 10/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any

other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/07/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0009348 FEI NO. 1006.153226

Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/18/2013, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ANTHONY M CERASANI, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J

NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO THE FOLLOWING INTERESTED PARTIES (REGARDING THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED BELOW ) WHOSE CURRENT ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: SAMUEL A. LITTLE

BITTERROOT VALLEY BANK DBA CLARK FORK VALLEY BANK Any Assigns, Successors, Heirs, Devisees or Beneficiaries of or to the Above Parties Any Other Parties Claiming an Interest, Whether Legal or Equitable in the Real Property Described Below Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest (Missoula County Tax Parcel/ID No. 4052909): Missoula County Treasurer’s Abbreviated Legal Description: SECTION: 22 TOWNSHIP: 14N RANGE: 20W GO WEST STORAGE CONDOMINIUMS UNIT A-20 GEOCODE: 04-2325-22-3-01-05-7020 Full Legal Description: UNIT A-20 OF GO WEST STORAGE SOLUTIONS, STORAGE CONDOMINIUMS SITUATED ON THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5757, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH A FRACTIONAL UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE COMMON AREAS OF THE PROPERTY AS DEFINED IN SAID DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR GO WEST STORAGE SOLUTIONS, RECORDED IN BOOK 763 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1058 AND ITS AMENDMENTS THERETO. ALSO TOGETHER WITH THE USE OF THE LIMITED COMMON AREA AS ESTABLISHED AND DEFINED IN SAID DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR GO WEST STORAGE SOLUTIONS, RECORDED IN BOOK 763 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1058 AND ITS AMENDMENTS THERETO. 2. The 2008 property taxes (first half ) became delinquent after 5:00 p.m. on December 1, 2008.

3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 8, 2009.

4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 9, 2009, by: Missoula County, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

5. The lien was subsequently assigned on September 12, 2011, to: Eric J. Bashore, P.O. Box 80242, Billings, MT 59108.

6. As of October 25, 2012, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $1,209.08 PENALTY: $24.24 INTEREST: $274.28 COST: $779.84 TOTAL: $2,287.44 NOTE: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 5/6 of 1% per month.

7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6, plus any subsequent accrued interest, must be paid by December 31, 2012, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired.

8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to December 31, 2012, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser/assignee on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed.

9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Telephone: (406) 258-4847 or (406) 258-3271.

FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS/ENTITIES LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1) The address of the interested party is unknown.

2) The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance.

3) The interested party's rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated at Missoula, Montana this 25th day of October, 2012.

By: /s/ Eric J. Bashore, P.O. Box 80242, Billings, MT 59108

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PUBLIC NOTICES PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/06/2006 and recorded 12/12/2006, in document No. 200631786 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 788 at Page Number 1055 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 12 OF BEYER MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 12676 CONESTOGA WAY, LOLO, MT 59847.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $387,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 03/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/06/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 110141266 FEI NO. 1006.148053 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/29/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which NANCY L ALLRED as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES OF MISSOULA, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/05/2007 and recorded 06/07/2007, in document No. 200714267 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 798 at Page Number 1353 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE WEST 20 FEET OF LOT 2 AND THE EAST 55 FEET OF LOT 3 IN BLOCK “C” OF RAINBOW RANCH HOMES ADDITION, A PLATTTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING

TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 530 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 320. Property Address: 2509 BRIGGS STREET, MISSOULA, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-16CB MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-16CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $213,337.55 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.00% per annum from 06/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/18/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120078733 FEI NO. 1006.168451 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/30/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MARK S ARMSTRONG, AND MICA L DUBOIS as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/30/2005 and recorded 12/30/2005, in document No. 200534758 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 766 at Page Number 1406 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 6 OF SYRINGA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 1635 SUNFLOWER DR, MISSOULA, MT 598023303. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by

their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $205,600.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/19/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120078778 FEI NO. 1006.168483 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/25/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SHERRY L. GREENE AND STEVEN GREENE, WIFE AND HUSBAND as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL

TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/29/2008 and recorded 05/13/2008, in document No. 200810793 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 818 at Page Number 1169 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TAX ID NUMBER(S): 1019901 LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA IN THE STATE OF MT THE SOUTH 85 FEET OF THE WEST HALF OF LOT 5, AND THE SOUTH 85 FEET OF LOT 6 IN BLOCK 22 OF LOW’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1730 SOUTH 7TH STREET WEST, MISSOULA, MT 59801. Property Address: 1730 S 7TH ST W, MISSOULA, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $181,350.03 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.50% per annum from 05/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late

charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/13/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120076660 FEI NO. 1006.167997 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/05/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DOUGLAS T. KIEWATT AND RONDA R. KIEWATT, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC., A CORPORATION as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/10/2008 and recorded 01/15/2008, in document No. 200801007 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 811 at Page Number 1240 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: TRACT 15A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877, LOCATED IN SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY PURPOSES AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1608. FURTHER TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY PURPOSES AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877. AS IMPROVED BY: 1993 FLEETWODD MANUFACTURED HOME, MODEL CHADWICK 5663U, SERIAL #IDFLP04A/B16111-CW10, HUD TAG NUMBER IDA126511 AND IDA126510, 65’ X 26’. A.P.N. : 5806399 Property Address: 18995 MOONLIGHT DRIVE, Frenchtown, MT 59834. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

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owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $192,678.17 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 09/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, at-

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ROOMMATES

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1010 Vine Street. Lower Rattlesnake 2 bed, 1 bath very well-maintained home with single garage. $171,500.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

2 4 0 - 7 6 5 3 . pat@properties2000.com 108 North Davis. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage near Milwaukee Bike Path. Lots of upgrades and a great front porch. $180,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 11689 Stollen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $329,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 1265 #B Dakota. To-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with double garage near McCormick Park. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath North Missoula home. $189,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $205,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 bed, 1 bath home with fenced yard. Near Good Food Store. $174,900. Broker owned. Red Carpet Realty 406-728-7262 322 David Court. 3 bed, 1 bath on 1/4 fenced acre near river trail. 3 car garage & many great upgrades. $210,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com

4412 23rd Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage on 9600 sq.ft. lot.

Lots of room! $185,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $176,000.

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

Looking for a place to call home?

Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 5447507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

Looking for homebuyer education?

Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 5447507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

1641 Stoddard To-be-built 6-plex on Northside. $650,500 Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties

Near River Trail 1401 Cedar St #2: This 2 bed, 1.5 bath townhome next to rive trail is close to downtown and the walking and bike trails. Income qualified buyers only and owner occupied. $125,000. Call KD for details. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

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

Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@ montana.com

521 Daly. 3 bed, 2 bath in U District.

Single garage, basement, studio, enclosed front porch. $369,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

RICE TEAM

6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 900 & 902 Longstaff. Unique opportunity. New energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath with additional 2 bed, 1 bath home and garage. Many green features. $321,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653. pat@properties2000.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, greenbuilt development may be your ticket.

STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 360-8234 Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Robin Rice 240-6503

Beautiful Downtown Triplex Two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom; great rental history; great building on Historic Register with tons of character and in great shape! $359,500. 518 Alder porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails.

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The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $139,900.

Great downtown living! Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Uptown Flats #109. Upscale gated community near downtown. $154,710. One bedroom, one bath, all SS appliances, deck and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealt o r @ g m a i l . c o m www.movemontana.com Uptown Flats #210. Upscale gated community near downtown. $149,900. One bedroom, one bath, all SS appliances, deck and access to community room and exercise room

plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealt o r @ g m a i l . c o m www.movemontana.com Wilma Condo 1 bedroom condo in the beautiful historic Wilma building, in the heart of downtown Missoula in the center of it all. This is sweet sweet. Come take a look today. $185,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MANUFACTURED

HOMES

1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile.

Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

BRAND NEW LISTING • 4 Klakken, Noxon $259,000 MLS #20125908 Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre.

Great area for hunting & fishing & other outdoor recreation 23654 Mullan $169,900 Beautiful 14 acre parcel west of Huson Modular on foundation allowed

101 Boardwalk, Stevensville $315,000 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage Zoned commercial

102 Boardwalk, Stevensville $298,500 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage & shop Zoned commercial

108 North Davis $180,000 Near Milwaukee Bike Trail

1 Bdr, 1 Bath, 1 Bounus McCormick Park home. $174,900. www.mindypalmer.com

www.108ndavismissoula.com

this 3 bed, 1.5 bath has a great yard, patio, front porch and double garage. Many upgrades including roof in 2009.

MLS #20125491

1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell GREAT INVESTMENT! $380,000 This is a property that pencils out!

Two story 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 bed, 1 bath basement apt. & 2 bed, 1 bath garage apt.

www.1136howell.com MLS #20125053 For location and more info, view these and other properties at: Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos $144,900 - $249,900 Under new ownership! 1 and 2 bedrooms. Large units, nice finishes, secure entry, secure U/G parking, riverfront, affordable HOA dues and much more. Owner financing comparable to FHA terms available with as little as 3.5% down!

Units, pricing and info available at www.mullanheights.com

53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage on corner lot with Mount Jumbo views. $289,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

$250,000. 240-5227. alestate.com

riceteam@bigsky.net missoularealestate4sale.com

I can help you sell your home!

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $258,000.

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

5104 Village View Way #3. Beautiful 2 bed, 2 bath South HIlls condo with garage & patio. $164,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

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Great income potential or first-time buyer opportunity 5104 Village View Way #3 $164,000 MLS #20124017 Beautiful South Hills Condo with open floor plan, garage & patio. HOA fees $185/month 1010 Vine Street $171,5000 MLS #20126285 Wonderful Lower Rattlesnake 2 bed, 1 bath near Mt. Mumbo trails with single garage 900 & 902 Longstaff $321,000 MLS #20126068 New energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath with many green features and additional 2 bed, 1 bath with garage 57005 West Road, Moiese $525,000 MLS #20121983 Certified Organic Farm on 80 acres with artesian well near Flathead River

Pat McCormick Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 1200 South Reserve, Missoula 406-240-SOLD (7653)

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REAL ESTATE

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

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

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

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

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

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 15305 Spring Hill Road, Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forest Service. $590,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

1623 Wild Turkey Lane, Stevensville.

Over 200 acre private ranch with creek surrounded by conservation easement land. $949,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 2398350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres.

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

4 Klakken, Noxon. Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. $259,000. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

19488 Highway 200 East/ Bonner.

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

240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

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

240-5227 porticorealestate.com

4,500 Sq Ft Lot on the Northside.

Zoned for single or multi-family. All utilities available. $59,000. www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN

3.2 Acres in the Wye area. Gorgeous mountain and valley views. $65,900. www.mindypalmer.com

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

240-6503

2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $217,500.

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

2110 Petty Creek, Alberton. Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 2351 Highway 83 West, Seeley Lake. 2 bed, 2 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 2.4 lakefront acres. $583,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5471 Wildlife Way, Florence. 4 bed, 3 bath with basement & 2 car garage on 1 acres. Trex decks & mountain views. $300,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 57005 West Road, Moiese. Certified Organic Farm with artesian well on 80 acres near Flathead River. $525,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

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